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  1. Re:Alternatives on Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs? · · Score: 1

    Or this just cuz it's cooler and achieves corporate overlord approval

  2. Re:It's a slippery slope... on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Yes you're right on People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only 40 people, but 40 people in Vienna prefer BMWs to Toyotas, anyone got a map?

  4. Cold hard dirty cash on Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Depends, how good is the offer?

    Treating open source as anything but a business that has to compete will make it fail, it's not a moral decision.

  5. Re:A better headline... on How To Kill an Open Source Project With New Funding · · Score: 1

    I don't blame you, I think I got a bit more info than you did, but I'm a stubborn bastard.

    It looks like it wants to be some sort of cross between presentation software and desktop publishing with a bit of flash thrown in (some timeline based events and audio handling)

    The problem with it being that it does not seem to write out anything that can be used anywhere except in the Sophie reader, so no one is going to be bothered, the project is already dead.
    The othe rproblem being, like write a web page dude, it can already do all this, or embed other whojamagigs that can

    I doubt offshore development can save it

  6. Re:Totally agree on Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but if you need this kind of back up then the data must be important to you, either that or you have way too much free time on your hands
    If it's important to you why do you trust Gmail in the first place?

    I have gmail, yahoo, god knows about twelvety-two different online e-mail accounts, do i care if I lose one?
    No, nothing important there, I'm sure I'd swear, but i like swearing, it is cool.

  7. Re:It's her day so... on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 1

    Me and the missus did exactly that, well, in Barbados, we've managed 10 years and 3 kids since so didn't seem to do any harm.

  8. Re:How freaking "open" of them... on Microsoft Releases Pre-2007 Binary File Format Specs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or you could just tab delimit it and stick a .xls on the end...

  9. Re:I pledge not to download it on Firefox Goes for World Download Record · · Score: 4, Informative

    Weird, I have the release candidate, you know you can still actually use as a location bar and ignore the search, it still drops down and give suggestions of previously typed in URLs

    Don't see the problem

  10. Re:Performance on VIA Open Platform Mini-Notebook Serves up Linux · · Score: 1

    I hereby give notice of my intention to sue for damages to my mucus membrane due to explosive contact with a hot caffeinated beverage

  11. Re:Sellouts on Science Text Attempts to Reconcile Religion and Science · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you believe in science

    Who's the hypocrite?
  12. Clippy 2.0 on Microsoft Patents Frustration-Detection System · · Score: 1

    Now the paper clip can read your mind!

    AAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!

  13. Re:Sounds interesting, but any hope of US? on The World's Cheapest Car Set To Launch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Go spend a while in Indian traffic

    I saw five on a motorbike (a family, including child under one) and about eight was our best guess at the number in a Tuk Tuk (or Auto as they referred to them in Hyderabad) although it was hard to count.

    That being said they should be able to fit about 10 in a Tata.

    When I was there I had to have a go on the back of a motorbike, and in a Tuk Tuk which had had interesting disco lighting inside.

  14. Re:She's only beginning to read at age 6?! on DS Games for Pre-readers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Whoa there, way to make someone feel bad.

    When you start to read has very little relation to reading ability later, my son didn't really learn till 6, he was quite late compared to some in his class, now he's ahead of them, a whole 2 years later.

  15. Re:An Argument on Paying People to Argue With You · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can also add:

    4) The purpose of the ban is to stop people from starting smoking.
    Since most people start smoking in their teens a ban to the age of 18
    is there to stop these people from picking up the habit.

    As the parent states there is not a total ban as this is possibly a rights issue with an adult.

  16. Re:Religion vs Darwin vs Technology vs Society on Evolution and the 'Wisdom of Crowds' · · Score: 1

    While I do get concerned about the same issue, historically religion has been used for eveel,
    but simply stating that it must be eveel because it's successful is, frankly, ridiculous.

  17. Re:looks good on them! on Viacom Sues Google Over YouTube for $1 Billion · · Score: 1
  18. Re:RT on Issue Tracking Ticketing Systems? · · Score: 1

    We are on the 'receiving end' of an RT system; out customer set it up for their users and any issue they can't solve themselves get passed on to us.

    We use it a lot, a lot of lots.
    The problem is it's slow, in fact it slows done that much sometimes that it's hardly usable, well OK, that may be the hardware...

    Except that we were told that the reason it was running like absolute shite for a while was because the admin guy who normally 're-organises the database' on a regular basis was on holiday.

    Sorry can't agree with the above sentiment after a good couple of years of 'end user' use.

  19. Re:Against the spirit of Trek on Shatner Leaks Trek XI Details · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or it describes the current US policy of forcing their idea of Democracy down every nations throat until they all look the same.

    Or the radical Muslim idea of making the entire world Muslim. Or the current evangelical missionary idea as seen in places like Uganda who are trying to do the same thing with Christianity.

    Metaphor, Metaphor, everyone wants to be like everyone else so much that they want to change anything different to be like them.

    OK, OK, round here it's really way to early to be up and on the computer on a Saturday morning... Sorry

  20. Re:Oops! on White Dolphin Functionally Extict · · Score: 1

    Only a Sith deals in absolutes ...

    ... and, y'know, Yoda, cuz "there is no try".

  21. eeejit! on Norman & Spolsky - Simplicity is Out · · Score: 3, Insightful

    KISS isn't necessarily referring to the user interface, which is all TFA is on about

  22. Re:It's a metaphor, you dipshit on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the description itself is a metaphor, OK maybe synonym, 'the creature was built like a brick shit-house'
    doesn't mean it is actually made of bricks, somewhat square and smelly.

    Dipshit seconded.

  23. Re:seems like Tesco could be missing a trick on UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft · · Score: 1

    It's ability Office according to the BBC

  24. Re:Why a subscription fee? on Microsoft To Enable User-Created Xbox 360 Games · · Score: 1

    More games

    i.e. more reasons to choose X-Box over Playstation
    there's plenty out there that bought P.C.s for gaming and that industry was not built
    on those that could pay IBM (e.g.) for development tools.

  25. Re:More Like a Phishing Attack on How to Crack a Website - XSS, Cookies, Sessions · · Score: 1
    require users to set passwords to optimal lengths and character combinations


    Enforcing password restrictions is the best way to encourage people to write down their passwords;
    just disable profiles after a set number of attempts.

    Also 2 part authntication helps, especially when the users can be asked one of a set of 'personal' questions,
    stuff they should know and not have to right down. Then a phishing attack has a lower chance of success.