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  1. Re:Not really on Microsoft To Get Malware Bailout In Germany · · Score: 0

    you don't even need UAC to bypass in windows because 99% of the time, space programs use windows XP not vista. Nice try. Oh, and the fact that you can make linux a hell of a lot more secure than windows? yeah, fail.

  2. Re:Not really on Microsoft To Get Malware Bailout In Germany · · Score: 1

    This would also kill anonymity as we know it. Thus, no, this doesn't work.

  3. Re:Slashdot "Hype" on Israeli Knesset Approves Biometric Database Law · · Score: 1

    Real ID was stupid, and was also not the same as the driver's license database which we already had for years. So I don't know where you're coming from on all that.

  4. Re:Did anyone look at their other apps???!? on Dev Booted From App Store For Inflated Reviews · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? there are companies out there that do a service for giving inflated reviews. It's not a new concept. Lots of companies do cheap knockoffs, it's why iphone sounds like it has a ton of apps. Every app store has that same problem to some degree, but usually less so.

  5. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Israeli Knesset Approves Biometric Database Law · · Score: 2, Informative

    In case you're wondering, this isn't a whole lot different than a driver's license database. There are *some*, but the wording is slashdot hype here.

  6. Re:Why don't they focus on things that matter? on Google Visual Search Coming Soon to Android · · Score: 1

    I really need a 16G Class 6 Card

    Why not get 2 8GB's and be done with it? 8GB class 6's are much easier to obtain. Since USB3 isn't exactly around yet for common use, the rest does pretty much suck.

  7. Re:Why don't they focus on things that matter? on Google Visual Search Coming Soon to Android · · Score: 2, Insightful

    cyanogenmod takes you about 5 minutes.

    install addon via code.google.com that lets you flash it.
    download update flash, backup existing memory.
    reboot into cyanogenmod.

    done, only further step is if you intend to format the memory card for ext3 so that you can store as many apps as you want. Also probably takes 10+minutes to download cyanogenmod. Yes, it is the solution and unlike apple, you're not going to be behind on updates or bricked due to flashing.

    The bigger pain is when you have a million apps, you have a million updates.

    Flash won't be gone immediately with HTML5, but it hopefully will be soon. Flash is horribly inefficient and runs like crap, and basically doesn't do plenty of things HTML5 does. So soon, flash will thankfully be gone.

  8. Re:Why don't they focus on things that matter? on Google Visual Search Coming Soon to Android · · Score: 1

    maybe because your comment has nothing to do with visual search (it's offtopic), and you don't want *flash* capability at all? Google is going HTML5, which removes the need for flash in it's entirety. If you want PDF capability just use cyanogenmod and quit acting like it's google's fault.

    cyanogenmod = significantly faster performance, more applications available with more functionality (1 click gps/wifi/bluetooth/etc), PDF by default, exchange support, and all OS versions including cyanogen = navigation support.

    Google's map does not work at all as well on the iphone as on android. ever seen google nav on the iphone?

    Your fault is your lack of understanding, none of these issue's are google's fault. I'm not saying google is great, they do a lot of bad shit too, but it helps to go to google.com and look up some of the crap you want to do.

  9. Re:Just one word for you, son--"porn" on Google Visual Search Coming Soon to Android · · Score: 1

    Why is this a hard idea to you? Japan has had similar ideas for years. The idea even floated around the US a bit previously .

    Add google's location tagging, even if they just use the wifi one that is probably about a 1/2 mile radius of the picture location, and they still could be quite reasonably accurate (and quite easily at that).

    So actually, the chance for you understanding the article seems to be smaller than the supposed chance of them doing an easy task which you deem insurmountable.

  10. Re:Good to see game developers put their foot down on New Aliens Vs. Predator Game Doesn't Make It Past AU Ratings Board · · Score: 1

    The internet is a wonderful distribution. Not only could you distribute the game via digital download, but it doesn't matter who doesn't want you to have it at that point. As long as they take a paypal payment.

  11. Re:buy compatible cartridges on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 2

    if only there was some agency to break up anticompetitive cartels who keep prices high at their discretion....then again who am I kidding, they're bought out by lobby.

  12. Re:Yes it is terrible! on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 1

    considering that every single thing can be found by putting it in google and adding the word x, where x is the name of your distro, I tend to disagree. Everything is well indexed on the relevant forums.

  13. Re:And yet there are still software patents. on Windows 7 Under Fire For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    it's because if MS loses software patents, they have nothing to threaten OEM's with to prevent them from distributing linux or other OS's.

  14. Re:Windows 12 on Intel Shows 48-Core x86 Processor · · Score: 1

    my idea when you had enough was that each process thread can be on it's own processor, is the idea of a mutex for every com object similar? I don't really get 100% what a mutex is.

  15. Re:Politics on Scientists Step Down After CRU Hack Fallout · · Score: 2, Interesting

    to keep it simple for those who don't get global warming, most people don't understand that icecaps melting/receeding like they have been lately is not at all a normal part of our weather patterns.

    I agree though, this should be scientific discussion of how to tackle it not political "lets deal with it later"

  16. Re:This is... on Google May Limit Free News Access · · Score: 1

    the same thing they do now: anything they want, in any way they want. The "outlets" never provided anything to websites in the first place.

  17. Re:2012 on Microsoft To Switch Focus To Windows 8 In July 2010 · · Score: 1

    actually like any good MS kerberos time calculation, the time and date are off.

  18. Re:The equivalent... on AbleGamers Reviews Games From a Disability Standpoint · · Score: 1

    uh, no. Left4dead2 has a caption option even.

  19. Re:This is... on Google May Limit Free News Access · · Score: 1

    If they falter, what will happen?

    Answer: Fark.com . Sites like that, other unbiased sites that aggregate will still have ways to aggregate, and in the comments they will likely link the whole article as text.

    Basically one person will get access and give it to everyone else or something. Nobody cares to register or pay, or whatever. This is just trying to make information not free, which is asinine.

    Meanwhile, I'm actually quite skeptical that google will buckle here, and of the accuracy of the whole article.

  20. Re:Classified as a religion? on Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking · · Score: 1

    do you see people taking scientology as a joke? think of that applied to R2-45, and your answer no longer fits.

  21. Re:Good news for Linux on Windows 7 Share Grows At XP's Expense · · Score: 1

    Actually, the phrase for it is "mojave #2: retarded bugaloo"

    It's the same concept and reason.

  22. Re:Classified as a religion? on Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    what do you mean? they already had some kind of formal document about shooting people when necessary, there isn't much more out there. CoS needs to be gone, period.

  23. Re:Oh really? on In AU, Film Studios Issue Ultimatum To ISPs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is, there is no way to verify if the copyright notice is legit. It's not the ISP's responsibility to verify it either. Thus notice -> garbage. Just like DMCA false claims, which have proven to be inaccurate.

    So no, their responsibility does not rely on assuming that a copyright infringement claim is correct, or even to care.

  24. Re:ok on Apple Newton vs. Apple iPhone · · Score: 1

    history and every industry that exists today would beg to differ.

    Not everyone is successful with innovation, but innovation (and invention) are what can enable success.

  25. Re:It's finished, dummies on Contributors Leaving Wikipedia In Record Numbers · · Score: 1

    To me,I find Wikipedia's editing method incredibly cumbersome. I don't know what the alternative is.

    Meanwhile, I'm thoroughly beyond my tolerance of the site in knowing that every article is going to have a bias on some subjective issue, if it's even remotely political.