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  1. I'm guessing you never heard on Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon · · Score: 1

    ... of putting your damn comment in the comment box, not the subject field where it doesn't belong.

  2. Re:Wi-Fi toothpick on Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon · · Score: 1

    The Kickstarter campaign closed 9 months ago. You can order them from LIFX now for $79 USD.

  3. Re:Wi-Fi toothpick on Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon · · Score: 1

    So at least if you built it into the switch you'd not only be able to control multiple lights but as a bonus you'd have room for a little security circuitry built in. Without any security? These things won't last a week thanks to all the douchebags.

    Oh, just like the LIFX bulbs then. Phew, glad that's sorted.

  4. Re:Wi-Fi toothpick on Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon · · Score: 1

    No its not, because the bulbs have a security model which prevents anyone but the "rightful owner" giving them directions.

  5. Re:Wi-Fi toothpick on Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon · · Score: 1

    The other thing that will prevent you participating in the Kickstarter is that it closed in November 2012. They ARE proceeding, and this whole story is about the fact that they're finally delivering.

    Which is news to us customers.

  6. Re:Shocked I am not. on Apple Details US Requests For Customer Data · · Score: 1

    Well considering many of us are outside your country where we were not able to object to your government passing these laws, but are still somehow subject to them, I think the outrage is justified.

  7. Re:Too little too late on Cerulean Studios Releases Trillian IM Protocol Specifications · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's Skype Communications SarL's fault. That restriction existed long before the Microsoft purchase.

  8. Re:GGPL on MySQL Man Pages Silently Relicensed Away From GPL · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how strict the GPL conditions are, they have no effect on the copyright owner, who is not bound by it.

  9. Re:Updates on Oracle Reinstates Free Time Zone Updates For Java 7 · · Score: 1
  10. Re: Get a letter from your original client on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Another Dev Steals Your Work and Adds Their Name? · · Score: 1

    Still, "moral rights" apply. Legally, the original author is legally entitled to be recognised as the author of a piece of work - and my understanding is you can't actually waive this right (barring an employer-employee relationship).

  11. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    I'm confused - it appears you're disagreeing with my post, which actually agreed with your post but added a qualifier to a specific circumstance in which they would be right - one which is far outside the control of the healthcare system anyway.

    People simply do not die waiting for elective surgeries or emergency procedures - transplants are the only way I could think of where a person would die waiting for the operation.

    For what it's worth, I live in the purview of the New Zealand healthcare system - one which has a target of 6 months for elective surgeries.

  12. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the procedure they're referring to is a transplant, the sort of thing that's also dependent on a seriously scarce resource (donors).

  13. Re:"All of your entertainment"? on Microsoft Unveils Xbox One · · Score: 1

    It has a browser, therefore has access to porn.

  14. Re:one on Microsoft Unveils Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Newer generation Xbox 360s do not actually have red LEDs any more. Errors are simply displayed as cryptic numbers on the screen

  15. Re:XBMC on Microsoft Unveils Xbox One · · Score: 1

    It would have to be "Xbox, Settings, Turn Off, Yes" - and there's a 50/50 chance that halfway through it misinterprets something and just locks up until followed by "Cancel"

  16. Re:Bill Gates is a fascinating turn-around story. on Bill Gates Opens Up About Steve Jobs · · Score: 2

    Well, except for provide roads, school systems, emergency medicine, justice systems, police protection, fire protection, civil defense, national defense, libraries, research subsidies...

    Yup, all nothing.

  17. Re:Good on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately the reality is, in the wrong hands pretty much any solution can seem shitty. Doesn't matter if it's Exchange, Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, or even Google Apps (I've managed to bollocks up my Google Apps configuration a few times).

    And I would agree, older Exchange versions were a dog (like 5.5 etc). It's come ahead by leaps and bounds since then though.

  18. Re:Good on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Never seen that before. Either we have phenomenal administrators (unlikely, I've met them) or the people running that install were frankly incompetent. I'm leaning toward the latter.

  19. Re:Good on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Right. Plug an unconfigured Sendmail or Postfix server into the internet, and it magically configures itself.

    Your post is the dumbest shit I've heard all day.

  20. Re:Bad blood? on Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download · · Score: 1

    Then why the fuck aren't they using EWS?

  21. Re:Yeah, they'll save their 280,000, and more on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Google Video for Business. Gone.

    (According to Google, "use Google Drive instead").

  22. Re:Only $280k? on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 2

    You do realise that Windows domains at greater than Windows NT 4 functional level don't have Primary Domain Controllers right? Are you saying that Samba 3 can act as a FSMO Master role server in a Windows 2003 functional level domain?

    (The answer is no by the way - only Samba 4 can do this, and even then the functionality is still buggy according to the Samba project).

    Side note, SMB isn't used for domain communications, it's LDAP/S and Kerberos (well, Kerb5 or whatever it's called). Your post appears to completely apply only to NT 4 domains.

  23. Re:Only $280k? on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 2

    In all fairness, Google has a tendency to keep any retired services running for Apps users (Wave notwithstanding). If they don't, then they tend to migrate the data to a comparable service automatically (e.g. all Google Video data being migrated to Google Drive).

  24. Re:Microsoft's real reaction on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Oh. A chair joke. How original.

  25. Re:Why is the FUD FUD? on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Google Apps now has the same privacy policy as regular free Google services.