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  1. Re:You're Coming At This All Wrong on ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent · · Score: 1

    Apple pays licensing fees to Microsoft too - there's quite a bit of MS tech in the iPhone.

  2. Re:So all 5 of you running Safari on Windows on New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    But they are services running with system privileges. That makes them almost as dangerous as drivers if they are poorly coded.

  3. Re:Parents on Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children · · Score: 1

    You... allow children to stick things in the electrical sockets?

    Worst parent ever... those things are potentially fatal.

  4. Re:One can only hope on Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children · · Score: 1

    Noone's complaining about magnets - those things are weak as shit. What they're complaining about is toys being made with those super-powerful fuckoff magnets they put in hard drives and stuff - those things are as close as you can get to weaponised magnetism.

  5. Re:In other News on Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children · · Score: 1

    Slight problem - it doesn't take care of the people who don't read the warnings, but instead their potentially perfect warning-reading children. We'll never know, now.

  6. Re:And now we see... on YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video · · Score: 1

    Until the USA signs a "Free" Trade Agreement (an agreement where the USA promises... uh, nothing... in exchange for you introducing USA-based Big Pharma and Big Content friendly laws for them, usually in such a way that it bankrupts your local Agriculture and IT industries).

  7. Re:Google shouldn't had given them such right on YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video · · Score: 1

    What in blazes are you ranting about? I don't know the GP from a bar of soap, but even I didn't read whatever you're in a burning rage about from that post - he or she clearly said "that there isn't any oversight on YouTube/google's part is scary" - which anyone with third grade English would know means "the fact that YouTube/google have no oversight [of the automated takedown process, and do not monitor content which is being taken down] is scary". Perhaps you would be well served considering the comments you are replying to more carefully prior to engaging in a misdirected rant.

  8. Re:Google shouldn't had given them such right on YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video · · Score: 1

    Actually, it does. Safe Harbour requires you register with the copyright office. If you followed the Righthaven mess, you would have seen the comments from the guy that ran the EMT forum that he didn't know this (which he found out after the court informed him that as he didn't have a registered agent, he had no safe harbour).

    See page 11 of http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf - specifically this bit:

    In addition, a service provider must have filed with the Copyright Office a designation of an agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement. The Office provides a suggested form for the purpose of designating an agent (http://www.loc.gov/copyright/onlinesp/) and maintains a list of agents on the Copyright Office website (http://www.loc.gov/copyright/onlinesp/list/).

  9. Re:Google shouldn't had given them such right on YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video · · Score: 1

    The whole swearing under penalty of perjury that you represent the copyright holder bit, that's what.

  10. Re:For your own good on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 1

    Touché.

  11. Re:They can do whatever: IE is part of the OS... on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 2

    You can remove Safari on OS X, or IE on Windows. But you can't remove WebKit on OS X, or Trident on Windows.

  12. Re:We tried a big IE8 rollout last summer on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 1

    Probably saved in something called Protected Storage. It's an area where Windows encrypts everything in the storage with the user's password so that it can't be accessed by other users.

  13. Re:For your own good on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 1

    IE isn't integrated into the OS. Trident is, in the same way WebKit is embedded into Mac OS X, and KHTML is embedded into KDE. It really irks me when people talk about IE being embedded into the OS when IE is merely the chrome around Trident.

  14. Re:For your own good on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 1

    This sort of shit is why noone likes Linux zealots.

  15. Re:For your own good on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 1

    2000 records in a list is fine... just don't connect that list to an Outlook calendar. (Shudder).

  16. It has to be a pretty critical error for that - like Runtime core dumping material. The error you got on Hotmail was probably due to either human error, or a borked upgrade in progress (I've seen this sort of thing even on Google for frig sake).

  17. Re:you must be trolling? on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Non-Developers To Send Meaningful Bug Reports? · · Score: 1

    When you close those tabs, Firefox does not necessarily release the memory they were using. That's the problem.

  18. Re:You Don't on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Non-Developers To Send Meaningful Bug Reports? · · Score: 1

    I looked at the website, and quite frankly couldn't work out what it does. Marketing failure right there.

  19. Re:They got paid for this... on Adblock Plus Developers To Allow 'Acceptable' Ads · · Score: 1

    You just described Experts Exchange.

    Also, Something Awful. The counterpoint to the GP post.

  20. Re:Won't Somebody PLEASE Think About the Carriers! on Judge Dismisses 'Other OS' Class-Action Suit Against Sony · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the Navy own those? I'd be concerned if the AF buying equipment broke Naval assets...

  21. Re:Uh oh. on Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict · · Score: 1

    Hell no. But if the drug dealers didn't exist then those family members would just be useless good for nothing bastards rather than useless good for nothing bastards that are constantly bludgeing off the three successful members.

    And frankly, I've never met a successful drug addict, they're all whacked out losers with no money - thanks to the aforementioned dealers. Drug dealers harm society - get the fuck over it.

  22. Re:Privacy settings in Chrome are lacking. on Google-Funded Study Knocks Firefox Security · · Score: 1

    That's what incognito mode does. It doesn't dump cookies and all that, it just nukes them all when all the Incognito windows are closed. See https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95464

  23. Re:We're in a sad state when... on Computer Virus Forces Hospital To Divert Ambulances · · Score: 1

    As I'm constantly having to point out to you goddamned biased *nix fanboys, a Windows network in the hands of competent administration can be just as reliable as a *nix network. And a *nix network in the hands of incompetent administration can be just as unreliable as a Windows network in the hands of incompetent administration.

    That means no browsing the internet on servers, no removable media on desktops, no administration rights, and so on.

  24. Re:The Real Story... on Computer Virus Forces Hospital To Divert Ambulances · · Score: 1

    You just described the situation where I come from as well, except all our hospitals are government owned and paid on time every time. The reason ours can't afford more nurses is because the doctor's union demands that every doctor get a 6% per year pay rise, the nurses get a 3% pay rise per year, while the administration staff get 0% and the hospital itself takes a 5% funding cut per year.

  25. Re:Uh oh. on Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict · · Score: 1

    In most countries (I'm in New Zealand) you're also offered the opportunity to apply for exemption when you receive the summons, if you can provide a reason. I believe our country recognises religious views as a valid reason for exemption (especially since religious views can very easily prejudice verdicts).