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  1. Re:Virus scanner flags something that is not a vir on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    Must be using a McAfee Enterprise product. I'm not sure those even do anything, because they never actually report anything. Although they do frequently report in their log files that they allowed stuff to happen that would have been blocked by policy (without ever indicating why said policy did not apply).

  2. Re:No, it wasn't. on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    Ice humour?

    Can you touch it?

  3. Re:Holy crap! on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    Although you're generally correct, MSE is a Microsoft product so it uses the centralised update manager to update - silently - with Windows itself (if you so choose).

    Now, fucking Adobe...

  4. Re:A joke... on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    It can't install there because it can't silently update due to permissions. On Windows XP, it installs to "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome" and on Vista and 7 to "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome".

  5. Re:A joke... on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    I have the Google Update plugin installed on my work PC without any toolbars or whatever, just Chrome. It also installs the Chrome Frame plugin for other browsers too.

  6. Re:A joke... on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    Did it do this while offering you a "great deal" on Norton renewals from the 30 second trial installed with the PC?

  7. Re:Well strike me dead cobbers on Australia's National Broadband Network Officially Open For Business · · Score: 1

    Indeed. It's properly called footy over in Aussie is it not?

  8. Re:Good value! on Australia's National Broadband Network Officially Open For Business · · Score: 1

    You Aussies complain too much. The prices for fibre on New Zealand's FTTH network are ... actually not too bad. Holy shit. ($37.50/mo wholesale for 30Mb/s downstream, 10Mb/s upstream - but that includes zero data, which we'll probably get raped on).

  9. Re:PlayStation Store on Australia's National Broadband Network Officially Open For Business · · Score: 1

    Australia has movies you can rent or buy via iTunes - can't recall if they have TV shows too.

  10. Re:We finally got the internet! on Australia's National Broadband Network Officially Open For Business · · Score: 1

    I'd say. IMO, the stereotypical Aussie accent is actually closer to a South African accent. And that's the stereotypical one, not the one you actually get if you go there.

    (Disclaimer: I'm from Australia's fifth state - or at least it will be at the rate our government is going).

  11. Re:Simple. on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Mobile networks get a different numbering prefix, just like in pretty much every other civilized country?

  12. Re:Great idea on Outlining a World Where Software Makers Are Liable For Flaws · · Score: 1

    Card issuer? The fuck. The liability is shunted in full straight onto the merchant instead - the one who's actually out cash and product when a fraudulent card is used. The card issuers invest virtually nothing in fraud protection, they just demand the merchants do it instead.

  13. Re:Way to be a day late! on Microsoft Begins Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) Rollout · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see. I'll confess I've not had need to write any backgrounding stuff, so hadn't fully looked into it.

  14. Re:Way to be a day late! on Microsoft Begins Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) Rollout · · Score: 1

    Um, if your app needs it, it can actually go into the background and keep processing - TuneIn Radio is probably the best example of this. Start it, select a stream, it starts playing and you can go back to the home screen and start something else or whatever.

  15. Re:Way to be a day late! on Microsoft Begins Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) Rollout · · Score: 1

    You can install Google stuff on WP7 if you want (Google has made some available), but you can't bake them into the OS to replace Bing services - just like Android with Google services. Your "terrible feature" is bollocks.

    All credit to Apple though, at least you can swap to Ya.... yeah, sorry. I couldn't say it. Just too hard to say without disintegrating into fits of laughter.

  16. Re:Way to be a day late! on Microsoft Begins Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) Rollout · · Score: 1

    That would be because you can't possibly believe that anyone could like a Microsoft product over an Apple product. Seriously, people make personal choices and have individual opinions. Film at 11.

  17. Re:Make that one of two... on Microsoft Begins Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) Rollout · · Score: 1

    Every phone can do it - there's no such thing these days as a chipset that can't - but new drivers need to be made available in an OEM update and your carrier needs to prop a webservice allowing the phone to check up if you're provisioned for tethering (i.e. whether you have paid the appropriate tithes for using your laptop via your phone).

    Most WP7 phones if dropped into engineering mode allow you to use them as USB modems though.

  18. Re:Losing money? on Groupon Loses COO, Drastically Cuts Reported Revenue · · Score: 1

    I've heard they employ thousands of cold-calling sales people across the globe (Groupon is in more than just the US).

  19. Re:So in other words... on Groupon Loses COO, Drastically Cuts Reported Revenue · · Score: 1

    After the Groupon is USED, not sold. The coupon will always be presented prior to being paid out. And if accounts over the web are to be believed, sometimes Groupon does not pay out at all (i.e. they charge a 100% commission on some Groupons).

  20. Re:US will and wont? LOL WUT on Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation? · · Score: 1

    .ch - Switzerland, not .cn, China.

  21. Re:no domain on Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation? · · Score: 1

    Just get a direct portable allocation from an RIR.

  22. Re:Does not matter on Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation? · · Score: 1

    They'd have to hijack the entire TLD to achieve it though.

  23. Re:.onion on Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation? · · Score: 2

    Uh no, it was the .ch that survived. That's Switzerland.

  24. Re:How do I avoid copying? on Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation? · · Score: 1

    Viacom's done that several times to themselves on Youtube. In fact, Viacom once got their own Youtube account banned for getting too many takedowns from Viacom.

  25. Re:VistA (not the operating System) on UK's NHS Will Drop Delayed E-Records Project · · Score: 1

    For a healthcare system, the results range from catastrophic to cataclysmic using US-oriented packages, The US packages all seem to be focused around billing, insurance, and stuff like that whereas in countries with socialised systems these sorts of things aren't even a consideration.