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  1. Re:Anti Anti-Virus? on Microsoft Taking Apple's Walled Garden Approach For Metro Apps · · Score: 1

    how is that related? how is the liberty to do what you want with your computer being removed when you install an antivirus?. yea the antivirus can prohibit the installation of malware (or false positives), but if you insist you can disable it, its your choice. Locked stores enforced by hardware locks is another thing

  2. Re:Anti Anti-Virus? on Microsoft Taking Apple's Walled Garden Approach For Metro Apps · · Score: 1

    "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

  3. Re:"... system information such as IP addresses .. on Japan's Largest Defense Contractor Hacked · · Score: 1

    OMG!!! you published your DNS ip address!!!

  4. Already happened on Are Some CAs Too Big To Fail? · · Score: 1

    with Comodo, they only hardcoded some certificate signatures but did not revoke the entire CA. There is another problem: "your website is too small to care". I am not sure if a small business operator will receive the same treatment like they did with Comodo, patch their browsers to protect users of your small site

  5. Re:Typical microsoft... on PS3 Counter-Strike To Support Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 1

    I honestly think all matchmaking implementations I have used are broken. They match players based on levels that is basically measure how much time have you played the game instead of the gamer statistics, the frequency you kill another player. A good matchmaking system and the control scheme do not matter, there are good controller players and there are bad keyboard and mouse players. What I hate about keyboard and mouse is not its superiority, if your definition of superiority is that you have a better kill ratio using it, is that it gives the player unrealistic attributes like allowing to turn 180 degrees in an instant, then you see player playing a military shooter that looks like a science fiction movie with players with super powers

  6. Re:This has me worried.... on PS3 Counter-Strike To Support Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 1

    It depends the kind of mod, UT3 PS3 allows modding but no cross platform play. If you arrive to a host with a mod it download it, with the exception of maps that you need to download separately and install on your PS3 using UT3 UI.

  7. Re:Awesome. on PS3 Counter-Strike To Support Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    UT3 PS3 allow creation of games with restrictions to the kind of control used. It is the best solution, do you want to play only with controller? search for games that do not allow Keyboard and Mouse, you do not care? search any game. Controller player accuse keyboard player of cheating? tell him to learn to search and kick him

  8. Re:Market already saturated? on Sluggish Android Tablet Growth May Give Microsoft an Opening · · Score: 2

    Thinkpad Tablet case connector is standard USB, so you can plug any keyboard if you do not have the case near you for some reason

  9. Re:Google account required? on $80 Android Phone Sells Like Hotcakes In Kenya · · Score: 1

    Android 3.x Market has a combobox on top to switch accounts, the same way the Talk client allows multiple accounts, I expect that those features will be on Android Icecream

  10. Re:Yeah... on Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case · · Score: 1

    and they removed the big Samsung text in front of the tablet, and they say people will confuse it with an iPad? please, if they need to remove that text they know people will know it id not an iPad

  11. Re:Cant compete, but sue. on Sale of Samsung Galaxy Tab Blocked in the EU · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Just show me what it does... on Mozilla's Vision of an 'Internet Life' Platform · · Score: 1

    Having a browser that works on both platform was not enough, It was needed that Mozilla reached a high number of users in order to start seeing website developers caring about it and allowing people to use, for example, their bank website on other platforms

  13. Re:Can anyone explain that in English? on Google Developing Master API — Web Intents · · Score: 1

    Exactly, eliminating the tracking those services do with those like, +1, tweet buttons forcing you to embed external (to your domain) scripts or add awful iframes

  14. Re:Can anyone explain that in English? on Google Developing Master API — Web Intents · · Score: 2

    Something like this, your web based applications will in some way register in your browser an API, another web application can call an that API, allowing a local web application be able to pass and receive data from another local web applications, from local I mean web applications that are running on your browser, without the server from application A know about server of application B and the data is trasferred to both applications locally. This solve the problem two problems, currently web applications must be coded to access specific thirdparty applications if they want to communicate, second, it hides the applications involved so application A do not know you are using applications B to edit a photo inside application A. The same way Android applications can call each other without knowing each other, only the Intents (or API). An "Inter process" communication between web pages in your browser

  15. Re:To M$: Your point is irrelevant in this context on Google Accuses Competitors of Abusing Patents Against Android · · Score: 1

    HTC, Motorola, Samsung are not Google, so probably the terms only told that teh bidding group will not sue themselves, but what about others?

  16. Re:Apps on Google+ Registers 25 Million Visitors · · Score: 1

    it works if the domain admin has started the Google accounts transition. It is planed that this will be done automatically soon. Take note that the domain admin can control what Google services you will be able to use with you domain account

  17. FALSE: Official Google response on How Google Killing Accounts Can Leave Androids Orphaned · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google has explained that being banned only from G+ does not ban you from other services

    MYTH: Not abiding by the Google+ common name policy can lead to wholesale suspension of one’s entire Google account.

    When an account is suspended for violating the Google+ common name standards, access to Gmail or other products that don’t require a Google+ profile are not removed. Please help get the word out: if your Google+ Profile is suspended for not using a common name, you won't be able to use Google services that require a Google+ Profile, but you'll still be able to use Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Blogger, and so on. (Of course there are other Google-wide policies (e.g. egregious spamming, illegal activity, etc) that do apply to all Google products, and violations of these policies could in fact lead to a Google-wide suspension.)

  18. Re:all your base... on Google Announces Google CDN · · Score: 1

    It is not free of cost, it is free for testing and prices will be announced later

  19. Re:DoD is Ga Ga For RIM... on BlackBerry PlayBook First Tablet To Gain NIST Approval · · Score: 1

    You say MS and Citrix but I have not read confirmation about Apple allowing reassignation to other user, do Apple allow it too?

  20. Re:DoD is Ga Ga For RIM... on BlackBerry PlayBook First Tablet To Gain NIST Approval · · Score: 1

    Buy in volume and distribute, that looks like applications still will be tied to an user, companies want applications tied to them and be able to move licences between users. " you will receive redemption codes for each app. You can control who gets the apps by providing these codes to users via email or an internal website" looks like apps are distributed but could the company later assign that app to another user? If not its an awful program from the business company point of view, for Apple and the developer is a dream multiple sales

  21. Re:Shipping share vs. market share on Android Catching Up In the Tablet Market · · Score: 2

    And? in my country the big promoted table for one of the biggest Telco, and the one with the best 3G (not perfect 3G only the best in comparison) is selling a tablet running 2.2 and that is the Galaxy Tab, the only Tablet being sold directly here by a telco. So it is ok to ignore 2.2 Tablets just because 3.0 was designed for tablets?

  22. Only one supplier on Will Apple's Lion Roar For Business? · · Score: 1

    Any medium to big sized company that thinks that it is cool to base their IT infrastructure in hardware from a single supplier and that any software you buy for that platform is tied to it is making a big mistake. Basing their software purchases on a single OS provider like Windows is enough a problem to tie you to a hardware manufacturer. At least software is something intangible that can be replicated easily, with hardware you must be ready to be able to switch providers if needed, for example: on my country companies have problems importing their products frequently, what happens if Apple is not able to provide you the hardware you need when you need it and you need to open a new branch office, ohh no!!! we are screwed

  23. Re:Do they even fill the same role? on Apple Adopts Bluetooth 4.0. Could It Reject NFC? · · Score: 1

    oops wrong reply to Baloroth that already told this. FAIL

  24. Re:Do they even fill the same role? on Apple Adopts Bluetooth 4.0. Could It Reject NFC? · · Score: 1

    NFC works with passive devices too, one active device generates a signal to power the other one. I do not see Bluetooth replacing that

  25. Re:Mild censorship on Apple Finally Approves Google+ App For iPhone · · Score: 1

    Amazon, I hear that a lot of people buy applications there and better yet, they get something called a physical disk that they can resell later if they want