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  1. Re: don't connect it on Security for the 'Internet of Things' (Video) · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't have to manually set it back when you leave work. It should know when you leave work and set it on its own, whether because you told it when or it inferred over time.

  2. Re: redefining Research on Owner of Nortel Patents Sues Cisco For 'Immense' Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Why?

  3. Re:Could somebody explain wayland, please? on Official Wayland Support Postponed From GNOME 3.12 · · Score: 2

    Please watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... And then shut up about how Wayland is crap. Seriously. The people that wrote X and maintain it say that X is crap and are working on Wayland... X is nonsensical and is the reason that linux UIs struggle to not suck. Wayland will bring things FORWARD not backward.

  4. Re: iGoogle Disaster on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    This is probably because you viewed Chryslers homepage sometime during the interaction rather than due to gmail. Pretty sure your emails do not affect ads on webpages.

  5. Re:Has Google become EVIL? on Google Declares War On the Password · · Score: 1

    From the article: "So they’ve developed a (as yet unnamed) protocol for device-based authentication that they say is independent of Google, requires no special software to work — aside from a web browser that supports the login standard — and which prevents web sites from using this technology to track users."

    Which part of this sounds like Google being evil or or trying to control everything?

  6. Career on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd love to see someone try to make a career out of this! Pick a game like WOW and then advertise that you will make the game hell for whoever for a fee in an attempt to get them to quit. Two main clients I'd image: dad's and girlfriends. Wonder how long before Blizzard or lawyers step in.

  7. Re:Obligatory on FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% · · Score: 2

    If there are only BSD like licenses, what is the incentive of any corporation to give back? The thinking will be "look here's this awesome tool that we can take, modify and use for ourselves. Let's do that" and giving back won't even be a part of the thought. Energy behind the free version will wane and Open source will disappear. The GPL like licenses helps us know that there WILL be current open source software out there because anyone who wants to use it as a starting point has to give back.

    You could argue that some that work on BSD software DO give back, but I think the presence of the GPL has helped the culture form and I'm just not sure that without it's presence that the pattern would continue to long.

    I could be wrong, and maybe I am, but I am glad for the GPL and fear the rise of BSD. Perhaps it's best to have both and allow them to co exist, but BSD only I'm afraid will slowly lead to only proprietary software. If someone could help me see the other side, I would certainly listen.

  8. Re:A small matter of priorites. on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 1

    You just paid for being a dumbass with the life of your child. Why do I have to give up my magnets as well?

    Because a child's life may be of more value than your desktop toy?

    If buckyballs were the only dangerous thing for children, then yes I would whole heartedly agree with this! Let's ban them and save the children. The reality is, however, that there are many many things that are dangerous for children and it isn't feasible to tidy up the world so no child gets hurt. Do we rip all trees out of the ground because some kid might climb one in a public park and fall and hurt himself? Or perhaps a child was at a pool and couldn't swim so he drowned. The pools serve no purpose but pleasure, and since they kill kids, ban them all. It's just a question of how far do you go? Ultimately the safety of children rest with the parents.

    Certainly there are times for things to be banned because they cause harm. Such as the baby doll a few years ago that was supposed to simulate eating and ended up munch on little girls' hair instead. A product that was marketed directly for kids and causes them harm is not good. But a product that is not marketed directly for kids, and only causes harm if eaten? Come on...

    I realize I'm making the same argument that everyone else is making so perhaps I'm not really adding anything to the discussion, but I just can't be okay with that line of thinking, and I probably lean more towards government regulation than the one you are quoting does. I do think there are times that it is important to protect children from things at a government level because parents in many cases obviously won't and it's not fair for the children. There are just much bigger and more worthy fish to fry than buckyballs...

  9. I have buckyballs! on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 5, Funny

    The company I work for bought everyone on our team a set. Probably worst investment ever. Productivity has definitely suffered. But look at my cool artistic design!

  10. This vs asus transformer prime on At $250, New Chromebook Means Competition For Tablets, Netbooks, Ultrabooks · · Score: 0

    I bought an asus transformer prime rather than something like this thinking it would be better because it has a browser p.us the whole android Ecosystem and could easily be detached from the keyboard to be a tablet. However I have found the browsers to be incredibly slow compared to laptops or even an iPad. Not sure why this is the case, I'd expect the browser app to be super snappy as it would probably be the most used, but it just wasn't the case. I downloaded Chrome on it as well and it ran worse. I was quite surprised I must say. Side note, does things like Hulu and Netflix work on these?

  11. Re:Nokia destroyed low end for others. on Motorola To Cut 4,000 Jobs, Focus On High-End Devices · · Score: 0

    I agree. This is why IMO Microsoft is so mobile focused with Windows 8. Bridging desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, and xbox into one common interface paradigm. It won't be long before they are all essentially the same device, just different docks for different purposes. Android is moving in the same direction but backwards, as in developing the phone and tablet and then watch as it starts to move into the PC and gaming spheres. The danger in it is heavy vender lock in, and a loss of control of the hardware. I agree. It's not far away.

  12. Hardware? on Google's Own Nexus Tablet Leaks Into the Wild · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Google, why you get in hardware business?

  13. People did predict it! on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 2

    People did predict the economic Collapse. Ron Paul predicted it all along, as many others did. Those who "failed to predict" it are simply those economists and politicians who stood to gain financially from the whole thing. The issue isn't that it is impossible to predict what is to happen, but rather, that those who are in positions to control and predict are those who stand to gain in the bubbles that end in economic turbulent times [read the Fed, Wall Street, Washington].

  14. Re:Tried it today on LibreOffice 3.3 Released Today · · Score: 1

    Agreed. On the mac it igs even better because they have the ribbon AND the menus, since you can't really get rid of menus on a mac. The user has more choice here, and if he chooses he can his the ribbon altogether.

  15. Re:Browsers? on CSS Pocket Reference · · Score: 1

    You can use wine to run ie6 pretty effectively. I've noticed that firefox in linux doesn't seem to render things the same as it does on windows though. Is there a reason for this? I'm specifically talking about when flash is involved. Is this just a flash bug in linux?

  16. Re:That's still a lot on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users' · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call that a fault. That was done on purpose to keep people on IE. Microsoft knows what they are doing there. Thus, the comment about taking a court ruling to change that one.

  17. Re:Old fashioned on Web 2.0 Distracts from Good Design · · Score: 1

    I agree here. I don't know how to use DW templates, and don't care to. I rarely use the WYSIWYG editor. Pretty much only code by hand, HTML, CSS, JS, and at work we use ASP (it sucks btw), but DW works great. Syntax highlighting and autocompletion save alot of time. I use to be about coding by hand, but when you have deadlines, and clients waiting, you need to get things done yesterday, and DW helps out alot IMO

  18. Re:Why? on Google To Purchase Stake In AOL For $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    They also do DSL and Cable, not just dialup. But yes, it does suck.

  19. Re:Buggy Browsers on Open Source Worse than Flying · · Score: 1

    I actually switched from firefox to opera awhile back when firefox 1.4 came out due to firefox's bugginess in that version. I was actually very pleased with it. It loaded pages quickly, and went through history much faster. Firefox 1.5 seems to have fixed alot of that though.

  20. Re: Not Forever on Stopping Linux Desktop Adoption Sabotage · · Score: 1

    I had the same issue with firefox 1.0.7. It was then that I started Opera, and found that in many ways I like it better.

  21. Re:Is it just me? on Flock, the New Browser on the Block · · Score: 1

    I actually got them too whenever I used opera to view the page.

  22. Re:Odd story about Katrina victims. on Post-Katrina Images on Google Maps · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm from the houston area, and there are thousands of refugees there. The church I go to there is a red cross center right now, and a few of the families there said they were leaving to california to find work, so I know some people are heading that way.