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  1. Re:Only 0.1% of crimes get solved with cameras on London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day · · Score: 1

    If you don't pay for your camera to be registered with the council then the footage from it can be inadmissible, or so I've heard.

  2. Re:Kinect hype on Google Engineer Sponsors New Kinect Bounties · · Score: 2, Funny

    It tells me where my joints are? I want one :)

  3. Re:The guy has a talent on First Installment of Xiph.org's 'Digital Video Primer For Geeks' · · Score: 1, Informative

    Not so flawless for me - the link greys out firefox for more than 10 seconds and then there is no sound :(

  4. Re:So serious on Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead? · · Score: 1

    Why wait until you're dead? As soon as it's good enough to fool people stop turning up for work but keep taking the paycheck. Move to the beach, rinse and repeat.

  5. Re:Google's fault is lack of patience on Google Kills Wave Development · · Score: 1

    I had an idea for a wave project that I was going to build. I requested and received a dev and test account and played about with the UI. I managed to get the openfire extension installed on my server, the google appspot account setup, a particular non-repo version of eclipse and the GWT extension (on one version of Ubuntu). I built a crude robot (the logic) and a gadget (the UI), uploaded it and saw it working. If I bought a SSL cert I could have federated so that the robot code ran on my server (as my app would have needed to do).

    I liked that it was an extension to XMPP. I liked a lot about the direction google took the project. Yes, the UI was flakey at the time (last year) and I had my doubts about how federation would scale. The thing I was waiting for was some server-side code for the web part of a federated server to be made available.

    I put in quite a bit of effort to get that far and had faith in google's faith in the platform. I'm surprised wave has been pulled and I'm sure developers that put in more work than I will feel let down. It is not often that google cancels a product, especially such a large one that has had so much work thrown at it. I believe the idea was a good one, that it flowed from naturally XMPP and hope it flourishes in a FLOSS way in the future.

  6. Re:Doesn't surprise me on Kodak Wireless Picture Frames Open To Public · · Score: 1

    So make one then.

  7. Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    Easier than pressing F11? Wow, that is easy.

  8. Re:Proof! on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    The pressure difference theory accounts for only a fraction of the generated lift. The majority comes from the the reaction from deflecting the air downwards.

    Laminar flow causes the air to stick to the top of the wing and is redirected slightly downwards, the underside pushes yet more air downwards in a more obvious way. The vertical component of this is what generates most of the lift.

    Couple of quick links.

  9. Re:I've already had BIOS malware on Researchers Demo BIOS Attack That Survives Disk Wipes · · Score: 1

    I also had BIOS malware back in '95. Went online with win95 and the machine lasted 4 days. That's actually what got me into Linux, and that's when my learning really started.

    A big thank you to whoever did that to me!

  10. Re:Windows 2008 R2 (AKA Windows7) comments... on Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay · · Score: 1

    No VMWare drivers? And have to go fishing around for a 32bit link? Oh well, I guess I won't bother then. I doubt that I would have liked it anyway.

    That was the response you expected, wasn't it Microsoft?

  11. Re:Still no virtual desktop on Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay · · Score: 1

    I've tried MSVDM and it failed with excel. If excel wasn't on the first Desktop then the borders/menus disappeared.

    It has been in beta forever and they have no intention or ability to make it usable for anything but the most trivial of demo cases.

  12. Re:Break out the copy machines... on Microsoft Working On Its Own App Store · · Score: 1

    That's way too responsive to have anything to do with sharepoint.