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  1. Not really on Vista Casts A Pall On PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    In Vista, LUA's are mandatory and inescapable.
    I say BS. Just disable the UAC and vista acts just like XP in every aspect.

  2. Re:top of the line? on Microsoft Bribing Bloggers With Laptops · · Score: 1

    Neither Macbook pro nor thinkpad is top-of-the-line.

  3. Re:reasons for procrastination on Beating Procrastination with Self-Imposed Deadlines · · Score: 2

    Another reason is to make the work feel more risky thus exciting.

  4. Re:Just remove the 'Open'? on ESR's Desktop Linux 2008 Deadline · · Score: 1

    So I don't deserve to use free software because I use non free hardware? Tell me more

  5. Re:What part of on Government Has a Right to Read Your Email? · · Score: 1

    Why would someone tattoo their name where noone will ever see it, given that he is a geek

  6. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. on Microsoft Squeezes Win2000 Users · · Score: 1

    I have been using vista since it was longhorn. The aero thing is better than XP blue theme but seriously it's a usability nightmare. And no, it is NOT faster. In theory it should be but it's just not.

  7. Re:Not Opera on Boston Globe to Blogger — "Stop Using Opera" · · Score: 1

    Opera supports quite so many architectures and OSes including consoles (Wii anyone?) and Mobile phones. The so called market share thing could be true about Desktop but it doesn't hold water in all cases so Website DO need to work with Opera, period.

  8. I don't hate MS on Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    For the same reason that I don't hate garbage. I do have to deal with the stink and it would be nice if I don't have to.

  9. Re:Vista on Linus Puts Kibosh On Banning Binary Kernel Modules · · Score: 1

    and it also allows microsoft to deny kernel space to drivers it doesn't like by not signing it since all the functionality is not available in usermode. Why does quake3 runs on Xp and not on vista with the exact same hardware and exact same drivers? Oh now the old drivers which actually supported OpenGL run in usermode.

  10. Pakistan on Malaysia to Use RFID Number Plates Next Year · · Score: 1

    They already started using such number plates for all newly registered vehicles since august of this year. Make no mistakes, RFID is here to stay.

  11. Re:really? on The Death of the "Cell Phone" · · Score: 1

    I haven't read the article but he could be talking about rest of the world. I don't know about US but voice call being unused is true in parts of asia and europe and data use will only grow by time.

  12. Re:I have an idea for Microsoft... on The Soul of A New Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that non-negotiable agreements are really hard if not impossible to enforce.

  13. Re:Forget that on High-Tech Shopping In a Window Wonderland · · Score: 1

    I don't think that the certain implementation of Wii you talk about is legally sellable in US of A

  14. Re:How about not treating me like a criminal in th on Cell Phone Owners Allowed To Break Software Locks · · Score: 1

    I hope this helps the US catchup with rest of the world in terms of cellular technology. Though it could make the handsets more pricey

  15. Re:Are they feeling pressure? on Microsoft Taking Heat For Patent Stance · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between threatening to sue and actually suing. While most of he big players inluding MS do threaten to sue, in most cases they don't. Unless of course if that is about breaking their DRM scheme which could actually harm their business which happened most recenetly.

  16. Re:Not compatible on Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's Pakistanis and not Pakastanis. Use Firefox 2.

  17. *confused* on The Failure of the $100 Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I searched but couldn't find the exams nor the braindumps for the certification on mcp site.

  18. Re:Plagiarism on Universal Music Sues MySpace · · Score: 1

    So mainly you are saying that they should commit suicide?

  19. Re:Nothing to see here... on British "Secure" Passports Cracked · · Score: 1

    I totally agree. However doesn't it make the encryption useless? What's the whole point? essentially if a reader can read (and clone) the RFID then how is it secure than the previous one anyway?

    What I think they should've done was to put the private key on the passport (unreadable once written) and public key in their database. Now what the the RFID should transmit is the date of birth, name and other info encrypted by the private key in the RFID itself which can be verified by the public key that they already have. Since the private key is unreadable but is used to encrypt the public information so it could be easily verified.

    Or is it what they are already doing?

  20. Re:Great on Physicists Promise Wireless Power · · Score: 1

    Why don't you enable that encryption key on you wireless power router, Oh wait.

  21. Re:Thank god it was Samsung on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 1

    that might give a whole new meanings to msblaster

  22. Re:What's so special about Vista? on Samsung's Hybrid Hard Drive Exposed · · Score: 1

    I think the whole point is that the failure is much more predictable than what is of a rotating media aka harddrive. Flash has a given life and is far less likely to fail before that.

  23. Re:two words on IE7 Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    Looks BS to me. I am running vista 5600 and it says that "Your browser does not appear to vulnerable to this particular exploit." Maybe it is specific to XP?

  24. Re:Quick question... on Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use · · Score: 1

    You gotta be kidding. I work on simulators and emulators for a living and I know well there is no freakin way that an application could know if the emulator doesn't want it to know. Every single register and memory location can be virtulized making a OS blind. They may try to use certain hacks to know (software do this all the time to figure out if any system level debugger aka softice is memory resident) but it is a losing battle for any software or in this case an OS.

  25. Re:My Favorite TV Show on Radioactive Snails Crawl Up From Beneath · · Score: 1

    Where turtles can live hundred of years (supposedly even after mutation), snails are less likely to reach the mentioned teenage. In summarty the show needs a change of name.