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  1. Next Windows To Get Redesign on Next Windows To Get Multicore Redesign · · Score: 1

    Would have been a much better piece of news!
    What a pity!

  2. Re:Why limit yourself? on First Nations Want Cellphone Revenue · · Score: 2, Funny

    I come from Gallifrey. Have I to pay twice?

  3. Why limit yourself? on First Nations Want Cellphone Revenue · · Score: 1

    There are also the analogue and digital TV broadcasters, the satellite broadcasters, the RADARs, police radio links, airlines and naval radio coms and even neighbour's remote controls (TV set, car doors, garage door ...)!

  4. Aye sir! on Is Linux Out of Touch With the Average User? · · Score: 1

    If the "average user" is a Windows user!
    Apart of jokes, there's still a long way, especially if you think about the number of different distributions with very little in common!

  5. Images? on Who Owns The Linux Trademark? · · Score: 1

    Why on earth the list of the Linux trademarks is made by graphics and not in plain text?
    Maybe the plain text list is copyrighted! Which leads to another kinf of legal issues.

  6. Computer & Operating System on Who Owns The Linux Trademark? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One should wonder who own these two trademarks.

  7. Not right on Driver's License to be the Next Debit Card · · Score: 1

    Authentication and Authorisation methods based on "something you have" can be fooled by stealing or replicating that "something".
    MAybe a better approach is "something you know" as seen in almost all debit card systems or, even better, "something you are".
    That is never-written passwords or biometrics.

  8. Better focus on Gene Research Gives Hope of Reversing Baldness · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Genetic research should focus on topics with higher priority for the mankind.
    This very one seems triggered by some company that has sold the snake oil for the hair regrowth!

  9. Why not moving the clients? on Japanese Government to Move to OSS · · Score: 1

    Every while and then some Government says they'll move to Linux.
    Then you find out that they are actually going to think to plan to move the servers to Linux.
    For every server they run they also have dozens of clients running some ... ehr ... other operating system. By moving the clients they could have much more advantages.

  10. Re:No news - Still news... on NY Times To Data-Mine Its Visitors · · Score: 1

    Almost everyone use cookies. And in the NYT website I don't see such IDs in the URLs!

  11. No news on NY Times To Data-Mine Its Visitors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Almost all websites do it!
    This is a reason why cookies are used and why almost all browsers provide mechansms to filter them out!

  12. It depends! on The Future of Wireless Broadband? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wireless broadband in the sense of wifi is very likely to be stopped or at least slowed down. Because there's no money there for companies and lots of problems for governements as it's possible to everyone to build (and grow) a public free abd uncensored network.
    If the sense is that of Wireless Local Loop, then it's very likely that it will succeed as the natural evolution of the . That is, lower cost for deployment, no digging and no cables.
    There can also be the possibility of the so called 4G networks as the evolution of the 2.5G and 3G wireless networks. I think companies have to first get their money back from investments, huge investments.

  13. Simple on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because Microsoft never made a single portable product!
    Where "portable" means "on other OSs than the Microsoft's ones".

  14. Another good reason on Why Apple Should Acquire AMD · · Score: 1

    Another good reason could be to have a mixed design between the OS and the CPU as largely proved by SUN with its Sparc family.
    Nowadays OS designers/writers have to fight against hardware architectures (and related manufacturers).

  15. Language issues on Iran to Filter 'Immoral' Mobile Messages · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hmmm ... sounds like the anti-SPAM filters for email.
    With the right language and some "ad hoc" grammar mistakes you could foolish the filter.

  16. Bad system management? on Qantas Ditches Linux for AIX · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The declaration by Quanta's officers sounds quite strange.
    Instability can be brought up by inconsistent system management, like using different software version (either library, applications or operating systems, it doesn't matter).
    If they plan to solve those issues with AIX (or any other operating system, even Windows) with no system management change, they are very likely to reproduce the very same stability issues.

  17. Not at all! on Is There Any Reason to Report Spammers to ISPs? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Spammers run their own MTA or MTAs other than those by the ISP.
    Provided that there is a clear proof (and not just someone's report) that a customer is a spammer, they would have two options:
    1. filter out their outgoing SMTP traffic or
    2. shutting down the link

    Spammers then would probably change ISP in a snap.
    The real (technical) point should be: why spammers do exist? One answer could be "because SMTP has not been designed to cope with authentication and authorisation."
    Maybe it's important to look at problems from the correct perspective.

  18. Market vs "good products" on 25th Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum · · Score: 1

    ZX Spectrum was meant to be an aid to the young programmer, not the gamer. But the "market" was made by gamers.
    Sr Clive also gifted us with the Sinclair QL, another product the market largely ignored despite its potentials.
    The Acorn Archimedes was meant to be a powerful innovative PC. But the "market" was aimed to IBM PCs and to Amigas
    That was the history: the market can esily ignore techinical advances against fancy worse products!

  19. Data link vs Voice link on Cell SMS in Planes on Trial Down-Under · · Score: 1

    There's no difference in GSM and UMTS as they are both digital networks.
    So if sending an SMS won't ... ehm ... disrupt inflight operations, voice communication won't as well.
    The bottom line is that you loose your freedom until you are in a plane.
    br

  20. Wrong numbers = wrong results? on Neutrino Experiment Restores Standard Model Symmetry · · Score: 1

    Go to the MiniBooNE web site and guess whether the photomultiplier tubes used to detect the event are either 1520 or 1280.
    This could explain an error. At least in their web site, as the correct answer is 42, as everyone knows!

  21. New? on Debian 4.0 'Etch' Released · · Score: 0, Redundant
    From the announcement page:

    K Desktop Environment 3.5.5a
    GNOME desktop environment 2.14
    OpenOffice.org 2.0.4a
    GIMP 2.2.13
    PostgreSQL 8.1.8
    After 21 months of continuus development is seems they left something behind!
  22. My favorite thing on An Easter (Egg) Holiday? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The good ol' blue screen of death in Windows.
    There was a number of ways to have it showing out. In Vista they have changed the colour.

  23. Hardware matters more on The Best VHS Capture System Using Free Software? · · Score: 1

    I think that in cases like this, hardware is more important than software, that is the VHS player and the analogue-to-digital converter (aka framegrabber).
    If those cassettes contain private things, than you are on the right way though.
    Otherwise maybe it'd be better to seek for a DVD edition/remastering of that content.

  24. Simple! on Despite Aging Design, x86 Still in Charge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just like the four stroke engine. It's not the best one, it can be largely enhanced and made better, but it's still here.
    And just like the four stroke engine, modern engines just burn gasoline and push car forward. This is where the similarity with the original engines end.

  25. Half solution on All Blood Converted to Type O? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It does not address the RH negative issue, however.
    Half solution is not a solution!