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  1. That's boring! Wake me up on Wireless Power Consortium Pushes for "Qi" Standard · · Score: 1

    When I'll be bale to forget about any power cable and contact-less docking power charger, please!
    We need the real wireless charger!

  2. Re:Don't touch my port 25 on Yahoo Revives Pay-Per-Email, With Charitable Twist · · Score: 1

    Maximum capacity?
    Who will know?
    Who will check?
    Free (as in freedom, not beer) Internet for all!

  3. Re:Don't touch my port 25 on Yahoo Revives Pay-Per-Email, With Charitable Twist · · Score: 1

    ISP blocking whatever is bad.
    ISP throttling whatever is bad.
    ISB doing anything but providing IP access is bad.

  4. Does Yahoo declare itself guilty for SPAM? on Yahoo Revives Pay-Per-Email, With Charitable Twist · · Score: 1

    That schema would work only if Yahoo could be accounted for the most part of the SPAM.
    And if Yahoo is not guilty for all the SPAM, then that move would work only if all free email services would follow.
    And then you would need to force all ISPs to block TCP port 25.
    And only then, maybe, you would be starting limiting the amount of spam!

  5. The parents need internet! on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 5, Funny

    They'd try WolframAlpha.
    That's it!

  6. Re:Android on Minix? on Google's Launches 2nd Android Developer Contest · · Score: 1

    ... and aye, L4 is nicer.

  7. Re:Android on Minix? on Google's Launches 2nd Android Developer Contest · · Score: 1

    Nay! I'd like to port Minix or L4 to a mobile, not Android on top of Linux on top of ukernel. That is Android software on top of a ukernel.

  8. Re:Android on Minix? on Google's Launches 2nd Android Developer Contest · · Score: 1

    Well, do you think using Windows on mobiles is a better and more practical solution?

  9. Bad and buggy implementations on HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come · · Score: 1

    It's nice to see such advances in standards.
    Unluckily, implementations (all of them) will either be partial or buggy or even both.
    There's still little support for a tag as old as the COL. We can imagine what will happen: more browser incompatibilities.
    What if this wonderful standards committee would ask for some commitment from the (main) implementers?
    Just see how much the standards are taken into account by authors:
    The R.I.P.E.
    MIcrosoft

  10. Android on Minix? on Google's Launches 2nd Android Developer Contest · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone will dare to try to implement Android directly on Minix or on L4.
    That would be a really new thing!

  11. Be careful with the photos on Surface Plume On Betelgeuse Imaged · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The first one in the reported website is an "artist's impression".
    The real pictures from the astronomical observations are later in the web page.
    It would be really nice if we could have those kinf of images from Earth!. Maybe from Hubble.

  12. I want to be optimistic! on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 1

    So I hope a real step towards real stability and feature richness as seen in KDEv3.5.
    KDE v3 is dead, long live to KDE ... v4!

  13. Maybe because on 20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death · · Score: 1

    documents are not what they used to be!
    Look at Slashdot or Wikipedia as an example.
    And you don't need Word (or whatever else) to read them or to write into them. Just a good karma.

  14. A meteorite? on Possible Meteorite Imaged By Opportunity Rover · · Score: 2, Funny

    that must have softlanded not to leave the crater!
    As an alternate scientific hypotesis I would say the martians just put a rock there to make fun of us!

  15. Is it time for a new math copro war? on Generating Fast MD5 Collisions With ATI Video Cards · · Score: 1

    Back when CPUs didn't include an FPU (aka mathematical co-processor) by default, there used to be different choices by different chipmakers.
    It'd be interesting to have a modern days mathematical monster installed in every PC for a number of different tasks, from 3D rendering to ... ehm ... secury experiments :-)

  16. Re:Translation quality on In Europe, Auto Spam Translation Kicks In · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Checking translation error patterns is not translating. I think.

  17. Translation quality on In Europe, Auto Spam Translation Kicks In · · Score: 1

    is so poor that automated filtering could be put in please quite easily.

  18. Oh my G0d! on P.I.I. In the Sky · · Score: 1
    Go in the mentioned Genuine Microsoft Glossaty and look for Plugins (just fuew lines after the mentioned "Personally identifiable information").

    Plugins

    Plugins for Mozilla® Firefox® help your browser perform specific functions like viewing special graphic formats or playing multimedia files.
    They can enhance your browsing experience by allowing animation or they can help with tasks such as validating your genuine Microsoft® software.

    That's kind and nice of MS!

  19. Re:Distributing is not easy, anyway! on Linux Distributions' Tracking of Upstream Projects Examined · · Score: 1

    There won't be thousands new packages for every release.
    They'd just use linux (their own distro) everyday ...

  20. Distributing is not easy, anyway! on Linux Distributions' Tracking of Upstream Projects Examined · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Balancing conservative and progressive approaches in ditributions is not as easy task at all.
    You can jump up a version or two of a package/project (firefox, gcc, kdebase?) and you end up collecting complaints.
    You can miss a version upgrade(linux, postgresql, xorg?) and you and up collecting even more complaints.
    Whoever talks about "major version bumps" and ".0 versions" is missing the real point: the need to care about features, reliability and effectiveness.
    Version numbers and names are just that: numbers and names. A v0.13 of a package can provide better overall results than a v4.2 of a competitor. And the step from 1.2 to 1.3 can provide much more advances than a 8.10 to 9.04!
    Distribution managers should thoroughly test in first person the forthcoming releases (alphas, betas, RCs ...). The people who use Linux for fun a hour or two a day have different feelings and needs than those who chose Linux for work 6 to 10 hours a day!

  21. Tape is expensive and can be unreliable on Best Home Backup Strategy Now? · · Score: 1

    Can you find some thing that can retain data for, say, 40+ years and be still able to restore them?
    Everything comes to a cost. If the tapes are too expensive, then just buy the same storage you are using now and make just a second copy. But that would not be a backup. Just a second copy as unreliable as the original.

  22. That's notthe first time on New Firefox Vulnerability Revealed · · Score: 1

    That a remote stack-based buffer-overflow can be triggered to compromise FF.
    But why on earth those friendly developers don't design, implement a damned solution to be used everywhere in the code???
    Fix once, fix forever (until next smarter exploit).

  23. Will it work for everyone? on Earthquake Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What will happen when all buildings in a certain area will be "cloaked" to earthquakes?
    Will mechanical waves skip the entire area?
    What if all buildings in a certain large area will be made that way?
    I fear that the "solution" is good only when a few of them are made that way. The other ones will need to collapse.

  24. No business on Kazaa To Return As a Legal Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    The site will open with over 1 million tracks.

    Much fewer than Kademlia/Ed2K or any music related torrent tracker.
    Not to question the price.

  25. Re:Not to mention on A GNU/Linux Distro Needing Windows To Install? · · Score: 1

    I never used FAT16, but only FAT32, which is on all my DOS formatted USB media.
    Because it was not mentioned anywhere in my laptop documentation.