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  1. Re:Great news! on Best Buy Is Selling Ubuntu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ubuntu don't need your money, they have millions already. They need someone at best buy to notice demand for it, so best buy continue to put it on shelves, and ask their suppliers for more ubuntu software they can sell you along with the OS. At this stage best buy making $20 on Linux is better than you donating $20 to development.

  2. Re:A dumb end to a dumb arguement. on EBay Abandons Plans For PayPal Monopoly · · Score: 1

    As an occasional buyer who has never sold anything, I think these are good things. Getting the messages through the site and paying through paypal means I know its NOT a scam, and all I need worry about is a dodgy seller. I tend not to bid on items that won't take paypal as payment.

  3. Re:Accidentents. on Microsoft Urges Windows Users To Shun Safari · · Score: 1

    Even simpler just give your .exe the icon, and the only difference would be the lack of the shortcut arrow.

  4. Re:Umm... on Valve Unveils Steam Cloud · · Score: 1

    Simpler to assume they are clever enough to only upload your personal player config settings/saves etc, and keep things like video res local to the PC. So they would upload HKCU, but now HKLM.

  5. Re:Well, for one thing.. on Why Buy a PC Preloaded With Linux? · · Score: 1

    I suspect you will find it's not open source, and dell is coughing up the licence fee for DVD playback on every ubuntu box they ship. Most people rate DVD playback above a totally open system.

  6. Re:Good on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, damn them Europeans letting everyone in on this freedom of speech thing.

  7. Re:Good overall but... on The Changing Face of World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Currently this still sort of happens with class-specific quests, like the Paladin or Warlock epic mounts. Trying to do the paladin epic mount quest 6 months after BC came out was a total pain in the ass, I spent weeks in the LFG channel trying to find people willing run the instances required, because all the old end game stuff had been abandoned for the outlands instead. They should do something so that all the pre-TBC end game stuff still gets some playing, as time goes on more and more of their players will have never had a lvl 60 before TBC so will have never played there.
  8. Re:That will force them to give options on French Judge Orders Refund For Pre-Installed XP · · Score: 1

    There are places that will do this, but you can bet they pay more for each copy of windows as a result, so for cheap mass-market PCs with those razor thin margins its not an option.

  9. Re:Yay on UK Uses CCTV, Terrorism Laws, Against Pooping Dogs · · Score: -1, Troll

    Would you sell your liberty to prevent some guy cutting off your limbs with an axe? If you want liberty go live in a jungle somewhere, round here we have civilisation. This involves the trading of liberty for things like shit and homicidal maniac free sidewalks.

  10. Re:The Hero with a Thousand Faces on Orson Scott Card Blasts J.K. Rowling's Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    When playing KOTOR and the right one adds 2d6 v dark side, yes I do.

  11. Re:and now for something completely different on UK to Ban Possession of Certain 'Violent' Pornography · · Score: 1

    I really am curious as to when and why Britain outlawed private gun ownership. I honestly don't know the history of Britain's gun control laws, and its annoying to think that an honest question was meant to be flamebait. The last crackdown was in response to a school shooting .
    Dunblane massacre
  12. Re:Also illegal, at least in Canada on Microsoft "Albany" Offers Office and Security as Subscription · · Score: 1

    How does this work for other subscription services like World of Warcraft? Technically, your character, etc, is your data, though by the EULA Blizzard claims that all data is theirs, so perhaps that's how they get around it, and Microsoft could just do the same. That's easy, use the World of Warcraft viewer, e.g.

    http://armory.wow-europe.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dragonblight&n=Teno
  13. Re:flashblock ftw! on NULL Pointer Exploit Excites Researchers · · Score: 1

    Ok, fair enough.

    I am suprised however there is no way to mess with the DOM before its rendered, but I guess this is a performance thing..

  14. Re:flashblock ftw! on NULL Pointer Exploit Excites Researchers · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? Firefox does not fetch the .swf file until you click the button (I just checked with firebug and wireshark), so unless the exploit can be trigged by the html object code, I would assume you are pretty safe.

  15. Re:Great on Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA Cracked, Exploited · · Score: 1

    This is great for a small site that will not be specifically targeted, and only attacked my bots that e.g. recognise the default phpBB registration form, but for large webmail providers, the spammers can teach their bot to answer your questions, and will very quickly adapt to any changes in the process.

  16. Re:Pre-loaded apps on Microsoft Accommodating Eee With Lightweight XP · · Score: 1

    The weird thing to me is that iPod is inferior in many respects to other players in terms of UI ... but people love the wheel thingy so they keep buying them. If people love the wheel thingie that much it can't be that inferior.

    The weird thing is that sheeple often describe my non-apple digital audio player as 'weird', but then proceed to pick it up and use the interface just fine.
  17. Re:Don't download the source via the torrent on Eve Online Client Source Code Leaked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They don't even need to do that, all they need to do is compare the torrent and their game servers for the same IP at the same time.

  18. Ofcom on UK ISPs Could Face Government Broadband TV Tax · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So ISPs have to help fund the regulator that regulates them. Kinda makes sense I guess.

  19. Re:TiVO is fighting a dying battle... on TiVo Patent Victory Over Dish Network Upheld · · Score: 1

    Like he said, decoupling the DVR from your television provider would be a great thing. Here in the UK you are free to choose a freeview DVR, or just a converter box, but sky and cable come with their own.

  20. Re:Why youtube? on Congress Gets Their Own Piece of YouTube to Host Videos · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I once embedded my video in a myspace page and watched my bandwidth disappear down a black hole. However if they can handle the web traffic, adding flash video is not as huge extra.

  21. Why youtube? on Congress Gets Their Own Piece of YouTube to Host Videos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I can host flash video and a simple player on my £30/year web host, is there any good reason their in house tech is 'slow and cumbersome'? Flash video is not rocket science.

  22. Other object types on Does IE8 Really Pass Acid2? [Updated] · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One must ask, does IE 8 only fail on cross site objects of type text/html, or are other cross site objects affected? (e.g. flash, embedded youtube videos, quicktime, etc)...

  23. Re:Huh? on Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic? · · Score: 1

    From an outsiders perspective, one must assume that any of the smaller parties could register to hold a primary, but have chosen to decide their presidential candidate some other way...

    It is confusing however that in internal party vote is conducted by the state...

  24. Re:tragedy of the commons, Oh Hamlet on Enhancement To P2P Cuts Network Costs · · Score: 1

    One must assume that the P4P system will still saturate whatever pipe you give it, like BT, but will be more intelligent in choosing the peers to do so. In the case there are not enough peers to fill your tube it will work the same as P2P.

  25. Re:How to do this on BBC Offers iPhone Version of iPlayer, Accessible to Linux Users Too · · Score: 1

    Or you can copy/paste the URL into firefox and go Control-S, but you don't need linux for that...