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  1. Re:And nothing of value was lost. on Palm's Software Chief Quits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but why does it need my location?

  2. Re:And nothing of value was lost. on Palm's Software Chief Quits · · Score: 3, Informative
  3. Re:Easy enough to avoid on New Software For Employers To Monitor Facebook · · Score: 1

    For #3, you have to trust your friends; what if one of friends is a coworker and shows stuff to your boss, etc... So #1 is the best bet. Or completely separate work-facebook from home-facebook (don't add anyone connected to your work to your home-facebook account). Wow that's just too much work.

  4. Re:yup on PA Laptop Spying Inspires FSF Crowdsourcing Effort · · Score: 1

    You can put open source electrical tape on the camera.

  5. Re:But I want it now on OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up · · Score: 1

    I think if you stopped with the first sentence it would have been funny. Adding the second sentence made it mean and trolly.

  6. Re:Open source, steal? on MetaLab Accuses Mozilla of Ripping Off UI Elements In Mockups · · Score: 1

    Bach's keyboard (organ and harpsichord) concertos of Vivaldi's violin concertos (for four violins is a an example, can't remember the numbers)

  7. Re:Electric Shock on How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? · · Score: 1

    Or maybe a setting is so buried in some menu hierarchy, that it's easier to turn it off and on to reset it.

  8. Re:I'll still be wearing it on my belt, thanks on LG Launches Watch Phone In India · · Score: 1

    you mean you'll be wearing it like a cell phone?

  9. Re:Great... on Real-Time, Movie-Quality CGI For Games · · Score: 1

    I thought the nice thing about intel cards is that the drivers are open. It's not about being cheap.

  10. Re:Answers on The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer · · Score: 1

    it doesn't vibrate either

  11. Re:How is this news for nerds? on GM Is Selling Saab To Spyker Cars · · Score: 1

    it's like hp selling compaq to system76 :)

  12. Re:Big Battle on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know what you mean.
    I hate this one person who works for subway (just a nasty personality). The thought of her preparing my food makes me ill.
    I once went in and saw that she was working and walked right out.
    That's how I feel about bing. (she would be microsoft)

  13. Re:controlled leak on Is Gawker's "Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt" Illegal? · · Score: 2, Funny

    maybe apple is going for a controlled streisand effect?

  14. Re:New Anti-Software patent support perhaps... on Microsoft Ordered To Pay $290M, Stop Selling Word · · Score: 1

    Or we could work on nuke-neutralizing technology. Oh they don't exist? That's right, it's just a flawed analogy :)

  15. Re:Ahem on Firefox Mobile Threatens Mobile App Stores, Says Mozilla · · Score: 5, Funny

    step 1.5: Change SSH password.

  16. Re:Blahgh on Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes · · Score: 2

    So if the government wants them to make an omelet and company breaks some eggs, is it all the company's fault or does the government bear some responsibility?

  17. Re:Nothing you can do... on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    bury it with new content with your name. nobody looks past the first few pages of a search.

  18. Re:Not for daily use, but maybe while traveling on Would You Use a Free Netbook From Google? · · Score: 1

    Also if airport/border security people confiscate it it's no big deal.

  19. Re:Force Feedback? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    Really good points. Also the new brakes on cars mask the difficulty in stopping form high speeds vs from low speeds (the pedal has the same resistance and other things) so one forget how much energy/momentum in involved (vs slightly older cars)... I wonder if this misleads young drivers...

  20. Re:OpenOffice variant? on IBM Policy Switches From MS Office To OO.o · · Score: 1

    Thank you, very informative.
    I asked with an individual's point of view (as opposed to a business's) and didn't consider busnisses. And you showed me the narrow perspective I was using :)
    I guess with a name like IBM backing the software, IT departments probably feel more comfortable recommending it.

  21. Re:OpenOffice variant? on IBM Policy Switches From MS Office To OO.o · · Score: 1

    And IBM made it so registration is required to download. I'm not sure what Symphony adds to Openooffice.org that having to give IBM my name/email is worth it.

    I tried it on a (to be reformatted) computer a while ago and if I remember, there were features/buttons taken out (can't remember what but I couldn't use it because of it, sorry I can't remember).

  22. Re:Far Less than OS X on Watered Down Phishing Protection In IPhone OS 3.1? · · Score: 1

    but it's about web sites, you see over sites: oversite.

  23. Re:Indeed on GMail Experiences Serious Outage · · Score: 2, Funny

    also, if your email is that important, you'd better have some kind of redundancy and a backup plan in case the redundancy fails.

  24. Re:Great on AT&T Makes Its Terms of Service Even Worse, To Discourage Lawsuits · · Score: 0

    Forgive me for being ignorant, but what do you mean? You get to cancel your contract with no fee if you disagree with the new terms?

  25. Re:How about some nice menus instead? on Preview the Office 2007 Ribbon-Like UI Floated For OpenOffice.Org · · Score: 1

    control-p