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  1. Re:Horribly Summary on Company Fined €25,000 For Altering Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sounds like Hi-Media specialized in field A. On Wikipedia page for Field A, Competitor B was mentioned. Someone at Hi-Media edited the Wikipedia page for Field A to remove all references to Competitor B. And I assume it was sanctioned by Hi-Media if they're getting in trouble for it

  2. Re:Yeah, but they gimped it so bad it's worthless on World of Warcraft Goes Free With Starter Edition · · Score: 1

    I played a WoW trial once. A friend tried to send me some armor in the in-game mail system; because of trial limitations it never reached me, and he never got it back. It just disappeared. Also no voice chat, IIRC, and I couldn't do coop stuff with him (raids I guess?). I got bored with it 2 days into my 14 day trial and quit.

  3. Re:Whining, chess-playing, sore losers! on World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified · · Score: 1

    How the hell do you cheat at chess when you don't know what moves the other person is going to make? Unless Deep Blue made an illegal move, which Kasparov should have immediately caught.

  4. Windows 7 does not trust random USB sticks on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    Autorun is disabled (might not be out of the box... might need Windows Update patches). And you can disable it in any other Windows OS where it is enabled by default.... so the problem is the IT department is not properly securing their network with existing OS controls against USB sticks.

  5. Re:Only one way to fix this on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    Can't do any of that stuff without admin access, so you'll only destroy home users' computers...

  6. Good thing... on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 2

    Plans change. Look at those adorable eyes! How can I eat it now?

  7. Re:Plugins needlessly broken by new version number on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many addons reach into the internals of Firefox... which can change frequently and without warning between versions. Mozilla will automatically update addons now to be marked compatible if it detects they don't make use of changed APIs I believe.

    Chrome has the exact opposite system: Extensions are tightly sandboxed and a limited API is exposed. As long as that API continues working the same way all extensions coded for any version will work. Of course extensions can't hook into the browser all the ways that Firefox ones can.

  8. Re:what I did on Learning Programming In a Post-BASIC World · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call VB.NET a starter language. Maybe for someone who wants to get a bit more serious, since you have the visual designer and it'll generate skeleton event handler functions for you to fill in.

  9. Re:Splitting hairs on Valve's Team Fortress 2 Goes Free-To-Play · · Score: 2

    Unlockable items are meant to be balanced with the default set. Even if all you have is the default set the idea is you still can play well against players with unlockables. Some players even say most of the default weapons have an edge against unlockables.

  10. Re:rerip your CD collection on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Scrub Pirated Music From My Collection? · · Score: 1

    It's something you can have running in the background while you do something else. Not like you have to do it all at once. Oh and don't rip to FLAC, I don't think Google Music supports it.

  11. Re:Neither on Paying Hacker Extortion · · Score: 2

    If they had had the authorities involved from the beginning they might have been able to arrange for the money to be traced.

  12. And now on Paying Hacker Extortion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They'll just be hacked anyway.

  13. Re:Sounds cool on Google Chrome To Have Real-Time Communications · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure there are laws, at least in the US, that require devices to have an indication that they are recording.

  14. Re:MS hate on Microsoft's SkyDrive Drops Silverlight · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you noticed Silverlight hasn't even had the same security concerns and exploits as Flash?

    You have to be fair; noone will exploit a plugin nobody has installed or uses.

  15. Fine with me. on Where Is Firefox OS? · · Score: 2

    It's fine with me Mozilla isn't doing a "Firefox OS". They can focus more of their efforts on the core Firefox product. Besides, Google is doing a good enough job already with a browser-based OS if you ask me.

  16. Err on JavaScript Decoder Plays MP3s Without Flash · · Score: 1

    Chrome (and I'm pretty sure Firefox too) already supports MP3s without plugins, that's the purpose of the audio HTML5 tag. What is the benefit of this that the audio tag doesn't offer?

  17. No news on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 2

    If WebGL takes off, they'll have no choice but to support it. If it doesn't, then no-one will care that they don't support it.

  18. Re:Even FTP is more secure on Open Source Alternative To Dropbox? · · Score: 1

    That's just the communications protocol and is only part of the service. There are other crucial parts, such as figuring out what to sync, and which direction to sync it, and of course how to store the files on the server securely.

  19. Re:TrueCrypt on Open Source Alternative To Dropbox? · · Score: 1

    Does Dropbox only sync parts of a file that have changed? If so this will work, otherwise this will be horrible, especially with a slow upload speed. I might have to try this though.

  20. Re:All browsers are consuming more memory. on Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory · · Score: 1

    Whoops, that's actually Chrome's definition. It seems like Firefox is looking at its SQLite databases which it uses to store profile data.

  21. Re:All browsers are consuming more memory. on Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory · · Score: 1

    Storage refers to cookies, local/sessionstorage JS APIs, and the WebDB APIs.

  22. Nothing to worry about on Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    MS has always made application compatibility their primary concern in their new OSes, even above security IMO. These guys don't have to worry. First of all desktop .NET applications can probably still function just the same way normal windows apps do. Same with silverlight. As for the "new" interface, I would imagine it can do everything IE10 will be able to do (ick), so I imagine it will support Silverlight and Flash and what have you, unless MS tries to pull an Apple for tablet support and blocks them.

  23. Re:I Can Has Subject Title? on Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now · · Score: 5, Informative

    "John Doe" is a generic term for an unidentified or unknown individual, in this case shortened to "Doe".

  24. Re:Please grant it... on Man Tries to Patent His "Godly Powers" · · Score: 1

    Good luck getting God to abide by the court's decision... can't sue the churches, they don't claim to have any direct control over godly power, just a hotline to the guy who does.

  25. Re:Source of planets on Massive Explosion On the Sun · · Score: 1

    I don't believe so. (Disclaimer: First Google result, quality not guaranteed.)