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  1. Re:Reinventing the wheel on Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Why aren't the fully rendered pages cached for several levels of back-ed-ness"

    Because then people will claim your browser has a memory leak.

  2. Re:Man's gotta eat on Epic Releases Free Version of Unreal Engine · · Score: 1

    Well the licensees would still have one important thing the UDK doesn't give you... the ability to sell your created game for profit.

  3. Re:Wrong Impression? on Man-In-the-Middle Vulnerability For SSL and TLS · · Score: 1

    If phishing attacks are any indication, the scary browser warnings don't work anyway.

  4. Re:Memcpy not the biggest problem for chrome/chrom on X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions · · Score: 1

    I haven't noticed any degradation of performance, but yeah, the history files are 900mb for me for only 9 months of use and the thumbnails are 300mb. That's pretty big.

  5. Re:Windows and OS X versions, please. on X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions · · Score: 1

    He wasn't responding to your post...

  6. Re:There simply isn't anything "wrong". on What Happened To the Bay Bridge? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As far as I'm concerned, if a piece of a bridge that has active traffic on it falls off, putting people on the bridge in danger, something went wrong SOMEWHERE.

  7. Re:marketshare on Now Linux Can Get Viruses, Via Wine · · Score: 1
  8. Re:So... the dutch? on Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing we're pro-TPB because the *AA has positioned themselves in opposition to TPB and we hate mass-suing people for millions of dollars as a normal business practice more than we hate duplication of a specific arrangement of bits that someone thinks is special enough to require payment (some think they are entitled to more payment than others, some didn't even make the material the bits represent) from one computer onto another computer for no cost.

  9. Re:Something is wrong with Win7 power management on Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? · · Score: 1

    You don't even need to *have* a BIOS to run Win7.

    Err... you DO know what first takes control of the computer when you turn it on right? The BIOS. SOMETHING has to load the MBR from disk and execute it.

    After that, yeah, modern Windows tends to do it's own thing and doesn't use the BIOS for anything.

  10. Re:Word processing programs all have wrong UI desi on Sneak Preview of New OpenOffice 3.2 · · Score: 1

    Word does allow you to collapse the ribbon and have it slide down on demand as you want, this leaves pretty much all the room except for the status bar and the ribbon tabs. And the title bar of course.

    In OpenOffice you can remove everything except the title bar and menu bar and put the toolbars on the sides (which is what I do, incidentally).

  11. Re:Article is already updated on Google Voice Mails Found In Public Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Bing or Yahoo or other websites have the voicemails in their indexes as well?

  12. Re:User action? on Google Voice Mails Found In Public Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I'm curious to know how you keep your 100% uptime when the power goes out and your backup power solutions all fail at once. :)

  13. Re:Everything on What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume? · · Score: 1

    Well it sounds like it is. I should note that Everything only indexes filenames, so if you want to index file CONTENTS you're out of luck (that sort of thing is GOING to take a long time anyway, since you have to read every file on disk that the indexer knows how to parse, so "quicker" could well translate to "less complete search index").

    But if you don't care about indexing contents then Everything should work fine for you.

  14. Re:Unauthorized? on Xbox 360 Update Will Lock Out Unauthorized Storage · · Score: 1

    They may have a genuine excuse somewhere such as "oh we've had tons of customer complaints and service requests that we've resolved as being the problem of the unauthorized third-party device" or "we're changing the way this part of the xbox 260 works for compatibility or security reasons or to get some additional features into the firmware for newer games to use and many third-party memory devices don't work properly with the changes". Still it does seem like a way to get a lawsuit their way, unless maybe they go "oh hey third-party device makers, we had to disable your stuff for whatever reason, but here's the changes you can make to your designs so your devices will work again".

  15. Re:Nuke it with regedit... on Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only nukes the addon, the plugin is hiding in C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Windows Presentation Foundation\NPWPF.dll (and C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.20506\WPF\NPWPF.dll if you have the .NET 4.0 beta).

    Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MozillaPlugins\@microsoft.com/WPF,version=3.5

    And HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MozillaPlugins\@microsoft.com/WPF, version=4.0 if you have the 4.0 beta

  16. Re:My surreal experience on Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon · · Score: 1

    Nah that happens when it automatically checks for addon updates, it also pulls down a copy of the addon blacklist from Mozilla.

  17. Re:Great on Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's actually a whole Firefox setting namespace devoted to bits of useragent to append, you don't even need a whole addon.

  18. Re:Headline appears to be inaccurate. on Delta Air Lines Sued Over Alleged E-mail Hacking · · Score: 1

    Or the company simply was watching everything he was doing online and keylogged him or logged his internet traffic and thus never needed access to his private inbox.

    Not sure how [il]legal THAT would be, though the computer is a company resource and presumably the employee's contract would inform him of the monitoring being done while he is using his computer there.

  19. Re:Eh? on Intel Caught Cheating In 3DMark Benchmark · · Score: 4, Informative

    And here I thought the whole point of not doing video on the CPU was to offload it to a dedicated chip!

  20. Re:Well.. on Is Valve's Steam Anti-Competitive? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well with digital distribution you cut out the publisher/distributor, and you can either turn that cost into profit or cut ti out of the cost of the game.

    And of course since it costs mere pennies to distribute, once you make up the cost of producing a game you can set the price point wherever you want and it's pure profit.

  21. Re:Prices compared to retail? on Is Valve's Steam Anti-Competitive? · · Score: 1

    Do other online retailers tend to have awesome sales every week like Steam does? I've never used other online retailers but brick-and-mortar stores NEVER put their games on sale. Ever.

  22. Re:Bricked Consoles? on Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s · · Score: 4, Informative

    AFAIK Nintendo has offered free repairs for Wiis bricked by the 4.2 update.

  23. Re:SG-1 on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    You'll get maximum enjoyment (basically from seeing references to stuff from the other shows) if you watch everything chronologically. SG1 1-8x02, then watching alternating episodes from SG1 and Atlantis from 8-10/1-3, then the SG-1 Ark of Truth, then Atlantis 4-5x01, then SG-1 Continuum, then Atlantis 5 and then Universe.

    At least that's my order.

    It's not necessary though. As an example, in Universe, a new viewer learns the USAF has spaceships. Cool. A long-time viewer will recognize that the space ship was named after General George Hammond from SG-1, whose actor died after the filming of Continuum, and that the ship was renamed from the Phoenix, which was also featured in an alternate timeline on Atlantis, also commanded by Colonel Carter!

    ... :)

  24. Re:Troubleshooting skills. on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    I find it annoying that they haven't come up with the idea of keeping Stargates on their battlecruisers yet. It would make it possible to evacuate the ship easily in case they were cornered. Disabled and ordered to surrender by the Lucian Alliance like in that one episode? OK, agree and then activate the self destruct and flee through the gate. Problem solved!

    The Goauld did it waaay back in the season finale of season 1, after all. The wraith did it in the Atlantis series finale. Somewhere in last SG-1 Season 10 Baal started collecting a sizable quantity of gates on his ship, and SG-1 used one to escape. Actually, many of those gates were reclaimed by the Odyssey so we know they could carry a gate around if they wanted to.

    Eli asks why they couldn't use the gate to travel to Icarus base. Because the writers didn't think of putting a gate in orbit to allow for incoming wormholes without risk of destabilizing the planet core (I think that was the excuse)! Actually based on how Scott explained it, they could have just used a separate, unmodified gate in the base for travel and one dedicated to the ninth chevron experiments.

    Oh yeah one more thing... WHY did they have anti-beaming tech on Icarus base? Which of their enemies have Asgard beaming tech now? We have the Lucian Alliance as the only real enemy left... and they don't have it. So all it does is keep the Hammond from pulling everyone out of there, so they can go to see Destiny.

    Don't get me wrong though, I did enjoy the two hours of "Air", despite some of the excuses they used to set up the show (and in this case, to show off the USS George Hammond) being a bit thin.

  25. Re:Troubleshooting skills. on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    The ancient gene isn't even brought up here, and remember all these people aren't supposed to be here so it's likely most of them wouldn't even have the gene. But any of them that try to operate the consoles seem to have no problem.