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  1. What I'd like to see on Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend · · Score: 1

    Why can't Gnome/KDE/applications etc have "skins" based upon user experience? Create a new user, and the default behavior of the window manager is to gently guide the user through the learning experience. As the user progresses, less hand-holding is needed and perhaps more advanced features are exposed. Have a control panel applet that an advanced user could turn off all the newbie features, or, reset them for someone who doesn't learn as fast as the environment thinks they should. Perhaps new apps could launch a 'cut scene' or even a help screen on their maiden run, introducing the user to features and controls. And have a checkbox on the login screen that will allow advanced users to bypass all hand holding.

  2. Re:suppositories on Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals? · · Score: 1

    No, seriously : use MacOSX, there's no known keylogger. Mr google disagrees: http://www.google.com/search?q=macosx+keylogger
    Results 1 - 10 of about 295,000 for macosx keylogger. (0.04 seconds)
  3. Re:Is there any chance? on MSN Music DRM Servers Going Dark In September · · Score: 1

    I have a solution. The solution is available in packs of 100 for ten dollars. It is called.... CD-R. Why not just burn them to an ISO on your hard disk, then rip them from that. There, I just saved you $10.00
  4. Re:news.. on Some 12% of Consumers 'Borrow' Unsecured Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Though I don't use Wi-Fi, if I did, my main reason for having it secured would be that if someone used my connection to do something illegal, I am not confident it would not be me that gets blamed. There is another school of thought on that. if someone manages to break into your network (a trivial task in lots of cases) and then that someone uses your bandwidth to do something illegal, you are going a much harder time convincing people that you didn't do it.

    if you have an open hotspot it's a lot easier to cast doubt on who actually did the illegal deed.

  5. Re:I Think Windows Lacks Features on Windows 7 Eyed For Antitrust Violations · · Score: 1

    polish it behind the door. (Say *that* 3 times fast)

  6. Re:Netflix also says they pay more than they need on Postal Service Surcharge Could Slash Netflix Profit · · Score: 1

    Either way, this is nothing but a conflict of interest from that so-called analyst. I wonder if the SEC will investigate him for this. i doubt that a bumbling analyst mis-reading tealeaves is a conflict of interest. he may lose his ranking (if he is indeed ranked) but i doubt the SEC would find issue.
  7. Re:How is this news? on Couple Bonding Through PC Building · · Score: 1

    No matter how hot she is, there's always some guy, somewhere that's sick of putting up with her crap.

  8. Re:Google search doesnt show g-mail.de! on Google Loses Gmail Trademark Case · · Score: 1

    G-mail wants to recieve your letter at some gmail center close to A, digitize it, email it to some center close to B, print it out and deliver it to B. Isn't that great? Can anyone see problems related to (random selection): trust, law, common sense?

    Er, don't they have Fax machines over there?
  9. Re:An excellent CAPTCHA on Evolution of the 'Captcha' · · Score: 1

    How do you know that it didn't just accept anything you typed in?

  10. Re:Apocalypse on Backyard Chefs Fired Up Over Infrared Grills · · Score: 1

    the smoked and burned flavor come from the fat dripping off the food and igniting on the charcoal (or lava rocks in a conventional gas grill) you won't however, get the taste of charcoal lighter fluid on your food. This sounds great. Typical propane grills can't get hot enough to sear a steak and still leave it rare on the inside. charcoal burns much hotter, but takes a lot of preparation.

  11. Re:It's not the content that's being restricted on Windows Media Center Restricts Cable TV · · Score: 1

    Try the HDHomrun http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/10/30/engadget-hd-r eview-hdhomerun/ tuner. Does both QAM and ATSC. HD and SD. it's got 2 tuners and streams the content over it's ethernet port. My uncle has one, and it works great. We had his Vista laptop viewing one channel and my ubuntu desktop viewing another. It won't unscramble cable, but my provider, cablevision, broadcasts non-pay HD in the clear anyway.

  12. Re:Wireless Developers? on Google Releases MySQL Enhancements · · Score: 1

    Supplies for flexible employees? I suppose you have to bend over backwards to get them. Bah-dum dum.

  13. Re:PS3, HDTV, and FCC's analog switchoff on Wal-Mart Begins Massive Push For HD DVD · · Score: 1

    Well Broadcast/cable HD right now is at the quality level of a upconverted DVD going through really shitty coax cables.
    i have to disagree with you. I've got a samsung DLP tv with an Oppo upconverting DVD player and a SA DVR (horrible UI) connected to Cablevision cable. The DVD player is connected over HDMI and the DVR is over component cables. The DVD looks great, but the HD signal coming from Cablevision is noticeably clearer.
  14. Re:Translation: on New Sub Dives To Crushing Depths · · Score: 1

    140lbs = 10 stone

  15. Re:Right... on No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs · · Score: 1
    Camera on wrong side of phone (so you can't make video calls)..
    Er, why couldn't you make video calls? Just use a hands free headset (bluetooth or othewise) and turn the camera to face you.
  16. Re:This is kinda what is happening in China right on Second Life Businesses Close Due To Cloning · · Score: 1
    Yeah, and when you buy a bottle of your favorite beer, you'll never now know if you're getting donkey piss instead. No thanks.
    that is, until you drank it.
  17. Re:Browser OS on Landscape Is Changing For Microsoft and Google · · Score: 1

    Still in beta (who'da thunk it?) but http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en Google Suggest uses AJAX.

  18. Re:I'll go for your lesser challenge of five... on Ten Geek Business Myths · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember around 1990 using Beame & Whiteside's BWNFS to connect dos 3.1 workstations to Sun SparcStation 1s. BWNFS came with a TCP/IP stack, and some rudimentiary tools. Telnet, rsh, ping etc. Sun also had a competing product PCNFS. Not sure on the timing of trumpet's winsock, looks to be about 1993 from their website http://www.trumpet.com.au/company.html

  19. Re:KDE on KDE on the NBC Show "Heroes" · · Score: 1

    in a similar vein, the producers of Magnum PI wanted Tom Sellec to drive a porsche, however they wanted a convertable. porsche didn't make a convertable in the model they wanted and wouldn't allow them to modify the car they had. Magnum ended up with a Ferrari.

  20. Re:Is this Slash-worthy? on The Mismatched 'MythBusters' · · Score: 1
    "Water is Wet!"
    Apparently, Redline thinks it can be improved on.
  21. Re:Black Apple on AppleBerry Predicted? · · Score: 1

    My vote would be for: Black-I

  22. Re:But on MPAA Being Sued For Allegedly Hacking Torrentspy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your car analogy isn't a good one. Your Audi is a finite resource, and once you sell it, or it gets stolen, then you don't have it anymore. it would be more like, if someone took an exact replica of your car, and offered anyone who was going to buy *your* car, free rides. This *may* deprive you of buyers, or, it may just make people reaize that an Audi's just not for me, and I'll make do with the bus. Or, it may make someone realize that , wow, nice car, I'll go out and buy my own...

  23. Re:Did you plug your fax into the right port? on Ahead of IPO, Vonage Faces User Complaints · · Score: 1

    Cancelling *is* that easy. Providing you don't care about keeping your existing phone number. Vonage won't port our number to cablevision's VOIP offering. I guess number portability doesn't apply to them. the only issue I had with QOS from vonage was when Cablevision capped my modem for prodigious use of bittorrent. But that's another story...

  24. Re:And thats why... on Using Laptops to Steal Cars · · Score: 1

    no plug wires either, i'm afraid. the coils sit ontop of the spark plugs. Cobb's Accessport has a theft deterrent map which either cripples or disables the engine until the map gets switched. it's a PIA to switch the map each time you park though. Also, you'd need to carry around the accessport to swap maps - inconvienient at best. Better off with good theft insurance.

  25. Re:And thats why... on Using Laptops to Steal Cars · · Score: 1

    neither of my cars have rotors, or even distributors for that matter, so i'm afraid that won't work for me.