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  1. Re:Trend Micro? on Microsoft OneCare Last in Antivirus Tests · · Score: 1

    On the shelf at BestBuy where it belongs.

  2. Re:Linux? on 'Daylight Savings Bugs' Loom · · Score: 1

    You're right. I misread that.

    However, my argument still holds against the parent. The fixes are available, requiring payment or not. No one is being forced to purchase Vista to solve it. Apple is only providing fixes back to 10.2. Does this mean Apple wants you to upgrade to Vista too? He just wanted to take a cheap shot at MS.

    FWIW, I personally don't have much sympathy for someone running an 8 year old OS that was EOL'd over 18 months ago. If it does what you need it to do, fine, I'm happy for you, but you can't complain about it being left out of new requirements or advances.

    Why not make your case that it's the Gov't issue to solve for you since it's congress that's requiring the change?

  3. Re:Linux? on 'Daylight Savings Bugs' Loom · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_topissues#a5

    You're exactly right, except for the parts where you're talking out of your ass. There are automatic updates for XP and 2000, and instructions for updating Nt4 manually. Vista does in fact ship with the updated DST rules.

  4. Re:Havent had an issue so far on Vista - iPod Killer? · · Score: 1

    That took me some time to figure out too...

    Set Quicktime's audio preferences to 'safe-mode.'
    It comes from using a POS app under a POS GUI.

  5. Re:Excellent on End of the Blu-Ray / HD-DVD Format War? · · Score: 1

    RTFSummary:

    The article also mentions that LG (along with "possibly other gadget makers") is expected to announce a player that can play both formats.

  6. Re:Wait a minute on Darwin Awards 2006 · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/hert s/4575291.stm

    I guess if I couldn't work google, I'd post AC too.

  7. Re:How is this better than a mechanical USB switch on MultiSwitch, the First USB Sharing Hub · · Score: 2, Informative

    From TFA:

    Q: What happens when two people try to use the same device at the same time from two different computers?

    A: Keep in mind that USB provides a connecting technology and not a network. Since the USB MultiSwitch Hub is a standard USB 2.0 device, only one person can use a connected device at a time. For example, I plug in my MultiSwitch Hub-enabled laptop, share your printer and/or get what I need from an external USB hard drive and then, when you want it back, we switch the devices back to you. If we want to toggle back and forth, we can do that. But only one of us can access the desired USB device at a time.

  8. Re:Irresponsible on Month of Apple Bugs Debuts in January · · Score: 1

    First off, do you actually know that these are all 0-Day exploits and/or that Apple is unaware of them?

    Second, are you claiming that Apple doesn't (and they'd be the only OS maker) have people rummaging around on the net looking for news of bugs/exploits/holes? It would seem to me that if this wiener can find the bugs, so could Apple.

    It appears that this is just another attempt to show that Apple is as indifferent to fixing security holes as anybody else, but for some reason Mac users just don't seem to mind.

  9. Re:Glagnar's Human Rinds on David X. Cohen Interviewed on New Futurama · · Score: 1

    When his wife is fixing his tie in the $300 Big Ones episode: Under his breath "Stop it. Stop it. It's fine. I will destroy you."

  10. Re:What happened to Microsoft? on Pyschonauts Now Back-Compat on 360 · · Score: 1

    They changed video sub-systems. All the graphics need to be retooled for the x-box (1) emulator.

  11. Re:Graphics Cards on Notebook PC Manufacturer Who Will Sell Parts? · · Score: 1

    It goes in a mini-slot underneath, just like the ram. They've been making them for 3 or 4 years now.

  12. Re:Praire/Masker? on Future Ships Could Float On Bubbles · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is a good way to hide something, except of course that a huge unaccounted for cloud of bubbles is fairly unusual, especially if it's steaming towards King's Bay Georgia at 15 knots.

  13. Re:That's too bad on WiiConnect24 Update Causing Issues For Wii Owners · · Score: 1

    Why would you hope that?

  14. Re:One interesting point... on Star Wars Virgin Takes the Plunge · · Score: 1

    How many times have you heard someone say "if only Lucas had let Bioware (KoTOR) write the prequels" I think you're exactly right... anything finer than "there's this guy, and some twins, and some deathstars" and Lucas is pretty well useless.

  15. Re:Same binary as yesterday.... on Firefox 2.0 Officially Released · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Buggy Release on Firefox 2.0 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    It also has the same 1/2 finished windows install script.

    It installs fine over the top of 1.5 while leaving the old 1.5 install listed in Add/Remove along with the new 2.0 entry. Removing the Firefox 1.5 entry removes the program entirely while leaving a now broken 2.0 entry in add/remove.

    Not saying that an installer should be tested or anything.

  17. Re:Um.. not so phenomenal? on This Rare Friday the 13th · · Score: 1

    TFA noticed it.

  18. Re:Ghostbusters on Perspectives on Spamhaus's Dilemma · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't actually blame them either, but you do have to be prepared to accept the consequences of your actions.

    If China had the ability to make your life miserable, you maybe ought to consider hiring a lawyer. You can't run something like Spamhaus without understanding that you are stepping directly on the spammer's bottom line, and you have to expect the need to defend yourself legally. Ignoring legal proceedings is an option, but not a defense. Had they chosen to fight it, they could have made the argument that their RBL is in fact optional. They chose not to. Now they are facing the consequences.

    Just because you are not guilty of a crime doesn't mean you don't have to show up if you're indicted.

  19. Re:Ghostbusters on Perspectives on Spamhaus's Dilemma · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Has the United State's judicial system attempted any lines of communication with them aside from a cease-and-desist letter threatening them with $11.7 million?"

    Yup, they would have allowed them to defend their actions in court. Spamhaus chose not to appear, and instead have a default judgement rendered aginst them.

  20. Re:Vista violates Fair Use on Windows Vista RC2 Available · · Score: 1

    It turns out that what you consider to be "Fair Use" is both wrong and unimportant.

    The license agreement says "one machine."

  21. Re:Blu-Ray curse on $600 PS3 Ships Without HDMI Cable · · Score: 1

    Don't forget, Blu-Ray drives don't play Blue-Ray discs yet.

  22. Re:no offense on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 1

    He was asking about XP.
    You mispelled "I don't know."

  23. Re:Somebody is soon going to get a patent ... on Apple Settles Creative Lawsuit for $100 Million · · Score: 1

    Where you gonna find a lawyer who's not a defendant? :)

  24. Re:Good on A Preview of Election 08 - Podcasting Politicians · · Score: 1

    That would be assuming that the Political Strategist for the candidate isn't involved in the podcast. Just another way to say the same things in the same ways in a different medium.

  25. Re:Imagine how NASA will do when they go metric! on 30th Anniversary of Viking Landing on Mars · · Score: 3, Funny

    They produce sounds like "WHANG!" and "BOOM!" and "CRASH!"

    I would like to see them switch to Discovery Channel measurements myself... distance in football fields, weight in tractor-trailer trucks, and volume in ping-pong balls.