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  1. Re:The cloud is secure - if treated correctly on Open Source Alternative To Dropbox? · · Score: 1

    You pulled his quote out of context. His full assertion is that Dropbox is secure IF USED CORRECTLY (i.e., encrypting data before sending to Dropbox). Do you have evidence that contradicts that statement?

  2. Re:What? They didn't even videotape the demo? on Jeopardy-Playing Supercomputer Beats Humans · · Score: 1

    That's truly disappointing... it could have been interesting to watch.

    It was a dress rehearsal, of sorts. The real matches will be broadcast in February.

  3. Re:The software is key. on Cisco To Challenge iPad With Cius 'Business Tablet' · · Score: 1

    Funny, they already did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS

    Oh, you said anything *like* iOS, not anything *named* iOS.

  4. Re:Bricked? on Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s · · Score: 1

    All of those uses (paperweight, doorstop, therapeutic stress relief target) also apply to bricks in general, so the definition "as useful as a brick" still applies. I don't see your argument supporting your statement that the definition is nearly meaningless.

  5. MPEG4 available beginning this week on Lessig Launches Open Transition Principles · · Score: 3, Informative

    This week the videos are available in MPEG4 format. Is that open enough?

    http://change.gov/newsroom/blog/

  6. Re:How Is This Different From a CDN? on The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Yes, I think you understand Jacobsen's "content-centric" approach.

    I don't think Jacobsen is claiming the approach is new. He claims pushing the intelligence lower in the stack enables application writers to think at higher abstractions. He likens the change to the change from circuit-based networking to packet-based networking. Many new applications rose when programmers stopped worrying about the path data took between two hosts. Jacobsen believes a similar explosion will occur when programmers stop worrying about where data originates.

    The trick is that the mechanism (point-to-point or content-centric) becomes invisible from the application programmer's point of view. In the current state-of-the-art the content delivery system is not invisible.

  7. Re:That's a short list... on WWDC '08 Sees Slimmer, Improved, 3G iPhone · · Score: 1

    > Still raping developers for 30% of revenue

    How much overhead do you pay (time and labor) for distribution and payment processing, not to mention some advertising on a major site? To me, 30% looks like a fair deal.

  8. Re:1999 UK all over again? on Official 700MHz Bidder List · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you mean Windows or Linux or Mac OS or whatever. But if you're on a Mac, the £ sign is Option-3.

  9. Re:Parallels Vs. VMWare on Parallels Beta Adds Boot Camp, Desktop · · Score: 1

    Holding the Command/Apple key while clicking is the equivalent to right-clicking. Or as others have said, you can plug in (or Bluetooth) your own mouse with 2/3/4/5/* buttons. I use both of these techniques when I remote-desktop into my Win XP machine from my PowerBook G4.

  10. Re:I still think the PhatBox is the best thing goi on Pods Unite · · Score: 1

    While the PhatBox doesn't support Ogg Vorbis and Linux (and Mac OS X) officially, there are tools available for all three! Take a look at http://phatbox.sixpak.org/phatbox/.

  11. mod_gzip for Apache on Where The Bandwidth Goes · · Score: 2, Informative

    A new HTTP command is not necessary because HTTP 1.1 supports compression as a content encoding (the "Content-Encoding" HTTP header). The mod_gzip module enables compression for Apache. As you suggested, mod_gzip can be configured to compress or not compress certain files matching given criteria.

  12. Re:"Hymn #42"? on Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and... · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I think you meant "Hymn #43"...

    Aqualung song list.

  13. Re:Another one bites the dust on Sir Alec Guinness Dies · · Score: 1

    The quote is from an Emily Matthews poem. Here is a link to a somewhat-cheesy page with the poem in question.

    http://www.sidsfamilies.com/poems/p oem255.shtml
  14. Non-CS home user on Microsoft Plays Linux Games at Work · · Score: 1

    Yes. My wife's 486/33 is running as an X terminal to my K6-2/350. She uses Netscape to check email and StarOffice to write papers.