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  1. Re:You misunderstand the principle of bail on Irish Judge Orders 13-Year-Old To Surrender Xbox · · Score: 1

    "The judge told the youth that the surrender of the Xbox would show him what it was like to have something he really valued taken from him."

    That sounds like punishment to me.

  2. Re:"Stick With Open Source?" on How Long Will Oracle Stick With Open Source? · · Score: 1

    includes dinghy

    Ellison's selling himself with the boat?

  3. Re:Windows on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    No, but I know some people that use thumbdrives to sneakernet patches to newly installed machines before sticking them on the 'net (otherwise a good practice), and if they're not careful with the thumbdrives, they could be owned pretty quickly. Of course prior to 2010, unless you took extra measures, autorun worked despite MS's suggestions on how to disable it via GPO.

  4. 3.x EOL? on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 5 · · Score: 1

    Is Tbird 3.x end of life like FF4? I can still see some 3.1.11 versions for some languages, but English is 5.0 only, and it doesn't seem that anything has 3.1.12 or 3.2. I let my distro update me; can anyone confirm if 3.1.11 auto updates to 5.0 (that will royally confuse my mom who computes by number).

  5. Trained his engine on World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified · · Score: 1

    Of course it's not possible that he trained his beta engine against crafty and his new engine against fruit. That would be impossible. A panel of jealous losers from the competition has no motive to oust him.

  6. Re:Reasons to use a desktop email client: on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 5 · · Score: 1

    I love enigmail, but my friends hate me for it ("What's this digital signature crap at the end of all your emails?").

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

    By the time you see the warning it would be too late.

    Not if the warning is accompanied by a statement that the second keyboard should be enabled in "device manager" or such before it can be used.

  8. Re:yet on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    They don't learn because the training is ten minutes at the end of a week of orientation covering things that they will encounter every day. Unless they see a stray thumbdrive in their first week of work, the admonition will have been forgotten (until the "thumbdrive" behaves like a HID and starts typing commands to download crap like someone's example on this page [I had never thought of that before, but it would be so easy]).

  9. Re:Windows on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 2

    Partially correct. A patch for Windows XP and above was recently released that finally disabled autorun as a important patch (so it would auto install if people have auto update enabled). If someone plugs an infected USB disk into an unpatched machine, it still works.

  10. Re:Does this mean R-Rated movies for 10 year-olds? on Video Game Free Speech Ruling Aftermath · · Score: 1

    This is about free speech, not freedom to force someone to speak to you. If the theaters wish to restrict by age (the current arrangement), then they are free to do so.

  11. Re:Man some of these "activists" are dumb as rocks on Video Game Free Speech Ruling Aftermath · · Score: 1

    It teaches love, which is everyone-friendly.

  12. I was about to make a version number joke on Microsoft Launches Office 365 Cloud Suite · · Score: 1

    ...Until I realized that Office 2010 is a much bigger version number. Beat that version number, Libre/OpenOffice!

  13. Re:It's More Cruel to *Prevent* Pet Ownership on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    Dinosaurs were majestic and noble and all, but their reign was cut short when their weaknesses were exposed. it's their descendants, the chickens, that have become one of the most successful species in the history of the planet. Their edge? They evolved to taste real good. Think we would let an asteroid impact make chickens go extinct? We'd do everything in our power to stop it.

    Including cook and eat the progenitor of Goblox, the future leader of the turkey rebellion against the Master Chickens of the year 9595.

  14. Re:It's More Cruel to *Prevent* Pet Ownership on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    From a fixed pound dog? Two results: either people will start purposefully not spay/neuter their pets (so that friends can have pets too), or there will be scarcity (which raises value, especially in a black market scenario).

  15. Re:So if you on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    I can't remember who said it, but I remember years ago reading someone who suggested that any politician recommending a ban on anything should do so with a noose around their neck. The citizens can then decide in a rather direct fashion what to do about the ban and/or its proponent.

    Sounds like that would work in reverse from intention. I (and I hope most people) would want to spare the politician's life unless the law was totally heinous (like everyone must eat their first born son). So a lot of "really bad, but better than killing a person" laws would get passed. Better to have the gallows be a euphemism for losing their job.

  16. Re:Wait... on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    The pet industry is about 80% evil, and demand for their product is built on circumventing the supply available at the shelter.

    The video game industry is about 80% evil, and demand for their product is built on circumventing the used supply available at Gamestop. The Gamestop supply has to come from somewhere.

  17. Re:Puppy Mills on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    Shelter animals are not primarily animals that were lost or ran away. Primarily they are the result of offspring a pet owner did not want. What we honestly need is a law making it illegal to sell or giveaway un-fixed animals to anyone who is not a registered animal breeder or to own an unfixed animal if you are not a registered animal breeder.

    Pet DRM. Don't Copy That Doggy!

  18. Re:Why so worked up? on The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla · · Score: 1

    I am an enterprise and have not had a problem with 5.0. All plug-ins I have work. Also many of the updates will only fix bugs in the browser. So unless it is security update or the bug affects you you don't have to update to every single version that comes out. Plus its not like a new version comes out everyday. Read the the release note before for you cry foul.

    Think ahead. This isn't a problem with 5.0 specifically, it's a problem with the new release cycle rules (n-1 is immediately EOL). 5.0 may only have minor changes, but if 6.0 or 7.0 comes out, and the release notes show game stopper changes, you have to choose between bad new changes or bad prior security vulnerabilities (remember, n-1 is EOL, thus no updates of any kind). Seems a lot safer to be using something else, even as a home user.

  19. Re:Free Software Philosophy on The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla · · Score: 1

    The customers are IBM and Google. IBM is complaining, and Google's cheering on the Chrome-envy since it's hurting Firefox. Google has bigger pockets, so IBM loses out (along with all of us leechers).

  20. Re:Soon it may not even matter. on The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla · · Score: 1

    I hardly use bookmarks anymore because I can just start typing and the page I am looking for pops up in the drop down bar 99% of the time.

    That's nice. Sounds like it would be great as a bookmark search field. When I start typing in a URL in a URL bar, I'd like for it to start showing me the URLs that start with what I typed, not any page that I visited previously that has the word I typed on it.

    By the way, if a post discussing a "moron bar" and calling the firefox developers a "bunch of idiots" is modded +5 insightful, that is a pretty glaring failure of moderation.

    No, you're just in the minority when it comes to liking the idiot firefox developers who shoved the moron bar down people's throats.

  21. Re:Soon it may not even matter. on The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Are you referring to the awesomebar and how you can tweak it to do stuff such as.... turning it off? I guess that moron-bar is a good name for it, though. After all, only a moron bitches about it after all this time and still has no clue about how he can simply turn it off.

    The cry of "Remeber the Awesomebar!" isn't because of our inability to turn it off now, it's because of the half-assed way it was originally introduced (and the fact that devs were saying they didn't want to implement a way to reset the original features, leading to the oldbar add-on). This smacks of the same "We're Mozilla! We defeated the great evil IE with our advertising campaigns! We know better than you Firefox-users!" attitude.

  22. Re:Save important pet lives...? on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    NO ONE ABUSES FISH.

    Tell that to Troy McClure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fish_Called_Selma

  23. Re:Think of it as 4.0.2 on The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Well if customers would start saying build this site for HTML 4.01 with CSS 2, instead of IE 6 or else I am not interested, then this would change. No one demands standards. They demand a particular version of IE 95% of the time.

    Because they can test their pages in house versus a particular version of IE. There is no perfect standards test browser for web devs, just a ton of 99% compliant browsers.

  24. Re:Think of it as 4.0.2 on The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla · · Score: 1

    But then customers think the product doesn't advance

    If they're twelve years old... For us old fogeys it wasn't that long ago that Mozilla was the new hotness. After a decade of improvements and an internal fork (to Phoenix;Firefox), some still use Seamonkey, others use Firefox or other newer browsers, but no one thinks Firefox has stagnated (especially since every update opens up a "you just updated to version N!" page).

  25. Re:it's not just enterprise users... extensions? on The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla · · Score: 1

    I have rolled back to 4.0.1 and will move to 5 once all of those things work.

    you should roll back to 3.6.18. 4.0.1 has some sec vulns: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html#firefox5