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  1. Re:the CTRL-ALT-F Easter egg works in Seamonkey on Mozilla Releases SeaMonkey 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Anyone can do a keyboard shortcut. I'll be impressed when they put MNG back in; it'll be a demonstration that Mozilla has finally overcome its internal childish squabbling.

  2. Re:History repeats itself on Can Nintendo Really Be Planning Another DS Variant? · · Score: 1

    VB > Trashcan

  3. Re:CUDA or OpenCL? on Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    ATI are cooperating with Intel on the FOSS side of things. Once the new 3D stack is in place, OpenCL will just be a separate plugin alongside OpenGL/OpenVG.

  4. Re:eee ssd on Reliability of PC Flash SSDs? · · Score: 1

    Same here, my 701's 2 years old now and running fine despite going through a dozen kernel compiles.

    I was thinking of getting the newer model but it seems there's a complaint about almost every component inside it. I can live with the small screen and short battery life, at least until ARM netbooks take off.

  5. Re:Except that on Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What makes you not anonymous?

    Google.

  6. Re:Vodka on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    Windows XP used to be the version that never crashed. Funny how that ceases to be the case just in time for another upgrade to be sold.

  7. Re:Linux? on Now Linux Can Get Viruses, Via Wine · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Mod parent AC up.

  8. Re:The one that isn't BS is.... on App Store Developer Speaks Out On Game Piracy · · Score: 1

    You can still apply copyright correctly in this situation. Those pirated copies had to come from somewhere.

  9. Re:Micro-USB? on Universal Phone Charger Approved By UN Body · · Score: 1

    Is there a problem with using USB3 instead?

  10. Re:Performance != Observance on Music Rights Holders Sue YouTube Again · · Score: 1

    Those with money make the rules.

    It's a fucked up state of affairs, and the general public is hopefully hard at work trying to put the MAFIAA out of the rule-making business, but it's going to get worse before it gets better.

  11. Go peer with google instead on Peering Disputes Migrate To IPv6 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They've already bought loads of dark fibre, maybe they'd be interested in getting a controlling stake in IPv6 early on.

  12. Re:Worse than Ulrich Drepper? on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 1

    After reading Bug 4980, it makes me wonder. The only thing I could say in his defense is that he's a straight up asshole, as opposed to an egotistical one.

  13. Re:hardly relevant now... on Apple, Others Hit With Lawsuit On Ethernet Patents · · Score: 1

    NO U!

    (just kidding, I can spell wourds just fine)

  14. Re:I want to build an AP with openbsd on OpenBSD 4.6 Released · · Score: 1

    +1 for the PC Engines stuff. Never used BSD, but they run fine with every bit of hardware I've stuck in them (had some success with a crazy 2 PCI wifi + USB 3G setup under Linux).

  15. Re:The web server can finally serve large files on OpenBSD 4.6 Released · · Score: 1

    HTTP has handled partial transfers since version 1.1. ... does OpenBSD not support HTTP 1.1 yet either?

  16. Re:Ministry of Everything on Demo of EU's Planned "INDECT" Hints At Massive Data Mining, Little Privacy · · Score: 1

    How do we know the politicians aren't pedophiles?

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

    This is the same Datel that Nintendo tried to pull this stunt with 16 or 17 years ago. As you can see, Datel won that one.

  18. Re:who's to blame. on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think that "gnome attitude" ever went anywhere. I've seen at least 5 or 6 GNOME-related projects that are run by people or groups of people who act like this, or even worse (Mono doesn't give a shit unless you're using Ubuntu).
    No other software development group I've seen is as collectively rude as GNOME, they're like the 4chan of FOSS.

  19. Re:Useless on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 1

    the only reason that '99% of the answers will be "uninstall PulseAudio".' is that people are idiots. The correct answer is to learn how to configure your system properly.

    Remind me, who is the target audience of Pulseaudio again? Not me, I already know how to configure my system properly. It's built with USE="-pulseaudio".

  20. Re:This is the Sound of on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 1

    99% of media players have an auto volume normalisation option, another option to pick the dB level to normalise to, another option to choose between per-track or per-album metadata... why don't you use those instead of complaining that the kernel doesn't have yet-another-driver-module to do it (which by the way, it does already)?

  21. Re:2/3rds can on 1/3 of People Can't Tell 48Kbps Audio From 160Kbps · · Score: 1

    97% of statistics are quoted disingenuously on fluff article sites like Cnet.

  22. Re:Why is OSS no longer in the kernel? on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 5, Informative

    OSS was deprecated because 4front pulled the rug out from under users and started demanding money for binary-only versions, and it was easier to write an entire API from scratch instead of trying to fix the crap they'd left in the kernel.

    OSS4 is never going in because 4front has a dangerously wrong idea of how the GPL2 works and think they they have the right to infect applications using this API with their licence.

    Do not want!

  23. Re:Useless on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is the fact PulseAudio is designed to be used only in that utterly useless way.

    Want to run mpd? Too bad, PulseAudio doesn't run as a system daemon. Want a headless server? Too bad, you have to have GNOME running on it and be logged in for this to work properly.
    Want your damn sound card to just work already? 99% of the answers will be "uninstall PulseAudio". A better answer is to not use a distro that dumps it on you in the first place.

  24. Re:5 controllers on New Super Mario Bros. Wii Attempts To Bridge Casual/Hardcore Divide · · Score: 1

    It's all bluetooth, so technically you could have more than 4 wiimotes at once. They don't do that because most people wouldn't be able to figure out what controller they were using if you used the 4 LEDs on it to count in binary...

  25. Re:Finally...The iphone killer (and it's not from on Verizon's Challenge To the iPhone Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget Verizon's idea of what "point zero zero two cents" means.

    Chances are anyone falling for this will get raped in the wallet harder by it than the iPhone's global roaming charges.