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  1. Re:Exactly the opposite? on Apple Handcuffs Web Apps On iPhone Home Screen · · Score: 1

    You can save a bookmark to a web page on your home screen. If that web page has a <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"> then it launches in a full screen (no status bar) chromeless window without the safari interface.

    Apparently it also runs slower if you do that.

  2. Re:Firefox Extension Needed! on Google Goes After Content Farms · · Score: 1

    The answers are only there if you click through from a Google search result. Copy the URL into a fresh tab and watch the answer magically vanish!

  3. Re:Cheating? on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I really HATE it when a search engine collates data for me and tells me *exactly* where it got that informati.. oh wait, I may have missed your point

  4. Re:Real question is... on Yahoo IPv6 Upgrade Could Shut Out 1M Users · · Score: 2

    Yes. And then some:

    Our goals remain the same: the first and foremost of which is to keep improving the core features — speed, security, accessibility and stability — that our 275+ million users have come to depend on.

    - May 12, 2010

  5. Re:no process on How Facebook Ships Code · · Score: 1

    That's a very insightful comment*

    *contraction

  6. Re:Its been said before, but ill say it again. on British ISPs Respond On Filtering · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem isn't the porn sites which are obviously adult content, it's the sites which are closer to the line, maybe lingerie shops?

    Once you have a .sex TLD, you're introducing a binary classification to a scale which is not only analogue, but highly subjective.

  7. Re:Poor Michael Bay on Why Special Effects No Longer Impress · · Score: 1

    I've heard an early reviewer describe this as the best Daft Punk music video he's ever seen

  8. Re:I remember on Google Seeking "Search Without Search" · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it's not the other way around?

    Assuming that having an ungameable system is the holy grail, you could argue that actually it's just taken 15 years longer for people to game the system faster than Google are stopping them

  9. Re:42 on Google Seeking "Search Without Search" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh yeah and as a bonus if you don't run Google's JS you get the actual URLs of the search results and not some redirection server that helps to track you.

    Yeah, I really hate it when a company looking to improve search results tries to find out which search results the user ends up choosing!

  10. Re:Apple sells the jailbreak on Apple Quietly Drops iOS Jailbreak Detection API · · Score: 1

    Sure you have that choice. In fact, if you do any business I would think a significant proportion of it is with iDevice owners.

    But you're right, you don't have the choice to do business with iDevice owners in the Apple App market without doing business with Apple. So you're basically annoyed that to enter the market you want to enter, you would have to make some concessions you don't want to make. And that's fine, plenty of businesses have the same dilemma in different markets. And, if they don't like that, they don't enter that market!

  11. Re:for example ranking top 10 songs on Google Faces EU Probe Over Doped Search Results · · Score: 1

    With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the search engine!

  12. Re:Exploit variant on Scammers Can Hide Fake URLs On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    I'm not entirely sure how showing "a graphic of Safari's address bar with a totally legit URL" (which you suggest) is "even better" than showing a graphic of Safari's address bar with a totally legit URL (which is what the article describes)

  13. Re:That we left open by design... on Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design · · Score: 1

    That copy of Windows had protection which had to be broken.

    This Kinect protocol didn't.

  14. Re:USB is the devil on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 1

    Actually, it always takes me 3 attempts to plug a USB device in, if I can't see the port. It defies all logic

  15. Re:it always looked to me like... on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 1
  16. Re:WTF on UK's National Rail Shuts Down Free Timetable App · · Score: 1

    thetrainline.com app certainly didn't tell you whether your train was on time or running late last time I checked. Does it now?

  17. Re:Automated fill-ups, too? on Vans Drive Themselves Across the World · · Score: 1

    No, because as the first 4 words of the summary states, they are electric vans

  18. Re:Power required to charge? on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    My favourite part was where you didn't even RTF *title*

  19. Re:Power required to charge? on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    My favourite part was where you didn't even read the *title*

  20. Re:That's Expensive on How To Protect Against Firesheep Attacks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not necessarily true, Google have a solution which means that

    SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead

  21. Re:No HTTPS encryption on Firefox Extension Makes Social-Network ID Spoofing Trivial · · Score: 1

    Well, the problem being exposed isn't related to the login form and password sniffing, but merely that after login a stolen session cookie gives you full access to someone's logged-in session (as it is in fact designed to) The problem is potentially less of an issue than having the password submission over HTTP - once you have a user's Facebook password, chances are you have the password to some of their other online accounts, whereas this attack only gives you access to the current logged in session - but it's definitely an issue that users needs to be aware of

  22. Re:Where is print preview for God's sake? on Google Rolls Out Chrome 7 · · Score: 1

    Likewise on Mac, where every native Print window has options for preview and PDF

  23. Re:Oh boy on Best Education Path To Learn Video Game Programming? · · Score: 1

    Interesting to note that Goldeneye 007 for the N64 was developed almost entirely by developers working on their first game:

    I should mention that the entire team was very green. 8 of us had never worked on a game. Andy Smith had worked on a few at Rare. I had worked on one at Rare and written countless games back in prehistory as a hobbyist, but those one-person games don't count really do they? But overall the team was very talented and very dedicated. When I selected people I was looking for three things: talent in their field (obviously), an affection for the Bond universe, and a deep understanding of games. Six of the people on the project could easily be given the job title game designer. This is a ridiculously high ratio, and explains a lot. One person can't design an original game, it just isn't humanly possible. Six have a chance, with proper coordination. Regarding dedication, several of us commonly did 80 hour weeks and occasional 120 hour weeks. I averaged an 80 hour week over the 2 and a half years of the project. The talent and dedication of the team was pivotal to the quality of the game. One more reason for success.

  24. Re:Common sense on You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School · · Score: 1

    No, most people are either better or worse than average. Very few are actually average

  25. Re:Really? on Facebook Surpasses Google For Users' Online Time · · Score: 1

    It's better to add it as a Jabber account than as a Facebook account - see http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php for the connection details