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  1. Re:This should lead to some "interesting" malware. on Mozilla Labs Add-On Provides Video and Audio Recording From the Browser · · Score: 1

    About 5 years ago maybe. No-one can access files/hardware on your PC, in flash, without your permission. They can store cookies, just like the browser, but probably more securely than browser cookies.

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

    Hey, I have a massive tank of petrol at home that I currently use to refill my car, so installing a massice cable would be no problem.

    Oh no, my mistake, I go to a petrol station. Perhaps we could do the same thing with electric car and call it, oh, I don't know, a charging station maybe?

  3. Re:How long does it last? on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    It also says DC power. I don't think any major country has supplied DC power since about 1903! So there is extra inefficiency in a transformer.

  4. Re:The Future is FAR from Secure on Aussie Kids Foil Finger Scanner With Gummi Bears · · Score: 1

    Wow, I just love your realistic outlook on life!

  5. Hmm ... on Boeing 747 Recycled Into a Private Residence · · Score: 0, Redundant

    " ... requested only curvilinear/feminine shapes for her new home ... "

    But was quite happy to live in a large phallic shaped jumbo!

  6. Re:What???? on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that if someone has some really offensive material and declares it, they can't be charged with possessing it and that they can only be charged if it is not declared and then found later? IANAL but I suspect if someone declared offensive material, they would be charged with it.

  7. Re:Broken how? on Red Hat CEO Says Software Vendor Model Is Broken · · Score: 1

    What you have described is, effectively, evolution. Although each individual may make nothing of lasting value, the end result are some extremely useful things with enormous lasting value.

  8. Re:Water? on UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water · · Score: 2, Informative

    " ... plus of course they don't put a big sticker on the outside of marked objects to warn you ... ".

    Err, yes the do. RTFA and see the big orange sign.

    Also, DNA can degrade fairly quickly if it is not part of a living cell and there are many chemicals that can break DNA down.

  9. Finally ... on WD Launches 3 Terabyte HD · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... somewhere to store my ultra-secure password that I keep forgetting! :-)

  10. Growing on Linux To Take Over Microsoft In Enterprises · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm just trying to think of some area of tech/i.t./communications where MS is increasing it's sales ...




    ... Still thinking!

  11. Re:inspiration on Software Evolution Storylines, Inspired By XKCD · · Score: 1

    Or a mobius loop.

  12. Errrr.... on It's Time To Build the Analytical Engine · · Score: 1

    ... haven't the Science museum in London already done this?

  13. Re:Print preview! One feature that I miss on Google Fixes 10 Bugs In Chrome, Pays $4000 Bounty · · Score: 1

    Sites entirely written in flash are fine if they are RIAs. I have seen some "PDF websites" though and, yes, they do suck big time!

  14. Re:Print preview! One feature that I miss on Google Fixes 10 Bugs In Chrome, Pays $4000 Bounty · · Score: 1

    Bet you're glad that Adobe intentionally didn't patent publishing to a pdf format precisely in order to allow this kind of thing. That's real openness

  15. Slow news day on Morphing Metals · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wow, slow news day. All the way back to 1931 for this story!

  16. Re:Is it still using 100% CPU on Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux · · Score: 1

    Should do. 32-bit was pretty impressive. Way better than HTML5 or Silverlight.

  17. Re:Atheist on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 1

    Ok, but a God defined that way is, effectively a deist god. If it doesn't require any more assumptions than atheism and doesn't contradict evidence (there is none) then that kind of god is irrelevant anyway.

  18. Re:Open Notes & Well-Designed Exams on Preventing Networked Gizmo Use During Exams? · · Score: 1

    I may be wrong but I think there are more Spanish speakers than English speakers in America. No?

  19. Re:Open Notes & Well-Designed Exams on Preventing Networked Gizmo Use During Exams? · · Score: 1

    Which one? Maku? Javaroan? Aushiri? or one of the 100 or so other native American languages?

  20. Re:Atheist on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 1

    I agree with your point, but just to be a pedantic grammar nazi, since when did items used for straining jam become a religious group? I think the word is Muslim, not Muslin!

  21. Re:Atheist on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That would be true if you were arguing with a deist (which very few people are). Most religious people are theists and believe their god intervenes after the big bang at some point. That is where evidence is lacking.

  22. Re:Atheist on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 1

    Nope, Agnostics sit on the fence about the issue. They would say, well, wither side could be correct, I'm just not going to make a decision. An atheist says, based on the evidence I have seen, I can, pretty clearly state that I have seen no evidence for god.

  23. Re:So a step back green wise then on Fujitsu Eyes Wireless Gadget Charging For 2012 · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know but they take up space and it, itself, has wires. Yet more cables.

    Cables are the bane of most people's lives. They get tangled, dusty and you have to crawl under desks to change there configuration. In other words, they a a complete bugger to work with.

  24. Re:Personally I think that's the way to go on Fujitsu Eyes Wireless Gadget Charging For 2012 · · Score: 1

    " ... We just have to accept the fact that wires are here to stay for many things ... "

    We just have to accept the fact that square wheels are here to stay for many things

    There, fixed that for ya!

  25. Re:Already here for a while now on Fujitsu Eyes Wireless Gadget Charging For 2012 · · Score: 1

    Plugging it in is easy. That is not the benefit of this device, however. It's the "wireless" bit that is the benefit.

    Have you looked behind your TV unit or computer desk recently?