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Comment Re:Too Much RAM for My PC (Score 1) 620

The fact that you claim you'd have to stop using Firefox *and* the fact that you call Xubuntu's Xfce an "oddball desktop" destroys any kind of credibility you may have once had. Seriously, drop your poor prejudices and try it before coming here to troll.

Thank you, thank you very much.

Comment really? (Score 1) 370

I'm sorry, but if you need to back up a terrabyte of information, optical media is not even a serious option. You're comparing apples and oranges here. People don't buy DVDs to back up their filesysytem, that's just retarded, they buy DVDs for
  • DVD movies
  • Software

Don't even try to make the argument that a DVD is not a good distribution media, optical media is far from "obsolete". I would NEVER install any peice of software or OS that required 25 gigs, not even 10, 5 I will only allow for an OS but any more than 5 and I question the integrity of the source. I will say it now, if ever there comes a day where new Linux distros require something outrageous like 25 gigs to install, I will never use a [new] Linux distro again.

"Optical media is obsolete", do you have any idea what you are saying? Insightful? Are there that many Macbook Air(tm) users on slashdot?

Comment Google is untouchable... (Score 1) 408

Google has way too much invested in the internet to seriously be the target of any similar such lawsuit.

If the RIAA raises one finger, all Google needs to do is discreetly mess with search results and adwords. The message will be loud and clear, one of two things will happen:
  • The RIAA backs off.
  • Record Companies stop giving the RIAA money.

Nobody can touch Google. They are the world's largest website. They have a string attached to every corner of the Internet, any attempt to pull off a maneuver like this on Google will result in a quick plunge into Oblivion.

Comment Pirates are Users (Score 1) 613

Is it a user's fault that software is poorly developed

A pirate, is a user, and as a software developer, it is their responsibility to ensure that their product is suitable for many kinds of use, including use by pirates.

However they choose to do this is up to them, if they want to tie up their product with DRM, then they deserve to be criticized for it, it hampers usability. Stardock has the right idea here. Sure they made a few misguided development choices, but at least they have the integrity to lay blame where it belongs, with themselves.
Privacy

Submission + - Fed crack Wi-Fi to gather evidence (wired.com)

Death Metal writes: "The FBI's Cryptographic and Electronic Analysis Unit, CEAU, responded with two options. One of them was redacted from the released document as a sensitive investigative technique. The other is described this way: "CEAU advised Pittsburgh that they could assist with a wireless hack to obtain a file tree, but not the hard drive content.""
Operating Systems

Submission + - Palm's webOS lives up to hype, developers say (networkworld.com)

bednarz writes: "Underneath the sleek exterior of the upcoming Palm Pre smartphone is the real innovation: a new kind of operating system designed with the mobile Web in mind. For the mobile enterprise, Palm's webOS and companion Mojo software development kit offer a simpler way to build mobile applications that are highly integrated with Web-based content and services, according to several developers working with these tools since early this year. For example, webOS was designed from the outset to run multiple applications at once and, developers say, to minimize the well-known potential problems that arise when doing so. "Everything about the Pre feels like it's 'future-oriented,' not an iPhone-inspired knockoff," says Tom Conrad, CTO for Pandora, an Oakland, Calif., company that offers a personalized Internet radio service."
Earth

Submission + - Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away 2

schwit1 writes: A report from The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research says that Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away.

Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Centre shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m.

A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.

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