Actually, if the patent is about the way one segment lights up to show which controller it is (and which bit of a splitscreen setup you are), thats something that is really useful and I have not seen in a controller before the 360 one. I wouldn't mind if they had a patent on that (though the Wii does something similar with the 4 blue leds at the bottom of each remote, so maybe not)

Ok, when I view the whole story its in arial, but if I click on the link to my comment, the page is in my default sans-serif font..

On the other point, I know there are myriad ways of adding your own CSS to a page, I just simply want to kill every occurrence of arial on the interwebs, some regex on every bit of incoming CSS should do it

Right now for me it is:

font-family:arial,sans-serif;

Which is arial for me and anyone that has it installed, regardless of your browsers default choice (Calibri here) . If you are getting Helvetica you are probably using a mac.

Brings up a interesting point, is there an addon/other way to make Firefox not use arial even if its installed and the page explicitly requests it?

Maybe, but we can only hope the user will use the menu to select import photos or invoke the phones bloated windows software package instead of autoplaying.

Anyway, even if the user runs the autoplay, it will still need to pop a UAC prompt to do anything nasty (well install itself as part of a botnet, oh for the old days when viruses just deleted your files and popped up a dialogue saying ha ha, no UAC needed there).

The same HTML rendering component I can understand, but in this case it appears a script running in a web browser instance of the component can somehow affect the help rendering instance, and that is a quality WTF.

Didn't know Macs had Windows Media Player these days..

One of the selling points of this system is that you DON'T need to let your card leave your sight, or even your hand, as before when magnetic strips were used that was good indication of having your card copied.

The terminal you put your card is is usually wireless or has a long cord so you can pick it up to better hide your pin when you enter it. This makes using a card with wires going up your sleeve quite easy to get away with and keeping hold of the card is not unusual behaviour that would arouse suspicion. See the BBC video here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/susanwatts/2010/02/new_flaws_in_chip_and_pin_syst.html

I installed 3.1 just last week because I needed some office on my machine and tried to paste some cells from calc into a writer document, a process that MSOffice 2003 does perfectly, and got some kind of embedded spreadsheet WTF with tiny font that actually distorted when you moved the handles at the side. Seems to get a table you need to actually 'paste as html', and even then there's no way to get to the bits that overflow off the right of the document...

I really want to love openoffice and will update, but my advice right now is clone Office 2003 first and worry about new features later. (Except give Calc a MD5 function, excel does not seem to have one)

I would guess Tomboy is being pulled because it requires mono. I recall there was a big argument when it was first included in the default Gnome desktop because of all the extra space required by the mono runtime just for some virtual post-it notes. So this move probably saves lots of space behind the scenes.

Agreed, the last time I tried to multi-head Ubuntu (9.04), it worked eventually, but the process was not nearly as smooth as even windows XP, which has always 'just worked' for me in this regard.

Really? I am running it just fine for bash/unixy tools/ssh client on x64 Win7 right now...

Don't blame windows if your applications fail to ask it for proxy settings and instead each store them individually. It's possible to set the proxy settings using the control panel without opening IE (I am not sure what happens if you uninstall IE, but suspect the settings panel will still be there).

AFAIK both firefox and chrome will use these settings.

"Your memory serves you well"