Comment Re:Lifting fingers... (Score 1) 255
Christ on a crutch, do you think I haven't actually tried this?
Yes
Comment Re:Lifting fingers... (Score 1) 255
You don't even need to lift your left finger to right click. Hold it where it is while you push down with your right finger: as the shell moves down it separates from your left finger and a right click is registered. Holding a finger in place for half a second is perfectly natural.
Comment Re:Silly names (Score 1) 711
So for the foreseeable future your hard drive will be about 10% smaller than advertised.
Rather, your OS will misreport it's size by about 10%...
Comment Re:Halfway Competent (Score 1) 665
It could also be the power supply itself, or a loose internal power cable.
Richard Stallman Says No To Mono 1008
twitter writes "There's been a lot of fuss about mono lately. After SCO and MS suing over FAT patents, you would think avoiding anything MS would be a matter of common sense. RMS now steps into the fray to warn against a serious mistake: 'Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use. .... This is not to say that implementing C# is a bad thing. ... [writing and using applications in mono] is taking a gratuitous risk.'" Update: 06/27 20:22 GMT by T : Read on below for one Mono-eschewing attempt at getting the (excellent) Tomboy's functionality, via a similar program called Gnote. Update: 06/27 21:07 GMT by T: On the other side of the coin, reader im_thatoneguy writes "Jo Shields, a Mono Developer, has published an article on 'Why Mono Doesn't Suck,' why it is not a threat to FOSS, why it is desirable to developers and why it should be included in Ubuntu by default."
Comment Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete? (Score 2, Insightful) 266
but this was the operating system subverting the security of an application.
By using a documented API designed for silent installs?
Comment Re:X-WRT? (Score 5, Insightful) 217
This isn't a theme competition, it's a user interface competition - usability counts much more than the style of the buttons.
Canadian Fined For Videoing Movie In Theatre 382
canadian_right writes "A Calgary man was fined $1,495 and banned from theaters for a year in the first conviction under a new Canadian law making recording a movie in a theater a crime. Until the new law took effect in 2007, prosecutors had to show evidence of distribution to get a conviction; now, recording without permission is sufficient. The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association was disappointed that jail time was not given." The man was also banned for a year from possessing any video recording equipment, even a video-capable cellphone, outside of his home.
OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows 451
thefickler writes "The newest version of OpenOffice, version 3.0, has set a download record in its first week of availability. Most surprising is the fact that over 80% of downloads were from Windows users. As one commentator noted, when it comes to a choice between almost identical software (e.g. Microsoft Office and OpenOffice), price is the determining factor."
Canada Election Result Bad News For DMCA Opponents 311
An anonymous reader writes "For those with a stake in the opposition of Jim Prentice's C-61, the Canadian DMCA, this previous week's election results will be displeasing. The Conservative Party, which promised to reintroduce the DMCA if elected, gained 19 seats this election, mostly at the expense of the flagging liberal party, a mere 12 short of a majority government. The increase in Conservative representation, as well as the relatively low profile of this issue amidst other, more pressing concerns, increases the likelihood that the son of C-61 will come to fruition. On a positive note, the number of MPs supporting Geist's copyright pledge has increased to 34. Given the Conservative Party's historic disregard of public opinion, however, the efforts of the copyright-pledge MPs will have to rally the full opposition across three major parties in order to defeat the bill. A mere 12 MPs now stand between the Canadian public and the MAFIAA's hungry maw."
Record Label Infringes Own Copyright, Site Pulled 282
AnonCow sends in a peculiar story from TorrentFreak, which describes the plight of a free-download music site that has been summarily evicted from the Internet for violating its own copyright. The problem seems to revolve around the host's insistence that proof of copyright be snail-mailed to them. Kind of difficult when your copyright takes the form of a Creative Commons license that cannot be verified unless its site is up. "The website of an Internet-based record label which offers completely free music downloads has been taken down by its host for copyright infringement, even though it only offers its own music. Quote Unquote Records calls itself 'The First Ever Donation Based Record Label,' but is currently homeless after its host pulled the plug."
Comment Re:Why so hard to fix? (Score 1) 255
I don't get it. If they still have the data, why is it so hard for them to write up a script to fix the mistake?
Looks like they forgot how many features their old system had before it was re-built from scratch. For example, they used to support multiple aliases, so that you could have multiple names under one account (a personal alias, one for work, one where you're a 16 year old girl) but the new system only has one profile page per account, not one per alias, so it is impossible for them to merge all the data from the old accounts into the new ones, because it won't fit. So instead they "deleted" it. Oops.
Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android 384
Technologizer writes "It came out this week that Google's Android phone OS, like the iPhone, has a kill switch that lets Android Market applications be disabled remotely. But it's a mistake to lump Google's implementation and Apple's together — the Google version is a smart, pro-consumer move that avoids all the things that make Apple's version a bad idea."
