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The Man At Microsoft Charged With Destroying IE6 458

Posted by timothy from the did-you-say-thermite-or-termite? dept.
Barence writes "The man in charge of Internet Explorer has told PC Pro that he's been tasked with destroying IE6. Internet Explorer 6 continues to be the most used browser version in the world at the ripe old age of nine. IE6's position as the default browser in Windows XP means many companies still cling to the browser. 'Part of my job is to get IE6 share down to zero as soon as possible,' said Ryan Gavin, head of the Internet Explorer business group. Microsoft has also been giving further previews of Internet Explorer 9, with demonstrations showing two 720p HD videos running simultaneously on a netbook, thanks to IE9's GPU-accelerated graphics."
Government

Are We Ready For a True Data Disaster? 113

Posted by timothy from the no-no-no-no-and-no dept.
snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions how long we can go before a truly catastrophic data disaster strikes. 'The lure of potential profits in the information economy, combined with the apparent ease with which data can be gathered and a lack of regulation, creates a climate of recklessness in which a "data spill" of the scale of the Deepwater Horizon incident seems not just likely, but inevitable.' Witness Google mistakenly emailing potentially sensitive business data to customers of its Local Business Center service, or the 1.5 million Facebook accounts and passwords recently offered up on an underground hacking forum. 'These incidents seem relatively minor, but as companies gather ever more individually identifiable data and cross-reference these databases in new and more innovative ways, the potential for a major catastrophe grows.'"
Security

German User Fined For Having an Open Wi-Fi 563

Posted by CmdrTaco from the half-of-you-are-guilty dept.
Kilrah_il writes "A German citizen was sued for copyright infringement because copyrighted material was downloaded through his network while he was on vacation. Although the court did not find him guilty of copyright infringement, he was fined for not having password-protected his network: 'Private users are obligated to check whether their wireless connection is adequately secured to the danger of unauthorized third parties abusing it to commit copyright violation,' the court said."

Comment Re:Watch the messenger (Score 2, Interesting) 457

by budfields (#32141836) Attached to: iPad Isn't "Killing" Netbook Sales, According To Paul Thurrott

Paul is also ignoring key issues, saying that 'he doubts' things instead of citing any data whatsoever, and tossing out a lot of vested-interest PC geek magazine predictions as if they are fact.

Par for the course from someone whose wallet size is correlated with the performance of the PC market.

Comment Re:30 inch HP LP3605 here @ 2560x1600 (Score 1) 952

by Rockoon (#31961876) Attached to: HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market

Yes, again this is how it should be. There's a couple scenarios here. First, what are you expected to do if your monitor incorrectly reports it's dpi, or fails to report it at all?

Look in the small database of physical display dimensions indexed by PnP ID, allow user to input their own values if they want to, and off you go.

Seriously. You are making a big problem of this, when it isnt a big problem at all. Windows XP had no clue what my LCD monitor was, but Windows 7 knows exactly what it is, because its in its small database of PnP ID's, which even includes its native resolution.

Secondly, if you *are* using it as a "global scaling factor" people with bad eyesight (or people that simply want larger-yet-crisp imagery) can be accommodated while still displaying at the native resolution.

umm... hello? DPI and scaling are not the same thing. DPI stands for DOTS PER INCH.

So here the user is, with his "DPI" set to some random value X because some random developers application Y (which he frequently uses) looks good at that resolution..

..but that developer is actually an idiot that likes over-sized buttons and text, but only in his own applications..

..so this users DPI setting is influenced by a developer that isnt actually playing a rational game..

So what does "DPI AWARE" mean in the windows world right now? It means the programmer demands that the OS render verbatim exactly what he wants.. pixel perfect.. and in most cases, it is used because the program is actually intentionally oblivious of the DPI setting.. because if they use that damn value, then they are letting some other random developer effect the users experience with their program.

Comment Fight fire with fire. (Score 2, Interesting) 1224

by budfields (#31947862) Attached to: <em>South Park</em>'s Episode 201 &mdash; the Expurgated Version

I don't think the losers at "revolutionmuslim.com" have thought this through. Do they realize who they are messing with? They are messing with millions of geeks. If one hair on the head of Trey or Matt were touched after these powerless mockworthy little boys incited violence against them, their lives would be a husk.

It would be like those nature shows where tens of thousands of ants swarm over a hapless creature, take it apart and cart its lifeless body away.

I say, put up their personal info, just as they did to Trey and Matt. Put up their home address. Their business address. All their website info. Their relatives. Their license plates. Photos. The names of their friends. Their cell phone logs. Then, inform them that they will immediately commence to STFU, now, or their existence will become a hell the likes of which their holy book never informed them.

They need to feel just how outnumbered they are.
Games

Submission + - Valve's Steam Client For Mac Shows Linux Signs (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Not only is Valve bringing Steam and their games to Mac OS X (as announced last month), but evidently they will be doing the same for Linux. While the Mac OS X client is in closed testing right now, Phoronix has received a script used to launch Steam on Mac OS X and it shows signs of Linux support. Is the year of the Linux gaming desktop finally approaching?

Submission + - Dump duplicate data, save money on disks (channelinsider.com)

Submitted by hightechchick
hightechchick writes: Something like 30 percent of the data you've got stored on your systems is duplicated data. Another version of that digital photo, a duplicate copy of all the mail in your inbox. Pretty soon you've got to buy more disks.That's why storage is sprawling and why data deduplication technology, which removes the duplicate copies, is such a hot commodity. They say "simplify" is the message these days. Here's a list of some of the guys who can help do that with your data
http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Storage/Whos-Who-in-Storage-Data-Deduplication-438002/

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