Comment Re:It's also evidence... (Score 1) 625
"That you are old."
I prefer to see it as a sign of intelligence.
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"A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual", find out how he feels about astrology." Robert Heinlein.
"That you are old."
I prefer to see it as a sign of intelligence.
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"A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual", find out how he feels about astrology." Robert Heinlein.
"And apparently neither did any desktop Linux systems."
There are desktop Linux systems?
(ducks)
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So to boil it down, you object to someone having to download the 'advanced' version of the configuration utility in order to make 'advanced' changes to the configuration.
I wish the IPv6 problems of the world were all so simple.
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"advanced extra feature"
Nice straw man. Nobody used those words except for you.
The Airport Extreme base station supports IPv6 (and DNS) out of the box*. As much as you might like to pretend otherwise, *configuring* such things *is* an advanced task for 99% of the users out there. People need elevators, not airplanes.
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* maybe not always configured the way you would like, but it's there. OS X and Apple devices (Airport, Apple TV, etc.) talk to each other via IPv6 by default.
Apple didn't back off on anything. The version of Airport Utility discussed is the pretty, dumbed-down version of the application intended for folks who just barely understand what a router is about. It matches the similar version deployed on iOS.
The "previous version" isn't. The feature-complete 5.6 was released at the same time as the simple version, and has the same support for IPv6 as it ever did.
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"And while we're at it, would DuckDuckGo's "small following on Slashdot" please enter and sign in with a few posts?"
I use DuckDuckGo, either directly or with hacks that translate the web browsers default Google search into a DDG query.
My outbound proxy drops all connections to "http://*google*" on the floor.
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"For example, Angry Birds makes more money from Android than iOS"
If you actually read that article, you'll discover that the headline is incorrect. The article states "In a few months, the 5 million downloads could prove more valuable than 5 million sales".
"Could" is not a done deal.
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"That is the kind of reception that Apple wishes the iPad 3 would get (although it probably won't.)"
The delusional noise that comes out of certain dark corners of the universe never ceases to amaze me.
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"I thought I was a genius for doubling my money."
Sigh. Me too. Instead I have a PowerMac that effectively cost me a quarter of a million dollars.
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Anyone who has seen "Morte a Venezia" (1971) already knows about the ability of climate to spread disease.
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"I think we can safely assume any closed operating system is backdoored."
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Yes, I apologize for being redundant.
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Both PGP and S/MIME are end-to-end encrypted. Not very useful for webmail users.
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Slashdotters who know enough to have encrypted such things simply don't send that sort of thing in email.
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"NewEgg (and to some degree mWave) is the cheapest place to order all the computer parts you need to build your rig. Good selection, fast service, but what makes NewEgg stand out from all the others is 2 things..."
What makes NewEgg stand out for me is that the last time I went to buy something, the price of the item *in my shopping cart* went up $10 in the length of time it took to type in my credit card. I don't shop there anymore.
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"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker
