Comment Re:Everything would be on the same day every year. (Score 1) 725
Ah, sorry, the new commenting system still confuses me after years, I didn't see the parent to your comment, only the grandparent.
Comment Re:Everything would be on the same day every year. (Score 1) 725
Have you even read TFA? This proposes changing to a 364 day calendar with a leap week.
Comment Re:Just wait ... (Score 1) 198
The EU regs are your friend. You take as standard than an iPhone has to be jailbroken to be useful. The SIM card is the essence of your account, having it removable separates the two so you can change them, swap with friends, move abroad and keep your phone, temporarily use them for a data device, etc.
Comment Re:Nooo, don't do this! (Score 1) 198
Absolutely. My first phone took a mini-SIM but there's a full-SIM handset at my house. I remember them well, and when I got my first mini-SIM I thought how clever it was that they were backwards compatible.
You know, IPv6 has been a standard for ages and it's got low adoption. Why? Because the people that could choose to do it are lazy, however they're more likely to do a simple change like this as it doesn't block backwards compat.
Submission + - Could a Twitter community create a real museum? (computinghistory.org.uk)
Anonymous Coward writes: "An "Open Letter to the Twitterverse" has been sent to Twitter followers of @computermuseum to help raise £1.5m to create a computing history museum in Cambridge."
Comment Waste of money (Score 2, Funny) 301
A subscription that nobody needs? Oh, the irony.
Submission + - BDFL considered (potentially) harmful (stevemcmahon.com)
redalien writes: "Steve McMahon of the Plone project discusses what the appropriate role of a BDFL is in a mature open source project and the importance of a not-for-profit foundation to limit the BDFL's powers:
"Many open-source software projects have a BDFL, typically one of the project founders. In a healthy project, that authority is nearly exclusively moral authority. There is little or no real legal or contractual authority resting with the title holder. Moral authority is important. It allows the BDFL to resolve disputes, and a healthy project needs one or more persons with that kind of authority. What’s vital is that the authority can be challenged, and, if not exercised on behalf of the community, lost. The fact that moral authority can be lost is the best insurance it will be well-used.
Comment In my best emo voice: (Score 1) 421
Leave Perelmen alone!
Comment Re:Windows Mobile (Score 1) 365
You can actually do 99% of the code of an app for Android in C/C++ also. Because the Launcher application/framework is Java, your point of entry needs to be a Java application, but that is the extent of the requirement.
Comment umm.. (Score 1) 370
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Comment Re:Dumb Government Abuse of Power (Score 1) 819
You might want to look into allodial title then.
Comment Re:Free Speech (Score 1) 187
Your argument is like saying that because the Federal Government built the roads and highways upon which I drive my car, anyone in the country should be allowed to use my car any time they want. And that is completely absurd.
Yes, it is absurd, as strawman arguments tend to be.
It would be more like my saying that anyone benefiting from the highway system ought to revere free speech and the other principles upheld by that sponsoring government.
The reason the analogy is most clumsy, though, is that the highway system isn't exactly a communications mechanism.
It would more like your running a phone server and having a say over what exact words are used by the people conversing on it.
I'm not arguing against your property rights. If you want to bar people's access to your property, you have that power. You should not, however, feel empowered to audit their very words. Those do not belong to you, and they are manifest as a feature of opening the site to the outside world.
God gives us all rights, and we still have all of those not specifically restricted by democratic process. You, for example, have the right to enjoy sex with your adult sister. Having the right, however, doesn't make it a morally correct choice automatically.
Microsoft Says, Don't Press the F1 Key In XP 324
Ian Lamont writes "Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning users not to press the F1 key in Windows XP, owing to an unpatched bug in VBScript discovered by Polish researcher Maurycy Prodeus. The security advisory says that the vulnerability relates to the way VBScript interacts with Windows Help files when using Internet Explorer, and could be triggered by a user pressing the F1 key after visiting a malicious Web site using a specially crafted dialog box."
Comment I don't have hangovers EVER. (Score 1) 334
It’s a simple solution, that some of my friends also do: The evening before going out, we eat a piece of good quality red meat. A filet steak preferably. That’s it. No hangover. No headache. Nothing.
We’re doing this for years.
Detecting Anonymously Registered Domains 97
Spamresource.com has up a piece describing a new service that could be useful in evaluating the reputation of sites you deal with — anonwhois.org returns information on domains registered anonymously. It provides a DNSBL-style service that "is not a blacklist and wasn't meant to be used for outright rejection of mail." Only 619,000 domains are listed so far, but more are added as they are queried, so the database will grow more complete. Anonwhois.org seems to be a sister site to Spam Eating Monkey.
