Comment wat? (Score 1) 238
like wet stuff?
Comment Re:Hell hath no fury like a passive agressive IT g (Score 1) 88
affects a coy smile
Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 3, Insightful) 105
Again with this? There is no theory stage. 'Theory' is not a precursor to absolute knowledge. If you think gravity is just a theory I invite you to test it via the nearest window.
Comment Re:WoW news? (Score 1) 305
Don't make a joke on facebook in the UK about it, you might get arrested.
I find your comment grossly offensive! It is causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety! Take yourself off down the nick, there's a good chap.
Comment anonymous coward? (Score 1) 612
What's your /. handle?
Comment Re:mass for a mass-giving particle (Score 1) 170
Finally someone... thanks.
Comment Not free. (Score 1) 213
Is only for Windows.
Comment Not FREE as in not a beer and not a bird. (Score 1) 259
Free is just the $0.00 price tag. It isn't a charity. fb farms your contacts, sells your privacy, pwns your identity. Surely that is payment enough. fbookers give it away far too cheaply if you ask me. Then there are the terms and conditions - a contract - if you will. "We the undersigned, one soul all eternity etc. etc."
fb set the terms - did they breach their own terms? If so - stupid fb, clever Albanian.
Comment Viral (Score 1) 465
All our windows servers lose on average 15% to McAfee.
Submission + - Google Tells Congress It Disclosed WiFi Sniffing
theodp writes: While conceding 'it is clear there should have been greater transparency about the collection of this [WiFi] data,' Google asserted 'we have provided public descriptions of our location-based services' in their written response to Congress (pdf) about whether the public had been adequately informed of its data collection efforts. To prove their point, Google's how-many-times-do-we-have-to-tell-you answer included a link to a blog entry on My Location on the desktop, an odd choice considering that Google is still less-than-clear about exactly what's being captured by the service ('When My Location is active, Toolbar will automatically send local network information (including, but not limited to, visible WiFi access points)'). Congress may want to check out another as-yet unpublished Google patent filing — the 'inventors' include a Google Latitude Product Manager — that discusses the use of a 'mobile device data collection module' to 'collect data on a set of mobile devices which are using [a] wireless base station', including GPS location information, time information, and 'application specific data, such as, map requests, etc.' And while Google didn't link to it, Congress might also want to evaluate the transparency of this cute Google video, which assured the public of Street View's privacy safeguards, but gave no hint of the controversial WiFi collection.
Comment Re:Sounds impossible (Score 1) 175
Using light to take pictures of light in motion?
This is either a hoax, or the the article is skipping some really important part.
Submission + - Vista users hit with 'Purple Screen Of Death' 1
Stony Stevenson writes: While most users of Microsoft Windows-based PCs have seen their systems lockup and display the dreaded 'blue screen of death,' a new, lavender-hued variant of the problem has emerged. The so-called "purple screen of death" occurs when there's a conflict between certain system drivers and Windows Vista's Desktop Window Manager, according to researchers at NeoSmart — a nonprofit technology tracking firm that first spotted the issue. When the glitch occurs, windows on the Vista desktop turn purple and become unresponsive, according to NeoSmart. "It's caused by a low-level problem in the kernel, and it does make you want to restart your PC," NeoSmart researchers said in a blog post on the subject. NeoSmart concedes that the problem is rare, and that most Vista users probably haven't encountered it. "It's something to do with the way the Windows Vista kernel handles a certain exception in the graphics driver subsystem."
