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Comment Re:Improving battery life would be a better strate (Score 0) 271

A phone battery just has to last long enough to make it through a whole day of normal use, anything more would best be used to increase functionality or ease of use.

Most everyone will charge their battery overnight, resulting in a fresh start for a whole new day's worth of entertainment and productivity.

Comment Re:Frequently replaced. (Score 4, Informative) 306

It may be different where you live, but here in the United States we sign two year contracts that come with subsidized phones. That means that the majority of churn on handsets is rated at two years per device.

Two years is a long time. I would not want to be stuck on Android 1.5 for two years when a fairly simple upgrade to 2.1 would unlock a huge new increase in functionality of my existing hardware such as turn by turn navigation and Google Goggles.

I much prefer the European model of unlocked phones, but changing the industry is a whole other topic in itself. I am hoping Google has the ability to change that, but we will see.

Comment Re:Battlefield Heroes.. (Score 1) 162

Uhh... just so you know: Dragon Age's lead SKU was the PC version.

The graphics are better on PC, the controls are better on PC, and the online elements integrate nicely on the PC.

"With the lead SKU (the PC version) of Dragon Age: Origins in its polish stage"

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dragon-Age-Man-Explains-Disney-Move-110223.shtml

Comment Re:Password Sync also please (Score 1) 383

Keep in mind that Xmarks already does this as well as Opera Link.

Xmarks encrypts the passwords using a key only you know and they presumably use a pretty good form of encryption.

Your argument is basically that nothing is secure so don't even try it. With that attitude pretty much nothing in tech would ever be done. Most banks don't even let you store the password. I know Bank of America doesn't since I have to type it in each time. For the rest of the forums and websites I visit it is nice to have it stored and ready to be used as it saves me time. It is my choice to store my passwords and run the risk of them being broken. You can continue typing in everything by hand.

Comment Password Sync also please (Score 2, Interesting) 383

The biggest feature keeping me on Firefox right now is bookmark and password syncing. Xmarks does the job beautifully.

I love the fact that native bookmark syncing will be coming to Chrome, but nobody has mentioned password syncing. This is arguable just as important as bookmark sync and should be possible to release alongside bookmarks in this next release.

I wish they would mention it at least just to know that they are working on it. At the very least I can fallback on the Xmarks version for Chrome that will be available for Chrome 4, but I would much prefer a native solution.

Comment Re:okay, so you guys don't like Drupal's security. (Score 5, Insightful) 219

Actually most people have been praising Drupal for its excellent security. You aren't going to find a CMS with a much better track record than Drupal.

What they were mainly saying is that Drupal is extremely popular with lots of people looking to exploit it, so it might theoretically be a high risk. A less well known CMS would not have many people looking (well, that would definitely change overnight if whitehouse.gov chose it :) and is therfore a lower risk, but also has tons of exploits not found yet.

Stick with Drupal if you want a tested, secure, and reliable CMS.

Comment Re:Dropbox (Score 1) 421

Only the first few gigs of space are free and then you can purchase plans. 2 gigs is not enough for major space junkies like me (I use it for sync and backup so it needs to securely backup all of my pictures and music so that's at least 60 gigs.) so we eventually use the paid plans.

The free space lets you try it and see how you can't live without it and then you order the $10 a month 50GB plan or the $20 month 100GB plan.

Comment Re:I've always wondered (Score 1) 615

Not that many people use Adblock Plus to begin with.
Also, Adblock Plus users tend to be more computer literate and wouldn't click the ads anyway.

Even if Firefox gains a huge marketshare in the future, the number of users that also have Adblock Plus would still be a small percentage of the total.

It's just not worth it to them to spend resources attacking Adblock Plus.

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Submission + - TorrentSpy/ISOHunt to filter copyrighted content (zeropaid.com)

Jared writes: "It's a sad day for those in the US who use TorrentSpy or ISOHunt, two of the world's largest public trackers sites, to find movies, music, and more to download for it seems the party's nearing an end. TorrentSpy and ISOHunt plan to use a hash-based system called FileRights to automatically filter BitTorrent trackers that link to pirated content from its search results to help satisfy a suit brought against them by the MPAA for the illegal facilitation of copyrighted material. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8866/Bye+Bye+TorrentS py+and+ISOHunt+Both+Plan+to+Start+Filtering+Copyri ghted+Content"
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Submission + - Police Chief Wants Surveillance Cameras In Homes

An anonymous reader writes: "I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?" Chief Harold Hurtt told reporters Wednesday at a regular briefing.

Full story here.

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