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Comment Re:Simple Answer (Score 1) 673

Use different browsers for different purposes.

For example, use Google Chrome for your porn browsing, and then Firefox for your legit browsing.

In other words... Don't cross the streams!!

or better: run the same browser as different usernames. Then your normal account can't even access the data from the porn-browsing account. (especially when desktop-search or spotlight will happily index bookmarks from every browser installed)

Comment Re:Umm .... (Score 1) 673

They'd still have to type them in, and then when you start typing "bigblackcollanders.com", the wrong URL might come up in the suggestions...

Really the solution is a Chrome-like incognito mode, which I thought the new FF had, but i dunno.
-Taylor

It does: "Tools -> Start Private Browsing" (cmd-shift-P) (new in v3.5)

Comment Re:MvP (Score 1) 231

If you were trying to sue someone for violating your patent, where would you rather do it: A jurisdiction very friendly to patents, or one that is hostile to patents?

one that's where your office is, of course!

why are you allowed to pick remote locations to have a trial anyway? Isn't that like me suing you for publishing an atheist text in canada, and deciding that we should hold the trial under Iranian laws?

Comment Re:Dell UK. () (Score 1) 324

I suppose ... if I'd wanted to phone them up, and if I'd been willing to spend the time arguing, I could probably have got my preloaded Ubuntu system.
Instead, I thought "sod it" and order an Acer instead.

I do wonder if Dell are aware of they shenanigans going on at their UK subsidiary sometimes. Operating system evangelism is all very well, but this is costing them sales, you know?

That's pretty much how I remember Dell. All I wanted was a decent PC but with KDE and not Windows. Ubuntu wasn't available at all for 'business' machines (i.e. not pink laptops), and if I wanted RedHat I could phone them up and ask for a quote (i.e. no special offers). No thanks, I'll go for a company with linux PCs on their front page.

They must know how to preinstall different OS easily, since every Dell PC has a big long list of Windows options.

Comment the push (Score 1) 374

"The software giant has been pushing IE6 and IE7 users to move to IE8 ever since it arrived in March 2009"

Pushing is an understatement. Last time I checked, it was a critical security error (red warning icon on the taskbar) to have not installed their browser.

Comment Re:Stupid prices (Score 2, Interesting) 827

Did you happen to know that Pharma spends more for advertising in the US than R&D?

How about we get like almost every other country in the world, and ban prescription drug advertising, that would cut down on their costs dramatically, and make drugs cheaper for everyone.

wasn't there a good groklaw article on the subject just today?

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090809231252693

Comment Re:Not a Bug (Score 1) 225

I've worked as an elections inspector (poll worker) in the state of New York for the last five years. Every aspect of the machine (both the old style lever machines and the new optical scanning machines) that could be tampered with is sealed with numbered tamper evident devices. If the numbers on the seals don't match up with the records retained by the Board of Elections then you know the machine has been tampered with. This isn't rocket science people.

and then what happens? do you count its votes (knowing they might be faked) or not (somoene can remove your vote by cutting the seal)

Comment Re:Both GM and Chrysler were handle poorly (Score -1, Offtopic) 336

Please learn the differences among "their" and "there" and "they're" before you decide you're going to tell us a thing or two. It's your native fucking language so quit being so silly.

she wrote something informative but misspelled (while clearly understandable). You however are a waste of bandwidth. Journalists who can clearly trace and describe the theft of hundreds of billions of dollars are more important than reviewers who can spellcheck.

Comment Re:'profit' can mean different things (Score 1) 248

This should be taken with a bit of skepticism. There's a difference between positive cash flow (more cash coming in than going out), positive net income (what most people think of as 'profit') and positive EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, or profit from operations). TFA doesn't mention which Tesla is reporting.

It's not "positive cash flow while being given $465 million" then?

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