best guess is this socalled permant modification is changes to the filesystem nothing more, which for normal users would amount to the same, if their windows platform cant see the card anymore, inserting such a card would not be shown by windows except for people entering the computer management/ disk management and repartiton/format it again.

one has to wonder this days if they even try to fixer their products. Given the rate this problems show up, it maybe they should start to think about starting from scratch with a bloatless reader. Wishful thinking I know, they have gotten everyone to use the bloat in one way or another :(

unless oracle steps up and do provide java for future osX systems, it will be apple that is lossing out. An operating system without java will be unable to provide homebanking for a lot of users, hard to imagine consumers giving up on that. Having to use a virtual machine just to run an operating system, which has java support, will be a hard sell, especial with the "just works" motto of osx.

we have excatly that system here, with 1year backlog of what sites people have visited,whom you have emails, phoned, etc. But atleast our politicians are begining to question if this is needed, and have talked openly about removing it. that comes after a simular law in germany was found to be illigal accoding to their constitution, and they where forced to scrap it, afterwards there was alot of discustion about if it was even needed. A study showed data collected with was only used in 0.0005% procent of criminal cases in germany, they still have the option to log data, but now they need prof and can only activate per person and not for the whole population. Lets hope UK looks at germany and act accordingly.

too bad the banks did set off a economical based nuke that didnt miss :(

stock markets has never been anything but a glorified Ponzi scheme, not based on the actual value, skilled works or goods of the companies involved. The more they try to fix they little scheme with rules, the more it should be obvious to even the most diehard liberalist.

those tinyurl makes archives mailing lists hell also, have anyone seen or code a tool automatic lookup the real url and replace the tinyurl for archival purposes ?

Lightspark is using a Jit(just in time) compiler framework that as it stands right now is x86 only, there will go a long time before this project can help those that adobe doesnt support with their flash player. Those using Powerpc, arm are still without any working flash implementation, can only hope it will support those at a later stage, but I am rather pesemistic.

Nilfs will have those things, but you`ll have to wait till its production ready.

Seems like they have been reading Cory Doctorow`s little brother and got loads of great ideas from it.

Guess we`ll see that topic pop here in the next week then.