Comment It's a question of policy (Score 2, Insightful) 330
Frisco's policy in this case is: "Punish what you can't understand".
Comment Re:Business as usual (Score -1, Redundant) 149
You mean like the "-private" command line switch in IE (http://www.windowsvalley.com/internet-explorer-8-useful-command-line-arguments/)? Looks the same to me...
Comment Business as usual (Score 2, Insightful) 149
Microsoft built its browser so that users must deliberately turn on privacy settings every time they start up the software.
And how exactly is this different than what Chrome or Firefox does? Last time I checked, you had to actively enable the privacy feature for each session in all browsers...
Comment Re:Inadvertent Or Not ... (Score 1) 267
Well, I live in Europe, so I don't have a States Vehicle Code. Not yet, anyway, but for now traffic law mostly remains in the hands of each member state.
So, if you'd like to visit someday and dive around a little, please keep in mnd that hitting a pedestrian always results in full responsibility on your part, even if said pedestrian is drunk out of his mind and throws himself on your vehicle. We have that thing in our Code that says "the driver MUST remain in control of his vehicle AT ALL TIMES", and they really mean it.
That may sound stupid, but it's not, actually. We also have 30 km/h (<20 mph) speed limits around most residential areas. That helps a lot.
Comment Re:Inadvertent Or Not ... (Score 1) 267
Not where I live. Here, the old lady may be walking, jaywalking, dancing, tumbling or crawling, be it inside or outside of crossing sections, if you hit her, you're fully responsible.
Makes sense, actually. What about young children? Is it also their responsibility to yield where you live?
Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 267
Of course they did. And I did not kill this man, I just failed to keep him alive.
WordPress 3.0 Released 79
An anonymous reader writes "WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download and comes with 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements. Major new features in this release include a new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them easily to implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies."
Comment Re:News for nerds. (Score 0, Offtopic) 763
Timothy.
Comment Parse error in footer template (Score 1) 5
<FooterTemplate>
</table>
</FooterTemplate>
Maybe that's confusing the browser.
Microsoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Batteries 272
VindictivePantz sends word that the Windows 7 team has posted a new blog entry discussing their conclusions about the reported Windows 7 battery failures. "To the very best of the collective ecosystem knowledge, Windows 7 is correctly warning batteries that are in fact failing and Windows 7 is neither incorrectly reporting on battery status nor in any way whatsoever causing batteries to reach this state. In every case we have been able to identify the battery being reported on was in fact in need of recommended replacement. ...every single indication we have regarding the reports we've seen are simply Windows 7 reporting the state of the battery using this new feature and we're simply seeing batteries that are not performing above the designated threshold. ... We are as certain as we can be that we have addressed the root cause and concerns of this report, but we will continue to monitor the situation."
Comment Re:Realtime typing? (Score 1) 336
$ which talk
which: no talk in (/usr/lib/colorgcc/bin:/usr/lib/ccache/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/usr/games/bin)
I guess a replacement was needed.
Comment Re:Fine print (Score 1) 277
Anybody know how to confine the mouse cursor movement to a window (ie like VirtualBox) in Ubuntu 9.04?
Xlib has XGrabPointer(). GTK+ has gdk_pointer_grab(). SDL has SDL_WM_GrabInput(). Don't know about QT.
Comment Fourth reason (Score 2, Insightful) 371
Fourth reason:
The BSA does not sue you for millions of dollars if you're infringing.
Submission + - Tested: Five Web browsers you've never heard of 1
An anonymous reader writes: Whether you consider Opera an underdog browser or not, it came out on top in a feature on CNet this weekend. It was up against "underdog Web browsers" Camino, K-Meleon, Shiira and Arora in a piece loosely aimed at determining whether these browsers are yet ready to steal significant numbers of users from Firefox, Safari, IE etc. Interesting most to me, however, is that it transpires that Shiira, the Mac browser from Japan, is one of the fastest browsers on the planet, beating the original Chrome v1.0, Firefox 3.5 and more in its benchmark tests.
Submission + - Microsoft Finally Joins HTML 5 Standard (cnet.com)
bonch writes: On Friday, Microsoft posted to a mailing list that IE developers are reviewing the HTML5 standard for future versions of Internet Explorer. Microsoft is dragging its feet, however, saying that they "have more questions than answers" and criticizing many of HTML5's new tags like HEADER, FOOTER, and ASIDE, calling them "arbitrary" or unnecessary. It remains to be seen whether Microsoft waited too long to try to influence basic parts of the spec that most of their competitors have already adopted.
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