* Posts by Doug Glass

1445 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Feb 2008

Third of XP security suites flunk tests

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So? What's Your Point?

Use one of the 2/3 that work well. Simple.

Seagate preloads FreeAgent Go with 20 Paramount movies

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Surprising Quality

A full length, 2 1/2 hour, movie ripped at the proper resolution for say a Palm Pre has surprising quality. With a good set of ear buds the audio can be very good. In MP4 format expect a file size of about 550MB.

Fanboi's delight - the top ten free iPad apps

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Oh Yeah ....

... this is some good stuff. But so are dog turds to tumble bugs.

Adobe man to Apple: 'Go screw yourself'

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So? What's Your Point?

BFD

Opera alerts EU to hidden Windows browser-ballot

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Bull Sheet !!

RE: " .....Opera’s example, where a Windows XP user has rejected installation of IE 8 for the year it has been available but suddenly decides to install it is not realistic.”

I did exactly this five on machines right in my humble abode. Seems I had been completely ignoring IE in favor of FF. Then one day on the MS Update site I decide to h3ll with it and allow the update to IE8 for no particular reason. And I did it on our three desktops and two netbooks.

What the frakk makes Microsoft believe people do only their version of what's reasonable? Morons, just morons.

Cost cutting - from desktop to toilet

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So? What's Your Point?

If you're going to take their money, do the work they give you. Can't hack it? Leave.

Hidden Windows 7 costs worry upgraders

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After All ...

... you're just an "automobile mechanic" who fixes stuff we consumers buy for our pleasure. That's why you get calls only when you're actually needed. And that's as it should be, we pay; you fix. Ta Da!!

Microsoft slapped with $106m patent kipper

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Oh Yeah,

a whole pageful of lawyers here who fully understand laws and their application. I can sleep soundly knowing eleven posters have the patent laws all under control ... conceptually of course.

China warns Google over uncensored search threat

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The China Way

Do a search, Google works just fine, on the phrase china executes and read a few of the hits. China has a habit of KILLING people who violate their laws. Laws that in other parts of the world would garner a light sentence or fine if any punishment at all.

Keep it up Google and pretty soon you'll likely seal your own fate in a not too pleasant manner. I assume China's Google employees "in-country" are loyal. But to lose your life or freedom over something so meaningless as an internet search engine dispute is, well Darwinian in it's reward. But then, maybe the gene pool needs to be cleansed of these morons.

It's their country folks and you'd better recognize and respect who you're dealing with. Western high minded ideas and ideologies are not going to work with China. Remember, this is the country that to this day KILLS female babies. And there is NO punishment for that. Think that's just a web rumor? Think again. Or better yet, get your doubting a$$ over there and live for a while and see first hand.

NASA flying car engineer shoots down Reg coverage

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Goliath ....

.... picking on the buzzard. You tell 'em dude, nothing like burning the arrogant, self indulgent, cretins to the ground with the facts.

IEEE names 28-year-old woman its new 'Face of Engineering'

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True, Sooooo True

One hit in several hundred thousand does indeed establish a trend and make a significant event. Yeah right, and one "Oh sh*t !" no longer wipes out a thousand "Atta boys" either.

Hollywood lawyers have another go at Aussie ISP

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"collapse the American media"

Somehow, that has such a nice ring to it.

ODF's doomed mission to break into Microsoft Office

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So? What's Your Point?

So Microsoft offers what it has as choices, and in doing so reiterates that ODF is not going to be their preferred pick. Microsoft has made it very clear ODF will not be getting their full attention and support.

Looks to me the ODF pushers are just rankled at Microsoft's position on ODF and will take every opportunity to attack them on it. And they don't like the wording or its position in the panel. And here I was thinking the open source fanatics were intelligent enough to read and decide regardless of where something was placed on a screen. I guess they better hope the toilet paper roll is within their definition of easy reach at the next public place huh?

Paris because even Paris understands what's easy.

US school comes out fighting over webcam spy claim

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Having Taught ...

... high school for a number of years in the U.S. of A. during the early '70s, I came to two conclusions: 1.) the job itself was a dead-end with no future, no benefits and no support and 2.) the entire school system was populated by the lowest of the low in terms of ability, competency and general teacher and administrator qualifications. Since then I have had my beliefs confirmed time and time again.

Oh yeah, "We were doing wrong, but we stopped anyway". Morons and miscreants teaching our kids and we wonder why they turn out the way they do.

Rootkit blamed for Blue Screen patch update snafu

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Damn I'm Lucky !

Ten machines (seven desk types; three netbooks) and no problems. Wish I knew what the frakk I did right. Or wrong as it were since so many far more intelligent and capable that me are having so many issues. I learned in corporate America we have no "problems" just "issues" and "opportunities".

Google backpedals (again) on Buzz privacy

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Skxawng

After what Google's head moron said about privacy, I no longer use anything Google. Like salt, I found I really just don't need it and life is still good.

Windows 7 'genuine' nagware winging its way to OS

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Seven Valid Licenses

Although I have seven genuine XP licenses installed and running on seven different machines, I've hidden (on the MS update site) and refused to install any update whose name contains the word "notification". I've done that ever since the first one came out.

Yeah, each new iteration of WGAN means I have to re-hide it but so what? I wash my crank every day and that's never been much of a bother. I fail to see why a little of consistent discipline with regards to this is a problem for anybody. Just do it. If for no other reason do it to buck Microsoft and be done with it.

MS update gives some XP boxes the Blue Screen

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One More Reason ...

...to be responsible and run some AV with regularity and consistency. Not to mention actually understanding your computer even just a bit. Computers are like babies, you have to feed them the right stuff and wipe their smelly behinds periodically.

The way I see it those that got the problem asked for it. Enjoy!!

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Then Why The Attitude?

If you're so happy with what you have, why write as if you're pi$$ed off? Methinks you feel a mite put upon. Which makes no sense since you are obviously divorced from the MS world.

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Of Course ...

... if you can get to the Control Panel you're likely having no problems. Oh silly me!

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Why Not Just ....

...uninstall it via the Control Panel's "Add or Remove Programs"? Add a dheck to show updates and it's listed under Windows XP with a "Remove" button.

Opera plays chicken with Apple iPhone police

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Bizarre My Obama !!

What government would ever see fit to get involved in a college sports dispute ? Why the U.S. government of course. They've decided to get involved in the college football national championship effort (the BCS) so nothing is too small, or whatever, for O-Bama (get it? ... Bama?) to take control of.

Rest assured, the government of the good old U.S. of A. is ready, willing and able to jump into Apple's crap. And it matters not how small or private the situation may be ... control is control.

Google doppelgänger casts riddle over interwebs

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Intended Name

"Google" intended their name be "Googol" (the name for an extremely large number) but because of a very juvenile, marginally educated individual misunderstanding the intended name, it was misspelled yielding G-O-O-G-L-E. Sooooo...... in some places they retained the original intended name.

Don't you gurus know this?

Avatar attracts nine Oscar nods

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The Real Winner is ...

... Poul Anderson with his 1957 story, "Call Me Joe" which happens to be the source of the whole idea. Too bad Cameron chose to lie and let people think he actually originated it.

Apple iPad spanked with Defective by Design protest

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Another Toy ...

... for those with no life.

BFD

Google Toolbar caught tracking users when 'disabled'

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One For The Children

If it offends you, uninstall it. If you don't want to uninstall it; live with it. If you just can't bring yourself to uninstall it or live with it; grow up.

Google banned 30,000 advertisers post Economic Resurrection

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Just a Business Decision ...

... designed to increase revenues. Nothing personal you see, just business as usual.

IE zero-day used in Chinese cyber assault on 34 firms

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Prelude To Termination

Sterilization.

Microsoft predicts Linux will fail mobile 'quality' test

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Lest We Forget

They also predicted/expected Vista to save their sorry a$$es too.

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I Think It's More Like ...

... banging their head since the bar is so much higher than their capabilities.

Roll up, roll up for the great Reg survey

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Oh Really?

RE: "The entire thing is entirely anonymous ... "

So you guys really believe anonymity on the web actually exists? I'll be damned!!

Google may exit China after 'highly targeted' attack

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Equivalents

"Don't Do Evil" is the same as "See No Evil" to Google. Once again, as long as there's money to be made, corporations like Google will all too often see no evil. Or maybe in G's case just not see some of the evil and let a little of it pass in order to line the boss's pockets.

And oh yeah, if you need privacy, maybe you just shouldn't be doing whatever it is you're doing. Google is Guilty.

Zuckerberg: 'I am a prophet'

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And How Many of You ...

... that have posted such damning and contemptuous comments here have a Facebook account?

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Nope, 'Fraid Not

You make a profit ONLY when revenue exceeds expenses. Cash flow is simply money flowing through the enterprise and is NOT the same as profit. A business can generate outrageous cash flow by borrowing a huge amount of money and then spend 100% of the loan. But if you don't eventually get to the point where you can pay all your bills and still have money in your pocket, you FAIL most miserably. Facebook is still failing financially. The only reason it still exists is because it is BELIEVED by investors to be a "good" risk. If the current "Buy" recommendation evaporates and becomes a recommendation to "Sell", Facebook will be gone. Or at least re-organized in hopes of emerging successfully from bankruptcy. That sound familiar to you???

Google suggests Islam is nothing

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Their Next Venture

Google is on the fast track to develop a better airport scanner. And they will do no harm while protecting your private parts ...errr ... privacy.

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The Squeeky Wheel ...

...gets the grease. And in the case of today's media generates the most revenue.

Mozilla tries to silence add-on developers' scream

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Let Me Get This Right

The independent developers want to use Mozilla's bat, ball, glove, bases and complete stadium and then make up their own set of rules. Never happen; get use to it guys the landscape has just changed.

Serious IE and Windows flaws left to fester

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You're The Tail ...

... trying to wag the dog folks. Live with it or move to another platform. Oh I forget. The usual carping then you just live with it. Some people's children .......

US employers slash 85,000 jobs in December

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Temps ARE the Trend

Watch closely, the day of the permanent [worker bee] employee has passed. World wide, the new employment logic is now temporary employees with no benefits supplied by the company. Think this isn't correct??? Just watch and see what the corporations and smaller businesses have learned. It'll take most of this year, but it's here now and it's for real.

Google to mobile industry: ‘F*ck you very much!’

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Autistic

"Autism is a disorder of neural development that is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior."

If that doesn't sound like Google then I guess I'm one of the deluded.

Look it up dude. Besides that, the author clearly states this is a quote from another individual. Wow, talk about shooting the messenger.

Hacker pierces hardware firewalls with web page

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DI-704P

Doesn't work on my ancient and obsolete D-Link DI-704P. I Guess reading the instructions and understanding how it works was worth the effort huh?

It's official: Blogging is a dangerous business

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Our Fault

For those of us in "free" countries, we elected the people making this happen. We need to un-elect them at every opportunity. If we don't, then I propose we just shut the frakk up and live with our choices.

Google uncloaks the Nexus One

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Ho Hum

Another unnecessary gadget. But it is at the top of my list of the best things not to buy.

Hacker pilfers browser GPS location via router attack

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Holy Yellow Pages Batman

I'm in the phone book too!! Just Damn!

Microsoft undercuts planned Office 2010 retail price

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Sat IT Ain't So

For those of us who like what we have, personal local price is effectively 0.00 in any units I choose.

Masses marvel at 'Most Useless Machine'

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Some People's Children

This has been around since at least the 1950s. It and Alfred E. Newman.

Microsoft tosses Windows, Office discounts at XP holdouts

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What I'm Talking About

I got Enterprise Professional versions of Office 2003, Office 2007, Office XP and Office for MAC through my former employer for $19.95 eaxh (USD of course).

XP Home Full and XP Pro upgrade for some similar discount ... can't remember exactly.

Those are real discounts. All other offerings are simply bull hockey.

Sex in the Noughties: How was it for you?

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England Swings

And here I was thinking the Mother Country was all about civility, justice and respect for the commoners rights. We got nothing on you guys when it comes to oppressive laws and Big Brother. After all, George Orwell was an English author and journalist

Good old GB has replaced USSR for me when it comes to freedoms and naming a country we could be living in to be worse off.

Oregon profs plan giant robotic space cockroach warriors

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Generation 1 AI Bolo

http://www.iislands.com/hermit/pictures/bolo/BOLO1_.JPG

FCC rescues American football fans

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Fox Charlie Charlie

Yeah, the FCC drones have no lives either so they have to have their TV sports. Most sporty people I know first get angry then panic then revert to the fetal position.

Some of us actually have lives with three dimensional characters who live and breathe and love to go outside the home to actually do something. As opposed to living life vicariously through overpaid and overgrown little boys. Of course some of those little boys get their jaw cracked by some sort of club and it was kinda fun to watch that soap opera.

I'm glad members of my family have real lives. I'm not worried if the afterlife has TV sports, but I know some who are. Or is it h3ll that has no TV? Whatever.