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  1. Re:Euro by mrmeval · · Score: 1 · on Pirate Bay Buyer Sued For Bankruptcy

    I picked rupee because it was supposed to be pegged to the Bhutanese ngultrum. When I realized it was not equal /. refused to let me make a post correcting it.

    http://coinmill.com/BTN_calculator.html This is a cool converter and it's showing the rupee is closer to the Bhutanese ngultrum now.

  2. Re:Read about this yesterday by Raistlin77 · · Score: 1 · on SMS Hack Could Make iPhones Vulnerable

    So, 512 SMS messages (FTA for the exploit) * $0.20 = US$102.40, which I think is roughly 73GBP.

    62.10GBP according to coinmill.com

  3. Re:1 million dollars for reading this post! by mjwx · · Score: 1 · on What The Banned iPhone Ad Should Really Look Like

    *1 million imaginary dollars

    So I can rotate those dollars 90 degrees and they are real dollars?

    Maybe not, but I can offer 1 Million Dollars*

    *Zimbabwe dollars, US$17 required for postage and handling.

  4. Millionare eh? by the+computer+guy+nex · · Score: 2, Informative · on Meet Korea's Gaming Rockstars

    http://coinmill.com/KRW_USD.html#KRW=1000000

    Looks like a Millionare in Korea can barely afford a PS3.

  5. The Franc doesn't exist anymore? by nephridium · · Score: 1 · on $100 Laptop Repriced at $175

    I beg to differ. They may not be worth very much, but there are Congolese Francs, or Franc Congolais as we snobs like to call them. Due to the 9% inflation rate in Congo I'd go for the Djiboutian Franc though, it's pegged to the US dollar, which means that laptop will only cost 31100 Djiboutian Francs - a real bargain! :)

  6. typo ? by slashbart · · Score: 1 · on Tamil Nadu (India) Shutting the Door On Microsoft

    I think you made a typo:

    Try: http://coinmill.com/convert/INR_USD.html?amount=10 0000

    and you get 2251.73 USD

  7. Re:The alphabet according to google suggest by DeadSea · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Google Firefox Toolbar Out Of Beta

    It is also interesting to see the most popular web sites. Start by typing www. into google suggest. The top 10 are:

    1. www.yahoo.com - Search/Directory
    2. www.hotmail.com - Email
    3. www.google.com - Search
    4. www.ebay.com - Shopping
    5. www.msn.com - Portal
    6. www.aol.com - Portal
    7. www.ebay.co.uk - Shopping
    8. www.irs.gov - Government
    9. www.mapquest.com - Maps
    10. www.amazon.com - Shopping

    Typing one more letter shows you the top sites for that letter. Here is the top for each letter:

    This is some random commentary to make sure that my post has enough characters per line on average to get by the lameness filter. Just a few more words should do it. Then I will be over the limit. Maybe you would like to hear a bit about my projects: Attesoro - A internationalization editor for Java programs. Coinmill - A currency conversion website with many currencies, and features such as abilty to parse English sentences asking for currency conversion. Java Utilities - Utilities for common task in the Java programming language such as parsing CSV files and string manipulation.

  8. Security is a process! by DeadSea · · Score: 5, Insightful · on IE More Secure Than Mozilla?

    Security is a process not a state.

    A browser that has 5 reported vulnerabilities is not more secure than a browser that has 30. All it takes in one vulnerability to make your browser insecure

    Once any vulnerability is discovered, relative security depends upon is how many users are exposed, and for how long.

    Given that vulnerabilities have been found in both, security comparisons should compare the steps taken to reduce the window of vulnerability.

    • How quickly a patch is issued
    • How quickly are users notified
    • How easy it is to apply the patch or upgrade
    • What percentage of users actually apply the patch

    A simple comparison of the number of vulnerabilities does not give much indication about how long the average user was exposed. Nor does it give an indication of how many hackers are taking advantage of the vulnerability to give you a useful security indicator: "How likely is that any given user was hacked via the product".

    Currency calculator that accepts free form input such as "23 canadian dollars --> rupees"

  9. "Always trust code from Microsoft" by DeadSea · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Do You Code Sign?
    The best example of why code signing as it is currently implemented is broken is Windows Update. During the windows update process you are asked to accept signed code and you may "Always trust code from Microsoft". In the context of Windows update, that sounds perfectly legit to most users. They want to update their computers. They don't want to be bothered by the dialog again to do so in the future.

    By agreeing to always trust Microsoft you are agreeing to several things you may not realize:

    1. You are trusting all code by Microsoft, not just Windows update (obvious to most people)
    2. You are trusing Microsoft code that folks other that Microsoft give you to run.

    The second one is the kicker. If there is a bug in some signed code by microsoft that allows JavaScript to call it and write to any file, then anybody can give you that signed code and some JavaScript and take over your computer. This will be done without any further notification at all to you as the end user.

    You are trusting microsoft to:

    1. Write perfect code
    2. Envision every possible use of code they write

    Even if you believe that code can be bug free, there is no way anybody who write code really locks it down so it can't be used for anything other than what it was intended. There was a security vulnerability that took advantage of just this. I bug in some signed Microsoft code. I'm not sure how it was fixed.

    Currency conversion with understands "convert 23 dollars to pounds"

  10. Patents can be useful weapons. Slashdot should... by DeadSea · · Score: 1 · on Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents

    There a bunch of patents that slashdot should obtain:
    1. Method for obtaining a first post
    2. Method for writing a post that gets modded up
    3. Method for linking to goatse.cx
    4. Method for getting ASCII art past the lameness filter
    5. Method for replying to yourself anonymously to make it looks as if others agree with you
    6. Method for obtaining a buttload of mod points through multiple accounts

    These patents could then be used to selectivly procecute trolls and spammers.

    Currency calculator that understands 'convert 100 euros to canadian dollars'

  11. How about processing power by DeadSea · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Thousands and Thousands of Hours of PVR TV
    TiVo is not only limited by hard drive space, but also by processing power. Without the help of a special mpeg chip it wouldn't be able to encode even one stream to disk as fast as it came in.

    Just having the disk isn't enough. You need a multi tuner to be able to break the spectrum in to n streams and you need enough processing power to be able to encode all of those streams at once.

    Although, in theory I suppose it is possible that you could compress the entire spectrum in one block, but I think that the channels that have nothing but static would kill your compression ratio.

    It also might work for satelite where you are getting all the channels already compressed. Then it might just be a simple matter of saving them all.

    Some digital cable works by only sending you one stream at any given time (and when you switch channels the office starts sending you a different stream). With that kind of setup, you can only save what you can get.

    Currency convertor where you can type "US dollars to rupees" and it knows what you mean

  12. i love your exchange rates! by new500 · · Score: 1 · on 'DVD Jon' Breaks Google Video Lock

    Currency converter with free form text entry of conversion amounts and currencies

    http://coinmill.com/convert/USD_GBP.html?amount=78 6132416392876567415754

    7.8613241639288E+23 United States Dollars
    are worth
    4.34 Pounds Sterling

    now i can afford that Fortune 500 company that's been bugging me with crap products. Lol!

  13. Too many clicks and chunks there by DeadSea · · Score: 1, Interesting · on 'DVD Jon' Breaks Google Video Lock
    Given code like this:
    if(conditional){
    do();
    some();
    stuff();
    }

    A real hacker would do something like this:

    if(0&&conditional){
    do();
    some();
    stuff();
    }
    (3 added characters)

    or at the very least:

    /*if(conditional){
    do();
    some();
    stuff();
    }*/
    (4 added characters)

    Currency converter with free form text entry of conversion amounts and currencies

  14. Re:Link prefetching? by DeadSea · · Score: 4, Informative · on Opera: Firefox User Figures 'Inflated'
    It is standard behaviour in Firefox but its not as bad as the article suggests.

    Firefox only prefetches links when the links are marked on the previous site as "hey you might want to prefetch this".

    Specifically on Google, only the top result is marked as prefetch. And even then, only when Google has determined that most visitors would choose it. Google has said that they mark it for things such as prefetching cnn.com when somebody searches for "CNN".

    The article states: "...which means that Firefox will pre-load the top search results into its cache." which is innacurate. It should say "...which means that Firefox will pre-load the top search result into its cache when Google thinks there is a very high probability you will visit the first result."

    Currency exchange rate calculator and foreign exchange converter

  15. Re:HA! by DeadSea · · Score: 1 · on Consumers Prefer Movies At Home
    I was going to say, $16 CAD, what is that about $.50 American? But then according to my currency converter, 16.00 Canadian dollars is about 12.93 in American dollars.

    A couple years ago we used to tease all the Canadians about how little their money was worth. I guess I can't really do too much of that anymore. If the Canadian dollar surpasses the American dollar in value, I may never hear the end of it.