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IE has password memory. So does Mozilla / Firefox, Opera, Safari, and a host of other browsers. It's a feature to make it easier to access sites, but users with high authentication should know that that ease comes at a cost of security. Admittedly many non-IE browsers have a "master password" structure whereby you type one password for it to remember all of your passwords on demand (as mentioned by a sibling post about Safari), but said poster also recognized that most of these systems ship with the feature off by default, and even if it is on, you're still doing a balancing act with security and ease -- if a cracker finds your master password, they've found ALL your passwords.

And I believe you're referring to FindFast, Microsoft's indexing tool that they shipped with Office. As I remember it, FindFast indexed documents (i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. files) so they could be found easier later, as well as have quicker in-file searching (i.e. searching for a word inside all your documents). It never stored your domain passwords or any such security-related tokens. Once again, though, you're only screwed if you put your password inside a Word file in your system... and why the hell would you do that if you're concerned about security? (P.S.: Anyone who had even a bit of technical acument would turn FindFast off back in the time when it was used, as it made your system horribly slow when it was indexing and tended to do so at inopportune times.)

Passport only works on sites that explicitly choose to support it, and generally only if you register yourself that way: most will give you an option for a registration in their site database only (eBay did this previously if I remember correctly). Several alternatives have been attempted at Passport-like solutions as well, to be fair, including some open source options. Once again, Microsoft isn't forcing you to use their solution, and I doubt a lot of systems use Passport authentication for high-level access anyway.

Normally I wouldn't be so argumentative, but you made a sweeping generalization when you said that "non Microsoft tools have taken local and remote attack into consideration". You made your bias quite clear in that statement. Next time you want to post attacks, at least back them up with some proof or evidence.

Anyway, I have yet to form an opinion on this InfoCard thing, but seeing as how it'll likely be Microsoft-proprietary and they'll probably have something to gain from it, I doubt I'll be either signing up for one (unless I have to in order to access a system, and even then I'll resist quite vocally) or deploying it on my own login systems.

Google this douche's name and see the stupidness that comes up.

I for one am glad to see that some douchebag who figured out how to write HTML can finally give me all the truths about physics. I'm glad he's solved all the problems....
After I RTFA two words came to mind: ad homimen.

http://books.google.ca/intl/en/googlebooks/help.ht ml
# Why can't I read the entire book?
We respect copyright law and the tremendous creative effort authors put into their work. So, unless any given book's publisher has given us permission to show sample pages, you'll only be able to see the Snippet View which, like a card catalog, shows information about the book plus a few snippets - a few sentences of your search term in context. If the book isn't under copyright at all, you can browse the entire book in the Full Book View, but the aim of Google Book Search is to help you discover books and learn where to buy or borrow them, not read them from start to finish. It's like going to a bookstore and browsing - with a Google twist.

Because Apple fans never search for PowerPC errata, because that would shatter their illusion that their machine is PERFECT. To Intel's credit, they document the errata with their products far better than most of their competitors.

From the very first sentence of TFA:

A University of Toronto group of "hactivists" will benefit from a $3-million US grant given to an international project that fights internet censorship.

The university group will get roughly $3.435 million according to google.

You'd think after it was plastered over the entire net, people could get it right.

Meet last year's winner of the tech fashion contest. Layered Tech is going to explode with these high rez images of the clothing to be used at the MIT event, although I am pretty sure that MIT can handle the bandwidth used by the streaming video. (More Tron Guy Pix HA! HA!)

What the hell is this guy doing? Don't answer that . I'm going to get this one for those days when I want to look like Snuffaluffagus. Oh and whenever I update my blog, I'm going to wear this blogger hoodie. It's a blogger hoodie because...

Meet last year's winner of the tech fashion contest. Layered Tech is going to explode with these high rez images of the clothing to be used at the MIT event, although I am pretty sure that MIT can handle the bandwidth used by the streaming video. (More Tron Guy Pix HA! HA!)

What the hell is this guy doing? Don't answer that . I'm going to get this one for those days when I want to look like Snuffaluffagus. Oh and whenever I update my blog, I'm going to wear this blogger hoodie. It's a blogger hoodie because...

They were also caught redhanded in moscow:

http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&ned=ca&q=british+ spy+rock&btnG=Search+News

That stuff is far from James Bond sleek MI:7 stuff. Really lame, but then
what do you expect government salarymen to do? There is no cause anymore,
so they are just well paid under trained snoopies.

Most reliable sites also do an IP address check (in addition to just using the cookie-based session) to prevent against session hijacking.

Anybody ever heard of this club? I guess it's the space version of the "mile high club." I'm reading "Ask the Astronomer" and it was in there.

What for? To make sure that french-canadian astronaut Julie Payette does not go in Space.

This hot bitch screwed her way all the way up the Canadian Space Agency hierarchy, and the astronaut wives sur did not want their husbands to screw with that hot bitch in space.

So, Julie Payette was grounded by NASA management, and it took a personal phone call to Bill Clinton from canadian prime minister Jean Chrétin to restore her flight status: "she's a woman, she's french, so she has to go up, sacrament!". Of course, screwing in space was definitely something that Clinton would not feel uninterested about, so he made sure that the little slut could fly up there, where she undoubtely screwed with some ass-tro-nuts.

The source? The sister-in-law of another canadian astro-nut.

Anybody ever heard of this club? I guess it's the space version of the "mile high club." I'm reading "Ask the Astronomer" and it was in there.

What for? To make sure that french-canadian astronaut Julie Payette does not go in Space.

This hot bitch screwed her way all the way up the Canadian Space Agency hierarchy, and the astronaut wives sur did not want their husbands to screw with that hot bitch in space.

So, Julie Payette was grounded by NASA management, and it took a personal phone call to Bill Clinton from canadian prime minister Jean Chrétin to restore her flight status: "she's a woman, she's french, so she has to go up, sacrament!". Of course, screwing in space was definitely something that Clinton would not feel uninterested about, so he made sure that the little slut could fly up there, where she undoubtely screwed with some ass-tro-nuts.

The source? The sister-in-law of another canadian astro-nut.

The .wmf vulnerability was part of the specs that they implemented - it wasn't a bug. So it should exist whether or not they reused code.

Microsoft made the "spec", they didn't just implement it. In any case, all of the inside-Microsoft blog posts blamed the fact that the code in question was very old for the fact that the fault persisted. I would imagine that someone clean-room implement "the spec" would have called it into question.

It's highly likely they just reused old code, which makes sense.

In any case, worries that Vista is "all new" are completely unfounded. Like many Microsoft adventures before, they had a grand vision but then had to backtrack, resetting the Vista codebase back to the Windows 2003 branch. Vista is going to be Windows 2003 (a superlative OS, as an aside) with some extra chrome. It isn't all-.net, and it isn't all new. It's just an evolution of the existing lines.

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

• When will Apple come up with a strategy that works and stick with it?
• What should I wear?
• Can I crash at your house?
• Will the NeXT iMac be available in pink?
• Why do some versions of programs not work with OS X and must be upgraded?
• Does overcomplexity sell better than simplicity?
• Why did Apple not price competitively outside of education?
• Can you get me a job working for Bill Gates?
• What's so great about proprietary hardware?
• What's the world's most powerful computer?
• Is the Internet a communications medium, that allows many to communicate, watch and even steal?
• Where are the other platform downloads for QT4?
• Will you solder a 3Dfx graphic chip onto the iMac motherboard?
• Does Microsoft simply use other people's ideas and make a commercial success of them?
• Will AMD announce Turion

>Google says they're going to label redacted data as such.

(Note: I stole the following example)
Look at this;
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=zh-CN&q=tiananme n%20square

now look at this;
http://images.google.ca/images?q=tiananmen%20squar e

Now would you know that "due to local laws some search results were excluded" that this was the difference?

>I simply can't fathom why you'd think the Chinese people are so gullible.

They are not stupid; the people are not getting the information they need. You can't ask for something you don't know exists.

For an example;
http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1722.html

Which explains why:
GIS in AU
GIS in CA
GIS in FR
GIS in UK
GIS in RU
GIS in PL
GIS in IT
GIS in ES
GIS in JP

Are all so different, right?
That's not "cultural differences", mate. That's censorship.

Google it.

Isn't this something better solved with a quick Wikipedia search and a quick Google query?

All the biologists and physicists I've spoken to say no. It's a fuel source, yes, but not a viable replacement for oil. It has a much lower fuel efficency, and it is still non-renewable. It might solve SOME of the pollution problems, but that's still a "might". It won't solve the growing energy need, and it won't solve the issue of non-renewability.

If you're looking forward towards a sustainable, rewnewable, efficient fuel source, they should be looking at wind, solar, nuclear, or hydrogen, to name a few.

I'm not an expert in particle physics either, but here's what I know:

Is not one of the big problems with "gravitons" that gravity appears to act more or less instantaneously at great distances? And isn't that a little troubling from the "Action at a Distance is Big No-No" point of view?

No, according to the theories gravitons would travel at the speed of light. In fact, bear in mind that the exchange of virtual particles is what prevents "action at a distance", if you like. Instead of gravity (or magnetism) having an effect "just because", the theory explains that it is because virtual particles are flying back and forth between the two objects in question. In the case of gravity, it is virtual gravitons, and in the case of magnetism, it is virtual photons. Both travel at the speed of light, which explains why force effects (like gravity and magnetic fields) are not instantaneous: they propagate at the speed of light (this has been measured and is not in dispute).

Pioneer 10 is pretty damned far out there at this point.

Apparently Pioneer 10 is 89 AU from the sun. 90 Astronomical Units is 12 light-hours. Still, your point is well-taken... gravity operates over distances of millions and even billions of light-years... so how can these "virtual gravitons" cover such distances? After all, supposedly virtual particles exist only for a short time!

My apologies to the hard-core particle physicists for this simplistic explanation, but here goes: When you look at the Heisenberg Indeterminacy Principle, you find that there is a relation between space and momentum. We all know the famous "the more accurately you localize a particle, the more spread out its velocity is"... it turns out that this implies a similar relation for energy and time. What it means is that high-energy particles can "pop into existence" for very short periods of time... but low-energy particles could exist for longer times. This is what allows virtual particles to do their thing. Very strong forces (nuclear forces and electromagnetic) involve high-energy virtual particles, which can only travel short distances before "disappearing"... that's why those forces operate over short distances.

But gravity is very very weak (by comparison). So that means that a virtual graviton can pop into existence, and travel for a long distance and time (millions of years) before disappearing. That's what, in fact, causes gravity to operate over such vast distances. So in fact the distance-scales and force intensities are intrinsicaly related in quantum treatments. So "a short time" means something different for EM-forces and gravity-forces.

I hope this (simplistic) explanation is somewhat useful to someone.

I think that the way it works makes it less prone to bias than traditional news reading. Normal people go to cnn.com, or cbc.ca or bbc.co.uk or (god forbid) foxnews.com (see, I just inserted my bias. Wouldn't you like to be able to read a similar post from a right wing viewpoint to counterbalance mine right now?). Each of those sites has its own bias, and its own editors who may or may not be upfront about their agendas. The beauty of google news is that I can look at what each of these news sources has to say about the same story and get a better understanding of the actual story. For example it was very interesting to read the difference in opinion coming from Toronto and Miami when Canada passed same sex marriage legislation. Or today, I like to see at a glance what the Americans, Australians, and heck, even the French think about Last night's election

talks about workers getting promoted to their level of incompetence.

That's called The Peter Principle

Don't stop searching, just don't use other engines. Yahoo and the others all came up with the information.
What would happen if you used http://uk.yahoo.com/ or http://www.google.ca/ ? Do the US administration ask for their details as well? The answer may be 'yes' because I have heard of some plans some EU-sponsored search-engine in the last few days and the timing seems a bit strange to be a coincidence.

Well, this Canadian doesn't need to feel safer, and sure doesn't.

The slippery slope is a perfectly valid argument. Even if you don't personally believe in it, plenty of people do, which is going to seriously harm the trust and good will that Google has built up over a decade. Perhaps not enough that people learn Chinese and use Baidu, but lots.

Also, are you sure everything in there is anonymous? How about searches like alcoholics anonymous near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC, or nuclear power plants near wherever starwed lives? No way am I trusting the U.S. government with any of my data.

And finally, why should Google be imposed upon just because the U.S. Government is too lazy to do it's own research? Screw 'em!

Well, this Canadian doesn't need to feel safer, and sure doesn't.

The slippery slope is a perfectly valid argument. Even if you don't personally believe in it, plenty of people do, which is going to seriously harm the trust and good will that Google has built up over a decade. Perhaps not enough that people learn Chinese and use Baidu, but lots.

Also, are you sure everything in there is anonymous? How about searches like alcoholics anonymous near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC, or nuclear power plants near wherever starwed lives? No way am I trusting the U.S. government with any of my data.

And finally, why should Google be imposed upon just because the U.S. Government is too lazy to do it's own research? Screw 'em!

There is a Lebanon in Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and maybe some other places?

There is a Lebanon in Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and maybe some other places?

There is a Lebanon in Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and maybe some other places?

There is a Lebanon in Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and maybe some other places?

Inculcate: teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; "inculcate values into the young generation"

source: http://www.google.ca/url?sa=X&start=1&oi=define&q= http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn%3Fs%3Dincu lcate

I'd like to make it clear that Microsoft did not release this component. It has been around for a while now and has always cost $10. Only yesterday did Microsoft license it and start to distribute it. Visit Google News for more info.

This thread proves once again that Slashdot needs a (-1, Cheapskate that won't ever buy anything their mommies don't give them the money for, but will whine endlessly for it to be free anyway) rating.

Ahem. I bought a Series 1 TiVo box in June 2000, later upgraded it myself to 200GB (the absolute most space available at the time), and happily bought a lifetime subscription. (The sort of idiots here who whine and complain about the horrible, awful TiVo subscription fee has always been around and always will; please ignore them.) However, five years later my box sits in the closet. In part it's because a drive died, but it's mostly because, yes, I built a MythTV box.

I *didn't* built a MythTV box because of:

* The subscription fee. See above. I always felt I got way more than my money's worth from TiVo; heck, were I to sell my box on eBay it'd still be worth a few hundred dollars due to the lifetime subscription.
* A desire to export TiVo recordings to elsewhere. I never quite understood the fascination people had and have with decrypting TiVo's file system and exporting programs to elsewhere. If anything I wanted my TiVo to act as the portal through which I could view my video library.

I built a MythTV box because I wanted to:

* Bring programs *into* the box, not out of it. MythTV lets me view all my videos and DVD images in a nice, neat, format that resembles the directory hierarchy they are stored in.
* Record HDTV programs. Thanks to two cable boxes and two FireWire cables, I can today record two HD programs simultaneously.
* Have plenty of storage space. MPEG-2 HD programs take 7GB/hour. about 10 times more than TiVo's about 700MB/GB on the lowest-quality standard. With MythTV I can use NFS (or, in my case due to mysterious performance issues, Samba) to put all the recordings I want on my 2.8TB RAID 5 array. From the description it sounds like the Series 3 TiVo will have an Ethernet jack, but a) it's likely to be 100Mbps--likely to be problematic in real-life conditions when recording two HD programs and watching a third at the same time--and b) who knows what type of external storage the box will ever support in practice.

That's it. No, I really don't care about MythTV's themability (Why, oh why, do people focus on themes in free software so much? Don't they realize that 99% of them look eye-meltingly awful--Kids, raytracing is, like, *so* 1995--and don't do a thing to fix any underlying usability issues with the application?), MythWeather, MythGame, MythPhone, etc., etc. Hey, they're nice, but I'd give them up in a flash to fix the last niggling bugs in mythfrontend (Geez, folks, what *is* up with the "displaying OSD in some recordings consistently crashes mythfrontend" bug in 0.18.1? Linus used to call such issues "brown bag" bugs, as in bugs in Linux kernel releases so showstoppingly bad he wanted to wear a brown bag for letting it loose into the world.) and the annoyances (some pretty colossal) in MythVideo's Video Manager module. If TiVo Series 3 manages to robustly support external filesystems (I have *no* problems with some sort of encryption scheme here) *and* let me view my preexisting videos through the elegant TiVo interface, I'm there. (Especially if TiVo kindly offers us longtime lifetime-subscription owners free upgrades.) I am, however, not waiting for these things to occur; there's TV to watch, and record, today.

On the eve of a major attack to the windoze OS you tell us other OS' are 3 times worse, yeah right buddy... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/05/secfocus_z eroday/ http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/68019 http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Sober.Z+worm&b tnG=Google+Search&meta=

Have you ever used a trackball for gaming? I haven't, but I don't imagine it would be very effective.

I have.
It's kinda like trying to control a fighter plane with an Atari controller...

A few years ago I saw a fairly long report on the presence of a massive supervolcano under Yellowstone national park, which had erupted something like 60K years ago and which seems to erupt at regular intervals, the next eruptino being a few years late right now. This is probably a wild guess, but does anyone else think that perhaps lava from the present bassins under Yellowstone might be tunneled to Mt St-Helens?

Here's a bit of searching I made on Google Maps

It may be kind of far for lava to travel, but you never know, considering what I remember hearing about the imensity of the supervolcano potentially involved.

For more information about Yellowstone

A few years ago I saw a fairly long report on the presence of a massive supervolcano under Yellowstone national park, which had erupted something like 60K years ago and which seems to erupt at regular intervals, the next eruptino being a few years late right now. This is probably a wild guess, but does anyone else think that perhaps lava from the present bassins under Yellowstone might be tunneled to Mt St-Helens?

Here's a bit of searching I made on Google Maps

It may be kind of far for lava to travel, but you never know, considering what I remember hearing about the imensity of the supervolcano potentially involved.

For more information about Yellowstone