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  1. Re:MIT has many more... on Stanford To Offer Free CS and Robotics Courses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...And then he turns out to be a good asset, and he gets some experience for his resume.
    Now you have the option of giving him a raise or letting your competitors have him. Yes, autodidact education forces you to take some alternative paths, but the point is that the paths are there.

  2. Re:Not Reassuring at All... on Scott Adams's Political Survey of Economists · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But, assuming that Adams was unbiased in his selection of samples (I haven't read TFA), we can conclude that there are more democratic economists than republican. Maybe that alone tells us something about who's better at running the economy.

  3. Re:Accountants on Scott Adams's Political Survey of Economists · · Score: 1

    But the accountants have no hard data to work on yet, as neither candidate are in office.
    So theorizing and 'what-if'-questions are essential here.

  4. Re:ATTENTION WEB DEVELOPERS on SQL Injection Turns BusinessWeek Into Viral Replicator · · Score: 1

    I'm curious, why is string escaping depreciated? The Wikipedia article doesn't make it clear.

  5. Re:Just what we need, more toxins in environment on Nanotech Paint To Kill Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Then why don't we just use food coloring to kill bacteria?

  6. Re:Worth picking up, but... on Review: Spore · · Score: 1

    I know you're an AC, but still. You are straying away from the question.

  7. Re:Worth picking up, but... on Review: Spore · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that SecuROM isn't installed when using a pirated version? AFAIK the pirate version uses the game's normal installer (thereby installing SecuROM), and then you just replace the main .exe with one that does not call the SecuROM API.
    I'm no expert, but I have no guarantee that you are either.

  8. Re:Slashvertisement on RealNetworks To Introduce a Simple DVD Copier · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Huh, AFAIK Handbrake is for both win, linux and OS X. Did I miss something?

  9. Re:Just like the brain areas "you don't use" on Opposable Thumbs and Upright Walking Caused By "Junk DNA" · · Score: 1

    But if it's useless, it ought to be more prone to mutations, and should by this time end up as random noise.
    Note: i am by no means an expert, I'd just like an answer if anyone out there knows,

  10. Re:Good job that a judge has raised this problem on NZ Judge Bans Online Publishing of Accuseds' Names · · Score: 1

    Well, they can only wave the court order at someone with a presence in NZ. So post it at some other video-sharing site, and nothing is gonna happen.

  11. Re:The REAL solution on 'Slow' Light To Speed Up the Net · · Score: 2

    Technically, no. The speed of light in vaccumn, however, is constant.

  12. Re:Hmmm on 'Slow' Light To Speed Up the Net · · Score: 3, Informative

    The problem is not the math, but the percentage. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light
    the speed of light has been slowed down millionfold, allowing for a greatly increased data-density

  13. Re:Yes, we know. on Moving Beyond Passwords For Security · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It's not perfect, no. But it presents a significant extra barrier. And to overcome this barrier, the attacker must:
    1. Get a program running on the phone
    2. Wait for the user to enter the password (because the private key should always be encoded)
    3. Get the private key out of the phone (although a phone by definition has communication abilities, most phones will alert the user if a program tries to use them).

    And the strategy still has a key advantage over smart cards with displays, namely the logistics problem.

  14. Re:Yes, we know. on Moving Beyond Passwords For Security · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's an ineffective way of using your phone as "something you have".
    I propose installing a program + private key on your cellphone, and use that to encrypt a random token. Then you get a hash of the ciphertext on the cellphone display, which you enter in order to login.
    It could even be nicely integrated into openID, bringing me to my next point:
    The thing I just mentioned CAN be made by an openID provider (I was surprised that I couldn't find such a provider though), and it would make a lot more sense to make it for openID than for 50 different websites each with their own implementation.

  15. Re:Limit the bandwidth, compare notes on BIND Still Susceptible To DNS Cache Poisoning · · Score: 1

    I'm no expert, but would asking twice make it ^2 harder to get a hit?

  16. Why not proper authentcation? on Net Shoppers Bullied Into "Verified By Visa" Program · · Score: 1

    For a short while I was wondering why Visa didn't use a two-factor authentication model when they made Verified by Visa / 3-D-secure.
    Then I remembered: they care only about their own losses, not their costumers'

  17. Re:I love you. on How To Deal With Internet Bullies? · · Score: 1

    So, maybe an innocent-looking cookie?
    I'm not too familiar with trolls, but most people never clean the cookie-jar.

  18. Re:Stop Playing Their Game on How To Deal With Internet Bullies? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In my experience banning the troll only agitates it.
    I was thinking, why not give them their own little sandbox, where only users marked as 'troll' could see posts by other trolls?

  19. Re:Get a UPS on Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Depends on where you live. Here in Denmark I've only experienced two power outages in my lifetime. One was in a house in the middle of nowhere, during a winter storm, the other was due to an unpaid bill. Under those circumstances I've got a lot of other stuff to spend 100$ on.
    If we were talking about a datacenter, then yes, UPS on everything important. But for home use, nah.

  20. Re:On the other hand.. on Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss · · Score: 1

    There's a really big difference between getting 99.9% of your data back, and getting your data back, so using this to get your system back up would be limiting to impossible.
    Personally, i'd much rather go with knowing I've lost data than possibly having wrong data.

  21. Re:"Override Back Button Event"??? on Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers · · Score: 1

    Well, the back-button is not gonna go away, so you might just have to make your web-app work with it. Look at how other web-apps are doing it. set location.hash to something different every time you go to a new logical page, and set an onunload-event to save the data when users are leaving the page. That way you can use the back-button as a natural part of your app, instead of providing ugly, self-made buttons to confuse your users.

  22. Re:braces on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 1

    I actually find that it improves readability, because you can get syntax highlighting in both the php and html (and javascript if you want) parts of your script.
    It's a lot easier to read than echo("<html>") or equivalent.
    What's your approach?

  23. Re:easy way to fill a book on Head First C# · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your suggestion. However, the reason for my choice is that I need C++ later (study-related). Plus, I actually like C++ compared to Java (the parts of them I've seen, anyway).
    For now, I'll continue (if I can) to work in C++, but I'll take your recommendation under consideration.

  24. Re:easy way to fill a book on Head First C# · · Score: 1

    Actually, where do you go after reading a beginners book? There seem to be a lot of them out there, and I've just gotten through one on C++, but I can't do much more than write a cli program.
    Does anyone have a good book for learning (windows) gui programming in c++?

  25. Re:A Happy World! on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 1

    yeah, the Broadband doesn't want Dial-up users.