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  1. Re:Quick on Word Vulnerability Compromised US State Dept. · · Score: 1

    And the reason for that is?

    Just interested...

  2. Re:Quick on Word Vulnerability Compromised US State Dept. · · Score: 1

    I though that one was:

    "There are 11 types of people in this world: those who don't understand binary and those who understand binary but can't count."

    or

    "There are 11 kinds of people. Those who understand unary notation, and those who do not." ...

  3. Re:Quick on Word Vulnerability Compromised US State Dept. · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, but - 11 types of people, those who know binaries and those who don't...

    That makes 2 (10) for me, not 3 (11).

    Just wanted to mention...

  4. Re:Whatever - Flamebait Story on MS Silverlight a Step Back For Linux Users · · Score: 1

    MSIE does not, FF does. Anybody know about Opera?

  5. Re:Overreactioning again... on New Sony DVDs Not Working In Some Players · · Score: 1

    No need to over-react.

    You cannot be sure. As others mentioned, it may be that the spec is ambiguous.

    It could be that the DRM scheme is compat. with some players and not with others, for example...

    While I agree that Sony is stupid for not testing their DRM scheme with their own player, we cannot simply conclude "it is not the DRM scheme".

    P.S. I know I should not react to trolls, but...

  6. Re:Vim on Is DVORAK Gaining Traction Among Coders? · · Score: 1

    There are quite a few possibilities actually, just to demonstrate some here:

    - quirte
    - qerwys
    - qserty
    - awerty
    - qwerth

    The list is endless!

  7. Re:How? on Sri Lankan Terrorists Hack Satellite · · Score: 1

    So how did they re-configure it to retransmit on those certain channels? They must have had administrative access to the satellite...

  8. MOD PARENT UP on AACS Cracked Again · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Interesting" x 5!

    Smart input - MOD UP.

  9. Re:Dpends, i on F-Secure Calls for '.safe' TLD · · Score: 1

    WOW, you know how to intercept government phone lines. Mind dropping by here in Germany to show me how?

    Thanks!

  10. Re:Dpends, i on F-Secure Calls for '.safe' TLD · · Score: 1

    Will talking to the CEO make it any more ".safe" than it would be with the official documents confirmed (over telephone) by the local government? And that surely cannot be so expensive, we call it collaboration (the one thing governments are best at *err*).

  11. Premium on F-Secure Calls for '.safe' TLD · · Score: 1
    From TFA:

    "It's true this will mean banks have to pay a premium to be able to use the domain name, [...]

    OMG...how much would it cost to verify a financial institution? The domain name costs nearly nothing to maintain, only the checking - .safe domains would cost ICANN *very* little more than any other domain, and that extra cost would not result in a loss if they keep the same prices - they just make less profit. They are already making enough $$$.

    <scarcasm>But then, of course ICANN is interested in the public good...</sarcasm>
  12. Re:I am amazed on GPL Code Found In OpenBSD Wireless Driver · · Score: 1

    So how does the GPL prevent that, exactly? I don't understand what you try to analogize by "the big bully [takes] all of your cookies."

    If the big bully copies your cookie recipe and improves it, I don't see why he should let you copy his recipe again from him, as long as he gives you the credit you should get, for the original recipe - this is what the BSD license ensures.

    -gratemyl

  13. Re:I want to get paid!!! on EU Rejects Microsoft Royalty Proposal · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is that little phenomena called "vendor lock-in". We (EU) have anti-trust laws against that. What Microsoft is doing is making sure that once you use a single Microsoft product (e.g. Windows XP) it becomes difficult to move away from Microsoft - we have surely all seen it. What the EU is doing is working to reduce the amount of vendor lock-in for Microsoft. It is making sure that users have more of a choice about which OS, which Office Product, which Movie Player they use.

  14. Re:How? on Do You Allow Webmail Use on Your Network? · · Score: 1

    The bank is not responsible for such communication if it specifically forbids it - which I would expect any financial institution to do - but then again, I haven't worked at a bank before.

  15. Re:How? on Do You Allow Webmail Use on Your Network? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The employer is only required to document communication which has occurred "related to" the business. If an employee chooses to contact a client from outside of the work place, outside of their working hours, this is not official communication by the bank and thus is unrelated. The employee is then at fault, but the employer is protected legally.

  16. Re:The real WTF is.. on Google to Anonymize Users' Search Data · · Score: 1

    They keep it for purposes such as personalized search results and the like.

    A.I. is also far more effective at linguistic analysis (which Google may wish to introduce in the future, if they haven't already) when relations between results are known, and can be mapped to one user.

    The type of things a single user would search for are often limited to certain categories of knowledge and thus a linguistic analysis engine could determine query relations which would improve search results for future users.