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  1. Re:Security? on Google Chrome 31 Is Out: Web Payments, Portable Native Client · · Score: 1

    To be fair, it is very difficult to exploit a potato.

  2. Re:How are they doing this... on Drilling Begins At Lake Hidden Beneath Antarctic · · Score: 4, Funny
  3. Re:I was there on Total Solar Eclipse Bedazzles Northern Australians · · Score: 1

    What a pain, typical. I have the privacy settings for the album wide open, I assume Facebook is screwing its users over again.

  4. Re:Me Too. on Total Solar Eclipse Bedazzles Northern Australians · · Score: 1

    That's the same general location that I visited! It was perfect.

  5. I was there on Total Solar Eclipse Bedazzles Northern Australians · · Score: 2
  6. Re:Before we get the usual gaggle of fascists on Iran Set To Block Access To Google · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think the most scary thing from the poll you linked is that 8% of Muslims did not agree that: Muslims living in the U.S. do not sympathize with the al Qaeda terrorist organization.

    This means that 1 in 12 Muslims interviewed could believe that Muslims living in the U.S. sympathize with an organisation who openly hates western society.

  7. Pushing for more of what it knows... on 24-Year-Old Asks Facebook For His Data, Gets 1,200 PDFs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because if at first you don't succeed, ask for even more pdfs O.O

    Sounds like he's doing this for attention...

  8. Re:Crazy glue on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 5, Informative
  9. Re:Anyone know... on iPad 2 Forces Samsung To Reevaluate Galaxy Tab · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah this is really interesting. Especially because Apple are known for overpricing things. Does anyone else sort of get the feeling that they are losing money on the sales and making it back in app store? If they were doing that - it's a completely different to their usual strategy.

  10. Excellent! on iPad 2 Forces Samsung To Reevaluate Galaxy Tab · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is awesome news. Competition is good for us!

  11. Typical on Australia Mandates Microsoft's Office Open XML · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unfortunately this seems pretty typical of this government. They like to make policies up on the spot and those policies don't have any thought put into them. We've had stimulus spending that - helped keep the economy going. They didn't actually plan what they were going to spend on though and they never put proper policies in place and we ended up spending way too much on stuff that didn't work.

    I especially like the opt-out section:

    51. This policy is subject to the process for administration of opt-outs from Whole-ofGovernment arrangements.
    52. Initial opt-out considerations will be factored into the transition plan and are expected to
    show how alignment to the policy will be achieved as part of the transition plan. Claims for
    opting out will not be considered during the transition phase.
    53. When seeking an opt-out, an agency will need to include a remediation plan to detail how it
    will return to the WofG COE policy. Opt-outs are limited to a maximum of 3 years, after
    which the original business case will be reassessed to ensure it is still valid.
    54. While it is recognised that agencies may have a need to develop separate SOE images, it is
    expected that these images will comply with the standards set out for the COE to ensure
    that agencies can still share data and services in a seamless manner.

    Whoa shite! Opting out is a massive process and has to be reviewed every 3 years.............

  12. First ponder......... on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 0

    hmmm.....

  13. Cached version: on Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs · · Score: 4, Informative
  14. Re:Hooray for Google on Google Asks US For WTO Block On China Censorship · · Score: 1

    Ooh! This looks very interesting from an Australian Internet filter perspective. Google recently replied very abruptly when Stephen Conroy said he would like Google to start filtering Youtube for Australian visitors.

    I would love to see the US start to pressure Australia as well!

  15. Do not want! on LG's Windows Phone 7 Series Early Prototype · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well... I would like that phone with android installed on it ;)

  16. Re:Support not ending for IE on Google Phasing Out Gears For HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, IE really is screwing us all around. It will all work out though, chromeframe might end up being the gears replacement ;)

    Meanwhile, it will be very very good when google finally enables html5 stuff for docs.google.com and gmail. I use prerelease browsers and gears just doesn't work for me anyway. Looking forward to that part of the future!

  17. Re:What could be done? on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 2, Informative

    Time to switch to thorium! *Seriously*, time to switch to thorium..

  18. Obvious... on FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap · · Score: 1

    Massive wi-fi mesh? In fact, India already does something very similar for a very long time.

    Isn't it great that so many of our mobiles already have wi-fi hardware!?

  19. Re:forcing users to upgrade on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just a quick note for clarification, only gecko 1.9.2 and firefox built on that version of gecko (firefox 3.6?) will lack support for 2000 and xp. The development (3.5) and current version (3) will likely still be supported and still receive updates.

    I actually agree with this move - it adds time/bloat/etc for each platform you want to support. By choosing to drop some of the less used platforms, assuming by then xp won't be used much, you can really save on development time/etc.

  20. Failed? on UK Proposes Broadband Expansion, Plus a Music and Film Tax · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The industries are hardly failed. Perhaps 'failing', but even failing might be too strong a word.

    The 'failed' status is propaganda spread by those industries so that they don't have to change with the times. We shouldn't be reinforcing their marketing.

  21. Re:IP and Hardware addresses on (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Oh wow. That code is not even funny. It made me sad. Please don't post such terrible things where others are likely to see them :-/

  22. Re:In other news... on Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Sunbake? Something about your plan might not work..

  23. Re:Very easy on CSRF Flaws Found On Major Websites, Including a Bank · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That unfortunately doesn't defend against GET requests. This means that if your script allows anything vulnerable to be requested via GET, then the 'image' attack vector is not protected. This includes when GET requests are supposed to be made via xmlhttprequest..

    It does defend against a form in a hidden iframe, however, you have to actually *use* it for your application to be protected.

    Regarding browsers fixing the problem, you are correct. It's very very unlikely that the developers of browsers will implement a message that says something like 'I am about to load an image with full url .... you you accept'.

  24. Very nasty on CSRF Flaws Found On Major Websites, Including a Bank · · Score: 5, Informative

    This looks like a very nasty attack to defend against. More info:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery

  25. Fans? on AMD Graphics Chips Could Last 10X To 100X Longer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The chips on my cards have always outlasted the fans on my cards. I have owned both nVidia and ATI cards.

    Just because the chip - or at least, one aspect of the chip *could* last longer doesn't mean the card will.