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  1. Re:As the Rednecks say: on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To be fair a good percentage of those being brought up as Muslims are being taught that it'd be an honor to kill a few infidels like Matt and Trey.

  2. Re:Not Correct on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 0, Troll

    You mean via the same mechanism where you type information into 'Bing', and then 'Bing' responds with your search results?

    No, I meant web forms, not Bing.

    Most people don't type in 100 character URL's (I don't know of any) they either have it bookmarked, or they search for it via, you guess it, the search engine like Google, Bing, or whatnot.

    Yeah and most of they use AOL keywords anyway...

  3. Re:Not Correct on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's not true, if they wanted to keep it anonymous, they wouldn't send session cookie with each request. Yet they do. Session id is not required for auto-suggestions.

    Once again they don't just receive everything you type in address bar, they also associate it with your session.

  4. Re:Not Correct on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They (M$) do collect this information locally if you have form auto-completion. But they don't send anywhere, unlike google.

  5. Re:Not Correct on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's so hard to understand about this problem? Most users want to use suggestions only for their searches, not URLs they enter. Chrome only allows toggling suggestions for both.

  6. Re:Implants are a thing of the past? on Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells · · Score: 1, Interesting

    IMO parent has a point, what's flamebait about it?

  7. Why? on NASA Astronauts To Open New Space Station Windows · · Score: 1

    Why do we need complete pressurized module there? I understand that cupola is not the most expensive section of ISS, but wouldn't it make financial sense just to mount bunch of hi def cameras for this? Hell, you can go RealD 3D for this price tag.

  8. Re:First we bomb the moon... on NASA Solar Probe Blasts Toward Rendezvous With Sun · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's wrong about the sentence? It was pretty much copied from TFA... The orbit is almost geostationary, considering the distance, so it's not like it'll be doing 8's around Earth and Moon, like Apollo crafts.

  9. Re:It's not that big of a deal... on "Vegetative State" Patients Can Communicate · · Score: 1

    It's interesting how for a model of vegetative man's head in TFA's video they used a wooden texture.

  10. Re:DirectX on WebApps? on Silverlight 3.0 Released, Allows Apps Outside the Browser · · Score: 1

    If anything, we should think about banning DirectX from the Web? We should also ban ActiveX.

    And flash, and flash!!! ...with other Adobe products

  11. Re:How many more on Borland Being Purchased By Micro Focus · · Score: 1

    Before .NET both Delphi and C++ Builder had a large user base between Java and other C++ folks. They also benefited greatly because of rapid improvements.
    This gap now is constantly being squeezed by developments in C++ and appearance of C#. So considering how this affects stability of CodeGear and marketability of both your project and your skill set, I'd probably avoid these products for new projects.

  12. Re:In Soviet Russia on Comrade, You Are So Not Getting a Dell · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hate you, SQL people. You seem to be fond of NULL but abandon it (like many other ideas) half way. And then make a living out of it.

  13. Re:Example Of American Can Do Spirit on NASA Mars Rovers Hit 5-Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Let's see how the new leadership will look at further spending for space programs after the current one has led everyone to reconsider the role of the US as a world's savings bank.

  14. Re:Absolutely on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Skipping 3.1 is a huge marketing miss

  15. Re:Seagate responds on Western Digital Working On a 20,000 RPM Drive · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't angular velocity stay the same but radius/circumference shrink? Any relativity geeks around to clear this up?

  16. Re:Pictures? on Scientists Closer To Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    CNN got some action pics in their article:
    http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/08/11/invisibility.cloak.ap/

  17. Re:And Microsoft was the biggest offender. on Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Any particular examples? Application designed following guidelines of win95 (e.g. Office) will work properly in Vista and will not even require folder/registry virtualization (btw, I assume a lot of effort went into this feature to minimize UAC prompts and it for some reason is rarely mentioned among usual rants about them).

    I consider the opposite: Microsoft spends too much effort for app-compat. Would Win2k have defaulted users to be "restricted", while win98/ME were viable alternatives (i.e. MS could still cash in on their sale) for compatibility, this effort could have been much more successful and, nowadays, when you try to get Intuit Quickbooks to start under limited user (you don't have much choice in college setting), you didn't have to give write access to whole CLASSES_ROOT registry branch (don't get me started on this...).

    So in short, yes, I believe UAC is a great compromise, which forces lousy coders to reconsider their approach to the stuff they ship.

  18. Re:more to it on Stroustrup Says C++ Education Needs To Improve · · Score: 1

    Nowadays I code heavily in C# and occasionally have to modify libraries used by other people. C++ has much better facilities to avoid breaking existing code: typedefs, macros, better implicit cast operators. Even though first two are relics from C era and the last one somewhat complicates the language, C++ wouldn't be C++ without them.

  19. Re:And? on VeriSign Jacks Up .com, .net Prices To the Max · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't mind paying $9 dollars, I mind paying them exclusively to Verisign.

  20. Re:People who need uncompressed images. on Security Holes In Google's Android SDK · · Score: 1

    Unlike TIFF, BMP is one of the easiest formats to read, on par with formats like PCX and TGA.
    Which begs the question: how would you end up with a vulnerability in processing of such format, when validating of your inputs does not require much effort?

  21. Re:I can has SSL? on UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads · · Score: 1

    ... but when you open any 80-port session next morning, you can be easily fed those (relevant - this what TFA is all about) ads.
    Also, no need to alter traffic: think about how some public wifi providers do that. Just don't let anyone access the web until they go through provider's homepage and register.

  22. Re:I can has SSL? on UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads · · Score: 1

    Encrypted traffic to a pr0n site is still a traffic to a pr0n site. ISP sees that and serves you related ads. Or sells the info to content providers (e.g. google).

  23. Re:Easy choice on Reaction Engines plan Mach 5 Airliner · · Score: 1

    Yep, I too cannot look without repulsion at that awful JPEG logo atop Reaction Engines site.

  24. Re:700 Mhz Spectrum? on Spectrum Auction Could Be A Game of Chicken · · Score: 1

    There are several bands of spectrum in the vicinity of 700 MHz. 22 MHz each. Which is still not bad for a Spectrum though...