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  1. Re:charge trains?? on Wirelessly Charged Buses Being Tested Next Year · · Score: 1
    Not all trains use overhead or line power. In the UK, there are many lines where Diesel-electric trains are still in use.

    This article was published recently about research into how to avoid having to equip these lines with overhead power:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/03/battery-powered-intercity-trains-possible-study

  2. Re:Not defined on EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    I'm a laptop owner, who uses Dmcrypt, and with a 2 second boot time off SSD, i never bother hibernating. Better check what kernel....

  3. Re:Oh please no on FAA To Reevaluate Inflight Electronic Device Use · · Score: 1

    I can see why they don't want people using such devices during take off and landing. (i.e, paying attention to the crew in an emergency). If you're using the IFE system, they can interupt that - not if you're on an IPOD buried in a e-reader etc.

  4. Re:Patent good in this case on Time Warner Cable Patents Method For Disabling Fast-Forward Function On DVRs · · Score: 4, Informative
  5. Re:Solution.. buy hard drives! on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? · · Score: 1

    Is this what counts as a backup? two drives in the same location?

  6. Re:Mother Theresa Principle on Open Source Advocates' Attitudes Toward Profit · · Score: 3, Informative

    She also thought it was ok for Rich, famous people to divorce, but not the poor.

    Horrible, Horrible human being.

  7. Re:Easy fix on Defending Your Cellphone Against Malware · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Blackberry is perfect for email, but the browser is just terrible :(

    I miss my blackberry everytime i write an email, but i would miss my android more as a useful device.

  8. Re:Here's mine on New EU Legal Privacy Framework: We're Not Kidding · · Score: 1

    Social Mobility is higher in much of the EU than in the US. Try again.

  9. Re:Even Easier than Guessing a Birthday on News Corp. Hacking Scandal Spreads To Government · · Score: 1

    This is not correct. It's even simpler- they spoof the callerid to be the mobile's number. Most people have voicemail set to not require PIN from their own phone. Instant access, no pin guessing required.

  10. Re:Qestion on News Corp. Hacking Scandal Spreads To Government · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't need to guess any digits. You spoof the caller id to be the cell phones number. Most people don't bother with a PIN if they call voicemail from their own phone.

  11. Re:Who... cares? Is this a good thing? on HP Keeping Their PC Business · · Score: 1

    Their Business Desktops are actually pretty decent. The Probook 5310m/5320m line make awesome Linux laptops, SSD, 3G inbuilt.

  12. Re:Out there on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This.

    I love my Nexus S, and maintain it via Cyangenmod, but the simple fact is that the majority of handsets are hopelessly out of date, with known security problems, and the networks just don't give a shit.

  13. Re:Fail on Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7 · · Score: 1

    Again, how do you know a security hole affecting 3.5.x isn't also present in he 3.0.x codebase?

  14. Re:Fail on Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7 · · Score: 1

    What makes you think there are no known security holes? Do you check the source for any similar flaws in upstream versions of Firefox?

  15. Re:oh shit! on The Register Hacked · · Score: 0

    So there credibility is lost. The number of businesses out there who stack everything on a $10 a year relationship is just insane. There are several business grade registrars offering decent services. Look into MelbourneIT DBMS, Markmonitor etc.

  16. Re:HAxorS on The Register Hacked · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like a number of sites affected, all of them seem to be using netnames.co.uk as their registrar, looks like DNS Servers all changed.

  17. Re:Sarbanes-Oxley on What 'Consumerization of IT' Really Means For IT · · Score: 1

    because users will go out and buy services, not servers, which may or may not have robust technology behind them.

  18. Re:Three years before end of support on Windows XP Market Share Finally Falls Below 50% · · Score: 1

    All the GDI bugs that were never fixed?

  19. Re:HDD -- SSD on Ubuntu 11.10 Down To 12-Second Boot · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have a HP Probook 5320m with SSD, with Full Disk Encryption (dmcrypt) running 11.04 x64. After entering my FDE keyphrase, i am at login window in around 3-4 seconds.

  20. Re:Hacking on Voicemail Hack Scandal Leads To Closure of UK Tabloid · · Score: 1

    No they didn't. They spoofed caller ID - most people have voicemail setup to not require PIN if the caller ID matches.

  21. Re:Newscorp isn't in the business of news on News Corp. Subsidiary Under Fire For Hacking Dead Girl's Voicemail · · Score: 1
    The News of the World is the largest selling newspaper. It's also the newspaper with the largest readership of ABC1's - the most a fluent demographic.

    http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates-Reports/Our-Reports/

  22. Re:Let's Put This In Perspective on News Corp. Subsidiary Under Fire For Hacking Dead Girl's Voicemail · · Score: 1

    Voicemails are set without passcode by default generally. All you need to do is spoof the inbound caller id, and call the network's voicemail number.

  23. Re:But why? on News Corp. Subsidiary Under Fire For Hacking Dead Girl's Voicemail · · Score: 3, Informative

    Spoofed callerid to the voicemail number, if people don't have a PIN set for voicemail, you can access voicemail without any further barrier.

  24. Re:I have a domain at GoDaddy on GoDaddy Sells To Investor Group · · Score: 2
    MarkMonitor. But you probably can't afford it.

    It's good enough for Google, it's good enough for you- but there is a $10-20k minimum annual spend i believe.

  25. Re:Blackberry is the corporate standard on Developers Defecting From BlackBerry · · Score: 2

    Yay for installed apps clutter. Honestly, it takes longer to find the right icon than to just use the web browser in the first place.