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  1. Re:ASUS OPlay! on Video Appliance For a Large Library On a Network? · · Score: 1

    I have one of these and they're indeed great.

  2. Re:Malware via browsers? on 5 Million Domains Serving Malware Via Network Solutions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    probably exploits via flash, or a windows image library.

  3. Re:save lives by exposing military tactics.... on Wikileaks To Publish Remaining Afghan Documents · · Score: 1
  4. Re: save lives by exposing military tactics.... on Wikileaks To Publish Remaining Afghan Documents · · Score: 1

    There are so many words that can be chosen. All i know is if my country and been invaded, I'd consider these people Collaborators, not 'informants'. That's the problem with the whole Afghan/Iraq invasions, we're so caught up in semantics we're not looking at what is being done, and why, and the human impact of it.

  5. Congradulations on DRM-Free Game Suffers 90% Piracy, Offers Amnesty · · Score: 1

    You've just promoted a business model where there is an economic incentive for makers to produce buggy software!

  6. Re:Putting things in perspective on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    99% of the internet would be able to change it from the outside, thanks to CSRF.

  7. Re:And this one pays for itself... on World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production · · Score: 1

    Problem is, if you're out driving on the autobahn, all this achieves is wasting fuel to haul around a whole lot of pointless & heavy batteries.

  8. Re:Here is 67 Terabytes for $7867 on Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You've not allowed for power, network, or backup in your costing. Try again.

  9. This is why you have insurance. on Retrieving a Stolen Laptop By IP Address Alone? · · Score: 2, Troll

    Move on with your life.

  10. Re:Oh really? on China Says US Uses Facebook To Spread Political Unrest · · Score: 1

    Rubbish. Facebook has spread a generation of pointless twits who think that joining a meaningless group that they've forgotten about 15 minutes later is in anyway meaningful, useful or has any purpose.

  11. Re:Interesting Historical Fact on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 1

    New Zealand has had an elected female PM.

    Helen Clark replaced shipley as prime minister, and was elected for 3 full terms. While she was in office, there was also our first female Governor General, and female Chief Justice.

  12. Re:The upgrade process was painless on WordPress 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    allowing apache write access to the wordpress install dir is _never_ correct I have a ftp server listening on the local host for a different set of credentials. It's like sudo for a web app...

  13. Re:Next on the list... on Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell · · Score: 0

    There is (sadly) a fairly dead looking project to get Paint.NET running on mono: http://code.google.com/p/paint-mono/

  14. Re:Worthless plan on NZ Plan For Fiber To the Home · · Score: 1

    I have 14Mbps/700kbps, a 40 GB included, no limits between 1am-7am, and overage outside those hours is very reasonable 1NZD per gig.

    (And i can bank my data, so if i don't use my 40gb, it keeps rolling over.)

    I'm not unhappy to be honest- i'd rather be transparently sold a cap, and be able to purchase reasonable overage, then some sort of unclear rules around what 'unlimited' really was.

    Pacific Fibre may address these wider connectivity to the world problems, but the major issues appears to be people not shopping around and buying retarded internet plans of dominant legacy telcos.

  15. Re:Anti Virus? on Android Rootkit Is Just a Phone Call Away · · Score: 1

    wait, you mean i have to trust the code i execute?

  16. Re:Flamebait on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 4, Funny

    maybe they use this newfangled google apps thing?

  17. Re:What about OSS on UK Court Finds Company Liable For Software Defects · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Er, the whole point is you can't assign away any responsibilities if you've sold it at all. It must be fit for purpose.

  18. Re:Yay! finally some accountability for all those on UK Court Finds Company Liable For Software Defects · · Score: 1

    Not only does the UK acts say it has to be fit for purpose, but also that it should be durable for what a reasonable person would consider reasonable. That should mean that patching for security etc, should be available for a reasonable period as a right.

  19. Re:What about OSS on UK Court Finds Company Liable For Software Defects · · Score: 1

    Sale of Goods would not apply, if no goods were sold.

  20. Re:Yay! finally some accountability for all those on UK Court Finds Company Liable For Software Defects · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is about how software is sold and marketed, not how it is written.

  21. What could go wrong? on Skyfire For Android Enables (Some) Flash Video · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wow, that is bound to work well, battery wise.

  22. Re:McAfee recently screwed me over on McAfee Kills SVCHost.exe, Sets Off Reboot Loops For Win XP, Win 2000 · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is no such thing as a reputable site on the internet.
    Some sites use ad networks, which have happily served malware.
    Other sites are run by clueless admins and left vulnerable to commodity exploits.

    Drive by Downloads exist, and a risk everywhere.

  23. Re:Great! Now we can call it something else! on The Technology Behind Formula 1 Racing · · Score: 1
    No it doesn't. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbchd/programmes/schedules/2010/03/28

    FOA do shoot in 1080p24, apparently, but no feed better than 16x9 576i is provided currently to any broadcaster.

  24. Re:Great! Now we can call it something else! on The Technology Behind Formula 1 Racing · · Score: 3, Funny
    The technology is so intense in F1......

    that they haven't even got around to producing HD TV feeds yet.

  25. Re:BIOS on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and they should use autorun on the ATM to check for an executable on the USB drive so they know what to update!