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

    The whole thing is worthless, as soon as you burn it to disk, because as soon as you do so, its now out of date - i.e, it subject to flaws. Or are you going to force the user to download all the patches everytime they run the thing? What if it needs a kernel upgrade/reboot? It'll never work?

  2. Re:Interesting Mix on Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs · · Score: 1

    There is a FreeMidgetPorn AP in Central Wellington, New Zealand. I sort of suspect it is near or in the TradeMe offices....

  3. Re:Unreasonable? on Typical Windows User Patches Every 5 Days · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The problem is not API, or a lack of one, but about trust.

    Repos in Linux are not just collections of software- they're a store of trust.

    You can (should?) trust that they won't break other programs, they won't install malware.

    That is impossible in the Closed source model, really.

    (unless you have differnet users for each app, and lock down each install directory?)

  4. Re:Maybe I'm just a noob, but... on Google Indexing In Near-Realtime · · Score: 1

    RSS?

  5. Re:Can I sue the IIPA for defamation? on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, but only in the UK.

  6. Re:Chained to IE6 on Why You Can't Pry IE6 Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands · · Score: 1

    How could you set a proxy preference in Firefox, and not allow it to be changed by the user?

  7. Re:So why can't they.. on Why You Can't Pry IE6 Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands · · Score: 2, Informative

    IE8 has a mode for IE7 compatibility, not IE6, as i understand it.

  8. Re:Chained to IE6 on Why You Can't Pry IE6 Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lets talk again when group policies are present in Firefox/Chrome?

    Like it or not, for big IT, these are must haves:
    Ability to specify proxy servers and prevent users from modifying them?
    Ability to restrict settings, etc etc etc
    Ability for Firefox to use the internal windows cert store

    The problem is not that IE6 sucks, it is that there are barriers preventing Firefox/Chrome from having a place on the corporate desktop. Why they don't address these I'll never understand.

  9. Re:It's covered in the contract on Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company · · Score: 1

    Then if I was the insurance company, i'd be supplying like-for-like, and not an upgraded model... (I would imagine deliberate coverage is covered in the fineprint)

  10. Re:losing market share in high end laptop ? on How Infighting Hampers Innovation At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they're losing group to OSX?

  11. Re:WHY THE FUCK DO PEOPLE STILL USE IE? on IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files · · Score: 1

    There is the community edition which does have these, but i totally agree, while Chrome or Firefox don't ship a version with group policy i'll never understand.

  12. Re:Slightly misleading title on Verizon MiFi Owned By Simple Attack · · Score: 1

    I've seen one in Wellington, NZ titled 'FreeMidgetPorn'.

  13. Re:Relative security of self-signed certificates on Mozilla Accepts Chinese CNNIC Root CA Certificate · · Score: 1

    To be honest, set your favicon to look a SSL padlock, and most people can't tell the difference anyway. Much easier to MITM http...

  14. Re:delete cert? finger in dike on Mozilla Accepts Chinese CNNIC Root CA Certificate · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sound advice. For those new to perspectives, it uses notary servers, and compares the thumbprint of the SSL cert with what 4-5 other points on the internet see. This should at least prevent localised MITM, even with a trusted CA issuing the MITM cert.

  15. You've raised $130 out of $7500 on FOSS CAD and 3D Modeling Software? · · Score: 3, Informative

    It looks like that campaign was supposed to end last year, on Dec 31st. Why should we waste time answering your questions now, given the seemingly unrealistic goal, when you can't even format a donation box? Or is the a scheme to get money out of stupid geeks by driving traffic to your website?

  16. Re:What on Newzbin.com Usenet Indexing Trial Set To Begin Next Week · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So it's more like dmoz? They link to copyright material as well- it's up to the user to judge if they have a valid license to view the work. Newzbin is a service that can aid copyright holders, nad allow them to get usenet posts cancelled with the newsgroup providers.

  17. Re:Welcome to 3 years ago on Why "Verified By Visa" System Is Insecure · · Score: 1

    once was for a 3G data card, true, but other times it was clothing etc etc. In one shop they were unable to sell us gumboots because their point of sale couldn't cope with us refusing a postcode.

  18. Re:Welcome to 3 years ago on Why "Verified By Visa" System Is Insecure · · Score: 1

    Oh no, they still wanted to know my postcode, even when i paid by cash. I walked out of two stores saying i didn't have one, and if i did have a postcode, i wouldn't be sharing it.

  19. Re:Welcome to 3 years ago on Why "Verified By Visa" System Is Insecure · · Score: 2, Informative
    I was visiting the UK last month as a tourist. I have lived there, and moved away about 5 years ago, around the time Chip & PIN was first appearing.

    Frankly, I was treated like some kind of crinimal subversive for presenting a credit card that didn't have a CHIP on it. I was told by some retailers (a Mobile phone co) that they could not except my card as ALL card HAD to be Chip & PIN. It took a bit of experimenting with other retailers for them to work out that if you inserted a non C&P card into the chip slot, it asked you to swipe it. Although, some terminals didn't have swipe-y bits.

    It seemed to be a shock to many that not all countries have cars with chip and pin on them.

    Many retailers refused to believe, or be able to sell to me if i didn't have a postcode. (i'm visiting. Why do you need a postcode? I don't have one!).

    This was outside the main tourists bits perhaps- (West Midlands), but still...

  20. Re:Hey Germany on US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    Children are individuals with their own rights, not property of parents.

  21. Re:Hey Germany on US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    The state has the absolutely responsibility to protect the children's right to a decent education, and not be at the mercy of whack-job parents.

  22. Re:Enough is enough! on Microsoft To Ship Emergency IE Patch · · Score: 1

    Rubbish. There exploits are commonly deployed via ad networks or 0wned legitimate sites. There is no such thing as a "safe" page and/or site.

  23. Re:Oh well on NY Times To Charge For Online Content · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Quite right. There is an excellent Book called Flat Earth News on how news is collected/created these days.

    It's well worth a read. Paywalls are not the problem, but the dross passed off as 'news'.

  24. Re:Why did he not succeed ? on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    Easy to mark troll, but it's worthy of examination. Is there a centralised 'Al Qaeda' which plans and executes missions a la SMERSH (which seems to be the common message sold in the media). Probably not. The other claim is around a shared 'philosophy' of Al Qaeda- which apparently seems to mean an intense dislike of US foreign policy, and violent means to oppose it. Arguably, but then you'd be calling many anti-capatalists protestors 'Al Qaeda'. There certainly seems to be a militant brand of Islam which calls for a nationalist /self-determinest approach to defeating american foreign policy through violent means, but it does appear to be high fragmented, and non centralised. Call that Al Qaeda if you like, but lumping it together seems highly misguided.

  25. Re:WARNING - DAILY FAIL on UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Check out the awesome photo selection on this article.

    God knows why they're using a distorted aspect-ratio video screen cap for Mr Cable thou down the bottom.....