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  1. Re:Sovereignty on Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US · · Score: 1

    The Taliban never refused to turn anyone over- they asked for the evidence linking any person involved in 9/11. This is not the same thing.

  2. Re:Sovereignty on Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US · · Score: 1
    Er, this is totally untrue- in fact, The Afghani government in 2001 said they would hand over any person connected with 9/11 should the US provide any evidence linking that person to the act.

    This distinction was ignored, barely commented on in the press, and the invasion proceeded anyway. Draw your own conclusions about the actual motive for invasion..

    e.g: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/11/world/main310852.shtml - Ignore the headline, read the article.

  3. Re:How do they know? on Virgin Media To Trial Filesharing Monitoring In UK · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What mobile phone make/model was this?

  4. Re:Have a great trip! on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    Go to Millwall. Wear a bum bag. Talk in a loud american voice. You'll have a quality experience.

  5. Re:fp on IBM Smartphone Software Translates 11 Languages · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hate to think how many hours processing each change request, in quadrupilate before the system learnt anything.

  6. Re:Install Ubuntu on Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    And then watch as the computer falls to all the common drive by download exploits, because unless you're around to patch, there is no way for firefox, flash, or adobe reader to update themselves. Windows is simply b0rken beyond all usefulness. Just say no.

  7. Re:Full Disk Encryption on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Never store your passwords! on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Yes, because we only ever need to remember 1 password. Or do you use that 1 password for everything, so if it is disclosed once, anyone can log in as you anywhere?

  9. Re:Robots.txt on Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches · · Score: 1

    Then set up a revenue-sharing arrangement with google news for exactly this purpose.

  10. Re:Just suppose... on Microsoft Links Malware Rates To Pirated Windows · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Downloading and applying patches from non-authoritative sources, i.e torrents, without some sort of checksum assurance sounds like a very bad idea.

  11. Re:Easier fonts means a lot! on Web Open Font Format Gets Backing From Mozilla · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, Opera did have a hole like this recently: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-3832

  12. Re:Easier fonts means a lot! on Web Open Font Format Gets Backing From Mozilla · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can quite easily fool people that the sites they are on are encypted by setting the favicon to be a padlock- people are simply unable to determine where they are, whether or not a site is trustworthy, and will click anything to install something. Web Fonts may offer some advantages, but they seem to have downsides as well.

  13. Re:Easier fonts means a lot! on Web Open Font Format Gets Backing From Mozilla · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Surely there are security concerns around sites using fonts where the letters are 'swapped' to obfusicate where links are actually directed?

  14. Re:Does that mean... on New Improvements On the Attacks On WPA/TKIP · · Score: 1

    If there is an effective attack on TKIP, will that also affect WPA2 w/ TKIP as well?

  15. Re:Why are ads so much cheaper online though? on Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates · · Score: 1
    As John Wanamaker said: "I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half."

    You do know which half on the interspaz.

  16. Re:Create More Hobs ??? on California Moving Forward With Big-Screen TV Power Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Rubbish. Renewable electricity production in New Zealand is 70% - In Norway it is 99%. California barely approaches 30%?

  17. Re:I have a better idea on Auto-Detecting Malware? It's Possible · · Score: 1
    No, it just depends if there is also an exploit (perhaps a totally seperate one) at that point in time that allows privilege elevation.

    Distro's do tend to patch pretty fast, but there is at the moment, a clear day or two gap over some apps like Firefox releasing, and the distro's having patch versions.

    The real problem remains between the chair and the keyboard.... The operating system can't prevent a total retard clicking yes to everything, or typing in their password because something looks cool....

  18. Re:XOR! on Using Encryption Garners Exemption For Data Breach Notification · · Score: 1

    Microsoft are "encrypting/obfusicating" domain pc passwords via their offline domain join tool that makes up part of 2008 Server R2. They're also using base64 to do this... I do not know if they added this 'feature' in india or redmond, but it is just plan retarded.

  19. Re:Why people don't update on Wordpress.org Warns of Active Worm Hacking Blogs · · Score: 1

    No, that is a very good idea, because apache shouldn't have write permissions to your core wordpress files- using a seperate ftp account login means you're elevating to overwrite files a good idea indeed.

  20. Re:Bound to happen on Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus · · Score: 0

    So when will they actually implement something genuinely useful against real security threats, like package management?

  21. Re:Even if unlocked still breaking and entering on Australian Police Database Lacked Root Password · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, they have 6.

  22. Re:A few words... on Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    If you want to debunk the claim, all you need is Baroness Williams to come out and say it was untrue. The exact opposite happened.

    Please note- she's a Baroness (i.e, a Life peer) NOT a duchess. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroness_Williams - she's a former Cabinet Minister.

  23. Re:A few words... on Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    The original source, Baroness William,- was sent to ground and Blair's spin doctor denied it. Presumably, as anything else would be disastrous for UK-US relations.

    Why do you imagine that was the case?

    (The story is _not_ that Bush said a dumb thing- it is that Blair recounted Bush's knowledge as a anecdote to others...)

    iirc, The original story appeared in The Times - which although a Murdoch Rag, could hardly be accused as 'a tabloid'

  24. Re:A few words... on Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Snopes is laughably naive at times- this is a good example:

    http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp

    So Campbell denies something, and the source of the claim goes to ground?

    Sure... that sounds like snopes has reached a reliable interpretation of events.

  25. Two Words. on Shaw Cable Again Blocks Firewire On Canadian Set-Top Boxes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Live Sport. That's really the only thing that keeps me subscribed to our local pay tv provider.