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  1. Re:A bit misleading ... on MI5 Website Breached By Hacker · · Score: 1

    Agreed although a DNS hack could implement the XSS without anyone being any the wiser. However if you can hack DNS who's going to waste their time on XSS anyway?

  2. Re:The glaciers are retreating! on Formerly Classified Global Warming Spy Photos Released · · Score: 1

    When I was growing up, I was always taught to question the mainstream. But if you do that when it comes to climate change, you are labeled a nut.

    As always the bullied become the bullies and neither is ever right

  3. Re:Encryption plan on Making Cesium Atoms Do a Quantum Walk · · Score: 1

    Simple Re-encrypt using the same quantum tech you are worried about.
    The issue is more of a case of which country gets there 1st.
    My money is on China

  4. Hmm remeber reading on Cure For Radiation Sickness Found? · · Score: 1

    about this in the Newscientist (I think) about 2 years ago so funny they say it was kept secret. The article I recall was definitely talking about the same technique i.e. using a protein to stop cells from self destructing. However if I recall the article stated that they only had it working in the stomach lining (which tracks slightly with this article) which would be good against the most common forms of radiation poisoning (ingestion). This article seems to be saying that it's not just ingested radiation poisoning it protects against which is a big leap. I can see applications for medicine, space travel and a whole host of other areas. My only concern is it may remove one of the main reasons nuclear weapons haven't been used in anger since the end ow WWII.

    Appologies for not being able to find a link to the original paper

  5. Who owns the Movie rights for on Australian Website Bans ... Australians · · Score: 1

    This Idea????

  6. Nice test for the open source community on Firefox 3.5's First Vulnerability "Self-Inflicted" · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Let's see how long it takes them to patch this

    Probably won't be too long

  7. Re:Deorbit on Shiny New Space Fence To Monitor Orbiting Junk · · Score: 1

    If you are going to target specific Junk with this idea why bother sending up water when you can use a LOX/Hydrogen propellant? Simply Launch your vehicle through your targets upcoming orbit and the contrail can do the rest. Given that there is no requirement for a payload this gives some scope to actually de-orbit & re-use the vehicle parts.

    HTH

  8. Re:Doesn't this stuff excite you? on Repulsive Force Discovered In Light · · Score: 1

    I believe there is one serious thread all the rest are people demonstrating their lack of a sense of humour :(

  9. Re:How soon we forget on How Microsoft Has Changed Without Bill Gates · · Score: 2, Funny

    Having to press the "Start" button in order to shutdown your PC was surely M$'s only great innovation :)

  10. Re:Go for it. on US Offering $45M For Huge Wind Energy Test Bed · · Score: 1

    Typical Government Agency offering $45 million for something that can suck & blow at the same time when they already have it it's called congress!

  11. Re:Not BitTorrent on BT Drops Phorm, Citing More Pressing Priorities · · Score: 1

    Shortcut???? surely you mean acronym which is still incorrect given that British Telecom changed its name in the early 90's to BT as others in here have already pointed out. Lets see BitTorrent has been around for what about 6 or 7 years which one do you think has prior art???

  12. Re:Wrong thing for the right reasons? on US, Russia Reach Nuclear Arsenal Agreement · · Score: 1

    Hmmm sorry I read that and suddenly it occurred to me that you could switch Russia for America and Ex-Soviet for Islamic and your statement would still be just about as accurate.
    Apologies for being a troll

  13. Re:Fallout on US, Russia Reach Nuclear Arsenal Agreement · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't worry if they both keep cutting their arsenals like this they will just leave themselves at the mercy of China. BTW this child saviour of yours does he have a talking dog?

  14. Re:VICTORY! on UK Compulsory ID Plan Shelved · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you know what irony is?

    Isn't it like Goldy & Leady

    /baldrick

  15. Re:iPhone 3GS - Cooled By Pure Apple Fanboyism? on Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink · · Score: 4, Funny

    B3ta had a compo which I believe is relevant to this thread

    http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/iphone/

  16. Heard a similar on Galactic Origin For 62M-Year Extinction Cycle? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    theory about 20 years ago. However that one suggested the reason for the mass extinctions was because the stars in the galactic plane are much closer together so the likely hood of being in close proximity to a supernova and all the incumbent radiation that entails is much higher. This also explains why occasionally mass extinction skips a beat. Of course the 2 scientists who postulated this theory were promptly laughed at and ridiculed by the scientific community in that very grown up way that scientists do.

    Cold fusion anyone?

  17. Whats the big deal???? on Google Funding the Next Big One? · · Score: 1

    I mean in California who's going to notice another earth quake?

    Just because the technique causes tremors doesn't mean it's going to cause the next big one they get quakes all the time in CA anything this technique causes probably wont even interrupt dinner

    This just smacks of more tabloid science like all that bull about the LHC

  18. Fantastic!!! on China's Green Dam, No Longer Compulsory, May Have Lifted Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now all they need to do is write the code to take down the "Great Fire Wall of China" and put it on auto update

  19. Personally I find it scary enough on Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality · · Score: 1

    that my printer has a web server built in. Now my browser is going to have one too?????
    Just one more thing to patch

  20. Re:Don't we already have it on Real Nanotechnology Getting Closer, Says Drexler · · Score: 1

    I think you answered that for your self they are called "Micro"chips for a reason

  21. Re:Worst Mistake That Still Needs Fixing on Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Honourable Mention: Keyboards -- Most computer keyboards are designed for some other lifeform -- one with a single arm bearing 10 or more fingers.

    Actually most normal keyboards are designed the way they are to slow down the user this is because they were designed for the old mechanical typewriters which would stick if you went too fast.

  22. Re:Okay, enough already on EC To Pursue Antitrust Despite Microsoft's IE Move · · Score: 1

    Personally even though IE's not my browser of choice if they bundled Firefox I'd still download IE for those few websites that don't function right under Firefox. Not to mention I'd need it and just about every other browser if I had to do any Web Design (Which I occasionally do)

    BTW love the sig best laugh I've had all week

  23. Re:Irresponsible headline, summary on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    I had a friend who was a commercial airline pilot. The man never flew sober! Trust me with the advances in AI give me the computer anyday. Also bear in mind that on modern Airbuses the computer normally lands the plane anyway the Pilot is just their to keep the Hostesses amused in between flights :)

  24. Lets face it it won't be the 1st time on First Zero-Gravity Wedding Planned · · Score: 1

    someone vomits at a wedding

  25. Use your imagination and think of a better domain on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    It's that simple. If you find another and that's taken see what's on the site if it's under construction or just the usual search sh1t put up buy the domain registrar (which many do) try contacting the owner and find out what happened there are lots out there that people registered legitimately thinking they were going to do something with but they never got around to it or the business idea never got off the ground. You could even find yourself talking to the Official Receiver/Liquidator if the business went bust. At the end of the day not everyone who owns a domain name that's just sitting there is a squatter although most are. If you do find yourself talking to a squatter end the communication and move onto another domain.

    Good luck