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  1. Re:I agree on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    Oh, I'm sure they spent a little time examining the Bing Toolbar in a decompiler, and on a network whose traffic was recorded before going through this much trouble! They knew exactly what was being sent where before they ever made the pages.

  2. Re:I'll take one! on Asus, Gigabyte To Replace All Sandy Bridge Boards · · Score: 1

    Im guessing I could do 10 / hr if I set up to rework them, possibly more if I had hundreds to run in batches.

  3. No... loG on Xbox Live Labels Autistic Boy "Cheater" · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to bet that they log everything that happens to everyone in every game played, and BING this kid popped up Immediately upon trying his first cheat, and they watched him cheat more and more, and then have a hacker buy him armor and then cheat a little more. It must be so obvious when you show up with something you didn't earn on their server!

    What if I show up at your work tomorrow with admin rights on half of your machines? My Mom swearing that I must have earned the right to be root on your box would do little to convince you I'm sure!

    Cheers!

  4. Re:Problem on Facebook Launches Social Login and HTTPS · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you think that any govt or other official reasonably familiar with you and your friends might also be able to identify thier faces and gain access to your account as well?

    I imagine the cops holding their facial recognition camers up to the computer screen and blooop bleeep oh that's Joe Doe A.K.A. JD... Next...

  5. Re:I call no-way on Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam · · Score: 1

    You could always click on Advanced Search. There is a search for the exact phrase,search for all the words, none of the words, and other useful fields on the page. They mostly generate complex queries that could be entered in the simple search field, but it seems to do a better job (IMHO) with the exact phrase field in the advanced search page than putting the same terms in quotes on the simple search page.

    YMMV (as Google uses custom search results for everyone!

    Cheers :D

  6. Just saw them! on How Do You Store Your Personal Photos? · · Score: 1

    Best Buy is selling off the 1TB USB 2.0 Toshiba HDDs for $86.00 because the USB 3.0 models have arrived for $129 or so. I got everyone with a digital camera one for christmas, and 2 for myself.

    I was going to buy (pricing) an enclosure to use my HDDs that I replaced with SDDs to reuse them, but they wanted $60 for the empty box so I figured the 1TB HDD was worth the $26, and bought myself one, and nearly a month later 4 more for Xmas. Best Buy had 8 - 10 on the shelf every time I went in there (way to often) so they likely have one left for you, if you hurry.

    The smaller sizes had not been replaced with USB 3.0 and were not on clearance as of my last lunch break:) I would imagine they are next as USB 3.0 works its way down the line.

    NABBE-JARC

    Cheers!

  7. Re:so HR will just open any file? or is a word mac on Hackers Respond To Help Wanted Ads With Malware · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My old boss moved back home and worked out a spiffy job doing govt contracts and he had 4 others working for him at the time, and I was considering being the 5th, so I went down to interview and work there for a week training his new people, and he told me proudly that he was the resident IT professional as well, and I warned him that he should be hiring someone to do that full time, he seemed offended.

    The next day, I introduced him to BackTrack and we decided to take some time and try to hack his network. Needless to say we were in his WEP secured network within 5 minutes, and within 15 minutes more we were happily browsing files on the Drobo connected to his laptop in his office!

    I then went back to my hotel around the corner, and was easily able to see his network traffic from the hotel network, and grab his emails and other communications with wireshark!

    I didnt take the job, so the IT guy was employee #5, and he spent weeks removing all the crap he found!

    Cheers!

  8. Re:Why does this code even exist? on PHP Floating Point Bug Crashes Servers · · Score: 1

    That is a concern with single precision floating point numbers, but doubles will have no problem exactly representing any number out to 10 decimal places or more depending on the size of the number. Singles can be in the range of 2^-31 to 2^31, and being that this number is much larger, Im assuming it is double precision, which is an IEEE format, and does not have that limitation.

  9. Re:Feeding the what? on The Care and Feeding of the Android GPU · · Score: 1

    Isn't Alt-Enter to go in and out of full screen (no other applications or desktop or taskbars will be visible), and Alt-Tab to change applications (which may or may not be full screen)

  10. This hasn't worked for a year now? on The 10 Best Android Hacks · · Score: 1

    Would it have helped to have the alarm set for 2011 insteaf of 2010? Or did you do this test in your time machine?

    Cheers!

  11. OooOooOoo Tell Me More! on Samsung Set To Introduce Android-Based iPod Touch Competitor · · Score: 1

    I was strongly considering a Galaxy phone to be my next phone. Can you please tell me more of what you didnt like about it!?

    You could optionally mention something(s) you like as well!

    Thanks / Cheers / Happy New Year!

  12. Tape or Disk? on What's the Oldest File You Can Restore? · · Score: 1

    I have some tapes with my VIC 20 that have all of the programs that I spent all night typing in from the code books I bought (still have also). These would be from christmas 1981 and beyond.I wrote some microcontroller code to decode the bits from a standard casette player, and my boss wrote some PC softwar in Matlab to decode it with the soundcard. We had a little christmas challenge back in 2004 to see who could do (code) it faster and decode it more accurately. Ahhh good Times!

    I was lucky enough to find some LOGO files on a 5 1/4 floppy from the summer of 1980 that I opened a few years ago. I reapired this RRRFOld Compaq "Laptop Portable Computer" for work that had both types of floppy drive in it. I spent days going thru all of my old 5 1/4 stuff and putting it on 3 1/2 floppies, and then into my 3 backup drives.

    My 1982 Small Engine Inventory database from 4th grade is as funny as it gets!
    Engine : 7 Hp Tecumseh
    Status : Big hole in block
    Location: Behind garden in weeds

    Happy Holidays!

  13. Re:Claims on Kodak's Patent Spat Threatens Photo Web Sites · · Score: 1

    So, if 9 (or however many) months earlier I had completed a seatless version of an otherwise nearly identical machine, it would not count as prior art?

    Cheers!

  14. Re:bad for consumers as well. on Is 'Quadroid' the New 'Wintel'? · · Score: 0

    in a year or two, powering up a 1.6 android phone will likely result in a rapid influx of insta-pawnage that'll rival connecting a Windows98 machine to the internet:) There'd be so many bots auto-pawning you, you probally couldn't get from a hard reset to making a phone call before it's un-useable!

  15. Re:The writing is on the wall. on Is 'Quadroid' the New 'Wintel'? · · Score: 1

    Now thats fucking funny!

    I hope not, but its funny.

    (still laughing)

  16. EVERYBODY!!! on Is 'Quadroid' the New 'Wintel'? · · Score: 1

    Replied to on WinMOMAP :)

    Cheers!

  17. Re:Which is worse? on One Giant Cargo Ship Pollutes As Much As 50M Cars · · Score: 1

    (as seen on slashdot)

  18. It's not as bad as you make it out to be! on Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup · · Score: 1

    I've had 8 different Windows mobile devices since 2004 (Audiovox SMT5600 to a HTC Touch Pro 2) and they have always been some of the most capable phones available when I purchased them, and once you get to know one, they can do just about everything you want to do with a mobile phone. Especially if you spend a little time over at XDA Developers or PPCGeeks!

    Windows Mobile 6.5 (and 6.1) works very well for me, and I rarely have to restart it after days of use, and after having WM for a while, you get all the apps you need, and just use one of the many free restore programs to reinstall everything after you reflash, or hard reset the device.

    I trust my data (and there's a lot of it) on these devices, and I just don't trust it on an Android device yet. Don't get me wrong. I still think I get the occasional virus, trojan, whatever you wanna call it on my device, as it will show the tell-tale signs of being infected, but It's painless to restore it (and it gives me an excuse to upgrade ROMs:) and I know when it's gonna happen based on the sights I go to!

    I can also run Android on my TP2, and it works pretty well, I just can't help but feel data-mined every time I boot it up though! Ubuntu runs suprisingly well also!!

    So, I guess WM might not amke the most user friendly device as far as getting it to do what you want, but it's just like a mini Windows box, and once you find your way sround, and install a few of your favorite programs, it's all there. So to me (and I love linux too) Windows Mobile "just works pretty well".

  19. Re:Nothing? on Verizon, 4G and iPhones · · Score: 1

    I was an Alltel customer that got sold to Verizon, and my touch pro 2 lost it's ability to surf and talk when that happened! It's very annoying when tethering! Alltel used that as a selling point as well!

  20. Re:My advice is to wait some days before upgrading on Ubuntu 10.10 Release Candidate Launched · · Score: 1

    I would suggest installing on a spare partition, and at least running it thru the hardware testing program. Hopefully on every computer you have access too. It's so easy to submit bug reports, and try to make it actually work for you, instead of waiting for someone else to do it. You dont have to upgrade everything to it, but geez, if you use it, throw it on, and use it for a few days in your spare time on unimportant things, and help make the world a better place. I love seeing my bugs get fixed, and checking that it's fixed for me as well. Then you have a much better idea if you wanna or should upgrade when the next version is released.

  21. Re:No hardware? on HDCP Encryption/Decryption Code Released · · Score: 1

    There was a link to an HDMI capture card in the article about the key being published. Im reading /. on my phone, or i'd try to find it.

  22. Re:Do they? on Android Software Piracy Rampant · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the sweeper would / could / should ask for more of money for sweeping the floor if there were only around 100 people a day walking on the floor, and suddenly there are 10,000 people a day walking on the same floor.

    Then, say the majority of the new people walking across the floor are not spending any money to make your boss any more money. Is he going to want to pay to more if he is not making more too?

  23. Re:For people who do electronics on Real-Time Power Monitoring Options? · · Score: 1

    I was just given a 50 week lead time for an SMT resistor!

  24. Re:looking for high density ROM to stop digital de on New Silicon-Based Memory 5X Denser Than NAND Flash · · Score: 1

    I've seen many application notes relating to long term flash memory reliability in embedded applications, and they all recommend having the bootloader, or application rewrite pages periodically to recharge the flash memory and this will allow the device to provide over 20 or so years of guaranteed operation.

    Now it does nothing to guarantee a 20 + year shelf life if left unpowered (service parts). Hopefully if you are the manufacturer, you retained the required cables / interfaces / software / computers / knowledge you need to be able to reprogram your own stuff 10 - 20 years from now so your replacment parts don't die on the shelf right along with the ones that have been working in the field for 20 years!

  25. Re: Foveon Sensor on Canon Unveils 120-Megapixel Camera Sensor · · Score: 1

    Has anyone here used a Foveon Sensor based camera?

    Are they still being made / updated?

    How do they comparee to some of the cameras (sensors) described here.

    Benefits / Drawbacks?

    Last time i saw one was when they came out, there was a segment with Leo LaPorte on TechTV. I always thought it was a great idea. and wondered if it ever became relevent.

    Thanks!