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  1. Re:With what host? on VirtualBox Beta Supports OS X As Guest OS On Macs · · Score: 1

    Only the early-release Intel Macs sent to developers used TPM. OS X installer only looks at the hardware present and whether the computer says it's a Mac. Mac OSX desktop will fail to install on VirtualBox - only server. They don't bypass these hardware checks entirely.

  2. Re:With what host? on VirtualBox Beta Supports OS X As Guest OS On Macs · · Score: 1

    As a hackintosh user, I'd have to assume that this means that you'd have to do typical hackintosh-y things to get Mac OS X to run on a Mac or Windows host.

  3. Re:With what host? on VirtualBox Beta Supports OS X As Guest OS On Macs · · Score: 1

    I don't think the host hardware matters as long as it's intel-compatible. That's the whole point of an x86 emulator. It might require certain features of the host processor, but that's probably all.

  4. Re:With what host? on VirtualBox Beta Supports OS X As Guest OS On Macs · · Score: 1

    Snow Leopard is only $30. You don't need the "Box Set" at $129 to make it work. But both are different from recovery discs. Recovery discs won't work.

  5. Re:Make lemonade on Recourse For Draconian Encryption Requirements? · · Score: 1

    If the only way they allowed access to their network was from an approved livecd, that would actually be pretty smart. You can use any computer, and it will be locked down for you by the OS - without disturbing any data already on the computer.

  6. Re:Green or BW? on OLED Film Could Provide Cheap Night Vision For Cars · · Score: 1

    I doubt it's a typo. Neither picture uses the OLED technology. The 7 series has a high-tech night vision system, but it's not OLED. If you read on...

    So far they've only managed to make a tiny 1-square-centimeter example, but due to the OLED technology underpinning it, it should be scalable to much larger sizes--and the scientists behind the discovery think they can do it within 18 months.

  7. Re:Man in the Middle on ISP Is Bypassing Firefox's Location Bar Search · · Score: 1

    or based on HTTP request headers.

  8. Re:Sure they can on ISP Is Bypassing Firefox's Location Bar Search · · Score: 1

    And you only visit your own domains? Or does it have to forward requests to the root servers via port 53? Doesn't sound like that fixes anything.

  9. Re:Boot disks on The Mystery of the Mega-Selling Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    If you have the floppy as a disk image, or can run dd, you're not that far off from creating a bootable floppy-compatible CD. It's called El-Torito, and it's available in Windows with IMGBurrn or on Linux with K3B.

  10. Re:Some hardware needs them on The Mystery of the Mega-Selling Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    For firmware updates that require a boot floppy, you can just burn a CD-R(W) with an el torito boot image.

  11. Re:I couldn't disagree more on Mass. Data Security Law Says "Thou Shalt Encrypt" · · Score: 1

    Firstly, your point about different territories with different rules is fundamentally flawed. Many places — all of Europe, for example — already have stronger data protection laws than most of the US. This causes no earth-shattering problem with compliance. Large companies keep the data they can't legally export within their European offices. Smaller companies just outsource things like payment collection to services that guarantee any personal data will be processed securely and not transferred outside of EU borders.

    Exporting data to another country is one thing. A state making rules about interstate commerce is just not allowed in the U.S. If they want to make this law apply to businesses in Massachussetts, fine. But if they think they can come after a company in Texas or California, they're wrong.

  12. Re:Wot? on Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    Yeah...what part of "this note is legal tender for ALL debts, public and private" doesn't a branch of the government understand?

  13. Re:Wot? on Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    The most recent gen. of Dollars has at least: color shifting ink on the numbers, a portrait that you can see only with a backlight to the bill, and microprinting.

  14. Re:time for a change on Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that just equal the original dollar amount of what was counterfeited and put into circulation?

  15. Re:time for a change on Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    Just don't use your laser printer. Your serial number is printed in encoded yellow dots on every page: http://www.pcworld.com/article/118664/government_uses_color_laser_printer_technology_to_track_documents.html

  16. Re:Bathroom Breaks on Photos of Chinese Sweatshop Used By Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Calling it "Chinese Food" to emphasize the digestive realities of eating such food, while knowing that their digestive systems are entirely used to it and wouldn't react the way mine would.

  17. Re:Bathroom Breaks on Photos of Chinese Sweatshop Used By Microsoft · · Score: 1

    They're Chinese. They eat Chinese food.

  18. Re:Any second now. on Google Enumerates Government Requests · · Score: 1

    That would just give some people an online directory to all child porn that has been removed from Google searches.

  19. Re:What Amazon needs to do ... on Amazon Fights For Privacy of Customer Records · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would rather keep my ability to log in at any time and see my own entire purchase history.

  20. Re:Who gets to decide what the iPad is? on History Repeats Itself — Mac & the iPad · · Score: 1

    It's like the iPod Touch, not the iPhone. Unless you mean the 3G version that isn't in the public's hands yet. I actually did get an iPod Touch for free. I use it on Wifi quite happily. It's not a portable computer in a lot of respects (I don't want to jailbreak it), but it's a decent portable mail & web device.

  21. Re:Yet another legal solution to a technical probl on US House Passes Ban On Caller ID Spoofing · · Score: 1

    Outbound calling with a VoIP service that's different from your inbound VoIP or landline service. You want the callee to be able to return the call to the number that reaches you. Not a generic DID number owned by your VoIP provider.

  22. Re:I've always wondered... on Life Recorder · · Score: 1

    Don't let the RIAA hear you.

  23. Re:The Final Cut on Life Recorder · · Score: 1

    Yes. A very strange role for Robin Williams, though not as disturbing as One Hour Photo.

  24. Re:Yes on Virtualizing Workstations For Common Hardware? · · Score: 1

    Actually I'd say Windows 9 is a fairly modern OS, considering it's not likely to exist for most of the next decade...

  25. Re:Isn't that called an... on Virtualizing Workstations For Common Hardware? · · Score: 1

    No....Google owns the Internet! They bought it from Al Gore.