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  1. Re:How could they have gotten away with that claim on Apple Yanks Mac Virus Immunity Claims From Website · · Score: 2

    windows 2000 had security, but when people defaulting use an admin account for everything stuff happens, osx didn't allow that for accounts so most can be pointed at end users. But truth is with windows on 20x more machine then osx it would get targeted. Osx would be a prime target if it was reverse. Least with MS they didn't Deny the exsistent of virus's and flaw's in their OS, Apple on other hand up til now made the claim OSX was 100% secure and never got virus's. MS least takes a proactive approach to updates to windows where as Apple took 2 months to fix the flaw that Flashback trojan targeted. Windows side had update to fix it the day after it was announced to be a flawed code. 1day vs 8 weeks. Overall Avg windows user is more proactive at taking steps to protect their computer then osx users since Apple has built the false image of virus free OS which everyone that seen that mac vs pc add where mac claimed he don't get virus's, Apple fans said its true, but people like me that didn't have our heads up our ass's knew OSX probably had as many flaws as windows did just no one was looking for them. Well over next few years flaw's will be found that been missed in OSX probably dating back to earliest versions.

  2. Re:Scummy on IP Lawfirm Sues Typosquatting Security Researcher · · Score: 1

    I agree if he bought the domains legally and mail was sent to those he didn't unlawful interception anything since it was sent to a domain he owned. It would be like a letter from someone else ending up in my mail box and cause i took it outta my mail box its tampering with the mail.

  3. Re:The Main Problem with SOPA on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 2

    SOPA and ACTA were both wrote so you needed to be a lawyer to under stand them. Well most ppl don't know lawyer talk so people that did know lawyer talk aka lawyers, read the bills and explained them and put them in terms that everyone understands. They explained how vague and open the bill is and what it COULD allow which is the key to the bills. Not what they wrote to do, but what way they are worded that they could do.

  4. Re:Same with EU/ACTA on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 1

    Yea ACTA was SOPA jr. they used a trade agreement to bypass all the gov red tape straight to the president to be signed in. Reason people got up in arm's over it was no one knew a thing about it til it was leaked. When people heard it was a back room agreement wrote up in back room with only content industry input. Everyone knew it wasn't gonna have public's best interest in mind.

  5. Re:Huh? on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 1

    Yea most sites in the work are hosted either US, Canada and the Europe. Countries that have those blocks are countries barely anyone in world visit's sites in those countries less they have to. Plus the people in those countries haven't had many rights to start with and they aren't about to give them rights anytime soon.

  6. Re:The content industry is an entitlement problem on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 1

    The content industry does not seem to recognize that society has already given them all sorts of concessions; which limit the rights of others in order to protect them. They have copyright extensions that go well beyond what the Constitution stated the aim of copyright to be; they have tools like DMCA, the have FBI acting like the own team of private investigators, the have the FCC requiring completely unnecessary content control features in electronics, the list goes on.

    SOPA was gonna do same thing DMCA did in a way, give them more power to enforce their copyright. Problem with DMCA is they have abused its power since day it was signed taking down content they don't even have rights to. More power won't help them fix their broken and 40 year old business model. Time to start living in today guys not 40 years ago

  7. Re:Reminds me of a Yes Minister quote on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 1

    when corp $$$ is involved and elections are not close, its more like engine from a zr1 corvette and breaks of a bike.

  8. not a matter of breaking on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 1

    Its a matter of you deciding what sites to censor with 0 input from people in the country. Only input you get on if site should be blocked is copyright industry input which they only have their profits in mind when they block a site. This Country was built on freedom not the copyright industries profit margin. They have no right to say what sites i can and can't go to. If they don't want to provide a means for me to get the content I want i have every right to go to sites that provide it. On top of the blocking there were other vague things in SOPA that would allow them to do a lot of other things that the bill wasn't intended to allow which they will say its not ment for that but when they got the power they will sure use it, case in point would be the DMCA. They got the power to take videos off youtube they don't like under copyright grounds even if they don't have the rights to the video to start with.

  9. Re:Draw me a line on RIAA Goes After CNET For Media-Conversion Software · · Score: 1

    They draw the line on anything that screws with their profits which can be anything.

  10. Re:THEN YOU DO IT MISTER HIGH AND MIGHTY !! on Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Lets look at it in terms of hardware sales. What % of buyers run windows/OSX vs linux? Don't think linux really has many programs that use most their cards to what they are made for.

  11. Re:Block or ignore IE7 perhaps? on Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax · · Score: 1

    What i was thinking, since site can be coded for certain browsers like computer and mobile, they could set it separate page up for if they are using IE7 it sends them to a simple page saying you are using an old version with links to either firefox, chrome or the newer version of IE.

  12. weclome to big $$$$ on Court Ruling Shuts Down Australian Cloud TV Recorders · · Score: 0

    It always wins in court over rights of the little guy

  13. Re:Defense Contractors on Connecticut Resident Stopped By State Police For Radioactivity · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Unlikely, what most likely happened is he past by a detector which are mounted usually by truck weigh stations and it set one off. yes that is what those little white box's that hang over the highway are

  14. piracy or not on Connecticut Resident Stopped By State Police For Radioactivity · · Score: 1

    All they will do is classify it is under grounds of national security as it could be possible stopping something could be a bomb or something.

  15. Speaking of waste money on Congress: The TSA Is Wasting Hundreds of Millions In Taxpayer Dollars · · Score: 2

    Congress really should look at themselves on this matter, hundreds of millions is pocket change compared to how much congress has wasted over last 30 years.

  16. Re:The voice of experience on Microsoft: Macs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Accepting the fact your OS has flaw's is first stepping to make a secure OS, Apple for years claimed their OS didn't have any. Know all mac fan boys are finding out the hard way and its only gonna get worse.

  17. Re:Will be a surprise to most OS X users on Microsoft: Macs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase' · · Score: 0

    I been saying it for years it was only a matter of time before it happens, Apple painted a picture of 100% secure OS for years now they are eating their words.

  18. Re:Subject needs "overclocking" on Ivy Bridge Running Hotter Than Intel's Last-gen CPU · · Score: 1

    I agree, i mean only enthusiast overclocks really, for MOST people stock speeds cpu is way more then fast enough. I am a pretty heavy gamer and i have a first gen i7 870, most Overclocking i do on it, is the turbo boost from 2.9 to 3.2 ghz built in the cpu and its a fast cpu, on everything i use it for. No need to overclock it.

  19. Re:Well... on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare · · Score: 0

    yea apple gives like 1 year support for stuff, look powerpc chip, after switch to intel they made 1 more os x for it then cut it off. they make ppl buy new stuff but that is apple fanboyz for ya. fact MS supported xp this long is generous of them as they probably been losing money on it for least 5-6 years.

  20. Re:When people abuse prices go up on Best Buy Scans Drivers License For Returns — No More Allowed For 90 Days · · Score: 1

    Maybe if it was limited to returns of items of a certain price and if they broke or something. example "the people who buy a giant TV before the big game and then return it on Monday" would quality for it as they bought an expensive item and returned it and it works perfectly then they should be banned but if its defective then no.

  21. Re:Of Minor Importance on NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call · · Score: 1

    Hence problem with taking this to court now. So many people think he is guilty with just hear-say. In reality there are 2 conflicting stories about what happened and people will believe what they want. Most juror's they pick to be in this game are gonna believe he is guilty no matter how iffy the evidence is against him. So far from what i seen of this case and what has been released to the public there isn't enough to prove he murdered the kid and what he said isn't what happened. Which is reasonable doubt which is why he hasn't been charged yet. They couldn't get a conviction less the jury was hell bent on convicting him which then he could appeal cause bad jury.

  22. Re:Last Tegra device I'll ever buy on NVIDIA Challenges Apple's iPad Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    yea tegra2 was not that good, boxee box was planned to use that but they scrapped it due to lacking power to play 1080 high profile video.

  23. Re:This is funny. on NVIDIA Challenges Apple's iPad Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Apple also in those days would use a benchmark utility that was optimized for their chip, and Intel/AMD based computer they competed against just use some program they just downloaded from the web that has almost 0 optimization for the cpu its on.

  24. Re:This is funny. on NVIDIA Challenges Apple's iPad Benchmarks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    yea its also irony that claims their chip is 4x faster was known to cheat their benchmarks years ago to make their systems look faster then they were.

  25. Re:but really on AMD's Piledriver To Hit 4GHz+ With Resonant Clock Mesh · · Score: 1

    The Draw was @ the wall for the computer so it was the whole computer, hard drive, video card, board.