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  1. Re:Encrypted texting on Android on Encrypt Your Smartphone — Or Else · · Score: 3, Funny

    Come on!
    HTC's stock SMS program is VERY secure,

    it wipes those SMS's totally!

    even when you don't want it too...

    http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5669

  2. Woo!! Great move by apple!! on Apple May Remove the Home Button On the Next IPad · · Score: 1

    Now my mates can have a dedicated button for their "Fart app"...

  3. Re:N97/N97 mini with PuTTy for Symbian on Smartphones For Text SSH Use Re-Revisited · · Score: 1

    If it's a quick fix or check i use my Desire HD with ConnectBot

    but i've a backup cheepo Nokia E63. it's keyboard and PuTTy makes it easier for longer use...

  4. Drat! There goes my attempt at being a writer... on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 1

    ...Guess my "Man's Man guide to Rape Seed oil cooking" won't get published under Amazons new rules...

    It would have made me a fortune....

  5. To paraphrase a FoxNews commentator.. on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not saying all the viewers of Fox news are moronic idiots...
    It's just that a lot of moronic idiots watch Fox News.

  6. Re:Wow... on Hidden Backdoor Discovered On HP MSA2000 Arrays · · Score: 1

    more likely is a bored HP Designer wanted an easy password to remember...

    *put-on-tin-hat*
    OR
    The NSA/CIA/IRS or Homeland (in)Security asked for a backdoor and HP decided to give them one their IQ could remember....
    *keep-tinfoil-hat-on* (hey!! they could be listening to my thoughts...)

  7. In...5...4...3...2 on Wikipedia Pages Now On Amazon — With Product Links · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...1, May the wiki-fiddling begin....

  8. Age old questions... on GNU/Linux and Enlightenment Running On a Fridge · · Score: 1

    ...does en'light'enment stay on when the doors closed? ...does the CPU use the fridge's cooling or does it have its own? ...do you have to use sudo when you go for 'Root beer'?

  9. Re:because I haven't seen anybody say this yet.. on TSA Saw My Junk, Missed Razor Blades, Says Adam Savage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's not "Myth Busted" till we have video evidence of Karri walking through the scanner a few times to test a couple of theories... ^_~

  10. Sounds more like... on Windows Phone Permanently Modifies MicroSD Cards, Warns Samsung · · Score: 1

    ..The Microsoft Phones are going to use the SD card for some sort or Swapfile / Cache (Or something like that)
    Since the "approved" card must have fast, random Read/Write access.

    Expect to require a new SD card every few months if that's the case...

  11. Mutations on Central Dogma of Genetics May Not Be So Central · · Score: 1

    Thought I read somewhere that when the first cells started to form in the primordial soup they were more RNA than DNA since that gave them rapid mutations, the ability to adapt quickly and evolve.

    Later on as Cells and organisms became more complex, DNA took over since it was more stable but mutates / evolves at a slower rate...

  12. Re:Solar Shield? on NASA Working On Solar Storm Shield · · Score: 2, Informative

    Didn't the UN Ban this last month... lol

  13. Re:Meaningless peice on Why the Web Mustn't Become the New TV · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Until 2 tier access comes into play and "Net Neutrality" goes out the window then you'll be stuck with what ever "Howling Mad" Murdoch thinks you need to see...

  14. Re:Hanging ending on Ridley Scott Returns to PKD · · Score: 1

    Ain't this going to be a BBC Production?
    That means it will probably keep the hanging ending and be better than most US treatments would have been...

  15. Hm..... on CBC Bans Use of Creative Commons Music On Podcasts · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... Think "anonymous" are looking for new targets.... ^_~

  16. Re:Just give them something? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    The police don't actually try the passwords on the Machine / Hard drive they take of a person.

    The first thing they do is remove the drive and take a bit level copy of the entire hard drive and store it as an image file on other media (usually loads of DVD's and on a Hard drive).

    They then mount the image in a secure computer (usually a clean fresh install with no network access) and then try to crack the password. The Physical is never touched after the taking of the initial image.

  17. Hmm... on British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...something about locks, a stable door and a horse comes to mind...

  18. What's the Level of Exam?? on Preventing Networked Gizmo Use During Exams? · · Score: 1

    Is it just me but if they "Require" the use of a expensive graphic calculator that has Wi-Fi/3G access then they deserve to fail when given a bog standard Calculator!
    Give the students a "{insert their language} to English" Book if they get stuck with the translation of words...

    If they can't adapt then it's either a failure of the lecturer or the course or they deserve to fail...

  19. In Soviet Russia... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...even they know the earth goes round the sun.

  20. ermmm... check your connection.. on Pirate Bay Down; Police Raids Across Europe · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pirate Bay has been fine for me for the past 12 hours!
    It WAS a bit slow around 4am today but it's been fine...

    But whoever wrote that story should check their grammar, the main sentence is ambiguous at best:
    was it:
    "The Pirate Bay is currently unavailable (For Comment)"
    or
    "The Pirate Bay (Website is down and) is currently unavailable"

    They sound similar but have totally different meanings

  21. One good thing... on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    ... Might be to automatically add the person buying the "Speeding day" Licence to the Organ Donor Register...

    Since their is a high chance that the driver doing 90 will have some sort of fatal accident when they try to overtake a car doing 45

  22. Re:Beck's Sheep Can't Find the Lincoln Memorial? on Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? · · Score: 1

    Who is more foolish? the fool who leads or the fools who follows...

  23. Obscure Song reference: on Robot Swarm Control On Microsoft's Surface · · Score: 1

    With Microsoft "D REAM"...
    "Things can only get better..."

  24. Re:Well, that explains things. on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 1

    yeah but...
    Generation N always things that Generation N-1 are a bunch of grumpy senile old gits who wave their fist in the air and shout "Get off my Lawn" a lot while sitting in rocking chairs when ever a Generation N comes within 30 yards...

  25. Re:Just. Encrypt. Everything. on Child Porn As a Weapon · · Score: 1

    Not really!

    The Judge can still put you on the "Sex Offenders Register" for life.
    You don't need to be convicted of a crime to get on that register in the UK, you just need to be charged with it.

    It usually works out better to plead guilty and you only serve 1/3 of the sentence, so you would be out in 6 months (and on probation for another 1/3) and you'll be off the offenders list in either 5 or 10 years. A bit better than 2 years inside and on the list for life!!

    In the UK any conviction you have served can be taken off your record after 10 years (The person has "paid his debt to society" and is considered "spent") if the custody is less than 2 years.(I think!) so he can still have a "normal" life...

    (IANAL but Scottish law is a bit different that English law in most cases..)