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  1. Re:bloody hell on Apple Security Blunder Exposes Lion Login Passwords In Clear Text · · Score: 1

    If you want to get hold of a colleague's password?

  2. Re:malware on Apple Security Blunder Exposes Lion Login Passwords In Clear Text · · Score: 1

    Those would have upgraded to the new version of Filevault with full disk encryption to replace the legacy version that had plenty of drawbacks.

  3. Re:Really? on Apple Security Blunder Exposes Lion Login Passwords In Clear Text · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your login password also unlocks the encryption password for FileVault. The login passwords were apparently logged in a file outside of the encrypted image. (Only for the old pre-lion version of FileVault running under Lion)

  4. Re:lucky for me... on Apple Security Blunder Exposes Lion Login Passwords In Clear Text · · Score: 2

    Actually, Lion's FileVault is not a problem. Only if you were using the old FileVault from previous OSes (which only encrypted the home folder), upgraded to Lion, but did not switch to the new full disk encryption FileVault for some strange reason.

  5. Re:cannot wait on Nanoparticles Heated By Radio Waves Switch On Genes In Mice · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't this be a bit easy to hack? Just blast a diabetes patient with radio waves, instant insulin overdose, nobody will know what happened. Perfect murder.

  6. Re:I'd rather a pill I choose to swallow on Nanoparticles Heated By Radio Waves Switch On Genes In Mice · · Score: 2

    First they came for the retards, but I did not speak out because I thought I was not a retard...

  7. Re:I used four mice. Squeak. on Verifying a User By Following the Movements of Their Mouse · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they're all attached to different devices, so that would not matter in this case as each device would create its own profile of your mouse usage on that device.

  8. Re:amazing summary on Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Arrested In Belize · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I did read it properly, he just didn't write it properly. Everything I quoted, was copied and pasted directly from the article. He did say they were without food and water for fourteen hours and they got water around noon. And the bit about being taken to Belize City (in handcuffs? Incarcerated?) only to show up later with copies of his licenses (free to go back to get those after all?) is pretty unclear as well. Crappy writing indeed, but anyway, I guess the big picture is clear enough.

  9. Re:amazing summary on Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Arrested In Belize · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The article itself is pretty amazing too.

    On Monday at six o’clock, I was awakened by the sound of a bullhorn
    (...)
    and for fourteen hours outside in the sun, I sat handcuffed without food or water. We got water around noon.
    (...)
    They (...) took me to Belize City. Fortunately we had copies. We showed up later at the police station with the copies. Even then it was difficult to get out.

    Fourteen hours between six in the morning and noon? Being locked up in the police station first, and then showing up at the station afterwards?

    I am confused...

  10. Re:Dawkins/GODSPOT-0DAY on Symantec: Religious Sites "Riskier Than Porn For Viruses" · · Score: 1

    mod parent up

  11. Re:Jesus loves you long time. on Symantec: Religious Sites "Riskier Than Porn For Viruses" · · Score: 0

    Porn as a religion, that's not a bad idea. The Church of the Holy Dick. I bet you could get enough believers to qualify as an official religion in no time. If even pastafarianism managed to get recognized in some countries, why not!

  12. Re:Solution on Symantec: Religious Sites "Riskier Than Porn For Viruses" · · Score: 1

    People with the critical thinking skills necessary to perform well in information technology have outgrown any need for invisible friends.

    Yes, but not the need for money from invisible strangers.

  13. Re:Verifying a user by following his dick. on Verifying a User By Following the Movements of Their Mouse · · Score: 1

    But then how will women get money when they're having their period? Surely their characteristics will change a bit? Not saying it would be impossible, I'd love to see someone implement it, but I'm not sure it would be cost-effective.

  14. Re:Elsevier... on Verifying a User By Following the Movements of Their Mouse · · Score: 1

    Exactly. They pissed off too many serious researchers with all their restrictions and paywalls, are getting boycotted as a result, and now this is the only kind of stuff they can still get their hands on.

  15. Re:Not persistent enough. on Verifying a User By Following the Movements of Their Mouse · · Score: 2

    Yes, most people working in an office use at least four or five different mice and switch between them several times a day. Therefore, the system is totally useless. It could only possibly work for the kind of people who barely even know where to plug in a mouse, which is... oh, wait.

  16. Re:And then get locked out... on Verifying a User By Following the Movements of Their Mouse · · Score: 1

    Or if you had a few drinks, smoked some pot, or are just simply a bit tired or excited or...

  17. Re:What if the Pound goes down again? on Microsoft Raises UK Prices By a Third and Can't Rule Out Future Hikes · · Score: 1

    I meant up again, sorry. Which is actually what it has been doing for the last two years or so.

  18. Re:Liars on Microsoft Raises UK Prices By a Third and Can't Rule Out Future Hikes · · Score: 1

    It has since the beginning of 2009, but it was way higher before that. Take a look at the 5 year chart. The Pound went from almost 1.5 down to 1.04 and is now only back up to 1.22. So, as much as I hate Microsoft, I guess you could call that a "sustained weakness" even though the recent trend is certainly up.

  19. What if the Pound goes down again? on Microsoft Raises UK Prices By a Third and Can't Rule Out Future Hikes · · Score: 1

    Will they lower their UK prices in that case? Or will they just raise euro prices to compensate?

  20. Re:What the hell? on Facebook 'Likes' Aren't Protected Speech · · Score: 1

    So if they would have left actual negative comments, they would have been protected. But because they have not said enough, they are not protected?

  21. Re:Eliminates *all* the drawbacks to glass? on MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' · · Score: 1

    That was a reference to the PHD Movie, but I guess few people watched it...

  22. In other news... on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    Swimming can make people less likely to drown!

  23. Re:Noooooo on MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' · · Score: 1

    But unfortunately that's why nobody will sell non-reflective screens.

  24. Re:Noooooo on MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' · · Score: 1

    Exactly, all market research indicated that people WANT reflections on their screens!

  25. Re:Vehicle Use? on MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' · · Score: 1

    Hydrophobic windscreens already exist, but after a while they get dirty and become pretty much like any other glass.