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  1. Just another theft on UK Royalty Group Wants ISPs To Pay For Pirating Customers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My money is already stolen if I record the sound of my own band on my own CD. I don't need another theft if I want to let someone hear my songs on the net. Off course, the stolen money should go to the rights holder, but as a rights holder to my own songs, I never saw even a cent from it. And my songs have been played in public and broadcasted.

  2. Re:Not conclusive on Toyota Sudden Acceleration Is Driver Error · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could it even be the spring that makes the pedal spring back to the top that was broken or displaced? There could be a lot of failures that would cause the same things to be logged.

  3. It's logical on Apple Censors Consumer Report iPhone4 Discussions · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, that is what you do with bad apples, isn't it?

  4. Re:Promises on FTC Warns Site Not To Sell Personal Data · · Score: 1

    But the point is, the buyers need not promise anything. So nobody violates a promise: the original company ceased to exists and the new owner did not make the promise. So this is more a responsibility issue and an issue whether personal data can be transferred or sold at all.

  5. Best practise on ESRB Exposes Emails of Gamers Who Filed Privacy Complaints · · Score: 1

    best practices for protecting individuals' personal information online.

    In other words, anonymity.

  6. Re:Contract on Long-Term Liability For One-Time Security Breaches? · · Score: 1

    Not really. That is an internal thing between you and the third party company. When you outsource a job, you are still 100% liable for it. So outsourcing should be done with good checks, apart from the good contract. In programmer's speak: it is like encapsulation. The customer should not be able to tell the difference between you doing the job or a subcontractor doing it. And if the customer can tell the difference, it is your liability (which you may be able to outsource as well, but it starts end ends with you).

  7. Re:Astonishing on Windows XP SP2 Support Ends Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    I was afraid of actively loosing quite an amount of data. Instead, I made it dual-boot and read the disk from Xubuntu when needed. A full-blown rescue operation was more expensive than a new machine.

  8. Re:Astonishing on Windows XP SP2 Support Ends Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Unless that next service pack breaks the OS. Which was exactly what happened to me. SP3 brought my machine to a near halt. After a full three days search how to repair it, I got a new machine.

  9. Great idea! on Australia Waters Down, Delays Internet Filter Policy · · Score: 1

    All they have to do is arrest the volunteers for being paedophiles!

  10. Re:autoimmune on 'Forest Bathing' Considered Healthful · · Score: 1

    It might very well prevent it. See it this way: your body has an army. And it needs an army, as all kind of illnesses try to invade it. But if an army has nothing to do, it will have a mutiny. Turn against its master. That is very well what an autoimmune disease is. So keep your immune system busy, but don't overdo it.

  11. Re:Duh on 'Forest Bathing' Considered Healthful · · Score: 1

    And you probably ate real food instead of modified "commodity crops". Not bad for your health and immune system either.

  12. Cool! on Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite 'Grandma Problem' · · Score: 1

    Who's grandma is so cool as to buy Metallica tickets?

  13. Re:Read-only switch for USB sticks? on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 1

    Too bad the SD specifications are not open. If you follow the link to http://www.sdcard.org/, you will see that it takes a non-disclosure agreement to read the specifications. According to the before mentioned site, it is up to the manufacturer of the drive. So it may be handled by the hardware, or by the software or not at all if it is a sloppily manufactured drive. I wouldn't count on it to be safe.

  14. Re:Poor design.. on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why execute anything thats stored on the usb sticks?

    Quite simple, because Microsoft had a policy to make any data format executable. Yes, images also. And XML, off course. And CSS, even though the standard explicitly warned against that. In Microsoft's own words, to "make developers smile".

  15. Re:Read-only switch for USB sticks? on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are you sure? According to this site, the SD write protect switch does not protect anything, just like the old floppies. It only communicates intent.

  16. Re:Read-only switch for USB sticks? on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 1

    You are right off course. But looking at every USB stick I have, I see that I could not even prevent their infection.

  17. Read-only switch for USB sticks? on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I never encountered a USB stick with a read-only switch. Floppies had them (although they only "communicated" a read-only setting and could not enforce it). SD cards have them, but no USB stick I ever saw had one. Why? Such a switch on a digital device can really enforce the read-only setting.

  18. Missile launch in 3, 2, 1... on No Samples On Japan's Hayabusa Asteroid Probe · · Score: 1

    Shhhh!!!!

    Can you imagine what a "takedown notice" would do with an asteroid?

  19. Re:Stats on In UK, Computer Science Graduates the Least Employable · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So 83% are finding jobs within 6 months?

    No. If 17% is unable to, it may well mean that 51% never even tried.

  20. What's the difference between a lemming and lawyer on 36-Hour Lemmings Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's the difference between a lemming and lawyer?

    A lemming is less short-sighted: he must at least be able to follow another lemming.

  21. Re:Gaming mouse? on The "King of All Computer Mice" Finally Ships · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So true! 3 buttons are far too little for entity select, end selection, confirm, cancel, zoom in, zoom out, pan, various snap modes, and all the other commands you want under the mouse-hand while you use the other hand to issue commands like line, circle, fillet, etc.

  22. Gaming mouse? on The "King of All Computer Mice" Finally Ships · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Crazy or not, it's obviously more than just a gaming mouse."

    I would use this for CAD applications. And yes, I have been waiting a long time for it. A colleague once taped a keyboard on top of a mouse and told me he had constructed my ideal mouse. The one shown above is even better

  23. The real problem: on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    The real problem is if you have two kids, can remember the sex of only one of them and have to resort to statistics to know whether the other kid is a boy or a girl.

  24. Isn't this against the whole purpose of ARPANET? on Senate Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bill · · Score: 1

    I thought that the whole point of the internet was that it would continue after a significant part was switched off or bombed away. So this will not stop any foreign groups from communicating and the USA is effectively plugging its fingers in its ears when this law is used.

  25. Re:I don't get it. on McDonalds Facing Lawsuit For Happy Meal Toys · · Score: 1

    Less profitable, I guess.