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  1. Re:not so simple on Adobe Acrobat Toolbar Worse than Malware? · · Score: 1

    The parent poster was referring to PDFs with form fields, I believe.

  2. Dull photos on Inside The Studios of Sony Online Entertainment · · Score: 1

    The photos were rather dull. Where are the shots of the server rooms? I think that would be more interesting to the average /. viewer than somebody's rather boring cubicle.

    Maybe it was in the videos? I don't do WMV.

  3. Re:Debt on Apple to Buy TiVo? · · Score: 1

    TiVo IPO'ed back in 1999 for 5.5 million shares at $16/share or $88 million. I don't think the cash they have now is all from the IPO. It looks like they took on some debt and issued some more shares. Dig around in their SEC filing if you're interested.

  4. Re:Debt on Apple to Buy TiVo? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TiVo doesn't carry a huge amount of debt. It carries just $7.3 million in debt. It has $88.3 million in cash, so the debt is minimal. Unfortunately, TiVo's cash flow is seriously negative, so that $88.3 million might not last them very long.

  5. Re:But why not the 7E7? on Sim Icarus Boeing 777 Handmade Flight Deck · · Score: 1

    Kind of hard to sim something that doesn't exist yet. Unless you're Boeing.

  6. Server phase change on Lead Atoms Imaged During Phase Change · · Score: 4, Funny
    That poor server is going to have a phase change real soon. Nothing like linking a 8MB movie off /. to cripple a server.

    Try using MirrorDot.

  7. Re:VIA on AMD's New Low-Power CPUs · · Score: 1

    AMD's Alchemy processors are not x86 compatible so you can't directly compare it to your C3/Eden setup.

  8. Tech guys on Tech Oscars Awarded · · Score: 1

    For those curious, here's a group photo of all the winners.

  9. Re:This is really interesting. on Browser Speed Comparisons · · Score: 1
    Nice try, but how does that explain IE being faster than FireFox under MacOS X as well in some areas?

    IE on Mac OS X is very different from IE on Windows. I don't think they share all that much code.

    It's just like how Office on Mac OS X is different (and some would say better) than Office on Windows.

  10. Re:Deja vu... on Symantec Antivirus May Execute Virus Code · · Score: 1

    If you read the Symantec security advisory, you will see that it's a buffer overflow problem with a carefully crafted UPX-compressed file. It's not an "execute-to-test" issue.

  11. Re:The article talks about 256MB not 512MB on Same Part, Same Supplier, Different Prices · · Score: 1

    The point of the article is that there are different prices for the same part, not that Dell memory prices are too high. You're looking at the tree and not seeing the forest.

  12. Re:*sigh* on IBM Subpoenas Intel Into SCO Fray · · Score: 3, Interesting
    It will end when either the defense or the offense runs out of money.

    Well, IBM made $3.04 billion last quarter so I can't see the defense running out of money anytime soon. SCO loss $6.5 million last quarter and apparently has less than $30 million in cash left. Of course, if you believe the conspiracy theory, then Microsoft made $4.75 billion last quarter. We could be here for awhile...

  13. Anandtech coverage on VIA's New PT Chipsets · · Score: 1

    There's better coverage on Anandtech.

  14. Re:Blazars are not the fastest thing in the univer on Blazing Speed: The Fastest Stuff In The Universe · · Score: 1

    You obviously don't watch Monster Garage.

  15. Re:How much of the probem is Pepsico's fault? on Apple and Pepsi Do it Again · · Score: 1

    They're at the mercy of the bottlers, too. The bottlers have to put the new caps into production. During the last promotion, I finally saw the iTunes caps at my local store after the last day you could redeem the code.

  16. Re:A9 Amazon Discount on Google Trials A9 Style Image Search · · Score: 1

    Are you sure the A9 discount is still on? I thought it was a limited time, introductory thing to get Amazon customers to try it out. I used it once, but it's disappeared since then.

  17. Re:Good to know... on Picasa 2.0 Released, Reviewed · · Score: 1
    I discovered the Support Page lists the supported file types:

    • JPG
    • GIF
    • PSD
    • PNG
    • BMP
    • TIFF
    • RAW format including NEF and CRW
    • MPG
    • AVI
    • ASF
    • WMV
    • MOV
  18. Picasa vs. iPhoto? on Picasa 2.0 Released, Reviewed · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Does anybody have an opinion on how Picasa fares against iPhoto?

    Yes, I know it's comparing Windows vs. Mac.

  19. Re:New Apple User on Working With Tiger Technologies · · Score: 1
    Dashboard is almost a direct rip off of a third party app, but I forget what it's called.

    You're thinking of Konfabulator. Dashboard is not a rip off of Konfabulator. I suggest you go read this essay/blog/whatever on Dashboard vs. Konfabulator.

  20. Re:Here is a Countdown on Huygens Probe Prepares for Saturn Moon Landing · · Score: 1

    Nice, but it doesn't show the inclination changes since it's a top down view of Saturn. NASA's plots of the Saturn tour show the inclinations. It's not animated, but it's got more info. Check the Subphase Boundaries pages, too.

  21. Re:Huygens NASA/ESA probe? on Huygens Probe Prepares for Saturn Moon Landing · · Score: 1

    Italy is a member of ESA.

    The only thing I could find on the NASA and ESA websites was that NASA built Cassini, ESA built Huygens, and the Italy provided the high-gain antenna.

  22. Re:Just curious... on MacWorld Expo Traffic Analysis · · Score: 1
    Because MacWorld Expo is not an official Apple run event. It only feels like it is.

    MacWorld Expo is really run by IDG, which also runs the LinuxWorld Expo. The LinuxWorld Expo website also runs Windows Server 2003.

  23. Re:Press release with list of patents! on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative
    With a URL like that, you should have linked it instead of letting /. mangle it.

    IBM Pledges 500 U.S. Patents To Open Source In Support Of Innovation And Open Standards

  24. Re:Actually... on Microsoft Releases AntiSpyware Program · · Score: 1
    Then prevent all installations unless a determination can be made.

    But you can't easily do that. People are unknowingly putting malware on their computers. They want whatever feature the software offers, but don't realize that it installs malware, too.

    Identifying non-malware via, say, always getting software updates from a trusted source, verifying a sha1 / md5sum signature where apropo, et. al.

    The issue isn't software updates. It's full applications. Users trusted it because they see no reason not to. Checking md5/sha1 (average Joe User isn't going to know what that is anyways) isn't going to help. So the malware company publishes an md5/sha1 hash, so what? Great, it's verified, but it's still got malware. People downloaded some application and got more than what they bargained for.

    If 90% of malware infections come from bad users ( where's that statistic from, anyway? ) then don't let the users be bad ( i.e. revoke all admin rights from them ).

    This hardly seems a revolutionary idea... isn't this what most organizations do?

    Controlling a corporate environment is much different than a home computer. You can't just take away admin rights from a home computer because then they wouldn't be able to install anything, evenly "legitimate" stuff (see what I said above).

    You can't easily determine what is good or bad. You can't ask any questions of the user nor can you use some verification technique to check to see if what was downloaded was the right file: "Did you intend to install this software from XYZ company that I verified was from XYZ?" -- "Well, yes, I did, install it."

  25. Class action lawsuits on Class Action Filed Against Verizon Wireless · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It seems that the only people who "win" in class action lawsuits are the lawyers when they collect their huge fees. The consumers of the class usually get stuck with something they don't want or is of such small value that it's not worth it.