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  1. About disabling physically any USB port? Use PS/2 for keyboards and mices ... and you are golden!

  2. The fuck a nuclear reactor need to be connected to the Internet??? Air gap anyone?!?!

  3. Re:Are there alternatives? on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 1

    Impossible since even the FTDI tool won't recognize the fake one anymore. I've tried even with the older version.

  4. Found the FIX... on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 1

    You can't write back the PID but you can FORCE it! :) http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vb...

  5. Re:Ion strengthened? on Sapphire Glass Didn't Pass iPhone Drop Test According to Reports · · Score: 1

    Gorilla Glass is chemically treated glass... a very different process!

  6. Re:Ion strengthened? on Sapphire Glass Didn't Pass iPhone Drop Test According to Reports · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, regular hardened glass is tempered by quenching (heated in a furnace around 700C then quenched by rapid cooling)
    Disclamer: I work in a glass factory.

  7. Re:Nvidia has NOTHING to lose at this stage on NVIDIA Open-Sources Tegra K1 Graphics Support · · Score: 1

    See also the infamous NVIDIA frying gpu card driver 196.75

  8. It's just sad... on Intel Releases 5,000 Pages of Open-Source Haswell Documentation · · Score: 0

    that Intel GPUs are always inferior products compared to what's on the GPU market.

  9. ReactOS? on With XP's End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs · · Score: 1

    Why not invest in this project instead of Ubuntu? Look more straightforward, XP->ReactOS than XP-> Ubuntu

  10. License Plate Sticker? on California Legislature Approves Trial Program For Electronic Plates · · Score: 2

    They complain that mailing license plate sticker is a pain and cost a lot of money...well why they are still using them? They are so easy to counterfeit! Here in Quebec, we discontinued the use of them since 1992.

  11. Seriously? on Samsung Infringed On Apple Patents, Says ITC · · Score: 2

    Who cares? Samsung has already won the battle! http://bgr.com/2013/07/26/mobile-phone-market-share-q2-2013/

  12. Website in question on 30 Percent of Mobile Malware Made By 10 Russian Firms · · Score: 1
  13. Re:So? on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    Slim jim would not work on doors using cables to unlock.

  14. Re:So? on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    Slim jim would not work on doors using cables to unlock the door.

  15. Hey, you know what else is really good at avoiding collisions? Trains.

    Let me remind you this .... http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/19/world/americas/canada-runaway-train/index.html

  16. Re:ERP on Ex-Employee Busted For Tampering With ERP System · · Score: 1

    Never thought that... Mod parent up :)!

  17. Re:ERP on Ex-Employee Busted For Tampering With ERP System · · Score: 1

    How can the applicant knows that a negative reference has been done?

  18. Re:EA is right about one thing, though on EA Repeats As 'Worst Company In America' · · Score: 2

    ^ this x1000 ... That's why people are still paying games from EA.

  19. Re:The hypocrisy just keeps getting worse. on TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Should have been modded Insightful & Funny at the same time!
    But I wish it was only a joke!

  20. Re:Why? on Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice · · Score: 1

    Why so much hate ???

  21. Re:Nice single point of attack on Cox Comm. Injects Code Into Web Traffic To Announce Email Outage · · Score: 1

    I agree with you... not very secure!

  22. Your tax dollar at work on White House Must Answer Petition To 'Build Death Star' · · Score: 1

    n/t

  23. Re:Does anyone hold phones to their heads anymore? on FCC Asked To Reassess Cell Phone Radiation Guidelines · · Score: 2

    You still have the pocket problem... You don't want 200 watts of RF near your balls!
    Don't forget most people put their phone in their pockets, some on them always at the same place! Sure, it's better to have skin cancer than brain one (debated I know) but still don't increase the RF limit just for the lack of towers (bad signal).

  24. S3 Graphics? on PowerVR To Make Mobile Graphics, GPU Compute a Three-Way Race Again · · Score: 1

    They used to make good graphic cards (Savage series especially, not as good as ATI/NVIDIA but close) but i wonder what happened to them?

  25. Re:Doesn't seem to be a "rogue employee" on Data Engineer In Google Case Is Identified · · Score: 1

    FYI : That is the raison d'être for a corporation

    Source: I speak french
    Source #2: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/raison_d'%C3%AAtre

    Please update your internal dictionary slightly outdated ;)