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  1. Re:Somehow I imagine... on Ad Block Plus Filter Maintainer "rick752" Dies At 56 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I doubt ABP will ever be integrated into Firefox. Remember, Mozilla gets most of their funding from Google.

  2. Re:Nope, it's the putative new users problem on Linux Needs Critics · · Score: 1

    From my machine, I can do Rightclick > Compress > Compress To... and make a .zip from there. I'm running Dolphin 1.2.1 on KDE 4.2.2; I don't know what version OpenSuse 11 has.

  3. Re:Does the law have the right direction? on Graphic Artists Condemn UK Ban On Erotic Comics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The original intent of obscenity laws was to prevent the public display of obscene material, not to protect against thoughtcrime. If someone draws something that you would find offensive, should that really be outlawed if it's kept private?

  4. Re:47% on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    110% of people don't understand statistics.

  5. Re:tip of the iceberg on Timetable App Developer Gets Nastygram From Transit Sydney · · Score: 1

    They could just release the binary into the public domain, but not the source.

  6. Re:Version 2.0 on Tigger.A Trojan Quietly Steals Stock Traders' Data · · Score: 1

    A virus that simply changed some of your appointments in Outlook's calendar (or emailed recipients stating that a meeting had been cancelled or changed) would cause HUGE amounts of damage. A virus that would just open Excel, change a few numbers, the resave it silently, would, again, do HUGE amounts of damage.

    None of those things would allow the virus writer to make a profit. The motive behind almost all virus/spyware networks these days is money.

  7. Re:unlocked Android works in Canada? on Google Dev Phone 1 Banned From Paid Apps · · Score: 1

    I can state from personal experience that it does work on Rogers with a pre-paid SIM. Unfortunately, the only way to get a data plan is to get a voice and SMS plan with it (about $60/month), and data without a plan is 5c/KB. (That's how I accidentally spent about $80 in about five minutes. :( )

  8. Re:Motive? on Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If that were the case, then the footage would just become "lost" or the cameras would "malfunction".

  9. Re:Aluminum foil hat. on IBM Building 20 Petaflop Computer For the US Gov't · · Score: 1

    Maybe they won't be able to generate 2^256 encryption keys, but they could try to factorize someone's public key. They could also try encrypting every possible string of a certain length with someone's public key and see which one produces the same ciphertext, generating every possible GPG signature and verifying them until they have a match, or brute-forcing hash algorithms. It's also possible that they've found a way to break encryption without generating 2^256 keys; maybe some encryption products have a flaw that drastically reduces the keyspace.

  10. Re:The world had its taste of freedom... on Germany Legislates For Mandatory Web Filters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's because production of Child Porn hurts children.