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  1. They banned WiFi on a floor of my last workplace on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The lady who made them do it was feeling a lot better, and didn't have headaches anymore, until she saw me surfing wirelessly using a router located on the floor below. Signal strength was still perfectly fine...

  2. Handheld Altair on Ed Roberts, Personal Computer Pioneer, 1941-2010 · · Score: 1

    I'm still wondering when someone is going to make a "handheld" Altair, reproducing some of the looks and most of the functions (except for plugin cards) and selling it on ThinkGeek or somesuch for a reasonable price. I want to play around with an Altair, but I'm not going to get one of those huge replicas: http://www.altairkit.com/index.html

  3. From a developer's point of view... on Fixing Bugs, But Bypassing the Source Code · · Score: 1

    I've tried several programs that study the source code and tries to find possible null pointers, unchecked input, possibly dirty data and whatnot, and they all have one problem - false detections. When the program studies the source code and gives you the output of this process, you can quickly decide whether to act on it, fixing the potential bug, ignore the problem as "intended behaviour", or simply correct the syntax so the source code studying application doesn't complain about it anymore. However, if you were to run this thing, which is only concerned with the binary, wouldn't it have to run again for every single version of your application you distribute? Also, you'd never actually get any patch information back to put into the source, except maybe in binary... In addition to this, when some programmers take a quick and dirty approach to things to meet deadlines (which are sometimes more important than clean code) how will the program know about your "// DIRTY HACK. WILL FIX LATER, BUT THIS IS NEEDED FOR THE DEMO. FUNCTION X() WILL WORK AS EXPECTED WITH THE TEST DATA" comment in code? Will it try to correct the binary, producing unexpected results?

  4. I wonder on Bank Goofs, and Judge Orders Gmail Account Nuked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I run my email on my own email server... In my house. What would they have done if they accidentally sent the email to me?

  5. I reinstalled my computer this month... on Legal Group Says Unlimited Broadband Promotes Piracy · · Score: 1

    ..and in the process I've downloaded 200 gigs, according to my firewall/router box, mostly from Steam (all my games are on Steam) but also a huge Linux livedvd and a few gigs of updates for my MMO of choice (about 15, to be exact). My point is: There are perfectly legal ways to use an assload of bandwidth, and I do.

  6. The Sting on Times Are Tough For Nigerian Scammers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if any nigerian has ever tried it? By the way, about the 419's, check out http://www.419eater.com/ Scambait is great!

  7. Re:Copypaste on 'Vanish' Makes Sensitive Data Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    And yet after a copypaste or screenshot it wont disappear anywhere.

    Except after the key is gone, there's no way to prove the screenshot is real. If you receive a secret message this way, you can claim any screenshots are just fakes and that the message said something entirely different.

  8. If you give me an iPhone... on University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy · · Score: 1

    ...I'll have two cellphones! What do I care if I temporarily have someone else hold on to the one you gave me? All my stuff is on the other phone, or on both!

  9. Re:How can this be? on Windows 7 Users Warned Over Filename Security Risk · · Score: 1

    Nah. People are better than that. Recently recovered files from a crashed drive where all important files were in c:\harddrive\