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  1. Hey! on Apple IOS 4.3.4 Jailbroken Hours After Update · · Score: 1

    I guess "iOS 4.3.4 Prevents Hacking and Jailbreaking" wasn't true after all.

  2. Why hasn't it clicked yet? on ISP Refuses To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "The industry groups counter by saying they have been left with no other choices after the criminal conviction of the Pirate Bay admins following their November 2010 appeal failed to close down the site. Instead, the number of Finns using the site only increased."

    You'd think they worked out that suing people hasn't worked by now.

    When the industry starts giving people what they want - DRM-free stuff they can 'own' and use whichever way they like, at a reasonable price - then piracy will go down.

  3. Re:G-ZERO on Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging · · Score: 1

    I would think a G0 to be the sort of qualifications required for that job. I don't think you need basic literary skills, its not like anyone reads them.

    Do you have any experience using a rubber stamp?

  4. What a stupid title on iOS 4.3.4 Prevents Hacking and Jailbreaking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its as if this update solved all problems and will solve all problems in the future.

    "iOS 4.3.4 solves known pdf exploits"

    Would have made sense.

    None of this "Prevents Hacking and Jailbreaking" nonsense.

  5. Re:CompuServe circa 1986 on Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging · · Score: 1

    As well as snail mail, semaphore, morse code, drum signals, smoke signals and talking to yourself.

  6. Re:Really? on Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging · · Score: 5, Funny

    Method and Apparatus for use of SIlicon with additives to create electric motion in order to provide a system of postively charge regions thereafter called 1s and a system of negativly charged regions therafter called 0s in order to create, transmit,produce,transfer,convert,read,translate,display,distinguish,perform arthematic functions upon,simulate,compute information packets in order to allow a human user (HU) the ability to create, transmit,produce,transfer,convert,read,translate,display,distinguish,perform arthematic functions upon,simulate,compute further information packets which are then translated into motion of photons and EM radiation of specific frequencies by use of a 'monitor' in order to give Human Readable (HR) results which the human user (HU) is using.

  7. My eyes! on Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging · · Score: 4, Funny

    They will not stand in my way when I patent:

    System of using punctuation marks in order to make blocks of text more readable.

  8. Re:The real issue on Climate Scientists Ask For Help Fighting Somali Pirates · · Score: 1

    They didn't generally make pirates walk the plank...

    What they used to do is hang them in a public place off the shore (or just their head). So other pirates will see a bunch of bodies and get scared.

  9. I dislike the metric... on Study Shows Programmers Get Better With Age · · Score: 1

    That this person is using in order to determine what is 'best' exactly?

    He's using something very subjective and taking only part of a set. There are also other factors in play - such as the age of the person's account (which also goes up with age) and that sort of thing.

  10. Re:delta between manual and no manual on Computer Learns Language By Playing Games · · Score: 1

    Its not nearly the same thing is it?

    I used to like reading the manual while waiting for the 'loading' screen to disappear.

  11. Re:Confusing on Patched MS Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Even Disconnected PCs · · Score: 1

    Wait, so you're suggesting that with copyright law its actually legal to decompile Windows and play around with its source code?

  12. Re:Alternate Reality on Zuckerberg Quits Google+ Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    My full life is on google? As in my medical history? Videos of me taking a shower? My paycheck ? My jobs?

    If you mean "Google tracks the websites you visit", so does Facebook. At least one is transparent about it.

  13. Re:I love this story so much. on Zuckerberg Quits Google+ Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Zuckerberg is the guy who kept on telling people that there is no privacy anymore and that anyone who wants privacy must be up to no good.

    I thought that was the TSA

  14. Re:Confusing on Patched MS Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Even Disconnected PCs · · Score: 1

    Of course who'd want to hack linux, it only runs around ~ 60% of the most used web servers in the world.

    That said, Linux is open source, I can take a look at it and look for flaws. Windows is closed, looking at it is illegal.

    So the only people who will look at Windows/OS X/anything closed are black hats, while linux can be looked at by anyone.

  15. Re:Confusing on Patched MS Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Even Disconnected PCs · · Score: 1

    Just read one of the links someone posted:

    ". If your system were “discoverable,” it would respond to attacker SDP queries with its Bluetooth address. But in the default state, an attacker must obtain your Bluetooth address another way – either via bruteforcing it or extracting it from Bluetooth traffic captured over-the-air."

    "you have paired a Bluetooth peripheral and are actively communicating, it is hard but not impossible to extract the Bluetooth address from the traffic sent over-the-air. A device is available on the market for $10,000 - $30,000 to do this in about 5 minutes"

    I don't think I'm worth the price of a car to access my emails and images of cats with captions underneath.

  16. Re:XP on Patched MS Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Even Disconnected PCs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Right so basically.

    "If I want to use lots of complicated or modern features, I need to use Windows 7"

    But if I just want to chat with my buddies, browse the internet and write a document once in a while, and don't want to try linux XP is fine. Until it gets an open exploit which never gets closed.

    Most of the public doesn't use SSDs, doesn't need volume for each application nor does it need GPU accelerated rendering.

  17. Re:Confusing on Patched MS Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Even Disconnected PCs · · Score: 1

    Right, you pair the devices, then you set it to hidden.

    That wasn't so hard was it?

    I assumed that to start a bluetooth connection there needs to be something to connect TO.

  18. Confusing on Patched MS Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Even Disconnected PCs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "even when the targeted computer is not connected to a network."
    "target would merely need to have Bluetooth turned on."

    Meh, not as scary as I thought. You shouldn't be running around with bluetooth on anyway. Also, if you're using a 'hidden' connection there's no real way for an attacker to find you is there?

    So basically computers at risk are those who always leave bluetooth on and shown to everyone. Which unless you're trying to connect to a new device should be NEVER.

  19. My Opinion... on Did Google Knowingly Violate Java Patents? · · Score: 2

    Is that, given that patents are uh subjective, AND that Sun was quite a nice company to open source stuff (that's the impression I have), I think Google said:

    "Hmm, if we do X, we might hit on a patent and get a lawsuit, lets see if we can clear it off with Sun, since they're reasonable".

    Then when Oracle bought Sun, pretty more for the patents, they decided to take a risk.

    That's my opinion on this matter. I don't know anything internally.

  20. Re:Real names is a killer on Google+: Tools, Names, and Facebook · · Score: 1

    1. Unless you have a very rare name, there will be more than one person with your name

    2. Put the stuff you DON'T WANT OVER THE INTERNET in its own circle. Put the messages about how you're saving children in Africa in the public one. Its meant to be used like that. Its designed to be used with these groups.

    3, If you're leaking company stuff to the internet I think a social network is the last place to do it.

  21. Re:Require Real Names on Google+: Tools, Names, and Facebook · · Score: 1

    Right, just like what happened to Facebook.

    Oh wait.

  22. Re:I like it on Google+: Tools, Names, and Facebook · · Score: 1

    Yeah I'm happy with Google+ as well. The android app isn't avalible for my country (for some reason . . .), but I like how we can have basic Principles of Least Privilege.

    Now once the rest of the rabble come in, I hope/guess each circle will have its own detailed permissions, so maybe I don't want to see Friends of My [Aquaintences]'s stupid app requests, but I don't mine my Friend of Friend's or whatever.

    This has potential.

  23. Re:"real names for profiles" on Google+: Tools, Names, and Facebook · · Score: 1

    It is a social networking site. If you don't want people to know your real name make one up which looks real

    What I think it is is an attempt to not have the mess facebook has with companies having facebook 'person names' and then tagging the crap out of people.

  24. Tossing Technology Back on Banks Find Way To Sell Consumers' Shopping Data · · Score: 1

    With technology trying to progress to 'moneyless payments', this'll throw it back a few years.

    I'm sure lots of people won't want to get bothered with advertisments for using their bank card to pay for something. Instead they'll just draw the money and pay with cash. I know I would do that. This'll move the whole aim at using mobile payments or whatever back quite a bit.

  25. Re:Google+ on Google+ Runs Out of Disk Space, Swamps Users With Notifications · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well its still an 'in work' product. So they made a mistake, good thing they didn't tout it as finished yet. Don't know about the rest of the allegations because I don't have an account.

    It hasn't 'come out of beta', according to the page its : "in limited Field Trial" which I suppose means 'semi-open beta'.