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  1. Discrimination on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    And how exactly, will they differentiate people? Nation? Date of birth?

  2. Re:Security is a big selling point on How Apple's iOS Went From Insecure To Most Secure · · Score: 1

    ...or you've only been hit by professional trojans, viruses and worms as opposed to adware and scareware. XP is bad not only because it's exploitable, but because it's exploited *without the user noticing*.
    Ever wondered why your Internet connection is so slow? Ever wondered how spammers manage to send such volumes of mail? How do you know your computer isn't lurking on irc://evil.net/DDoSonDemand, waiting for a signal to take down an anti-NATO blog?

    It's not a coincidence that most of the malware we see looks /so/ amateurish and so full of spelling and grammar errors. "Nobody'd fall for that." But what about the not so amateurish malware? What about botnet worms with backing?

  3. Re:Not in my config either on Chrome May Drop the URL Bar · · Score: 1

    I prefer sharing the title bar, and showing it only on demand. Having both a tab bar and a separate window bar seem pointless.

    Authenticity can be displayed by coloring the scrollbar

  4. Re:Mozilla already experimenting on this on Chrome May Drop the URL Bar · · Score: 2

    So does surf, but using Webkit and integrating with your window manager - allowing you to group windows from different applications together.

  5. Kalligra on Does the End of KOffice Mean the End of KDE? · · Score: 0

    What happened to that annoying K in all names of the K Desktop Environment?

  6. Re:Chester Wisniewski's point is invalid, IMO on Security Expert Warns of Android Browser Flaw · · Score: 1

    Yes we will. We'll distribute custom images and install them onto our phones.
    First one buys the phone, then one buys the OS. Android seems like a fine choice.

    The only problem is manufacturers not specifying interfaces to the hardware. Do not buy hardware for which full specifications are not available as you won't be able to utilize the hardware is you wish.

  7. Re:Chester Wisniewski's point is invalid, IMO on Security Expert Warns of Android Browser Flaw · · Score: 1

    That's why everything is standardized. That way you can patch your kernel and win32 and unix subsystems without braking your window manager and web browser.
    Imagine if OEMs bundled Opera and dwm with their hardware.

    I'm sorry, but if you've bought a computer that brakes horribly when you try to use it and make it execute code, you've been ripped off. Check if your warranty's expired.

  8. Re:Chester Wisniewski's point is invalid, IMO on Security Expert Warns of Android Browser Flaw · · Score: 1

    One downloads updates from one's distro's repos. That will be Windows Update if you can't be bothered to choose an distro on your own.

  9. SIP on Did an Apple Engineer Invent FB Messages In 2003? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the main idea behind SIP, anyway?

  10. Slideshow? on Google's Slideshow of Interesting Things · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Whats wrong with a list?

  11. Re:Lawrence Lessig on a soapbox on Lawrence Lessig Reviews The Social Network · · Score: 1

    Anyone checked what that Perl snippet writes on stdout yet?

    Probably Just Another Easter Egg :)

  12. Re:Illegal under Net Neutrality on UK ISP To Prioritize Gaming Traffic · · Score: 1

    I take you're perfectly fine with ISPs prioritizing traffic to/from certain IP addresses (e.g. throttling access to popular TOR gateways and widening logical pipes to Fox), then?

  13. Did Google suddenly stop caring about PR? on Google Starts Charging a Signup Fee For Chrome Extension Developers · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's like Google just stopped marketing itself as the good, open giant. Have the hired all the best hackers already?

  14. Re:Personal Minority Report on Real-Time, Detailed Face Tracking On a Nokia N900 · · Score: 1

    Oh, you mean M-x M-c M-spy-on-my?

  15. Re:Scheme on Google Goes On Offensive vs. JavaScript Attacks · · Score: 1

    Affirmative, nor do I like emacs style interfaces.

  16. Fail on Cow Clicker Boils Down Facebook Games · · Score: 1

    It's missing the most important aspect of a Facebook game: The "Post on you wall?" that should appear every time you click on you cow.

  17. Re:Online? I don't think so! on NASA Launches Moonbase Alpha · · Score: 1

    Why exactly doesn't installing into the cache count?

  18. Re:Online? I don't think so! on NASA Launches Moonbase Alpha · · Score: 1

    You've can download, press OK and run an executable EXE or download an HTML file that links to an executable JavaScript program, skip the prompting and run it in a sandbox.

    EXE don't /have/ to be self extracting archives, though they often are.

  19. Re:Scheme on Google Goes On Offensive vs. JavaScript Attacks · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I've just never understood why I'd want to run a whole program inside my web browser.

  20. Scheme on Google Goes On Offensive vs. JavaScript Attacks · · Score: 1

    The language originally proposed for Netscape Navigator, before "needs to become popular" and "remind people of Java" ruled it out.

  21. The new IRC? on Attackers Using Social Networks For Botnet Control · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Meh, IRC has been used for this purpose for a long time. Switching to the centralised Twitter service for increased anonymity is just an evolution, not a revolution.

  22. Cursor tracking on The Demographics of Web Search · · Score: 1

    following the mouse cursor as a proxy for eye tracking

    And if the user turns out to never touch the mouse? Keylogging every single character pressed? This is plain absurd.

  23. Re:Online? I don't think so! on NASA Launches Moonbase Alpha · · Score: 1

    Seems like a client-server app to me.

    Hence online. Except you define "online" as will run inside a tiny subwindow of your /browser/ -- without annoying Windoze-XP style "Are you sure?" pop-ups!

  24. Re:Somewhat reasonable on US Pirate Movie Site DNS Seizure Fail · · Score: 1

    [quote]The servers, and companies running these TLDs are american companies running their servers in the US.[/quote]
    Thus the US can seize these servers under special circumstances. Now, forbidding them to disclose (IP) addresses of other servers, located abroad, that are *accused* of braking USA law is a different matter.

    When did disclosing addresses become illegal in the USoA?

  25. Re:Thats not new on Google Bringing HTML5 To Gmail · · Score: 1

    In my experience, old versions of MSIE don't work so well with Hotmail. I've had to use a Firefox installation in my "My Documents" (sadly, ~ was locally hosted due to Windows storing it straight on C:) when students couldn't download homework attached to self-sent email (as they couldn't ((f)user)mount their $HOMEs on school PCs).