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  1. Re:Pointless on Intel Demos McAfee Social Protection · · Score: 2

    Oh damn, i wonder if McAfee is going to manage to bundle it with all newly bought pc's, same as them and norton try to do with their a/v products.

  2. Re:Pointless on Intel Demos McAfee Social Protection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article was a bit misleading, but from watching the video its just a facebook app which blocks print screens/copy paste of images you upload through it. Doubt it will take long for tools which bypass this, and chances are the photos will stay within mcaffee social share rather than the general facebook albums, which will prevent a large number of people from using it.

  3. Pointless on Intel Demos McAfee Social Protection · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So it prevents the person with McAfee Social Protection installed from saving images from Facebook? I don't get the purpose of this, unless they expect it to become government mandated to be installed on all computers.

  4. Re:And? on Scientists Say Organic Food May Not Be Healthier For You · · Score: 4, Informative

    Blind taste tests have shown that the 'tastier' food thing is psychological.

  5. Re:Like the multi-user features on Amazon Debuts Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire HD In 2 Sizes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would have thought, apples plan is that every user in the house owns their own iDevice, rather than sharing them.

  6. Re:Took them long enough. on Ubisoft Ditches Always-Online DRM Requirement From PC Games · · Score: 1

    I'd agree with this, i only buy games off steam because it eases the inconvenience of reinstalling games between formatting and keeps track of all the older games i play less frequently.

  7. Re:Oh for the love of... EDITORS, please EDIT! on Apple Support Allowed Hackers Access To User's iCloud Account · · Score: -1, Troll

    Editor also added hyperlinks to the body of the submission to.

  8. Re:Oh for the love of... EDITORS, please EDIT! on Apple Support Allowed Hackers Access To User's iCloud Account · · Score: -1

    As far as i can tell, the editor only adjusted the title from what i submitted. Sorry if my failure to grammar correctly offended you.

  9. Re:Good Luck on GameStop Wants To Sell Secondhand Digital Download Video Games · · Score: 2

    Only way to play games without them needing to be updated is by running in offline mode, but the game must be 100% upto date when you log into offline mode the first time else it will refuse to run as far as i know.

  10. Re:TFA != TFS on Why Valve Wants To Port Games To Linux: Because Windows 8 Is a Catastrophe · · Score: 2

    BBC journalists managed to do the same thing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18996377

  11. Windows 8 Metro on Georgie: Smartphone For the Blind and Visually Impaired · · Score: 1

    Is it me, or does the image from the article look alot like windows 8 metro (or maybe windows phone 7, but i haven't seen much of that)?

  12. Retail Scenario on Employees Admit They'd Walk Out With Stolen Data If Fired · · Score: 1

    Similarly to all the above ban account, remove keyboard stories. From working weekends at a highstreet clothes store when employees were leaving it is company policy that the employees weren't allowed to use tills for their last day/week. Although given the recent recession and constant staff shortages this is now usually seen as impractical and ignored by the managers supposed to implement it (They also never seemed to actually remove the till accounts of ex-employees within due time).

  13. Re:UK on UK Home Secretary Bans US Martial Arts Expert · · Score: 2, Informative

    From what i remember a small group of guys were doing urbex in the unused london undeground tunnels around the time of something big happening in London. They got caught and under the guise of terrorism or something (due to the event) they got banned from communicating with each other for a decade or something. (I'm not the guy who you replied to)

  14. Re:for now.. on Verifying a User By Following the Movements of Their Mouse · · Score: 1

    Or just a touch screen effect where the mouse instantly moves to the target rather than travelling between.

  15. Re:good defesne on Ask Slashdot: Experience Handling DDoS Attacks On a Mid-Tier Site? · · Score: 1

    Recently a friends web-dev company was hit with a ddos over the course of a weekend to multiple sites across their hosting. Turns out that the ddos attack was actually testing for a point of php injection (or so they think), by the 3rd day the ddos had stopped. However all index.php, footer.php, header.php and some other common named files across many directories contained malicious code which rewrote this malicious code every time one of them was ran. Sure his above statement may not be totally correct, however ddos can equal a compromise (not that a 'secure connection' would stop php injection afaik).

  16. Re:Sigh... on TVShack Creator's US Extradition Approved · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I better metaphor would probably be, holding a sign pointing to a shop that was left unlocked at night. Those who took notice of the sign and stole from the shop would be committing the offence, however you would probably be seen as inciting theft.

  17. Re:Chrome solve time for all sizes on Chrome Users Are Best With Numbers, IE Users Worst · · Score: 2

    "Average solving time as a percentage of the Chrome average (so smaller is better)"

  18. Chrome solve time for all sizes on Chrome Users Are Best With Numbers, IE Users Worst · · Score: 1

    Doesn't anyone else find it suspicious that the chrome solve time for all 3 sizes was 100 seconds while ie and firefox both changed?

  19. Re:Anonymity vs. Accountability on In Theory And Practice, Why Internet-Based Voting Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    That solution still wouldn't get around the issue of malware displaying a different form, and then taking what you post and replacing the candidate before actually posting the data.

  20. Re:How is this news? on Vatican Attack Provides Insight Into Anonymous · · Score: 1

    They just have god on their side!

  21. Re:I miss GOTO...there I said it on Visual Studio Gets Achievements, Badges, Leaderboards · · Score: 1

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/06tc147t.aspx
    The Microsoft documents actually tell you to use goto in this case.
    I'll accept that when the language documentation tell you to use goto in a case it's acceptable and their examples keep the code readable. However i've always been taught from when i started to program that goto's were bad and to be avoided and i've never come across situations where i have had to use them.

  22. Re:I miss GOTO...there I said it on Visual Studio Gets Achievements, Badges, Leaderboards · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can use labels in java to break out of nested loops?

  23. Bad Timing on Facebook Helps Give Hacking a Good Name Again · · Score: 2

    This seems like bad timing for me/other uk students. Most of us are going to be having exams during the period which it is set, e.g. the qualification round is 20th-23rd of January, and then i have 2 exams on the 24th and 26th of January so it looks like i won't be signing up for this.

  24. Re:National Archives of Australia have them anyway on Two Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found · · Score: 2

    In October 1996, Australian Doctor Who fans Damian Shanahan and Ellen Parry discovered a collection of the censored clips – several from missing episodes which do not exist in their entirety – in the records of the National Archives of Australia.[12] The clips had been sent by the Commonwealth Film Censorship Board (now the Office of Film and Literature Classification) to the Archives as evidence of the required edits having been made.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes#Censor_clips

  25. Re:Opaque on GCHQ Challenge Solution Explained · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because terrorists are yet to discover x64