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  1. Re:They need something to do on FAA Says No More Minesweeper Or Solitaire In Cockpit · · Score: 1

    No deaths, but from TFA
    Last October the pilots of Northwest 188 over-flew their destination by 150 miles because they were using their laptop computers for personal activities and lost situational awareness.
    which is quite serious IMHO

  2. Re:Naturally, the passwords were not in clear on Apache Foundation Attacked, Passwords Stolen · · Score: 1

    Hrm, so they got caught by phishing using a fake Forgot Password form, and they send the exact same password reset request in their break-in acknowledgement? D'oh! It could well be another phishing attempt :-)
    +1 for personnal certificates stored on tokens. -1 for one time passwords. -100 for reused passwords (special mention for 'online banking').

  3. Re:What it is actually on The Seven Hidden Browsers In the Windows Ballot · · Score: 1

    Actually it is C:\WINDOWS\system32\browserchoice.exe /launch which redirects to the above.

  4. What it is actually on The Seven Hidden Browsers In the Windows Ballot · · Score: 2, Informative

    a desktop link to http://www.browserchoice.eu/

  5. Re:crashes chrome on linux HARD... on YouTube Offers Experimental Opt-In HTML5 Video · · Score: 1, Interesting

    crashes chrome on linux HARD...

    Which is it? chrome only (so it is not HARD) or the whole system (meaning it could well be X/the display driver that bring the system down).

  6. Re:Windows 7 faster than what? on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    Can anyone tell me why a computer that is 10 times faster with 4 times the memory is so much slower at responding to simple inputs? There's a perceptible lag when just single clicking a desktop icon to highlight it.

    What antivirus do you run on each machine? Every file in a folder is scanned before it is displayed, that may explain a thing or two.. By the way in this regard Avira is decent at not slowing down too much things.

  7. Re:Still no Adblock though on New Chrome Beta Adds Themes, Speed, & HTML 5 Video · · Score: 1

    www.adsweep.org
    just add "--enable-extensions" to your chrome shortcut, then click the extension on the webpage and it will be active right away. now if some people could support the project..

  8. Re:Food flavor etc. on FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell · · Score: 1

    I'd rather lose my ability to hear.

    Experience it and let us know.. I somehow doubt it, being deaf could be worse (IMO) than being blind. No longer hearing voices or music? no way!

  9. Re:alternative dns servers; on A Black Day For Internet Freedom In Germany · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is fine, since you can turn off their google proxying and "not found" redirection. And it is certainly better than using Level3 anycast servers which are being blocked from the outside now.

  10. Re:Irresponsible headline, summary on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    An Airplane is a flawed system created by flawed humans.

    There. fixed that for you.

  11. OVH on Surveying the World of the Biggest Server Farms · · Score: 1

    they had 40K at the last official count and their new datacenter has a 50K capacity and filling quick (+3 bays/day 7/7). Not surprising given they offer the cheapest dedicated one can find ($15/mnth no contract: Atom 1.6Ghz, 512MB ram/2GB flash for swap, 10GB iSCSI disk, unlimited bandwidth).

  12. Reminds me of.. on Pirate Bay To Offer VPN For $7 a Month · · Score: 1

    Relakks, anyone?
    Strange that TFA doesn't mention it.

  13. hrm on Review: Resident Evil 5 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    no PC release?

  14. Re:What makes DDOS hard to stop? on Beyond Firewalls — Internet Militarization · · Score: 1

    But a business user needs to spend, spend, spend to multi-home.

    Wrong. The only cost is implied by the use of potentially bigger pipes sold with BGP service but nowadays you can have a 100mpbs link for $1000.. Technically it costs 0 (open source routers, IPs and routing registries (except RADB) are free.

  15. Re:In France on VoIP Legal Status Worldwide? · · Score: 1

    Here in France it is legal, except for wifi provider. Cellphone operators managed to get anti-concurrency laws about that. That's pretty stupid when one thinks about it.

    Hrm, although you can't provide a bundled voip service with wifi, you can extend triple-play voip service over wifi (freephonie, sfr, orange, they all do it) so it's really not an issue.

  16. Re:Rootkit? on Norton Users Worried By PIFTS.exe, Stonewalling By Symantec · · Score: 4, Informative

    Norton discussion boards appear very slow.

    You mean disabled after seeing that moderators can't keep up with the posts about PIFTS?

  17. Re:Huh? on Firefox Beta Touts Advanced Engine, Solves 8 Flaws · · Score: 2, Informative

    Excuse me if I'm missing something, but aren't eight critical vulnerabilities supposed to be patched in the stable branch instead of a beta branch?

    (I also am not entirely sure whether fixing so many critical vulnerabilities should garner applause from Firefox users...)

    RTFA: "The beta Firefox 3.1 will still have a few bugs to work out, but Mozilla officials have promised that eight of the security flaws found in the current browser, six of which have been rated critical, will be fixed in the updated version. The most serious of these vulnerabilities are already being repaired, and can be downloaded as patches from the Mozilla website."

  18. Re:Dear Iranian nation on Iran Has Put a Satellite Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    Since you'd rather not have military control weapons either, I guess these are best in nobody's hands (i.e buried).

  19. Re:So let's see.... on IBM Building 20 Petaflop Computer For the US Gov't · · Score: 1

    If you have a look at http://top500.org/lists/2008/11/performance_development it takes more than 6 years to get 10 times actual performance (quicker than Moore's law, hrm). Given that the actual top is at 1PF, going to 20 in 3.5 years is quite an achievement.

  20. Not surprising on Single Drive Wipe Protects Data · · Score: 2

    it is not like you can have 2 values for a single bit at the same time.. and density is so high these days that it makes sense to have a single write wipe the previous data forever.

  21. Re:Is it must me, or is that sum peanuts? on Feds Plot Massive Internet Router Security Upgrade · · Score: 2, Informative

    It exists already, it is called a routing registry. The most famous is RADB but they can use IRRd to have their own private version (which they probably do already).

  22. Re:Seriously? on ASCII Art Steganography · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Behold Cloud Computing! Fast, Efficient, Scalab.. errr--hold that thought.

    It does if you can justify the need to Google, for now they have quotas (see http://code.google.com/intl/fr/appengine/articles/quotas.html).

  23. Re:Huh? on ASCII Art Steganography · · Score: 4, Informative

    AppEngine quotas explained

  24. Re:Algorithm on Estonian ISP Shuts Srizbi Back Down, For Now · · Score: 4, Informative
  25. Re:Misleading topic on CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads · · Score: 1

    AFAIK they do, Bell business customers aren't affected. Wholesalers could be considered as business, as well as their own business customers.