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  1. HTML5 will fix it on History Sniffing In the Wild · · Score: 4, Funny

    Steve Jobs told me that it's going to be super secure

  2. Re:Make up your mind on EMI Using Rapidshare To Market Music · · Score: 1

    except when you download a distro there is a license you agree to when you install it. not when you get songs from rapidshare

  3. Re:Make up your mind on EMI Using Rapidshare To Market Music · · Score: 1

    but if they are officially offering files as company policy doesn't that negate any charges of infringement? it's like the free oranges i get at a local food store if i spend $25 or so. they cant have me arrested for not paying it because they gave it to me.

  4. Re:Please stop being so sensational on SanDisk, Nikon and Sony Develop 500MB/sec 2TB Flash Card · · Score: 1

    they also have patents. and if it's anything like Blu-Ray then they will pool their patents together so any card will work

  5. has any fortune 500 company gone Google Apps? on Microsoft Ups Online War, Says Google's 'Failing' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i know government agencies have but that is mostly because it's a pain in the a$$ dealing with union employees

  6. Re:Microsoft is not eating its own dog food. on Inside the Labs At HP, Microsoft and IBM · · Score: 2

    because everyone knows that all ^nix OS's are completely free of bugs

  7. Re:Alternate viewpoint on Level 3 Shaken Down By Comcast Over Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    isn't this more of a peering agreement issue?

    if L3 and comcast signed a peering agreement years ago it was based on the reality that the up/down traffic was about equal so that they would pay each other about the same amount of money. with Netflix L3 sends more traffic to Comcast and has to pay a lot more in peering fees. and comcast gets the customer ISP revenue as well.

    in this new model Netflix and the customer's ISP are making out like bandits but the backbone providers are going to lose money. at some point the peering agreement will expire and it will have to be negotiated with different terms or Netflix, Apple and other big data providers will see their costs go up

  8. Re:What is the basis for the suit? on Apple Sues Steve Jobs Figurine Maker Over Likeness · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure that there is a law where you can't make money off someone else's likeness. It's one thing to sell advertising for a show where you film it on a public street or function and people know that they will be filmed.

    in this case they are selling a doll

    even the reality shows are scripted and anyone who appears in a non-public area has signed a contract agreeing to be on the show

  9. Re:Yawn on Being Too Clean Can Make People Sick · · Score: 1

    i guess you have never met the cause of all this, Mommy

    i come home with my son i don't care if we wash our hands. if he gets sick, who cares. good for him. my wife like my mom and other women is a clean freak especially with personal hygiene. i tried to explain to her that the anti-bacterial soaps are bad, but it's not registering. to a lot of women anything that kills germs is good

  10. Re:at least the public tranist sucks in the US on Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you have never been to NYC

    population 8 million and 20 million during the workday. most of the 12 million come in via mass transit

  11. so life is becoming like star trek? on Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems · · Score: 2, Funny

    seen most of the movies and tv shows and reading some of the books now. everyone is always getting scanned

    geeks should rejoice

  12. there is something called voiding a warranty on The DIY Car Computer vs. the iPad · · Score: 2, Insightful

    most people who buy cars like to keep their warranty

    and what about cost vs a $500 iPad?

  13. Re:Scary on Rootkit In a Network Card Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    or HP for that matter

    last week they almost made me upgrade to the latest RAID controller firmware to replace a few drives showing predictive failure. i was one version behind and this new firmware was a week old. but generally if you're a few months behind they will make you upgrade.

    and i've seen a lot of mysterious reboots and other problems thought to be MS's fault fixed by HP firmware/driver upgrades

  14. Re:how do you hide it? on Rootkit In a Network Card Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    but it will be done randomly so to get value from your virus you have to know who to sell the virus cards to. and since the chinese don't control the serial numbers you somehow have to produce and sneak them into the market with the right numbers

  15. Re:how do you hide it? on Rootkit In a Network Card Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    the companies that make these will have reference boards, software and debugging tools

    buy the retail boxes via CDW
    install in test server or workstation
    run your in house tools to verify that the code on the card is the same as your in house code you developed

    and most of these cards are sold via dell and HP which write their own custom firmware as well just like they do for all the other add on boards.

  16. Re:how do you hide it? on Rootkit In a Network Card Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    but then how do you control who gets the virus laptops? with lenovo and acer they also have huge US workforces that can catch on.

    and with all the security appliances that everyone runs these days it's going to be hard to hide the malicious network traffic

  17. how do you hide it? on Rootkit In a Network Card Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    say you're a front for the chinese military making these things. you install the rootkit. broadcom or whoever will do an audit of retail boxes to make sure the cards are being produced to spec. how do you hide what you did?

  18. does anyone still buy overpriced creative crap? on Do You Really Need a Discrete Sound Card? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    used to spend $250 or so on a sound card in the old days but in the last few years the onboard chips have become good enough. the worst part about the old Audigy cards was you had to install all the crappy software that most people didn't use

  19. Re:Been running a dev build for a few weeks now on Apple iOS 4.2 Hands-On · · Score: 2, Informative

    i ran cydia's multi tasking on an iphone 3G when 4 first came out. it sucked was being nice. it literally runs the apps in the background which is completely useless if you're not using the app.

    the people who coded apple's multi tasking used to work for Palm and did it in a way to to use as less resources as possible. this is why Android phones are generally more powerful hardware wise than same generation iphones but feel more laggy.

  20. Re:I suspect he may be misleading the public on Wii 2 Unlikely For 2011, Maybe In 2012 · · Score: 1

    i'm sure that money and the prospect of massive bonuses had nothing to do with it. the execs are like starfleet officers, everything is done for the good of the federation

  21. Re:One Word on Wii 2 Unlikely For 2011, Maybe In 2012 · · Score: 1

    the Wii was cool but the problem is that it's processing power is the slowest of the bunch. i've read that MS had to gimp Kinect a little because it requires a lot of CPU power. Nintendo is going to have come up with something else or put some processing power in their next console.

  22. Re:I suppose the real question here is... on New Device Puts SSD In a DIMM Slot · · Score: 1

    i've read where putting the tempdb in MS SQL Server and whatever the Oracle and DB2 equivalents are on SSD is a huge performance boost for queries that rely on it. things like sorts and joins.

    you can easily have multi-terabyte databases on a 1U/2U servers these days and with 16GB DIMM's enough memory in a few slots for them. but if you have idiots running select queries for hundreds of millions of rows at once then this will be a big help. i've seen queries like this run for days

  23. Re:Hey wow, this is true, I live here. on Rural North Carolina Experiences Data Center Boom · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it's not like states and localities will collect any taxes if companies don't open up there? might as well give out some nice breaks which are just making up for crazy tax laws in this country for corporations. it's not like tax payers will pay anything. in the end the infrastructure spending will be good for the local areas

  24. do you still have to pay child support? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 2, Funny

    try to serve someone with a lawsuit there

  25. Re:Desperate CEO? on Did Microsoft Alter Windows Sales Figures? · · Score: 0

    does that mean Apple is going BK soon? they used to account for iphone sales over a 2 year period like the MS rent a software model. Last year they changed it where they recognize all iphone sales when the unit is sold. the fiscal year just finished for apple and of course sales and profit growth was amazing, but the stock has gone no where and they even warned about upcoming gross margins.