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  1. Re:Flawed on IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files · · Score: 1

    Sure. I was pointing out that there is a difference between 9 years with no updates and 9 years (or 7 going strictly by what I said) with significant updates.

  2. Re:Flawed on IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files · · Score: 1

    GP stated that XP is 9 years old. XP SP3 is less than 2 years old.

    My point being that there is significant ongoing maintenance, so the software isn't quite entirely 9 years old.

  3. Re:Well if they're encrypted... on Police Want Fast Track To Get At Your Private Data · · Score: 1

    You pay for the ISP that has a legal department that spends money trying to block warrants.

    I'll just encrypt sensitive information before it leaves my damn computer (please note that I do not expect to send any 'sensitive' information from my personal computer anytime in the next 5 years).

  4. Re:Unforgivable! on Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot · · Score: 1

    You could just try to hit two targets in 5 seconds or something (starting with the gun in whatever position the range allows).

  5. Re:Flawed on IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files · · Score: 1

    On XP, cookies are stored in "C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxx\Cookies", so if the path to a cookie can be read, xxxxx is pretty trivial to determine.

  6. Re:Flawed on IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files · · Score: 1

    It isn't completely unreasonable to start that clock at the release of the most recent service pack.

  7. Re:*sigh* ... blame Netscape. on IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files · · Score: 1

    IT WAS TIM BERNERS-LEE!

  8. Re:Holy Flashback, Batman?! on IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files · · Score: 1

    Every modern OS that runs on an x86 runs in protected mode.

    But this is something else (A sandbox present in Vista and later versions of Windows).

  9. Re:If this isn't.... on Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer · · Score: 1

    So go ahead and incorporate, the fee is usually nominal (though the tax implications may not be to your liking).

  10. Re:He wants to recreate you virtually!! on Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer · · Score: 1

    It is probably going to plod along for a couple of years and then come to a preachy, dissatisfying end.

  11. Why not buy mom antivirus? on Image Searchers Snared By Malware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The free antivirus packages are fine, there is no need to pay for one.

  12. Re:professionals on USPTO Won't Accept Upside Down Faxes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isn't the patent office insisting on professionalism, it is the patent office insisting on bureaucratic nonsense.

  13. Re:Another Sign of the Times on Europe's LHC To Run At Half-Energy Through 2011 · · Score: 1

    Have you looked at biology lately?

  14. Re:Carbon allowance trading is a big scam on Huge Phishing Attack On Emissions Trade In Europe · · Score: 1

    As far as the tax receipts, it wouldn't be that hard to find something to do with the money (pay off debt is an easy one), the only hard part would be agreeing on where to spend it (and that's only a problem because our politics are ridiculous).

    Oh, really? Off the top of my head I can think of three completely sensible ways to spend the money to directly offset the social cost of pollution. FWIW, paying off debt is not one of those ways.

    What does this mean? Your "Oh, really?" makes no sense to me as a response to what I said.

  15. Re:Is it only me on Huge Phishing Attack On Emissions Trade In Europe · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are ranting about free markets. Cap and trade is the government using a market to help put a value on regulatory certificates. It is a market.

  16. Re:Carbon allowance trading is a big scam on Huge Phishing Attack On Emissions Trade In Europe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which economists? All of them?

    Did they model China and India as a free for all (a tax can be applied to imports, and perhaps, rebated against exports)?

    As far as the tax receipts, it wouldn't be that hard to find something to do with the money (pay off debt is an easy one), the only hard part would be agreeing on where to spend it (and that's only a problem because our politics are ridiculous).

  17. Re:Is it only me on Huge Phishing Attack On Emissions Trade In Europe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It really isn't obvious that CO2 reduction and capture is anywhere as easy as sulfur reduction apparently was.

    (it is arguable that the sulfur reductions simply demonstrated that the producers could easily bear increased regulatory requirements, there wasn't really any sort of active market)

  18. Re:Carbon allowance trading is a big scam on Huge Phishing Attack On Emissions Trade In Europe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So does a tax (except instead of issuing a certain number of certificates in order to achieve a given output, the rate is adjusted up or down (but probably only ever up...)).

  19. Re:Wait a second, how dangerous is this? on Next X-Prize — $10M For a Brain-Computer Interface · · Score: 1

    It is 5 dangerous. As long as they put in some boilerplate, I doubt there will really be any way to hold them responsible when some doofus wires his brain to a car battery.

    Not to mention that there are already people doing similar stuff to real live patients.

  20. Re:University Legal Services? on Univ. Help Desk Staffer Extorts Over Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    I bet it was trollish lies.

  21. Re:Mohs Scale of Hardness on Harder-Than-Diamond Natural Carbon Crystals Found · · Score: 1, Funny

    The title of the linked comic is "Spinal Tap Amps".

  22. Re:Ohhh shinny! on Harder-Than-Diamond Natural Carbon Crystals Found · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your rich and vivid imagination is going to get your ass kicked.

  23. Re:Ugh... on Why Time Flies By As You Get Older · · Score: 1

    The good news is that it is almost inevitable, and in the case that you don't get older, you won't notice.

  24. Re:Relative memory versus time on Why Time Flies By As You Get Older · · Score: 1

    When you are 1 year old, your entire life memory is like a day or a week.

  25. Re:A stupid question... on Facebook's HipHop Also a PHP Webserver · · Score: 1

    Considering that they are compiling/translating PHP code into C++ code and then compiling that code, I don't think the speed of their C++ compiler was a major contributor to the choice.