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  1. Re:JSON is in!? on ECMAScript Version 5 Approved · · Score: 1

    I don't think that was a primary reason (safe parsers are, and have been, widely available), I worded my comment in that way because I didn't want to argue about whether or not eval qualified as a json parser.

  2. Re:We can do it! on Israeli Knesset Approves Biometric Database Law · · Score: 1

    Nowhere in the summary does it mention either Bush or Obama, so probably not.

  3. Re:JSON is in!? on ECMAScript Version 5 Approved · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Implementations are expected to provide a safe(r) parser than eval.

  4. Re:I would love to see Figure J on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    He is certainly responsible for being an idiot, there are, in fact, less drastic ways to check the status of a gun.

  5. Re:Well, at least the rest don't do this. on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    So fly on a private plane.

    The constitutionality is sidestepped because the airports and airlines are the ones 'requesting' the security.

  6. Re:Where I stopped reading... on CrunchPad Being Re-branded As JooJoo · · Score: 1

    Sure, it is worth a giggle, but I doubt she was so mortified that later she was unable to face the lot of you, and of course, because of marketing, at least one of you knew what her meaning was.

  7. Re:400 CPU cluster or 400 node botnet? on WPA-PSK Cracking As a Service · · Score: 1

    The faq on the site discusses that they are doing about 150 times as much searching as the typical rainbow table (and if the network password is one of the 150 million that they check, they will find it regardless of the SSID).

  8. Re:400 CPU cluster or 400 node botnet? on WPA-PSK Cracking As a Service · · Score: 1

    They (only) accept Amazon payments, so it wouldn't be terribly shocking if they were using EC2.

    They even offer high cpu instances:

    http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

    Given that they only charge $0.68 per hour for the high performance instances, he can buy quite a lot of horsepower for $17, and the costs of doing it twice as fast are pretty much exactly the same.

  9. Fraud? on Subverting Fingerprinting · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is it really fraud? Is there some promise that everyone has made to never make alterations to their bodies?

    (I think it's dumb, but I don't see how it is fraud, she didn't actually impersonate anyone or anything)

  10. Re:Sorry, Julie, but the joke is on us on CrunchPad Being Re-branded As JooJoo · · Score: 1

    It isn't particularly offensive, it is just tiresome.

  11. Re:Regulatory solution? on FCC May Pry Open the Cable Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    Given that the FCC already has their ham fist all over the market, I don't know why you would shudder when someone insists that they actually do a good job of regulating.

  12. Re:One idea on FCC May Pry Open the Cable Set-Top Box · · Score: 0

    So?

  13. Re:Sorry, Julie, but the joke is on us on CrunchPad Being Re-branded As JooJoo · · Score: 1

    It's okay to be a shallow douche-bag, lots of people are, but you should note that it isn't a particularly good opener.

  14. Re:Memory Problems in Rechargables on CrunchPad Being Re-branded As JooJoo · · Score: 1

    Not really a huge issue with lithium technologies; they do get stale whether you cycle them or not though.

    (Hell, from what I understand, it isn't really that big a deal with nimh, given a decent charger)

  15. Re:Well, Duh on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    If you look back through our evolution, bigger males pretty much predate culture.

  16. Re:I disagree on Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next · · Score: 1

    I really wish you had said "the ability to bare arms". It is far more hilarious.

  17. Re:Where I stopped reading... on CrunchPad Being Re-branded As JooJoo · · Score: 1

    It was a Chevy. Who knows what impact that name had above and beyond that (but I love that people have this stupid, ridiculous caricature of Mexicans in their heads).

  18. Re:Where I stopped reading... on CrunchPad Being Re-branded As JooJoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Enough people pronounce Wii, we, and wee the same that Wii really isn't a particularly bad name (that it is a homophone of a pronoun gives it an everyday quality that helps it deal with the urinary connotations).

  19. Re:Why don't they focus on things that matter? on Google Visual Search Coming Soon to Android · · Score: 1

    Foxit is terrible. Scratching marks on the ground with a stick beats Foxit.

    (It has all the bloat of Adobe without any of the compatibility)

  20. Re:Now they'll know what you've seen. on Google Visual Search Coming Soon to Android · · Score: 1

    A lot of people are being pretty pessimistic regarding how accurate the results will be.

    You are being incredibly optimistic.

  21. Re:Here is a crazy idea on Facebook ID Probe Shows Things Getting Worse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does the article discuss how much info each user leaked? I wouldn't be real surprised if the older users posted less info and were thus less concerned with privacy (It also wouldn't be shocking if they were simply less aware of it).

  22. Re:I'm confused on Palm Sued Over Palm Pre GPL Violation · · Score: 1

    I was speaking of GPL and friends, not proprietary software.

  23. Re:At what point does the VM become another OS? on VMware's Dual OS Smartphone Virtualization Plan Firms Up · · Score: 1

    On XP and later systems, DLL Hell can be entirely mitigated by careful deployment (that is, an app can ship with and be sure to load exactly the DLLs that it was linked against).

    Of course, lots of vendors still just hope that whatever visual C runtime they linked against happens to be present in the system32 directory.

  24. Re:I'm confused on Palm Sued Over Palm Pre GPL Violation · · Score: 1

    It would be clearer to say that most such licenses grant permission to use the software and place conditions upon distribution of the software. If the licenses did not grant permission, each user would need to get permission from the copyright holder.

  25. Re:What does a book offer that a reader doesn't? on Barnes & Noble's Nook, Reviewed · · Score: 1

    It is trivial to remove most ebook drm. And there are plenty of ebook readers with no network functionality. And there are plenty of ebook sellers that do not use drm (but they do have an admittedly limited selection).