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  1. cannot be true on Model Says Religiosity Gene Will Dominate Society · · Score: 1

    if there was a religous gene winning against an atheism genome set due to hight number of offspring, we would not have any atheists today. We do hence there is not. q.e.d.

  2. Curious... on US Military 'Banned' From Viewing Wikileaks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Documents that only military personell could read are now documents that everyone but military personell can read. What's the classification tag for that?

  3. home router still safe on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    your home wpa2/psk environment is still safe, so don't worry about your neighbours virtual break-in.....

  4. Re:Next technology, next cassandra on 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children · · Score: 1

    People compaining their jobs are taken by machines? No, that doesn't quite fit as the critics usually fear much more severe consequences than just job loss, e. g. health problems

  5. Re:Next technology, next cassandra on 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children · · Score: 1

    you are right, "cassandra" doesn't really apply here, since although the critics think they are correct my point was that they are not.

  6. Next technology, next cassandra on 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Whenever a new technology pops up, there come the people that warn about the dangers coming from it and how the world as we know it will end. This was the same with books, trains, cars, radio television, internet, cell phones.... i am sure there are plenty more... As long as you or your child doesn't consume 3d television 24/7 i am sure you'll be fine.

  7. Welcome.... on HTC Android Smartphone Stores Browsing Screenshots · · Score: 1

    so Android tries to beat IPhone at every game? the IPhone used to be famous for the security issue of storing user screenshots on the device.

  8. Re:Hahaha on HTC Android Smartphone Stores Browsing Screenshots · · Score: 2, Insightful

    if you are one of a hundret selling android devices you need something to be distinguished with from the others. So they add on their on UI so customers see it as a better android handset as the ones from other manufacturers. If you submitt it back to android then all will eventually have it and you are just one in the android soup again....

  9. Re:there is a problem on When Will the Automotive Internet Arrive? · · Score: 1

    The opposite is true. Since every car must take any technical problems of other cars into consideration, such as communication problems, you old cars are covered.

    It needs to be designed in a way that the whole system improves marginally just with every car which gets assimilated into this rolling fleet of borg drones. Then you can deploy it car by car.

  10. Re:PDF files should not "execute" on Adobe Warns of Flash, PDF Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Leaving out the "executable content" from PDFs does not shield you from exploits at all. Hostile input can still trigger all sorts of bad reactions including complete takeover. A bug can turn any simple viewer into executing the document.

  11. Re:Waste of time. on How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? · · Score: 1

    Thats the exact timeframe. The feature was introduced in Windows 2000.

  12. Re:All about dates now. on Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Singularity, In Movie Form · · Score: 1

    When it comes to Arthur C. Clarke quotes, I like the following one at least as much:

    When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

    The one likely exception to that is that we probably won't ever come up with a way to travel faster than light.

    are you a distinguished but elderly scientist ?

  13. Re:How is it different from LILIO and Grub? on Boot Record Rootkit Threatens Vista, XP, NT · · Score: 1

    Funny that the only MS OS that actually protects you (as in Administrator) is Vista with UAC turned on. Besides that i still think replacing an MBR is a perfectly sane thing to do from an Administrators/Root account.

    - Faber

  14. Re:Bill Gates obviously doesn't understand econ on Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs · · Score: 1

    Well, but why don't we repair cars, treat illnesses, etc (put in any profession you like) for free then ? I mean in our free time, let the customer pay only the parts, which should btw also be free since those workes creates them also in their spare time, of which they have plenty now...

    Keeping inefficient work just for the jobs, and replacing jobs with work-done-for-free are 2 entirely different things.

    Microsoft gave their browser away, sponsored by windows or office sales. This is anti competitive and they should have been punished for it. But you would have the same apply to free (as in beer) software developers, woulnd't you, if they ask developers to please stand up and get out of the way so they can put in their work results for free...

    It shouldn't take an econ degree to figure out that this works only small scale.

  15. don't forget CAPS LOCK patent issued june 8 on EFF Runs Patent-Busting Challenge · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IBM got a patent on CAPS LOCK status indicator: Here's the link

  16. Re:You can do this already on Microsoft wants Automatic Update for Windows · · Score: 1

    I never saw device drivers offered on windowsUpdate.com be part of "critical updates" that download automatically.

    But i have seen device drivers downloaded from there screw up the system so i hope the oberservation aboe remains valid.