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  1. Where's the news value? ... on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 1

    Stop-Press: Linus Torvalds was rude to someone on a mailing list ..

  2. Unfortunately the exploit had to be removed on Nvidia Display Driver Service Attack Escalates Privileges On Windows Machines · · Score: 2

    "Unfortunately the exploit had to be removed, feel free to follow me on Twitter" .. link

  3. Insert free advert for Windows 2000 on New Android Malware Uses Google Play Icon To Trick Users · · Score: 1

    'I clicked an ad using the Windows 2000 theme that alerted me to major potential threats in my "regisetery"'.

  4. An example of .. on The Most Unique Viruses of 2012 · · Score: 1

    An example of how not to mention Microsoft Windows in a discussion of malware ...

  5. Name the OS the botnet runs on .. on You're Being DDOSed — What Do You Do? Name and Shame? · · Score: 1

    "The vast majority of DDoS participants are infected computers in botnets" .. that run on Microsoft Windows ...

  6. An Internet virus? on Iran Claims New Cyberattacks On Industrial Sites · · Score: 1

    "An Internet virus attacked computers at industrial sites in southern Iran, in an apparent extension of a covert cyber war that initially targeted the country's nuclear facilities, an Iranian official said."

    Would this "Internet virus" be Microsoft Windows only?

  7. We're sorry, the page you requested was not found on Official Doc Reveals Oracle's Cloud Rules · · Score: 1

    We're sorry, the page you requested was not found ??? link not found

  8. Re: Seriously .. on IE Flaw Lets Sites Track Your Mouse Cursor, Even When You Aren't Browsing · · Score: 1

    "The IE vulnerability compromises the security of virtual keyboards and virtual keypads, which can be used to reduce the chance of a keylogger recording every keystroke to learn your credit card numbers, passwords, and other sensitive information .. If you don't use IE, here's a video demonstration of the vulnerability in action":

  9. Home-brewed "Substance D" on Guatemala Judge Orders McAfee Released · · Score: 1

    "When you've turned into a real-life Bob Arctor with your own home-brewed "Substance D," is there any thinking left that you're capable of? .. coming back to the US, his options for making his "Substance D" are going to be much more limited"

    As well as Gregory Viant Faull is a US citizen, so the US Justice department isn't as likely to go lenient as if McAfee had killed some non-US nonentity ..
    --

    "I saw Substance D. I saw death rising from the earth itself, in one blue field"

  10. First with the rumour ... on Guatemala Judge Orders McAfee Released · · Score: 2

    "A lawyer for John McAfee said Tuesday that a judge has ordered the software company founder released from a Guatemalan detention center .. Judge Judith Secaida did not immediately return phone calls seeking to confirm the ruling."

    Doesn't anyone actually verify the story anymore ?

  11. FreeBSD and Debian on FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How about merging with Debian?

  12. Lay off RMS .. :) on Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me · · Score: 1

    Lay off RMS, he's our John the Baptist, while billg is obviously lucifer, the fallen one who took Linus..er, I mean Jesus, up on high and offered him the whole world, if he only worshiped billg and acknowleged him as the one true software architect .. :)

  13. Canonical current users? on Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash · · Score: 3, Funny

    > Canonical is not really that interested in the opinions of its current users ..

    If not satisfied, then why not ask for your money back ..

  14. NYC not prepared for storm surge? on How Peer1 Survived Sandy · · Score: 1

    "Probably someone thought about it, but decided that other potential hazards (e.g., a leak in the tank causing fuel to be soaked all through several floors of the building) were more important to deal with"

    Specious logic, the position of the fuel pumps don't contribute to fuel tank leakages ..

    "You can guess what the likelihood of each particular risk is, but that's definitely guesswork;

    No need to guess, certain people are paid a lot of money to analyse the risks,

    "the whole of New York really wasn't set up with this sort of storm surge in mind"

    NYC Hurricane History: 1821,1893,1938,1954,1955,1960,1985,1995,1996,1999,1999,2011 ...

    Sep 2007: 4 Million Gallon Diesel Fuel Tank Fire

  15. Keeping fuel in the basement? on How Peer1 Survived Sandy · · Score: 2

    When taking the decision to keep the emergency backup fuel pumps in the basement, did no one think of what would happen in the event of flooding.

  16. Eurograbber infects online customers? on How the Eurograbber Attack Stole 36M Euros · · Score: 1

    How does this 'eurograbber' infect the online customers in the first place?

  17. Nevada objected to nuclear waste dump? on How Yucca Mountain Was Killed · · Score: 1

    "The saga of Yucca Mountain's creation and apparent demise, and of the seeming inability of the courts to prevent the Obama administration from unilaterally nullifying the decades-old statutory framework for Yucca"

    It's Nevada who is objecting to using the site as a nuclear waste dump.

  18. Secret Data Network? on Swiss Spy Agency: Counter-Terrorism Secrets Stolen · · Score: 1

    "The suspect [had] unrestricted access to most or all of the NDB's networks, including those holding vast caches of secret data".

    Did no-one in this self-described Federal Intelligence Service notice him downloading terrabytes of data?

  19. Re: Enumerating Badness on Interviews: Ask What You Will of Eugene Kaspersky · · Score: 1

    "Please can't we just have a piece of Anti-Virus software that simply prevents *everything* from running, unless you say otherwise? Then all we need to is "be smart" about what we *allow* and when , not constantly have to update the list of what we *deny*.

    Because there is no money in enumerating goodness ...

  20. Get online as soon as possible? on Even Capped Prediction Markets Can Be Manipulated · · Score: 1

    > The correct answer is: you should stop wasting time "concluding" things, and get online as soon as possible and make bets in both markets, because if they're allowing bets to be placed at different odds, you can guarantee yourself a profit ..

    I don't think so, the only people who will win are the house. All's happening here, is the clients money gets moved round the table ...

  21. Best ever comment ... on Auto-threading Compiler Could Restore Moore's Law Gains · · Score: 1

    Best ever comment ... (Score:+9)

  22. The Psychiatric Profession? on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    Psychiatry, a modern pseudo-scientific cult .. discuss ...

  23. Bread keeps well frozen? on Scientists Develop Sixty Day Bread · · Score: 1

    Bread made from frozen dough has the appearance of freshness, but within about twenty minutes undergoes change into something awful. That's why the staff at a certain world-wide franchise avoid the produce and refer to it as a s**t sandwich ..

  24. Irradiated food on Scientists Develop Sixty Day Bread · · Score: 1

    Didn't this used to be known as irradiated food, something people objected to as it would lead to unfit food being re-processed for human consumption. As in - if it's going to be zapped - then less care can be taken in production and storage. While it would kill the bacteria, toxins remain in the produce.

    Food Irradiation

  25. Uses for a touchscreen laptop .. on Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops · · Score: 1

    Zoom in, pan left-right-up-down. Moving your arms from keyboard-to-screen-and-back-again is tiring ..