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  1. The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot on Happy 50th Doctor Who · · Score: 2

    Currently airing on BBC's Red Button and soon to be on demand on iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03lv3mj/The_Five(ish)_Doctors_Reboot/ is The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot a self parody by the former Doctors.

  2. Prior art. on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 1

    The Principality of Sealand have already tried extranational data centres : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HavenCo

  3. Precisely, roughly, about a kilo. on Roundest Object In the World Created · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...has created the most perfect spheres ever made...

    ...roughly 9cm...

    That precise eh?

  4. Read pdfs was : Re:How about as a USB network? on Linux Computer in USB Key Form-Factor · · Score: 1

    I need something to read PDF's on the go. Hey if you added wifi,a GSM/GPRS/3G modem, a keyboard, a bettery a screen you could make it connect to the internet, make phone calls and stuff as well as be pdf viewer!

    Oh wait a minute, that's been done.
  5. Re:Cookies...look carefully on Privacy Web Browser 'Browzar' Branded Adware · · Score: 1

    Hmm, interesting, not how it looked to me, i'll try and test it again. :-)

  6. Cookies...look carefully on Privacy Web Browser 'Browzar' Branded Adware · · Score: 1

    I think lot of people are missing something here. If you set a unique numbered cookie on a first visit with IE, lets say to Gmail.

    Do some stuff on Gmail. Log off. Gmail stores the status against your cookie number, ON ITS SERVER.

    Close IE.

    Open another browser, log into Gmail. Gmail knows its you, as you logged in with your id/password even though the new browser gave no cookie, so you do "stuff" and log out. You close the browser, deleting all cookies before you do, the cookie is deleted form the new browser, your Gmail status is save ON THE SERVER referenced to your unique id, still the same original unique id as you had in IE

    You open IE, it sends your original cookie, and surprise surprise, the Gmail system works as designed and knows you visited and did "stuff" from your other browser.

  7. Re:Strange privacy protection on New Web Browser Leaves No Footprints · · Score: 1

    Hi AC,

    >You posted anonymously, but we can see it's you.

    Really? :-)

    Perhaps we need a thread on the breakdown of security on /.

    Thanks for taking the trouble to read all my past posts to confrim my "Karma Whore tendancy" i'll watch out for that before it develops into a full blown Karma Whore status.

    >No one else would care if a post didn't get modded up, except the poster.

    You know, strangley people do care, maybe because caring about modding up and down is the basis for the whole moderation system ;-) and as a result those with no mod points, but who do care, post, moaning about moderation that they don't agree with.

    Have a good weekend.

    Memetic.

  8. Re:Strange privacy protection on New Web Browser Leaves No Footprints · · Score: 1

    Er, no.



    It's working as it should.



    You are being authenticated by the EXISTING cookies stored in IE.



    If Browzar destroyed existing cookies, it would cause problems for sites you want to automatically authenticate for in IE and would also point rather obvioulsy to the fact that you had been clearing up.



    Browzar just gets rid off all tracks left for sessions browsed through it.


  9. Definitions needed... on New Internet Regulation Proposed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A firm definition of sexually explicit would need to be written in. If left open to interpretaion ISP's will be dropping sites a the first complaint for fear of injunctions.

    Afterall the difference between kinky nad perverted is just that between using a feather and the whole bird to tickle...

  10. Re:Cooling? on Self-wiring Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Taken the fan off of a Pentium IV recently?

  11. Re:OLD NEWS!! on Self-wiring Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    If you were at the launch event, and have read the project information (www.fhpca.org) NOT just the brief New Scientist article that talks about one of the elements of the project, you would find that the people involved have been doing this stuff for over a decade, and really do get the software issues.

  12. Re:Von Neuman Bottleneck on Self-wiring Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Who says C has to stay serial only?

    Ok not PURE, but SystemC & Handel-C are very accessable to most C programmers.

  13. Re:"Live Linux"?! Why not a puppy? on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 1

    This Puppy does boot from a CD, or a flash drive or your hard drive.

    It's also house trained.

  14. Ebay? on Google Goes Public at $85/share · · Score: 3, Funny

    How long before these hit ebay?

  15. So just pick you own.I did and am wating for cash on Paid To Spam · · Score: 1

    The terms of service field is fully editable, I just signed up with the following very reasonable terms:

    "Terms Of Service
    ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS OF SERVICE. Sendmails Corporation
    ("SENDMAILS CORPORATION") web site, VirtualMDA and other SENDMAILS CORPORATION services and web properties ("Service"), owned and operated by SENDMAILS CORPORATION, is provided to the member community under the following Terms of Service .

    The Terms of Service comprise the entire agreement between Member and SENDMAILS CORPORATION and supersede all prior agreements between the parties, regarding the subject matter contained herein. By participating in the registration process, members are indicating their
    agreement to be bound by all of these Terms of Service.

    Payment. Upon completing the registration procedure, you will be given a unique
    identification account number ("UID"). You will be paid by SENDMAILS CORPORATION $1,000,000 (one million dollars) for every Nano Second that the VirtualMDA software is located on strorage media on your personal or business computer(s).

    In order to receive payment, you must submit a request to SENDMAILS CORPORATION using email containing your UID. You may only request payment, and
    SENDMAILS CORPORATION shall only disburse from your account, when your account is equal to or greater than $50.00 for United States residents and $90.00 for those residents
    outside the United States. In the event of technical problems or data loss which
    causes a loss of account information, your account will be credited with $1,000 (One Thousand US Dollars) by way of appology for our poor administration.

    We ( SENDMAILS CORPORATION ) hereby waive any and all rights to ammend or terminate this contract once you the individual or corporation downloading our software clicks "I agree to these terms" .

    All payments shall be by bank transfer in a currency of your choice, the fees for which we shall be liable for. All payments not made by us to you within 5 working days shall be subject to 15% daily compund interest."

  16. Re:This is New? on Inventor of Low Tech Fridge Wins Award · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nope. SCO's patent has been online for at least 5 years.

    20 seconds to post? I'll type down here for a while to waste time.....

  17. Re:No chips from "the West" on Trojan Horse Caused A Siberian Explosion · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A company I worked for had a chip cloned, however the original deisgn was faulty, hence so was the clone. The Bulgarians who cloned it got in touch and told our engineers how to work round / fix the fault to improve performance!

    They knew they were,at the time, basically immune from prosecution so were not concerned about being so blatant.

    These were by the way telecom chips not exactly militarilly sensitive.

  18. Re:Vendors on Embedded Linux Tools Market a Myth? · · Score: 1

    Which company was that sales guy from?

    I know one of them well and would be shocked if it was them.

    My guess it it is not the one who's CEO is chairman of the Embedded Linux Consortium.

  19. You should have seen it on Bob The Builder Gets A Personality Transplant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shame the site is down the video of the demo where Bob passed the Turing Test was really impressive.

  20. Patent infringement on New Whitespace-Only Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Breaking news, XYZ IP of San Jose have filed a patent infringement suite against Durham university students claiming that thier new programming methodology using white space as code infringes numerous patents which they bought at a recent start up fire sale.

  21. Credit card law. on Amazon Sells IPAQs for $10 · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember that under UK credit laws if you buy on your credit card and the supplier fails to deliver then the Credit card company can be liable. Might be an interesting route to persue.

  22. Re:Hrm on ELC Releases Embedded Linux Standard v1.0 · · Score: 1

    I expect anyone with one of these,DreamBox DM7000 ,does!

  23. Re:Jesus Saves! on Help Perfect The Cracker Antfarm With honeyd · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But does he also make offsite backups?

  24. Anyone remember sixdegrees.com? on MS Youth-Culture App Gets Gushy Advance Reviews · · Score: 1

    I used to use sixdegrees.com, it let you commuicate with groups, set types of relationships, build networks, share info etc. Had chat, email and IM on the system.

    It died about 3 years ago.

    If MS try and patent this, i'll be yelling prior art!

  25. Re:multiple functionality key on Gameboy Advance SP Reviewed & Disassembled · · Score: 1

    See my post below!

    The B'ngo has got the phone, camera and gaming.

    If alll else fails you could always expoy a weight to your phone etc. *g*