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  1. Nobody expects the internet censorship on Time To Take the Internet Seriously · · Score: 1

    And the worst part is how similar is becoming to the spanish inquisition

  2. Wasnt Mark on Facebook Founder Accused of Hacking Into Rivals' Email · · Score: 2, Interesting
  3. She was joking on Pixel Qi Introduces a DIY Kit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now we can begin our own "How many netbook owners does it takes to change a lightbulb" jokes.

  4. Re:Content vs. Presentation on The Evolution of Reading In the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    Collecting? Then you are talking about presentation, not the actual content of those books. Could have all white pages inside for what matters

    At least for me, the main reason i keep book is because i could read them again later, or give to another person. In both cases should not matter presentation (unless the person i give it is not as comfortable as me with the particular media on which i have it, of course). While i could find them, don't matter so much how look my library.

  5. Content vs. Presentation on The Evolution of Reading In the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    Sometimes content includes presentation, but not always content needs it. Most books in particular, as flow of words, of ideas, not of something physical, should be independent of presentation, so any way to transmit it, comfortably enogh for the receiver, should be equivalent, so either audio, reading in a cellphone, pdf, computer montior, printed book or wallscreen should be more or less the same.

    There are some special books that pushes the possibilities of that media, that does some trick with the material, the pagination, what you should see at once in that physical form, etc. But for most of them don't matter that much how you "read" them.

  6. Inventor? on Dr. NakaMats Is the World's Most Prolific Inventor · · Score: 1

    World's most prolific patenter could be more accurate way to describe him. Not taking away his merit, but maybe in the past there was more people that invented more things, but as not documented or patented their inventons aren't taken into account.

  7. Speed and little more on Web Browser Grand Prix · · Score: 1

    They included how well they ranked in the acid test, but most of the article was about raw speed. But for "best" there are more criteria to take into account. Features, availability of extensions (specially the ones you in particular need), OSs where it runs, security, matters at the moment of making a choice. But at least is a good clue that opera and chrome are usually the fastest ones, safari and firefox aren't so far, and IE is the worst choice is speed is an important factor.

    The main debatable test was the specific sites benchmarks one, as it could had measured in good part how much tuned for specific browsers are those sites, but if are the kind of sites you visit more, probably could notice the difference (at least, until that sites acknowledge that worth optimizing for webkit or gecko too).

  8. Re:"Anti-strange"? on First Creation of Anti-Strange Hypernuclei · · Score: 1

    Probably thats why is a new kind of matter: don't matter.

  9. He's right on There Is No Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    In a war both sides are fighting... but so far, only the bot(net)s are attacking, and what the "attacked" front does efficiently is giving them more drones. Is not war, is harvest.

  10. South Park was right on The Arctic Is Leaking Methane · · Score: 1

    Blame Canada

  11. ISPs on Venezuela Bans Hostile Videogames and Toys · · Score: 1

    Aren't they distributing hostile flash videogames? Should all flash, silverlight, advanced html5 and java be blocked to avoid breaking the law?

    Internet is the ultimate test to tell when some law is just stupid, and you don't need to be a "benevolent dictator" to have in your portfolio a lot of that kind of laws.

  12. Programmed Hotkeys on The Computer That Can Read Your Mind · · Score: 1
    Words have several meanings, thinking on a word, specially in different contexts, could have different waves. So having something without different associations, like letters, can be used for this. But you could still can have "hotkeys" waves, that means something maybe abstract, or maybe very used, and have them as hotkeys.

    And with 30second/letter times, using cellphone like assisted writting could be useful (and there you need "keys" to select which offered word anyway), or like this in a desktop environment.

  13. Re:Pentalty for 12 million botnet = 6 years on Mariposa Botnet Beheaded · · Score: 1

    You mean death penalty for writting a program? Is not murder, is not physically attack them to steal, its not even looking at pictures of naked children, probably the vast majority of them ever noticed that they had that installed. And the biggest component of the attack was getting thru a floor level big size window that the house maker left open so the owners could feel some air, they were practically invited to get in.

  14. Re:Another... on Mariposa Botnet Beheaded · · Score: 1

    Tell that to their victims and their will go in person, or hire well provided porn actors for that.

  15. Re:Security Essentials on Microsoft VP Suggests 'Net Tax To Clean Computers · · Score: 1

    Should be no reason to be running anti-virus nowadays, if were taken years ago as Essential Security to not run Microsoft.

  16. Re:I'm paying for WHAT? on Microsoft VP Suggests 'Net Tax To Clean Computers · · Score: 1

    Think in drugs. There are a lot of drug addicts with withdrawal symptoms making trouble around, so you tax everyone to buy them new doses to keep them quiet for a few days. Of course, the ones giving that doses will have their daily profit that way, so is a good business, while fixing the problem is not.

  17. Re:Culture is a meme on The Role of Human Culture In Natural Selection · · Score: 1, Troll

    Susan Blackmore has written more than a bit around it, and her TED talk about this and the future is pretty interesting.

  18. Previous art on Recovering Data From Noise · · Score: 1

    Nostradamus predictions... each new researcher recover new data from that noise. (each word of this should be quoted, as almost none is what it mean).

    Is risky to "fill in the blanks" or give your own (i.e. following a set of rules) meaning to noise, it will show things as you think they should be, and the exceptions will be missed or discarded.

  19. 80-20 on Over Half of Software Fails First Security Tests · · Score: 1

    That is 50-50 is good news if the sample was broad enough . Could be interesting to match that numbers with amount of users... could be a lot of those programs that their userbase coincide (or is even lower) with the amount of developers, and see how insecure are programs with more than 100,1000 or even more users (i.e. if the top 20 % of top safe applications have the 80 % or more of users,or the distribution is better than that).

  20. Re:Ugggh on US Military Surrenders To Social Media, Changes Access Restrictions · · Score: 1

    The weakest component of a closed, safe door is the person that can open it from inside. The main vulnerability that introduces social networking sites is social engineering, in a way or another. Is pretty bad (or good) that they are open to the "real" world, and that could be influenced by the views of normal people, but add lack of privacy implied in some of those social networks, and a bit of malice, and bad things could happen.

  21. Small correction on Another Study Attacks Violent Video Games, Claims To Be "Conclusive" · · Score: 1

    Reading studies that attacks violent video games makes you more aggresive. If we are going meta, lets go all the way.

  22. You can trust Microsoft on Microsoft Behind Google Complaints To EC · · Score: 1

    It's just too predictable. The last time Microsoft surprised me was when they did something even worse than they use to do. Even comics villains are more dimensional than them.

  23. Business Opportunities on Court Rules Photo of Memorial Violates Copyright · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Setting precedents opens the door to business opportunities. Just put a sign or whatever near very public and photographed places, and sue any publication that from now on include photos of those places because they are sharing your sign too. Even a grafitti could eventually do the work.

  24. Microsoft problem solving on Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection · · Score: 1, Funny

    There are 5 well-known approaches: 3 good solutions, 1 acceptable solution that is slower than necessary and 1 bad approach that doesn’t really work. Microsoft appears to have picked the bad approach.

    We are still talking here about the random selection of browsers, or something more broad?

  25. Passive-Aggresive-Open wifi on UK Bill Would Outlaw Open Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Complementing the story about Passive-Aggresive wifi Hotspots, the new trend could putting them locked with password, and naming them ThePasswordIsXYZ9923. They are not open, but whoever wants to use them will be able to do it.