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  1. Re:Umm... on Fictional Town "Eureka" To Become Real? · · Score: 1

    Try to see it in a more broad sense...

    People is already happy having all, from the best and the brightest minds, to the worst ones, in ONE PLANET, and think that any investment in space is a waste. So for them should be nothing wrong with that city.

  2. Use an alternative operating system on Reliable, Free Anti-Virus Software? · · Score: 1

    If are less used ,then are far less attacked. With this in mind, i suggest Windows95 *ducks*

  3. Re:Samba Interoperability? on Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch For File-Sharing Hole · · Score: 1

    Is the right way to do it. At least is Microsoft the one changing its own implementation to get closer to Samba (that hadn't the hole) than Samba having once more to duplicate Microsoft's implementation bug^H^H^Hfeatures to remain compatible,

  4. Its working on Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day · · Score: 1

    Microsoft initiatives finally are getting somewhere making that more and more people follows to the letter the licence of the software they are now using ...at least for the open source programs licenses.

  5. Propietary oil on Oil-Immersion Cooled PC Goes To Retail · · Score: 1

    Snakes(oil) on a Mobo. What would say Samuel L. Jackson about it?

  6. Encryption is a good start, but... on New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread · · Score: 1

    as was discussed yesterday, could be pointless, as good part of the breach could go thru social engineering and trojans that could defeat several kinds of encryption schemes.

    If you want to force users to be safe, educate and give them tools to be safe, be the information in their HDs encrypted or not.

    Wonder how this combines with the tendency of US government to monitor ISPs to detect terrorism, IP violation or whatever excuse is hot in that moment. The encryption needed is a backdoored one or we could have a conflict in the future here?

  7. Countries? on FBI Warns of Sweeping Global Threat To US Cybersecurity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    First worry about individuals and groups of individuals, that are already doing some damage. Worms, spam, virus, botnets, exploiting vulnerabilities, social engineering, phishing... you dont need to have a country's government behind those threats.

    And part of the solution is not "attacking", but defending having things right in your side. Detect infected and vulnerable sites and pcs and warn/educate owners/vendors about that, as they are the perfect source for i.e. a big DDos or other kind of attacks. That US is the biggest source of spam and probably botnet activity of the world is a good warning sign.

  8. Name style change on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    windows + version number, year, "new technology", year+new technology, xp and vista... so next one could be new technology+version number, 7 name style changes over the product history.

    Anyway, if you plan already into buying it, probably your counting system is "1... 2... big numbers" so the 7 don't matter a lot.

  9. Hexagonal cloud? on Mysteries Swirl Around Cyclones At Saturn's Poles · · Score: 1

    Maybe for aliens monoliths should have 6 sides and not built from solid materials. Maybe in a future we could send a probe and hear "Oh my god, is full of water drops!"

  10. What kind of force? on 10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting · · Score: 1

    Don't use the forks, Luke (or Larry, or Guido, or Rasmus)

  11. Trading fuel for speed on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    In bottom side of the scale, you can walk, is slower than 30mph, but in reasonably short distances is not that bad, and is healthy even. Or drive a bycicle, that is faster at least. Public transportation could be another cheaper alternative, if fits.

    Only use a car/gas just when you need what comes with a car (and if what you need includes speed, then will be no slow driving saving anyway)

  12. Money isnt what used to be on The Rise of the (Financial) Machines · · Score: 1

    Originally was a way to translate the worth of something into the terms of something else. A cow, an apple, an hour of specialized work, etc. There was a limited amount of money because there was a limited amount of things to trade for, had no meaning to have $10 more than the amount of goods and services.

    A lot happened in the middle, but somewhat money got detached from physical things and got its own life. And got a way to spread, fast. Main production of markets is more money, and the fuel they run on is human faith. With it you build your castles in the sky, your giant bubbles, and make/destroy millons/billons/trillons of it in a day with a bit more of changes of faith of a lot of people.

    I know that this is the simplified version of how i got all wrong, but seems that the real core of the problem (if there is really one, not one of the possible consequences of something that we can't redefine) could be in the root of what money means.

  13. New spy weapons on Microsoft's New Programming Language, "M" · · Score: 1

    My name is Bond, Crash Bond, with licence to kill you... and i will use for that this brand new blue screen that M gave me.

  14. IPv4 exhaustion is a myth on No IPv6 For UK Broadband Users · · Score: 1, Funny

    from the same alarmist that warned about global warming, market dropping and dodo extintion. Nothing to see here, move along (but not too much, you will hit someone's else IP space).

  15. It worked! on Asteroid Explodes Over Sudan · · Score: 1

    Who tought that a team of oil drillers would fail that mission?

  16. Re:AI? Pffft on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    How you can tell that someone/something else is self-aware? In this particular case, if the code is complex enough, chat is the only way to figure that, and the test, to be fair, must be able to discern between a maybe complex, but mindless chat-bot or something else behind.

  17. Nice day on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 1

    in a 24 hour period we saw the fall of Wall Street and now the fall of the sky (ok, a very small part of it)... what will be next?

  18. This was about tv? on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 1

    The United States Senate has unanimously passed a bill that requires the Federal Communications Commission to explore what "advanced blocking technologies" are available to parents to help filter out "indecent or objectionable programming."

    Got lost with the start of the article. For a moment, tought that government would forbid Microsoft to publish Windows sources... who knows what childs would think about that kind of programming.

  19. Social engineering vs captchas on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 1
    Even if developed a clever image captcha that can't be solved by computers but yes for humans, spammers can use social engineering to make humans solve that captchas for them (i.e. bulk paying or showing porn).

    Captchas alone don't solve the problem, but maybe combined with some kind of behaviour blocking, or add more human/machine detection (i.e. sometimes require an answer to be able to send the Nth email) after the account was created could make things a bit less profitable for spammers.. Or other kind of solution.

  20. This is that time of the year again? on Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS · · Score: 1

    every year since a couple of decades ago around this days Microsoft announces a "totally new" "improved" "safe this time" vapour-oriented Windows OS. At least is updating their vocabulary with the offer this time.

  21. Using Excel for scientific calculations on Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is perfectly safe and trusty for that kind of work. Thats why we are using it here at the Large Hadron Co

  22. Double Jeopardy on RealNetworks, Film Industry Headed To Court · · Score: 1

    Better be judged now when no big trouble has been found yet (so ruled not guilty) than later, when a really big problem/example could be found. If they pass the actual test, will be saved for all the future ones.

  23. Re:Not yet on Another Way the LHC Could Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    Sooner... the explosion will surely will be disclosed to the world in next April 1st.

  24. Re:Killer App? on "Pull" Barcode Scanning Could Be Android's Killer App · · Score: 1

    If well dont have to be specific for the Android (probably most cellphones with camera could work this way if had enough cpu power to spare), IS some sort of "killer app".

    Converting images to "data" (reading barcodes is not the only application, but maybe one of the easiest ones... OCRs, face recognition and others could work the same way) is another way to link the real world you are with the virtual one. You take that data, and search for it where is relevant, knowing more about products (books, CDs, food, whatever) you are looking at. Is not the end of the road, but a step in the right direction.

    Android have several paths to link virtual and real world. Another "killer app" is integrating GPSs, with a bigger potential. The integration with maps following where you move to is another good example (as does Enkin). Your cellphone starts to be more than your connection with the phone system, your connection with the world. Will all of this be what makes a difference between Android and everything else? Dont think so, as most of the hardware used is in most modern cellphones, so it could be ported. But will help to raise the bar on what is expected on that kind of devices.

  25. Windows, the new generation on Microsoft's Mundie Sees a Future In Spatial Computing · · Score: 1

    Space: the final frontier. This are the voyages of the Windows Special for Enterprises, to explore strange new virtual world, to seek new second lifes and adquisitions, to boldly go where no blue screen has gone before.