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  1. Re:Virus?? on RIAA/MPAA Contractor Deploys Malicious Adware Trojans · · Score: 1

    MOD PARENT UP!

    This is so true!

  2. Re:Spam including URLs - Target Acquisition on Spamfighting Since the Death of MakeLoveNotSpam? · · Score: 1

    Well, you could do that, but the important point is to use only URLs you received in spam yourself, not a list on some web site.

    A single point of information is easy to subvert to attack an innocent host.

    A billion emails is a little harder.

  3. Spam including URLs on Spamfighting Since the Death of MakeLoveNotSpam? · · Score: 1

    Fully load the pages they link in the spam, including images and everything. Not only will this give you more meat to grind with your spam filter, it will drive the spammers web hosting crazy.

  4. Not really on Alek's Christmas Lights: Humbug · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's already hard to find someone who RTFA, imagine someone checking REALITY.

  5. Information security on Following up on Torrent Shutdowns · · Score: 2, Funny
    My favorite part is:
    If you are viewing this FAQ at any other location than http://www.silentdragz.net/suprfaq then it is not authorised.


    Now, THAT is information I can trust. :)
  6. In China... on Study Links Cell Phones to DNA Damage · · Score: 1

    In China, radiation is always beneficial.

  7. Re:You can but... on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    ha ha ha!

    For those who don't get it, read this.

  8. Re:Want to see how it will go? on Legal Rights for Computers · · Score: 1

    Nobody said we would grant computers human rights.

    They will need computers rights, whatever that ends up to be.

  9. One major problem on Google Suggest Dissected · · Score: 1

    There is one major problem with Google's client-side javascript magic: It breaks the back button.

    This breaks the second most used user interface feature on the internet. Quote from the link: The Back button is the lifeline of the Web user and the second-most used navigation feature (after following hypertext links). Users happily know that they can try anything on the Web and always be saved by a click or two on Back to return them to familiar territory.

    The auto-complete isn't really affected by this, but try it in your Gmail account. I hope they will figure out a way to fix it.

  10. Re:Seems like a bit much to me. on Automatic Christmas Music · · Score: 1

    What we need is a computer to listen to it.

  11. Re:Prove it on Astronaut: 'Single-Planet Species Don't Last' · · Score: 1

    If europeans explorers had waited for all problems to be solved before crossing the ocean and establishing colonies, we would still be waiting.

    Or maybe united under a planetary mayan governement ;)

  12. In China on Major Climate Change 5,200 Years Ago Could Repeat · · Score: 1

    In China, all climate changes are beneficial.

  13. Re:Aromatherapy? on Bad Science Awards · · Score: 1

    Yeah, reality sucks.

  14. Re:Aromatherapy? on Bad Science Awards · · Score: 1

    It's an instinctive reflex to try and have many children with many partners when the infant death rates are high.

    It is the only real good solution on a species level. Already people immune to the disease are appearing. It's only a question of time before those resistant mutations are "picked up" by the population (by being the ones that die slowest).

    It's instinctive for a good reason: it works.

  15. Re:It's COOL to suck at math on Math Skills Survey Shows U.S. Lags Behind · · Score: 1

    If you haven't done so already, I suggest you read Paul Graham's Why nerds are unpopular.

    Very interesting reading. I wonder what Korea did to achieve such different results.

  16. You don't understand Open Source on Is Some Software Meant to be Secret? · · Score: 1

    Open Source does not mean "blindly download free software on the internet".

    It means share what you write.

  17. Re:Unnecessary data! on Feds Propose National Database of College Students · · Score: 1

    Exactly. This kind of data *is* very useful and would certainly be used quite efficiently.

    The problem, as the article put it, I simply don't believe that statisticians at the Department of Education will have the political power to prevent subsequent use of this by interested parties who will have a lot more sway.

  18. Re:Push popularity using .net/mono on Developing Applications With Objective Caml · · Score: 1

    Well, it's kinda my point.

    If libraries are not the issue, then why aren't functionnals language more popular?

  19. Push popularity using .net/mono on Developing Applications With Objective Caml · · Score: 1

    This is where .net and mono could do a difference. They allow any language to be used with each other. So get your favorite functional language compiled for .net and you instantly have the whole library.

    But despite this and this, as far as I can see there have not been any massive worldwide shifts toward functional programming recently.

    I guess it's hard to change.

  20. Re:am I just behind on the times? on Steve Ballmer's $100 PC, Sans Windows · · Score: 1

    I agree with you that 400% is outrageous, but where do you get your 30% number?

  21. Re:How can this work on a small scale? on Blog Torrent Beta Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    What if it IS likely that two people will be there at the same time? If I post yesterday's party videos, I potentially have as many downloads as there were people.

    Unless of course you always film yourself alone.

    The idea is not flawed.

  22. Bittorrent on Is The Lone Coder Dead? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Take Bittorrent for example. Does anyone know if he actually lives of it or not?

    If that kind of success is not enough, I don't know what is.

  23. Similar device by MIT on Design Your Own Audio Controller · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I love this kind of device, and I can't wait to finally be able to acquire one for a reasonable price. I've been keeping an eye on a similar device called AudioPad for a while now, which works with a projector and drawing tablets.

    The devices are similar, but the MIT project seems to place the bar higher concerning potential UI innovations instead of re-creating existing hardware virtually. (Look at the IP Workbench example video and see what I mean...)

  24. Re:This Salkever Guy Is a Shmuck on Slashback: Cradle, Indiscriminancy, Multiplicity · · Score: 1

    The problem when readers are responsible for picking and choosing what they believe out of the news is that appearances of truth becomes easier to achieve than truth itself.

    Sure human selection can be abused and biased, but done correctly it can provides a much deeper insight into whatever is concerned.

    Collaborative information management systems such as /. could perhaps be merged with Google-News in some useful way to mend for it's shortcomings.

  25. Good, Fast, Cheap on Microsoft Issues Ominous ASP.Net Security Warning · · Score: 1

    Choose any two.