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  1. Most people don't work in financial companies on First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those that do can enable scripting. There's no reason to expose the vast majority who will never, ever, use that functionality to the risk. Which is why I said "disable by default" and not "rip it out and burn it".

    You are correct that vulnerable functionality should be in a protected wrapper. However, this will simply reduce, not eliminate shenanigans. Clever monkeys will still find a way.

  2. No. on CERN Collider To Trigger a Data Deluge · · Score: 1

    Perhaps someone with more experience than me with HPC can pipe in on the specifics, but it should be relatively trivial to create two, rather than one, data stores as the data is generated. Or if it's acceptable, just ship the original. Further, you wouldn't be stacking hard drives on a passenger plane, you'd charter an appropriately sized cargo aircraft. Or, more likely, throw it all in a standard cargo container for surface transport.

    That's a *lot* less cash than running fibre, and while it has very high latency it has effectively infinite bandwidth.

  3. The real solution on First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is to stop enabling scripting by default in software that has no real need of scripting. Hasn't even Microsoft learnt this by now?

  4. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 on CERN Collider To Trigger a Data Deluge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So long as it's not needed right now pretty much any amount of data can be transmitted.

  5. I suspect on CERN Collider To Trigger a Data Deluge · · Score: 1

    1 "internet" is being used as the amount of data transfered in a given period.

  6. International law on Blogger Threatened For Publishing JS Hack · · Score: 1

    Applies almost exclusively to interactions between states, not individuals, and for very good reason. We're not in any foreseeable future going to be able to agree to laws governing all people. Nor should we, such a monoculture would necessarily stagnate.

    It would make far more sense to declare the internet as a form of "international waters", where only a few basic laws that everyone can agree upon apply.

  7. You have no idea how the law works on Blogger Threatened For Publishing JS Hack · · Score: 1

    Please stop pretending you do.

  8. Unfortunately... on Blogger Threatened For Publishing JS Hack · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of people quoting American laws and the American constitution in regard to matters that have nothing to do with the US. I wish you were right, but you're not.

  9. Wow on Blogger Threatened For Publishing JS Hack · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot.

  10. Why should techs be enforcing copyright law? on Microsoft Cracking Down On Indian Retailers · · Score: 1

    Unless they have a specific reason to believe the customer doesn't have a license for the software they've asked to be installed, why should a tech refuse their business?

  11. Isn't Australia an American colony? on Blogger Threatened For Publishing JS Hack · · Score: 1

    It certainly behaves that way.

  12. Attention Americans: on Blogger Threatened For Publishing JS Hack · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your laws do not apply outside your borders.

  13. Because, jackass on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    If you can see someone texting, you could probably hear them talking. No really wants to hear your inane conversations.

  14. That's illegal on Appeals Court Denies Safe Harbor for Roommates.com · · Score: 1

    It's illegal to refuse tenancy to anyone except for a few very specific reasons, and it's illegal to assist anyone else in breaking the law.

  15. When I played it... on BioWare Holds World Design Contest · · Score: 1

    It would always crash at the same point even after reloading, forcing you to restart the campaign. That's not release quality.

  16. You didn't play NWN2, did you on BioWare Holds World Design Contest · · Score: 2, Funny

    It wasn't even stable enough to run the included module, let alone community development.

  17. Re:How? on Stanford To Charge Reconnect Fee For DMCA Notices · · Score: 1

    Close your tags.

    It's private in that it's not for profit or institutional. Historically, copyright has only been enforced against institutions, primarily for profit institutions. Individuals going about their business, photocopying this or dubbing that have been ignored. It should stay that way. The fact that we can do it much, much easier now shouldn't be an issue.

  18. Or... on Microsoft To Dump 32-Bit After Vista · · Score: 1

    They'll just stay with Vista, or more likely XP.

  19. There's a better way on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way? · · Score: 1

    If programs use files as cache, the OS can keep that data in memory when it's available and use it otherwise when not.

  20. That does not imply... on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way? · · Score: 1

    That used memory is not wasted memory. Firefox would be far better to store its cache on disk and let the operating system manage memory.

  21. Wrong on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way? · · Score: 1

    It's not that the general set of eyes is necessarily better (but it almost certainly is), it's that the hired set of eyes is acting in the interest of it's employer, not the public.

  22. You've missed the point on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way? · · Score: 1

    Someone almost assuredly has gone through the source, so you don't need to. If Mozilla.org decided to pull shenanigans, people would notice almost immediately. Not so for Opera.

  23. All software... on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Expands until it can read your mail.

  24. 3 years after you graduate... on Stanford To Charge Reconnect Fee For DMCA Notices · · Score: 1

    It won't matter what school you went to, unless you're incompetent and that's all you have going for you.

  25. A student going to Stanford has other option on Stanford To Charge Reconnect Fee For DMCA Notices · · Score: 1

    And it really doesn't matter as an undergrad.