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  1. no wifi = no rogue nets? on Apple To Sell Wi-Fi-less iPhone In China · · Score: 1

    When I was reading the summary, I was convinced it had to do with preventing people from using wifi to spawn non-filtered (local) networks to communicate. It didn't even occur to me that it might have something to do with voip.

  2. Trying to scare people into renewing their account on Massive Bank Fraud In EVE Online · · Score: 1

    This is rather very old news, and the "run" is also over already; my ISKs are sitting safely at the bank, and earning too! Heck, people were even making deposits to help out while others were reacting.

    What I thought was interesting, was the talk of how perhaps the bank needs to increase returns to reflect the greater resulting/perceived risk.

  3. Re:Most secure!? on Emulated PC Enables Linux Desktop In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    I don't have the link in mind right now, but I remember reading something pertaining to how Gillette security labs are way ahead of them in this regard... they've had three layers available for some time now, and are working on a new prototype, that is said to completely trump the 5-layer model from the competition.

    Two layers, pfft!

  4. Re:Obviously the user's fault on Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink · · Score: 1

    I wasn't designed to run the site "Hot or Not" 24/7.

  5. Re:Just nonsense on Study Claims Point-of-Sale Activation Could Generate Billions In Revenue · · Score: 1

    are there any stats on this?

    I completely stopped buying CDs after almost purchasing protected ones three times, yet where are the numbers showing the (negative) imoact of such measures on sales?

  6. Re:Competitive pricing? Doesn't matter... on Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing · · Score: 1

    Somewhere hiding in a closet, I have an original "Microsoft Mouse" which had bundled with it, Microsoft Windows (1.x)!!

    Sounds to me like it's more or less the same, except now it's bundled with any "New PC".

  7. Re:Interesting! on 35,000-Year-Old Flute Is Oldest Music Instrument Ever Found · · Score: 1

    I am also thinking that plenty of much older bones and sticks were also used as percussion instruments.

  8. Re: no buttons?! on iPhone Shakes Up the Video Game Industry · · Score: 0

    Hell, they don't even have real buttons.

    The "Wee" has no buttons either, preferably, and I hear 'bout %50 of the population has one!

  9. Re: 4 year Linux phase? on Solution For College's Bad Network Policy? · · Score: 1

    I wish Linux stopped being "just a phase" already, where all the kids pretend to use it so they may seem cool(er).

  10. Re:Nobody Knows (yet) on Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, we're about to discover, somewhere underwater, a mostly intact plane filled with bodies (from some distant cemetery), though only once they're absolutely impossible to identify.

    Could someone be sure to get the whole pilot's-wedding-ring thing correct this time around?

  11. Re:How 'bout something more accessible? on EFF Launches TOS Tracker · · Score: 1

    What about a GPL-like (copyright-ish) structure of legally binding documents, where one could refer to, say, Privacy1.0 with NoDisclosure, DonateToScience, PleaseRapeMeGently or other such defining tendencies, as well as for the Service Terms and Levels?

    Might even make it easier if you could then opt-in and/or opt-out of these different parts through the provider's own site, thus enabling a common vocabulary, better legal protections (for all) and de-mystifying an otherwise (currently) murky and manual process mostly only feasibly available to the advised.

  12. Google Apps on What Do You Do With a Personal Domain? · · Score: 1

    You're already using Google Apps for email, so use their start page/pages/sites feature and put up a simple page, the built-in ones are template-based, that at least let's visitors know they're at the right place, if they're googling you or try your URL.

  13. Re:Irony on Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed · · Score: 1

    Perhaps being childish (in court) is the only recourse, as in 'civil disobedience', left for them to exercise as a form of protest?

  14. Re:What about the Yellow Pages?? on Craigslist Fires Back Over Adult Services Accusations · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't know from personal experience, but I would think that there would be a lot less cow dung involved when being escorted on a night out, as opposed to a date where everyone is partly playing along an unwritten script, and just trying to impress the other instead of just being themselves.

  15. Re:Don't use them on Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed · · Score: 1

    perhaps these "secret" question/answers come from the days of credit card transactions, where if someone found a receipt (back when your name wasn't on them) it would still be difficult to take over someone's account without the requisite personal/secret info.

    when I first saw the secret questions appearing as a security measure online, I figured it was only to deter scripted attacks. Still, I've come to have my own answers to the typical questions, that are not actually factual, thus even if someone has access to the real information, it won't help them with resetting my password(s).

  16. Re:Uh on Social Networking Behavioral Agreements At Work? · · Score: 1

    "Without Prejudice"?

  17. Re:Really Smart on NoScript Adds Subscriptions To Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    Sounds like perhaps Flashblock might have been more to the point here.

  18. Re:Does not address core problem on Lithium In Water "Curbs Suicide" · · Score: 1

    How about addressing the core problem of making life not SUCK so much?!

    You appear to be suffering from typical symptoms of chronic dehydration. Please do something about it!

  19. Re:Weight problems? on Russian Manned Space Vehicle May Land With Rockets · · Score: 1

    What about refueling while in space?

  20. Two Babylonians walk into a bar... on Ancient Books Go Online · · Score: 1

    In other news, Dane Cook is (yet again) being accused of 'appropriating' material from other comedians!

  21. repository of copyrighted works? on Ancient Books Go Online · · Score: 1

    Are they simply making it easier to find out if something is copyrighted?

  22. Re:The real question is.... on US Military Issuing iPod Touches To Soldiers · · Score: 1

    Can 'one' iPod connect to more than one 'store'?

    I just think that this might be a way of providing/selling applications to end users that Apple would normally ban from their own store.

  23. Re:Fascinating on HIV Transmission Captured On Video · · Score: 1

    Any tricks on containing the laughter once it occurs to you that it's not supposed to be funny?

    I once witnessed a blind lady fall rather flatly upon herself due to not knowing that a wide open space was actually made up of a few, very distanced steps.

    I had to awkwardly yet promptly exit because I couldn't stop myself from laughing out loud.

  24. Re:I actually really dislike Digital Distribution. on 17 Million People Stopped Buying CDs In 2008 · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering if it isn't simply trow-away-consumerism, rather than 'a (new) distribution method', that's killing the album sales.

    If you see music as an artform, maybe you like the album, or the signed CD, ..., while if you're just looking for what's cool at school this week, you'll just wanna get the one track that totally captures how you're feeling this particular afternoon, (but can't express in your own words,) then, having to get/buy/dl a whole CD may seem cumbersome.

    Nowadays you don't *have* to get the whole album (or the singles releases).

  25. No Compeetting apps! on We're Just Not That Into You, iPhone Apps · · Score: 1

    I remember using 'Act Names' on my Palm Vx...

    I want a decent CRM on my iPod touch, but I can't, it's not possible. iCal (on the touch/iPhone) simply does not cut it, which practically writes off the device for me.

    The app store's offerings are mostly trinkets, and browsing for apps from the device is awkward at best.

    Now I just use it for music and mail.