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  1. Excellent marketing on UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows · · Score: 1

    Are we really still this naieve?

    Windows Vista--so secure that the government requested we install a back door!

  2. Re:Time to switch! on UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows · · Score: 1

    Does Mac OS X encrypted its swap files automatically?

  3. Re: Anybody know of a system that works like that? on UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows · · Score: 1

    Christ! With software like that on your PC... hell, even with its web pages found in your browser cache you are just ensuring that Our Glorious Leaders will continue to torture you until they get the evidence they want. Or you die.

  4. Re:Let's be fair... on UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Obviously you have never used real encryption on UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows · · Score: 1

    Could you post some links with more information about this?

  6. Re:releasing memory on Firefox Memory Leak is a Feature · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't all pointer references then have to go through some kind of lookup table, so that the objects could be relocated by the runtime without breaking them?

  7. Re:Someone else already answered for me on Essential PHP Security · · Score: 1

    You should do something like:

      $db->query ('SELECT * FROM pages WHERE page = ?', array ($_GET['page']));

    PEAR::DB makes it possible to query databases from PHP without going insane.

  8. heh on UK MPs Approve Compulsory ID Cards · · Score: 1

    My irony meter just blew a gasket.

  9. Re:House of Lords, et al on UK MPs Approve Compulsory ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Who can I vote for who will keep the system as it is at the moment? :)

  10. Re:Skype: Tomorrow's Napster. - NOT QUITE on Intel and Skype Exclude AMD · · Score: 1
    Try it.
    Bill Gates
    Aff. Everything to do with
    Bill Gates.
    eBay.co.uk
  11. Re:I/O Errors??? on A Good Filesystem for Storing Large Binaries? · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the tools you list just read various SMART attributes. Smartmontools is easy to use:

      $ smartctl -a /dev/hda

    prints out everything you need to know about a disk. Smartmontools also comes with smartd, which sits in the background, monitors the disk's attributes and administers regular disk test. It will perform an action such as mailing you or running a script if anything happens that you need to know about.

    The one thing it is missing is some kind of long term data storage facility, from which are derived predicted failure dates.

  12. Re:The Kot on GnuCash 1.9.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Why bother comparing the entire string when you know that the locale is determined by the first five characters?

  13. Re:Inaccurate Summary on One In Two PCs Won't Run Vista's Interface · · Score: 1

    Most people seem to think the My First Computer style looks better than the classic style. :( :( :(

  14. Re:Vista != Vista's 3D Interface on One In Two PCs Won't Run Vista's Interface · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are living in the land of theory. Look at the Windows port of Halo--it runs like shit. If you tried to run it on a real Xbox you would get a fractional FPS.

  15. Re:XVID? on Newest Patent Threat to MPEG-4 · · Score: 1

    Ah, well then you are talking about an entirely different kettle of fish and I agree with you completely. :)

  16. Re:XVID? on Newest Patent Threat to MPEG-4 · · Score: 1
    Incorrect; subsequent inventors infringe on the original patent, regardless of knowledge of that patent.
    Novelty is a patentability test, according to which an invention is not patentable if it was already known before the date of filing, or before the date of priority if a priority is claimed, of the patent application.
    Novelty (patent), from Wikipedia

    The second inventor may only defend against a claim on the grounds that the patent is not novel, if he can prove that the invention had been disclosed prior to the publication of that patent.
  17. Re:XVID? on Newest Patent Threat to MPEG-4 · · Score: 1

    Patents would then be worthless. Your idea would make them similar to Trade Secrets, but without the secrecy.

    (Intellectual "Property" consists of Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Trade Secrets.)

  18. Re:XVID? on Newest Patent Threat to MPEG-4 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A "device" either infringes on a patent or it doesn't. Independent invention is neither a license nor a defence.

  19. Re:The Kot on GnuCash 1.9.0 Released · · Score: 1

    No offence, but maybe you should look up the definition of strncmp(3) before mouthing off in public.

  20. NOOOOoooo, etc. on GnuCash 1.9.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Why, for god's sake, is every application following Apple's lemming-leap off the cliff of moronised single-window-only application design!?

  21. Re:Please let it be IBM on SGI Warns That Bankruptcy Might Be Year-End Option · · Score: 1

    They also gave us dnotify. They deserve what they are getting! ;)

  22. Re:Extortion on Microsoft Officially Announces Anti-Virus Product · · Score: 1

    If you don't like it, stop fucking paying for it.

  23. Re:Wrong Solution on BitTorrent and End to End Encryption · · Score: 1

    Your options are:

      1. Move
      2. Live without broadband
      3. Start your own ISP
      4. Suck it down

    HAND :)

  24. Re:Underrated point on GIMP Not Enough for Linux Users? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So I guess Apple should give up OS X and just rip off the interface of Windows? Should Microsoft ditch their attempt to revolutionise the interface of Office 12?

    Face it, the reason Apple and MS can get away with non-conformant interfaces is because they spend a lot more money on marketing.

  25. Re:Don't be different, okay? on GIMP Not Enough for Linux Users? · · Score: 1

    It's called Gimpshop.