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  1. Slashdot morality on Upcoming Firmware Will Brick Unlocked iPhones · · Score: 1

    Microsoft disables windows for people who use pirated serial numbers. BAD Apple disables phones of people who purchased the item. GOOD

  2. Re:Yahoo! is correct on Yahoo! Asks That Chinese Rights Suit Be Dismissed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just because you're overseas doesn't exempt you from US law. Go use drugs or sleep with an underage person overseas and then come back and tell the FBI.

  3. Re:Populist crap. on FCC Head Supports Ala Carte Cable · · Score: 1

    There's more than two players when it comes to ala carte. You have the delivery guys (timewarner cable) and then then content guys(viacom). Content guys sell content to delivery guys, lets just say $0.50 a channel per user. Expanded cable gets you say 20 channels, thats $10 in direct cost that the delivery guys have to pay the content guys. Delivery guys sell the package for $20 and make $10 in profit. I just want one channel. Direct cost to the cable company is $0.50. They could charge me $10.50 and still make the same profit that they would get selling me the whole package for $20 and i would pay almost $10 less in fees.

  4. Re:Excellent Development Ecosystem? on Cross-Platform Microsoft · · Score: 1

    What debugger would be better(in terms of usability) than visual studio debugger? Softice, windbg,jswat ? As for state issues, like almost all debuggers out there, you can setup a break point on a state change and go through the stack frames to see what happened.

  5. Re:Excellent Development Ecosystem? on Cross-Platform Microsoft · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you even use vs.net? Its one of the best IDEs on the market. Only IDE that i feel is better is intellij. Eclipse doesn't even come close to vs.net.

  6. Re:Our way of life is not under threat! on Microsoft Says "War on Terror" is Overblown · · Score: 1

    20,0000 people die as a result of driving under influence of alcohol each year yet we don't have a war on drunk drivers going on.

  7. Re:Stereotyping? on Social Networking Sites Full of Security Holes · · Score: 1

    Per the article, it wasn't a hole on the site. It was hole in older versions of firefox.

  8. Re:It would be unfortunate on Give iPod Thieves an Unchargeable Brick · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good way to demand royalties from 3rd party hardware vendors. Its DRM for hardware.

  9. Tivo = renting on The Trouble With TiVo · · Score: 1

    The device doesn't work unless you pay $13.95 a month. There's a reason why tivo won't open their system to 3rd party guide providers. Not only are you renting equpment you paid for, your own equipment spies on you and sends what your watching back to tivo so they can make more money off of you.

  10. Forgot to add the cost of the cable cards on Tivo HD Released Into the Wild · · Score: 1

    $5 rental per card * 2 = $10 extra a month on top of the tivo fees. Cable box i rent is $12 and it also gives me access to on demand premium channels allowing me instant access to all the shows(for that month) to premium channels i subscribe too.

  11. Re:no wonder they don't allow programming the thin on Security Flaw Found That Allows Control of iPhone · · Score: 1
    The phone randomly locks up and/or turns off - this fools 3v1L hackers.

    You've never used an iphone have you? It takes this type of security to a new a level.

  12. Apples and Oranges on Open Library Goes Online With Public Domain Books · · Score: 2, Informative

    Gutenberg is the actual text of the book, this is the scan of the orginal print.

  13. Re:Why $10 extra? on T-Mobile Announces WiFi Meshing Cellphone · · Score: 4, Informative

    Umm.. You still use tmobiles network. The call doesn't magically travel across the country and terminate at another phone.

  14. Re:Keep paying bills on "Show Us the Code" Breaks Its Silence · · Score: 1

    IANAL, there is no protection for political affliation, its not part of the Equal opportunity protection(race,gender,sex, national origin).

  15. Re:What I find funny is... on iPhone Interest Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    Some us hope it fails because of the people who go out and buy a phone from at&t with a two year contract at full retail price of the phone. I'm not anti iphone, i think its actually a nice phone with sleek form factor and cool features, i'm just anti stupid consumers who would wait in line for hours to buy a phone at full price with a two year contract from a telecom company that facilitates spying on its customers.

  16. Re:Are they insecure... Yes. on Are Contactless Payments Really Secure? · · Score: 1

    RFID uses a challenge/response system which prevents replay attacks. The secret code is never sent over a non secured channel. If you manage to capture the transaction and replay the capture data, it won't work since the challenge will be different. The attack that you have to worry about is hacking the challenge response encryption.

  17. I take it on All Things iPhone · · Score: 1

    you don't own an ipod. I've lost count how many times both my video and nano have locked up on me.

  18. Re:Welcome to reality on Details and Rumors of iPhone Restrictions Emerging · · Score: 1

    Considering at&t isn't subsidizing the phone. Apple could have just sold the iphone without locking into a carrier. So when you buy iphone, it isn't subsidized and you're paying full price, you get stuck in 2 year contract and you have to get At&t data service plan.

  19. Re:What I find astonishing is... No impeachment ye on White House Derails Attempts to End Illegal Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Blame the pundits. In todays society, people no longer form their own opinions, instead they've gotten lazy and just get their opinions from the pundits. Also people seem to gobble up logical fallacies. Dichotomy fallacy, your with us or your with the terrorist. Strawman is another one, some people want the terrorists to win. Quite sad.

  20. Re:They All Do It. on Misuse of Scientific Data By the White House · · Score: 1

    Do carbon emissions by capita. Thats the only fair way of doing it.

  21. Re:Credit Card companies do not care about securit on Why Are CC Numbers Still So Easy To Find? · · Score: 1

    There's verified by visa which is a password system for credit card purchases. Also the CVN(Security number on the back) is suppose to be like a pin. Merchants are not suppose to ever store this number but they do anyway.

  22. Re:Microsoft once again demonstrates... on Windows Media Center Restricts Cable TV · · Score: 1

    Tivo supports CGMS-A aswell. You going to say the same thing about tivo? There's also no reason for tivo to support it, microsoft on the other hand could get its dvd playback revoked on media player if they didn't support it since your device needs to support CGMS-A for a DVD license.

  23. Re:HDMI on What's the Matter with HDMI? · · Score: 1

    Not sure if HDMI supports switching but on my setup i run the component cables and audio to reciever and use the reciever to do the switching, that way i don't have to switch the tv and reciever when changing to a different source.

  24. Re:Tried Google? on $16,000 Bounty for Sendmail, Apache Zero-Day Flaws · · Score: 1

    I don't consider a DOS an exploit. Like the article, we're talking about being able access the system. As it still stands per the article definition, there are no remote exploits for IIS6.0. Can the same be said about apache?

  25. Re:Tried Google? on $16,000 Bounty for Sendmail, Apache Zero-Day Flaws · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I like how the second result listed is actually trojan program that runs rm -rf /. There aren't any remote exploits for IIS6 which is a 4 year old product.