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  1. Plain stupidity pays these days on Samsung and VMWare Bringing Virtualization to Android · · Score: 1

    I find it really funny how companies succeed in making people think they may need this kind of crap.

  2. next: find how their queue grows after being cut on First Complete Lizard Genome Sequenced · · Score: 1

    2: implement it for people having lost a member
    3: profit

  3. Re:Account verification on Google's 'ID Validation' Is a Joke, But Not Funny · · Score: 1

    The whole thing is pretty broken since you have no means to verify the root Belgian certificate (self signed) you are downloading.

  4. Re:Already fixed in iPhone OS 4.0 on iPhone's PIN-Based Security Transparent To Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Indeed I just tried with my phone running 4.0 beta4 locked, and nothing mounted, then I unlocked it and retried and it automounted like a block device.

  5. Re:Unix way on An Android Developer's Top 10 Gripes · · Score: 1

    And is still in use nowadays.

  6. Unix way on An Android Developer's Top 10 Gripes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Android, by contrast, pushes you to design everything as small, self-contained mini-applications."

    Hey, that's called the Unix way.

  7. Done as a hobby 9 years ago on Cooling Bags Could Cut Server Cooling Costs By 93% · · Score: 1

    Wow, amazing, they finally produced something like what has been done on my website more than 9 years ago:
    http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/submersion/submersion.html

  8. Reinvent the wheel on Lockheed Snags $31 Million To Reinvent the Internet, Microsoft To Help · · Score: 1

    The next step from DARPA is asking Lada to reinvent the wheel to make it more military friendly, adding automatic braking and better resilience against bullets.

  9. Fake? on Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On November 16 · · Score: 1

    It seems the post has been removed at the moment... Was it a fake one?

    I now get:
    Article is unavailable or has been removed, please try a new search.
            The article was not found, or is no longer available. Please try a new search..

  10. Did not get any email on Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On November 16 · · Score: 1

    I did not get any email from Thawte about this issue. How do I get my token then?

  11. Stand drill on The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just use a stand drill. I goes through all the platters and the circuitboard.
    Fairly easy to find and purchase.

  12. Re:Doubt it's the "bloated codebase" on Windows Drains MacBook's Battery; Who's To Blame? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Multiple driver issues then, as running some OS in fusion isn't the same as in bare hardware, it's a whole new machine from the guest OS point of view.
    If you run windows on the bare hardware, it will use nvidia and all other real hardware drivers.
    If you run windows in fusion, it will use some "generic" hardware drivers.
    So I somehow doubt it's a specific driver problem if it happens both in fusion and on bare hardware.

  13. Re:Now you need a firewall for the charger. on Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans · · Score: 1

    Motorola RAZR phones, for example, won't charge on PCs unless the Motorola driver is present to do the handshake.

    This only happens on windows, if you are running whatever other OS (Solaris, Linux, OpenBSD, MacOSX), it will charge on USB without any supplementary driver of any kind.

  14. Trivial on The 2008 Malware Challenge · · Score: 1

    It's funny they made a contest for this because it is just so trivial to analyze this if you have a few minutes to lose.

  15. Re:More independent verification needed on Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released · · Score: 1

    First test your DNS to see if it has the flaw. For example, OpenBSD is on the CERT list of concerned vendors but it doesn't show the flaw, so it does not need to be patched.
    I guess they just took a list of OSes packaging bind without checking anything.

  16. Re:Usual drivel on Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve · · Score: 2, Informative

    The reason most Firefox users use the most up to date version is that it's the only way to get rid of the annoying pop-ups.

     

    Go to "preferences" -> "advanced" -> "updates", uncheck "check for updates to firefox" and no pop up anymore, very hard indeed

  17. Re:Trivial on Malware Modification Contest Has Antivirus Vendors Upset · · Score: 1

    Indeed I wrote a proof of concept about 15 years ago. But still heuristics cannot detect this kind of stuff if internal code and payload changes all the time.
    The idea is trivial, not the implementation. That's why antivirus still work the way they do.

  18. Re:Trivial on Malware Modification Contest Has Antivirus Vendors Upset · · Score: 1

    And I will not accept... I am not interested working for companies writing poor software only to profit from their own errors.

  19. Trivial on Malware Modification Contest Has Antivirus Vendors Upset · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bypassing current antivirus process is almost trivial. Just change a few lines and the signature based antivirus will not detect your virus. Now, create a process that automatically changes the few lines in a random order, but create this process as a random evolving like the virus and payload itself. Random jumps (with next payload at good place) with random junk in between should be sufficient to bypass heuristics (who said goto was dead :)). Then you've just killed the whole antivirus industry as we know today.

    Hey,why are the cops ringing at my door???

  20. Re:Thawte on Choosing an SSL Provider? · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I tried many many SSL providers. And Thawte is by far he one who has the best support (free instant chat) and work with most mobile devices. It's maybe more expensive than some others but I wouldn't go back because I never got any problem with them, which is something I couldn't say from others.

  21. Re:Kitten Auth on Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA Cracked, Exploited · · Score: 1

    Except that most people are not able to catch phishing or spam more accurately than most filters. People also make errors...

  22. Re:1.3 billion ~= nothing on EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    Problems communicating between MS and non MS users? Isn't that the whole point of the suit?
    If MS did follow standards, there would be no problems.

  23. Re:MS would just stop shipping, no big deal on EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    Do you really think that companies could afford running pirated, unsupported and unpatched software? Furthermore if pirated MS software is also fined by the EU.

  24. 1.3 billion ~= nothing on EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's amazing some people find this sum high.
    It just like EU told MS that they can continue infringe on laws as long as they give them about 10% of their benefits.
    If EU wants MS to comply fast, they just have to make a ban on MS products in Europe, so that selling MS products would be considered illegal and fined enough.

  25. Analogies on Antivirus Inventor Says Security Pros Are Wasting Time · · Score: 1

    It is funny how these analogies are totally flawed..

    "If I sat up in a window of a building, I might find that I could shoot an arrow through the sunroof of a Ford and kill the driver,"

    And if I put a bomb in the basement of your IT company, I could destroy all your data. This is critical.

    "But automobile seatbelts only prevent fatalities about 50 percent of the time. Are they worthless? Security products don't have to be perfect to be helpful in your defense."

    If automakers could build seatbelts with 100% efficiency, they would. And they improved seatbelts by putting airbags.

    "If we made seatbelts out of titanium instead of nylon, they'd be a lot stronger. But there's no evidence to suggest that they'd really help improve passenger safety."

    They would be stronger, and raise the fatalities number. Seatbelts are voluntarily made distortable so they can help diffusing kinetic energy.