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  1. Re:the all new anti-tunnel, ditch on The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels · · Score: 1

    A one meter wide ditch won't do very much for preventing tunnels, anyone could walk over a meter gap.

    If it was a mile instead of a meter, that'd be a little more difficult to traverse. As would be the 50 mile deep hole. ... isn't the deepest hole something like 7 miles, and then it's 25 miles down to the mantle?

    However if that was done, it'd be bl**dy impressive.

  2. Re:Your[1] Wrong on Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps · · Score: 1

    [1] It's spelled "You're"

  3. Re:It's the Same Everywhere on Study Shows Many Sites Still Failing Basic Security Measures · · Score: 1

    I'm interested to hear more about this Krasner tool..... (I have a friend who picks locks as his party piece and it sounds the perfect xmas present;)

  4. Mostly (Totally.) ARMless on Sub-$100 Android 4.0 Tablet Coming Soon · · Score: 3, Informative

    Interesting, but it's MIPS, not ARM

    There goes a load of games, and whatnot ... but on the plus side they're paying license fees to MIPS, which prior to this they weren't, which is nice.

  5. Re:Light on info on Merck Threatens Merck With Legal Action Over Facebook URL · · Score: 0

    No where in TFA does it says Merck G is suing Merck A, only Facebook. Once again TFS screws up the headline on TFA.

    No where in TFA does it says Merck KGaA is suing Facebook.

    Actually reading TFA?

    You must be new here.

  6. Re:"Wow, there's really no limit to what JS can do on OpenPGP Implemented In JavaScript · · Score: 1

    :-)

  7. Re:"Wow, there's really no limit to what JS can do on OpenPGP Implemented In JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Your user id isn't what I call low at all.

    Sigh

    Kids

  8. Re:Not a standalone device on The (Big) Problem With RIM · · Score: 1

    Odd, I bought a 3G iPad for the GPS :)

    Apple allows you to tether to your iPhone via wifi these days too http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3574

    Alas it *doesn't* allow your iPad to do the same thing, frustratingly.

  9. Have they not heard of System.CodeDom.* ? on Microsoft Previews Compiler-as-a-Service Software · · Score: 1

    Wait what?

    I thought I was already using System.CodeDom.Compiler to dynamically create assemblies?

    Also, converting code from one language to another isn't new in the slightest. Redgate's Reflector has been disassembling IL and displaying it in C#, and VB for ages. I'm sure there are open source equivalents too.

    I fail to see what all the excitement is ... Unless they're able to give me an AST to mess with? Even then I might not be terribly interested.

    It's quite possibly a terrible article. I mean C3! WTH?!

  10. Re:Color me unimpressed on First Exoplanet Discovered Orbiting Two Stars · · Score: 1

    That's not a low UID, whippersnappers - get off my lawn! :^)

  11. Re:Dear researchers: on Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal · · Score: 1

    T-1000. Silly Terminator-Franchise-Wanna-Be-Geek.

    Maybe you're getting confused with the T200 SunFire box you're lusting after on ebay?

  12. Re:Limited treatment on the way on IBM's Watson To Help Diagnose, Treat Cancer · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it's not Treatment B3 - it's you're category one, off to the burners with you...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Categories_of_Life

  13. Annoyingly Unity means something else to me... on Linaro 11.06 Release Brings Unity 3D Port To ARM · · Score: 1

    http://unity3d.com/ is what I thought this article was all about, imagine my disappointment when discovering some stupid window manager reuses the name.

  14. Re:you have got to be kiddinbg me on How Citigroup Hackers Easily Gained Access · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It's hard to even get management to acknowledge the problem, even when you spot them.

    1) Spot an Id that's obscure, but knowing that Id means something to the framework that you're using.
    2) Report it to project manager, and in this case it's the Technical Director of the company(!)
    3) Get told in no uncertain terms that you're spouting rubbish, as a 'tiger team' employed by the customer has done a security audit.
    4) Repeat that given a reasonably short amount of time that I could manipulate the framework to drop into an administrative mode with full control.
    5) Get told my PM/TD that I am not to waste my time on such nonsense, and get on with whatever it was I was doing at the time.
    6) Mention a methodology to my colleagues that I might try, if I had been given time (hint hint)
    7) Take a few days off sick leave, after discussing things further with an interested peer.
    8) While away peer follows up on my ideas, and demonstrates it on live app, with a manager who has an account at said institution
    9) Shit hits fan.
    10) Find out that I'm sacked when I return
    11) Profit, sued for unfair dismissal. (Yes it's more complicated than the above summary)

    Summary; People are stupid, PM want the job done as quickly as possible and Directors want profit as soon as possible - results corners are cut. News at 11

  15. Re:First Post ? on New Gasoline Engine Prototype Claims 3X Current Engine Efficiency · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Windows "was" a competitor? on How Mac OS X, 10 Today, Changed Apple's World · · Score: 1

    (That said I can't actually remember if WP7 née WinMo née Win CE uses NT)

    CE is an independent operating system, it uses similar, albeit cut-down Win32 APIs

  17. Re:Seems good on Automatic Life Jacket Detection For Drones · · Score: 2

    Use ^W it deletes words ;)

  18. Re:Perhaps an Objective C - Java tool? on Google Hiring Android Devs To Close the 'Apps Gap' · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Obscurity FTW on PayPal Most Phished, Facebook Most Blocked · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't worry, it's super secure - there's nothing on the hard disk!

  20. Re:A major "con" of cloning falls apart on Dolly the Sheep Alive Again · · Score: 1

    Steady on ... I think bogaboga's head has already exploded :-)

  21. Re:A major "con" of cloning falls apart on Dolly the Sheep Alive Again · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't mind eating beef from a cloned animal if I were to be informed accordingly. Matters become rather complicated when it comes to burgers and other processed meats where I understand such meats might be made of more than 100 animals. Scary!

    Beef ? You do realise that meat from Sheep is called Lamb don't you ?

  22. Re:Homebrew classics that defined Dreamcast? on SD Adapter For Dreamcast Released · · Score: 1

    Brake?

    Clearly you mean Break ... you illiterate retard.

  23. Re:Argument from ignorance on Unspoofable Device Identity Using Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the restraining order.

  24. Re:They could actually try to sell the Cell on IBM's Plans For the Cell Processor · · Score: 1

    You're kidding right?

    There's lots of ARM dev kits out there, chumby hacker board, netduino, cortex, etc.

    Not forgetting where ARM came from (ARM = acorn research machine[s]?) there's an old list here:

    http://productsdb.riscos.com/comp/curr.htm

    Then there is an desktop operating system for the above called RISCOS http://www.riscos.com/

    Of course a lot of these pages are rather old now, and you'll find lots of broken links ... which can only tell you one thing....

    ARM is an old cpu, only 10 years younger than the 8086, which has found it's niche in embedded systems rather than desktops.

  25. Re:I finally could tell my friend to go to hell on Windows 95 Turns 15 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh but you do. I've seen you at the gay bar and I have something to put in you ;)