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  1. This was posted everywhere else last week? on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 0

    Stories taking a bit longer to appear on the old /. these days

  2. Re:Teracopy on Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Or not since Teracopy is actually incapable of copying terabytes of data - Im an unlucky paying customer

  3. Was on The Real Hustle a few weeks ago on How To Steal ATM PINs With a Thermal Camera · · Score: 1

    On BBC iPlayer, they did a con involving a safe keypad and a FLIR thermal camera to show the heat on the keypad.

  4. Article is wrong - here's what was really said on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-08/11/david-cameron-social-media "Prime Minister David Cameron has told parliament that he is investigating whether to stop people communicating via social networking sites ****if they are known to be planning criminal activity****."

  5. Tips for getting the domain at a good price on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    Act like a kid. Register a new email address at live.com or gmail, timlikestheyankees@ or something that makes you appear young. Send an email to the company that owns the domain, make it very laid back, again act like a kid. Say you want the name for a new band / a project / your sister's birthday and how much is it. Make the email short and sweet, a lack of capitalisation and spelling will actually help here. If its a domain theyve not had any interest in you should get an offer at a low price. If you sent an email all business like from a proper email account they'd try and ride you out for a higher amount. In their eyes some money is better than no money. Worked for me in the past. R

  6. Reason is pirated copies of XP unable to update! on Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die · · Score: 1

    I know thats why 2 of my own PC's are on IE6. WGA and Windows Update wont run any longer so no IE7/8 for those PC's.

  7. Set the date forward to April 1st and see? on Taming Conficker, the Easy Way · · Score: 1

    Set the date forward to April 1st and see what happens with an infected machine with a packet sniffer? If it goes out to the net to check remote time servers packet sniff to see where its looking and forge answers?

  8. MS Paint Skills Know No Bounds! on LHC Success! · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Here is a picture from the control room which I'm sure makes sense to someone that isn't me. "

    I can draw with MS Paint too you know!

  9. Vimeo and Dailymotion on Best Way To Distribute Video Online? · · Score: 1

    Try the following: www.vimeo.com www.dailymotion.com DailyMotion allows embedding of HD content (1280x720p) on your site without a fee too. R

  10. What I do with CD/DVDs to repair em on Effective Optical Disc Repair? · · Score: 1

    Ive tried various things like toothpaste, Brasso etc. I found that metallic T-Cut (finer than regular T-Cut) followed by a good quality car wax works best. Ive read NOT to use circlular motions but I find it best, as long as you dont follow the track of the data and use smaller circles (as if you were drawing the number 8 sideways around the disc) you should be fine. Use new cloths for each stage and check you havent got any dirt or grit on the cloths every so often (so you dont gouge out more plastic by scratching dirt into the surface).

  11. Why not just check the pages as people click them on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 1

    Instead of up'ing everyones web stats to amazing levels.

  12. Re:Software dev - the charity of the 21st century on Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is now - Im talking in 10 years time what state will the market be in, or even 20 years from now.

  13. Software dev - the charity of the 21st century on Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools · · Score: 1

    When I was at school in the 80's I wanted to be a programmer, work on exciting projects and make good money, looks like that is dead due to open source and free software. Imagine how that would cross over to other services and products. Its not really like steam was replaced by petrol as petrol engines still cost money and people could make a career and living out of it. I wonder how it will pan out in 10 years time. At the moment people build OS projects as a hobby when they are coders by day making money, if that gratis work then becomes the norm is there going to be the next generation of professional coders waiting to build more free software or will it dry up as kids at school will think "why do I want to become a coder, everythings free so I aint gonna make any money".

  14. TPM - Trusted Platform Module - been around ages on Atari Founder Proclaims the End of Gaming Piracy · · Score: 1

    Used for drive encryption on some higher end lap tops and hasnt really appeared on desktop mobo's yet. TFA read like something a clueless non-IT pro would come out with, not a seasoned computing veteran who kickstarted the whole videogame generation. PS: Apparently you cant copy DVD's - or so I read in 1997.

  15. PC saw it but no drive in My Computer ?!?!? on A Walk Through the Hard Drive Recovery Process · · Score: 1

    ... and they needed to change chips on the PCB to get further? "We had to replace the actuator assembly and components on the printed circuit board. By performing these actions, we were able to image about 25 percent of the drive." and "In my case they restored approximately 80 percent of the drive and put it on a new external hard drive" Maybe you should have, sorry maybe your brother in law - should have just reversed his truck over it coz according to their Museum of Disk-Asters they can get 100% data from that or 1700 degree infernos.

  16. Edited for truth on FBI Adds Two Digital Forensic Labs · · Score: 1

    "During 2007, ROFL experts conducted 4,634 exams, processing 1,288 terabytes of information."

  17. Q6600 at 1.6? on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "8GB of memory and around 1500 hours of time on a Q6600 CPU running at 1.6GHz." - Should have clocked it to 3.0GHz like most other folks :D

  18. Little guy bites big guys? on Sony Blu-ray Under Patent Infringement Probe · · Score: 1

    If I read that correct then ha-ha Sony. Makes a change for the little guy to bite the big guys.

  19. Re:But most people don't know better... on Mass Website Hack Compromises 200,000 Sites · · Score: 1

    "This is one area where ASP gets a nod, as keeping the versions up to date is seamless, and applications and sites designed around ASP simply don't break even with the most massive updates." Ahem... "This contrasts [Thursday's] attack in that the vast majority of those were active server pages (.ASP)," explained McAfee researcher Craig Schmugar on a company blog posting." From - http://www.itnews.com.au/News/72214,second-mass-hack-exposed.aspx

  20. Re:Upgrade to phpBB3 on Mass Website Hack Compromises 200,000 Sites · · Score: 1

    Or dont! Give phpBB3 at least until June (6 months from release) to be fully tested in the wild as you would with any major system upgrade. I remember the "fun" had upgrading from 1.4.4 to 2.0.0 back a few years ago. Lessons learned. However, worth noting phpBB2 had an upgrade issued only a month ago up to version 2.0.23 - maybe they knew something ?

  21. Didnt Cyrix try this a decade ago? on Single-Chip x86 Chipsets Around the Corner? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    With the MediaGX (I think) range? Integrate everything you can think of into the die including sounds and graphics.

  22. Re:I gave up offering help to Wikipedia last year. on Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions · · Score: 1

    Well if I was to write small snippets of information on the very few topics I know a lot about and put them on my own website unless thousands of other sites linked to me Google wouldnt rank the content highly at all.

    I felt that the collective knowledge of adding to existing articles and in a few cases, adding completely new ones on subjects I had a extensive knowledge on was the best option.

  23. I gave up offering help to Wikipedia last year... on Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mainly due to articles I created or helped amend being deleted, and unless you check back all the time on everything you do there is no warning sent out saying "this is up for deletion".

    When questioned one of the deletee's simply replied "well it was marked for deletion and no-one said anything so we deleted it".

    So when you spend your own free time to help out and have some idiots just click away on the delete button it really makes you think "why bother" and since then, I havent.

  24. I remember the XP keygen - and that worked fine on Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax · · Score: 1

    ...So stands to reason that a Vista one would be possible too. Dont know how the XP one worked but it spent a good few hours crunching away and displayed what had worked. Probably generated a random number then ran it through an algo that would at the end say "yup, this validates" or "no it doesnt" and recorded the ones that did actually pass the test. Surely that isnt a big feat for working with whichever algo Vista uses?

  25. Easy fix on Memories of a Media Card · · Score: 1

    Just copy a load of JPGs or MP3s to the memory card until its full then delete them, or leave them there. Thats what I did before selling my old ones on.