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  1. It just occurred to me. on Honeymonkeys Discover Undisclosed Vulnerability · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The researchers determine whether each monkey's system has been compromised by using another ongoing project, the Strider Flight Data Recorder, which detects changes to system files and registries.

    Why not build a virtual machine into the browser itself?

    Sort of a special purpose virtual machine that has
    just enough of an OS to run the browser.

    If Microsoft refuses to remove IE from Windows, at least IE could be isolated from the rest of the operating system.

  2. The key word is unpatched. on Honeymonkeys Discover Undisclosed Vulnerability · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft has identified 752 specific addresses owned by 287 Web sites that contain programs able to install themselves on a completely unpatched Windows XP system.

    I don't think I have a stronger word than DUH!

  3. Microsoft must have a hell of a sales team... on Scottish Police Revert to Microsoft Office · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they can talk the frugal out a Scotsman.

    /part Scot, the stereotype is well deserved

  4. Why should the Feds get their own backdoor? on Groups Slam FCC on Internet Phone Tap Rule · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they want to tap VoIP, they should have to hack it like everyone else.

  5. Ok, this is only marginally relevant... on ZDNet UK Begs for Google's Forgiveness · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But did anyone catch that Eric Schmitt's email address is EricSchmidt1@yahoo.com?

    Check for yourself.

    Say what you will about the guy, but he's got a sense of humor.

  6. Obligatory on Aussie Speed Cameras in Doubt Because of MD5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heisenberg was driving down the Autobahn whereupon he was pulled over by a policeman. The policeman asked, "Do you know how fast you were going back there?
    Heisenberg replied, "No, but I know where I am."

  7. Bonus Code Fu Courtesy of Bill Gates on Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is supposed to be the last software professionally written by Bill Gates.

    Even though probably no one much ever played this primitive bit of DOS/BASIC demo software [purportedly the last piece of professional software ever written by Bill Gates!]

    Good to see he ended on such a high note.

  8. The robot is all thumbs. on Robot Catches High Speed Objects · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, seriously, all three digits are opposable.

    It would be even nicer if it had an arm to intercept balls that weren't thrown precisely to it though.

  9. Re:What does it say about the mainstream audience? on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could this kind of flocking (hehe) to see a documentary about penguins be indicative of a trend towards a silent audience demand for wholesome, informative movies rather than violent and crass fare?

    I think it's actually due to a very loud audience of prepubescent children who, after being saturated with advertisements during Yi-Gi-Oh, continually pester their parents to the point of either getting to go see the movie or being tied in a bag and thrown off the nearest bridge.

  10. This is freaking weird. on Microsoft Testing Rival to Google's Start Page · · Score: 1

    There are 525 posts as of this one and not a single one has been modded above a 3. Odd I tell you.

  11. I'm a bit torn. on Build a Wireless ISP on Linux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Another WISP provides (expensive) connectivity from a nearby mountaintop, so I decided to subscribe to that service and share the bandwidth and cost with my neighbors.

    On the one hand, yay for him, he's giving his neighbors bandwidth cheaper than his competition.

    On the other hand, I wonder how long he'd be able to resell that bandwidth once his upstream WISP found out what he was doing?

  12. You can talk about free beer all you want. on Free Beer That's Free as in Speech · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until I'm drinking it, there is no buzz.

  13. Damn it. on Exploding Water Balloons In Zero G · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want a bong and a budget too.

  14. S For Slashdotted on V For Vendetta Trailer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone have a torrent?

  15. The nerve... on Microsoft's Personnel Puzzle · · Score: 1

    Looks like Microsoft thinks they're Google now.

  16. Are certain regulatory bodies receiving kickbacks? on .tel Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Funny

    ICANN.tel

  17. Re:sex.tel on .tel Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Funny

    and the closely related ho.tel

  18. I think the military might be interested in... on .tel Coming Soon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    dontaskdont.tel

  19. Summary on David Clark: Rebuild the Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Clark said he would like to see two things addressed in any replacement for the current internet. The first is a coherent security architecture. The second is a healthy economic infrastructure for network service providers, who will need a bigger piece of the pie in the new internet than the one they are getting now if they are going to help pay for building it.

    I read this as users having no anonymity and paying through the nose for it.

    Can I just keep the old internet?

  20. Schrodinger's PC? on The 12-minute Windows Heist · · Score: 4, Funny

    After 12 minutes, an unprotected PC running Windows is both compromised and uncompromised until a tech collapses the state vector by producing a hefty bill for checking.

  21. Talk to the picture of the hand. on Vein Patterns to Verify Identity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Really now, how difficult can it be to fool one of these. It seems all it would take is:

    1. Remove the IR filter from a 3 megapixel or higher digital camera.

    2. Photograph the hand with and without a low pass IR filter.

    3. Print a mirror image of the first photo on an acetate sheet.

    4. Take the same print and print the other side with IR visible inkjet ink from the second photo.

    5. Fool scanner.

    6. Profit?

  22. You mean hype is exaggeration? on Next-Gen Console CPUs Not Up to Hype · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Say it isn't so!

  23. Wired 2005 = Omni 1985? on Ars's Skeptical Take on Wired's NextFest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    God I hope so. I loved that magazine.

  24. A legal nuance... on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Since with Longhorn, nothing on your hard drive is really "yours" anymore.

  25. It seems to me... on There Is No Safe Web Browser · · Score: 1

    Like Netscape's stupidity at basing Netscape 8 on Firefox 1.0.0 when current was 1.0.4 shouldn't be used to disparage Firefox.