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  1. Re:Self-signed is no good. on What's Holding Back Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Two issues.

    One i have hundreds of phonenmbers and emailaddresses for people I will never meet physically. It is tough to meet them when they are thousands of miles away.
    Second how do you pass the keys around? In a clear text email? Where the man snooping on you gets a copy of the key anyways?
    So you have non secure key passing, quadrupling the workload on the person. Yes it is you have to manually verify recipt and proper decryption but check ca isupdated. Something that I see failing daily in IT with just SSL certs. Sending one encrypted email isn't as easy as typing a Letter and clicking send. Until it is encryption for emails will remain insecure.

  2. Re:"Not for ________ use" on Wii Balance Board Gives $18,000 Medical Device a Run For Its Money · · Score: 1

    Whileyour correct the fact is thermal imaging camera price has been halved in the last 6 years. While they are still thousands of dollars they are no longer ten thousand dollars. In another five years you should be able to buy one under a grand.

  3. Re:Surely the easiest thing.. on Options Dwindling For Mars Spirit Rover · · Score: 1

    the easiest thing to do is to send a second robot probe with a tow cable and winch it out.

    I wonder what AAA charges for that?

  4. Re:Sue first, ask questions later on Apple Seeks To Ban Nokia Imports To US · · Score: 3, Informative

    But apple buys it's GSM chips from qualcomm who charges extra to cover the patent licensing they have to pay Nokia for.

    NOKIA wants to charge not only the people who make the devices but every company who sells a products with that uses those devices.

    If Dell started selling a GSM adaptor for their laptops and bought those adaptors already made so all that had to be done was to solder it into the motherboards, Nokia wants the to charge Dell for selling those adaptors too.

  5. Re:Sue first, ask questions later on Apple Seeks To Ban Nokia Imports To US · · Score: 4, Interesting

    that's just it Apple shouldn't have to pay a dime for Nokia's patents as they cover the hardware which apple purchases from people who have already paid Nokia for access to those patents.

    Nokia wants to double dip charge the hardware manufactures who make the chips, and charge apple to use those chips. Until people realize this then Nokia is going to look like the good guy in this mess.

    apple has to pay the manufactures extra to use those patents as they pay nokia already. or do you think Qualcomm who makes the iphones GSM chipset doesn't pay nokia?

  6. Re:To be fair to Microsoft on German Government Advises Public To Stop Using IE · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Of course the fact that MSFT let the chinese view the source code for http://news.cnet.com/China-looks-into-Windows-code/2100-1016_3-5083458.html windows. Has nothing to do with it. Sure it was 6 years ago, the question is how long was china running the operation and how many field tests did they get away with and for how long?

    Something like this has been in at least limited operation for a couple of years.

  7. Re:So essentially... on Why Counter-Terrorism Is In Shambles · · Score: 1

    I didn't until Hamas got elected. Now I realize that the only ones left in that part of palenstine are hate and apathay filled.

    They either don't want change or don't care. If you want things to change you have tomake them. Palastine keeps shrinking for thirty years things have only gotten worse. Yet they don't want anything better.

  8. Re:DNS on Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    The whole point of this is the part you can't understand? You will have mulitple uri listed. One for your phone, one for your mobile, one for your IM client, one for your email, and one for your personal web page. This way you can pass one contact number to someone and they can contact you using the best method available.

    My only problem with this isn't the concept but can I get two. One public and one private.

  9. Re:Business Practices on Moscow Police Watch Pre-Recorded Scenes On Surveillance Cams · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Who wants to bet the only reason any one noticed is because it started snowing and on the cameras it was a typical summer day?

  10. Re:Whats the big deal? on Comcast Launches Broadband Meter · · Score: 1

    that's my personal favorite these sights not only use tons of ads, javascript, and images so they come in at a couple of megabytes to down load, they are often on the companies servers in a mass pool in another state.

    the next thing they like to say is that emails are small. I guess they don't get spam which contains images (which if you download to your local email program gets charged to your account. I guess they don't get up mouse over ads that are a half a meg in size.

    the web of 1999 is what comcast is using to measure todays content.

  11. Re:amusing on Airport Scanners Can Store and Transmit Images · · Score: 1

    How do you know that hasn't already been done? Sony used to sell a video camera with low light enhancement that saw through light weight clothes. you just never know what technology is already on the market can do.

  12. Re:Obviously... on Droid Touchscreen Less Accurate Than iPhone's · · Score: 1

    well your annoyances with the iphone are really problems with AT&T. even the sim lock is AT&T's request. As AT&T due it to all their phones in one form or another.

    Cingular wasn't bad but AT&T is just plain stupid.

  13. Re:Obviously... on Droid Touchscreen Less Accurate Than iPhone's · · Score: 4, Informative

    Then you haven't used the iPhone. I click on single character links regularlly. Normally page numbers or the next arrow for images. It is another ui design by apple. It goes to the closet link within so many pixels.

    The droid I got to play with one day had hard enough time registering the unlock slide let alone clicking on page numbers. I will say however it displayed ars techincas mobile sitebetter than my iPhone. The droid didn't fix the damn font height but left it scalable. Along with not having to jailbreak to install myown apps are two big pluses. But at the end of the day the UI is more important than any other app. Good apps can't fix a bad ui. However a decent UI can make limited apps more usable.

  14. Re:Shouldn't a good Data Centre...? on Half of All Data Centers Understaffed · · Score: 1

    Windows needs constant baby sitting.

  15. Re:Content is the problem. on $199 Freescale Tablet Design Runs Chromium OS · · Score: 1

    odd I want exactly chromeOS. all I want is a decent web browser. Mobile safari is nice, but the iphone screen is to small and it doesn't have flash(good on the iphone bad on larger screened devices) Applications aren't nearly as important as the UI. if it isn't fully multi touch enabled it will fail. It is why windows tablet editions fail. as they cram a standard desktop GUI on a none desktop device.

    software available doesn't matter if you can't use them well.

  16. Re:1 word. Niche application on Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    how long has MSFT been releasing Office for the Mac? 10 years? more and the next release is the first with full Outlook support. And this isn't about what Pointy haired types use daily, visio wouldn't be used by graphic designers or printers. so it doesn't matter.

  17. Re:1 word. Niche application on Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    Of course that neglects the point that corporate isn't going to buy you a new computer annualy just because it is faster. It ignores the point that businesses value a computer over a 4-5year period. That the latest hardware is rarely supported or tested well for a good year after it is released.

    Macs also tend to be a five year purchase. While windows pc are at best three to four.

  18. Re:1 word. Niche application on Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    I know several print shops that way. The kind with multiple multi million dollar presses.

    The one app msft refuses to port to osx in msft office is outlook. Since exchanges one redeaming feature is combIned email, calendaring and corporate offices tend to go msft only the workers end up running two computers to fill that need. Full exchange support on a mac for both email and calendars will bring millions of more macs into the work place.

  19. Re:1 word. Niche application on Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    Because ont port PowerPoint to os x and have it be compatible with windows version of PowerPoint. Indeed half of your complaints againist mac users are because windows developers can't properly design multi platform software.

    Msft leading the way and other developers follow treating mac ports of their software as bastard stepchildren that they wish they never had.

    Personally I can't stand iLife any more than I can stand ms office. Both
    y computers are macs yet I keep all my data in open cross platform formats. I have had to work at doing that over the years. It isn't easy. Butknowing that I can install just about any os and download the same software to access it is worth it. I just have to figure out how to mount osx disk images across platforms.

  20. Re:I will need some help with this. on How Apple Orchestrates Controlled Leaks, and Why · · Score: 1

    less so than dell or sony.

    both of which had multiple high profile laptop burns, but only a couple of one for mac.

  21. Re:Translation: on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 1

    better than when you put then around my waist.

  22. Re:I will need some help with this. on How Apple Orchestrates Controlled Leaks, and Why · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's because apple wants to release good products at launch time. Sure you can use the latest screen technology hut it doubles the cost comes with unstable drivers and if you sneeze at it cracks. Apple sells the whole widget. Having an easily scratched screen material is just as bad as buggy software.

    Most people don't realize that hardware and material science is a major part of product design. Bringing a final product to market is about trade offs.
    There havebeen touch screens and tablets for years upon years. But until recently the hardware and software haventbeen ready for mass deployments. Just look at Microsoft. Is windows tablet edition a good piece of tablet software? Ithas all the pieces but they haven't been assembled properly yet. The need for convertible tablets is why. Msft is trying to shove a mouse and keyboard based desktop at tablet users. But that isn't how tablet need to work. They need their own UI

    just having the ingredents doesn't mean you can bake cake.

  23. Re:Won't be needing 3D TV on Sony, IMAX, Discovery To Launch 3D TV Network · · Score: 1

    medicore. baseball, tennis, are tough. However I can play both acceptably. well as long as it is only as serious as who buys the beer.

  24. Re:Won't be needing 3D TV on Sony, IMAX, Discovery To Launch 3D TV Network · · Score: 4, Insightful

    exactly 3D movies are useless for me as my eyes don't focus in the "right" way.

    I see some effects but just get a headache. I think it is some 5-10% of the population suffers from the same problem. That will limit any major 3D tv tech.

  25. Re:IronKey? on Encryption Cracked On NIST-Certified Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    While I have heard of lumber based hard hack decryption methods I haven't heard of anyone using a whole tree before.

    Oh you meant three sorry. Just ignore the guy behind you with the 2x4.