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  1. Re:Unwanted feature - the D word on IOS 4.3 Now Available For Download · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Apple*Mart.

    Sent from my iPhone

  2. Re:Easy fix on Stopping the Horror of 'Reply All' · · Score: 1

    Solving the CAPTCHA doesn't make you think about the reason for the prompt.

    Now if they had to retype the e-mail addresses the system thinks are unintended, that could be the potato we need.

  3. Re:security though obscurity on A Letter On Behalf of the World's PC Fixers · · Score: 1

    A statistic tied to time, such that as time passes, the probability of failure approaches certainty asymptotically.

    I dare coin another phrase: "Imminency approaches certainty."

  4. Re:Easy fix on Stopping the Horror of 'Reply All' · · Score: 1

    As you indicate, that just trains people to click through them all.

    Instead, your mail program should be able to learn what e-mail aliases you're in by checking the To and Cc headers against your actual address. The more mails you get addressed not explicitly to you, the more likely the address they are addressed to is a list (usually the To address rather than a Cc). Thus, whenever you do a Reply All, it uses the learned weights of addresses to present you with a list of the recipients with any aliases presented more prominently.

    Alternatively, since Bcc can skew the data, you could train the mailer with the known bulk remailer addresses in your organization. The mailer could also be trained to track the history of a conversation and flag it when a reply to your mistress will instead go to your wife or other crossing of social sets (sending corporate secret communications to a Yu Gi Oh mailing list).

    By restricting the prompts to only those situations where there is a statistical likelihood that the message is misaddressed, you reduce the likelihood the user will blindly click through the alerts while preventing communications from going astray.

  5. Re:One thing is for certain. on A Letter On Behalf of the World's PC Fixers · · Score: 1

    Your right, those Emachines are vicious.. I gave up working on them when one kicked my dog, crashed my pickup truck, and ran off with my sister's netbook. I was lucky to escape with my IPOD alive.

    The owner was illegally downloading country music, am I right?

  6. Re:security though obscurity on A Letter On Behalf of the World's PC Fixers · · Score: 1

    Similarly, with RAID-1 using mirrored drives, your possibility of failure is doubled. However, if one drive does fail, you still have one good drive, and can keep working until you replace the bad drive. There's no downtime, and no data loss. If you only have one drive, and it fails, you have both downtime, and data loss (at least everything that's changed since your most-recent backup).

    Except that, with RAID's requirement that drives be identical in capacity (or you waste space), you tend to have a set of drives that have the same age, and thus the same time to failure. One fails and you're immediately stressing out the remaining drives, accelerating their failure to possibly before you return to a protected configuration.

    The moment you're saved by redundancy, you're no longer protected by redundancy.

  7. Re:This reminds me of a Stargate Universe episode. on Stellar Wormholes May Exist · · Score: 1

    I was going to go with one of a dozen SG-1/SGA episodes myself.

    Suns + wormholes almost always result in a rockin' 1960s adventure - unless it results in changing the makeup of a star and (nearly) dooming the neighboring civilizations.

    Or blowing up the star and its planetary system and hurling you into another galaxy.

  8. Re: first non-native browser? on Apple: You Must Be 17+ To Use Opera · · Score: 2
    Top Secret - Private Web Browser Post Date: April 21, 2009 Camouflage Post Date: July 3, 2009 Anonymous Web Browser with Blackout Post Date: January 19, 2010 Anonymous Web Browser with Blackout and Capture + Post Date: February 22, 2010 Squeaky Free - The Clean Web Browser Post Date: March 22, 2010 Dweb Post Date: April 29, 2010 Opera Mini Web browser Post Date: May 11, 2010 Sphere web browser Post Date: May 23, 2010 Sphere - web browser (Lite) Post Date: May 27, 2010 AdBlock web browser Post Date: October 12, 2010 Private Browser With Fullscreen & Multi-Tabs Lite Post Date: October 13, 2010 BigToe Web Browser Post Date: November 22, 2010 sbCalc Secret Browser Post Date: November 24, 2010 Private Browse Post Date: December 4, 2010 Secret Browser Post Date: December 7, 2010 Perfect Stealth Post Date: December 7, 2010 Cloud Browse Post Date: December 17, 2010 PERFECT Browser - EXTRAORDINARY FAST FullScreen Browser w/ REAL-Tabs Post Date: December 21, 2010 Stash Free: Private Photos, Videos, Documents, and Web Browsing Post Date: January 5, 2011 Stash Pro: Private Photos, Videos, Documents, and Web Browsing Post Date: January 5, 2011 Mercury Web Browser Pro - The most advanced browser for iPad and iPhone Post Date: January 10, 2011 Thrill Browser Post Date: January 11, 2011 Mercury Web Browser Lite - The most advanced browser for iPad and iPhone Post Date: February 3, 2011 Atomic Web Browser - Browse FullScreen w/ Download Manage & Dropbox Post Date: February 12, 2011 I'm Just Browsing Post Date: February 16, 2011 Peek-A-Browse - The Ultimate Spy Camera Web Browser Post Date: February 17, 2011 Atomic Web Browser Lite Post Date: February 18, 2011 Privacy Screen Web Browser Post Date: February 28, 2011 BrowserCam - Take pictures and Surf the web at ... Post Date: February 28, 2011 Puffin Post Date: March 2, 2011 Skyfire Web Browser Post Date: March 2, 2011

    All are 17+ rated. Some more explicitly so than others. Yes, those are their full titles. The dates appear to be when they were last updated, not first released (I'm pretty sure Skyfire has been around for more than two days). And that's just some of the ones you can find searching on an iPod Touch 4 and thus excludes the iPad-only browsers. I didn't know there were so many browsers that were devoted to taking surreptitious photos and video. And yet they tend to have the simplest of warnings for content.

  9. Re:Aussies and Beer on Aussie Brewery Creates Space Beer · · Score: 2

    I thought you had to be a serious yahoo to come up with something like that.

  10. The SDK is imbued with Microsoftian magnificence! on Official MS Kinect SDK Coming to Windows · · Score: 1

    (Though only for Academics & Enthusiasts)

    Enthuse for Kinect!

  11. Re:Besides missing link, summary isn't accurate.. on Backdoor Trojan For Windows Ported To Mac OS · · Score: 1

    A trojan horse as defined by Collins English Dictionary is "a bug inserted into a program or system designed to be activated after a certain time or a certain number of operations"

    That's the definition of a logic bomb. See the Whack-a-Mole story.

    Trust laymen to conflate the meaning of technical terms sufficiently to get dictionaries to agree. Idiocracy in action.

  12. QWOP on First Two-Legged Robot Marathon is Under Way In Osaka, Japan · · Score: 1

    How is the QWOP-bot doing?

  13. Re:BBC Copy on Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    They're what, six episodes in on Being Human? They're still in the story adaptation phase. And they're a bit crippled by not being able to say shit, cock, fuck, or twat or showing naked tits and ass (blurred and mostly bleeped ("shit" is allowed) on BBC America). Will they even be able to adapt the episode where the vampire is accused of being a pedophile? The DVD-R is in play so far, but it isn't just of a naked man in this version: vampires can be recorded on video in this version. From the trailer for the next episode, it looks like they can be seen in mirrors too.

    Even before it became SyFy, Sci-Fi Channel (and USA Network) had stricter standards and practices than NBC: two episodes of the NBC series Quantum Leap were censored for saying "son of a bitch". Even the pilot for their series "The Invisible Man" had to have a content warning card before each act that used the phrase "Little prick" (but not for Darien's catchphrase, "Oh, crap!").

    Whatever point I was intending to make, I lost.

  14. Re:No, Syfy does not love Sci-Fi on Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Braveheart.

  15. Re:Many Cable Channels Evolve Beyond Their Name on Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    HBO - Originally movies, now split between movies and series

    Not Necessarily the News? 1st and Ten? The Hitchhiker? Fuckin' Fraggle Rock?!

  16. Re:SOAPnet! on Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Wrestling advertises laundry detergent? I thought it was beer, beef jerky, and Viagra opera.

  17. Re:The Zeroth Law on Motorola Adopting 3 Laws of Robotics For Android? · · Score: 1

    Judge: Corporation, you're liquidated!
    [zeroth law vanishes]
    Android: Thank you.

  18. Re:No Time to Worry! on Out of Egypt Censorship, US Tech Export Under Fire · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wait a minute: "prevent the use... from being used"? So they can use it, but they can't use using it?

  19. Re:Really cool but... on The CIA's Amazing RC Animals From the 70s · · Score: 1

    "Bug-bomb searching, Thodin."

  20. Your Apple ID has been disabled. on Verizon iPhone Is Now Jailbreakable · · Score: 1

    On a related topic, who has gotten a "Your Apple ID has been disabled." error on their iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or iTunes application lately? Were you buying a song, an app, installing a free update to an app? What seemed to be the trigger for you?

    Note: this is not the "This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons." error you get for mistyping your password too many times. This error cannot be fixed by updating your password. It also appears unrelated to jailbreaking: my iPod Touch 4th gen is unmodified.

  21. Your cell tower has been crushed into a cube on Alcatel-Lucent Shrinks Mobile Cell Tower To Small Cube · · Score: 2, Funny

    You have 30 minutes to move your cube.

  22. Re:Tut Tut... on Japan's Elderly Nix Robot Helpers · · Score: 1

    What could go wrong? go wrong?

    Rôjin Z?

    "No one messes with the Ministry of Public Welfare!"

  23. Parallels in fiction: Blakes 7 "Stardrive" on Google Says Honeycomb Will Not Come To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Atlan: How soon can this be fitted to our space choppers?
    Plaxton: Napier.
    [Napier exits]
    Atlan: Well?
    Plaxton: What's wrong with the Mark One? It gives your space choppers TD twelve.
    Atlan: Not as good as fifteen. No Space Rat likes to put up with second best.
    Plaxton: Speed and violence. That's all you Space Rats think about.
    Atlan: As you well know, I am not a Space Rat. But so long as I give them what they want, they accept me as their leader.
    Plaxton: Mindless destruction of Federation ships. It's mindless; you don't have a plan.
    Atlan: Maybe the Space Rats haven't got a plan, Dr. Plaxton. But we could have: total control over all the space trade routes.
    Plaxton: I want no part of that. All I want to do is to develop my space drive.
    Atlan: Fine! So how soon can this be fitted to our space choppers?
    Plaxton: It can't.
    Atlan: Why not?
    Plaxton: Because this is the only one.
    Atlan: So build [pounds table] more! We've provided you with enough raw material to build five hundred!
    Plaxton: I am a scientist, not a production engineer! And the other reason why this can't be fitted to your space choppers is quite simply it won't fit!
    Atlan: Why not?!
    Plaxton: Because the only way to increase the power was to increase the size of the photon generator chambers. This drive was intended to be installed in a real spacecraft, not in toys driven by a bunch of murderous psychopaths.
    Atlan: Our agreement--
    Plaxton: Our agreement was that you provide me with the resources to continue with my work. Well, that's exactly what I have done.
    Atlan: [grabs her, holds a gun to her head] You will start modification work on the Space Drive now, Dr. Plaxton. If you refuse, I will tell the Space Rats that you are depriving them of speed, and I will let them deal with you in their own fashion.

  24. Re:Already terms in common use for this? on Naming Bi-Directional Streams In an API? · · Score: 2

    Indeed, upload and download were highly directional and even connotated the initiator. Unfortunately the terms have become corrupted where an upload became synonymous with outgoing data transfer and download with incoming data transfer, and both terms being applied to the same transfer, disregarding the initiator (particularly in torrenting software).

    You push a file: you send an upload, the remote machine receives your upload; you pull a file: the remote machine sends you a download, you receive that download. The data stream is either an upload or a download depending on whether it is a push or pull. Either result could be incoming or outgoing to your local machine depending on which machine you're controlling. Thus torrenting is always a download, never an upload. Actual uploading only occurs for services that accept unrequested files like an FTP server that allows you to PUT files.

    Uploads and downloads are data streams, not command streams. You would not apply them to a telnet session.

    Unless you're NASA. Then uploads are against Earth gravity and downloads are towards Earth gravity regardless of anything else. In future, NASA will have to generalize that to other gravity wells.

    I'm going to assume your server accepts all input given it and produces output for all input and there isn't a command and control interface, or at least not at the immediate level.

    Here your data streams are I/O with an operation occurring on an external device. We'd call it a peripheral if it weren't over a network. We never call moving data to/from a disk to memory uploading or downloading: that's saving and loading.

    If you need to call attention to the network, this would be a reciprocated stream: sending data (not strictly a command) to the server will result in a returning stream of data. If your server exists to serve the requests of the client and initiates no data, you're uploading a stream to the server and receiving its output. The output is a product of your upload, but it is not your upload, nor is it a download; it is the reciprocal response to your upload. It could be a simple as a reflector returning your input to you unprocessed or doing a rot13 on it. Practically a telnet-like service, full duplex.

    If you consider the UNIX pipe, it connects the input of one command to the output of another. Something provides the initial input and you will end up with a final output. Whether the client considers its outgoing stream its output locally or the input to the server "widgetally" doesn't matter, as both are correct. What is outgoing from the client is incoming to the server. What's to prevent your client from being another server? Or feeding back between servers?

    If you need a term that identifies a stream uniquely regardless of perspective of client or server, you need to define it from an initiator's perspective like upload and download were. But be aware, eventually people will cease to care about the difference. Eventually it will devolve into questions of what is incoming and what is outgoing from their own perspective at a particular node. You might as well call them incoming and outgoing, especially if one's output can become another's input (or even your own).

    (Linguistically, is there a difference between incoming/outgoing and ingoing/outcoming? Other than ingo isn't a noun like outgo and income, and outcome isn't a verb? The latter also seem vaguely biological to me.)

  25. Re:Let's be clear on Court Rules Dungeons and Dragons Threatens Prison Security · · Score: 5, Funny

    What it found is that this prisoner didn't provide any relevant evidence that it doesn't encourage gang-like behavior.

    So he failed to prove a negative. No surprise there.

    The inmate could have gone out and...

    Let's first be clear on the definition of "prison".