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  1. A victory for sanity. on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Autism occurs and makes itself known about the same time as the vaccination occurs, which may explain why some people makes that connection.

    But even if there was a small risk of autism related to the vaccination the risks involved by not being vaccinated are higher and the risk of an epidemic is higher if there is no vaccination performed.

    So if it's possible to get a vaccination - get it. People avoiding vaccination are a breeding ground for diseases like polio and a lot of other nasty things. The only disease successfully erased is smallpox - unless it escapes a laboratory somewhere, in which case we may have a disaster on our hands.

    Personally I would call parents that are fighting against vaccinations as irresponsible and a danger to society.

  2. Re:Security cameras. on Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras · · Score: 1

    Considering that most security cameras has a crappy video quality you won't really see much of use except to be able to tell when something happened - if someone has been smart enough to set the clock correctly.

    If you are really lucky with your security camera you may get useful pictures, but most of them are just for show.

  3. Security cameras. on Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras · · Score: 1

    Security cameras are just for show - they aren't really useful for anything else than figuring out that somehting had happened and to provide some amusing clips on YouTube.

  4. Re:So much for do no evil on Google Buys Finnish Paper Mill · · Score: 1

    No - they purchased that site just to be able to put up the sign "Ei saa peittää" on something.

  5. Re:Oh joy on Federal Officials and YouTube Nearing a Deal · · Score: 1

    And the feds will post videos from surveillance cameras and then start to watch the comments to see if they can identify the guilty.

    Sure - we may see a lot of more videos of people walking into lamp posts or stepping into dog poo too...

  6. Re:Oh how I love planes.. on The Flying Giant Is 40 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Considering that from what I have read the 747 wasn't supposed to be a passenger plane from the beginning but a freight plane.

  7. Re:They shouldn't be required... on Is Google Silently Removing Posts? · · Score: 1

    What about the freedom of speech?

    If it isn't illegal - is it permitted to remove it?

    OK - it's the internet, laws have a different meaning and different consequences.

  8. Re:To Err is Human--to Persist is Microsoft? on Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More · · Score: 1

    The "Starter Edition" will essentially be a version that comes pre-installed on some of the low-end machines bringing income to M$.

    Many users will probably replace the OS with a cracked version instead of purchasing the upgrade.

  9. Re:Leap Seconds? on February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But here it won't happen until Saturday.

    "Sat Feb 14 00:31:30 2009 CET"

  10. Re:159357 popular with lefties? on Passwords From PHPBB Attack Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Old *NIX-boxes had that character mapped to erasing the input buffer if I remember it correctly. Not only HP.

  11. Re:Oops on Houston Courts Shut Down By Malware · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Especially since today almost every computer is delivered with autorun enabled.

    We have seen far too many malicious attacks due to the fact that someone thought that it has to be "user friendly". But some of that user friendliness is just plain annoying and raises the blood pressure. Just because I have a few pictures on my stick doesn't mean that I want to view them every time I stick it in.

    The problem is that "user friendly" often means "attack friendly".

  12. Re:woo on Microsoft May Be Targeting the Ubuntu Desktop · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Soviet Mircrosoft the Operating System owns You.

  13. Re:159357 popular with lefties? on Passwords From PHPBB Attack Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Works fine with right-hand people too.

    I would recommend anyone that can to use accented characters - which will introduce a factor that makes it harder to crack using dictionaries.

    "Pásswòrð" maybe?

  14. The horrible problem on Passwords From PHPBB Attack Analyzed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a horrible problem of having leaked passwords, and the only way around it is to avoid logging the cleartext password and do a hash of the password combined with a salt before storing it.

    In that way it's at least not too easy to recreate the password used by various users.

    It's of course standard procedure, but it just makes it evident how incredibly trivial some systems are built.

  15. It's my computer on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 4, Informative

    And I want to be in control of if it's going to crap or not.

  16. Not really new tech. on Oslo Buses to Run on Sewage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Gas-driven (not gasoline) buses has been around for at least a decade. It's just that they use a different type of gas.

  17. Re:You mean... on Users' Admin Logins Make Most Windows Malware Worse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Running a non-admin account works fine if you only run the office package, but as soon as you plan to do something slightly advanced you end up with failed permissions and other types of obnoxious behavior - which is hard to figure out because Windows won't tell you because you don't need to know.

  18. Re:He's Right on Software Piracy At the Beijing Branch Office? · · Score: 1

    The only way around it is to use a non-commercial OS, but it comes with other problems.

    Just make sure that all data exchanged between offices passes through a virus wash before it's accessed.

  19. Re:documentation on Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    Present since then, forced upon us recently.

    This is not really what most of we who are using Firefox wants. We are running Firefox for a reason - like that we want to be in control and have a layer between the OS and the sites we are surfing.

  20. Re:HAHAHAHAHA on DRM Shuts Down PC Version of Gears of War · · Score: 1

    Because they want you to buy a new upgraded version of the game to be able to make more money!

  21. Re:Great on USB Flash Drive Comparison Part 2 — FAT32 Vs. NTFS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What about ext2 and other filesystems then?

  22. Re:Waiting.. on Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface · · Score: 1

    Unless the patent is dismissed in court.

    Soon the one-finger and two-finger salute will be patented.

  23. Re:User preference to view un-reviewed articles? on Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I would like to have all historical records available since sometimes there are people that does "cleanup" of inconvenient facts.

    If all articles all the time had a history then it would be up to the reader to check and distill the facts.

    And an approval of a type similar to Slashdot where readers can vote may also be a solution that can be applied. This should be a way to catch the bottlenecks in reviews.

  24. Re:As for preservation on Long-Term PC Preservation Project? · · Score: 1

    Vacuum may be hard to maintain, an inert gas like Argon is probably better.

  25. Re:Flawed theory on After Monty Python Goes YouTube, Big Jump In DVD Sales · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The video and audio quality on YouTube is really bad enough for people to want the real deal.

    But as a teaser it works fine with YouTube.