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  1. Re:Easy Solution to Keyloggers on Mumbai Police To Enforce Wi-Fi Security · · Score: 1

    Use of keywords is another way.

    Don't make it harder than it has to be. You may do a phone call and have a conversation and then you end it with something like "Send my regards to Bill" and it means something special only for those that holds the conversation.

    Methods like that is old, but still works because it's a legitimate context.

  2. Re:Amazing on Lexus To Start Spamming Car Buyers In Their Cars · · Score: 1

    Modded "Funny" - I would say insightful.

    And what will spamming the driver achieve aside from raising the temper of the driver.

    We don't need more aggressive drivers in the traffic.

  3. Re:Hmm.. on Blu-ray Update Sent To User Via Credit Card Records · · Score: 1

    Even if it is - it is also interesting in another way - it may mean that fraudsters can gain access to a lot additional personal information allowing for identity theft and online fraud.

    I would call it information abuse.

  4. Re:Get big ones on How Do You Manage Your SD Card Library? · · Score: 1

    The 8 gig cards are already better bang for the bucks than the 4 gig.

    But my strategy is to see the cards as temporary storage and nothing else. Dump the pictures to hard disk and a copy as soon as possible.

  5. Re:Duh? on Employees the Next (Continuing) Big Security Risk? · · Score: 1

    Employees being a security risk with computers has been up a lot of times the last decades - about as long as there have been useful computers around.

    So there is no new news on this issue, it's only the methods that are changing a bit.

  6. Re:WAT on The Secret Origins of Microsoft Office's Clippy · · Score: 0, Troll

    ESPECIALLY the first version of the clip (or it's cousin) that ever originated and did completely lock the UI when you started word until you killed it.

    First time that happened I expected to be able to type right away and thought that Word/Windows just had one of it's usual bombings and therefore a reboot, cleaning of temp directory and checkdisk was done.

    When I tried again it was still stuck - and then I discovered this (censored expression) clip that was there asking me about if I was going to make a suicide letter or whatever...

  7. Re:Global Warning on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When the volcano erupts it makes a lot of the petty things we care about today seem insignificant.

    How bad an eruption will be depends also on the type of ash that gets ejected. And it will probably be worse for those living east of that eruption since the majority of the ash will be carried east on the jetstream.

    A major climate change caused by an eruption will cause great changes in where crops can be grown and which types of crop that you can grow. The changes in climate will cause major migration of people, war and famine. I suspect that equatorial regions will be the least affected by this while regions like the US, Canada, Europe and Northern Asia will be a very tough area to live in. Inuits moving to Florida?

  8. Re:Good time to start pumping out GHG then! on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    You don't want to live in a bunker when it gets covered in a few feet of ash - and then it starts to rain on that ash. You will have a free luxury grave.

  9. Re:Kill!!! on Tales From the Support Crypt · · Score: 1

    I have suffered from a similar problem, we had an IP address assigned and then there was a merger of ISP:s and suddenly our internet connection died on us.

    After a few days I tried to ping our address and then it was revealed that I got an answer - and our firewall was configured to be absolutely silent.

    That was one of those WTF moments. And shortly after that we changed ISP since the ISP after that merger was a complete nutjob.

  10. Re:Family Provide Our Best Stories on Tales From the Support Crypt · · Score: 1

    And the 5.25" floppy can be inserted 8 ways of which 7 are wrong.

  11. Re:Bad Summary on The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn · · Score: 1

    Now it's getting interesting, "obscenity" - that means different things to different people.

    This is really to get into the shades and realm of various persons fantasies as well, and soon obscenity may be applied to the presentation of the legs and arms, or maybe any woman without a Burqa.

    So what we may see is that if they can't get you for copyright violations they may get you for obscenity or some other imprecise violation.

  12. Re:Uhh, yes it does... on The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn · · Score: 1

    It's even possible that a court would avoid to take up such a case due to all the problems related to it.

    "It's not a child - it's a dwarf" will be the general response to any accusation on a cartoon porn image.

    If any prosecutor is willing to go down that road I suspect that that prosecutor will get stuck for a long time on that road without much progress.

    And what about all those fantasy animals involved in erotic situations? What's the legal age for a squid?

  13. Re:I present on Fairpoint Pledges To Violate Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Informative

    I see this as an experimental issue from them, and that means that if they don't have an outrage from their users then it's OK to not have a net neutrality and that we soon will see others following them.

    Personally I think that they are shooting themselves in the foot just to later discover that they have burnt all their bridges.

    So in order to complain about this I think that anybody disagreeing should send an email to their contact email address: information@fairpoint.com.

  14. Re:Whoopee on Intel Quad-Core Price and Performance Showdown · · Score: 4, Informative

    Summary in short is that the Core i7 series is the way to go unless you just run office apps in which case the dual-core processors are sufficient.

    The Q-series seems to be expensive and slow compared to the Core i7. And unless they can make a considerable price reduction on them it's no idea to select a Q-series processor.

  15. Re:Bailout Bandwagon on Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The real estate values has been inflated much by the ability to pay, which in turn is a result of the ability to get loans with low security.

    Very few considers that the value of a property may have to be looked at for the long term, and not just short term.

  16. Re:Let's cut the conspiracy theory on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And still - does that give the teacher the right to confiscate something that's not criminal to possess?

    If I was a parent then I would at least file a complaint with the school. If they didn't respond in a responsible manner then it would have been time for legal action.

  17. Re:SIMPLE on Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? · · Score: 1, Informative

    There are several programming languages around, but one of the classics for learning good methods is actually Pascal. It's readable and structured. And the step from Pascal to C or Java isn't bad enough to cause trouble.

    But as with any programming language you can make a mess out of it.

    For an introduction it's not necessary to start with something object-oriented. It may just be disorienting.

    Then it's worth to realize that in today's world it may be a good idea to already from the beginning think of languages that are suitable for parallel execution. Erlang is one such language. It is of course always possible to program for parallel architectures in languages like C++ and Java, but it's also easy to make a mess out of it in those languages.

  18. Re:Debate? on Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant · · Score: 1

    It's not debating about a crashing database, but allowing a voice to be heard and not silenced.

    There are certainly problems, but there will always be yet another bug no matter how hard you try. And let them be open about it.

    If you like ignorance - stick with closed vendors like Microsoft.

    What may be debated is if it was pushed into GA too early, and maybe it was. But don't shoot any messengers about that. The real benefits from this is that developers will know more about the issues and can work to solve them or circumvent them.

  19. Re:Um, global thermonuclear war? on This Is the Way the World Ends · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Give a disease enough time to find the right combination and it may end up with a lethality high enough to keep the remaining humans so far apart that the possibility of procreation may be very low.

    And it may be enough with a disease that causes sterility.

  20. Re:Um, global thermonuclear war? on This Is the Way the World Ends · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the biological and chemical weapons.

    The thing that's most likely to get humankind is a pandemic flu strain.

  21. Re:Probably true on Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The value provided by Google is far greater than the value provided by spammers. Take out the spam first.

    Even though Google may drive traffic that's something that we can live with.

  22. Re:No authority on Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet" · · Score: 1

    And regulate the internet in which manner?

    If we can get rid of all that spam that clutters and pains all of us then we can at least win something.

  23. Re:Wrong, and bad summary, as usual on Apple Says Macs Are Safe, No Antivirus Needed · · Score: 1

    There were MAC viruses already during the early 90's.

    But that was for the 68k architecture.

    Anyway - ignorance in the case of security issues is dangerous. But the anti-virus softwares that are around aren't really useful. They only look for known evil code.

  24. Re:Special license... on Copper Thieves Jeopardize US Infrastructure · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe it's time to consider copper theft an act of terrorism?

    At least in the cases when infrastructure is threatened.

  25. Re:Oh, no, Alien Comet! on Alien Comet May Have Infiltrated the Solar System · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just as well as there are comets that are bent on a course inward to a gravity well there can as well be comets that are thrown out of the gravity well.

    If you just look at how Jupiter was used as a slingshot tool for the Voyager probes that can as well happen with a comet. The universe is filled with unpredictable events and even if an event is statistical unlikely the immense size of the universe makes it happen anyway.

    The origin of the comets is still very uncertain, we can't be sure that they are the remains of the creation of the solar system - they may actually be some of the base material that it was created from. And as for traveling (Whiternoise's comment) the comets have had a lot of time to travel. A few billion years is no big deal in the depths of space.