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  1. Re:Thermite? on Using Aluminum Oxide Paint To Secure Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    The "oxide" helps a lot there.

  2. Re:Hey, it's good enough for the office... on Using Aluminum Oxide Paint To Secure Wi-Fi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What you need to be really careful about is the cops in helicopters doing thermal imaging of roofs. They do this to find people running cannabis farms. If you are releasing a lot more heat than normal, then expect a dawn raid. Also, if they don't see any heat being released, expect a dawn raid because they will think you are trying to shield it.

  3. Re:When pressed... on Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It · · Score: 1

    The competition at the time was Netscape v4, and ie was certainly better than that.

  4. Re:News? on In Trial, Kindles Disappointing University Users · · Score: 1

    George Orwell is still copyright in Europe. You need to head to Australia to get public domain copies of his books.

  5. Re:You just have to use the right DVDs. on Archiving Digital Artwork For Museum Purchase? · · Score: 1

    My local store http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ doesn't have anything remotely like this.

  6. Re:I see the Windows 7 launch is off to a great st on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    They are a good marketing company in that they sell products that people want to buy. What they are useless at is advertising.

  7. Re:Microsoft is pure genius on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    I've installed Windows 7 on a bootcamp partition on my MacBook. It is slower than Snow Leopard, and uses a lot more battery, but apart from that it is reasonably OK. Probably better than XP in most respects other than performance.

    XP mode is not that good compared to Parallels Desktop. It uses RDP to connect remotely to the virtual machine so graphics performance is nowhere near as good as using the virtual video card in Parallels.

  8. Re:First post... on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    You have a dock bar rather than a task bar
    The backup system is almost as easy to use as Time Machine
    You have a fairly reasonable re-invention of Sudo

  9. Re:First post... on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    But you can leave the oriental chick as she is. All very confusing.

  10. Re:First post... on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    Or you can use Powershell. Probably not as good as bash, and painfully slow at loading up, but it does at least respond in the correct way to things like "ls", "ps" and "mv", although not to things like "ls -l" or "ps -A"

  11. Re:Hands-free is allowed on For New Zealanders, No More Phones As Sat-Nav Devices · · Score: 1

    They have computers that need fixing from time to time.

  12. Re:Bad decision? Is it? on For New Zealanders, No More Phones As Sat-Nav Devices · · Score: 1

    On my IPaq, TomTom takes up the entire screen, so I can't see the envelope in the system notification area.

  13. Re:Hands-free is allowed on For New Zealanders, No More Phones As Sat-Nav Devices · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pretty blondes are good for lots of things, map reading skills is not one of them.

  14. Re:Hands-free is allowed on For New Zealanders, No More Phones As Sat-Nav Devices · · Score: 1

    Presumably you set the destination before you switch on the engine to start the journey? That's what I do anyway.
    The only problem then is if you want to tell it there is a roadblock ahead and find an alternative route. That's when Satnavs become really useful.

  15. Re:Anonymous Coward on Software To Flatten a Photographed Book? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Barrel distortion can be easily fixed in photoshop, and once you get the right settings for your first pic, you can batch process the rest of them.

  16. Re:Sweden rocks on Cyber Gangs Raise Profile of Commercial Online Bank Security · · Score: 1

    But some trojans work in real time with someone in the middle controlling it over IM and are targeted at specific banks. It could replace the number on the website with another one for the money mule account details.

  17. Re:Sweden rocks on Cyber Gangs Raise Profile of Commercial Online Bank Security · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In Britain you get

    Username (the most difficult thing to remember), password, and some top secret information like Mother's maiden name or date of birth.

    Or, some banks, mainly in the HBOS group, will send you a code by text message which you have to enter into the website. This is vulnerable to man in the middle attacks

    Some banks (Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Nationwide, Barclays) have a calculator sized device where you insert your debit card, type in your debit card pin number and a number displayed on the website, and get another number off the device which you enter into the website. Again, this is vulnerable to man in the middle attacks and apparently other sorts of attacks as well.

  18. Re:What do we need USB 3 for, anyway? on Apple Behind Intel's USB Competitor? · · Score: 1

    USB2 is pretty lousy for hard drives. Firewire 400 is much faster, despite having a nominally slower bit rate. SATA and SAS are faster still, as is Gigabit ethernet.

    You can get USB 2 to SVGA adapters. I haven't tried one, but I don't imagine it is very good.

  19. Re:my two cents on Bank Goofs, and Judge Orders Gmail Account Nuked · · Score: 1

    If I see an unsolicited spreadsheet in my email, I assume it is a virus of some sort and delete it without opening it.

  20. Re:Didn't Respond on Bank Goofs, and Judge Orders Gmail Account Nuked · · Score: 1

    I get emails apparently from banks I don't bank with all the time, which get deleted pretty quickly. I just see "Wells Fargo", or "Citibank" or whatever, automatically assume it is a phishing email, and press the spam button on my email client.

  21. Re:Can the Poor SOB sue for damages? on Bank Goofs, and Judge Orders Gmail Account Nuked · · Score: 1

    Not all google and hotmail accounts are free. There are paid for versions available.

  22. Re:Let me guess... on Ballmer Admits "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile" · · Score: 1

    You could always install another browser, such as Opera, Iris (webkit), Skyfire (Gecko remotely rendered on a server), or Fennec (Gecko rendered natively)

  23. Re:MMS is pretty pointless after all on MMS Arrives For the iPhone — Will It Crash AT&T's Network? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was thinking that too. In Europe, *every* phone has MMS, with the possible exception of some older Blackberries which don't have cameras, and the "easy to use no frills phones" marketed to older people. I don't think there are any of those on the market at the moment.

  24. Re:having computer promotes piracy on Legal Group Says Unlimited Broadband Promotes Piracy · · Score: 1

    Actually, before the printing press was invented, "piracy" was the normal method of distribution, but it wasn't illegal at that time.

  25. Re:What about Interstate Highways? on Legal Group Says Unlimited Broadband Promotes Piracy · · Score: 1

    No, it means we should get rid of the law in question.