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  1. Re:hmmm on What The Internet Isn't · · Score: 1

    shouldn't that be 'obviously painful'?

  2. no backdoor on MyDoom.C Making Its Way Across The Net · · Score: 5, Informative

    This version appears to be a very stripped down version of it's earlier cousins since it also doesn't leave a backdoor into infected machines

    It doesn't open a backdoor, as TCP port 3127 is the port that the MyDoom.A and .B backdoor opens.

    This isn't really a variant of the same virus as it only attacks machines already infected with MyDoom, rather than spreading via email.

  3. but... on Weighing the Value of Privacy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For example, those who think they are overweight ask a higher price to step on a scale in front of their peers, than those of average weight.

    What if someone's embarassing private information was that they were broke?

  4. Some new scale units... on NASA Cancels Hubble Mission, and Other Space Bits · · Score: 1

    Over a four-year period, Kepler will continuously view an amount of sky about equal to the size of a human hand held at arm's length or about equal in area to two "scoops" of the sky made with the Big Dipper constellation. So how many Big Dipper "scoops" in 3 Libraries of Congress?

  5. Editplus on Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? · · Score: 1

    I know the initial question was for family users, but Editplus is a fantastic text editor.
    Syntax highlighting, formatting, auto completion, etc.
    Syntax files can be downloaded for pretty much anything you are gonna want to code in it, or you can write your own custom syntax files.
    Plenty of user definable functions, and an output window for any functions that need them (ie. Java compiler, etc)

    It's not free though.
    Stev.

  6. Apple's branding success on Microsoft Wants to Project "Cool" Image · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Quite a lot of Apple's "cool factor" among the "fashionable and Hollywood tech elite", (especially from the marketing point of view) comes from the instant recognition of Apple products.

    If you see a silver wide screen laptop with a little grey apple on the back, you know you're looking at a G4 powerbook. You can be almost certain it's running Mac OS X. You know what you're looking at - the hardware, the software, what the machine is good at.

    That doesn't happen with PC's. There could be anything in that box.

    With Apple releasing both hardware AND software, they have the ability to create products that consumers can instantly recognise (that's an iBook, that's an iMac, etc), and know what to expect from them.

    This has allowed Apple to "engender a hip, consumer brand image" that MS do NOT have (and are going to struggle gaining).

    Stev.