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  1. Social Engineering on Rogue Anti-Malware Pushes Fake PCMag Review · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Spoofing of content is nothing new. Even using the hosts file like this to redirect you to fake content while an innovative use of the hosts file, is just a new trick for an old gag. The only real way to clamp down on something like this, is through the better education of the user base. So long as people still buy into these sorts of attacks, hackers and other people of ill repute will still commit them.

  2. Just like everyone else on Restauranteurs Say Yelp Uses Extortion To Ply Ad Sales · · Score: 1

    People manipulate online review and rating systems all the time, whats interesting is that this is on such a local level that it brings the corruption much closer to home. That being said, it does not seem that this is a very uncommon occurrence.

  3. Re:It happens sometimes on When Servers Explode · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just like when people spontaneously combust... perfectly natural...

  4. Re:Why batteries on Stimulus Could Kickstart US Battery Industry · · Score: 1

    That's really just a semantics issue that this point. No matter what power sources we end up developing, be it wind, solar, fusion, dark matter etc, we will need a way to store it for future use.

  5. Check one for science on Stimulus Could Kickstart US Battery Industry · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's really positive to see things like this coming out of the stimulus package. Yeah there's some serious question as to how well its going to do getting us out of this recession, but that being said, it does have some nice provisions in it for science related improvements, including a nice sized boost to NASA. Long term this is the sort of investment that will help keep our economy moving and on the forefront of innovation.

  6. Re:Wow, you make IE sound like a roofie on MS To Slip IE8 Into Vista and XP Through OEMs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bad enough to want to switch to a text based browser...

  7. Hope, change, a Politician needs not these things on Will Obama's DOJ Intervene To Help RIAA? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can only hope that Obama steps in, because this sets a dangerous precedent of things to come.

  8. Re:Way cool on Robotic Prostheses For Human Faces · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not as cool as my zombie finger in a box!

  9. The Tax Man Cometh on New York Wants To Tax Internet Downloads · · Score: 3, Insightful

    New York taxes everything, a lot of it has to do with the maintenance of New York City. They get subsidies from all sorts of things, taxes, bus fares, chances are if you buy something in New York, some of that money goes to New York City. In fact, even living in New York City is taxed.

  10. Re:Cops and Robbers or Global Armageddon ? on Reverse Engineering a Missile Launcher Toy's Interface · · Score: 1

    No no, just Pink highlights...

  11. Re:Cops and Robbers or Global Armageddon ? on Reverse Engineering a Missile Launcher Toy's Interface · · Score: 1

    Blame Canada... Seriously though, I always mix up those two words...

  12. Re:Legal implications on Reverse Engineering a Missile Launcher Toy's Interface · · Score: 1

    If only when we had gone into Iraq we thought to raid the coffee counters for any Weapons of Mass Flotation.

  13. Cops and Robbers or Global Armageddon ? on Reverse Engineering a Missile Launcher Toy's Interface · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what kid wants to play a cop when they can play Leader of a Rouge nation bent on sending missiles against their uh, playmates? Attach a diaper to it and you have a playful way to play "Biological Warfare"

  14. Re:And so it begins on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's been going like this for a while, just look at their business practices, the only thing they have going for them is that they're cool.

  15. Someone call the wambulance on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People never get up in arms about something till it effects them personally. What a load of crap apple.

  16. Mouse and keyboard store? on Microsoft To Open Retail Stores · · Score: 1

    Because really, is there anything else they're selling right now? In all seriousness this could be a fun idea, but are they just going to be selling boxes of software or do they have a hardware vendor(s) in mind to demo some products? The article mentioned a few, but this could have some potential, and with the way the economy is going I am all for more stores opening up hiring more people.

  17. Dog the Internet Bounty Hunter? on Microsoft Slaps $250K Bounty On Conficker Worm · · Score: 1

    How long till we have ex-con guys with arms as big around as a SAN busting into peoples houses and apprehending them for both money and the entertainment of people who love to watch skinny jerks try to wrestle with a human tank?

  18. Re:"Society" doesn't know best on NY Governor to Target Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    I know it's really only a minor point here, but in New York at least parents can let their kids drink, so long as it's only their kids and it's at home.

  19. Re:Script interpreters = security tools? on Fyodor's Top 100 Network Security Tools · · Score: 1

    ba-zing

  20. Re:Fond Memories? on The End of the Original Xbox · · Score: 1

    I'd agree with that, it seems as games get flashier they don't increase in quality and often you'll see games that look good but play like crap. Take the First Rouge Squadron for N64, great game with two crappy remakes. Why is it that the first thing out of most people's mouths is a question about the graphics?