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  1. Re:surprise on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fixes for other others apps or fixes for potential problems? That wasn't hard.

  2. Re:Is it bone-idleness or Ignorance? on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Why not recommend a browser-only install of Mozilla 1.7.1? Firefox is still prerelease software.

  3. Re:Solution: on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    JavaScript/JScript/ECMAScript/FlavourOfTheWeekScri pt is included in the category of "Active Scripting".

  4. Re:Open Source vs. Microsoft on MSN, Word Vulnerable To Shell: URI Exploit · · Score: 1

    Let's see if they patch ALL supported versions or just the latest versions.

  5. Re:Speed Is Relative on AMD64 Windows vs. Fedora vs. SuSE benchmarks · · Score: 1

    It is still double the BITS. Adding ONE bit does not double the amount of data. Adding another bit doubles the number of possible *values* for a set of bits. "11110000" contains double the data of "1111" but is indeed twice as large (16x) taken as an integer, but not everything is an integer. 64-bit can move twice the amount of data as 32-bit. The extra data can be used to increase numeric precision and expand the addressable memory and simply move more per clock.

  6. Re:thx for their efforts and sacrifices on Atomic Veterans Speak Out · · Score: 1

    Which proves the point that the A-bombs were no different than any other air raid that was going on...

  7. Re:thx for their efforts and sacrifices on Atomic Veterans Speak Out · · Score: 1

    Not to mention their shrine celebrating war criminals...

  8. Re:thx for their efforts and sacrifices on Atomic Veterans Speak Out · · Score: 1

    The Japanese have already won :|

  9. Re:What about the Japanese nuclear veterans? on Atomic Veterans Speak Out · · Score: 1

    The the destructive force of that bomb was underestimated (by quite a bit). The city did have military significance and Truman did require that the targets have military significance.

  10. Re:Troy, NY on Atomic Veterans Speak Out · · Score: 1

    Three Mile Island in PA?

  11. Re:The flip side of the coin. on Atomic Veterans Speak Out · · Score: 1

    WWI was initially called The Great War and some don't even consider it a legitimate World War, opting to refer to WWII as the first "real" World War. Just like some people considered the Cold War World War III.

  12. Re:The 9/11 terrorists also used cars on USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You forgot to mention that before procedures were put in place to prevent any and all monitoring under the "national security" excuse, the FBI used to monitor anybody that didn't agree with the sitting administration. There was at least one large protest group that was wiretapped and monitored before they changed the rules.

    Those rules are the very ones that PATRIOT loosened to make it easier for exactly that kind of monitoring.

  13. Re:Concern has been around since 2002 on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1

    MSIE blocks the shell: scheme for internet sites. Mozilla should have done this all along since no site has any business messing with that scheme.

  14. Re:Two beefs... on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1

    The bug affected Mozilla versions 1.7.1 btw.

  15. Re:A clear advantage on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1

    They read it and they flip-flopped from WONTFIX to FIX.

  16. Re:Monoculture, my ass. on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1

    The Mozilla developers knew about the possible ramifications of passing anything a webpage wanted to to the URI handler back in late 2002. They basically refused to fix it until an exploit appeared. Sounds a lot like MS, doesn't it?

  17. Re:Only recent Mozilla bug. on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1

    Do other Windows browsers have the problem?

  18. Re:A clear advantage on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1

    Yes, the shell URI handler sometimes executes stuff! Maybe it's a bad idea to blindly throw anything any website wants to at it?

  19. Re:It's a newbie error in world politics... on EU Ministers Went Off-Brief In Patent Vote · · Score: 1

    Income tax was originally pushed for by poor farmers that were being bled dry while the rich paid virtually nothing.

  20. Re:Lack of diversity on Akamai: How They Fought Recent DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    Not doing so would inflate costs dramatically.

  21. Re:10 bucks says ... on UN Takes Aim At Spam Epidemic · · Score: 1

    Anti-Israeli spam will be considered political speech and would have to be marked as okay to get past the laws of some UN member states (United States).

  22. Re:The UN?!? on UN Takes Aim At Spam Epidemic · · Score: 1

    The UN Security Council did not and could not rule against the US invading Iraq. Failing to pass a resolution calling for an invasion is not the same thing as passing a resolution condemning an invasion. The US went over the UN's head. That is all.

  23. Re:Always right....? on Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right · · Score: 1

    In America at least, he could have probably sued the hell out of Best Buy AND the assailant.

  24. Re:integrity on MSN's Slate Recommends Firefox over IE · · Score: 1

    I've had my MS natural for a few years now and it works fine. :)

  25. Re:Recentley Purchased this, on GeCube All-In-Wonder 9600XT 128M/TV/FM · · Score: 1

    Or go buy like a Radeon 7000 32MB and swap them!