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  1. Re:Free market will fix this on ISP Emails Customer Database To Thousands · · Score: 1

    That's one of the first things I thought of when reading the summary.

    What kind of jackass stores passwords in plain text on a DB? At the least: store the hash+salt, compare the input's hashe+salt. You should NEVER store the password in a retrievable manner.

    Then again, I suppose it's the same kind of jackass that doesn't do a QA run to make sure something pesky, like say, the ENTIRE client list, gets attached to your invoices.....

    Someone please ID this idiots+management and post it out for the world to see so it comes up in their next job hunt.

  2. Re:I beg to differ on MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But your friends know you. And they may, in fact, be posting information about you. Everything from tagging pictures to leaving notes. You have no control over this.

  3. Re:gotta wonder how far this search will go on First Rocky Exoplanet Confirmed · · Score: 1

    But if we were looking at ourselves....imagine the distance. Yes, we'd be looking at ourselves hundreds of years ago. Time voyeurism :)

  4. Re:Interesting, but... on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The former doesn't start smelling funny when you leave it on the lab counter overnight.

  5. Displays on Mind-Blowing Interfaces On Display At SIGGRAPH 2009 · · Score: 1

    As awesome as these are, I can see where the bottleneck is: display technology.

    These are all cool, but what we really need is the same thing we've needed for a while: a way to produce a good image and shovel that into our visual centers. That augmented reality game will only really be fun if we can wear a pair of lite glasses or point some device at our retina that will produce a display that will both exceed 640x480 and not fry our rods and cones.

    The guy with the $5000+ HMD(likely with a lifespan measured in months, too) glued to the Martian construction helmet shows how far we still have to go in terms of personal and wearable display tech.

  6. Re:How could the miss that? on Major New Function Discovered For the Spleen · · Score: 1

    While you're being a troll, you're close to the mark. People who have to take such severe antibiotics in emergency situations that, as a result, wipe out their good little critters sometimes need to have foreign feces inserted into the intestinal tract(not from the mouth...). This introduces the good bugs again.

  7. Re:What? on Has Conficker Been Abandoned By Its Authors? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Watch the series again. S.A.C. has nothing to do with a virus becoming self aware. It's actually a collective of individuals who believe to be acting autonomously but, in reality, are all following a pattern mimicking individual intent by a single entity.

    The Laughing Man was originally a single hacker, but once he stopped his activities, a group of others took it from there and their actions collectively created another Laughing Man.

    It's basically digital gestalt-ism combined with neural networking where each human is a node in the larger network without being aware of the whole.

    Sort of like 4chan, but much less horrible ;)

  8. Re:One Brave Dude... on New HIV Strain Discovered · · Score: 1

    Flash: You're free. He[Gorilla Grodd] can't control you anymore.
    Cowin: He wasn't controlling me, we were in love!
    Flash: Internet romance.*shrug*

  9. Re:More likely on CentOS Administrator Reappears · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "relying on one person for as much as seemingly their very existence"

    Ssssh! Do you want to start a flamewar with the Apple fans too?

    ....sorry, had to :)

  10. Re:Greed Effect on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 1

    "micro-black holes"

    Unless you're an elementary particle, I don't think those should scare you.

  11. Re:And what about search farms? on Google Warns About Search-Spammer Site Hacking · · Score: 2, Informative

    If that really worked, I wouldn't still see so many damn "experts-exchange" results since I'm sure I've 'x'ed at least 5 dozen of them.

  12. Re:Achievement Unlocked on Secrets of Schizophrenia and Depression "Unlocked" · · Score: 1

    I dunno. He wields a mighty powerful scythe, that one.

    Looks like a metal fan, though. Maybe run in blaring Vivaldi's Four Seasons?

  13. Re:The human factor on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    But they're STILL charging 3x60$ for what amounts to prettier graphics but a downgrade in much everything else that makes the original SC great. People still enjoy the original SC and will continue to play that. Personally, I have very little reason to buy SC2.

    Blizzard has finally finished morphing into Actilizzard: The art designers of Blizzard and the lawyers+marketing team of Activision. Look for more Guitar Hero tie-ins.

  14. Re:Sad.. on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    But they're gonna have to deal with NAT issues as well. Who gets what auth packet from bnet if all connections are from 1 IP?

  15. Re:Confusing Comparison: RTS vs RPG on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    Bull.

    LAN parties still beat over-the-net games for one simple reason: social interaction.

    In a LAN party, the trash talking, the throwing stuff at each other, the ordering of pizza, etc.. simply can't be reproduced in a environment where you're still sitting by your damn self while fiddling with your VOIP headset.

  16. Sorry....have to say it....the cover on Unlocking Android · · Score: 3, Funny

    The platform is called "Android". It basically TELLS you what the cover should have.

    Instead they have a tattooed aboriginal hunter with hair from the boss on the Dilbert comics.

    Because when I think "android", I think "mostly naked male aboriginal tattoed hunter with Dilbert boss hair".

  17. Re:Binding Contracts. on Senators To Examine Exclusive Handset Deals · · Score: 1

    "I used to work for a cellular carrier in Canada."
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    Congratulations on escaping from your evil overlords. If it wasn't for the "used to" part, I'd have suggested you'd be better typing that as Anonymous Coward ;)

  18. Re:Cost on Google Set To Tackle eBook Market · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ummm...no.

    Kindle doesn't work outside the US, period. We Canadians don't get it either(though I suspect that has something to do with our world-renowned awful telcos and monopolistic nationally propped up book broker Indigo more then anything else.)

  19. Re:spaces in credit card numbers? on IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation · · Score: 1

    well drat...I done forgot something, didn't I?

    onkeyup='this.value = this.value.replace(/[^0-9]/,"")'

  20. Re:spaces in credit card numbers? on IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation · · Score: 1

    onkeyup='this.value.replace(/[^0-9]/,"")'

  21. Re:that's good news.... on Gene Transfer Immunizes Against Monkey HIV Analog · · Score: 1

    Monkeys, hurl feces at our congressmen!

  22. Re:Is this the year of GoogleGroinkick? on Google Puts the Brakes On Saving the World · · Score: 1

    Except there's no evidence the situation is in any way other than what they said: an overwhelming number of entries.

    Bottom line:
    _________________________________________

    Google did something nice(for PR reasons or not)

    Google made promises

    Google got surprised

    Google hasn't yet announced anything

    People like you and kdawson jump to conclusions because "Hey, look, they ARE evil!" posts, similar to inflammatory Fox News reports, generates publicity for yourself.

  23. Re:Companion book... on The Manga Guide to Databases · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spiderman's guide to web design.

  24. Re:Hulu? What is that? on Disney-Hulu Deal Is Ominous For YouTube · · Score: 1

    Likewise up here in Canadanistan.

  25. Re:I can think of a few on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 0

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network

    I double dare you to 'hack' his network with those IPs.