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  1. RIM is really ballsy on RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope · · Score: 0

    Rounded corners, rectangular design, rows of icons; pretty risky in these days of patent wars*

    [*] - http://www.zdnet.com/the-verdict-is-in-samsung-vs-apple-7000003163/

  2. Re:What's the point? on Facebook To App Developers: Good Idea, Now Stop Using Our API · · Score: 1

    *cough*instagram*cough*

  3. Re:Uh yeah on With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because the amount of storage is the only things that's different between an ipad and an ultrabook...

    Oh, actually there are quite a few differences:

    1) You don't need a special repository to install software on your Ultrabook.

    2) Most Ultrabooks will let you install another OS

    3) You have a better chance of upgrading/replacing the components in your Ultrabook.

    4) Ultrabooks have standard connectors for peripherals

    5) I've yet to hear sneering from an Ultrabook owner directed at someone who doesn't have one

  4. FTFA: "From Inquirer Wire Services" on Officials Warn: Cyber War On the US Has Begun · · Score: 1

    Seriously? why not just use an article from Fox news and be done with it? Banks get hit by attacks constantly. This is not news.

    Gross mismanagement, corruption and negligence of companies which spend millions of tax dollars and fail to secure basic computing resources (like encrypted laptops)? Now that's something to call attention to.

  5. Cool hack on Hacker Bypasses Windows 7/8 Address Space Layout Randomization · · Score: 4, Informative

    So basically use javascript to allocate all available memory. Once you get the allocation exception, begin freeing small chunks. After each free, try loading an Active X DLL (target DLL exploit). As soon as you have freed enough blocks, the DLL will load into the space you freed. Essentially bypassing any ASLR -- there is nowhere to randomize too except the freed memory.

  6. Get rid of these senators on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 2

    This is unthinkable. It's this kind of corporate pandering that has gotten us into the unemployment problem we're currently in. I have no problem with hiring people from other countries -- when there is a surplus of work to go around.

  7. Re:Good idea. on North Korea Announces 3rd Nuclear Test, Anti-US Aims · · Score: 1

    Actually, somebody's obnoxious eight year old brother with an arsenal of weaponized Uranium.

  8. "Linus is an asshole" - Alan on Alan Cox Exits Intel, Linux Development · · Score: 5, Insightful

    FTFG+: "I frequently think Linus is an asshole (and therefore very good as kernel dictator) ... I've had great fun working there."

    The funny part is, Linus would probably chuckle and agree with that statement. You can tell these two have been working together for a long time because there isn't any malice in what he said. He's being absolutely authentic.

  9. Also proves on Magnetic 'Braids' May Cook the Sun's Corona · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Sun is Jamaican

  10. Re:not really on The One Sided Cyber War · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not like any script-kiddie can pick up the stuxnet script and modify it to attack their local cell-phone tower.

    Umm.. actually that has already happened. Flame and Stuxnet are cousins of which Shamoon is a derivative.

    "Specifically, Kaspersky believes it's the doing of script kiddies. Shamoon, like Flame, reportedly collects data on any machine it infects, then proceeds to erase the disk. "

    http://gizmodo.com/5935647/is-a-script-kiddie-flame-copycat-out-to-destroy-the-worlds-power-plants

  11. Re:Pity on Google Report Shows Governments Want More Private Data · · Score: 1

    You're probably giving Google permission (more likely, pleading) to use it somewhere in their EULA jibber-jabber you accept when hitting the OK button.

  12. The problem is Mega seems to be doing de-dupe on Mega Defends Its Security Practices · · Score: 2

    From the Mega TOS*:
    "8. Our service may automatically delete a piece of data you upload or give someone else access to where it determines that that data is an exact duplicate of original data already on our service. In that case, you will access that original data."

    That seems to point to deduplication -- if things were actually encrypted and the keys unknown to Mega, dedupe would be impossible.

    [*] - http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/megabad-a-quick-look-at-the-state-of-megas-encryption/

  13. Re:Overpriced on Intel Leaving Desktop Motherboard Business · · Score: 1

    I've never seen and Intel board with an AMD socket, so assuming you run Intel exclusively.

    paying a little extra for it is entirely justifiable.

    That depends on your budget. Besides, no matter what you buy, in a few years the board is obsolete. The newest RAM, CPU (and sometimes even video cards/Power supply) will not work with your board and you upgrade or make do. After a few years, you can't get $20 for it on Ebay anyway. It's basically a frisbee if it hurls.

  14. The MS study by HP on MS Won't Release Study Disputing Munich's Linux-Switch Savings · · Score: 5, Funny

    Went something like this:

    Dear Bill/Steve,
    We have spent 6 months evaluating Linux in the Munich offices and have found the following issues:

    1) IE is not installed so many of compatibility webpages you wanted us to evaluate did not work correctly.

    2) The accounts which were created in Active Directory to allow for LDAP logins in Linux have a schema different from the documentation you provided and did not work correctly.

    3) The Excel spreadsheets saved in the Open Document Format were not compatible with LibreOffice's Open Document Format and did not display all sheets corrrecly. Apparently the format is different than what was specificed in the standard you provided.

    4) The Macro virus attached to the Excel spreadsheet *did* execute correctly and damaged one of the exported NTFS filesystems on the SAMBA server.

    In closing, for the 6 months of screwing around trying to get your proprietary solutions to play nicely via the advertised specifications we've found none of them worked as advertised (except for fore-mentioned virus) and are billing you €40.7 million for our lead times and €3.7 million to cover anger management therapy for our support personnel.

    Yours truly,
    Meg W.

  15. Re:There is no compulsion on Rennard... on How Mobile Operators Are Caught In the Middle In the Middle East and Africa · · Score: 1

    When a country has multiple groups claiming to be the government which set do you follow?

    Whichever one has the gun aimed at you :/

  16. Blockbuster titles from last year on Hands On With Redbox Instant · · Score: 1, Troll

    As a Netflix user, I'd be thrilled to have content that fresh.

  17. RIM basically bought the apps on RIM Attracts 15,000 Apps For BlackBerry 10 In 2 Days · · Score: 2

    FTFA:
    "RIM was offering US$100 for each app ported and subsequently approved for sale in the BlackBerry 10 app store"

    This isn't any indication that people are leaving their favorite fondle-slab for RIM's.

  18. Re:Time to ask some hard questions on "Red October" Espionage Malware Campaign Uncovered · · Score: 1

    Its time we started to grill our malware detecors and virus scan makers because somethnig is going very very wrong.

    Dude, get serious. AV isn't going to stop 0-day (which these attacks were *NOT*) anyway so it's pointless to expect 100% efficacy. AV is a last-ditch defense. If it worked like everyone thinks it does it would be magic. This is another run-of-the-mill application exploit caused by yet another exploit in some really popular software that I don't need to point out. Said software had 5 YEARS to fix the problems and did not. This is simply negligence on the part of the software vendor. Just saying.. put the blame in the right place.

  19. Too much bling on CES: IN WIN Displays Costly but Beautiful Computer Cases (Video) · · Score: 1

    Transparent looks cool for a couple weeks untill the fuzz starts getting in everything. Then you find out what "detailing" the inside of a computer really means. It's not long before you just want a basic nice looking case back.

  20. Meanwhile, Sometime in the past Near Fomalhaut b.. on Mysterious Planet May Be Cruising For a Bruising · · Score: 2

    K'Breel, speaker for the Council, released a statement:

    "Gentle Citizens, today I stand before you proud as a gerlsh in the first heivtning, positively quirlly to bring you the news that our collection device near the Eye of Hoarfrost has nearly completed it's mission. Soon, very soon, we will have amassed the largest collection of Dihydrogen Monoxide in Matter state 3 since the dawn of T'zolar. Rest well Citizens knowing this operation marks the age of time we will finally rid Sector 42-Gamma of the evil blue planet"

    A media operative, who asked K'breel for comment about several previous attempts, specifically the notorious Jupitorial 9-stone bungle, was tazed in the gelsac and evaporated. The J9S mission, nearly 20 ages old, is apparently still a sore spot with the council.

  21. Re:now they can concentrate on ignoring mentally i on Connecticut Groups Cancels Plan to Destroy Violent Games · · Score: 1

    I don't need to get off killing a pretend person, I just want to see how accurate I am.

    Why would it matter wtf the target looks like? You're basically saying the same thing the media is, and that is "violent games cause people to kill people". Perspectives like these leave out the fact that the average mentally healthy person has no problem separating fantasy and reality and is able to deal with their emotional problems in responsible ways. Whether they play Doom for 12 hours straight, or shoot at a torso shaped outline at the firing range.

  22. Re:Good Advice on Boston Declares Health Emergency Due To Massive Flu Outbreak · · Score: 1

    and this what Americans want.

    No, actually this isn't what Americans "want". The corporate policies pretty much force a take-it-or-leave-it policy. I think the last explanation I heard from HR when griping about benefits being cut (yet again) was "Be glad you have a job in this economy".

  23. Fixing the wrong problem on Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings · · Score: 2

    Seems to me the problem starts when an individual who is clearly under mental duress demonstrates or vocalizes the need to harm someone -- and nobody does anything about it. The-wait-and-see attitude for dealing with mentally unstable people is problematic on many levels. No amount of technology is going to stop that person from using some other means because their Judge Dredd gun isn't firing. I'm not saying that incarcerating people for making heated threats is the answer either, just pointing out the flawed logic in TFA.

  24. Affect global temperatures? on Australia Is On So Much Fire, You Can See It From Orbit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if this will create enough particulate in the atmosphere to reduce global temperatures.

  25. TIOBE algorithms on C Beats Java As Number One Language According To TIOBE Index · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Clearly C is more popular as more people complain about it sucking.

    C sucks -- About 321,000,000 results
    bash sucks -- About 7,500,000 results
    Java sucks -- About 5,810,000 results
    c++ sucks -- About 898,000 results
    objective c sucks -- About 293,000 results