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  1. Re:Firefox *16*!? on Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Is there some reason this isn't the "default" distribution of it then? Nobody but QA testers and gentoo fans should be using the other one.

  2. Re:Firefox *16*!? on Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability · · Score: 0

    Javascript Frameworks for Javascript

    I think you know what I want to say, here...

  3. Re:Won't be the last on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 0

    If they got that 20 cent genuine screw's sale price down to, I don't know, $1 or even lower, then the urge to fake it with a 10 cent screw is suddenly much less attractive...

    Not that it isn't a huge problem anyway, but still. When you overprice shit like that you invite this kind of thing.

  4. Re:What, you think they contain propellant? on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 4, Informative

    People should be shot for such bullshit. That kind of thing kills people.

  5. Re:Can I Fund Unity a Negative Amount? on Ubuntu Asks Users To Pay What They Want · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd rather they took BOTH out back and shot them.

  6. Re:Probably weren't even looking for it. on Apple Maps Accidentally Reveals Secret Military Base In Taiwan · · Score: 2

    It's like the real-world equivalent of stumbleupon, only you lose your address bar and can't use a traditional search engine.

  7. Re:Haha on HTC Profits Drop By 79% · · Score: 1

    It's fun and all, but they keep dragging down other companies. Companies that just happened to fall for the bait.

  8. Was not aware of Certificate Patrol. Sounds useful... will look into that.

    There's no PR though in what I'm thinking. All they would have to do is get their own CA trusted by a root trust, (which could have some PR) OR they could simply get their own installed in their target(s) browsers in which point they could issue any SSL cert they wanted without having to involve a third party.

    Then, the MITM "proxy" would re-wrap the SSL with their own certificate. Google would be none the wiser, and the end user would be none the wiser if they did not take precautions.

  9. A smarter man-in-the-middle would have their own CA in your trust store, so you still get your fancy SSL supposedly pointing to the same site, only singed by TheMan instead.

    "Best" of both words - you still get an encrypted session to keep out the non-TheMan snoopers, and TheMan gets to watch you.

  10. Re:Haha on HTC Profits Drop By 79% · · Score: 1

    MS really should just stop trying...

    If anything they have overdiversified, and just about all of their markets are suffering because of it.

  11. Re:Pressure from competition? yeah right on HTC Profits Drop By 79% · · Score: 1

    Also, switching from Android to an MS OS was also a critical design mistake - among those you already mentioned.

    I'm sticking with my EVO 3D, thank you very much.

  12. Re:I reject your patent, M$. on Microsoft Patents 1826 Choropleth Map Technique · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The patent is on how to do it with a computer; which is a different thing.

    No, it isn't.

    This is why we can't have nice things.

  13. Re:About time! on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 1

    Great news everyone! The reapers are soooo tiny you'll squee when you see them!

  14. Re:And half way down Slahsdot's comments ... on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 1

    Who is Slah, and why does he have dots?

  15. Re:Wow on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 1

    The real trick though...

    If it's NOT from the rover, and not from one of our past vehicles... just what is it from?

    Though lets be honest - it looks to me like a bolt fell point-down into the dirt/sand. It's going to be... interesting... determining where it fell from, if it is from the rover.

  16. Re:You know, I'll forgive them for this mistake on Halliburton's Missing Radioactive Cylinder Found · · Score: 2

    There might have been some dirty dealings with Halliburton, but the Iraq War was far from a corporate conspiracy.

    ... after all, it's not a conspiracy if it's done out in the open.

  17. Re:The irony... on Unredacted Documents In Apple/Samsung Case, No Evidence of 'Copy' Instruction · · Score: 1

    Thanks, but I'd rather they didn't do it (as they didn't) - I don't care for the iPhone/iOS "experience" and I am not alone.

  18. Re:Sorry, but a legal solution is what the govt wa on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    Once upon a time "he needed killing" used to be a justified defense.

    Seems we could still use this, sometimes.

  19. Re:Find a technical solution, not a legal "solutio on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    OK, so if you turn the windows into mirrors, how are they supposed to see?

    If they can still see, they will see the light. It's not that the light is necessarily blinding, it's that it's distracting.

  20. Re:technical solution already available -- goggles on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    You expect those $5 Chinese lasers are going to have that implemented at all, let alone reliably?

  21. Re:Sysiphus on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    Because headlines!

  22. Re:Oh dear ? on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Why? Why was it not just reported/deleted and let be? Is there some primal need for them to toss people through the lawyer gauntlet?

  23. Re:Free market! on The Coming Internet Video Crash · · Score: 1
  24. Re:70CM on FCC Chief: 300MHz More Spectrum By 2015 · · Score: 2

    How about we take back some of 87.8 MHz to 108.0 MHz instead, since we're trolling?

  25. Re:Not in my back yard on FCC Chief: 300MHz More Spectrum By 2015 · · Score: 1

    Cell towers can and are cleverly disguised, and its easy to put them on tall buildings in ways that don't make them super-obvious.