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  1. Re:All about China on DARPA Sponsors a Hunt For Malware In Microchips · · Score: 1

    The Euro zone is a pretty big importer of China tech as well. Then you have Japan, and the rest of the world.

    Of course, the US is still too big a market for them to do this. One of the reasons that the US dollar hasn't fallen further, is that it is in Chinas interested to keep it high, or they would lose a lot of money.

  2. Re:Wow... on MADD Targets GTA IV Over Drunk Driving Scene · · Score: 1

    Sure there is. People, especially younger ones, tend to repeat what they see. You get this with fashion, speech, tattoos, youtube videos all sorts of things. How many kids have tried to injure themselves repeating Jackass pranks?

    Now, the question is how much of an effect? And should we all be penalised because of it?

  3. Re:Anyone else have problems getting here? on Wikipedia Blocks Suspicious Edits From DoJ · · Score: 1

    Having same problems in the UK.

  4. Re:So... on Major PC Vendors Push For Open Source Drivers · · Score: 1

    No they won't. They will still make all their decisions based on price, all other things being equal. They can't afford to, with the great level of competition.

  5. Re:Had me up until the sensationalism on Kraken Infiltration Revives "Friendly Worm" Debate · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ow many times have you heard of someone dying because their heart monitor failed?

    What a ridiculous statement. What are you, in primary school? Is that how you make all your decisions? based on how many times you have heard of something happening. There are 1000s of deaths a year due to Hospitals making mistakes in someway.

  6. Re:Had me up until the sensationalism on Kraken Infiltration Revives "Friendly Worm" Debate · · Score: 1

    In such a world, we don't deal with mights. Sure it might be better, but it might not. Are you going to take the risk?

  7. Re:Dreamweaver is an excellent tool on NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS · · Score: 1

    I have had problems with dreamweaver changing the code for no apparent reason. I guess it doesn't do this if you created everything in dreamweaver, but it does if you don't and it broke the page. I won't touch it anymore.

  8. Re:No Moral crisis here. on Kraken Infiltration Revives "Friendly Worm" Debate · · Score: 1

    That is an idiotic analogy.

    What is the initial virus didn't kill anyone or make them sick, but the cure did?? What if it only gave them the shits. Should it really get released??

  9. Re:What kind of idiot... on Kraken Infiltration Revives "Friendly Worm" Debate · · Score: 1

    The kind of idiots that work in Hospitals and IT all around the world. The kind of idiots that represent about 90% of the IT world that you and I work in. The kind of idiots who get into management positions , and feel ok with making these kind of decisions.

  10. Re:Had me up until the sensationalism on Kraken Infiltration Revives "Friendly Worm" Debate · · Score: 1

    What an idiotic statement. I hope that you don't do any important software development. You may looks at statements above as sensationalist, but if you have ever worked in an environment where peoples lives are at risk, or even money is at risk, you will now that these are serious considerations.

    Just because there are backup plans do not mean that you can wipe out the normal mechanism for nurses to monitor patients. I would suggest to you that the spam you get is a small inconvenience compared to the ehtical problems invovled in crashing 1000s of unknown computers around the world.

    This is beside the point that critical operations should not be run on a Windows machine at all.

  11. Re:Times change on Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 · · Score: 1

    Agreed, that is why I use www.realfooty.com.au for results. It is a sign of the way things are, that the main site is crap, and you need to use someone else to get anything decent.

  12. Re:legacy code on Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing · · Score: 1

    It is a huge decision to pull developers away from a product to work on something new. And not an easy one.

  13. Re:Here we go again, eh? on Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are right to critisize the previous poster. But you yourself suffer from an overly simplistic argument. Just because the Roman Empire and British empire fell, doesn't mean that everything is going to fall.

  14. Re:Here we go again, eh? on Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing · · Score: 1

    Lets listen to someone who can't even tell the difference between Gartner and Slashdot?

    The fact is that most people here aren't as optimisitc as these guys, doesn't stop us from wanting Microsoft to fall though.

    Nodody rang the bells after ME because they still had Windows 2000 and Windows XP on offer.

  15. Re:Ah, you forget... on Should Microsoft Be Excluded From EU Government Sales? · · Score: 1

    You are talking absolute rubbish. Countries move on, or they stagnate, like Palestine. I am sure that somehow most of Europe has managed to put Germanies little indescretions behind it.

    An aside, the biggest country affect by Germanies invasion was actually the UK and the US, two countries that didn't happen to be invaded. The relationship betweend the two changed dramatically, with the UK having to sell of all its property in the US, where it owned about 1/4 of the country. The US became free.

  16. Re:Sourer Grapes on eBay Australia Makes PayPal Mandatory · · Score: 1

    Surely that can't be the worst thing that happened to him. My god, I know that this is in Australia, but still, you know when the major cricket matches are going to be. And it is not like you are going to take a day off for good weather (it is always good!).

  17. Re:Ubiquitous motors on The Future of Ubiquitous Computers · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares about motors (except, maybe, for you), they care about what they can do. People think electric toothbrushes are better for their teeth, they prefer electric shavers, they like the ability to record movies....

    Are you saying we should stop enjoying these things, or we should just limit or enjoyment.

  18. Re:Lets all go home. on The Future of Ubiquitous Computers · · Score: 1

    People get to an age, and they don't like change anymore. Simple fact of life. The older you get, the more resistant you get.

  19. Re:Sourer Grapes on eBay Australia Makes PayPal Mandatory · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did he happen to give you any reasons why?? Why were they forcing him to get paid via paypal?? Did he have to use paypal to pay for his canteen lunch.

  20. Re:Because... on HP Admits Selling Infected Flash-Floppy Drives · · Score: 1

    Good, all they need is a reformat, then they will work again. I hope they don't get destroyed just because they have some bad data on them.

  21. Re:I don't see the problem. on Google Takes Down HuddleChat After Complaints [Warning] · · Score: 1

    This is a bad joke. So the guy is saying that there are lots of ways to show your content on a website, and compares it to watch faces? Let me guess, he approves of watch manufacturers sueing each other over watch face similarities?? Personally, I only like watches with one type of watch face, an analog clock and the date, most of these designs happen to look pretty damn similar.

  22. Re:Why has it taken so long? on Pixar to Release All New Movies in 3D · · Score: 1

    Most things are 3d. This stapler, my phone, my gf.

  23. Re:I smell profit ! on Your Identity Is Worth Less Than $15 · · Score: 1

    Buy cheap bank accounts

    cash a lot of dodgey cheques/ use for money laundering/ donate to republicans

    withdraw money

    profit

  24. Re:Of woodchucks and printers... on 3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License · · Score: 1

    Wow, my lisp is cured...oh, no it isn't.

  25. Re:The singularity on 3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License · · Score: 1

    It's people. Reprap Green is made out of people. They're making our self replicating printers out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for self replicating printers. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!