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  1. So spyware installation is a feature? on IE More Secure Than Mozilla? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My neighbours using firefox on MS windows have had zero problems due to these security flaws. The neighbours using IE under XP with service pack 2 installed and automated update on still get tons of spyware.
    So the alternative conclusion of the symantec report would be: Spyware holes in MS IE are not spyware holes, but easy software installation features.

  2. Re:$7.5 million to safely split H2O on Hydrogen Generating Module to Help Your Car? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Methane, propane and butane are also highly explosive. That is why I mention them. We are used to handling those.
    Just think of a 20 pound module which is used for this, use the same 20 pounds as protection in the car, and you will have enough protection. The only more risky phase is when you put the module in the car. Still the other gasses which I just mentioned, are just as flameable and dangerous. H2 is just considered more dangerous. It is not useable as a complete replacement for petrol yet, because in those amounts, it would become to dangerous. The amounts here are so low, that the danger is almost not present.

  3. $7.5 million to safely split H2O on Hydrogen Generating Module to Help Your Car? · · Score: 1

    Good deal! I will do it for that, and make about $7.5mln profit.

    Anyway: Reducing polution by about 100% would mean polution free while still burning petrol? Where does the CO2 go? That is a greenhouse gas and also polution.

    Safety worries and this complex solution: Lets say the water storage capacity of the unit is about 1 litre of water. In H2 compressed into a liquid that would mean a 1 litre=1 kilo, molecular weight of water= 18, molecular weight of H2=2, resulting in 111 grams of H2. Larger gas cartridges than this size are freely available for methane/butane/propane. Just as explosive as H2. If inserting H2 in the cilinder of the car gives such an efficiency boost, would a 450gram liquid H2 cilinder not be more efficient? The total setup would be lighter, easier to use (just plug in a cilinder), less chance of something breaking, no chemicals, and not to mention (what I already started with) CHEAPER!

    The 20 pound module filled with chemicals and electronics, can then be replaced or it can be integrated into the electronic injection system.

  4. Re:Survivor: Malaysia on Malaysians to Vote on First Astronaut · · Score: 1

    So you have to get voted out first to survive?

  5. Important contest on Underhanded C Contest announces winners · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does anybody remember the about 1.5 year ago event when a programmer managed to smuggle malicious code into the linux kernel?

    Virus writers and script kiddies are not a worry for this kind of code writing. The programmer you hire to write that AJAX extention to your website is also worth to worry about. This contest just shows how it is done.

  6. LINQ on Anders Hejlsberg on C# 3.0 · · Score: 1

    The built in SQL like language would be usefull in many languages. It is now just waiting for LINQ version X (for short LINQX) before the confusion starts.

  7. Scarcity on CentralNic Enables uk.com Wildcard DNS · · Score: 1

    The 2nd level domain is a perceived scarcity because of the scarcity of the top level + the effect of every registration being global at once. The non-scarcity is reflected in the pricing of the domains: $6 to 7 per year. The scarcity is in the resale price of a good domain name: >$1000.

    So I agree: No real scarcity either on the second level

  8. Domain squatting on CentralNic Enables uk.com Wildcard DNS · · Score: 0, Troll

    So they are squatting on their own domain? Interesting concept, and people even buy those extra domains, which they have for free and in abundance for GBP 32,50 a year? 100,000 of them? Great! Lets put it in the gallery next to the Nigerian scam artist.

  9. Some say technorati & friends have nightmares on Google's Blog Search · · Score: 1

    Why would they have nightmares about a blog search? Just replace your own search box with a powered by Google box, and keep the rest of the site. They do have a few more features than just a search function.

  10. Log file & safety on Free Web-Based Exception Reporting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just keeping the exceptions in the logfiles so you can literary put anything in the exception what you want, not having to wonder if some debug information which happens to be equal to a clients transaction wanders around on the network or even the internet. Plus logfiles can be analyzed too, enough handy tools around for that too (I use vi).

  11. That is not a misleading option on Office 12 Exposed · · Score: 1

    They really studied the common user which uses about 1% of all the options this kind of suite offers. Those users often really use there own style in a document in such a way that you can call it a file type. And they want it saved in a MS word document, because that is the way they find it back.

    Clearly a feature and not a bug.

  12. Re:Ow on Samsung Develops 16Gb Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    I think the preview function could have caught that. I just do not use the preview function, it would take the embarrasment out of posting on /. for me.

  13. A harddisk with linux installed on it on What's On Your Tech Bench? · · Score: 1

    Probably SuSE or another flavor with a large hardware support kernel right out of the box. Makes testing for hardware bugs days faster. Just mount the disk to the bench. Maybe a disk per interface type (ATA/SATA/SCSI).

  14. Why would N Korea attack the US on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    roughly 40 years of economic sanctions? And it will all end if you attack your "enemy". N Korea does nog have 1 enemy, but multiple. Still, I do not think they can or will attack anybody from their current state. Looking at the developments between S Korea and N Korea, I would even say that they are looking for a graceful way out of the current situation.

    What if there would have been no sanctions, and N Korea would be as prosperous as the USSR, or China (their closest relatives in vision). That would not make them a superpower: They are just to small. But would it give them any reason to launch an attack on the US? Not really. They might try to intimidate S Korea, but with more to loose, most likely nothing will happen anyway (look at China vs Taiwan: Lots of threats, and not even one shot fired).

    Yes, N Korea has a dictatorship which tries to build certain weapons.
    To be afraid of that: No, they will probably not succeed anytime soon, and to use such a weapon is not a good idea anyway.
    There actually is only one danger left with this: Hard cash: Sell the bomb which you create to some extremist group, let them play with it.
    Somehow I think however that even extremist groups are not that crazy. They have seen by know what 2 airplanes can cause in counter actions: The leaders are not taken, but two countries have lost their goverments, and taking out a third or a fourth is no serious problem for the US. The US goverment has also shown that they will not obey human rights anymore in such a situation. The step to a complete masacre has become a lot smaller. A second holocaust could be the result of an extremist organization using a nuclear bomb.

    Looking in general at countries with a dictator or similar goverment: They do attack their neighbours, bot only if they think they will gain something from it.

    Looking at wealthy democratic countries: They do attack countries all over the world if they think they can gain something from it.

  15. Re:2step plan to having more memory on you fingert on Samsung Develops 16Gb Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    With this kind of idea I do not expect my central nervous system to generate anything important anymore, lets stand enough energy (-:

  16. 5usec is to slow on RTLinux Boasts Single-Digit uSec Responsiveness · · Score: 4, Funny

    It has to go down to 3usec just to keep up with my double click speed.

  17. Canadian super politeness on Canada's Do-Not-Hesitate-To-Call List · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just be less polite. If everybody just hangs up on the marketeers once they start talking, it should stop fast enough (no income anymore=exit scheme, onto the next one: Pop-up and pop under adds, exit pages, etc EVIL LAUGH).
    The marketeers are usually trying to be persistent by just saying things like: you don't know what I am going to offer.
    If telemarketing anoys you, just hang up, do not even say goodbye anymore, you don't know them, you don't owe them, so what do you care.

    Sofar my advice to make canadians less polite.

  18. The dog does what? on Canada's Do-Not-Hesitate-To-Call List · · Score: 1

    Finance? Network maintenance? Answer the phone! Yes, that will at least leave the marketeers minions puzzled.

    Overhere we have ineffective do not call systems too, but usually there is not more than 1 phone call every two weeks, so it does not really matter (yet).

  19. Canada's Do-Not-Hesitate-To-/. list on Canada's Do-Not-Hesitate-To-Call List · · Score: 4, Funny

    The subject says it all. It could also be a solution: /. the telemarketers

  20. And now say this with a german accent on Ars Technica's iPod nano Dissection · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Surely, we thought, it could never withstand the crushing power of German automotive engineering.
    And it finally gets funny!
    Anyway: Thin objects tend to survive being driven over more than thicker objects. If the object is thin enough, the tire even stays in contact with the road, causing a lot less pressure on the object than you might expect.

  21. Re:2step plan to having more memory on you fingert on Samsung Develops 16Gb Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    I believe they ran that story a while ago on /. too. The point is that it grows out in several months (data loss due to cutting your nails (-: ).
    You gave me an interface idea though: Combine it with a bluetooth chip, and use the just mentioned MS patent for creating electricity, and it could even run.
    (Stupid joke now taken to seriously)

  22. Re:Ow on Samsung Develops 16Gb Flash Memory · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought of that. The problem is, is that my fingernails are pretty much curved, making it tough to glue anything on it. My guess is, is that the base of the nail is flatter, so pulling them out would be the way to go.
    Then again, the flat base concerns a guess, so maybe I should start with one nail only.

  23. Re:2step plan to having more memory on you fingert on Samsung Develops 16Gb Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    Hum, I more or less thought step 0 or 1b would be missed:
    0. Inject lidocaine in fingertips and wait until you can not feel anything with it anymore
    or 1b
    1b. Scream in excrutiating pain.

  24. 2step plan to having more memory on you fingertips on Samsung Develops 16Gb Flash Memory · · Score: 4, Funny

    Step 1: Pull out fingernails
    Step 2: put fingernailsized flash memorychip on place of fingernail

    Now just a way to power them up and use them. Any ideas

  25. So the closest relative on Flying Reptile The Size of A Small Airplane · · Score: 3, Funny

    That would be a person hanging from a 18m span glider on a fish eating diet?