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  1. Re:Unbelivable on World of Warcraft's Brand New Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Does the detection kit require being run as an Admin? I have the same question about WoW as well. If not, running as a lower privileged user seems like it might be a good idea playing WoW.

  2. Re:What are CAPTCHAs really for? on Will Solve Captcha for Money? · · Score: 1

    The problem here is that the creation of CAPTCHAs is expensive and uses substantial CPU resources. Creating a new CAPTCHA for every visit for every user is not feasible for many sites, so many need to be cache CAPTCHAs and possibly reuse them.

  3. File Recovery Possible? on Extortion Virus Code Cracked · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, the virus doesn't completely trash the actual files on the disk. If it doesn't, a file recovery program would be a simple way to get the files back.

  4. Re:Making sense for once on John Dvorak's Eight Signs MS is Dead in the Water · · Score: 2, Funny
    When was the last time M$ actually innovated something?
    MS-DOS? Oh wait...
  5. Re:Huh? on The Challenges of A DVR Service · · Score: 1

    I misread it the first time across as well. The description of the article original claimed that Tim Burton was the cofounder of Tivo. Jim Burton is the cofounder of Tivo, and this was corrected in the description, hence the editor's note.

  6. Re:Why change browsers? on Firefox Momentum Slows · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think it boils down to this: Most geeks like Firefox and have already switched. Joe Sixpack and Ted the PHB have in interest in learning how to use a new browser, or even learn how to click on a different icon.

    So how about an IE Skin and an icon change?

  7. Re:Just because we can do a thing... on Rail Guns Closer to Reality · · Score: 1
    From the article:
    One purpose of these very rapid flights is to help understand the extreme conditions found within the interiors of giant planets in our solar system. By creating states of matter extremely difficult to achieve on Earth, the flyer plates provide hard data to astrophysicists speculating on the structure and even the formation of planets like Jupiter and Saturn.

    Didier Saumon, an astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, noted that the internal structures of Jupiter and Saturn are composed mostly of hydrogen. So knowing its equation of state -- how hydrogen and its isotopes behave at pressures from one to 50 million atmospheres -- is highly relevant to how scientists infer the interior properties of these planets.

  8. Thumbs.db on New Longhorn Screenshots And Schedule · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Looking at the screenshot and seeing the thumbnail in the bottom left corner reminded me of how much I hate seeing the hidden file 'thumbs.db' in every folder in XP.

    For Longhorn, according to the developer working on the thumbnail views, there will a remedy to this - there will be a global 'thumbs.db' file that all folders draw from, thus removing the file that I often delete in frustration.

  9. Pirate Bay on First Swede Prosecuted For File Sharing · · Score: 5, Informative
    The person in charge of Pirate Bay (a major BitTorrent site) has been flaunting the fact that laws in the US/EU don't have any effect in Sweden. http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/

    This could be the end of the low ratio of torrents deleted vs. the law suits...

  10. (Un)documented API Functions on IE Developer Responds to Mozilla Accusations · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was speaking recently to a developer working on Longhorn and he gave me the following information: IE cannot legally, since the court battles, use any undocumented system API calls. Therefore all of the calls that IE used have been made public on MSDN. They may have strange names and actually do other things than the documentation strictly says, but Microsoft has been forced to announce what "they do" to the public at large.