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  1. Re:Not actually prosecuted on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1

    True, but try telling a sun reading chav that being arrested as a paedophile doesn't mean anything.

  2. I'm not sure on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1

    It depends on what you call affected. I have a joint account with my wife, and her card was compromised. I guess the compromise was at the bank because the first we heard was a call from the bank saying that the card had been compromised but they had proof it was a fraud and all the transactions had been refunded. Anyway that would be two people affected, and I could believe one in 6 or one in 8.

  3. Re:Adblock Plus on Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released · · Score: 1

    Having done that slashdot threads did not display, so I have gone back to beta 4!

  4. Don't want to quibble on Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released · · Score: 1

    But I fust downloaded 5b4 for windows and scored 70 rather than 71 on acid 3

  5. Is this "in the browser" functionality on Google Scoops Microsoft w/ Mesh Applications · · Score: 1

    Is this "in the browser" functionality? I read TFA but I could not work out if it was some application you download or whether it works in the browser. If its in the browser, then it might allow you to continue to work offline when a connection goes, but could you use a computer somewhere without internet access to create or modify a document?

    If it is an application, on the other hand, it would be nice to know what platforms are supported. It would be ironic if the "kick in the teeth" for Microsoft only ran on Microsoft systems.

  6. Or.. on Blocking Steganosonic Data In Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    Or just jump over a group of random bytes that will never be executed. In a high level language have some unused variable

    myString = "FooFoogh234h2j4hj23hj";

    search the executable for FooFoo then read the following bytes.

  7. Re:Not a secret message. on Blocking Steganosonic Data In Phone Calls · · Score: 4, Funny

    The butterfly flaps its wings twice.

    I repeat, the butterfly flaps its wings twice.


    Please clarify immediately. Is that just a repetition or does the butterfly flap its wings four times. This could be the difference between a gang of naked teenagers invading Prime Minister's question time and the defacing of Nelson's column.

  8. YEs it is on OOXML Rumored to be Approved, Announcement Wednesday · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why?
    All they have to do is implement more than everyone else, then change the "standard" so that others are not compatible.

  9. Unfortunately on OOXML Rumored to be Approved, Announcement Wednesday · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unfortunately to Microsoft discrediting ISO would be a bonus. If there are no reliable standards bodies then it just wakens the position of people trying to argue the advantage of standards compliance. For MS the best outcome would be that people would say "standards mean nothing anyway", because the alternative to de facto standards are de jura - and Microsoft sets most of these.

  10. In my early programming days on World's Fastest Net Link 'Used To Dry Laundry' · · Score: 1

    I had to walk/bus into work. I wore some old trainers then changed when I arrived.

    I had an "official warning" for drying out damp trainers on the server!

  11. Brain the size of a planet... on World's Fastest Net Link 'Used To Dry Laundry' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Brain the size of a planet, access to 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously, and she wants me to dry her laundry!

    .... depressing

  12. What did Microsoft ever do for us? on GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    Having separate privileges assigned to user accounts rather than a global root is one of the ways that windows is better than traditional unix/linux. W

  13. Re:Brings linux down - I don't think so on GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    It is extremely easy for a program run as root/admin to bring down any system without having bugs. If not how can you upgrade system files or even shut down.

  14. Hybrid PDFs: fully editable PDFs with embedded OO on An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The feature that is not yet available Hybrid PDFs: fully editable PDFs with embedded OpenDocument files (issue 65397) is a real killer. What it means is that you can attach a PDF to an email that anyone with normal PDF software can read. If the recipient has open office then they will be able to edit it too.

    This will be really useful in that you can avoid having to distribute some files in "exported .doc format" so that it can be read by anyone and edited by other editors, or attaching two separate files.

  15. He also proposed geostationary satelites on Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead At 90 · · Score: 1

    He also proposed geostationary satellites in 1945 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_satellite#Geostationary_orbits)

  16. Brings linux down - I don't think so on GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    OK, I challenge you to find a user-space program that brings linux down using strcpy (as opposed to just crashing that particular program). If you are talking about kernel modules then the same is true of any OS.

  17. Re:Missing the point... on Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ? · · Score: 1

    History is informative here, and IMO the risk in the US that "they" will ever come for "me" is nil.

    I suggest you read McCarthyism.

  18. A lot of people think on Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ? · · Score: 1

    A lot of people think "well, these rules are just for the funny guys with turbans and long beards. Nobody would ever think of applying them to me."

    There is a famous answer to this argument.

  19. I think on Firefox 3 May Be More Memory Efficient Than Either IE or Opera · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your terminal must be upside down.

  20. Re:Graph shape on Firefox 3 May Be More Memory Efficient Than Either IE or Opera · · Score: 1

    I would guess that this is when the tests completed. You'll notice that IE7 uses no more memory at that point and both firefoxes release memory. I am not sure why Opera appears to have a memory blip after that point.

  21. Based on my experience with FF2 on Firefox 3 May Be More Memory Efficient Than Either IE or Opera · · Score: 4, Informative

    Based on my experience with firefox 2 I would say that once you have a few plugins (cough: *adblock*) the graph will not be flat but will slowly increase. Not that this is the fault of the browser writers, but it will be many people's real world experience.

  22. Re:British Cuisine on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 1

    What wonderful food can the British send up to space with their people?

    Easy, our national dish chicken tikka masala, or the beloved vindaloo. It might be a bit hot for you lads across the pond. Seriously, in the USA the only state in which I could get a chilli as hot as my average curry was New Mexico. My wife is a Texan but after living in England for over a decade she had to admit that Tex Mex doesn't cut it in the spice chilli - though their berbecue sauce is delicious.

    The idea that Britain has bland foods is nearly half a century out of date.

  23. Re:Blame it on Torchwood on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 1

    And they acknowledge the fact that nobody can match captain jack!

  24. I'm surprised how high the risk is anyway on Young Employees Pose Increasing Risk to Networks · · Score: 2, Informative

    only 25% of pre-1980 employees install rogue software on corporate PCs compared to 46% post 1980. If that happened in the bank I worked for there would be hell to pay!

  25. How can they possibly align the mirror..... on Single Photons Bounced Off Orbiting Satellite · · Score: 1

    How can they possibly align the mirror so that a single photon bounces back to the detector? Surely a single-atom imperfection would be enough to deflect it across the room, and a few atoms would deflect it to the next country

    I am expecting some quantum genius to tell me that it doesn't matter if it misses the detector because one from a parallel universe will hit it anyway!