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  1. Re:A la carte cables on FCC Approving Pay-As-You-Go Internet Plans · · Score: 1

    Ah, but you can only watch one channel at a time!

  2. Re:Could we not just... on Fix To Chinese Internet Traffic Hijack Due In Jan. · · Score: -1

    No, once a packet leaves your machine you have no control over where it goes. Furthermore packets are something like 1.5k in size max with only something like 0.5k for actual application data IIRC; there's no room for lists of IPs...

  3. Re:You’re eligible to receive a free Chrome on Google Unveils Beta Chrome OS Notebook · · Score: 1

    I got a notice right in my freaking New Tab Page about the program.

  4. Re:Will it be as hard to update as Android? on Google Unveils Beta Chrome OS Notebook · · Score: 1

    Developers can get root by compiling the OS themselves. Normal users using a precompiled OS cannot AFAIK.

  5. Re:butbutbutbutbut on Vuvuzelas Blare On Pirated Copies of Music Game · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Because the point of the crazy schemes is that they CAN'T tell, at least not until the copy the pirate THOUGHT was fully cracked has been widely disseminated. Users who download it will be fed up with the glitches and buy the full game to fix them, in theory.

  6. Re:Owner? on Explosive-Laden California Home To Be Destroyed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's all answered in TFA. You're welcome. :)

  7. Re:Cognitive Dissonance on DOJ Ramping Up Crackdown On Copyright-Infringing Sites · · Score: 1

    "copied drugs" may not necessarily contain what they are advertised to. They may pose a health risk, or may not have as much active ingredient as they claim to.

    Plus I don't think most of the people getting them have had the legitimate alternatives prescribed to them by a doctor.

  8. Don't bother... on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Makes a First Appearance · · Score: 4, Informative

    Installer crashes and burns, at least when run under VirtualBox, it complains one of the packages is malformed and then crashes.

    Not sure if the installed OS is runnable after this, it might be but I didn't want to mess around with it, I'll wait for Alpha 2.

  9. And a fourth model... on Smart Wallets React To Spending By Shrinking · · Score: 2

    "The Parasite". Sniffs the local wireless traffic for your bank account details when the wallet queries for your balance...

    Seriously though, they better secure these things properly, because it sounds cool and people won't care until it's too late. And because I won't let myself get anything like this until I know it's secure, but I want one!

  10. Re:Plug the leak in Firefox on History Sniffing In the Wild · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You shouldn't even need to go that far, Mozilla plugged most of the leak. I'm not sure if this made it into 3.6 though... might want to wait for 4.0?

  11. Re:Went to http://startpanic.com/ on History Sniffing In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Oh! So it does! Maybe the Chrome team fixed this like Firefox has.

  12. Re:YouPorn script on History Sniffing In the Wild · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google obfuscates its JavaScript all the time, in order to keep page sizes low and load times fast (and perhaps to keep people from stealing their code).

  13. Went to http://startpanic.com/ on History Sniffing In the Wild · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...using Chrome in incognito mode. It determined I had visited...

    ...startpanic.com

    So yeah, use incognito/private browsing mode.

  14. Re:AVG? Feh. on AVG 2011 Update Causes Widespread Problems For 64-Bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Uninstalled it when I figured out it was responsible for Team Fortress 2 breakage, even when I disabled the networking components (I found out that doesn't actually disable them, you have to choose not to install them at install time) and was happy when my whole computer sped up as a bonus.

  15. Re:Dislike on Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    I think it's the "Block all cookies from facebook.com" option in your browser.

  16. Not a jailbreak on Windows 7 Phone Gets Jailbreak Tool · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to this guy it uses the same APIs as the Windows phone developer tools do.

  17. Yeah... on Scammers Can Hide Fake URLs On the iPhone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is why modern browsers ignore such directives. Remember the window.open parameter that allowed you to hide the url bar? Yeah, only IE8 respects that switch now, all modern browsers ignore it and show the bar anyway.

  18. Minecraft on What To Load On a 4-Year-Old's Netbook? · · Score: 1, Offtopic
  19. Re:Bad omen? on New Windows Kernel Vulnerability Bypasses UAC · · Score: 1

    Remember the Windows Tutorial from Windows 3.1? We need something like that. An environment that throws common scenarios at a user in the form of a fake/simulated Windows desktop, and then grades them based on how they handled it and told them what they did right/wrong and why.

  20. Re:In every train station? LOL on Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not to mention that they will be unable to ensure the entire route between stations is secure. Why risk being caught boarding a train with a bomb when you can plant a bomb next to the track?

  21. Trustworthy on Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wendy is too uptight, one night with me she will loosen up, and she might even provide the students with switchblades.

    Yeah, THIS site is a respectable, trustworthy source of news.

  22. Re:Duh? on HTTPS Everywhere Gets Firesheep Protection · · Score: 4, Informative

    Firesheep never used login credentials. It never needed to. Session cookies were enough to impersonate another user... so any visit to any HTTP page on any site allowed a Firesheep user to impersonate you on that site in theory (of course if you're logged out this is of limited use, but if you're logged in they can impersonate you without login details).

  23. Re:one flaw... on Pumpkin Pie increases Male Sex Drive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What feelings does the smell of pumpkin pie evoke? For me, none whatsoever. I've never smelled or tasted pumpkin pie.

    Then how can you say it doesn't evoke any feelings?

  24. Re:Cheating allegation too strong on Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Do not attribute to malice ... on Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's check out some other benchmarks/parts of Sunspider IE9 does good on and tweak them similarly to see if the performance suddenly suffers.