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  1. Re:Potential lawsuit? on Could That Be The Wireless Police Knocking? · · Score: 1

    If you want to share your internet connection, that's why you can give out your key to whoever you want to be able to use it.

    Even assuming a person's computer is 100% protected, someone could still piggyback on their connection to do various illegal things involving the internet, as well as things that will get the **AA to drag YOU to court. Or they could always run p2p apps full blast and slow your connection to a crawl.

  2. You can already do this! on Microsoft Softens Up On Competition · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Just install the apps and select the preferences you want...

    So this is either just pure marketing, or someone at MS half-arsed an app to automate default file and protocol associations.

  3. Re:WMA DRM on The History of Hacking DRM · · Score: 1

    Because other players have been able to implement WM? playback support (mplayer, Winamp), so you don't need to crack WM?. The major focus is probably on DRM that includes vendor lock-in.

  4. 512 on Latest Vista Build Making Real Progress · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Vista requires 512mb minimum. I recall trying to install it on Virtual PC with 256 and failing. Installing on Virtual PC and VMWare Server both worked fine with 512mb.

  5. Ad blocking? on DS Web Browsing Looks Refreshingly Good · · Score: 1

    Will it have some sort of ad blocking? I notice Opera doesn't have much in that respect, except it does allow you to block pages and domains, it would seem.

    I can't stand browsing with anything other than Firefox now because of the deluge of ads everywhere. Every time I use another browser I am surprised to see ads on pages that I never recalled carrying ads back when I used to use IE. Way back.

  6. Nevermind on Search 2.0 vs. Traditional Search · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now it says "Sorry, Lexxe has just experienced Internet connection problem. Please try a few minutes later. Thank you for your cooperation." I can see how that would answer your question, at least partially.

  7. "accidentally found"? on Pharaoh's Gem Brighter Than a Thousand Suns · · Score: 4, Funny

    That suggests to me he dropped and broke it. :)

  8. Loading... on Search 2.0 vs. Traditional Search · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Lexxe (alpha version) has just encountered a system or internal connection problem, due to too many users using it now.

    Please try again a few minutes later. Thanks."

    I don't get it, how did that answer your question? :(

  9. Magnet? on UK Street Crime Rise Blamed on iPods · · Score: 1

    "Superglue a small magnet to the inside of the upper lip of the can so that it's flush with the open top of the can."

    ... then fail to hear your songs as the magnet screws around with the iPod.

  10. Decreases product cost by 40%? on Growing Insulin · · Score: 1

    More like increases profit by 40%...

  11. Re:A DigiPen Game on Now You're Thinking With Portals · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just played that game. It's the same general idea as Portal will use, so it's fun to play around with the physics and all before the game comes out.

    One fun thing to do is shoot a blue portal in the ceiling, a red one in the floor, and then fall though in an infinite loop thing... and then as you fall shoot a blue portal in a wall, you go flying out like in the Portal trailer. I used it to get over a lava pit (I think it might have not been the correct solution, but it was fun. :)

  12. Except on Now You're Thinking With Portals · · Score: 1

    That it's been in development since before the release of the Prey Demo.

  13. Be warned on Browser Comparison - Firefox 2 b1, IE7 b3, Opera 9 · · Score: 2, Informative

    DOM Inspector is horribly broken to the point of almost being completely useless in Firefox 2 beta 1. At least it was for me.

    It also will crash Firefox very easily.

  14. mysql_real_escape_string on SQL Injection Attacks Increasing · · Score: 1

    Just stick it around any non-constants you pass in to MySQL (especially ALL user input or user-influenceable input) and you should be good.

    Of course, to minimize the risk that you miss one, you might want to use functions or classes to wrap mysql_query. EX I might make a "function selectFromTableX" that takes one field name and one value to compare for equality in the WHERE clause (assuming that's all I ever use SELECT on that table for). Or you can make a class for every table and wrap up ALL queries for that table you'll need.

  15. "tried and tested"? on Windows Vista still Rife with Insecure Code · · Score: 1

    I think they mean "tried, tested, exploited, patched, exploited again, patched again, broken, fixed, obfuscated, exploited and patched yet again".

  16. Microsoft Malware Remover says so! on Open Source Malware Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Duh!

  17. Yeah! on Lithium-Ion Batteries Linked to Airplane Fires · · Score: 1

    You can start by not breathing anymore. ;)

  18. Nuts and bolts? on DWR Makes Interportlet Messaging With AJAX Easy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "'...allows you to concentrate on the task at hand instead of the nuts and bolts of Ajax development.'"

    Last time I checked the "nuts and bolts" of AJAX was only a few dozen lines of code... all it is is sending a server request in the background.

  19. I'm afraid MS is right... on Microsoft COO Warns Google Away From Corp Search · · Score: 1

    ...you can't take what you already have. :)

  20. Memory Cache! on World Firefox Day · · Score: 1

    All of the major browsers use MEMORY CACHES. Because it's FASTER than a disk cache.

    If you want to fool around with the memory cache size you are free to install the Fasterfox extension for Firefox, or go to about:config and figure it out yourself.

    I could do that and get Firefox's memory usage low, easily. But why would I want to? It's pointless, because if it takes up too much memory it just gets swapped out to disk by the virtual memory manager anyway, and it's also slower to access the disk cache.

  21. Re:So... on More Wii-mote Info · · Score: 1

    At least it doesn't use AAA batteries. I can never find AAA batteries when I need them.

  22. Re:i tried this out... on Microsoft Retracts Private Folder Option · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yo can delete the icon from your desktop. Then you can access it from explorer under Desktop... want it somewhere else? That's why we have shortcuts. :)

    Or if you want to be slicker about it you can get the NTFSLink tool and make a Junction to C:\Documents and Settings\\My Private Folder.
  23. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. on Microsoft Retracts Private Folder Option · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh great, they retracted the article too!

    But more seriously... you can still download it here: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Microsoft_Pri vate_Folder/1152200243/1 (redirects to download.microsoft.com) all that was removed was the HTML download page.

    On a related note, are the legions of ZIP tool companies going to retract ZIP encryption or password protection? Other archive format encryption schemes? How about general encryption programs? Oh f***, I wrote a DES implementation once, I'm screwed now aren't I?

  24. Awesome! on Fully Open Source NTFS Support Under Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except that every partition tool under the sun fails on my NTFS drives, so I can't even install Linux anywhere... so my computer is STILL Linux proof.

  25. Anyone wanna bet? on Betting Against Online Gambling · · Score: 1

    Anyone wanna bet if this legislation goes through? I'll put down $10 right now that it doesn't! Any takers?