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  1. It's a Trojan on Can REDFLY sell in an EeePC market? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    This is one of those rare occasions where a company deliberately sabotages their own flagship product
    1. If implemented as written, OOXML will massively increase the "attack surface" of Office
    2. Microsoft must actually try and implement it, or face anti-trust complaints.
    3. It will become a target of choice for botnets and virusses.
    4. And they will have to kill it. Only question is, "How Soon"?
  2. Presumably one of the Vatican's new deadly sins on RIAA Denies Hypocrisy in Royalties Dustup · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Polluting of the environment, genetic modification, carrying out experiments on humans, causing social injustice, causing poverty, becoming obscenely wealthy and taking drugs all constitute mortal sins, according to Girotti.
    Vatican dusts down deadly sin list

    Actually at least six of these new seven deadly sins apply to the RIAA, starting with "polluting the environment".
  3. Please don't post Representative Couch's address on State Lawmaker Wants To Ban Anonymous Posting Online · · Score: 1

    The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.
    Now that Rep. Crouch has contributed to a Website, via a reporter, he must be devastated to think that he is responsible for an increased danger of online bullying
    - until his own postal address and e-mail address are posted online.

    So please don't post his address and prove him wrong.
  4. That mechanism: how cats affect human health on Cat Ownership Correlated With Heart Health · · Score: 1
    1. Cats use cat-free neighbors' gardens as toilets
    2. Neighbors' blood pressure rises
    3. They die younger
    4. Cat owners live relatively longer
  5. Code Audit on Hackers Target MySpace and Facebook · · Score: 1

    "Had Facebook and MySpace required Aurigma to provide proof of a code audit before sourcing the plug-in this latest security issue could have been avoided," he said.
    If only I could find a company to sell me a "code audit". It sounds so much better than just testing my code properly.
  6. Re:Do I get access to my own records? on Google to Begin Storing Patients' Health Records · · Score: 1

    Can I log in and see everything myself? And can I see the list of everyone who ever accessed my records? If not, it's no good.
    Here's that list: Mickey Mouse, Princess Peach, and Dr Watson. Happy now?
  7. Re:Microsoft patents around OOXML on Developers Warned over OOXML Patent Risk · · Score: 1

    Sun and IBM need not rely on the OSP. I wonder whether, as companies, they have even accepted its terms. Sun and IBM both have large patent arsenals and Microsoft could not sue them without huge risk of retaliation. This is not the case with other developers.

  8. Wireless Security = Oxymoron on A Look at the State of Wireless Security · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Like Military Intelligence, or Microsoft Excel.

  9. They would fill one room of your house every year on New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 · · Score: 5, Informative
    • The average US household produces 7.5 tons of CO2 equivalents per year.
    • The density of C02 is 1.799 kg/m3
    • So the average US household produces about 7.5*1000/1.799 m3 of CO2 = 4,169 m3 = 4,169,000 litres
    • One litre of the crystals could store about 83 litres of CO2.
    • So per family requires 4,169,000/83 = 50,228 litres of crystals per year
    • I guestimate the average house (of say 10 rooms) has a floorspace of about 1500 ft2 = 150 m2, with each room being 10 ft or 3 m high,
    • So the average house is 450 m3 = 450,000 litres, split between 10 rooms.
    These crystals would about fill one room of every house every year, floor-to-ceiling.

    As about half the other commentators have already said, this does not allow for the financial and environmental costs of producing these crystals.
    They might even cost more CO2 to produce than they store.
  10. Re:Wow on UK Commissioner Seeks To Ban Ultrasonic Anti-Teen Device · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    they insist on playing football right in front of the cars trying to use the car park
    You think cars should have more rights than children? Football is much safer then driving.

    they harrass people and treat adults there like crap
    They're just echoing how adults have always treated kids

    they've smashed the windows of the shops dozens of times
    Yes, that's bad. But overall kids don't create nearly as much environmental damage as adults.

    they throw rubbish everywhere...
    I think you'll find that this "rubbish" is sold by the local shops. If you don't like it then complain to the shops or take your business elsewhere.

    Nobody dares deal with it because if they do, *they* will be the ones who get punished for taking the law into their own hands
    You can't criticize kids for ignoring the law and then imply the answer is for adults to do the same.

    I've seen a lot more of kids since I gave up driving a car and started riding a bike. There are some retards, and in the main they are very funny. I suggest everyone lightens up. As for attacking them with sound, I hope the police prosecute the attackers.
  11. Re:Oh no! on EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors · · Score: 1

    The evil, nasty government is going to know my shoe size, earlobe shape and eye colour!
    ...and a week later so will anyone who can be bothered to search through government skips (dumpsters). The issue for me is that you have to assume that everything you tell the government, including this minor stuff, will eventually be available to anyone with a criminal scheme to use it. Mail me £1K or expect a phone call along the lines of: "Hello Mrs JJH, I'm having an affair with your husband. Yes I mean JJ, and I can prove it. You have to massage them to tell, but he has these funny earlobes".
  12. Instead of an "alternative to a passport" on Canadians Wary of 'Enhanced Drivers Licenses' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... just use a passport. I'm surprised the government hasn't thought of this.

  13. Actually your real problem will be the software. on IBM Slams Microsoft, Calls OOXML "Inferior" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I lean toward ODF because it is truly open but either way our main problem 10 years from now will be finding hardware to read those funny plastic disks and paying someone to do it.
    If you store some Dells or HPs in a climate-controlled warehouse today, the hardware will still work in 20 years time. But if you try to boot your equally ancient ancient copy of Windows to run Office, Windows Genuine Advantage and its DRM siblings from 2008 will try to 'phone home, fail, decide you're a pirate, and lock up.
  14. Re:There's kind of a tech connection to the S*bowl on Top 10 Most Memorable Tech Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Cool! An Anne Hathaway/Minnie Driver love scene on AIDS Drug Patent Revoked In US · · Score: 1

    losing patents to help people-in-the-moment) leads to more deaths in the long run
    Sex is the only thing that leads to more deaths in the long run, because more deaths requires more births.
    Patents are one way of screwing people, but that's different.
  16. "New" Drugs are cheap on AIDS Drug Patent Revoked In US · · Score: 1

    A thing to remember though is that the average cost of developing a new drug easily runs into hundreds of millions of dollars and that they need to make that back to stay in business.
    You might think so, but it's not true. Just yesterday I listened in while guys in the next office discussed a scheme to design and patent polymorphic forms of existing drugs - with most of the work being by software - and so develop colossal numbers of new drugs very cheaply. I doubt this is anything new.
  17. Vaccinate people against Dengue Fever on Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever · · Score: 2, Informative

    New Vaccination Technique May Work for Dengue Fever. There's no commercial vaccine yet, but working on one seems a safer bet then mass-releases of genetically modified insects.

  18. Use a Myspace Worm for more Lulz on Parents To Block Kids From Joining MySpace · · Score: 1

    I'll start by submitting the e-mail addresses of everyone I dislike and claim to be their parents and say that they are lieing about their age. Another well thought out government idea.
    A true geek would automate this. Technical explanation of The MySpace Worm. Also called the "Samy worm" or "JS.Spacehero worm"
  19. Burn hydrogen instead on Scientists Recycle CO2 with Sunlight to Make Fuel · · Score: 1

    if you did convert all the CO2 from the coal plants... you'd just be burning it again in cars (or something else)
    And what would the cars be burning otherwise?
    Hydrogen. From the article: "The Sandia team originally developed the CR5 to generate hydrogen for use in fuel cells. If the device's rings are exposed to steam instead of carbon dioxide, they generate hydrogen."
  20. Mod Parent Funny on Data Theft Soars to Unprecedented Levels · · Score: 1

    The feds could initiate a program under which all citizens are issued key fobs similar to RSA Secure IDs with verification similar to that required for a passport ... It works for managing access to top secret material
    I salute your dongle scheme, sir, and the clever way you slipped it past prior commentators. I too have never heard of counterfeit passports or leaks of top secret material. As for hundreds of billions in monetary instruments, I am confident that the alleged losses on "sub prime" mortgages could never have happened if all concerned had secure key fobs.
  21. Re:Better check the details on Australian Government To Mandate Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    It looks like they will make a list of sites which "promote violence and distribute child pornography and instruct ISP's to redirect http requests to them.
    Presumably: redirect http requests away from them.
    If enforced this violence ban must include Ozzie Rules the hardest game in the world so I doubt it will happen.
  22. The way to reduce road deaths is less cars on The World's Cheapest Car Set To Launch · · Score: 1

    According to World Bank data, India had 20.3 traffic fatalities per 10,000 vehicles in 2003, which compares to only 1.86 traffic deaths in the U.S. per 10,000 vehicles according to these NCSA data (note the U.S. reports deaths per 100,000 vehicles as 18.59). Therefore, it is more than 10X more dangerous to drive in India than the U.S., measured by traffic deaths per 10,000 vehicles - Link from the article
    • India has less cars and many more pedestrians the USA.
    • So more of its accidents are car-on-pedestrian, which are more likely to cause death.
    • On the other hand, pedestrian-on-pedestrian and bike-on-pedestrian accidents are relatively low risk.
    • So for India, unless you plan to put everyone in cars, the way to reduce road deaths is less cars, not more.
  23. Re:Watts per meter of earth on Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels · · Score: 2, Informative

    Even if you covered the whole earth with solar panels, it would not supply the power that is currently used.
    Yes it would, 1000 times over. There is plenty of renewable energy, the issue is cost, which is where these cells come in. "The total solar energy available to the earth is approximately 3850 zettajoules (ZJ) per year ... Worldwide energy consumption was 0.471 ZJ in 2004." - Solar Energy
  24. It's not torture if it's theraputic on Stem Cell Lines Derived to Avoid Immune Rejection · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sadly, I predict orders from the KGB and CIA.

  25. Good Advice on 3.2 Billion Dollars Lost to Phishing in 2007 · · Score: 1

    *NEVER* give out personal financial information in a transaction that you did not yourself originate. As in NEVER. People have been taken in by con-artists as long as there have been human's roaming the earth, and the solution to this behavior has been around just as long. Don't be a fool, and you won't be fooled.
    Anyone can pretend to be your bank or the tax authorities, so don't fill in any forms or pay any money without cast-iron proof. Make them personally visit your shack in the mountains. Don't be scared if they make legal threats - they are only following the advice on their secret con-artist Websites and will never follow through.