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  1. Re:Smug Mac users? on Less Than a Minute to Hijack a MacBook's Wireless · · Score: 1

    lol no this is not a virus

  2. Re:No Bittorrent... on The Business Model of Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    After having their large video files slashdotted, I think they'll be the ones being sorry.

    I think so too, after finding all the tubes are clogged.

  3. Re:I read it - sounds interesting - but come on... on What Spore May Spawn · · Score: 2, Informative

    It has been a month or so since I have watched the Spore video, but from what I can remember you are not actually playing online against other people. Instead the whole universe is your own separate universe and populated by creatures and planets which are designed by other users. (But not controlled by them).

  4. Re:Symantec on Worm Wriggles Through Yahoo! Mail Flaw · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The article you linked to mentions that it is Symantec's job to scan Yahoo attachments for viruses.

    This Worm that we are talking about though is not even passed via attachments so there is no way (with the agreement mentioned in that article) that Symantec can actually clean it for Yahoo.

    "Unlike its predecessors, which would require the user to open an attachment in order to launch and propagate, JS-Yamanner makes use of a security hole in the Yahoo! web mail program in order to spread to other Yahoo! users."

    This bug will have to be fixed server side by cleaning out the Javascript that is still being allowed in email messages. This is something I doubt Yahoo gave Symantec access to do.

  5. Re:I have just this to say... on Google Researchers Create TV Audio Analysis System · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not Big Brother but Big Brother could get a court order to hear what was going on in your house at anytime since the microphone was turned on. There is no way I'm letting Google or anyone else have an open mic. in my home. Even if it were just turned on for brief periods at random intervals. Why would anyone allow this in their livingroom? No, I didn't RTFM. From the Paper (and mentioned in TFA if you read it): The viewer's acoustic privacy is maintained by the irreversibility of the mapping from audio to summary statistics. Unlike the speech-enabled proactive agent by Hong et al. (2001), our approach will not "overhear" conversations.

  6. Re:I find such a lack of consistency . . . on First Windows Vista Security Update Released · · Score: 1

    "security bugs that let malicious persons read anyone's email" Sorry, what? If your talking about the ads within gmail, you my friend, are highly uneducated...

  7. Re:Wikipedia as reference for papers on Wikipedia Plagiarism Ends Journalist's Career · · Score: 1

    Really, you'd just cite it like any other electronic source, depending if your using APA style, MLA, etc. If it's authorless, you leave it out.

  8. Great on Building a Linux Home Media Center · · Score: 2

    Now I can view the Goatse.ca link also provided by the author with my fresh home media center.