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  1. Re:Oh the opertunities.... on P2P Alarm Clock Service · · Score: 1

    And the site will send you ads to your phone. Not really worth it, you should be able to troll for free.

  2. Re:SQL injection attacks fixed long ago on Sony Music Greece Falls To Hackers · · Score: 1

    paramterized query

    Now with SQL injection solved, if only we could figure out a way to make computers check the spelling ..

  3. Re:I use GIT as my "auto-save" cloud. on 10,000 Commits To an Open-source Project · · Score: 1

    80.000 commits and your first backup will be made a month from now? Hmm..

  4. Re:Netflix on Netflix Dominates North American Internet · · Score: 1

    That's revolutionary thinking. I don't think society is ready for that though.

  5. Re:Why exactly? on Gtk 3.2 Will Let You Run Applications In a Browser · · Score: 1

    chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

  6. Re:FTFA on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    That happens to me a lot when I think about the human emotion love, often I can't compute her.

  7. Re:FTFA on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    When I think about the human emotion love, often I go in a bizarre loop because I can't compute her.

  8. Re:Ideas on How Do I Keep My Privacy While Using Google? · · Score: 1

    In the other, never log in to Google services.

    That is more complicated than that, Google Analytics is used in waaaaaay to many big and small sites. You won't tell Google what you visit, but the sites themselves will. Google will see the same IP address is visiting a Google Analytics site and using GMail, and that can can be used by their ad casting machine. Try the NoScript add-on on Firefox to see how many sites tell Big Brother that you just visited them. It's jaw dropping.

  9. Internet != web on Entire .SE TLD Drops Off the Internet · · Score: 1
    From TFA:

    The entire Swedish Internet effectively stopped working at this point.

    That's incorrect. Only domain lookups weren't working. The Internet was working fine.

  10. Definitely not the first on HD Video From the Edge of Space, On the Cheap · · Score: 2

    These guys http://natrium42.com/halo/flight2/ made a video from 30 km altitude (100.000 feet) almost 2 years ago.

  11. Re:And that so sums up Linux... on Linux Foundation Asks Who Says "I'm Linux" Best · · Score: 1

    It's funny how some people feel that they _must_ spread Linux. Even at the cost of ridiculing the other options. I mean it's not like Linux is perfect and the rest are flawed in every aspect.

  12. Re:Evil Geniuses Use Linux on Linux Foundation Asks Who Says "I'm Linux" Best · · Score: 1

    It seems today that all you see is violence in movies and sex on TV, but where are those good old-fashioned values on which we used to rely?

    I find it funny that this was modded funny, like: "hahaha.. old-fashioned values.. you talk funny" ..the author probably meant it seriously

  13. The recipe is simple on Dealing With Fairness and Balance In Video Games · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that DotA didn't come up in the article. It IS the most widely played RTS currently.

    It's built using the perfect recipe for a balanced game. Millions play it, and thousands give suggestions on public forums on how to improve it. The most popular ideas usually make it into the game.

  14. Re:Opperating at 138 kV!!! on Superconducting Power Grid Launches In New York · · Score: 1

    To quote the article:

    "Superconductors have an inherent current-limiting ability in that if the current increases past a certain threshold, they lose their superconducting abilities and become normally resistive, damping the current."

  15. wondering about security on Tom's Hardware Looks at Microsoft Vista Beta · · Score: 1

    Why can't Windows can take security seriously for the first time? This would be the perfect oportunity to break with the diseases of the past and start with a clean sheet, restructure the internals of Windows, build a secure system, and _after that_ add some nice GUI to it. Yet, even Tom's harware's review focuses on the GUI mainly.

    They deliver integrated spyware scanner with Windows now. This is now evolution from the point of view of security, this is admitting that whoever uses Vista _will certainly_ have problems with spyware & co. They aren't event ashamed admiting it like they did it several years ago.

    I grew up on Windows onfortunately, and only for the past year I switched to Linux. It was a bit weird to learn to do most of the things I needed without a GUI, but in Linux you can custom configure essentially _everything_ from a command line and using text-mode utilities, and that is actually a lot faster, cleaner and more transparent than clicking something on a GUI. Windows has a lot to learn from Linux yet.

    For the last year while I used Linux, I completely forgot about spyware, worms and viruses. On my Linux machine I never ran a virus scanner, I don't even have a firewall on it, but have never seen any virus on it. On our LAN only the gateway has a firewall installed and properly configured. Now on the same LAN I installed a Windows, put a Firefox on it, went online, donwloaded ZoneAlarm to have some protection. I was online about 10 minutes. I installed ZoneAlarm, I ran the integrated antivirus-antispyware, I already had 17 viruses on it !!! Windows can handle being unprotected for 10 minutes, you get all sorts of programs runnig on it, doing whatever they like with _your_ personal computer. Now how does that compare to Linux?

    Who hasn't tried Linux, doesn't know how it is like to surf relaxedly. Forget all about anti-viruses, anti-spyware, never think about updates, patches, critical security holes.

    Vista coming with brand new APIs will certainly have a lot of unpatched holes, so the Windows experience will be that same.
    My message to every Windows user: if you want a new OS experience, get a Linux distro. Vista is not the future, Linux is.