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  1. Re:Got to love the fact.... on WikiLeaks' Daniel Schmitt Speaks · · Score: 0, Redundant

    About gulli
    Gulli is THE online portal to learn about the underground of the net. While most of the content is in German, English pages are available for much of the site. With Gulli's search, you can easily find cracks, serial numbers, and security software and tools. You can also search for Usenet downloads by clicking the "Downloads" tab on top of the search box.
    The Gulli - Toplist is a list of the the newest and most comprehensive German sites to find information on filesharing, surfing anonymously, cryptography and hacking. As always, the sites featured on the toplist do not have annoying popups, adware, dialers or trojans.
    The Gulli:Board is one of the largest underground net communities with lots of knowhow and insider knowledge. It can easily be searched using the "Gulli" tab above the search box.

  2. Re:Tired of response bashing... on Fake Tamiflu "Out-Spams Viagra On Web" · · Score: 1

    We're probably better equipped to deal with oubreaks now than in 1918...

  3. Re:Once more with feeling on Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine · · Score: 1

    You're talking about this, right? I think that page was used for IE7 but IE8 takes you ieaddons.

  4. Re:Surprise surprise... on Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine · · Score: 1

    That last one was supposed to link to http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/search.aspx?q=IE8+security+part&p=1. It had quotes in the search term that Chrome didn't escape and that ruined the html :|

  5. Re:Surprise surprise... on Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's wrong with that? You already have IE installed. IE8 is much faster and actually secure at all. Leaving anyone on the planet using IE7 would be a sin and killing it with fire is one of the most honorable things Microsoft has ever done.

  6. Re:Surprise surprise... on Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apple Software Update (automatically installed with itunes and quicktime) presented Safari as a checked-by-default update to users. Read about it on John Lilly's blog. He's the CEO of Mozilla

  7. Re:Surprise surprise... on Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, but corporate businesspeople can pay hundreds of employees to work 8 hours a day, while free software only gets peoples' weekends and holidays. Sure empirically free software has worked out very well, but it's not as a priori obvious as you make it out to be.

  8. Re:Google Owns Search on Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I doubt they would even notice anything different. They look for a box to type in words and blue text to click. And Bing's copycat style confuses even somewhat savvy users.

    Watch this and you'll see what I mean. People think Google is a web browser. They probably think Bing is part of Internet Explorer. And I'm sure the overwhelming majority of users have no idea they can change their default provider, or even what that means.

  9. Re:Surprise surprise... on Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You mean like Apple slipping their browser software in with security updates?

  10. Re:Once more with feeling on Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's already hard enough to switch to Google. Why is the most popular search engine at the bottom of the list? Could it be that it's weirdly labelled "Google Search Suggestions" unlike the very clear "Bing Search"? I thought that addon was just the suggestions the first time I saw it. If Google had started at the top then it would easily float there. Microsoft probably buried it so the Most Viewed providers would get viewed more and stay at the top.

  11. Re:Serves you right! on DOJ Confirms Google Antitrust Investigation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We can get mad about investigations too because they cost millions.

  12. Re:What's more disturbing on Safe Harbor Spells Win For Kaspersky In Malware Case Against Zango · · Score: 1

    Leave.

  13. What's more disturbing on Safe Harbor Spells Win For Kaspersky In Malware Case Against Zango · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We actually need a court precedent for deciding if adding a feature to your program is legal?

  14. Re:57KW air-cooled 19" Rack? on DARPA Wants a 19" Super-Efficient Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    I wasn't saying cache is a problem; I was merely emphasizing the small size of the actual logic

  15. Re:57KW air-cooled 19" Rack? on DARPA Wants a 19" Super-Efficient Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    It's not so far fetched I think. Look at those tiny tiny little cores on your processor die. No, that's the cache, look harder. Wayyy down there.

  16. Re:Probably Because You Can Select the Episode? on The Simpsons Worth More Per Viewer On Hulu Than On Fox · · Score: 1

    I don't watch in fullscreen. Here I'll make a screenshot. I'm on windows right now, shame.
    http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/2609/hulu.png
    Yes the ad is there the entire time. Unless you're really absorbed in what you're watching you can't help but notice it at least every few minutes, which makes it valuable space.

  17. Re:Probably Because You Can Select the Episode? on The Simpsons Worth More Per Viewer On Hulu Than On Fox · · Score: 0, Troll

    Err, what? I've never seen a banner ad on Hulu

    Almost every video has one. Above the video and to the right.

    I don't see how it's obvious that if there were some ad sitting there for the entire show, that it would be more expensive than an interstitial placement.

    Are you conscious?

  18. Re:Probably Because You Can Select the Episode? on The Simpsons Worth More Per Viewer On Hulu Than On Fox · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing because you see the ad sitting there for the entire show. Of course it's more expensive.

    Still, keep in mind that you have many more viewers on TV.

  19. Re:New Definition of Human Rights on Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You can't call it an unfair trial just because you lost. It doesn't matter what slashdot readers think about copyright, the swedish judges are the ones duly elected/appointed to the position of making the decision. What they say goes whether we agree with it or not.

  20. Re:Coder's block on How To Get Out of Developer's Block? · · Score: 1

    What kind of compiler are you using that doesn't tell you that you missed a semicolon?

  21. Re:Aren't the windshields replaced all the time? on Stuck Knob Causes Serious Window Damage To Atlantis · · Score: 4, Funny

    I for one am completely comfortable with calling in a local contractor and installing some new money-saving vinyl windows which will be the only thing between me and seventeen thousand mile per hour wind.

  22. Cool pictures on Pictures of Kuril Islands Volcano From ISS · · Score: 1

    Is that a big frozen fish?

  23. Re:I recommend they come ask me in person. on ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings · · Score: 1

    Talk to me about that kind of injustice when it's in a criminal case. Corporate law is necessarily extremely complex and only very experienced lawyers can navigate it.

  24. Re:I recommend they come ask me in person. on ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings · · Score: 1

    It would also discriminate against the poor by ensuring that only people with money can get justice in court. Should we make defendants pay for their public defender if they're convicted?

  25. Re:Government on NIH Spends $400K To Figure Out Why Men Don't Like Condoms · · Score: 1

    $400k isn't that much of a surplus for a government contract.