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  1. Took so long? on Skype Unleashed Onto Cell Phones · · Score: 0

    I'm surprised this is new. We have everything else on our cells.

  2. For the home user: on Security From A To Z · · Score: 1, Informative
    Here is my summary for securing relatives:

    1. Get them behind a hardware firewall (Linksys router?)

    2. Get them off the admin account, and if you did step 1 and 2 stop worrying about logging off.

    3. Run Windows Defender 24/7 with real time protection ON.

    4. Make sure Window's Automatic Updates are on.

    5. Install AVG Free, with auto updates.

    6. Install Spybot S&D and Adware SE, and teach them (or preferably their kid) to double click each one, click update, then scan, then remove. You could also get one of those one-click bundles floating around.

    7. Run msconfig and turn all the junk off.

    9. Install Firefox, maybe change the icon to IE's, and install the Qute skin (look similar to IE). Maybe show them the tabs, but don't mention that is it a different browser.

    10. Check back in a couple months and tweak the strategy.


    Now, unless they are big into crummy sites and downloads, they should be OK until the computer landscape changes.
  3. Teenager on The Web Is 16 Today · · Score: 0

    It has grown, but it might get too old and fat and be killed by a threatened-feeling gov or UN. We must protect this relatively new and fragile resource.

  4. Re:Make people think to figure out your e-mail on Best Method For Foiling Email Harvesters? · · Score: 0

    I volunteer myself as an admin that doesn't even require an email address. But oddly enough, almost everyone puts one anyway.

    You are totally right about Name/Address turning most people off.

  5. Re:"word processors"???? on Taking a Crack At Recycling E-Waste · · Score: 0

    When I read the title I thought it was talking about things like racks full of old server logs. Too bad they weren't, as I can provide a wonderful solution cheap.

  6. Re:WRONGO! on New Zealand To Allow 'Text-Speak' On Exams · · Score: 0

    Miss Siebert, my Writing and Grammar teacher. Sorry that isn't very helpful.

  7. Re: on The War Is Over, and Linux Has Won · · Score: 0

    MS is definitely the sleeping giant. It always wins in the end, so it seems. First they beat all the other command line OS's with MS DOS. Then they trashed Netscape. IE is gaining on Firefox at an alarming rate. I'm think Linux will suffer the same fate in the future.

    So far, the only thing that looks like it has a future in defying Microsoft is Google, and I have to admit the Windows Live search results, while not as useful for techy users, are much more Grandma-friendly.

  8. Re:WRONGO! on New Zealand To Allow 'Text-Speak' On Exams · · Score: 0

    Actually, leaving out the relative pronoun that makes the dependant clause an elliptical adjective clause.
    It accepted, but not formal.

  9. Who's Voice? on Google Moving Strongly Into Radio Advertising · · Score: 0

    So who's voice will it be? Do the poeple who want the ads have to make the audio themselves, or will all these people be hired to make the actual adudio?

  10. Re:Shoot ... score one for the Bush admin on Research Supports "Snowball Earth" Hypothesis · · Score: -1

    If you aren't old enough, ask your dad if he remembers being taught in school about the impending ice age. I have a rather dim view of these scientist's predictions on earth cycles, seeing as how they can't accurately predict the weather 2 weeks in advance.

    I suggest that this is right; it fits right in with land/ice bridge theories and the notion that the earth's climate isn't drastically affected by human activities, at least not yet. Think: a big volcano eruption makes more air pollution than we can in a generation or more.

  11. Re:Oh wait, are you trolling again? on Melting Arctic Ice Has Consequences · · Score: -1

    Terminates produce more CO2 globally than smokestacks.

  12. Re:infect their machine on A Security Guide For Non-Technical Users? · · Score: -1
    No, no no. That is all wrong.

    1. Get them behind a hardware firewall (Linksys router?)

    2. Get them off the admin account, and if you did step 1 and 2 stop worrying about logging off.

    3. Run Windows Defender 24/7 with real time protection ON.

    4. Make sure Window's Automatic Updates are on.

    5. Install AVG Free, with auto updates.

    6. Install Spybot S&D and Adware SE, and teach them (or preferably a kid) to double click each one, click update, then scan, then remove. You could also get one of those one-click bundles floating around.

    7. Run msconfig and turn all the junk off.

    9. Install Firefox, maybe change the icon to IE's, and install the Qute skin (look similar to IE). Maybe show them the tabs, but don't mention that is it a different browser.

    10. Check back in a couple months and tweak the strategy.

    Now, unless they are big into crummy sites and downloads, they should be OK until the computer landscape changes.
  13. Re:wow to you ... on Microsoft Will Allow Vista Reinstalls · · Score: -1

    I agree. I think Office 2000 is the best productivity suit ever built. But it is out of my price range. You get what you pay for.

  14. Re:Monsters on Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested · · Score: -1

    Please tell me where that is located in the USA's constitution. The fact is, it isn't.

  15. Re:Too bad it has to be this way on FBI Raids Security Researcher's Home · · Score: -1
    and a protocol to follow
    A protocol like that can only happen through government regulation.
  16. Re:frist psot on Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law · · Score: 0, Interesting
    For your information, there are thousands of moderators.

    so called "illegal aliens"?
    Alien: foreigner
    Illegal: breaking the law
    I don't see the problem.

    trumped-up "immigration emergency"
    Immigration Stats
    Ask any southern hospital why they are having financial trouble. Now, President Bush is somewhat to blame for this, by requiring hospitals to care for illegal aliens free.

    Also, I think it is reasonable to force quarantines and vaccinations in a bio-terror attack. The whole article is flame bait.
  17. Re:GCHQ in 1973! on 30 Years of Public Key Cryptography · · Score: -1

    Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie unveiled DES encryption in June 1976, after years of work and being told by IBM that it was impossible. DES had a disadvantage; it required both parties to be active at the same time.

    Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman invented RSA encryption in 1977. It was better than DES, because it did not require the both parties to be online at the same time. It did require a public key directory, though.

    It was not until years later that the British Government announced that the GCHQ had invented RSA cryptography in 1973. James Ellis, a very eccentric cryptographer and Clifford Cocks, a young mathematician were responsible for the discovery. Malcom Williamson, another GCHQ mathematician, verified the valitidty of their methods. Both were graduates of Manchester Grammar School and contestants in the 1968 Mathematical Olympiad.

    Then in June 1991 Phil Zimmermann released PGP to the public, which earned him a grand jury investigation for being an arms dealer, as cryptography is classified with missiles an bombs.

    Now, governments around the globe are trying to ban strong encryption, as it ruins digital wiretapping. If strong encryption is restricted by the government, such as part 3 of the UK's RIP Act, the future of computer commerce is at stake.

  18. Is this a good isea? on Wi-Fi Exploits Coming to Metasploit · · Score: -1

    I think things like this should require some technical user input, to reduce the widespread abuse by script kiddies.

  19. Re:interfaces on What's Different About Vista's GUI? · · Score: -1
    Correct. Why can't Microsoft understand this? They spend so much time with the user interface, that the actually OS stuff (stable runtime environment, security, "revolutionary file system" gets put on the backburner. I think it would be in MS's best interest to focus 100% on the core internals of the OS and leave the shell to either open source or some third party. Heck, even a totally seperate division of microsoft. This whole "API for everything" and having so much interface stuff integrated with the internal running of the system is just a recipe for disaster, as can be seen on every other windows release before vista.
    Why, that sounds like Linux! So why doesn't everybody use it?
  20. Re:The difference between The Gimp and Excel.. on GIMP's Next-generation Imaging Core Demonstrated · · Score: -1

    The GIMP UI is the best! It is not easy to pick up, but it is extremely efficient, once you get used to it. I hope they don't mess with it.

  21. Re:This story is riddled with nonsense on French Scientists Link Higher BMI with Lower IQ · · Score: -1
    It could just as easily show that poor judgement translates into bad eating habits and low IQ.
    But that is still a connection.
  22. Re:LOL KOREAGOOKS DID 10/11 on RSS and Atom in Action · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ahem. The airport's tracking data proves that is was a small fixed-wing aircraft registered to the NY Yankees that crashed into the building.

  23. What code? on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 0

    Where exactly does all this code come from? Will this be much more useful than regular search, as most good code on the net is easy to find? Will this just shine a flashlight on junk?

  24. Re:That really sucks on Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder · · Score: 0
    And you probably sight the Sixth Commandment. But what about Genesis 9:6?
    "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man."
  25. Slashdotted on Improving Open Source Speech Recognition · · Score: 0

    Well, it was a nice try, but too much success can kill too.