Rob

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• Commented on New worm targets jailbroken iPhones for Dutch online banking customers
  It was there since the first version of these applications. How long was that? These guys just happened to get caught....
• Commented on New worm targets jailbroken iPhones for Dutch online banking customers
  It can get pretty far...
• Commented on Sony, B&N promise to rekindle rights for book owners
  If "Amazon really didn't want to do that" as you state, WHY IS THE FEATURE EVEN THERE? If it's not there, there's no issue. They sure as heck planned on using it....
• Commented on Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals
  And where are those decent broadcasts, hmm? Most are just dumps off the AP....
• Commented on Ebook license "agreements" are a ripoff
  That's actually implementation dependent. If you aren't backing up the keys, backing up the file is almost worthless....
• Commented on Tell the FCC to say no to Hollywood's insane "Selectable Output Control" kill-switch
  Umm, Sony is a film company too....
• Commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: World Wide Web grows wider, more worldly
  That's more the type of examples I was thinking of, but I wasn't sure how to type them....
• Commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: World Wide Web grows wider, more worldly
  This is a good day for phishers. How long until "ebay.còm" and such addresses that look like one domain but are another....
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Meat Stick Blowtorch
  Oxygen is not flammable. It helps other things burn, but in and of itself can not catch fire. All of the energy is coming from the sausage....
• Commented on Sabotage on the Large Hadron Collider?
  Give the winning lottery numbers for several future lotteries across several different countries. That'll convince people the note was right....
• Commented on Sabotage on the Large Hadron Collider?
  Quackery knows no bounds....
• Commented on HOWTO Make a mummified fairy
  Simpsons did an angel, not a fairy, plus it was a fossil, not a mummy....
• Commented on Access Copyright tells Canadian gov't: no home TV recording, no ripping music, no moving old ebooks to new readers
  "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." - Abraham Lincoln...
• Commented on What actual Mayans are saying about 2012
  The church is a bad example. They got their panties in a knot over Resistance: Fall of Man....
• Commented on Urban surveillance as a game?
  "Sounds like they're getting the general public to do their security monitoring for free." That's not how I read some of these comments. They're getting the general public to *PAY* to report....
• Commented on C graffiti
  It means they forgot to escape < and >...
• Commented on Judge orders woman to keep her SubGenius books under lock and key
  Someone please send the judge all the dirty sections of the Bible and ask him to make sure it's locked up in all custody cases....
• Commented on C graffiti
  Valid C != Valid C++. This program is valid C++, but it doesn't always follow that valid C is valid C++. There's differences in the casting rules, and you can have variables in C that are named after C++ keywords....
• Commented on Urban surveillance as a game?
  "The locations of the feeds are not disclosed" You mean like the location of the Domino's in that gross out video wasn't disclosed?...
• Commented on A Doctor's Advice On How To Read Health News (And Know Whether It's Full of Crap)
  I follow a simple rule for most news. If it's too good to be true or too bad to be true, it probably isn't....
• Commented on BBC wants to encrypt "free" TV -- talking points debunked
  There's no Broadcast Flag in the US. Uhhh, doesn't BB post articles about the flag being turned on and biting people with DVRs?...
• Commented on Would you be happy with metered internet in return for enforced net neutrality?
  But outside of small, rural markets, most of the U.S. offers a high level of competitive choice. Excuse my language, but bullshit. I live in a high tech city. I have a choice of 1 broadband provider. Two if you...
• Commented on Al Franken reads the Fourth Amendment to DoJ official at PATRIOT Act hearings
  @Jlevetin: He just has to respond with: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;"...
• Commented on Offworld's Retro Remakes week: what needs to be remade?
  @therevengor: I think they're working on a MULE remake. @toxonix: Arkanoid came out recently on the DS...
• Commented on Offworld's Retro Remakes week: what needs to be remade?
  I second the Maniac Mansion, and add Day of the Tentacle. Those are two of the LucasArts games I never did, I think I hit most of their other adventure games. Fallout would be nice. Keep the original style though,...
• Commented on How to make chai tea syrup
  Everybody should go to the ATM machine to get some money to tip sork...
• Commented on Interview with John Marcotte, author of bill to ban divorce
  @68: "and macs last i checked don't come with 2 button mice." You're right, they don't. They come with 5 button mice....
• Commented on Interview with John Marcotte, author of bill to ban divorce
  @Roach: Yeah, those silly people that don't understand fundamentalism and get it wrong...
• Commented on Ragdoll Metaphysics: Concept Recognition, Or When Artists Fight Back
  We're at a stage in the development of technology now where we don't simply have to aim for verisimilitude, but can instead explore some artistic directions. We've been there for a long time. People just prefer to push out the...
• Commented on Consumerist sued by Cash4Gold after critical blog posts
  Cash4Gold, I'd like you to meet Ms. Streisand...