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Comment Re:I hate it when people venerate/elevate scumbags (Score 1) 453

"Most secure ever", even if a relative term, still implies that MS believed that security was a priority for this product, and also a selling point. If they didn't believe it was secure in any way, then they would never have used the term "most secure ever", or even have referred to security at all.

The fact that they try to use some fine print buried in the EULA to give themselves an out doesn't resolve them from responsibility. If they tout security in any way, then they're claiming their OS is secure. This makes them responsible if there are blatant security flaws which they neglect to fix in a timely fashion.

Comment Re:7lbs? - answer (Score 1) 249

Yeah, the old process involved using a cutter to separate the front from the funnel while under a constant spray of water to keep lead dust from killing people, though I believe I misspoke and they actually leave the leaded section leaded until it's reprocesses. The front section is typically vacuumed or washed out to remove the phosphorus powder (which is a bastard to clean up when you break one sometimes) and then different glasses are separated and graded before being sent to smelters or glass to glass recyclers.

Most newer methods of seen involve updraft systems that basically keep the air moving away from any personnel while the cutting and breaking is done, although in my experience many places using this method don't appropriately maintain their ventilation systems which are prone to clogging (and then becoming completely useless, even though if you try to check it by hand you can still feel the air current)
Networking

Submission + - World's 1st NTP synchronized nixie tube clock

Heiko writes: "Tech Fans of the Fifties or Sixties love them, because they combine old technology with a stylish look: Nixie Tubes. The most practical way of placing those beauties in your living room is to use them to build a clock. Because the WAF (women's acceptance factor) of those handmade and shiny time displays is pretty high (when compared to 80" plasma TV sets or laser guided cold beverage-serving robots), you have a good chance of passing the acceptance test at home with such a gadget.

A German company normally focusing on network time servers or GPS time and frequency equipment now built the first standalone nixie clock which is getting its time from an NTP server. That could be a local PC or server, a public NTP server (like the ones from NIST/USNO) or one of the NTP servers of the NTP Pool Server Project.

So, mum, if you still do not know what xmas present you should buy me, this would be a good guess."
Biotech

Submission + - Green Tea good for you due to Quantum Tunneling

Frumious Wombat writes: Green tea is supposed to be good for you, but the antioxidants are available in such low quantities why has been a mystery. Now a team of researchers at Autonomous University of Barcelona have used high-level computational studies to demonstrate the antioxidants make complexes which enhance quantum-mechanical tunneling, thereby speeding the reaction enough to compete with damaging peroxide-radical reactions.

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