Since you didn't reply the comment you are trolling, I have to assume you are referring to the joke about "no more Nigerian scams!"

Actually, I believe they are Nigerian scams because they originate from Nigeria. Also, Nigerian people are referred to as Nigerians because they are from Nigeria. I don't really see how race plays any part in those two facts.

Sounds like these newfangled "GPUs" are gonna change the world.

While the percentage of left handed people in the world is estimated at 10%, the percentage of left handed people that don't use a mouse with their right hand is much much lower.

I'm left handed, and at this point, I'm much less proficient at using a mouse with my left hand than my right. And I've personally only ever met one other leftie (out of many) who actually used a mouse on the left hand side of their keyboard.

I honestly just don't see it as being a financially sound decision to invest in ambidexterity for this particular application.

Oh definitely. Society is so overrated.

The handicap should fend for themselves!

I defend myself from crime on my own regularly. Just last week a huge fire started in my house... but it was no problem because I was able to put it out with my mass water carrying vehicle that I invented and built from scratch. Then I went to my backyard and slaughtered a cow and picked some vegetables for dinner. That I then prepared on an electric oven that is powered by a hydroelectric plant I invented and built over a river on my property.

Hopefully, that seemed ridiculous to you, because it is. But that is precisely what you are saying a handicap person should do for any need not covered by the needs of the majority. Just because a handicapped person has different or even additional needs to the average member of the society doesn't mean that every other member of the society shouldn't exert additional effort to try to provide them the best possible quality of life. That's what society is all about. And don't be surprised to find out that one of the people you had so quickly written off because their abilities were different than yours changes the world.

Well, if you are installing an Angry Birds clone, and it tells you it needs access to your dialer to make phone calls and your messaging to send text messages then maybe... just maybe... you shouldn't install it.

The Android notification of what parts of your phone the app will use are perfect. It allows an app to request whatever it needs on a very low level, and for you to know that it is requesting it. There is DEFINITELY a gray area when you are installing something that will actually use a sensitive part of your phone such as the dialer / GPS / messaging... but at some point, you have to do your research and make sure you trust the developer and that the software is actually from the developer on the app store, not somebody who modified their app and re-uploaded it.

You say it doesn't tell you why it needs it... but you should know why from the type of application it is. And if the why of the application type doesn't match the data and access requested, don't install it. I'm sure Android could add a 'why' area for each permission for the dev to put in a reason, which actually might be nice, but it won't be any more secure, as the people who are releasing malicious apps are the same social engineers who have perfected duplicating emails from your bank almost perfectly.

The only more secure way they could do it would be, "We see you've selected Angry Birds, please review the entirety of the source code presented below and all of it's resources to ensure that it won't do anything malicious to your phone."

I think the part that gave the most merit to the original claim is that Samsung "admitted" to it. However, in retrospect, it's easy to see what may have happened... here is the quote about Samsung admitting to the problem:

"The supervisor who spoke with me was not sure how this software ended up in the new laptop thus put me on hold. He confirmed that yes, Samsung did knowingly put this software on the laptop to, as he put it, "monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used.""

What seems to have happened is the person called technical suppport at Samsung... people trained to help you with your computer not booting, overheating, optical drive malfunctions, dead pixels on the LCD, etc, etc, etc and asked something that they would have of course known nothing about. I'm going to go out on a limb and make some assumptions... I may be completely wrong, but I've seen this played out in the phone support industry when I worked there more times than I can count. I'm sure, like every other phone based support line, they are trained that when they don't know the answer to something, to make a ticket and someone more knowledgeable will call them back. I assume that because the person was escalated to a supervisor, he did not find that option satisfactory and wanted an answer to his odd request RIGHT THAT MOMENT. Enter the supervisor. At this point, the supervisor will say whatever it takes to appease the upset customer... I'm sure something in the Samsung support database about their performance monitoring software lined up in the tiniest way with the customers finding, so the supervisor gave him that info, and there we go... an "admission" by Samsung.

If you hate corporations, I'm sure that's enough for you... and someone paid by Samsung saying something about a Samsung product is the be all end all of any situation... but realistically... if they want to provide you with affordable devices with reasonable support, they can't afford to put a "lawyer technician IT superman" on the receiving end of every call...

tl;dr if you try and whine hard enough, you can get a phone support tech to say anything you want

Well... since nobody has any clue as to how it is encrypted... perhaps there is something specific as to how it was written regarding how to decrypt. They don't know that there is, and they don't know that there isn't, so they've effectively provided you everything they have to work with. It's up to you if you think it should be worked in a different format.

Well, you can... but first you have to go to the forum that will show you how to IRC which will lead to an IM where a deal will be made to get you some illegal stuff using Russian PayPal. Then you can take your illegal stuff back to the forum and someone will help you turn that into fruit and Rolex watches!

I'm glad I found this article, I didn't know it was so easy.

When did 'reverse engineer' become something you are and not something you do?

Not because I care enough to use it to try to protect the 'sheep'. But I know that somebody will.

I can't wait to be at Starbucks when a socially awkward 17 year old stands up triumphantly to save the day by alerting everyone that there is a 'Firesheeper' in the building hijacking their cookies!

When YouTube videos won't play on mobile devices such as iPhone, Android, etc... I've found it's almost always caused by the content producer disabling "embedding" of the video.

1. Allocate computer time to cancer. 2. ??? 3. Cure cancer!

Although it didn't seem like anything great from the summary, I went ahead and went to the article and watched the videos.

I found it very creepy. The way it handled the towels and turned them while 'looking' for the next step. It was reminiscent of what I felt was a child learning to fold towels (although, I'm fairly certain the robot wasn't doing any learning). For whatever reason, and despite it's appearance, this robot seems more human than any other robot I've seen previously.

I'm no fan of Flash, but there is no denying it's market penetration.

Sure current flash sites might not work perfect, but if you are developing for the iPhone, Android, Maemo, etc, I'm sure you could take into account the unique interface and make it work properly.

Saying it's not possible never moved anyone further. Computer science, especially gaming, is an industry built on finding ways to make things work on resources and interfaces they shouldn't work on.