So why not just publish it, making it prior art? Or maybe what you want are Trade Secrets?

I agree. MS has become increasingly security savvy to protect their main business - the OS and the Office applications that go on it. The Vista/Win7 permissions model, MS Anti-malware updates, MS Security Essentials, Driver signing, bug bounties, are all examples of MS efforts to up the security. These comments are along expected lines from MS in this age. (And no, I use more Linux than Windows, but credit to be given where credit is due).

Photons? For a RADIO telescope?? Yes, quite a while since your astro classes.

The SNR you quote, which improves as square root of the collected radiation (radio waves), is voltage SNR. In terms of power, you still get a 9dB SNR improvement for 3 times the collected radio waves, and in these electronics, it is electric power which is the ultimately used. However, the improvement factor should again be raised to power 1/3 to get distance, since the amount of signal power collected by an aperture, after spherical dispersion from a star, drops as the third power of the star's distance. So.. (25/9)^(1/3) = 1.4 times.

Win+R -> conf.exe

What makes you think it wasn't? :P

Everybody else is busy writing up the story to submit.

Suggestion: stow it on board the nearest fighter jet.

It is supposed to happen only if location based services is toggled on and an app that requires location data is running. http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2011/04/applemarkeybarton7-12-10.pdf , Page 7.

Here is a post from his site dated Sep 23rd 2010 - Rogues, rapscallions and rascals Thursday September 23, 2010 Carfolio.com has been collecting and collating automotive technical data for many years, before actually having a website or even an internet-connected computer. Realising that there would be interest in this database, I decided to put my data up online in a very useful and functional way. It has always and will always be free for anyone to utilise. Some people, however, have decided to crawl the site and put all the data into their own database and resell and republish the information without attribution, credit or acknowledgement. Some go as far as to add 10mm to the basic dimensions so as to try and disguise their actions... I find that extremely bizarre, as part of the whole idea behind Carfolio.com is to get as many errors found and corrected as possible, and to that end I have always encouraged feedback and dialogue about the specifications. Factual errors are always corrected if sufficient sources are supplied. So as to ensure the best possible quality of data for Carfolio.com users, here is a list of the sites currently known to be using the data without attribution. I will not give them a link, of course, as that will unduly increase their search engine ranking. autofiles dot org carspector dot com data4car dot com carocean dot co dot uk (and de, es, pl, it, fr) scorpiocars dot net ukmotorist dot co dot uk getcarspecs dot com Please be wary of the data from these sites as they are definitely not updated and almost certainly have introduced additional errors when crawling or attempting to obfuscate the source of the data.

FF4 crashes about 10 times everyday for me too. Just found it may be related to the Testpilot extension that comes installed by default (look up the linked bug reports in your about:crashes page).

Real geeks 'listen' to their recorded audio through watching the spectrum analyzer.

So low level break-ins are automatic now?