Nobody expected to find a new continent by going around the planet to India.

It's not a question of what we're looking for - it's a question of what we might find, and that, IMO, is what makes SETI worth keeping.

The Zune MHD will have a QSXGA, 60fps cam, not impressed. ...

Shit, did I just let that slip?

I'm a proud owner of a Rockboxed Sansa e250. However, if I kept the music I listen to regularly in FLAC, both the internal storage (2GB) and external microSD fall short. No, hotswapping isn't a good idea, especially if you're treating yourself to music going long distance. That's why I decided to settle for Ogg Vorbis - quality good enough that I don't hear a difference between the source and the compressed file (as proven by several long blind hearing tests), and file sizes that make my collection that much more managable.

And they are. If you try a proxy to the USA some time and check the price in dollars, you'd notice that most of the time it's approximately the same, adjusted for currency differences. Sometimes, however, the prices in Europe are inflated somewhat. Here, let me make some screenshots for you (one from a proxied webbrowser, the other from steam's built-in browser):

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2829/dollarsr.jpg
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/7897/euroqi.jpg

I did a quick count on all the ones that have EUR==USD prices: 4. Four games from four wholly different publishers, that just couldn't be arsed.

Prices are dictated by publishers, with some games they differ, yadda yadda yadda.

IANAGeneticist/Biologist, but... wouldn't evolution favor mosquitoes with longer lifespans? After a couple of generations, the weakened gene will get excised and the bugs will go back to the way they were.

Pinging is all fine and good, but try to transfer a, lets say, 1920x1080, 24bit color frame over WiFi, first with then without compression, then measure how long did that take. Now do 60 frames consecutively. If you can fit it in 1ms, without encryption and even with some form of compression, I'll be very, very impressed, then ask how long since you came from the future.

Oh, right. Forgot about that one, sorry.

*holds up geek card* So where do I turn in this thing?

This is, of course, if the vulnerabilities found can be accurately reproduced at an acceptable success rate. The original message on the mailing list mentions multiple times that software vendors found the bugs to be very hard to reproduce. It may be that the conditions needed for the bug to present itself are scarce enough that no malware programmer will opt to take that path, but, of course, now I've entered a realm of maybes and whatifs, so anything goes.

Chrome wasn't tested by the researcher, so no mention is made as to whether it is affected or not. Safari figures under "All WebKit browsers" in the message and some bugs were found.

And what if we put the VM... into ANOTHER VM? :O

It comes preinstalled with the OS, it doesn't need any configuring (or, if needed, it syncs automatically with settings on a domain controller) and, for tasks actually needed in an office setting, it works.

No, it isn't "good" by any stretch of the word, but switching to a different browser is definitely not high up on the list of needed IT changes.

If I understand correctly, these are worse, since they affect browsers automatically while loading a badly corrupt (fuzzed) page - no user activity is needed other than being pointed to the site. So, post a malicious address to an URL shortening service, spread to twitter/facebook/whathaveyou and you could do some - maybe not very serious, nothing a program restart wouldn't fix, but still - damage.