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Comment That's $1483 per household/business (Score 1) 162

by xeos on Thursday August 15, 2013 @03:20PM (#44576527) Attached to: Datacenter Gives Internet To 70 Percent of Navajo Nation

Seems like a lot to me. I tend to think that (1) it could have been done a lot cheaper (wireless?) and (2) if in fact it had to cost that much, then the money probably could have been spent better.

Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @07:07PM from the snack-is-going-to-be-on-the-floor-today dept.

Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."

Comment Win2k does get updates (Score 1) 596

by xeos on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @11:33AM (#27938501) Attached to: How often do you reboot your primary computer?

Not a lot, but it does get them.

Comment I wouldn't pay $10 (Score 1) 405

by xeos on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @11:48AM (#27846629) Attached to: Let Big Brother Hawk Anti-Virus Software

I've been on the internet since the mid 90s, and never ever detected a virus on my machine, other than in un-opened email. Email used to be a big source of viruses, but these days ISPs use scanners just as up to date as anything I could buy. A little common sense is all it takes to be virus free. This libertarian would not support your plan - I see little advantage to having everybody install anti-virus software.

Submission + - Moonfall: Lua + CSS (moonfalll.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: CSS Purist might hate this: Simple to use CSS with variables, combining LUA and CSS. A simple LUA domain specific language that generates CSS dynamically as a cgi script or statically for maximum performance.

Submission + - Unencrypted passwords at "secure" sites 1

Submitted by linear a on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:14PM

linear a writes: I've noticed that quite a few web sites do *not* encrypt user passwords. I've gotten into the habit of hitting the "email me my password" from them to see what happens. So far I've found maybe 6 that must store passwords in clear since they were able to return the original password back to me. Clearly this is Bad Security Practice. Also, I've had notably bad progress when I ask them to fix this practice. Some of these are sites one would clearly expect to have better security (e.g., a software vendor and an online bank). Do you have thoughts on how to better encourage better password practice at these places? Also, is this is really as common as it seems to be for me?

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