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Comment Re:Tear down (Score 1) 406

The simplest solution to the problem would be the following:

Insert a drive by download into a popular webpage that will cause IE to download, install and set to default Firefox. Extra points for disabling IE.

I am sure that someone here is able to do that ;)

Disclaimer: The above is merely me thinking out loud. I accept no responsibility for anyone doing anything like this.

Comment Re:First decade of this millennium (Score 1) 346

[sigh] [pointing-out-stupidity] 2000-2010 is 11 years [/pointing-out-stupidity]

Now that that is over, perhaps it is best to listen to the sage advice of Douglas Adams.

instead of saying that we have got the end of the millennium (or bi-millennium) wrong, we should say that our ancestors got the beginning of it wrong, and that we've only just sorted the mess out before starting a new mess of our own ["Unfinished Business of the Century" by Douglas Adams, first published in "The Independent on Sunday" November 1999]

Just substitute "millennium" with "decade" and it still rings true.

Also I would like to ask you this question: "so what if we end up with a 9 year decade way back in 1-9AD? What difference does it make to our lives now?"

Comment Re:My brain hurts, Steve! (Score 1) 865

Or even better have Apple simply drop this case.

Since Psystar isn't stealing Apple's customers, why bother with a lengthy suit?

the simple reason is this: support. Apple are able to provide adequate, functional support for the systems that they sell because they know what hardware configuration the system is running and that the various components have been tested to some degree.

For Apple to provide support to those running OSX on non-Apple hardware, it would require a significant amount of money to be spent. Essentially, it is much cheaper for them to go to court to have Psystar stopped from selling Hackintosh computers, then it would be for them to support the users who use said computers.

Comment Re:What you don't know (Score 2) 541

cancer virus

Virus - meaning of "agent that causes infectious disease"
Cancer is not infectious, ergo cancer is not a virus

This just in, tin foil hats cause the following:

* Stupid inane comments
* Uninformed decisions
* Leaping to conclusions
* Paranoia
* Annoia
* Repetitive posting in the hope that it won't be marked as a troll eventually
* Trolling
* A sub 50 IQ
* The inability to reason

You do realise that the source that you have cited is a website called "Fluscam" right? When making a reasoned and informed decision on anything you must, I repeat MUST, consult an unbiased source. Visiting "fluscam" for any information regarding influenza vaccines would be akin to asking a creationist how old the world is - you are not going to get an informed, intelligent answer.

Comment Re:I think it's a great idea. (Score 4, Interesting) 286

I've contacted ISP's about their customers attempting to "hack me" because they were infested with Code Red and Nimda and for some reason my Apache server on Linux looked incredibly tasty. They of course proceeded to ignore me and not even to contact their customers.

I had a similar experience at University. I was living on campus and had my Apache server running along nicely on my Linux box, and kept on getting these weird error logs. As soon as I saw it I had a feeling that it was Code Red, so I checked up on the net just to confirm. It was. So I then traced it back to its source - one of the University's own computers. I contacted the Uni's IT staff and informed them that they had a machine that was infected with Code Red. Do you know what response they gave me?

"It isn't our machine that is infected. Your machine is the infected one."

For anyone who didn't read the above properly, or can't be bothered going back over it again, I was running Apache on Linux and the Code Red worm infected Microsoft IIS Web Servers.

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