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Comment: Re:Why do certs cost $$$? (Score 2) 665

by Amnenth (#35558884) Attached to: Why Doesn't Every Website Use HTTPS?
Browsers exploding in fury when self-signed certs show up is a design decision to protect stupid users from themselves. Otherwise, Joe Sixpack is going to start blindly 'trusting' every self-signed cert he sees just to get the dialog box/popup whatever out of the way, just like he already blindly clicks 'ok' when faced with those fake antivirus popups.
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Microsoft, Apple, EMC, and Oracle Form Patent Bloc 113

Posted by Soulskill
from the axis-of-prior-art dept.
An anonymous reader writes "When Novell finally sold itself, part of the deal included the sale of 882 patents to a consortium backed by Microsoft. Thanks to a tip from Florian Mueller, it turns out that Microsoft's partners are Apple, Oracle, and EMC, which raises questions about where these companies are heading and what it means for the rest of the industry."

Comment: Loss of noise AND loss of signal. (Score 1) 833

by Amnenth (#32815510) Attached to: Blizzard To Require Real First and Last Names For Official Forums
Several posts on the WoW general forums and MMO-Champion's article on the subject raise a valid and somewhat chilling point: while forum trolls are likely to be driven away, removing some of the noise from actual discussions, actual contributing posters are going to be shying away from the new forum system as well. People who would otherwise be helpful, share knowledge about class and game mechanics or even info about interface-modding are going to disappear entirely from the forums because they do not want to be compelled to show their real name to all.

I'm not sure if the loss of signal will be worth the loss of noise here.

Comment: Re:So (Score 2, Informative) 334

by Amnenth (#31212778) Attached to: Ars Analysis Calls Windows 7 Memory Usage Claims "Scaremongering"

People aren't taking the time to learn the meaning of the 'available' memory stat in the Task Manager.

Based on my experience, it's usually very close to the total you get when adding 'free' memory and 'cached' memory together.

'Available' in this case means that, as parent suggests, Windows will free it for use as soon as it's needed.

Comment: Re:Northeast Blackout of 2003 (Score 1) 462

by Amnenth (#30034632) Attached to: Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers

Remember the Northeast Blackout of 2003 ?

...That we lost the Northeastern grid in 2003 through malicious intervention, or that it simply failed and "dominoed" all by itself after some nasty spikes in Canada?

Hey, don't blame us. The article you referenced (link fixed) pegs the domino effect as starting from within Ohio.

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