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Comment: Really? (Score 1, Interesting) 284

by Nicros (#38453040) Attached to: New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7
For some reason I have a false sense of security now- if this is the kind of 'exploit' that gets reported and /.ed and that I need to worry about, life is good! I mean really- you have to have Win7 x64, with Safari AND then navigate to a site that serves up a bogus iframe height, AND uses the exploit to make bad on your machine. I can't imagine this affects too many people. Also, why is this a 'Windows Remote' exploit? Safari would seem to not handle the iframe exception, whereas IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera DO? If this were a true windows exploit I would expect it to occur regardless of the browser. And what other kind of exploit (as it's defined ITA) is there besides a remote one? A local exploit, where someone turns off my machine? I read 'remote' and think RDP... which is not the case here at all.

Comment: What would it take to move to Windows? (Score 1) 1880

by Nicros (#38024902) Attached to: What's Keeping You On Windows?
This is a weird question. Like we are all just hopelessly stuck on this crappy Windows system, and while we are secretly dying to move to another OS there are just some reasons we can't get past to do it. Huh? How about why aren't all the other OS users moving to Windows? What is it about the linux command line you love so much you just can't walk away? Or about MacOS that grips you so you cant move to Windows? Or the lack of gaming everywhere else, etc, etc. Just sayin' that's a more interesting question.

Father of C Dennis Ritchie Dies->

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Nicros
Nicros writes "Dennis Ritchie is the father of the C programming language, and with fellow Bell Labs researcher Ken Thompson, he used C to build UNIX, the operating system that so much of the world is built on — including the Apple empire overseen by Steve Jobs.

On Wednesday evening, with a post to Google+, Pike announced that Ritchie had died at his home in New Jersey over the weekend after a long illness, and though the response from hardcore techies was immense, the collective eulogy from the web at large doesn't quite do justice to Ritchie's sweeping influence on the modern world."

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Comment: Re:This is a Big Deal (Score 1) 541

by Nicros (#34850566) Attached to: Autism-Vax Doc Scandal Was Pharma Business Scam
I think it is absolutely criminal what these idiot parents did by not vaccinating their children. And to say that they were gullible is too nice- they were too fucking lazy to spend a few minutes searching on the internet to see if there was any factual basis to what Jenny and Oprah were spouting.

With access to the internet and the wealth of knowledge there, how friggin hard is it to look at as much information as you can and make the best informed decision that you can? And keep in mind these parents weren't in a 3rd world country they were in uppity places like Marin County.

To be really, really cynical though, isn't this kind of Darwinism? The stupid parents weren't able to make a good enough decision to keep their children alive, so that genetic line will end. And since I'm already going to hell for that statement, I might as well propose that those stupid parents would probably have raised more stupid people.
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Supercomputer sets protein-folding record->

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Nicros writes "A specially designed supercomputer named Anton has simulated changes in a protein's three-dimensional structure over a period of a millisecond — a time-scale more than a hundred-fold greater than the previous record. Proteins are strings of amino acids that fold into intricate structures, which largely determine a protein's function. Understanding how and why proteins take on specific shapes has long been a goal of structural biologists, but previous computer simulations were too short to fully model the process."
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How to find Wifi interference? 4

Submitted by Nicros
Nicros writes "So I am experiencing a somewhat bizarre thing. Almost every evening, between 8:30 and 10- my wifi seems to just die. This, in itself, could be explained by a crappy wifi source or some hardware failure, except that I know both of my neighbors are experiencing the SAME loss of signal at the same time! While the wifi is down, the lan is just fine, and any plugged into cat5 can access the internet just fine. It is only the wifi portion of our routers that we cant access.

So a couple things come to mind- is it possible that some other neighbor arrives at home and is the type that turns on their router from 8:30-10? And that there is something that is hosing our wifi? Or what other possible causes may there be?

I have tried looking around for software to help identify the source of interference, but either they are ridiculously expensive for a home user or my card (intel link 1000 BGN) isnt supported (like by netstumbler).

Anyone have any suggestions on how I can track this down?

Thanks!"

Comment: How is this different from 'Spirit Mode'? (Score 1) 303

by Nicros (#31690192) Attached to: Gaming in the 4th Dimension
I don't really get it. How is this any different than entering 'Spirit mode' or whatever from any number of games? Prey is a good example. And bringing some object with you? You can call it whatever you want, 4th dimension, Spirit World, Dreamtime etc. but it still seems like the same concept to me.
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NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee 507

Posted by samzenpus
from the how-am-I-going-to-align-my-chakras-now dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Homeopathic remedies work no better than placebos, and so should no longer be paid for by the UK National Health Service, a committee of British members of parliament has concluded. In preparing its report, the committee, which scrutinizes the evidence behind government policies, took evidence from scientists and homeopaths, and reviewed numerous reports and scientific investigations into homeopathy. It found no evidence that such treatments work beyond providing a placebo effect." Updated 201025 19:40 GMT by timothy: This recommendation has some people up in arms.

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