I attribute it mainly to the fact that Windows 7 by defaultt at least includes a basic AV software (Windows Defender) whereas Windows XP has none.

And don't mention UAC, please - most people either ignore it and answer YES to all its alerts or disable it altogether right after the installation.

And no, "pirated" versions of Windows XP (most of them are just a VLK version with a valid serial key included) have nothing to do with Windows XP security or lack of it.

A very good article about ... nothing.

Ah, sorry, Symantec is good for you! how could I have missed that?

Using public WiFi spots is a much more dangerous issue, since a lot of websites still don't employ SSL encryption of the traffic and your POP3/IMAP/HTTP credentials can be easily eavesdropped.

Like it's mentioned earlier not storing passwords in an open or reverse encryptable form is not possible, since your Android device has to supply plain text password to many Internet servers.

It seems like you need to code something using MSHTML (or hire someone who can do that for you). Almost all modern standards compliant HTML/JS engines have quite indecent memory requirements - and from your words I can conclude your clients PCs may have very weak configurations.

Why was this comment rated funny? Or funny has become another name for "insightful"?

KDE4 memory requirements are ridiculous, by default it even runs a fully fledged DB instance (MySQL to be precise).

Gnome3 developers have decided that everyone has stable bug free OpenGL compliant GPU drivers, not to mention that Gnome3 totally breaks the whole DE paradigm, for instance requiring four mouse clicks for things you could do with two in the past, and depriving the user of any means of customizing your desktop and using it as a files storage. I don't even want to recall the fact that you no longer can minimize/maximize applications windows.

I don't like the summary - from the article: A Chinese high-speed train derailed Saturday when it was hit by another express, state media said, throwing two carriages off a viaduct and killing at least 16 people.

Still I don't understand all the details of the situation.

Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker, and I don't understand what the poll question mean.

Can anyone clarify it for those of us who didn't get it?

Debris From Satellites' Collision Said to Pose Small Risk to Space Station

It seems like the risk isn't that small after all.

Phoronix guys weren't able to improve power usage by more than 15% even on this laptop, so it's not a big issue anyway.

15% from 6hours make it roughly one hour so I cannot say this issue is really minor. I'd even dare to say that every such detail does count since most hardware vendors tailor their products exclusively for Windows and the fact that Linux even works is a wonder.

And please don't judge Phoronix harshly. It's one of a very few websites which actually drive Linux development. Yes, Michael likes sensational style, but then again he wants to eat, buy hardware to test Linux on, pay for other people's work.

My stance is it's always better to be safe than sorry, so even thought there's no conclusive evidence that cell phones are harmful, it's not that difficult to reduce their usage or use them hands-free.

Besides, I like this citation very much:

"The CTIA keeps saying what they've said since 1993, which is that studies conclusively show that there's nothing to worry about. Well, let me tell you something: They do not conclusively show that. The few independent studies that are out there indicate that there's a problem. Most of the other studies have been sponsored by industry."

Meanwhile there are ever bigger problems than this one, like e.g. food quality degradation and abundance of food additives which alter our bodies in unpredictable ways.

I'm not a biologist (and I almost failed biology classes in my school years) but if I'm not mistaken the evolution didn't mix toad genes with crops genes - and that's what scientists sometimes do.

Humans' digestive system is perfectly capable of digesting the things we used to eat in the past, but I somehow doubt that genetically modified crops are absolutely safe for us - alas, an average Joe will never find out if fruits or vegetables on his table are genetically altered.

Just unpatched Apache HTTP server and absence of firewall could hardly be a reason/means for a successful intrusion/exploitation. I know a lot of popular web servers which have not so fresh apache server and they don't run any sort of firewall, yet user' data is safe and no intrusions have occured.

It's more likely their platform contained SQL injection vulnerabilities or other vulnerable/outdated software 'cause apache web server has a good record of being immune to attacks.

One should always remember that a properly configured web server should never expose any unnecessary services to the WAN in case your firewall rules are not correct or they are not properly enforced. E.g., if you run a usual web server, theoretically and in the best case scenario you should have the only listening port: 80 (or/and 443 for SSL connections) and maybe port 22 for incoming SSH connections (but I personally always reconfigure SSH daemon to listen on any other port other than 22).