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Comment Re:It does say something about Google (Score 1) 335

by horati0 on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @03:56AM (#32961140) Attached to: Google Chrome Now Has Resource-Blocking Adblock

Google is a corporation like any other, but at least they have a little respect for not pissing it's costumers off.

The clown-suit lobby has much more influence on Google than we previously thought.

Comment Re:Yeouch. (Score 2, Informative) 255

by horati0 on Thursday February 19, 2009 @11:26PM (#26925067) Attached to: Human Eye Could Detect Spooky Action At a Distance

Thanks a lot, Ruiny McRuiner!

Software Deletes Files to Defend Against Piracy 544

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday February 24, 2007 @11:17AM from the users-delete-software-to-defend-against-idiocy dept.

teamhasnoi writes "Back in 2004, we discussed a program that deleted your home directory on entry of a pirated serial number. Now, a new developer is using the same method to protect his software, aptly named Display Eater. In the developers's own words, 'There exist several illegal cd-keys that you can use to unlock the demo program. If Display Eater detects that you are using these, it will erase something. I don't know if this is going to become Display Eater policy. If this level of piracy continues, development will stop.'"

A Bad Month for Firefox 195

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday February 24, 2007 @10:06AM from the and-its-bugs dept.

marty writes "Februrary is not a good month for Mozilla developers. Infoworld reports about the efforts of Polish researcher Michael Zalewski, who apparently kept finding new vulnerabilities in the popular browser on a daily basis through the month, first postponing the 2.0.0.2 update, and then finding a remotely exploitable flaw in it immediately after its release."

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