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Comment Re:Online Banking (Score 3, Insightful) 291

by polymerousgeek (#28330599) Attached to: MS Money Poll

I was in an internet cafe...to check my credit balance...it was using win 98/5...and some archaic version of IE...

Wait, let's go over that again:

  1. You're using a public internet cafe...
  2. ...with an ancient, near-infinitely insecure windows system...
  3. ...running an equally ancient and even less secure version of (shudders) IE...
  4. ...to check personal (and presumably confidential) banking information.

You're like that LifeLock guy, who put his SSN on the side of that truck, except without the LifeLock.

Comment Vim/DevC++ (Score 1) 1055

by polymerousgeek (#28105821) Attached to: What Free IDE Do You Use?
On the rare occasion I'm forced to write something for windows, I prefer DevC++. Even though I haven't seen or heard anything new about it in years, it was the first IDE I ever used, and my first experience with C/C++, so I'm still very fond of the interface. For all my real work (on Linux), I stick with vim.
The Courts

Swedish ISP Deletes Customer ID Info 177

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the putting-tread-on-the-slippery-slope dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A Swedish internet service provider, Bahnhof, has begun deleting customer identification information in order to prevent it from being used as evidence against its customers under Sweden's new legislation against copyright infringement via peer-to-peer file sharing. According to this report on 'The Local,' it is entirely legal for it to do so. The company's CEO, Jon Karlung, is identified as 'a vociferous opponent of the measures that came into force on April 1st,' and is quoted saying that he is determined to protect the company's clients, and that 'It's about the freedom to choose, and the law makes it possible to retain details. We're not acting in breach of IPRED; we're following the law and choosing to destroy the details.'"
Biotech

Device Keeps Lungs Breathing Outside the Body 74

Posted by timothy from the trade-creepy-feeling-for-staying-alive dept.
Al writes "A new system that keeps lungs breathing outside the body could improve the chances of a successful transplant. The Toronto XVIVO Lung Perfusion System, developed at Toronto General Hospital, can keep a pair of human lungs slowly breathing inside a glass dome attached to a ventilator, pump, and filters. The lungs are maintained at normal body temperature of 37 C and perfused with a bloodless solution that contains nutrients, proteins, and oxygen. The organs can be kept alive in the machine for up to 12 hours while surgeons assess function and repair them. See a video of the system keeping a pair of lungs alive."
Microsoft

Microsoft Family Safety Filter Blocks Google 332

Posted by timothy from the can-neither-confirm-nor-deny dept.
mike.rimov writes "I saw that part of the brand new Windows Live package is the Family Safety Filter, so I decided to give it a spin. Turned it on, set it to 'basic filtering' (their lowest level), and went to Google ... oops, it blocks Google! So I logged into the settings and added Google as an exception. Google still wouldn't come up. Just in case, I turned off the family filter: voila, Google. As we all know, 'Don't be evil' is not part of Microsoft's motto! Oh yeah — and with the filter on, Microsoft's own search engine, live.com comes up." Anomaly?

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