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Member since May 27, 2005

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    Chris Baker

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  1. Comment - Online Scams Exploit Katrina Disaster

    (Sep 2, 2005 - 11:09 AM)

    Crackers, not hackers.

    Hackers = People who hack forums to make them work better for their site
    Hackers = People who hack graphics card drivers to make them faster

    Crackers = People who break into something usually for personal gain at the expense of others.

    Idiots who keep quoting 'hackers' when referring to crackers = People who *seriously* need to sort their terminology out before opening their mouths.

    On your point though, yes *cr*ackers and scammers should have a little section of the internet all to themselves, and they can scam the crap out of each other.

  2. Comment - IE7 CSS and Fixes Detailed; No Acid2

    (Aug 2, 2005 - 4:59 PM)

    Critical bug found in firefox
    Fixed within 2 weeks

    Critical bug found in IE
    Fixed within 8 months.

    Granted, bug != feature, but it shows the FF team are awake while the IE team are still playing solitaire and discussing which company to bankrupt next.

    Firefox renders all the sites I've thrown at it, IE renders about half of them. Out of the choice between not-css2-ready, I'd still choose firefox any day.

  3. Comment - MS Files Suit Against Software Pirates

    (Jun 15, 2005 - 1:16 PM)

    I think MS are giving legit copies to everyone who was sold a pirate copy.

    It won't actually cost MS much, just the cost of burning a CD and printing a manual

  4. Comment - Google Mapping San Francisco in 3D

    (Jun 12, 2005 - 10:09 AM)

    So? They keep your data so what?
    Unless you're searching for how to make bombs or something, it's not something you need care about too much.
    Yeah I know all about privacy concerns and that, but if you're really bothered about privacy, pay for a proxy and disable cookies.
    What would be the worst they could do with the knowledge that you've searched for, say, "freeware adware remover" or "cheats for halo".. sure they could market spam trying to tell you adware (and get in a whole heap of s**t for it) but that's what spam filters are for.

  5. Comment - IE Head: Netscape 8 Breaks XML in IE

    (May 27, 2005 - 11:00 AM)

    > Firefox has security holes - more so because any hacker can grab the source code, but IE to date has had a whole ton more, and all of those more dangerous. <

    Something important to remember is that the Firefox team act quickly. There's a rumour that they knew about the 1.0.3 bugs for 10 days before releasing the news, it then took 3 or 4 days to fix. That's 14 days.

    It takes Microsoft 6 months to release the info and another 2 to fix. That means crackers out there have a whole 8 months playtime, and with 2 of those months they have specific information about the vulnerability.

    Just in case anyone is thinking of knocking open-source by the way, there are way more good guys looking through the code for bugs than there are bad guys. Bugs get fixed a lot quicker when there are thousands of people looking for them.