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Member since November 30, 2004

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    Nathar Leichoz

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  1. Comment - Fast Flip: A peek into the future of Google News

    (Sep 16, 2009 - 7:25 AM)

    Many things cannot do with FastFlip that can do with Google News:
    - select text (to search or copy)
    - enlarge text and have it reflow to fit the browser screen
    - click on ads or in page links
    - interact with in page carousels

  2. Comment - China Mobile launches 'OPhone' to counter China Unicom's iPhone

    (Sep 1, 2009 - 7:26 AM)

    The OPhone will be to the iPhone, what Bollywood is to Hollywood.

  3. Comment - Adobe CS4 will be 64-bit, but only on Windows

    (Apr 4, 2008 - 12:17 AM)

    Probably because they wouldn't allow Flash on the iPhone.

  4. Comment - Symantec Axes Sygate Personal Firewall

    (Nov 29, 2005 - 3:18 PM)

    I wonder what will happen to Sygate's employees? Are they laid off? Merged into Sygate's other products? Merged with Symantec? They made one hell of a good product and it would be sad to see them gone.

  5. Comment - EFF: Your Printer is Watching You

    (Oct 20, 2005 - 5:59 PM)

    1. Using invisible dots to distinguish counterfeit from genuine money is stupid. It only allows people who know about the system to be able to use it, which means 99% of the general public would still be unable to distinguish counterfeit from genuine.

    2. Distinguishing counterfeit from genuine doesn't require personal identifiable information. The existence of a pattern of dots is more than enough. I don't need to know that Fat Tony printed this money to know that it is fake. And why allow the crime in the first place and then decide to track them later, when you can stop the crime from even beginning (see 3).

    3. There are easier ways to ensure that money can't be printed with home printers such as by using ultra-violet watermarks and embedded metal-stripes in the paper, which printers cannot do; which I believe are already a standard.

    It's easy to see that the technology wasn't designed to stop counterfeit money because (1) there are better technologies to do this; (2) this technology goes above and beyond what is necessary, which implies that it is used for something else.