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 | Send me a PM with your choices, more than one in case the first one or two are already taken, and I will change it for you.  |
 | Re: a special topic What is a special topic? This thread? There's absolutely [B]NO[/B] useful information in it. |
 | Re: JUSTIN bieber I wouldn't even give him one, having had the misfortune to have heard some of his output escaping from the bedroom of my 10 year old daughter (pretty much the exact target market I imagine). But, that said, there is no denying he is popular. I posted a news story … |
 | It was the request asking "where can we download all xbox system files" that broke the rules here as those [B]are[/B] Microsoft copyright. |
| | Re: Guns [QUOTE=Ancient Dragon;1270502] And it has been demonstrated over and over again, time after time, that crime INCREASES when guns are restricted or banned.[/QUOTE] Not in the UK it hasn't. Over here, where guns have always (in recent history at least) been restricted, we are finding that as guns become easier … |
| | [attach=right]14422[/attach]File under oops. The website of The Telegraph newspaper has been defaced by hackers, apparently upset at a cult British television show and the newspaper itself for mocking their country. The 'Romania National Security' hacking group has claimed responsibility for the attack which hit a couple of third party services … |
| | Netbooks remain hugely popular courtesy of their small form factor and low price, both achieved partly due to the relatively limited technical specs of the average device. Low computing power and Internet security suite software do not, it has to be said, traditionally make for good bed-fellows. Which leaves netbook … |
| | First there was the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story285531.html"]Google Pac-Man game[/URL] to waste a bit of online time, now Google has dropped an Easter Egg game into YouTube in the shape of the classic Snake. Yes, you can now play Snake on YouTube right in the middle of watching a video, right there in … |
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| | The 48,727 [URL="http://twitter.com/nasa_astronauts"]followers of the NASA Astronaut account on Twitter[/URL] expect to hear about updates on astronaut activity and get some personal insight from the astronauts themselves. They probably were not expecting to be bombarded by spacemen offering to sell them plasma and LCD flat-screen TVs at bargain prices however. … |
 | Mine would be Cartman with a soul patch and tattoos... |
| | While Apple continues to bask in financial glory thanks in no small part to the iPhone, although the iPad hasn't exactly done it much harm, the same smartphone success does not appear to have rubbed off on the Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia. As Apple gloated about having the most … |
| | Geeks and fast cars have gone together ever since the first young coder made a million developing computer games. However, it takes a true nerd to build a car capable of breaking the land speed record and hitting 1050 miles per hour. A team of true nerds, and a whole … |
| | You cannot delete them, or indeed edit them. We only delete messages that break the rules here on DaniWeb. |
| | OK folks, time to calm down before the ugly tattooed admin with the big stick (erm, that would be me) comes along and bashes this thread into submission by closing it. The Founder: you broke the rules, you were warned for breaking the rules by our Super Moderator Sanjay, the …  |
 | R.I.P Dave, we will miss your contributions to DaniWeb and we will even miss your criticism. You were one of a kind... :-( |
 | [QUOTE=Lusiphur;1281208]*shrug* I'm not even sure why I brought it up in the first place[/QUOTE] Glad you did though, as it's been an interesting discussion as far as I'm concerned (he says emerging from the lurker shadows)  |
| | The good news is that security savvy Windows users will, more than likely, have already disabled the AutoRun and AutoPlay features. The bad news is that a new zero-day vulnerability could care less, and executes automatically anyway. [attach]15918[/attach]The zero-day vulnerability in question was first spotted by Sergey Ulase, a researcher … |
| | Indeed. If it were that easy we'd all be doing it and enjoying our billion dollar payday. |
| | Yeah, but is it fair that Richard Gaywood gets his gamertag suspended because his name is 'offensive' to the small minded? Is it fair that Microsoft support tells a woman that people find it 'offensive' that she is a lesbian? Those, I think, are the issues here. Microsoft seems to … |
| | The co-CEOs of BlackBerry developers Research In Motion, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, have accused Steve Jobs of unacceptable behaviour and Apple of avoiding responsibility for its design mistakes. "RIM's customers don't need to use a case for their BlackBerry smartphone to maintain proper connectivity" they say. Meanwhile Nokia insists …  |
| | Is the reason it is unsupported, perhaps, down to it being a 'clone' as you call it? Which suggests to me a fake/knock-off Nokia N95. If this is the case then you won't find any help here at DaniWeb as that comes under the same sort of category as asking … |
| | The long summer holidays are over here in the UK, and our kids have pretty much all gone back to school this week. Which is good news for providers of anonymous proxies and bad news for the school network admins trying to prevent students from accessing inappropriate sites. One UK … |
| | Most people seem to think that Microsoft is the most insecure vendor while Apple reigns supreme at the top of the good security league. However, a new security report would appear to turn that assumption on its head, claiming that when it comes to the vendor with the most vulnerabilities … |
| | Viral videos are usually a great laugh, which is why they spread so quickly and the reason they get called viral in the first place. But the laughter soon stops when the bad guys use the lure of a viral video to launch a clickjacking attack. [attach]15852[/attach]Security researchers at Sophos … |
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| | Hackers have targeted Justin Bieber videos on YouTube, exploiting a cross-site scripting vulnerability which enabled them to bombard viewers with pop-up messages and redirect them to porn sites. The hack attack lasted for the best part of two hours before Google was able to isolate the problem and apply a … |
 | This [B]IS[/B] the new look :) |
| | For the longest time there has been an implied, some might even say explicit, connection between computer infection and online pornography. According to one developer of AntiVirus software that connection has now been well and truly broken. Ondrej Vlcek, the CTO at [URL="http://www.avast.com"]AVAST Software[/URL], has announced the results of research … |
| | Hi Dave, thanks for the kind words and welcome to DaniWeb.  |
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| | Stand up if you like paying your income tax. To all of you who have remained seated, which I will assume is indeed all of you, I have some more bad news: the bogus tax collectors want your money as well, and now they have botnets helping them. [attach]15770[/attach]According to … |
| | Opting to have a family 'Man vs Food' challenge for dinner last night. The burrito was just too big but I still ate it, and finished first. Hey, they might be kids but it was still a competition :) Trouble is, bloating, gut-ache and an afternoon full of meetings really … |
 | [QUOTE=Simon Tite;1252672]"Linuxquestions" sends out a periodic (optional!) e-mail containing, among other things, links to "unanswered questions". Sometimes this is a motivation for sporadic users, like myself, to log in and answer a question which seems to be in my sphere of knowledge. [/QUOTE] Interesting. That's something we could maybe add …  |
| | New [URL="http://www.getsafeonline.org"]research carried out on behalf of Get Safe Online[/URL], a national Internet security awareness initiative backed by the UK Government and the Serious Organised Crime Agency, has revealed that 30 percent of Internet users are putting themselves at risk when they book a holiday online. [attach]15742[/attach]Get Safe Online and … |
| | There was a database problem yesterday which should be resolved now, as I understand it. |
| | Have you ever wanted to write your own code to create software for the Mac, iPhone or even the iPad but have never actually programmed on a Mac platform? Great, then this new book by Tim Isted is for you. Tim has been coding for the Mac for 15 years, …  |
 | Page is displaying OK here in Chrome following that link (only browser I have access to at this precise moment)  |
 | I thought the photo caption error was Amiga Format magazine? I remember the issue quite clearly, as I was writing for a couple of Amiga magazines at the time including another in the Future Publishing stable. |
| | A big thanks to everyone who braved the torrential rain to make it to the Dinner with Dani event in New York on Wednesday. It was really great seeing everyone there, and the technical discussions at the various tables seemed to go well. I couldn't make it to the end …  |
| | I am told, by those who follow the sport, that the Netherlands soccer team stands a pretty good chance of lifting the FIFA 2010 World Cup trophy. The bad news for any Netherlands fans is that their side has already been defeated by India, in the World Cup of security … |
| | Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has asked the British public to help decide which laws should be repealed by way of what can only be described as an exercise in crowdsourcing via the government sponsored '[URL="http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/repealing-unnecessary-laws"]Your Freedom[/URL]' website. However, it seems the great British public are … |
 | Re: Featured Poster I'm seeing a 'Featured Poster' badge when I hover over your avatar here, are you not seeing it? |
| | Unless you are a techno-luddite of the first order, the chances are that you would agree the Internet has become an integral part of daily life for those blessed with decent access to the thing. But would you agree that broadband access of no less than 1Mbps is your legal … |
| | Thanks to the US dollar getting stronger against the Euro as the European debt crisis takes hold, and shows no signs of weakening for the remainder of the year, so the outlook for IT spending growth looks dim. So dim, in fact, that Gartner analysts have cut back the worldwide … |
| | EG - no need to apologise for trying to help. I've had a look at your posting in the virus/spyware forum and can't see anything wrong with it being there to be honest - and I've reversed the warning you were given as a result. Don't be too hard on … |
| | Someone posing as Apple head honcho Steve Jobs on Twitter has managed to fool a major UK newspaper into reporting that the [URL="http://www.apple.com/iphone/"]iPhone 4[/URL] would be recalled after posting a Tweet which said "We may have to recall the new iPhone. This, I did not expect". The Daily Mail website … |
| | According to [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2010/06/100615_face_book_update.shtml"]the BBC[/URL], although you'll need to understand Urdu to read it (here is [URL="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2010/06/100615_face_book_update.shtml&sl=ur&tl=en"]a rough translation using Google[/URL] for your convenience if you don't), Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stands accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a Pakistani court filing under something known as 'Messenger Law' … |
| | The Browsershots web-based service is pretty awesome at doing this for a quick idea of compatibility across multiple OSes and browser clients - you give it the site URL, it gives you a ton of screenshots showing you how it looks. I'm not involved in the site development side of … |
| | The [URL="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/ad-industry-bans-targeting-people-with-cancer-ads-to-dead-people-allowed/"]New York Times[/URL] is running a really funny story, but with serious implications, at the moment. It concerns how the online advertising targets particular groups of people using site tracking technology. Apparently, if you have AIDS, cancer or suffer from an erectile dysfunction then your movements will not be … |
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