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I guess the severity of this problem depends on the browser you're using. In FireFox and IE, hovering your mouse over the link changes the status bar to the target URL... Glance down and you'll know it's a PDF, takes half a second.

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I don't have any fun/funny password tales to share, but I can share a story about true password protection.

The year was 1999. I was working at a computer-related company, I won't call it a "startup" or a "dotcom" but it was similar. There were three sysadmins, and the owner didn't trust any one admin with the ability to login as root by himself. So a compromise was reached.

Each of the three admins chose a password. The three passwords were combined into one monster, master, root password. In order to login as root, all three admins needed to be present, to type their portion of the password in the correct order. Once all three admins typed in, a root login was achieved and whatever duty was necessary would be performed.

So, what if one of the 3 admins got hit by a bus on the way to work? There was a contingency plan. Each of the three of us entrusted our password to one of the other two. In the event of an emergency, assuming two of the three admins were present, the full password could be reconstructed. For example,

Admin A's password was apple, and he told that to Admin B

Admin B's password was blueberry, and he told that to Admin C

Admin C's password was cherry, and he told that to Admin A

So if Admin B got runover by a train, Admin A and Admin C could still login as root (because Admin C knew Admin B's password part), change the root password, and do whatever needed to be done.

The benefit was that, unless there was some sort of conspiracy, no one admin could ever login as root by himself and do anything crazy.

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For those who don't get the reference, and why it's funny... There used to be a TV game show in the US called "The Newlywed Game." It featured recently married couples and the idea was to see how well they really knew each other. The host would ask the men a question, and in order to get points, the women would have to guess how their husband answered. (And vice versa, women would get a question and the husbands would try to predict their wives' answers.)

Some of the questions were tame, e.g. "Ladies, what is your favorite type of seafood?" If a guy's wife answered "Shrimp" but he had predicted "Flounder" they didn't get a point. You get the idea.

Well, on one episode, the question for the ladies was: "What's the strangest place you've ever made whoopee?" (This was back in the '70s, you couldn't say "made love" or "had sex" on TV, so they would say "whoopee.") They were going for answers like "the kitchen table," or "the movie theater."

They got to one woman and she answers, "In the butt."

Hilarity ensued.

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I'm not so sure that funding is the sole source of ESA's woes. Of course, when you're only budgeting 1/30th the amount as your competitors, things aren't always going to work out.

But consider the fact that ESA was founded in 1975 (May 30, 1975, to be exact. We're almost at the anniversary...) By this time, the USA had already tested numerous rockets, put men into space, and had landed men on the moon six years prior. The orbiter was already in development and the first "space shuttle" would be deployed less than a year later.

ESA has a lot of catching up to do, even now. I don't doubt that NASA and ESA share a lot of data, but for the time being, NASA has a great deal of experience over any competing space agency. Funding is not the only problem that ESA will have to overcome before it can be seen as NASA's contemporary.

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The password they used to get access to the crown jewels was ciscokid

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Forgive my ignorance, but if the code is truly solid code, without buffer overruns and the like, shouldnt this theoretically not matter (just as the code for stuff like ipfw is open)?

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When Apple first announced they would open stores nationwide, people pointed to the then already declining Gateway Country Store profitability and said "Jobs, what are you thinking?"

But there is an obvious difference between the two retail stores. What are the core differences and how could things turn around Gateway or Apple's currernt trends?

I'm not sure I get the general Gateway-hate among geeks. I have 5 computers here, one of them is a Gateway Pentium III 600. I've never had any problems with it whatsoever.

It came with Win98, which ran fine on the machine. Eventually I "upgraded" to WinME, which ran fine (at least as best as can be expected from WinME) on the machine. Now it runs Win2K, which runs fine on the machine. Everything aside from the OS is still factory. And while I've wiped the drive to upgrade Windows a few times, there's never been any trouble aside from the usual "Windows has been installed for 2 years, and it's getting slow as hell" that happens on any machine.

My only possible complaint is that the hard drive has gotten loud, when that thing's spinning, it's hard to think in the same room. I don't consider that Gateway's fault, though, as I've seen the same thing happen with countless drives.

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Sophos has Graham Cluley, and that's all that matters. For those who don't know, Graham Cluley has been a long-time antivirus researcher, and was often teased in viruses written by the female virus/worm author Gigabyte, who was arrested last week.

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How about when law firms and accounting firms just string together the senior partner's names? Ernst, Young, Jacoby and Myers anyone?

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This question comes up frequently with the whole moon landing skeptic/debunk arguments. In addition to Ada_Rules' comment, keep in mind that Mars' atmosphere is quite different from that of the Earth. The differences in atmospheric density, levels of sunlight, and the effects of those things on the refraction of light make for "distorted" images as viewed by eyes trained to see in Earth-perspective.

Or, in layman's terms, "Objects on Mars may be further away than they appear."

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Therefore I suggest that the next probes are named things like: "dismal faliure" or "flaming wreck"...

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Why would anyone want to "combat" it?

Some term them as vanity sites, and others are scared of privacy concerns.

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I'm sorry, but someone who owns a NeXT Station cannot possibly own a sexier computer, unless he also has a hexagonal, liquid-cooled couch in his basement.

We Mac users are a happy community, and sometimes I just want to give old Steve Jobs a hand.

Also, why isn't the federal government coming out with a standard software framework for voting?

So if you break your jig, or it gets stolen, you can phone up and ask for a replacement.

australia is at a guess a third the size of here

Having set off from Darwin

Are there more solid restrictions in the australian race?

Nuna II crossed the finish line in Adelaide in a new record-breaking time of 30 hours 54 minutes, beating the previous record of 32 hours 39 minutes set by its Dutch precursor Nuna in 2001.

These days, the best this trick will accomplish is to tie up one of the fax spammer's lines for a few seconds, and that's if anything is even set to answer on ring. Most bulk faxing nowadays

a) is done with computers, not with fax machines, thus there is no paper/toner on the spammer's end to waste

b) is done by someone with enough lines that tying one up won't affect them

Bulk faxes typically come from places who have set up an operation to perform that specific task and then contract their services out to all takers. It's similar to telemarketing, in that someone sets up a fax center (search "broadcast fax" and look for the shady ones) full of computers, modems, and phone lines. Then $COMPANY_A pays the fax center to blast their ad to a certain number of recipients. When you get a fax hawking $PRODUCT_X, it didn't come from the people who are selling that product, they paid someone else to send it.

In the case of most fax spam I've received, very few of them provide a fax number as a point of communication anyway, so figuring out where to try a fax bomb can be time-consuming. The contact point in the majority of my fax spam is generally a URL. (If you've gotten any fax spam, I presume you've gotten the one from some scam operation[s] claiming they'll design your company's website for free, to "gain valuable experience" and/or "train their students," if you agree to pay for a year's worth of webhosting services at some exorbitant price...)

Every now and then, I'll get one that says "To stop receiving these faxes, send a fax with your phone number to ..." followed by a number overseas, which they know damned well nobody is going to pay to call. Typical spammer tactics. I've even received faxes asking me to send a fax saying "Yes" or "No" to some 1-900 number to vote on something or another. Sadly I imagine they probably made a killing from bored office assistant types "voting" on their company's dime.

Oddly enough, even though fax spam has a higher monetary cost than email spam, I tend to Just Hit Delete on the faxes, even though I report a lot of the email spam I get.

An interesting aside: a colleague of mine has a 1-800 number for her fax machine, and never advertises whatever the local ringthrough number is, she only promotes the toll-free number. She has never received a single fax spam. Her theory - and a very interesting one - is that, because owners of toll-free numbers receive bills containing a list of every number who has called them, fax spammers avoid them for fear of being "found."

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More on topic, Joe got a lot of recognition when the "internet got a lot faster". Did he upgrade the firewall? Did he install another OC-3? Maybe he reconfigured services on the proxy?

Juicy stories like this should be saved for Friday nights. ;)

JourneyOS? What a dumb name for an OS

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the last Tomb Raider comes to mind (don't ask why I went to see it...)

I had a caller who borrowed the DSL installation disk from her friend and was trying to install "The Internet" on her DVD player.

This logically implies that unregistered "sex offenders" WILL be picked on every time there is an offence committed, most likely before any serious researching is done.

ATM, the JAP programs's Crime Detection Feature has been removed.