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  1. bribes. on Patent Reform Act Proposes Sweeping Changes · · Score: 1

    I will never understand how the US system works.

    In the rest of the world, this is called bribes and is illeagal.

  2. Re:Questionable? on Google Punishes Self for Cloaking · · Score: 1

    all this means is that their cloaking tries to match the ip range aswell as the user agent.

  3. Re:What i dont understand about hashcash? on RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work · · Score: 1

    Because then the email server has to compute the hash as well to verify it, which means that server would quickly get swamped.
    The point of this is to force the client to compute an expensive hash, not a problem for sending an email to mom, but a much larger problem for people sending out 10000 viagra mails.

  4. .torrent available on History Of Doom Movie Debuts · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a torrent available here.

  5. Re:I bought my own Plasma generator on Fusion Plasma Plant in The Future · · Score: 1
  6. Re:I had predicted 2050, actually on Fusion Plasma Plant in The Future · · Score: 1

    we already have the bad side in the form of hydrogen bombs. the good side is way overdue.

  7. Re:This is a good thing on Galileo System To Include Jamming Capability · · Score: 1

    The missile isn't disabled by simply jamming the GPS/Galileo signal, the signal is only used to check and correct the inertia guidance. If the missile lose the signal it will simply keep going from the last known vector.

    Being a few meters off with an ICBM carrying a nuclear warhead doesn't change the massdestruction much at all.

    Besides, would jamming the radar have stopped the airplanes from crashing into WTC?

  8. Re:A step in the right direction on Apache 2.0.48 Released · · Score: 1

    WebSphere is IBM, not Oracle.
    Tomcat is Apache Foundation and Free(tm).
    LocalDirector is Cisco.
    .NET Framework is Microsoft.

    Besides those minor error and the jibberish the +1 Interesting might be sensible?

  9. The solution to everything on MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure · · Score: 5, Funny

    And in other news the MPAA will require people to duct tape their eyelids closed before entering the cinema. A MPAA spokesperson was quoted saying:
    - "In order to produce decent movies we have to make sure noone sees them".

  10. ROT13 Translation on Security Expert Paul Kocher Answers, In Detail · · Score: 1

    An empty password will pass this check because the code uses the length of the user entry, not the length of the correct password. Other potential problems (buffer overflows, etc.) are left as an exercise for the reader. [Shameless plug: If you enjoy problems like this, have strong security experience, communicate well, and want a job at a fun (and profitable) company, visit http://www.cryptography.com/company/careers.html.]

    10) Re:fhnlsfdlkm&5nlkd%Bvbcvbc
    by Anonymous Coward

    0rrsn Hi, I'm wondering if you think there's a future for ROT13. I've heard it's pretty secure...

    You can read this? Damn!

    Paul:

    Holy cow! While you may have figured out my super-secret ROT13 cipher, nobody will ever crack *this* message because I switched to our ultra-secret plan B: applying a Caeser cipher 13 times :-).

  11. been there, done that. on Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Considering how much you seem to know I'm sure this is not what you're refering to?

  12. Re:FYI on Million Man LAN · · Score: 1

    I have my roots in the Demoscene :)

  13. FYI on Million Man LAN · · Score: 3, Informative

    Parties with over 5000 people (and that's 5000 in ONE place, no cheating like this) have been around for quiet a while in scandinavia.

    Dreamhack and The Gathering (couldn't find a URL) comes to mind.

    We're bigger than you! :)

  14. No law on MAPS RBL Challenged In Court Case · · Score: 1

    This is exatcly why we should keep the law weenies locked up in a courtroom instead of letting them out into the real world.

    I feel that the Internet should be a 'no-mans-land' regarding law, the Internet is already pretty self regulating. Just as an example, the MAPS RBL didn't pop up for nothing, there was a need and it filled it. I know this can start problems with crackers, script kiddies and the like, but this would also be self regulating. Do you really think that any ISP would let anyone that could possibly harm them use their backbone?

    I hope everyone that reads this uses the MAPS RBL on all of their mail servers, I sure do!

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  15. Re:Reboot for new configs? hardly on Ask Ingo Molnar About TUX · · Score: 1

    I'm aware of that, that's one of the reasons I use Linux for...

    It was more meant to soften the question and not give that "I know this better than you" look to the question...

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  16. Configuration? on Ask Ingo Molnar About TUX · · Score: 2

    How does TUX handle the configuration of the server? Since it seems to be pretty much kernel level code, does it need a reboot for new configs? Or is it just read into memory using user space code?

    Can TUX handle apache modules as of now?

    Is this technology possible to implement on FTP, SQL, SMTP etc. servers?

    uhmm... the patent question was taken, so was the threading and the portability... hmm... I guess I have no further questions, your honor.

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  17. Re:Slashdot Security Hole9535028967 on 3-D Monitor From Deep Video Imaging · · Score: 1

    I'll be damned... it acctually worked...
    In short, this is NOT good...

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  18. Loophole? on LAME *Is* An MP3 Encoder · · Score: 1

    If we were to put all the sources on a server here in Sweden, I don't think they'd be able to do any thing about it. Since over here it's illeagal to patent mathematical algorithms...

    could this work?

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  19. Re:Clock and bus locking on Tampered Athlons Hit Oz · · Score: 1

    I agree to this, the general public are not knowledgeable about this. And it would probably create more of a panic than helping to weed this out.

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  20. Re:Get around the license ... ? on Kerberos, PACs And Microsoft's Dirty Tricks · · Score: 1

    Well, he can't agree to the license since he is a minor.
    But that would only make his gaurdians responisble. IE, his parents.

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    Note that these are my personal opinions, they are just as faulty as anyone elses.


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  21. Seriously... on Kerberos, PACs And Microsoft's Dirty Tricks · · Score: 2

    Isn't there some kind of law against this?

    We're getting whacked by big companies that uses their large legal departements to FUD the users of alternate products.

    There should be something to protect us from these kind of things. Are you really allowed to make changes to a open standard and refuse to disclose it?

    Maybe we should start slapping a GPL like license to standards? Something that goes like this: "Any standard that is a derivative of this standard MUST use the foo license". That would keep the nice and open standards open forever.

    Note that these are my personal opinions, they are just as faulty as anyone elses.

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  22. Finally! on Big Ball Of Mud Development Model · · Score: 1

    We have it on paper, we have the "correct" ideas of how a software project should be (un)organized.

    With the duct-taped style we solve problems when we find them and put //FIXME's where we don't want/have time/know how to fix something.

    Aaaahhh, sure feels nice to know that we were right all along. :)

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  23. Tough question... on What Is Important In A User Interface? · · Score: 1

    Multitasking, stability, speed, look, customizability etc. I don't think ease of use is much of a issue any more... Better documentation would do it...

    An easy way would be not to let stupid people use computers... :)



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  24. So, good or bad? on Fan Fiction Explained · · Score: 1

    I'd say fan fiction has it's good times. The only problem I can see is that of "semiserious" writers that are only doing it for the art of sueing. I think there were someone that sued a fan fiction writer for writing "disgusting fiction", if someone has a link or something I'd be really happy.
    It would be nice if some of the fan fiction out there were acctually filmed at some point. I've read a few really good SW writings.

    Anyway, these are my opinions. Just as faulty as anybody elses.

  25. Overkill on US PlayStation 2 To Have A Modem & Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    If Sony just want to outrun Microsoft, PSX2 just needs to work. Period.

    It would help if they released it though...