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  1. Re:Can someone explain the advantages of this? on Security Through Varying IPs · · Score: 1

    I imagine it's only good to confuse sniffers for a VPN type connection.

    something like this where two computers want to talk to eachother.

    comp1: hey comp2
    comp2: sup, here's my new ip
    comp1[new ip] i'm down, here's my public key, and my new ip
    comp2[new ip]: cool, here's my public key and my new ip
    comp1[new ip/encrypted] here's my new super secrect receipe for grits.

    something like that, which is bassicly a publickey/privatekey system with changing ip's. which i supose would help with man in the middle attacks.. maybe.

    -Jon

  2. ot. Re:Not at all surprising. on Another Free Operating System: NewOS · · Score: 1

    er.. if he's done a "c-like" language before it's not really that hard. He would just be redoing something that he's done before. he probably could make a simple c-like language in a few days.

    Like this guy who wrote this OS had done it before, just from looking at the code he really did seem to know what he was doing, there wasn't a lot of fucking around and rough edges, hed done it before and is able to take a fresh start very quickly.

    anyway, just my 2c.

    -Jon

  3. Re:to bad most people don't agree with you. on Star Wars Galaxies · · Score: 1

    no, counter-strike is popular, more popular then all the other FPS's combined actually. but still don't hold a candle to EverQuest and D2.

    from memory it's something like 40,000 for EQ and D2

    20,000 for CS

    5000-8000 for Q3, Unreal etc...

    -Jon

  4. Re:Sheesh on The Presidents Technical Advisor · · Score: 1


    But then, CmdrTaco can probably write Perl code and chew gum at the same time, so I guess that qualifies him to judge.


    Buhahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!

    LOL

  5. to bad most people don't agree with you. on Star Wars Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Everquest is the most popular online game, with Diablo coming in a close second.

    -Jon

  6. So does this mean there's life? on Continents on Titan? · · Score: 1

    I don't understand this conslustion that if a planet has water it will have life. I know all living things need water. But it doesn't mean it's going to have some type of primative lifeform.

    The other conclustion is that it won't be anything more then really primative organisms, I bet if the moon has life it's filled with tall green men that where robes and large head sets.

    -Jon

  7. Same reason MacOS doesn't get hax0red on Security-Meantime Between Rootshell? · · Score: 1

    No one runs webserver's with MacOS, therefor no will will try to expliot them.

    No-one except for the army that is.

    -Jon

  8. Mean time between reboots on Security-Meantime Between Rootshell? · · Score: 1

    We need a mean time between reboots. Just so people the linux vs windows camp can have something thats not subjective to say the next time a flame fires up.

    Of course there is netcraft's ratings. but thats not really that acurate.

    -Jon

  9. wow on But Does it Run Linux? · · Score: 1


    Rear Mirrors: Concealed TV camera


    Hot damm. you could run linux on it. (at least on the screen i guess)

    -Jon

  10. like you'rs better on Gracenote Reponds Regarding Roxio Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    it's more polite, and gets closer to the point. which is why.

    I imagine it must be simply on the bases of "breach of contract". a contract that must say "you may not use our competeters". however, what i bet it says is "you may not use our SDK with competitors" perhapes thats what the problem is.

    Even thought the protocol for freedb is simple, i can see Roxio not using the free implementation due to the restricitve GPL license. and opted to just keeping using CDDB's SDK.

    If so this is a true irony for the open source/ information wants to be free croud.

    -Jon

  11. useless rants by Jon Clegg (c) 2001 on Gracenote Reponds Regarding Roxio Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    to allow us to verify that the application does not submit bad data and will not overload the servers or harm the database in any way;

    Isn't the basis of CDDB the fact that all CD's do have a unique ID? If every cd has a unique ID then how exactly do you spam the database with bad data? Any entry would be detected as fraud either by the CD-ID already exsisting, or become obvoise from multiple entrys from other sources that agree one title/track info.

    to ensure that developers abide by our privacy policy, which allows end-users to access the service in a way that protects their information;

    Privacy poloicy? First i don't belive CDDB is really conserned about end users, they get there money via OEM. second what kind of privacy poloicy would have any relavance here?


    to protect our ongoing business from, among other things, theft of our intellectual property or repurposing of our service without permission.


    Thank you for saying what you really mean. that you belive the end users data is some how you IP. sure I can agree that you should own access to it, as you have maintained the data. but it's not that same as intellectual property, and not the same as a copyright, patent or whatever the hell you think it is.

    ...and that takes bandwidth, servers, database licenses, terabytes of storage, and an expert staff to keep it all running. Additionally, we provide multiple levels of support to our developers to help them offer the best possible applications.


    Don't forget lawyers, Marketing and PR. (which is whote collectivly wrote this BS)

    -Jon

  12. god damm this took to long to find. on Digital TV Approaches · · Score: 1

    Here is the most technical paper I could find on the subject. it was NOT easy to find, anyway. It looks like (from 500 yards) a lot like SDMI's dingy.

    Along the search I also found another artical on the subject, though it's pretty damm old (like 98), it seems that's when the MPAA got interested in the idea.

    my option: fuck em' they can't stop people from recording what they have in their living room. However they can STOP via LAWYERS, that and people that can't offord to fight it, and that PISSES ME OFF

    -Jon

  13. (OT) Re:Slashdot you censoring jackasses! on The Open Source Evangelists Respond · · Score: 1

    thanks.

    -Jon

  14. Well first was the poll to add it.. on Asus Request Feedback on "Cheat" Drivers · · Score: 2

    that was back on May 9th

    now it's the poll to remove it.

    shacknews had talked about this about a week ago

    anyway it's a pretty big deal. For me, i get to hear about how i'm a "gay4ss l0z3r" using the "wirefr4m3 asus h4ck" when i 0wn everyone in CS

    -Jon

  15. this looks a lot better then ascii on Sketch Quake Renderer · · Score: 2
  16. RFC, like request for comment? for real? on Exegesis 2: Damian Conway On Perl6 · · Score: 1

    When i first went to this page I saw a shitload of RFC's. all numbers to low to be Real RFC's.

    so whats up? Does this guy actually has to audacity to call something an RFC and actually just mean request for comment?

    -Jon

  17. not fucked on Eazel Shutting Down, Nautilus Will Continue · · Score: 2

    a quick look at fuckedcompany.com shows that they are not fucked yet. as a matter of fact there are only fucks for Eazel. The last one dated May 12th.

    Anyway it's sad to see Eazel go, I've been saying for quite a while that linux and the like would never get a good thoughtout consistant user interface without traditional software development.

    -Jon

  18. Win2k still faster on Linux Grabs World Record For TPC-H Benchmark · · Score: 4

    at least per CPU

    the SGI 1450 Server as 16 procs
    2733/16 = 170(TCP) per CPU

    ProLiant 8000-X700-8P as 8 procs
    1699/8 = 212 per CPU

    and doesn't the DataCenter(tm) version support like 64 procs?

    Anyway, i think it's pretty damm cool linux is on top, it reassures me that TPC.org isn't just one of Microsoft bit-achs.

    -Jon

  19. The USPTO has the neatist things on Delphion To Start Charging For Patent Access · · Score: 3

    Word Mark SLASHDOT

    Goods and Services IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: providing news, information, products, on-line tools and services via the internet for a select audience. FIRST USE: 19981028. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19981028

    Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING

    Serial Number 75908557

    Filing Date February 2, 2000

    Owner (APPLICANT) Andover.Net, Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 50 Nagog Park Acton MASSACHUSETTS 01720
    Attorney of Record GAILYC SONIC CALLANAN

    Type of Mark SERVICE MARK

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    Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

  20. So how does this work again? on Technology vs. Cheating at the University of Virginia · · Score: 1

    From the artical it looks like the program goes through the students paper looking for pharses that might be plagerized, the searchs the internet (i.e. google) for those phrases.

    what i'm not clear on is what a 'phrase' is. is it a sentance? maybe something that uses a proper noun; like.. "It was sure the Sir Walter was doomed, for he..."

    also the seach bothers me. i know some sites have papers that you have to pay for, like 10 bucks an essay, surely those wouldn't be on google.. i would think..

    damit! i was going to post fake code.. but i got
    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted.

    arg!

    -Jon

    -Jon

  21. Wow on Writing Kernel Drivers · · Score: 2

    And i didn't think anything could sound crappier then the generic $9.95 speakers my work gave me.

  22. No, it was from a lawyer repazentin Live365 on RIAA, DMCA, EFF, And So Forth · · Score: 1

    The RIAA has nothing to do with this (as far as I know)..

    -Jon

  23. I Got a letter saying I violated the DMCA today.. on RIAA, DMCA, EFF, And So Forth · · Score: 5

    I don't want to post the whole cease and desist, but i'll post the thing about the DMCA.. This is bassicly Live365.com saying they don't want my streamripper program to h4x0r them...


    Millennium Copyright Act

    The Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") prohibits the circumvention of "a technological protection measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." 17 U.S.C. * 1201(a)(1)(A). As previously noted, Live365.com has designed its web site and related software to ensure that the streaming music it provides on its Internet radio stations complies with the provisions pertaining to the statutory license to publicly perform sound recordings under the Copyright Act. In so doing, Live365.com has taken precautions to preclude users from recording or storing transmissions of its Internet broadcasts. The player software designed to be used with Live365.com does not permit recording and, in fact, is designed to prevent it.
    In contravention of this precaution, you have created software which enables users to store these broadcasts. This has circumvented a "technological measure" which "effectively controls access" to copyrighted works. See RealNetworks, Inc. v. Streambox, Inc., No. C99-2070P, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1889, at *18-19 (W.D. Wash. Jan. 18, 2000). Such manipulation of Live365's protective measures constitutes a violation of the provisions of the DMCA.


    They also have like 8 other law they say i'm in violation of.. I just mailed the ACLU, maybe I should try the EFF as well? I can't really afford a lawyer...

    -Jon

  24. WAIT! on SDMI Researchers Cancel Presentation After RIAA Threat · · Score: 2

    Cool i got it, freenet rules..

    but still takes forever

  25. damit! on SDMI Researchers Cancel Presentation After RIAA Threat · · Score: 1

    I can't get it, wtf is with freenet?