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  1. Re:Get it now. on A Brief FAQ on CableCards · · Score: 1

    why would I want to use a CableCard in my TV that bypasses my recorders so I can only watch that content live?

    I think the real question is, why would you put the CableCard in the TV, not the TiVo?

    (This is in the near future of course, with CC2.0 with PPV/VoD/KitchenSink-102.2+ and the fabled TiVo compatability with such a monster)

  2. Re:is that legal? on P2P Operators Plead Guilty · · Score: 1

    Look at prostitution. They dress up cops as hookers and send them out to entice people to go into hotel rooms and get busted. If that isn't entrapment I don't know what is, but then, soliciting sex for money is illegal in the US.

  3. Re:Good for telco's? on Scientific American on Quantum Encryption · · Score: 1

    No (to add on to the other response here). The dark fibre that everyone is sitting on right now is mainly only trunk fibre, and does not run last mile. I imagine any kind of splice would be NotGoodEnough for quantum appliations. Amplifiers are right out as well I bet, or else you would have to keep them in the loop as far as keys go.

  4. Re:RIM = Lawsuits in Motion on Governments Take Sides In Blackberry Patent Suit · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you see, this medicine is underwritten by the Canadian Government. That makes it cheaper and easier to obtain by anyone.

  5. Re:Akamai... on MacWorld Expo Traffic Analysis · · Score: 1

    Shocking, using a "reliable" protocol which has more bandwidth overhead didn't help the problem of there being not enough bits to go around.

  6. Re:Damn Small Linux on True Stories of Knoppix Rescues · · Score: 1

    Just so you know, next time when you reinstall Windows XP, turn off simple file sharing in folder options, open the new normal security tab as administrator, take ownership (and replace on sub files/folders), add yourself as a full control user (and replace...), and for cleanup sake remove the user listed as S-1-5..., thats the SID from the previous install of windows which presumably will never be recovered.

    If the files are encrypted all bets are off.

  7. Re:Off-Topic: How Would You Control It? on US To Push Criminalization of IP Violations · · Score: 1

    That alone would stop population growth--people don't have children if they can't afford them.

    While I believe that we could do wonders if we could just reorganize as a world, not by moving millions of people around, but similar. However that line is a purly a joke at its finest. Have you ever noticed sometimes it's the poorest people who seem to have the most children? Not all of the poverty was caused by having a zillion children, it was there to begin with and they decided to put another mouth to feed in their house.

    People (Not /., the idiots who reproduce when they can't afford to accidents aside), birth control is free or near free. Compared to having a kid those $1/pop condoms are an investment which will return many many times over, even if you do it many times each night. Male sterilization is also quick and easy once you have had your kid(s) that you can afford. We aren't going to stop people from screwing like dogs in heat, but lord people it's just a peice of plastic, a little hormone, or 2 little snips.

  8. Re:Is anyone really working on a new duke3d?! on Wired's 2004 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 1

    While I agree, I would buy it, just what we need, another excuse for a delay. Worse yet, two promised games to keep the gamers drooling! ;-)

  9. Re:Why is it... on Security Issues in Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Because the people at Microsoft say the same thing reversed? Your competitors problem is your advantage in the open market. Our by-line is fast patches and open acknowledgement they exist, if people knew of these problems, and from what I've seen the current release versions are clear of these, then they should be fixed. The URL spoofing one is only minor at best, and FireFox seems to come default to pester you about upgrading itself. The other issue is when Microsoft has a problem, is it's oh look, one of 5 or 6 this month, the problem goes back to some core foundation that should never have been there, or it turns out someone told MS about it ages ago and they still havn't released a patch.

    Lord knows *I* have never, in my high and mighty existence, taken amusement in the pain of others.

  10. Re:The names he uses for software on Justin Frankel Reveals Life After Winamp · · Score: 1

    Look at his Nullsoft Installer program, which is now used more and more often. It was originally called Pimp, with the installer making program called makepimp. I'm sure if something is actually useful he will make a real name for it, wether that be calling up some marketing friend and asking or taking the time to think of a generic name.

  11. Piano Lessons and a Apple ][ on Introducing Children to Computers? · · Score: 1

    I remember fondly while being forced to take piano lessons, the teacher had 2 Apple ][ computers. She used them as supplementry learning, like what notes are of what type, key, etc. It was good stuff. Eventually I stopped really playing the piano and just played with the computer. I also remember freezing it once and being scared out of my whits that I had broken it, eventually Open/Closed Apple-Reset saved me.

    Remember, piano lessons aren't all that bad.

  12. Re:Old news on WEP And PPTP Password Crackers Released · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is, the same kinda person who might have an open access point and be prosecuted for child porn based on IP tracking, might also have a not-so-secure windows install just waiting to have someone put the pictures there for you to find.

    Windows XP is getting past this issue, but anyone who might turn on filesharing just to see what it's all about could be left out in the cold. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt would be very easy to create. Oddly enough, with Mozilla it is probably easier to create false cache instances because all of the profile stuff is open source. A file here, an edit there.

    Of course, all of this could come to their aide if they really were surfing child porn on the internet.

  13. Re:Great availability on Gigabyte's Dual-GPU Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    And the assembly doesn't exactly look like you can easily replace the fans by aftermarket fans.

    Correct, because there is currently no market to come after. Once these chips hit the shelves the common knockoff fan/passive cooling companies will make the same knock off fan/heatsink combos they have been for ages. I know I hate it when I can't get cheap knockoff parts for my high end equipment before it's even hit the shelves.

  14. Re:hey on Finding Student IT Security Placements in the Industry? · · Score: 1

    No, unfortunately, I'm looking around for a new real job. Best of luck finding an intern though.

  15. Re:13W could be dangerous... on Possible uses for Power over Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Same reason I was holding a telephone wire pair with my teeth a few years back. No tool at hand to do the job properly. Luckily the phone didn't ring, so all I got when I accidentially touched my toungue to the pair was a gently "buzz" feeling which actually took me a minute to figure out.

  16. Re:hey on Finding Student IT Security Placements in the Industry? · · Score: 1

    I'll do it. I have experience with 3 of 4 hands on, how bad could AIX be? Also, I could use a new job, willing to relocate.

  17. Re:Higher resolution image? on Firefox New York Times Ad Hits the Presses · · Score: 1

    Ask anyone who is more prone to do stupid things and most anyone will tell you men. This helps quantify that, 50:1, men are the dumber gender.

    Of course how many of you counted Kelly as a girls name? If 100% of the time you were wrong at least once.

  18. Re:Mechanical Analogs on Lego Logic Gates · · Score: 1

    Such as teaching your kids:

    Lego AND toybox = 1;
    Lego NOT Vaccuum_Cleaner = 1;
    Lego NOT LodgedInMyFoot = 1;
    It goes on...

  19. Re:200% Effective? on Do Unsubscribe Links Stop Spam? · · Score: 1

    Easy enough, he opted in to be a zombie spam relay. Somewhere in the Windows EULA it says that you must accept anything windows does, accepting viruses from wide open cable/dsl networks is just one of them.

    Heck I get like 50 peices of spam a day (likely much more, but a lot of it is blackholed via junk email addresses so who knows?). I imagine at like 5-50k/email, my cheapy aDSL could upload a lot more than 100 peices of porn spam a day. This guy is slacking off, I bet I could get 500-1000% cutback on my porn spam!

    I wonder if they make a FreeBSD daemon to send out porn spam?

  20. Re:Ahh... So they bought it for the name on AOL Making Media Player, Music Store · · Score: 1

    If the player is properly written (and thats a big if), then all you need to do to compile it is tell it to use /dev/sound or /dev/dsp, whatever, and find some BSD licensed X11 video output code. Your decoder engines, file I/O, and GUI are done for you (for the most part).

    Wrap it up as an ELF binary, and there you go.

  21. Re:Ahh... So they bought it for the name on AOL Making Media Player, Music Store · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What I want to know is, will this application be a small XUL program? or will we have to download the whole XUL kit.

    IE, can we just plug this into Mozilla and have it in the sidebar, or download a few hundred K worth of stuff? Or is every download a couple megs because of the XUL frameworks being included?

    Sounds like Visual Basic hell might start up again. If it is truly written in XUL, couldn't they easily port it to any platformw here XUL runs?

  22. Re:Daring Fireball covered this on Rumored iPod Flash Leaked · · Score: 1

    I'm just going by what works, I must get lucky on batteries. I did that on NiCd (where I know thats what you're supposed to do), NiMH (don't remember), and now Li-ion batteries(Apparently wrong).

    So far my laptop battery has lasted me twice as long as other people, my cell phone batteries last as long or longer, and my iPod hasn't mysteriously died on me. My camera's battery is just starting to show signs of wear, but overall holds about 80-90% of original capacity at the 4.5-5 year mark.

    I'm a fool, but I'm a fool who hasn't replaced his batteries. I should go to Vegas with this luck.

  23. Re:Daring Fireball covered this on Rumored iPod Flash Leaked · · Score: 1

    "Me too" Only I have the touchwheel style iPod. Play till dead, charge to full. Like your cell phone, laptop, etc. It's OK to partial charge it now and again, but it's bad overall. I still have my 5 year old digital camera with its original lithium ion battery in it. The "time till dead" circuitry is toasted, but it shoots for an hour and a half with flash just like day one.

    I know many laptop users etc who think batteries on laptops last 6 months under heavy use, where in actuality it's 6months under heavy charge. I realize it's not feasible for some people to alwayhs 100% of the time let their batteries drain to dead before charging to full, but most of us could probably do it with a bit of planning.

    My iPod sits in the car most of the time, coming in only for the weekly/biweekly charge, although a year ago it was getting charged 3 times a week. Heat, cold, etc all they do is make the LCD screen look lighter/darker.

  24. Re:Stop! on Location-Based Encryption · · Score: 1

    I think janitors are some of the smartest people around. Who else could trivially pilfer anything in the building and get away with it all these years? Careful planning and manipulation have created a society completely dependent on someone else doing the dirty work. The same thing with this whole computer fad. Systems administrators have total control over your dataflow, much like the janitor controls the paperflow. Janitors have been training people like them, long hours which start early and end late in the night, and who are badgered by everyone to do even the most minor of tasks.

    Carefully, sysadmins and janitors will join forces to rule the world.

    Is your tinfoil hat OSI network model compliant? Seven layers of tin foil or they might hi-jack your datalink.

  25. Re:Personal preference question on Ask Wil Wheaton Anything (Part Deux) · · Score: 1

    Yeah I know, common misperception, but when you're posting at work any "instrument of pain" will do. ;-)