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  1. Just you try to dictate something :) on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: 1

    hash symbol, no space, include, lessthan, no space, stream, no space, full stop, no space, greater than, new line, new line, int, main, openbracket, void, close bracket, new line, open curvy brace, new line, printf, open bracket, speachmarks, Hello World, speachmarks, close bracket, semicolon, new line, return, number zero, semicolon, new line, close curly brace, new line. .. you know I'm quite glad i can type at a decent speed or that would have taken me a while :)

  2. Re:How feasible is this? on FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable · · Score: 1

    Well if you encrypt your phone, the'll put a microphone in your phone, the resources/cost of breaking the encryption on most things is a lot higher than just puting a bug to listen in on the conversation before it gets encrypted.

    I still trust PGP, if the CIA could break such encryption the mere fact that they could would be so damn secret that they'd not let 90% of there agents know they can. Coventry wasn't evacuated even though they knew it was going to be bombed to hell, I doubt the CIA would use any evidence gained though breaking 2048+ bit encryption apart from as a indication to dig a bit deeper and find evidence they can tell the world about, the kind of things they'd blow a secret like that for, well they would be interesting times.

  3. Re:Don't on The Rise Of Reg-Only Media · · Score: 1

    Registration is bad, because I end up having to remember the stupid login details, bad enough remembering my slashdot login :)

  4. I wonder if he's kicking himself... on Mozilla Starts Bug Bounty Program · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A few days ago you might remember someone who created an article on the vunribilities of a fake browser being made in a empty window using XUL...

    Guess he's 500 dolars down for blowing the whistle a week early :)

  5. Re:What a shame.... on Linux Violates 283 Patents, says Insurance Company · · Score: 1

    And if they become legal, I'd expect that to be 30,000 a day as people start patenting everything and it's dog :/

  6. Is it such a good idea? on How Google Will Have Achieved The Semantic Web · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. -- Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)

    This would deliver the invistigative powers of the CIA into the hands of anyone who wants it... still a good idea?

  7. Re:Reason why on Network Attacks Via DNS · · Score: 1

    my standard iptables rules only allow some ISPs dns-servers

    And then those ISP's dns-servers relay those messages to the hackers DNS server... The downside is that every packet that goes out has the destination server's domain name marked on it.

  8. America's first... on Nation's First City-Wide WiFi Network Completed · · Score: 1

    Subject sayes it all really, and then I'll go mumbling as to why people write national stories for international press.

  9. What can it do... on EFL Preview Release: Asparagus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://enlightenment.org/pages/systems.html

    Just take a look at some of those thumbnails and remember to pick your jaw up off the table once your done, my favorite has to be the embeded xine's alpha-transparancied ontop of other xine's :)

  10. Re:Shush shareholders. on Intel Delays Release of 4Ghz Chips · · Score: 1

    Shareholders want money..

    Intel makes money if.. the market isn't saturated by processors of comparitive speed, and the competition isn't signficantly faster than they are.

    So there making money right now... introducing a faster processor would lower the cost of the rest of there line of processors essentially wiping out any profit that could be made by introducing the faster processor earlier, the only reason they would at the moment is if AMD jumped there speeds up significantly, which they won't because there also making money :)

    Shareholders would probbably be more angery if intel threw money down the drain and launched a dodgy 4GHz+ P4 now and wiped out the value of most of there unsold processors.

  11. Re:Fix the Colors! on Intel Delays Release of 4Ghz Chips · · Score: 1

    I disabled all my slashboxes, you'd have thought they'd get the hint that I don't want anything in that side of the page, but once in a while pop an advert, couln't keep them to just the top eh :/

  12. Re:Konqueror on Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Don't give up on firefox, one proof of concept that will probably be fixed in the near future, in the mean-time if your ultra-paranoid before puting confidential information into your browser just check your bookmarks are still there :)

  13. Re:Vulnerability? on Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    It's a feature and a vunribility, such features should only be available to trusted documents not by default to any website which wants them.

  14. The future of travel.. on Transportation Retro-Futuristics · · Score: 1

    Well it's the past of travel as well, well time is irelevant *steps into his police box*.

  15. Re:Quick refresher on how the "FREE" sites work... on DoubleClick Hit by DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    I use adblock, my justification comes in two parts, one if advertises had acted in good faith I wouln't have resorted to such methods, but popups, CPU hogging SWF's, flashing GIFs, fake-windows, etc... so they don't act in good faith to me, I'll not bother viewing what they want me to view.

    If they want my clicks, they should advertise with companies which have regulations on there advert contence, I don't block google :)

  16. Re:Will Microsoft use it? on Debugging in Plain English? · · Score: 1

    Computer answers 42, but says you don't understand the question, and tells you to build a biger computer.

  17. Re:Not funny! on Debugging in Plain English? · · Score: 1

    Youve tried, tried and tried again... I think it's time to give up and take a diferent aproach :)

    Perhaps a thread pool to hand processing to so you don't end up destroying any threads?

  18. Re:FUD ALERT on Patriot Act Used to Enforce Copyright Law? · · Score: 1

    FBI didn't just step over the line they wasted vast ammounts of public money investigating something which really isn't even a criminal offence, the MPAA should have simply taken his webhost's account invintory, and gone to court and had the website shut down and him fined for X ammount of money.

    Instead the FBI throws goverment money which could have been spent on education or healtcare into a pointless investigation of a sci-fi fan.

  19. Re:Gnome should have 2 modes. on Project GoneME Fixes Perceived Gnome UI Errors · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What he wants is what I want, programs not to be designed for idiots. The progress towards simplified configuration is fantastic, the problem is that people do this by cutting options from the system totally so you have to pull out a rather complex system or dig though a prefs.js file to be able to setup the things you use how you want them.

    I beg people to include 'Advanced User []' boxes, tick them and have all the good old options re-appear, and if somone clicks on a help box tell the user what the function is and if you don't understand what it is click on this to disable advanced user access.

    Digging though another program (gconf) just to change the position of buttons on X or Y is insane, yes it works but I'd rather have the options somewhere near the program I'm using.

  20. Re:It's not really the design on From Your PC to Reality in 3 Easy Steps · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know this company in the UK can produce boards (not going to get a track between pads though with there board manafacture tolerances), who also apply FGPA's to the board and can do x-ray checks to ensure the device is secured, it's not cheep, but if you wanted cheep you wouln't be using BGA's :)

    http://www.newburyelectronics.co.uk/

  21. Amplifier? on Using Plants as Speakers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can understand ultra-sonic sounds being converted to audiable ones under certain sinarios, but I can't see where petals and leaves get the power from to aplify audio waves, thus I'm highly sceptical that the device is anything more than previous speakers which use any medium to which there attached as a cone.

  22. What a lot of arm ache on 3D Mouse · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about you, but I'd quickly get very bored of having to wave my mouse around in the air, unless someone can create a system which supports the whole arm and hand and measurement device to go along with the 3d mouse, there never going to take off.

  23. Re:I would like to think so... on 419ers Diversify Into Assassination Threats? · · Score: 1

    It's completely shameful that they failed to act, repeated threats in the post I'm sure would not have been overlooked, so why overlook them just because there sent using the internet.

    Though it does indicate that states need to put more funding into there state police instead of relying on the FBI or other federal resoureces to combat anything they don't fully understand.

  24. Re:It's Visual Studio, not the languages! on PHP 5.0 Goes For Microsoft's ASP-dot-Net · · Score: 1

    I'm still rather worried that I'm not going to fit in to well in any company because I have very little clue how to use Visual Studio.... but hey I fire up command line editors still.

    Thankfully I don't edit my /. posts in vim before copy/paste them into the browser :)

  25. Re:Over 10,000 public CCTV cameras in LONDON alone on 1984 Comes To Boston · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There may be 10,000 CCTV cameras in london, most of which are probably on private land, shopping centers, inside shops or pointed at road trafic.

    Only the high-street cameras are easilly accessable to the police, then trafic cameras which just requires phoning up the trafic monitoring station... after which it requires people handing over VHS cassettes or being issuesd with writs fromthe court to do so.

    But the federal goverment is installing these cameras, not a city law inforcement, or even a state law inforcement.... I don't know about you but I think that's the most scary part.