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  1. Everyone should know on Protected Memory Stick Easily Cracked · · Score: 1

    The only way this could possibly work would be to plug it into the SecuBus, which would quickly drain all data and render it useless.

  2. Non-Metacity WMs? on Fedora's OpenGL Composite Desktop · · Score: 1

    Hopefully this will be something other WMs outside of Metacity will be able to take advantage of as well. Since until there's some decent working edge flipping in Metacity, I'll stick with Enlightenment.

    Why features that most users want are pulled out (due to the opinions of a few) when they can just be turned off by those that don't like it I don't understand.

  3. You've got bigger problems on Prostitutes Call for a Ban on GTA · · Score: 2, Funny

    You've got bigger problems than worrying about legalities if the woman you're having sex with is an ACTOR in your film...unless of course your film is "Best of Both Worlds".

  4. At first glance on UK ATM System Could Have Ruined Economy · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else see the headline and 1990's in the link and at first glance think this would be an article about why running an ATM network but using LANE everywhere is bad? Or perhaps how implementing this correctly would have caused bankruptcy because of all the expensive network cards for servers that would have to be purchased?

  5. Re:intrusion prevention on Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention? · · Score: 2, Informative

    We use Tipping Point, and I was very skeptical at first. After having it at work and using it, I would highly recommend it.

    Service is not as good as it used to be, but still decent. They are going through some growing pains and some adjustments after being purchased by 3 Com, but that was to be expected. Their support is still much better than your average vendor.

    The rules they use are very conservative, and it affects no other protocols other than IP. It will pass these quite happily, and even the IP traffic that is inspected has low latency. You can write your own rules if you want using a Windows utility with a combination of pcap and regexp syntax. This however is warned against as in most cases the custom rules can wreak havok if not written correctly.

    The prevention is done via application level fingerprinting which works much like OS fingerprinting. For instance, it will detect that something looks like an LSASS buffer overflow attempt regardless of the source and destination IPs and ports and act accordingly. With testing that we did between this and other IPS/IDS's, many of them would not detect port hopping even though they claimed to. This becomes more important if you want to do things such as block Kazaa, or allow IRC and IM, but deny the file transfer functionality for the chat protocols. (Yes, it has the ability to do this)

    They also released Tomahawk test tool which can be found at http://tomahawk.sourceforge.net/ It's a great tool for stress testing and replaying network traffic.

    And while not advertised or offically supported, their management software does have a linux version, if you have multiple boxes. If it's just one box, you'll probably configure it by connecting to it directly via the web browser, which once again, while not officially supported, it works fine with non-IE browsers (at least last time I used it).

    And definitely, last but not least, you can on the fly put it in layer 2 fallback, so if that causes any problems you're having to go away, then it is a problem with the filters. An excellent feature that can temporarily fix any latency problems that it might induce until you can get time to do more in depth troubleshooting.

  6. physical education? on Gates On Future of CS Education · · Score: 1

    I'd like to know where the numbers for this came from, and if it includes medical majors such as physical and occupational therapy.

    It's very believable though. At the rate a lot of us are becoming "super sized", a physical education degree may give you access to a larger job market than a CS degree.

  7. Novell's NetStorage on OSS Web-based File Management? · · Score: 1

    It's not open source, but it's a nice product, and Novell tends to give educational institutions decent discounts. I believe you can set it up to use any LDAP source for authentication, but even if that's not true, you can sync eDirectory and Active directory to solve that problem.

    It might not fit your environment, but it's something to look into.

  8. Re:The News on Hacker Penetrates T-Mobile Systems · · Score: 1

    Probably. But you never know...it could be pictures of the Secret Service with Demi Moore and Paris Hilton. We'll just have to wait till they're posted to the net to see.

  9. Is his real name ZIM! on Evolving Swarms with Swarmstreaming · · Score: 1

    Obligatory Zim quote

    TAK: I should have been an invader! I should have been part of the Great Assigning! I didn't HAVE to be stealing this planet from YOU!
    ZIM: You're after my robot bee!
    TAK: NO!!!

  10. Re:Open Source HP/UX and True64 - PLEASE on HP Plots New Courses with HP-UX/Tru64 · · Score: 1

    Opening HPUX would benefit us all, or make us go insane? If they did do that though, at least they could get one accolade out of it.

  11. Re:DMCA vs "Conventional Copyright" on HD-DVD Wins Support of 4 Studios · · Score: 2, Funny

    "In the U.S., the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits unauthorized circumvention. Outside the U.S., however, many jurisdictions only have conventional copyright laws that only protect creative works. Normal decryption keys do not include any obvious creative element."

    That explains a lot piracy. Hollywood seems to have a lack of creative works as of late, so it must be OK to copy and distribute those. And any of the truly creative works will only play an my region 1 DVD player if I "pirate" them.

  12. It will take three words... on 3D Mouse · · Score: 1

    Project Lookng Glass (AKA 3D Window Manager)

  13. Terrorist Clause or Terrorist clause? on FBI Can Inspect Bank Records w/o Court Orders · · Score: 1

    For some reason I saw the subject and immediately I thought of Saddam with a red suit and hat. Then I realized it wasn't modded as funny.

  14. Re:How is this objective? on Microsoft Rolls Out New Anti-Linux Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    I used to think the same way about your first point until we had a non-technical manager join our staff. Even though he could not do the job of those under him to any extent, he listened, is learning more than he ever though he would about clients, servers, networks, and how they work together.

    The key is having a manager that will listen, ask questions, and make an intelligent informed decision, not necessarily one that can do your job.

  15. Toys R Us affiliation on Amazon Calls Children's Privacy Complaint Groundless · · Score: 5, Informative

    Riiight...and TRU isn't aimed at kids at all.

    "Toysrus.com
    Founded in 1998, Toysrus.com really gained momentum when it formed an alliance with Amazon.com in 2000. The site became an online retailing success story by more than tripling its sales and number of orders from the prior year and by giving guests a terrific online toy-buying experience. Since that time, Toysrus.com and Amazon.com have introduced two additional online shopping experiences with the launch of Babiesrus.com and Imaginarium.com."

  16. Access to females on Women Need Larger Screens for Desktop Navigation? · · Score: 1

    In order to make linux more accessible to females, wouldn't we first have to have females more accessible to geeks?

  17. Sam & Max on Video Game Award Show Announced · · Score: 1

    None of the charaters from Sam & Max were invited either. That has to be one of the most overlooked games ever.

    Of course, then they'd definitely have to run this on a delay, or live. There's no telling what that $%(@!*$# rabbit would say on national TV.

  18. XBOX Version on Mandrake Announces Turn-Key Clustering Distribution · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can see it now. Microsoft continues to loose money due to the fact people are buying up XBoxes and modding them to run this.

    Bill: What's going on here. Sales of the XBox have risen 500%, but I'm making no money because no one's buying software!!

    MS Lackey: It's the French, sir.

    Bill: What?! How so?

    MS Lackey: Those Mandrake linux people released an ISO image of linux for the XBox, sir, and then they released clustering software. XBox supercomputing clusters are now springing up all over the place.

    Bill: Quickly, we must couteract this. Launch a shared source initiative, and I want the records showing everyone who has puchased an XBOX without buying any games for it!

    MS Lackey: Right away, sir.

    Bill: Oh, and while you're at it, buy France, jail the government, and burn down the Mandrake offices. That'll teach them.

  19. I hope this works out on The Porn Of Napster · · Score: 1

    Think about it for a second. There definitely are copyright issues, and it seems though there always has been and always will be newsgroups for getting this stuff (as well as music, movies, and all sorts of warez). But if this company can make a business model that increases sales for the pr0n they market (however they plan to do it), maybe the RIAA and MPAA will wake up and realize they can use this technology instead of trying to kill it off.

    Though, even if this new "Napster" is successful, I doubt **AA organizations will try to get the consumers of their products what they want. They seem to be kinda dense in that respect.

  20. Re:US Response - corrected respone on One Year After September 11 · · Score: 1

    Kuro5hin has a link to this article at New Times LA. It's unfortunate that I read this and think this is more true than I would have hoped. (Sorry about the dupe. I didn't select HTML formatted previously)

  21. Re:US Response on One Year After September 11 · · Score: 1

    Kuro5hin has a link to this article at New Times LA. It's unfortunate that I read this and think this is more true than I would have hoped.

  22. Why not semi's? on Drive a Greasecar - DIY Biodiesel · · Score: 1

    Seems like truck drivers would jump at this. $10/2000 miles is probably a LOT less than whet they're spending on fuel now. Given the fact that most truck drivers I know are decent mechanics as well, I can see them doing something like this quite easily.

  23. Affected Systems confusion on Win32/Linux Cross-Platform Virus · · Score: 1

    "Systems Affected: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me, Linux

    Systems Not Affected: Windows, Microsoft IIS, Macintosh, Unix"

    I guess by Windows they must mean Windows 3.1 or 3.11, since that's the only M$ version I don't see listed. If not, I hope they fix that on the web page or your average user will get confused.

  24. Re:Skywalker...brothers? on Spider-Man, Star Wars and the Power of Myth · · Score: 1

    I think he's trying to be cute, referring to Luke and Anakin.

    Wasn't a bad article till he tried to be cute.

  25. Re:It's Fake (but...) on X-Box Emulated (Not) · · Score: 2, Funny

    It works EXACTLY the same under wine as it does in windows, which is kinda nice.