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  1. Re:No flash...? on Microsoft Plans IE Changes Due to Plugin Patent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The death of flash would be the most wonderful day in web browsing history since it's inception.

    For some of us, those Flash sites are *already* inaccessible.

  2. Re:AV notification is a vector on Lousy E-mail Filters Complicating Outlook Worms · · Score: 1

    I've often wondered why it's not a technique used as the primary disguise.

  3. AV notification is a vector on Lousy E-mail Filters Complicating Outlook Worms · · Score: 1

    Some vendors send the complete email out to persons not sending it. The new recipient might then go "oh what was that then" and open the executable and themselves become infected.

  4. I will : Linux is an OS for amateurs, by amateurs. on Linux Most Attacked Server? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    so of course it has holes in it

    The Unix family is insecure by design.

    That is why it is better to start again than try and paper over the cracks.

  5. R T F M on New Breed Of Web Accelerators Actually Work · · Score: 2

    Here's a fucking hint

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-gzip/

  6. Acme 0\/\/|\|5 gn00 on Co-founder Joy to leave Sun · · Score: 1

    They talk of usability and which is best and yet their horizons are so narrow it's a joke.

    Which is best CLI or WIMP? - Aggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!

    fools

  7. Just steal the sign on RIAA Sued For Amnesty Offer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I have one here, was one of the funniest lifts I did. I was bored, waiting for a bus. Saw the sign (on the inside of the main window) and just had to have it.

    In fact it says "All Purchases Must Be Paid For"

    Which I thought was stupid. If I stole it then it's not a purchase so therefore it says "steal here for free".

    Which is true. I used to take my dinner from there on the way home.

    Gotta love it.

  8. because IIS's is garbage on New Breed Of Web Accelerators Actually Work · · Score: 5, Interesting

    mod_gzip is manna from heaven

    I turned mine off by accident once and got a phone call from the co-lo wanting to know why I was suddenly maxing out.

    gotta love that 70% saving.

  9. I'm with you on Building Rich-Client-Like Web Apps With Echo · · Score: 1

    the web browser has set back application development 20 years.

  10. kitchen knives *are* banned on Australia To Fast-Track Anti-Spam Bill · · Score: 1

    I can't carry one around in my coat even if I have a loaf of bread with me.

  11. what's the point? on SkyOS GUI Contest · · Score: 0, Troll

    if you want Linux, you know where to find it.

  12. poor spelling in the bible too, how quaint on Mystery Tiles From Around the World · · Score: 1

    or did you mean

    "no man shall know the hour" ?

    I won't dwell on apocalypse.

  13. Quackers! on Duck's Quacks Really Do Echo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you'd be quackers not to mod me as funny

  14. wrong wrong wrong on Linux Distro For Linksys WRT54G · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Putting this sort of stuff in that device is a cool hack but totally the wrong thing.

    It should run a little file server, serving something like 9p whihc would allow you to read/write settings and stream off the full data packets read for snorting.

    fools.

  15. What Govts. say is important. on Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China · · Score: 1

    You see, governments tell lies. They tell lies to support themselves.

    When Tony Blair said to the British people :
    "We are going to attack Iraq because they have WMD, are you with us?"

    1 million people took to the London streets to say "no".

    They next day he says :
    "Well, actually we are going to attack Iraq because Saddam is a bad man, are you with us?"

    So how can you can't trust what they say?

    It is vital that we, the people, keep asking tough questions. Of everybody.
    Power corrupts. We must keep asking and demanding scrutiny with public appearance if we are to be able to judge the people we choose to place into power.

    They don't know any better than us.
    Passive observation is collusion.

    The IRA hasn't renounced terrorism. The IRA bombed it's way to the negotiating table.
    It's terror campaign was a success.

    In India, South Africa and US the movements all used violence to achieve their aims.

    All goverments are based on authority through violence.

    When you attack people they will reprise.

    Oh, by the way, I think you should go and research what an agnostic is before declaring yourself as one.

  16. rubbish, my $10 linksys has all sorts of features on Are Consumer Firewall/NAT Boxes Really Secure? · · Score: 2, Informative

    port forwarding
    port triggering
    dynamic routing
    AOL parental controls

    ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/manuals/befsru31_ug.pd f

  17. Re:Taiwan's WMDs on Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China · · Score: 1

    Would that be the same Kurds Winston Churchill ordered to be attacked with poison gas?

  18. lol - duh! on Local Network IPs - 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16? · · Score: 1

    llalalalalalalalllalllallla a lalallallalalal

  19. Re:what % of Windows is patches? on Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings · · Score: 1

    you should consider the history more carefully.

    They already tried to bastardize Unix, Xenix it was called.

    They decided to bastardize VMS in POSIX and they called it NT.

    Maybe the next one will be based on plan9.

  20. Re:I use 127.0.0.1 on Local Network IPs - 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16? · · Score: 1

    it could be that they can't measure with enough accuracy.

  21. Re:I use 127.0.0.1 on Local Network IPs - 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    0ms, which OS/NIC is that ?

    64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.043 ms
    64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.053 ms
    64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.044 ms
    64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.061 ms
    64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.052 ms

    I had a situation where someone external to my network got lower pings to the game server sat on the LAN only 100Mbs away. It was NT adding the latency, dropping to 98 sorted it out.

  22. Re:I wonder if these will not spread disease on Need Milk? Get Yourself A Supercow. · · Score: 1

    I've not drunk or eaten meat & dairy for 12 years.

    My only health issues is the crohns.

    I've had multiple blood tests and all that jazz, all normal.

    An, of course, you mention nothing about the lifestyle of cows.

  23. I wonder if these will not spread disease on Need Milk? Get Yourself A Supercow. · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Believe me, you don't want bit's of your intestines removed every few years.

    Plenty of research is showing a link between Crohn's and milk consumption.

    http://www.crohns.org/media/pr180900.htm
    http:/ /www.nomilk.com/crohns.shtml
    http://www.smh.com.a u/articles/2003/08/07/10601458 00356.html

    My signature isn't *just* propaganda

  24. On the net = prepped for sharing ? on MS vs. Open Source Office Suite Compatibility · · Score: 3, Informative

    Random documents on the net do not necessarily correspond to documents used internally.

    It would be interesting to see how the non-MS products coped with semi-embedded documents which are references to network shares.

    Office isn't 4 disparate applications it is an application framework that happens to have some pre-configured applications.

    There might be an application you know as Word but it is quite happy to live as an ActiveX control instatiated in your IIS Application.

    I used to use it as a report generator, fill in some web forms and out spits the documentation.

    The ability to open every word document on the planet is only part of the journey.

    Sad but troo.

  25. Office 97 - No Anti-aliased fonts on MS vs. Open Source Office Suite Compatibility · · Score: 1

    While testing anti-aliased unicode fonts for plan9

    echo ' http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/freetyp e/ ' | tr -d ' '

    I used Word97 to make my XP fonts big and it didn't display them with anti-aliasing.

    Now that's a comprehensive test