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  1. Re:The encyclopedia ANYONE can edit. on See Who Is Whitewashing Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Funny

    Painters are usless. They can only paint pictures.

  2. Re:As the author of Nmap ... on Strict German Computer Crime Law Now in Effect · · Score: 2, Funny

    You'll never convince anyone after what Trinity did.

  3. Re:Insensitive, but... on Strict German Computer Crime Law Now in Effect · · Score: 1

    great, you missed out the actual shellcoders :)

  4. America is fucked on High-Quality HD Content Can't Easily Be Played by Vista · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because it seems you have extreme difficulty in learning the fucking difference between then and than!

  5. What could be simpler??? on Hardening Linux · · Score: 1

    I type Undo then middle click it (though it's already present by default) (acme)
    Middle clicking on any executable command and have it execute is also pretty neat. (acme, send menu item in the wm, rio)
    I can also send arbitrary strings for matching against a list and the match executes, that's a boon as well. (plumber which is a system service (though it runs in userland as you, obviously - this is plan9 there are rules)

    I write a pallette of commands for my current problem domain which are just txt files so I can even put them in the repository.

  6. Re:How To in summary... on Hardening Linux · · Score: 1

    > Yes, but GUIs also normally have applications to enable and disable services (which was my point).

    ed or a text editor work for me.

    Clicking buttons is primitive.

  7. Re:How To in summary... on Hardening Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    My GUI has a command line.

    It's curses that keeps Lunix stuck in the dark ages.

  8. Re:Personally on OOXML Won't Get Fast-Track ISO Standardization · · Score: 1

    They're Mac users, I have no idea why they didn't know that.

    I use troff myself.

  9. Re:Personally on OOXML Won't Get Fast-Track ISO Standardization · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I know two offices that have switched to Open Office (one Mac based one PC based).
    They still use Word format as the default but got free of the dreaded costly upgrade treadmill. The Mac office was particularly pleased with "Save To PDF".

  10. Re:this is disgusting on OOXML Won't Get Fast-Track ISO Standardization · · Score: 1

    You should expound your vitriol a bit earlier in the proicess :

    Take a look at the board :
    http://www.incits.org/ebmem.htm

    Here's some reporting on the last vote
    http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/07/ansi-denie s-oox.html

  11. Re:Explain to me how... on Buffer Overflow Found in RFID Passport Readers · · Score: 1

    I recommend "The Shellcoders Handbook"

  12. Re:You're 100 percent right. on SCO Loses · · Score: 1

    Unix is dead. Lunix is a stinking corpse. You will be Glendarized.

  13. Re:That's some fine police work, Lou. on Police Data-Mining Done Right · · Score: 1

    I get my log book out and show them it's midnight blue and not black, goodbye 147 !

  14. Re:The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Cl on Police Data-Mining Done Right · · Score: 1

    A figure I carry in my head after reading it some years ago and can supply no reference to is that there is an 8 million to 1 chance of a English policeman encountering a serious crime (burglary upwards) in progress whle walking the beat.

  15. Re:state==public domain? on DUI Defendant Wins Source Code to Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    My jaw hit the floor when I went to Australia and encountered the drive through grog shop.

  16. Re:As a consultant or to replace all the users... on Many Antivirus Tools Fail in LinuxWorld Test · · Score: 1

    Unprivileged accounts can't double click on the clock to see the date/time properties (or calendar as humans call it). You get "Sorry, you don't have privileges to change the system time"

  17. Don't include me in your "we know" on Many Antivirus Tools Fail in LinuxWorld Test · · Score: 1


    This 2001 Qnetic report for the UK gov.
    http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/documents/QinetiQ_OSS_re p.pdf

    Makes this claim : "There are about 60,000 viruses known for Windows, 40 or so for the Macintosh, about 5 for
    commercial Unix versions and perhaps 40 for Linux."

    But viruses, by definition, will always have a hard time in Lunix. People generally don't share executables. Which leaves auto-opening files such as image preview, pdf, html and openoffice docs etc.etc.

    It generally easier to exploit internet facing services such as DNS, HTTP, SMTP etc.

  18. Re:Thursday?? on Microsoft DRM Code for Netflix Streams Hacked · · Score: 1

    My grandparents and parents and I paid for them to make programmes and transmit them into our homes. That it was subsequently decided that I can't record that signal and repeat it at my leisure is an odd notion. The signal is mine, I paid for it. Everything other opinion is wrong.

  19. Re:Thursday?? on Microsoft DRM Code for Netflix Streams Hacked · · Score: 1

    I'm indignant when I walk out of the cinema and I'm not handed a set of 35mm reels and a projector!

  20. Re:This is exactly why I love OpenBSD! on Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace · · Score: 1

    Nah, OS X exploits are where the kudos is at. You don't get death threats from Theo

  21. Re:why give much of a crap on Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace · · Score: 1

    If you sleep at night on the strength of PHP's codebase then you should make sure your phone is turned off to save you being woken by the "we've been rooted" call.

  22. Re:so much for... on Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace · · Score: 2

    OpenBSD auditing isn't the god of all auditing you think it is.

    This is just another piece of audited code that roots you.

  23. Re:I'm not worried on Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace · · Score: 1

    The successor to Unix got rid of root altogether from the OS.

    I prefer a boast like "Nothing to escalate" than "Secure by default"

  24. Re:SELinux and the same ... on Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > I know for the TrustedBSD tools it would be minimal due to their strict code checking policies

    I hope that works out for them because "Secure by default" and "Unbreakable" are amusing rhetoric.

  25. Re:Probably overblown on Replacing Atime With Relatime in the Kernel · · Score: 1

    What do the kernel developers have to do with how the disks are configured by default in a distribution ?