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  1. Re:So, PHP means ? on March To Be Month of PHP Bugs · · Score: 1

    Please don't talk rubbish, as the month of PHP bugs will show you !

  2. Re:More Choice on Visual Basic on GNU/Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > This will get more .NET developers over to Linux.

    > Then, it will get more .NET developers too look a other ways of doing things. [sic]

    If they need VB on Mono on Linux to look around then it's already too late.

  3. Re:if you can't compete with free on Macrovision Responds to Steve Jobs on DRM · · Score: 1

    In a competitive market, the price of your product tends toward it's marginal cost, i.e. cost of manufacture incurred per item, over and above fixed costs.

    For some businesses i.e. car manufacturing this might be $20000 per product.

    Whereas for CD / DVD this tends toward zero.

    So effectively everyone is competing with free.

  4. Re:renting content on Macrovision Responds to Steve Jobs on DRM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We've got Video on Deman on cable with quite a wide selection of films.

    If you just fancy watching a decent film it's the laziest, cheapest way of doing it. Just press yes and $3 later you're watching the movie and you can as much as you like for 24 hours.

  5. if you can't compete with free on Macrovision Responds to Steve Jobs on DRM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    then you're in the wrong business

  6. Re:renting content on Macrovision Responds to Steve Jobs on DRM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a tiny store near us called 'blockbuster', I wonder if it will catch on?

  7. Re:how do you do it on 70% of Sites Hackable? $1,000 Says "No Way" · · Score: 1

    lol, dumb you are

  8. n00b on Toshiba Puts Fingerprint Readers on Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    dave, lol, welcome to texas

  9. Your rhetoric is most amusing, this pleases me on Toshiba Puts Fingerprint Readers on Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    So then, you thought you were a clever chops and it turns out you're just a wannabe an donce discovered you turn to insult based on your incorrect stereotypes.

    The clue is in the "know binaries" not "know binary".

    Christ, even java programmers encounter BCD occasionally, though this isn't that scheme.

    You lose, twice!

  10. yeah on Toshiba Puts Fingerprint Readers on Cell Phones · · Score: 2, Informative

    *surely* there's only *one* binary

    congratulations, you're number 3 (0100) not 2 (0011) or 1 (0001)

    to feel the need to correct me

  11. It's not a Lawgiver! on Toshiba Puts Fingerprint Readers on Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I still don't understand why you think my phone needs more security than my laptop per se. If I think I'm going to lose something often then I should assume I am going to lose it at any moment ergo I should make sure it's notionally disposable. Even my ancient Pentium III T23 laptop would cost me more to replace than my brand new Nokia so why does it need a biometric. It's not a Lawgiver!

  12. Re:I'll buy one on Toshiba Puts Fingerprint Readers on Cell Phones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > The need for security is actually higher for a mobile handset than for a laptop, as they get lost far more often.

    So why carry unencrypted sensitive data on them ?

  13. Re:how do you do it on 70% of Sites Hackable? $1,000 Says "No Way" · · Score: 1

    I know my one man audience pretty well.

  14. Re:how do you do it on 70% of Sites Hackable? $1,000 Says "No Way" · · Score: 1

    hehe another bites on the idiot bait

    The clue is in the "know binaries" not "know binary". I'm not quoting anyone, but it is fun finding the "know it alls".

    You're the second to "point it out" btw. Thanks for playing.

  15. how do you do it on 70% of Sites Hackable? $1,000 Says "No Way" · · Score: 1

    with mod_php ?

    because PHP safe_mode is a joke

    CGI/suexec is the only way I know about, though I gave up once I'd got it sorted so there may be another.

    DB passwords - putting them in httpd.conf is a start.

  16. Re:I'll take that $1000 now. on 70% of Sites Hackable? $1,000 Says "No Way" · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but that's the user's fault for not performing due diligence when choosing a provider.

  17. Re:Online Multiplayer is great? on Why Online Multiplayer Isn't That Important · · Score: 1

    How did you feel when the bots in UT trash talked you ?

  18. Re:What did you expect? on Vista Not Playing Nice With FPS Games · · Score: 1

    Lol, I was expecting it to be expensive.

  19. Re:Another approach. on "Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design · · Score: 1

    The concept was introduced on the NeXT Machine.

  20. Re:no, fuck your self on Java's Greatest Missed Opportunity? · · Score: 1

    you're the first, not the last, not correct

    Oh dear, how sad, never mind

  21. Someone heard you on Solaris Telnet 0-day vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Change: Down 0.03 (0.46%)

  22. The good thing about policies on Solaris Telnet 0-day vulnerability · · Score: 1

    is there's so many to choose from

    http://dag.wieers.com/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/

  23. Re:Cult of CO2 on Cosmic Rays and Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I shall have to watch the MIT lectures again, they had some interesting stuff concerning it but I cant remember what it was.

  24. Re:The EU's Free Speech Law on EU Bans Sock-Puppet Blogs · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you can extrapolate from me to over 60 million people.

    My, or anyone else's opinion, is a bit moot anyway, sceptic or not; Article 10 is the law in England and Wales and, I assume, the rest of Great Britain.

  25. The EU's Free Speech Law on EU Bans Sock-Puppet Blogs · · Score: 5, Informative

    "While England doesn't spell out its free speech rights as absolutely as the US"

    Au contraire :

    Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights

    FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
                      1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.

                      2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.