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  1. Re:Solution on Sending Mail to Hotmail Users? · · Score: 1

    https://www.fastmail.fm/

    SSL { Webmail / IMAP / POP3 }

  2. Re:It's Open on Man Arrested for Wireless Piggybacking · · Score: 1

    Trespassing is a civil offence.
    You can ask the trespasser to leave by the shortest safe route.
    If they don't leave willingly you can manhandle them off your property.

    But yes, I can walk in and sit down in legal safety.

    A few years ago they added Aggravated Trespass to the statute to deal with us hunt sabs and eco warriors etc. :

    Section 68 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (CJA) defines the offence as follows:
    A person commits aggravated trespass if he trespasses on land with the intention of disrupting, or intimidating those taking part in, lawful activity taking place on that or adjacent land.

  3. Re:It's Open on Man Arrested for Wireless Piggybacking · · Score: 1

    1.--(1) A person is guilty of an offence if--

                  (a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;

                  (b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and

                  (c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.

    How is one supposed to satisfy (b) & (c) know that one's use is unauthorised when someone is transmitting on a publically available frequency ?

    That's like transmitting on CB radio and trying to prosecute me for listening.

    I'm looking forward to being caught wardriving, I'll get to argue my case in court and if I lose I'll get the great monkier of "I'm a registered Hex Offender"

    from TFA "A computer expert told KATU News there is no way to know if someone is using your wireless connection without permission." lol, some expert !

  4. Re:It's Open on Man Arrested for Wireless Piggybacking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you shine a light into the street, can I use it at night to see where I am going ?

    If you transmit CB radio from your house can I sit in the street and talk to you using my CB radio ?

    If you transmit WiFi signals into the street on a publically available frequency what makes them so special ?

    Here in the UK (IANAL) iirc I am perfectly entitled to walk into your house if it is unlocked and use your stuff so long as I don't break them or cause you financial loss. I can even take items out with me if I don't intend to permanently deprive you of them.

  5. Re:3 straight months! on Man Arrested for Wireless Piggybacking · · Score: 1

    yeah, because WEP is unbreakable !

  6. Re:You mean GayPal? on Google Launches Cost Per Action AdSense · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised you even left your Karma Bonus on for that one.

  7. Re:Clearly the solution is... on Researchers Hack Wi-Fi driver to Breach Laptop · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't worry, our govt. is going for it, I'm sure they'll let you know how it works out :

    http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/ cmbills/119/06119.27-33.html#j383A

  8. Re:Advertiser Fraud on Google Launches Cost Per Action AdSense · · Score: 1

    Gpay, or whatever Google's competitor to Paypal is called, will sort that out.

  9. Re:Article summarized in five words: on Why Oracle Isn't Part of the OSDL · · Score: 0, Troll

    "We're" isn't a word at all.

  10. Re:Hey, Postgre is free. on Why Oracle Isn't Part of the OSDL · · Score: 1

    Where do people get the idea that Postgresql administration is hard ?

    And that FLUSH PRIVILEGES is ease of use in nutshell.

  11. Re:I use Comodo on Choosing an SSL CA? · · Score: 1

    > Our logrotate scripts now issue "apachectl graceful; sleep 5; apachectl graceful; sleep 10; apachectl graceful", just to be sure

    You should rewrite them to do the job properly instead of your clumsy hack. I'm surprised you want to admit such sloppiness in public.

  12. Tell them to "come round & watrch a movie" on Microsoft Loses Appeal in Guatemalan Patent Claim · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Not so funny when/if the seller commits suicide on Online Revenge · · Score: 1

    seriously, it's important !

  14. Re:Freshmeat? on Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released · · Score: 1

    show us the logs !

  15. Re:One of the best morrowind mods was like this on The Oblivion Bookbinding Mod · · Score: 1

    Imagine if I was able to put a DVD into my PC and make a new edit of a film.

    All thre reputations I could ruin !

  16. rsync on What is Your Backup Policy? · · Score: 1

    I run the same version of my OS on QEMU and have it rsync the data.

  17. Re:Not so funny when/if the seller commits suicide on Online Revenge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That would be as funny as Gary Glitter ending up being shot in Thailand for fucking children after fleeing the UK after his prison spell resulting from taking his PC into a computer shop and the assistant invading his privacy and finding child porn.

    The Thai's spolied a good laugh by letting him off with a fine, spoilsports!

  18. Re:So... on DirectX 10 Only On Vista · · Score: 1

    Which part of OpenGL controls my force feedback steering wheel ?

  19. Re:defend his position that microkernels are crap? on Virtualized Linux Faster Than Native? · · Score: 1

    37

  20. Re:defend his position that microkernels are crap? on Virtualized Linux Faster Than Native? · · Score: 1

    300+ syscalls, how hard can it be?

  21. Re:Don't you mean Inferno/Plan 9? on How Do Businesses Scale Their Bandwidth Needs? · · Score: 1

    Plan9 doesn't do bonding afaik

  22. OpenBSD is your friend on How Do Businesses Scale Their Bandwidth Needs? · · Score: 1

    trunk and pf should meet your binding and shaping needs.

  23. Re:Not yet ready on PC-BSD 1.1 Screenshot Tour · · Score: 4, Informative

    > the startup process hangs on the sendmail initiation

    sounds like DNS trouble

  24. Re:FUCK THE JEWS on PC-BSD 1.1 Screenshot Tour · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    > Why can't they just stay in their own country? instead of attacking ours!

    Because they don't have one

  25. Re:Linux? on PC-BSD 1.1 Screenshot Tour · · Score: 1

    > An OS that's had an official version of Java for a very long period of time

    you say it like it's a good thing

    "No Java here" is something I like to see on the box