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  1. Re:Luddite victims. on Anti-US Hacker Takes Credit For Worm · · Score: 2, Funny

    1991
    Bin Laden says Al-Qaeda main policy is to get US troops out of Saudi

    11th Sep 2001
    Al-Qaeda attack NYC and Pentagon

    29th April 2003
    US announce that virtually all US troops will vacate Suadi Arabia
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2984547.stm

    May 1 May 2003
    George Bush gives the "Mission Accomplished" speech
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Mission_Accomplished_Speech

    Conspiracy away

  2. Re:Yawn . . . on Orchestra To Turn Copyright-Free Classical Scores Into Copyright-Free Music · · Score: 1

    Buying a recording for the personal pleasure of listening to it is *NOT* the same as having copyright free recordings available *FOR ANY USE*.

    fool

  3. Re:U R teh winnar! on New Email Worm Squirming Through Windows Users' Inboxes · · Score: 1

    How did this virus write itself with execution privileges ?

  4. Re:What do you mean 2001? on New Email Worm Squirming Through Windows Users' Inboxes · · Score: 1

    Do you have any pictures of my wife you could send me in a zip file, or perhaps a failed UPS delivery summary ?

  5. You spelled 20th wrong on UK's Royal Mail Launches First Intelligent Stamps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought they were going to be RFIDs or something like that

  6. Re:And in other news Ten unrelated ISP corpses fou on Researchers Cripple Pushdo Botnet · · Score: 2, Funny

    I take your multiple ^Hs and raise you a ^W

  7. Re:Can we shut up about SL please? on Owning Virtual Worlds For Fun and Profit · · Score: 1

    SL also inspired a whole episode of CSI:New York

  8. Re:Here's hoping they can track down peanut allerg on Researchers Pinpoint Cause of Gluten Allergies · · Score: 1

    > The term coeliac derives from the Greek (koiliaks, "abdominal"), and was introduced in the 19th century in a translation of what is generally regarded as an ancient Greek description of the disease by Aretaeus of Cappadocia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease

    Yeah, those 1st C Greeks and their goddamn germ fetish

  9. Re:Really? on Like Google's Chrome, Mozilla To Silently Update Firefox 4 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have installed by the Administrator account and then Unpriv users can't do updates, it requires manual intervention.

    So instead we'll get "couldn't silently update" dialog boxes !

  10. Re:A few clarifications on Cache On Delivery — Memcached Opens an Accidental Security Hole · · Score: 1

    The deeper issue that's exposed is that your mythical developers are ignoring the fact that most attacks come from inside. Mostly through rouge employees or compromised machines. They are operating on the fallacy that you can have one big happy subnet and everybody attached it is a team player.

    I don't use memcached but it sounds like one should have your memcached server machines on their own LAN and multiple network cards in the client machines.

    It's really not that difficult, it's just :

    1 developers are not security minded
    2 people are lazy
    3 people have a false sense of security
    4 people have an overblown confidence in their own ability
    5 the company hasn't been burned yet

    Most things happen once 5 has changed - when was the last time you ran your disaster recovery plan?

  11. Re:Back of the envelope power cost calculation on World's First Molten-Salt Solar Plant Opens · · Score: 1

    i only use it for my lights, fridge, shower & laptop

    i use gas for cooking & heating

  12. Re:Pet Peeve on 400 Turns of Civilization V · · Score: 1

    OS X

  13. Re:We live in a multimedia word on Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put In Play · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If your parents read to you, more chance you'll grow up liking books & reading.

  14. Re:HP Does this ... on The Recovery Disc Rip-Off · · Score: 1

    > they're [sic] products are overpriced and crappy

    > my wife works for HP

    Due diligence again, why didn't you try something before you bought it.

    People pretend like computers are like DVD players.

  15. Re:Ah the joys... on The Recovery Disc Rip-Off · · Score: 1

    Take Linux LiveCD to shop, test machine. Stop whining.

  16. Re:Usually not with fakes on $200B Lost To Counterfeiting? Back It Up · · Score: 1

    You mean that Dolcia Vita skirt I bought for $20 was a fake, no frigging way!

  17. Re:Big Business on $200B Lost To Counterfeiting? Back It Up · · Score: 1

    Most, if not all, business relies on legal threats in order to deter violent ones.

  18. Re:I truly hope you're right on World's First Molten-Salt Solar Plant Opens · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Isn't the idea to spread dependence away from one source ?

  19. Re:Back of the envelope power cost calculation on World's First Molten-Salt Solar Plant Opens · · Score: 2, Informative

    Tax might be cheap in Spain, but Sicily is in Italy.

  20. Re:Back of the envelope power cost calculation on World's First Molten-Salt Solar Plant Opens · · Score: 1

    In the UK I pay the French :

    First 900 kWhs per year 21.021 pence - $0.324
    Rest 10.5525 pence per kWh - $0.1626

    I use about 3300 kWhs per year so on avg I pay 13.4p or $0.20

    So you're down to 25

    with the 24/7 thing someone else mentioned that's 12.5 years payback - pretty good I'd say

  21. What utter bullshit on Crytek Dev On Fun vs. Realism In Game Guns · · Score: 1

    "there is nothing on it that does not have a function -- because guns are tools for professionals"

    Spoken like a man that has never been inside a gun shop.

  22. Re:The tubers are almost certainly not salty. on First Halophile Potatoes Harvested · · Score: 1

    What's the calorific content of something that's 92% water ?

  23. Re:Sure it will on Secure Communication Comes To Android · · Score: 1

    I know. Like I said, I only enabled it to facilitate authenticated SMTP for out 10,000 domains, server-server is just a bonus.

  24. Re:Sure it will on Secure Communication Comes To Android · · Score: 2, Informative

    lol, I thought I was about to prove you wrong because I had STARTTLS enabled on our incoming mail server and was surprised to find remote MTAs using it as I'd turned it on to protect our users' outgoing mail authentication.

    $ telnet mx1.hotmail.com 25
    Trying 65.55.37.120...
    Connected to mx1.hotmail.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220 col0-mc4-f34.Col0.hotmail.com Sending unsolicited commercial or bulk e-mail to Microsoft's computer network is prohibited. Other restrictions are found at http://privacy.msn.com/Anti-spam/. Violations will result in use of equipment located in California and other states. Tue, 25 May 2010 16:00:36 -0700
    helo fuckface
    250 col0-mc4-f34.Col0.hotmail.com (3.10.0.73) Hello [85.189.31.174]
    starttls
    554 Unable to initialize security subsystem
    ^]

    $ telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25
    Trying 209.85.229.27...
    Connected to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220 mx.google.com ESMTP s4si17050707wbc.88
    helo fuzznuts
    250 mx.google.com at your service
    starttls
    502 5.5.1 Unrecognized command. s4si17050707wbc.88
    ^]

    At least someone is security concious, this is Fastmail's smtp - now owned by Opera

    % telnet in1.smtp.messagingengine.com 25
    Trying 66.111.4.72...
    Connected to in1.smtp.messagingengine.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220 mx3.messagingengine.com ESMTP . No UCE permitted.
    helo opera
    250 mx3.messagingengine.com
    starttls
    220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
    ^]

  25. Re:MPEG_LA Isn't the devil on Nero Files Antitrust Complaint Against MPEG-LA · · Score: 1

    Because not all film production goes to the cinema / tv.

    We make films usually distributed to around 100-200 people. We record, edit, encode, duplicate and print all the titles with our own equipment.

    We also run a film festival once a year attended by about 400 people, the films of which are mostly made by the same size of operation, some with the exact same equipment (literally).

    The added irony of your comment is that if we had plenty of money we'd be using a Red or 35mm which don't have such restrictions.

    I found this yesterday too: Open Source Hardware HD camera we're going to take a long look at that system. Our cinema is having 3d projectors installed in one of the screens soon, it would be great to produce stuff for it locally.