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  1. Re:Gaaaa on Consultant Convicted For Non-Invasive Site Access · · Score: 1

    Ok then, try Public House.

    And you are breaking into the private areas. Name your legitimacy.

  2. Re:These sound like an excellent pet! on Autonomous RoboFish at the London Aquarium · · Score: 1

    you know you meant least resistance yeah ?

  3. Better summary on Consultant Convicted For Non-Invasive Site Access · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/05/dec_case/

    'DEC hacking' trial opens
    Accused gives evidence
    By John Oates
    Published Wednesday 5th October 2005 16:22 GMT

    Horsferry Road Magistrates Court has heard the first day of evidence against the East London man accused of hacking into a donations site for the tsunami appeal last December.

    Daniel James Cuthbert, 28, of Whitechapel, London, is accused of breaches of Section One of the Computer Misuse Act, 1990, on the afternoon of New Year's Eve, 2004. He had earlier pleaded not guilty.

    Cuthbert is accused of attempting a directory traversal attack on the donate.bt.com site which handles credit card payments on behalf of the Disasters Emergency Committee.

    Giving evidence on his own behalf, Cuthbert, at times near tears, said he had made a £30 donation to the site, after clicking on a banner advert. Because he received no final thank-you or confirmation page he became concerned it may have been a phishing site, so he carried out two tests to check the security of the site.

    The case continues tomorrow. ®

  4. Re:Hmm. on Consultant Convicted For Non-Invasive Site Access · · Score: 2

    because he couldn't get in

    and then lied to the investigators about his entirely innocent activities

    In what way is trying to break into someone's system as 'legitimate' ?

    Can you tell me what legitimate reasons you could have for breaking into my house (presuming you are not an agent of the state).

  5. MySQL - built by prisoners on MySQL To Be Ikea Of The Database Market · · Score: 1

    No surprise you end up wondering where your data went !

  6. Re:go back to school emily on FreeBSD Project Launches New Website · · Score: 1

    It's still grey on grey action.
    By the time you are 60 you lose 30% of your contrast.

    Especially if you read Wired, you will appreciate that there is a reason why we make paper white as possible and use black ink.

  7. go back to school emily on FreeBSD Project Launches New Website · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    <div class="frontgetroundbox">

    etc.etc.

    call things what they are not by their attributes

    and grey text on grey background, HELLO some of us are hard of sight

    you 20 somethings think everything will be rosy when you lose 30% of your ocular capacity in 30 years

    hehe bitch bitch

  8. Re:MS keeps innovating in their spin on Microsoft's Unique Innovation · · Score: 1

    Bit OT but it is rare for F1 tech to move to road cars these days and has been the case since the 80s. F1 cars are more like road going aeroplanes than anything else.

  9. Re:FAT chance on No Office For Linux, MS Patents Rejected · · Score: 1

    you misunderstand, IIRC the binary format of (maybe just older) OLE documents is done with a FAT variation

  10. Re:FAT chance on No Office For Linux, MS Patents Rejected · · Score: 1

    lol, blame the tools but it's this keyboard, truly sux0rs

    yeah yeah no preview

  11. Re:speculates not states on Google Declares War on Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You're replying to the wrong post, try CNN.com which is where the post I was quoting (scroll up, it's right there) copied the paragraph from (and clearly stated so), you anonymous fool!

    Anyway, if I remember correctly StarOffice used to be Java so the codebase is indeed Java based even if not a fucking line of it is still Java =)

  12. FAT chance on No Office For Linux, MS Patents Rejected · · Score: 1

    I thought that the headline pertained to the fact that MS files use FAT as their internal organisatin methed, therefore making .doc readers/writers breach the same patent.

  13. Re:It may not help you, but on Google Declares War on Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I bought a Centrino, the advert on TV said "internet connectivity anywhere"!

  14. speculates not states on Google Declares War on Microsoft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The partnership could mark a shift away from the traditional method of distributing software through the Microsoft Windows system and bring greater visibility to such Java-based programs as OpenOffice.org.

    You'll find the above paragraph is CNN's speculation on the press release, not part of the press release itself.

  15. Re:Region Coding on PS2 Mod Chips Legal In Australia · · Score: 1

    That's amusing to see on a domain http://games.slashdot.org/ that takes micropayments and advertising payments and press releases pretending to be story payments .

  16. Re:Predictable on Sun Eyes PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    > What you want is PLJava

    believe me, I don't =)

    but some people probably will so thanks for mentioning it.

    I just did a search for "postgresql java " and PLJ was the first one I found

  17. Re:Let the PostgreSql vs MySQL Debate Commence on Sun Eyes PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    hehe yep, nailed firmly to the post

    though I noticed recently you had write ahead logging, welcome to the 21st C

    =)

  18. Re:Let the PostgreSql vs MySQL Debate Commence on Sun Eyes PostgreSQL · · Score: 2, Funny

    you spelt sucks wrong

  19. Re:Predictable on Sun Eyes PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    I don't know *anything* about those other products, but it strikes me that Postgresql could without too much effort have Java as a stored procedure language.

    Indeed, someone has already started it http://plj.codehaus.org/

  20. Re:Bloat? on Linux Gains Lossless File System · · Score: 2, Informative

    for some of us, our whole file system is append only :

    http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/venti/venti.html

    http://cm.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/venti

    Sean Quinlan now works at Google, I'm not sure if Sean Dorward does, but it seems most of the other people who built plan9 at Bell Labs do.

  21. google aren't the only one on Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If Taiwan is so independent why doesn;t it have a seat on the UN ?

    Only 26 countires recognize Taiwan as a country in its own right.

    I've head quite a few boxes on them that say Taiwan, ROC on them so I guess not even everyone there shares the same opinion.

    as for me, what the hell do I know about it !

  22. see for yourself on Google & Sun Planning Web Office · · Score: 1

    http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/little_mendls_trip.h tml

    I got

    Yellowstone National Park
    Yellowstone National Park Find anything and everything!
    www.searchingmsn.co.uk

    Pack Trips in Yellowstone
    Discover hidden backcountry gems. Wildlife education & Eco-Adventures
    www.YellowstonePacktrips.com

    Grand Canyon Hiking Tours
    1-11 days. All inclusive adventures Go deep below the rim with a guide
    www.grandcanyonhikes.com

  23. dependent on Next Generation Chip Research · · Score: 1

    dependent, dependent, dependent

  24. graffiti on What Tools Exist for User Published Content? · · Score: 1

    http://www.graffiti.org/uk/index.html

    one dat Negroponte might let them have his cheap PDA, until then it's spray paint

  25. Re:Argh! on LispM Source Released Under 'BSD Like' License · · Score: 1

    Algol68 had garbage collection, though they called it

    "Meekly deproceduring to MOID FORM"

    Only some LISP dialects had GC.

    The first major language to have it was Visual Basic