Slashdot Mirror


User: demaria

demaria's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
456
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 456

  1. Re:Who's the target? on 3Com to Sell Firewall-in-a-NIC · · Score: 3, Informative

    Internal attackers.

    Disgruntled employees. Fired employees. Untrustworthy people on the inside trying to access payroll systems.

    (avoiding debate between hardware vs software firewalls here)

  2. Re:Doesn't make any sense on 3Com to Sell Firewall-in-a-NIC · · Score: 2

    Firewalls are about limiting access. It doesn't matter where it's placed, it's where you want to limit traffic that matters. That means internal/external and internal/internal.

    Putting a firewall at the edge is fine and a good idea, but the bigger threat is internal attackers. Don't want a disgruntled employee accessing the HR records.

  3. Re:Urchin - cream of the crop on Statistical Analyzers for HTTP Logs? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Urchin is fast and awesome.

    But it doesn't have as much detail as other vendors like Webtrends. You can't really do campaign analysis.

    Review of these two

  4. Re:wow... USA in the mobile dark ages. on Wireless Carriers Accused of Antitrust Violations · · Score: 2

    "How many different mobile phone standards/types of networks are in use in the states at the moment? Dont you guys still have some analogue mobile networks in operation?"

    Too many. There is still analog service, but the drive is to only digital. Digital is 'better' because your calls choppy up instead of static out. :-) But pretty much here you subscribe to one provider, get their cell phone, and not care about roaming protocol problems.

    Yeah, it's funky here in the US. But then again, US needs are slighty different. We have cheap, reliable, and widespread landline services. Regloat. :-) I wonder if it costs less for me to call Europe than Europe to call me.

    Then again there is always the stance that anything and everything relating to telecommunication requires confusolopies and inferior customer service.

  5. Re:wow... USA in the mobile dark ages. on Wireless Carriers Accused of Antitrust Violations · · Score: 2

    "Also, do people in the states have to pay full price on the handsets?"

    Yes. No. It depends on the special of the day, sometimes the phones are free. Most of the ones I've seen cost $40-$109 USD (either before or after rebate). I paid $50 for mine. US residents are also more concerned about roaming from state to state than country to country. Canada is about the only international roaming I care about. :-) I'm betting that most (keyword most) US citizens travel international for holiday, and don't want to even think about answering the bothersome phones.

  6. Re:CD-Rom and drive bay covers . . . on Black Is The New Beige · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Apple blue & white G3 towers solved this problem. The case had a hinged door in front of the CD drive, with a standard drive behind it. You could only see the beige when the tray was out.

  7. Re:60,000 hours of DVD? Not likely. on The Past and Future of the Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Consumer DV is compressed to 25Mbps.

    Uncompressed highest resolution HDTV maxes at 1.2Gpbs =)

  8. Re:Google? on Modeling Linking on the Web · · Score: 2

    A few years ago, Yahoo was like google. Very little advertising (just one banner ad), and none of that other stuff (email, web hosting, news, etc).

    Give google a few years...

  9. Re:Hmm. on Should Virus Distribution be Illegal? · · Score: 2

    Code is not art. You're putting together smaller components, and need to do so correctly, to achieve some purpose. It's engineering.

  10. Re:Would you like to be as happy as me? on How To Profit From Telemarketing · · Score: 2

    They never say the full name, but the state's postal abbreviation is "NT". It's been shown on Homer's drivers license at least once.

  11. Re:"Smaller number of available applications" on A New Low for Web Advertisers: Pop-Up Downloads · · Score: 2

    Disinfectant (for Mac) was nice, it caught some stuff for me. Oh yeah, and it was free. One of the best pieces of shareware ever.

  12. Re:Journalists!! on Another Office Alternative · · Score: 2

    Not all publishers pay by the word anymore. That encourages page bloat. Instead, many will pay by the article and say "write between 600 and 800 words" or something like that. All of my freelanced articles were paid by piece, not by word, with different rates for different sized articles (1pg vs 10pg).

  13. Re:lesson learned - use GPL on The Sad Parable of OS/2 · · Score: 1

    > tcp/ip vs token-ring

    I think you mean ethernet vs token-ring

  14. Re:Copyrights vs Patents on Webcasters and Record Industry Both Appeal Royalty Ruling · · Score: 2

    The founding fathers would probably also be surprised that there was a debate over extended unemployment by 13 weeks and that every American pays income, social security, and medicare taxes.

    But just because some copyrighted material will require licensing and payment, that doesn't mean all streaming audio is affected. If I record a program, which I do every week, I can put it online and stream it, because I own the copyright, and the technology to do that exists. Just because we have a new medium (internet streaming) doesn't mean we throw out the existing laws on copyright.

  15. Re:If you check the web page... on I Wanna Watch Cartoons! · · Score: 2

    Nope, they have new ones. Season seven, 2001:

    Kentucky Nightmare, Mommentary, The Justice Hole, Knifin' Around, Flipmode, and Sweet For Brak.

  16. Re:It's all up to the states now. on DOJ Argues in Favor of MS Settlement · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If you look at the election map, you'll see that Bush won many more states and counties.

    Gore won a very small number of states, and most of it was city area. With the system that is in place, it increases the voting power of smaller states to be more equal with the voting power of the big cities.

    It's worked fine for centuries. Notice how nobody is seriously talking about changing it? No talk before the election, nothing after. The system works fine, the way it was intended to.

    You're just upset because your guy lost.

  17. Re:ICANN should have been gone long ago on RIPE NCC Responds to ICANN CEO's Proposal · · Score: 2

    So all the porn sites are going to be lumped together into one top level domain that's completely easy and 100% effective to filter against.

    I'm sure they'll jump on that possibility. After all, we have so much trouble trying to find porn on the net.

  18. Re:Does anyone really want a dub?? on Disney Aquires Sen to Chihiro, Lasseter to Dub · · Score: 2

    How do you catch the 'subtleties of the dialogue correctly' with no knowledge of the language and a translation that doesn't completely correspond to the exact text in Japanese and no indication of which parts of English correspond to which parts of Japanese?

    What if you take the subtitled version, dubbed it exactly, and use actors that can give a bit of reflection and emotion? Personally, I find a lot of japanese girl voices to be too high pitched (annoying), and male voices not strong or deep enough (like Vegeta on DBZ).

  19. Re:No central firewalls? on HTTP's Days Numbered · · Score: 2

    Use a centrally managed desktop firewall. People do that. Often. A lot.

    Look at products from InfoExpress, ISS, F-Secure, Sygate, Securitae, and now Zone Labs. They all offer centrally managed firewalls.

  20. Re:BE is going to win or lose on Be Sues Microsoft for Violations of Antitrust Laws · · Score: 2

    The counter argument is that BE failed in the marketplace. It failed on the Mac platform and it failed on the PC. Why? Lack of apps among other reasons.

  21. Re:A WINNER IS YOU! on Concerning The Cancellation of Futurama · · Score: 2

    Yeah but it was corned beef not roast beef.

  22. Re:One of the main problems with internet voting on Elections on the Internet -- Not Any Time Soon · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those already exist. CNN was showing them last election; I think in a west coast state (Oregon?). Touch screen with pictures and text of the candidate, possibly in multiple languages.

  23. Re:Yahoo Pay-per-Search != Commercial Google on Yahoo! Launches Pay-Per-Search · · Score: 2

    How much does Lexis-Nexis cost?

  24. Re:Use Slashdot to collect comments. on Respond To The Tunney Act · · Score: 2

    Anyone who votes in favor of MS would probably be moderated as -1, Troll.

  25. Re:You're reading too much into this... on Review: Black Hawk Down · · Score: 2

    I've considered this as a potentially good movie. I think it'd be an excellent way to show the opposite side and cast them in the same light as the American side. I'd like to write and film this actually. Anyone wanna fund it?

    It'd be controversal, and that could bring in some sales. Plus, it'd get people to talk and debate about the movie, which in my book makes it successful.