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  1. Re:Marketshare has meaning in security on Evaluating Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC2 · · Score: 1

    Errr...MULTICS. Dammit.

  2. Re:Marketshare has meaning in security on Evaluating Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC2 · · Score: 1
    Have you seen an attack compromising IIS and targetting Windows clients?

    Such as? The last one I remember targetted Index Server, not IIS. Much like many of the UNIX worms target insecure CGIs or add-ons, not Apache directly.

    So I agree to say that Linux would be more under attack if it had a bigger share on the desktop. But I wouldn't say for sure that it would automatically be as insecure as Windows.

    It would be used by random everyday people, so yes, it would be as insecure. Period.

    Remember that the entire point behind UNIX, even the name, was to create a less-secure version of MUTLICS.

  3. Re:Games have always been political. on In These Games, the Points Are All Political · · Score: 1

    Actually, the original reason for Lara being female is that the developer, knowing he was going to be staring at somebody's ass for eight hours a day, what with developing a third-person shooter and all, decided he'd rather look at a nice female ass rather than a nice male ass.

    Find the old interviews and what not, and you'll find a little publicized 'feature' of Tomb Raider is that Lara's ass is 'properly' modeled and animated; that is, it moves properly in response to her walking, running, crouching, and so on.

  4. Re:A differering opinion regarding Kirsten Dunst on Spider-Man 2 Reviewed [updated] · · Score: 1

    Not to mention The Virgin Suicides.

  5. Re:Squeaky Clean Terrorists on Airport Monitoring of Travellers via Blackberry · · Score: 1

    It's been said before, and it'll be said again, not a single one of any of the measures, acts, laws, rules, regulations, changes, nothing, that have been passed in the wake of 9/11, would have done ANYTHING to prevent 9/11 had they already been in place.

  6. Re:this law stinks on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 1

    Aka, the kid walks into the store, and asks for a 'peanut candy bar' and gets shown a giant throbbing cock. "Yeah, baby, look at THAT bar of candy!"

  7. Re:And Linus Torvalds won't see a dime from it... on First Linux-only Retail Store? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it didn't get him a job; he was already a patent inspector 3rd class. This was his hobby.

    He didn't start getting the props he deserved until several years later, possibly (I forget offhand) not even until he busted out the theory of *general* relativity.

  8. Re:Horrible precedent on Tecmo Upgrades Ninja Gaiden Via Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    DOA3, Splinter Cell, and other games have had their content updates distributed on Xbox Magazine CDs and the like, too.

  9. Re:And Linus Torvalds won't see a dime from it... on First Linux-only Retail Store? · · Score: 1

    Ooh! Ooh! I know the answer! Assuming you mean special relativity, NOTHING! Not even a promotion to patent inspector 2nd class, nor a position as a lecturer, nor a position as a high school science teacher.

  10. Re:Down your pants on Ghost in the Shell 2 in Theaters Late This Summer · · Score: 1
    The big question is who will replace a naked and petrified Natalie Portman?

    Why, a naked and partially-disassembled Major Kusanagi.

  11. Re:Firewall? Please? on Mobo for Vertically Challenged Devices · · Score: 1

    Use a PCMCIA card with an external antenna.

    You'd probably want an ext antenna anyway, for a base station.

  12. Hrm. on Appropriate Music for Callers 'On Hold'? · · Score: 1

    I've always thought it would be an interesting experiment to 'conference' everybody on hold in a tech support line together; maybe they could help solve each other's problems.

  13. Re:Distributing patches on sign-up disks on Unplugging Email To Combat Spam · · Score: 1

    Which then opens the ISP to liability of the patch doesn't take, or if something screws up, or the user then mistakenly thinks they're patched against every future problem, or the ISP is then required to make the patches available, or provide tech support for them....

    Considering how easy MS makes it, in XP at least, to have patches autodownloaded in the background, then presented to you for installation....

  14. Re:Maybe MS wants to try winning the Japanese mark on Real Xbox Next Specs Leaked? · · Score: 1

    The Japanese got the Controller S from the getgo.

    And yes, space is a premium, but the Xbox isn't all that much bigger in terms of length/width than a Playstation 1. I doubt it was that much of a turn-off.

  15. Re:M$ vs. Linux "Roadshow" on ESR's Halloween XI -- Get the FUD · · Score: 0
    Wrong. Go buy a license for 100 mail users, or 50 MSSQL user licenses. OUCH. Now compare Postgres/MySQL or Sendmail/Qmail/god-knows-what-free-email-servers

    Then try to get Exchange style groupware which 'just works.' Or integration with your CRM system, Avaya digital telephony system, and so on.

    Even compilers come free. Where's a free (stripped down) version of Visual Basic on Windows? You know, include a low VB 5 compiler for quick stuff..

    Visual Basic Script is pretty good for things that don't involve full blown forms, or program in ASP with web-based front ends.

  16. Re:Yeesh on ESR's Halloween XI -- Get the FUD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isn't it dishonest to use a title made famous by leaked internal memos to promote what is, when you get right down to it, a rant? Or, if you're being generous, an essay, maybe even a white paper?

  17. Re:Consistancy at last? on New HHGTTG Radio Show Gets Douglas Adams' Voice · · Score: 1

    True, true. There are others, as well, such as the Bad News Drive (even though nobody wants to be around you when you get there.)

    There's specific mention that the IID renders hyperspatial bypasses obsolete, though, which is what I was thinking of.

  18. Re:Weightless.... on SpaceShipOne Flight Not as Perfect as it Seemed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Microgravity:An environment in which there is very little net gravitational force, as of a free-falling object, an orbit, or interstellar space. (emphasis mine)

    Weightlessness: Not experiencing the effects of gravity.

    Gravity is still very significant at those altitudes.

    Therefore, you're not weightless.

    because he was coasting freely along with it.

    In other words, he was in freefall, and experiencing 'microgravity.'

    Gravity is still very significant at those altitudes.

    And you're right; in orbit, you're still very much affected by gravity; an 'orbit' is simply 'falling towards, but keep missing' sort of thing. You're not weightless, you're in freefall, and therefore experiencing 'microgravity.'

    From a howstuffworks.com article:

    Weightlessness is more correctly termed microgravity. You are not actually weightless, because the Earth's gravity is holding you and everything in the shuttle in orbit. You are actually in a state of free-fall, much like jumping from an airplane except that you are moving so fast horizontally (5 miles per second or 8 kilometers per second) that, as you fall, you never touch the ground because the Earth curves away from you.
  19. Re:Roddenberry should get some of the blame on Babylon 5 Creator Pitches Trek · · Score: 1

    After a terrible war, a group of nations decide to form, well, a League of Nations to help diffuse tensions and problems, providing an international forum for the airing of disputes and greivences.

    Unfortunately, (and here's where we start to diverge slightly Trek) the LoN has no actual authority whatsoever; no military, no ability to censure or punish a member.

    Because of this inability to actually DO anything, including preventing Japan from invading China, Russia from invading Finland, and so on, the various members walk, and the League fails.

    The modern UN is a slightly closer comparison to the UFP, except that UFP seems to maintain StarFleet itself, rather than with military units seconded to it, and also has provisions for providing for military forces on member worlds.

    So, no, it's not identical, but the concept of 'unified body fractures from within and winds up fighting itself' is pretty damn old.

    The Roman Empire doesn't really fit the mold either; it corrupted from within, then was shattered from without, rather than having a few provinces go to war with one another and being unable to stop them.

  20. Re:Weightless.... on SpaceShipOne Flight Not as Perfect as it Seemed · · Score: 1

    Well, he should have used the term 'microgravity,' but by definition, if Gravity was pulling him along, then he was not experiencing weightlessness, just freefall.

  21. Re:I'll be like Prince... on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 1

    Sure, legally change your name to 'Feck Right Aff.'

    "Sir, what's your name?"
    "Feck Aff."
    "Excuse me?"
    "You heard me, Feck Aff."
    "Tell me your name, or I'll be forced to bash in your teeth."
    "I *told* you, Feck Right Aff."

    Sure, you'll have no teeth, but you'll have an interesting story to tell in court.

  22. Re:Have you seen the list? on WinXP SP2 Sacrifices Compatibility for Security · · Score: 3, Informative

    to open ports IN ICF[Internet Connection Firewall]. (Emphasis mine.)

    No, you don't need to be an admin to open a socket. But you do need to be an admin (rightly so) to blow open holes in your firewall.

    Or, under the new system, you can tell the system, as a non-admin, to let the program open the port, but to take care of closing and what not, rather than trusting the app to do the right thing.

  23. Re:Consistancy at last? on New HHGTTG Radio Show Gets Douglas Adams' Voice · · Score: 1

    The Vogons in general were patsies, but Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz was in on the scheme, with Gag Halfront, Zaphod's Personal Braincare Specialist.

    Besides, hyperspace bypasses were rendered obsolete with the IID. The Vogons were also just displaying their sheer bloodymindedness; they'd been contracted to demolish the Earth, and by God they'd demolish the Earth.

  24. Re:Roddenberry should get some of the blame on Babylon 5 Creator Pitches Trek · · Score: 1

    Foundation, or Andromeda, or Star Wars: Before The Original Trilogy, (hell, Star Wars: The Timothy Zahn Novels deal with much the same thing) or, The League of Nations Disolving In The Lead Up To World War 2, or The Fall Of The USSR, and so on.

  25. Re:An idea for the pilot... on Babylon 5 Creator Pitches Trek · · Score: 2, Informative

    Basically, and very metaphorically, it was revealed that the whole time, Sam was choosing not to go home, as he wanted to be able to help people. Once he realized that, he could have gone home if he wanted to, but chose to continue leaping, in order to help people.