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  1. Re:the cat on Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984 · · Score: 1

    Its just another reason to diversify your online activities. It helps to damped the breech of trust whether you lose your Orwell, your email or your search history.

  2. Re:Obviously... on Chinese Social Websites Go Under "Maintenance" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Facebook groups lead to action?

  3. Re:Instant Karma... on Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack · · Score: 1

    So true, I don't know how many times my school email has been slayed by careless persons having the audacity to catch a virus and use pop or imap client. I imagine not too much has come of it as its been a while since they major webmail providers had to block our domain. I also find the warnings to cover your ass because there is a specific threat on the network disheartening as it suggests the only time to exercise care is when a threat has been identified. For better or worse the internet is a public network. Janitors wear gloves for reasons when they clean public toilets. They know better than the rest of us.

  4. Re:Instant Karma... on Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It would seem the user is especially disadvantaged if they operate under the believe they have a malware proof machine. Why operate and antivirus or download with some discretion if you have a malware proof win machine?

  5. Re:Thats it... on Bell Proposing Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1

    Well we already have socialized power. The government monopoly beats the hell out of the "private monopoly." Try selling me on the private utility idea when there are actually enough private players to create a market. Otherwise a private monopoly is just a cash machine.

  6. Re:Thats it... on Bell Proposing Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not everything going on in the US broadband wise is completely disheartening. Last week my hometown passed a bond initiative to fund fiber to the home as a municipal utility.
    http://www.highlandilnews.com/index.html

  7. Old News on iTunes Prohibits Terrorism · · Score: 1

    This has been in apple product license agreements for years. I first remember stumbling into it back in the summer of 2004, and I imagine its been in there for much longer.

  8. Re:Same S***, Different Pile on Book Publishers Making the Same Mistakes as Record Labels? · · Score: 1

    That innovation will do miracles for the art of counterfeiting. Or radically free the collectibles industry to democratization.

  9. Re:...Well on Gnome, KDE, LXDE, IceWM All Working On Android · · Score: 1

    hard copy of all those sms messages

  10. Re:First on DragonFly BSD 2.2 Released · · Score: 1

    horrendously different.

  11. ...Well on Gnome, KDE, LXDE, IceWM All Working On Android · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Its taken long enough. When will the get cups running? There have been enough non-phone installs to show this OS is building momentum. Even if at Google's glacial pace. The question now is who gets credit for the ath driver on Android.

  12. Re:Over 9000 on How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need? · · Score: 1
    It like asking how many axioms there need to be, or how many languages are needed to develop a project. As many as is necessay, while recognizing Godel's incompleteness theorem.

    Your license can either be complete or consistent.

    Imaginary property law exists for a reason.

  13. Re:what if on Scientists Map Neanderthal Genome · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, maybe the zoo can take care of my student loans if I have enough neanderthal markers in my personal genome.

  14. So... on First Doom 4 Production Shots Revealed · · Score: 1

    It looks like the graphics have advanced since doom 3. A more impressive improvement happen though in the different sets of screenshots produced for Duke Nukem forever though. The again the developers working on the Doom series does seem to be more task oriented than the Duke Nukem forever team.

  15. Europa, but differently on Fly Me To Which Moon? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Really if we're just looking for microbes we're bound to be disappointed. Reminds me of this alien invasion story in the New Yorker. Link

    We need something that can see big things too, so we don't miss some Cthulhu looking thing just beneath the ice while we scrape around for little stuff.

  16. Re:Games have been legitimate for years... on On Game Developers and Legitimacy · · Score: 2, Informative

    As some support for this position, Ars had a nice story on a game that is little other than art. Link

  17. Re:Better tools, good process, learning from other on Website Security Without Breaking the Bank? · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can write insecure websites using pretty much any tools, but if you're using MySQL and PHP, especially if you're using other peoples code in your app, you're probably going to end up with a security nightmare, regardless of how hard you try.

    Taken to the extreme you could prepare you own active page servlet using FORTRAN and obfuscate the binaries, randomize query url generation, and run everything on your server through a microkernel operating system where you change all of the system calls and commands to things only you know.

    Then operate your website entirely anonymously with tenneling through tor between your actual webserver and the server putting up your domain.

  18. Re:if you wait until it happens... on Website Security Without Breaking the Bank? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Better to shoot for Colby Jack for the time being. A nice blend of cheeses that get along well enough to accomplish the sites purpose and conspicuously lacking in holes. A parmesan site will generally have issues of its own related to its crumbling interfering with functionality.

  19. Re:More Likely Responses on Hackable Microcontroller-Powered Valentine's Card · · Score: 1

    What about starting a charity where unloved Itanium machines can get repurposed as E-valentines running repurposed ELIZA hacks offering the appearance of command line affection.

  20. This doesn't seem timed well on Metasploit Hacking Tool To Get Services-Based Model · · Score: 1

    Coming off of the Kaspersky breach yesterday this hitting the news today seems like it should raise some eyebrows. If one well regarded security firm has trouble controlling customer data, does offloading actual penetration testing of your network to a remote system seem very bright. Especially if the penetration test reveals flaws that leave vulnerable information on the remote machines. I don't think its a strictly legal minefield so much as well, a minefield.

  21. Re:Is this really news? on German Bundeswehr Recruiting Hackers · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression the funding for the Airforce cyber command hackers was on the rocks for the time being...

  22. Re:Is this really news? on German Bundeswehr Recruiting Hackers · · Score: 5, Funny

    But NSA hackers don't get spiffy uniforms. If a cyberspace world war breaks out Das Keyboard might become a documentary as opposed to just... a keyboard.

  23. Re:so what? on February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 · · Score: 1

    Do you really think that won't be patched 20 years from now?

  24. Talk about bad timing on Kaspersky Customer Database Exposed · · Score: 1

    I just switched to Kaspersky last night, after my McAfee subscription expired. "Haxor et Machina?"

  25. Re:so what? on February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just wait till Unix time reaches 3141592654 (sorry I rounded up the last digit on the holy number, if its that bad you can celebrate a second earlier) If you think people get crazy about pi day wait till you mix pi and unix.