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  1. Re:how long do you quarantine? on The End of Signature-Based Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1

    Forever.
    If the program is from an unknown, non trusted site, then you can never fully trust it, now can you?

  2. Re:Sandbox on The End of Signature-Based Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a VM for unsigned / unknown programs.
    So your copy of Word (okay, bad choice) would run normally, but anything that you download from the net would run inside of a VM.

  3. Sandbox on The End of Signature-Based Antivirus Software? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A thought, and perhaps a better mind can say why this would or would not work.
    Build an AV system that creates a VM sandbox that would then allow the a program to run to see what it would do, and if determind to work normally, then to pass the IO requests directly to the system.
    So a worm or virus would begin to make calls out to the various sub-systems to hide itself and open up ports, then the AV would nip it in the bud.

  4. Shuttle prep on New Technique for Creating Nanotube Sheets · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that it takes a while for the machine to move from the staging area to the physical pad, then you need to load the fuel, which takes a while to say the least.

    http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/tour.html

    And

    http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/crawler.htm l

  5. Re:So where do the profits go? on Textbooks With EULAs · · Score: 1

    There are two possiblities-
    Either there are not profits: the book is sold at cost, or the profits are funneled into a fund for the department to use. This is where your corruption comment might be in effect- departmental politics can be a bitch afterall.
    But...
    If the school that you worked at / atteneded is a public school then you can get the bugets (they are a matter of public record after all). If it's a private school (Harvard, etc al), I'm sure their books are open for review as well (non-profits do have to file paper work).

  6. Re:Learning? on Textbooks With EULAs · · Score: 2, Informative
    ... [E]veryone knows that the only audience FOR that professor's expensive hard bound book is going to be the students that he says have to buy a copy.
    Then you know nothing about how schools manage required books for courses. If a professor assigns thier own book then s/he fore goes all profits from their book. To do otherwise would open the school up to all sorts claims and attacks to it's accreditation, something that would get a professor fired, tenure or no tenure.
  7. Re:Region Codes on Lik-Sang.com Taken to Court By Sony · · Score: 1

    In a word, licensing.
    If Sony licenses a song, or a character, or something for use with any of their games, that IP could have a regional license that says that they can use that IP only in certainly countries.
    And this goes for any game company- Nintendo, Sega, EA, and even MS and Sony.

  8. Cheap solution on Towards a Comprehensive USB Flash Drive Policy? · · Score: 1

    Hot glue the USB ports on each PC, so nothing can be plugged in.

  9. Re:Wait a minute... on Microsoft Sues Google For Hiring MS Exec · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think you've hit the nail on the head in your attempt to be funny.

    MS is a convicted monopoly- Google might be able to claim that since MS is a monopoly, their non-complete is over reaching and thus un-enforcable- every other software development work is in direct compedition with them. It just might work.

  10. Simple solution on Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't buy the content that requires this.
    Create your own content and sell it to others that with no restrictions.

  11. Re:He's not required to resign... on Perl's Chip Salzenberg Sued, Home Raided · · Score: 1

    Not really. If he can pierce the corporate vail, then he can directly sue the board, the directors, and senior management. Showing that they KNOWENLY acted illegally, immorally, and unethically is the easiest way to do so, and that letter just put them on notice.

  12. Another on Server Room Temp Monitoring and Notifications? · · Score: 1

    http://www.ambientweather.com/sethandensep.html

    This plug and go package has everything you need to protect rooms and equipment from temperature problems using a network enabled Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 machine. All software runs as Windows services.

    It can alert you via email, pager and run commands when temperature goes outside your set limits.

    The graphing tool allows you to graph temperature data from a web browser.

    This package includes the ST6105C Sensorsoft Thermometer, RWME Remote Watchman Enterprise software (three monitored item limit), RWMS Remote Watchman Device Server software, F1000 Velcro fastener, printed Quick Start Guide and User Manuals on CD.

    Product may not be as it appears in the image.

    Shipping weight: 0.68 kg (1.5 lbs).

    Inventory Status...
    Sku: ST6105C-ESPAKpad$399.00

  13. Re:what exactly google does to stop fraud? on Google Sued Over Click Fraud · · Score: 1
    Fairly hard problem to solve, but here's how I'd take a crack at it:
    • Look at subnets and IP ranges. Fairly simple one.
    • Look at click rates.
    • Look at keyword rates.
    • Look at search depth (front page vs 5 pages in).
    • I'd also have a few labs setup with infected PCs to see if there is anything going on by virus / hacked machines by monitoring all communications.
  14. It's simply time for a new law on Security Breach Exposes 40M Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    That if a company loses personal information, then that company is libal for $1000 fine per person affected, plus any additional fees, fines, moneys to pay to correct the problem(s).

  15. Can Ghibli save Disney's soul? on Can Hayao Miyazaki Save Disney's Soul? · · Score: 1

    No.
    Only Disney can save Disney, and that's if Disney wants to change.
    Ghibli can offer inspriation and help in reminding Disney what they could do if they so choose to do so, and take chances again.

  16. Re:Quality Control? on Halo Movie May Happen After All · · Score: 1

    As apposed to him saying:
    I've read the script and saying "Man-o-man it sucks donkey balls!"?
    Let's face it, video game movies will always stink. The naritive story that is there for the game usually does not work out well for a movie- and to make up for that, they pump up the SFX.

  17. Re:Yeah this is great on 63% Of Corporations Plan To Read Outbound Email · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is a company here in Boston called IMLogic which builds systems for logging IM conversations for regualtory reasons (Brokerage firms, Health Care companies, etc).

    So, yes, companies are reading that too.

  18. Re:An interesting article at wired.com on Has Anyone Made an Artificial Diamond Ring? · · Score: 1

    http://www.apollodiamond.com/

    They'll custom make a jem for you and your wife.
    I have no idea how much it will cost, but honestly to screw over deBeers, it would be worth it.

  19. Re:Better for spotting UFOs on MSN Virtual Earth to Take on Google · · Score: 1

    That is odd-
    First thing that I noticed is that the shadows on the houses are all sourced from the north- and the silver thing's high-lite is on the south side, so the lighting is different.
    It sort of looks like a silver map pin that was left on the photo print when that section was scanned- or a hole in the film stock.
    Of course I could be one of 'them' passing out red herrings.
    *grin*

  20. I can't speak for Canada, but for everything else on Moving a Business to Canada? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    First- do your research.
    Figure out where you'd like to live, figure out what types of industries are in that area (since most likely, those are going to be the ones that you'd be doing business with), figure out who you'd like to work for in that area.
    Then take a week long vacation in that area and see if it measures up to what you'd want. Talk to employees of companies you'd like to work at, etc.
    You should know the drill by now.
    As for the vacation- well, everything can be negotiated, just be ready to deliver on your side of the deal.
    BTW, I have 7 weeks a year of vacation, so it's not unheard of to get great benefits. Fairly standard in my company (a HMO company), actually.

  21. Re:Altitude on First 96-Node Desktop Cluster Ships · · Score: 1

    Fairly standard disclamer text there- I've seen that text in everything from HD to stereo equipment manuals.

  22. Re:Is this really that hard? on Handling Viruses in an Uncontrolled Network? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Simple enough, those students who are unplugged due to excessive virus / pinging / flooding / bandwidth hogging app can use the public PCs in the Library, Comptuer Lab, and elsewhere.

  23. Re:I would kill for SVG in schema on Firefox 1.1 Plans Native SVG Support · · Score: 1

    Ah, but I'm not the DBA.
    Rules of the company, ya know.

  24. I would kill for SVG in schema on Firefox 1.1 Plans Native SVG Support · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I work a lot with Databases, and their schema.
    I'm also sick and tired of wallpapering my cubial with schema print out from the plotter. SVG DB schema would be an excellent tool to have- go from a 30,000 ft view to a grass blade view with out having to load up different pages, or deal with a wall paper print out.

    Someone wanna make the tool?

  25. Re:Hmmm on Safari Passes the Acid2 Test · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Catch-22.
    We have browsers that can't do standard HTML / CSS because no one writes clean HTML / CSS, and we can't have clean HTML / CSS until we have a browser that supports it correctly.

    This is just a small step forward in that fight, and hopefully it will go forward.