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  1. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 1
    Maybe if you forgot that this is a "C" program and tried to build using C++ which would produce mangled names. This works in VS 2008 Express with the modification from an empty console application to use the C compiler instead of C++.

    int rand(void); int printf(const char * f, ...); int main() { ten: printf("%c", (rand() % 2) ? 47 : 92); goto ten; }

    GCC also compiles the above code to an a.out without further modification if you place it in a file named "main.c" and run "gcc main.c". Or even:

    echo 'int rand(void); int printf(const char * f, ...); int main() { ten: printf("%c", (rand() % 2) ? 47 : 92); goto ten; }' | gcc -x c -

  2. When will the cows come home? on Ask Gaming [Designer, Professor, Gadfly] Ian Bogost · · Score: 1

    What did you do with all the cows your players created?

    Did you have a secret bovine factory?

    Did you have a favorite cow?

  3. Re:Why not legalize coke? on Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs · · Score: 1

    ...I'd be concerned about what they can do if they don't have to be so conspicuous.

    inconspicuous - Not clearly visible or attracting attention; not conspicuous.

    IHBT?

  4. Re:What's average Netflix datarate? on AT&T To Introduce Broadband Caps · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're arguing semantics. You apparently haven't been seeing the commercials about getting movies /before/ Netflix through U-Verse. U-Verse competes with Internet video services. They provide a mix of free samples and paid downloads on demand.

    It doesn't matter if they deliver it by carrier pigeon, fleet of station wagons or multicast over twisted pairs of copper. They are providing the same demand based service in addition to their broadcast streams.

    Not that it matters, but they also push a DVR service as well that can stream from a central DVR to STBs (setup-top box). The DVR's search feature integrates the broadcast lineup (so you can record it) and on demand offerings (so you can buy it).

  5. Re:Microsoft's Biggest Mistake on Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost · · Score: 1

    Someone else uses lispscript?

    Odd quirky macros...
    Slightly not cross browser safe...
    (am using old code?)

  6. Re:Can I borrow his dictionary? on MPAA Boss Makes Case for ISP Content Filtering · · Score: 1
    Except encrypted traffic can still be analyzed for connection patterns.
    • Short bursts looks like ssh terminal
    • One big connection looks like a file transfer
    • a burst that is heavy in one direction is probably an e-commerce site or porn site
    • Multiple connections to many different hosts simultaneously looks like bittorrent

    So unless you are doing constant bulk uploads and downloads into Tor, filtering isn't too hard and will likely succeed. Filtering doesn't need to know the key if it can effectively stop the traffic. As others have mentioned, a check to the right representatives and senators can get an exception to protect against lawsuits from the collateral damage.

    This will be successful if filtering is the only game in town, especially since the ISPs have all moved into Video on Demand and Cable TV.
  7. Re:Sad, but predictable on House Bill Won't Criminalize Free Wi-Fi Operators · · Score: 1

    Except snooping on someone's connection is also against the law.

    How much time do you have to spend to enforce that your users are "clean"? It is an impossible task. period.

    There is nothing reasonable about this law.

  8. Re:Hypocritical on FCC May Move to Cap Cable Company Size · · Score: 1

    You raise a good point. The aggregation might have been allowed just so that the NSA would have an easy wiretap access point.

  9. Re:That's the bit that gets me, the console makers on US Senators Take On The ESRB Over Manhunt 2 · · Score: 1

    ESRB does have sub categories that it uses to modify ratings.

    For instance: MATURE Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language. ADULTS ONLY Titles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity. Both M or AO can imply "sex". Meanwhile there exist the following modifier tags:
    • Nudity
    • Partial Nudity
    • Sexual Content
    • Sexual Themes
    • Sexual Violence
    • Strong Sexual Content

    These can be used to modify and signify whether an AO rating is primarily due to sex. Compare this to the movie industry's rating system and you just don't have the same amount of information.

    Nintendo and Sony (can't find a link at the moment) have said using blanket statements that they will not have Adult only games on their consoles regardless of what you might imply.

  10. Re:Numbers on Dan Geer On Trusting PCs In Botnets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except when the OS tells someone, by icon and name, that they are clicking on an image, then it shouldn't install a program instead. Hiding extensions and allowing programs to masquerade as benign files is an interface issue. There is no reason Microsoft can't design the interface to ensure that EXE icons have a special signifier indicating the nature of using the icon (Linux might improve here too).

    Hiding the extensions by default might make the interface seem less cluttered, but it definitely creates creates confusion when you have a file actually named safe.jpg.exe and you see safe.jpg.

    Then there are just the plain dumb stuff that's other people's faults like programs that crash on malformed input.

  11. Re:Who wants it? on Microsoft Plans Flickr Competitor · · Score: 1

    Because if it wasn't tied to the desktop, then we can do away with the desktop entirely.

  12. Stego MP3 on Evidence of Steganography in Real Criminal Cases · · Score: 1

    If Steganography software was any good it wouldn't look like Steganographic software. Time to write that MP3 player / word processor / web browser that hides data in the MP3s / documents / web sites it accesses.

  13. Re:Would they allow you to register... on US Congress Wants .kids TLD · · Score: 1

    nek.kids ?

  14. D2 on Taking Games Seriously In Korea · · Score: 1

    I guess that you haven't tried playing Diablo II lately.

  15. Re:scour on Napster Traffic Drops · · Score: 1

    Actually there was a Linux Scour client.

    It was just pretty much a CLI type client.

    If you ran it in X, it would display a download bar using '#' to
    indicate progress. The client was written in perl and was at version
    2.0 last time I checked. Not as 'slick' as the windows client, but it
    worked just fine.

    FWIW...

    johnny

  16. Re:Nifty Netscape trick on W3C On How To Fix Browsers · · Score: 1

    Those are indeed useful things to know.

    I've been working on a kiosk for one of the departments at my school.
    As such, I've been using Redhat/Netscape/Afterstep. I too found the
    pages on x.themes.org useful.

    Then I found a program called 'editres' with several siblings.
    'editres' is a standard part of X. By using it and clicking on a
    running X program, you can edit all those goofy settings with can be
    set in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults or /etc/X11/app-defaults
    directories and the .Xdefaults(/.Xresources?) files. Needless to say,
    I went to town crippling Netscape. No more menu bar for you...

    Inaddition to the X settings, there is a page on the Netscape homepage,
    barried several layers deep and almost unfindable, that details
    settings for Communicator which can be set through the
    ~/.netscape/preferences file and a netscape.cfg file, which I never got
    working.

    Take care
    --johnny

  17. Re:Why does bind run as root? on Vixie And Others On Members-Only BIND Info · · Score: 2

    Um, no. You made a blanket statement, prepare to die.

    bind can be configured to run as nonroot in a chrooted jail easily, at least in version 9.1.0.

    named -u named -t /chroot/jail/named

    gets you started. Other versions I'm not so sure support running as user *blank*. Older versions don't, but the recent rewrite (9.1.0) does.

    chroot'ed directories can be escaped by root users doing chroot ../../../../../ from what I understand.

    --johnny

  18. Re:Off by default on Cracking All The Live Long Day & RH6/7 Worms · · Score: 1
    Something that seems to escape people is that there exists a manpage called 'Xserver'. This manpage describes some really interesting options that can be passed to the X server.

    With SSH, there is no reason to run X with a listening port at 6000. SSH gladly tunnels everything through the secure connection (a little slowly) without this TCP/IP port (why would you want to send all the contents of an X terminal in the clear anyway?). Very simply, add '-nolisten tcp' to the list of parameters passed to the X server. For xdm, this would be in the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file. For startx, this would be to the end of the line which calls xinit or there abouts.

    Unless you want to be a server, you shouldn't have any open TCP/IP ports.

    --johnny

  19. clock setting on Horribly Bad Game Designs · · Score: 1

    Games | Posted by Hemos on Wednesday May 03, @06:01AM looks like wednesday just couldn't get here fast enough!