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  1. Forgive me, but... on Anti-Spammers DDoSed Out Of Existence · · Score: 1

    I, for one, DON'T welcome our new spam overlords!

  2. Re:Non-standard configuration on New Vulnerabilities in Portable OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    I wasn't considering PAM since NetBSD doesn't come with it by default and your remark about the incompatibility OTPprivsep didn't include PAM.

    Never mind.

  3. Re:Non-standard configuration on New Vulnerabilities in Portable OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, privilege separation does not work with with OPIE, the one-time password system.

    Care to explain why I just logged into OpenSSH_3.4 NetBSD_Secure_Shell-20030917 using OTP and privsep? Does it affect newer versions only?

  4. Re:What's the big deal? on ICANN Asks VeriSign To Stop DNS Wildcarding · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Right, why have standards. At the next opportunity just change every piece of installed software to adapt to your marketing brainfart of the week.

    Why the fuck was this even modded up?

    Retard mods.

  5. Re:drool over this, baby! on Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster · · Score: 1

    Just when you think highlighting the relevant info you refer to is enough, some AC comes along explaining some obvious fact to you and calling you stupid.

    Good job, AC.

  6. Re:drool over this, baby! on Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster · · Score: 1

    1024 nodes
    2048 cpus
    1024 power cables


    You tell!

  7. Re:How does one pronounce it??? on GNOPPIX: Bootable GNOME CD · · Score: 1

    G-spot noppix.

  8. Just in case on ESR to Shred SCO Claims? · · Score: 1

    the question hasn't been asked:

    But does it run on Linux?

  9. Re:IBM? on Workplace Privacy - IBM Hot, Lilly Not · · Score: 5, Funny

    When did they get all nice-nice?

    They didn't. Everyone else got bad-bad.

  10. Re:At MOST it should be optional... on Should ISPs Be The Little Man's Firewall? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    everything incoming should be blocked, save port 25, 110 (consumers need not have any other incomnig traffic)

    Most "consumers" don't need their own SMTP or POP3 _servers_ reachable from outside. Don't confuse source and destination ports. If you meant incoming traffic from a SMTP or POP3 server, then you forgot to include port 80, port 22, port 27015, port ..

  11. Steps: on Step-by-Step Computer Destruction · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. take hammer

    2. apply to computer

  12. Re:use a token on Users feel Password Rage · · Score: 1

    Great idea! Until you lend out your CD....

    The point of the grandparent is this:

    For those really secure passwords, I look around in my office, pick a token, and use something from it as a password.

    The one that gets hold of his CD won't know what to use from it as the password or that it even contained one. It could be the MD5 sum of the first track, or the second, or some arbitrary byte range, or the starting letters of all songs whose track numbers appear in his birthday or whatever. That's a way to combine easily remembered data with more or less "random" input to form a stronger(?) password.

    PS: IANACE (crypto expert)

  13. Re:USB keys on Users feel Password Rage · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How does this protect malware to read it off your USB stick _and_ use it? Right, you protect your private PGP key with.. a password!

    The only thing that comes to mind that's even remotely sophisticated is an "intelligent" USB stick, so to speak. It contains your private key and never gives that out to anything. Instead, it gets fed a challenge, encrypts it using the key and sends it back to the computer where the corresponding public key is stored.

    Is anyone using something like this on a regular basis (for his home server/desktop)?

  14. Re:Windows' filesystem on 'Storage' to Replace Traditional Filesystems? · · Score: 1

    I think [...] will probably [...] Score: 5, Informative ...

  15. Re:Seems Overboard on Google Removes Links in Response to DMCA Complaint · · Score: 1

    People are going to find the URLs whether or not they are on google.

    Especially since google implicitly lists them by providing a link to the complaint at the bottom of the page with the search results. This was even stated in the summary..

  16. And today kids on How Everyday Things Are Made · · Score: 2, Funny

    we learn how molten piles of server goo are made.

  17. Re:Yes... on Fastest US Supercomputer Runs Linux · · Score: 1

    A cluster of soviet countries imagines you!

  18. Re:I apparently already have this function.... on Executive Secretary In Every Computer · · Score: 1

    Seek advice.

  19. Re:Truly P2P if SOBIG.G contains the spam message on P2P Spam? · · Score: 1

    What you'd need is a reverse MX record. AFAIK you can only query the responsible mail server(s) for a zone at the moment but you cannot query whether a given server is listed in some zone's MX record, can you?

  20. Free hardware? on Big Company on Campus · · Score: 1

    Bearing gifts of cash, software and computers worth $25 million [...]

    Can't they just say like "Hey, thanks for the hardware!", dump the Windows crap and install BSD/Linux/..?

    Why am I sure that they actually have to use the OS they are given as a "gift"?

  21. Re:Concerts/Music on Perfect Pitch for Those Without It · · Score: 1

    What do you mean, the guy from Aphex Twin? Aphex Twin aka Richard D. James is the guy. And btw, when was the last time you heard "Come to Daddy" on the radio more than once a day? The day RDJ becomes mainstream is the day I'm really going to kill myself.

  22. Re:Geeks want to know... on NTT Verifies Diamond Semiconductor Operation At 81 GHz · · Score: 1

    He isn't allowed to tell.

  23. Re:is there a digital copy with the book? on Practical Unix & Internet Security · · Score: 1

    Yes, ed2k link please!

  24. Re:I can't believe there are no karaoke players! on Dave Phillips' Linux Sound Updated · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. Where's the funny part here?

  25. Re:Marketing on New Transmeta Chip: "Efficeon" · · Score: 1

    I'd call becoming the number two in any market without anyone knowing about you an honorable achievement :)