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  1. Re:Privacy? on Valve's Battle Against Cheaters · · Score: 1

    And then the game company and cheaters will go back and forth, each adjusting their programs and the cheats will come back up as fast as they can be knocked down.

    What you fail to emphasize, is that after about 3 revolutions of this, people get pretty burned out on reading the posts from the people who were banned during each phase of circumvention. This then compounds itself and people say screw it, it's just gonna get fixed, if i'm detected, i'm banned. Then you are once again left with the demographic of people who fall outside of "honest man, dishonest mistake", and are left with the people who are going to do it regardless.

    In the security world, it's generally a game of keeping the honest man honest. Anything beyond that is in place to slow down the pro.

  2. Rewiring is your best option. on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 2, Funny

    First, any ethernet media converters you with coaxial as the medium, are going to be 10BASE-T 10Mbit connections. You will no longer be able to utilize 100Mbit across ethernet. Second, attempting to solder the wires from a twisted pair cable, and pinning it out over 4 shielded coaxial cables, is going to result in an extreme signal degredation and is completely out of the picture as a viable option. The posters above me stated that using one of the original coaxial cable as a base for pulling a snagless Cat5e/6 cable, and that is the direction that you need to take. If that is not an option, perhaps do some research and invest in a wireless setup that will suit your living area.

    In summary, please, don't solder an RJ-45 connecter and the 2 relevant pairs to 4 coaxial cables. Please?

    If you do, please, send pictures.

  3. The code of Harry on Studies Reveal Why Kids Get Bullied and Rejected · · Score: 1

    This just proves we should all be living by the Code of Harry, just like Dexter!

  4. Re:Yet another nonsensical response. on Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking Could Hurt Cell Towers · · Score: 1

    You get the point, quit crapping in my thread, troll.

  5. Yet another nonsensical response. on Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking Could Hurt Cell Towers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We all know the deal. If I wanted to compromise said cellular network, I could use the current published, freely, and openly available jailbreaking techniques. If they legalize jailbreaking of the phones, it is not going to legalize hacking cellphone towers, so the people that are going to do it are already trying. This is just a another preemptive strike by Apple. They are going to lose credibility, because too much press in a short ammount of time for a company can be just as bad as flying under the wire. I think it is time they slip back into the ether and keep quiet for a few weeks.

  6. Re:Reason #2 on Employee (Almost) Chronicles Sun's Top Ten Failures · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sorry, this is soooo flamebait, but...Your an idiot

  7. Re:Burn 'em! on Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library · · Score: 1

    And with their Meta-Mod points and their multiple \. accounts, they will mod your topic out of the current viewable threshold for normal people, negating your right to comment!

  8. Re:Funny how behind the US is on Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps · · Score: 1

    Air isn't free either. Think about the taxes paid and money we shell out to plant more trees and make the world a greener place. $100 bucks for internet isn't that bad if it is your livelihood.

  9. ...And then Time Warner will come... on Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps · · Score: 1

    So how long until Timer Warner comes and tries to seek more legislation since they refuse to complete, or will not compete?

    I think we are starting to see the little guys starting to move into the limelight, and the big boys will use bureaucracy to manage their inabilities to compete. Maybe a breakthrough will be made. Lets cross our fingers!

  10. Re:small change... on Microsoft's Price Fixing Penalty, 9M Euros · · Score: 2, Informative

    9 million Euros = 12.0177 million U.S. dollars Please, if you are going to make stuff up, preface your posts with "I may not know what I am talking about, but..."

  11. Re:For information on French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not particularly, they would have had to offer retraining from 2003 to 2007, as well as on the new OS.

  12. Re:Slow down there on DNSSEC Advances in gTLDs; Bernstein Intros DNSCurve · · Score: 1

    You know, I was going to do something with this thread, but prefacing it with "This Berstein guy" turned me off. Secondly, how do you go on to say that "they" are rushing into correcting "a problem that hasn't yet made a major impact". If we followed you though process then we would live in a much less secure world. You are the epitomy of what security teaches against. "Oh, well, nobody has been hacked yet, so no need to change the default password until someone figures it out." Please think through your posts next time. Gracias.

  13. Re:Military guy right here on Worm Attack Prompts DoD To Ban Use of External Media · · Score: 1

    Please let me be the first one to respond to this. Shut up, private.

  14. Re:8x8 on Lord British To Conduct Experiments On ISS · · Score: 1

    Hmm, 8x8 is an X-Y axis thing. Can you 8x8 on a Z axis upwards into space? I guess we will find out. Hmm, think Garriot will post it to AskChopper?

  15. I suspect it will go as follows... on Lord British To Conduct Experiments On ISS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, I beleive he will cast a Greater Heal, chanting "In Vas Mani", poke his eye, followed by the heal sound. At that point, he will most likely turn to the rest of the people on the ISS and PK them. They are most likely dexers, so he will have to make sure to keep Reflective Armor up, and just pick his combos well. Do you think he will look for the Star Room and mark a rune so he doesn't have to screw with flying there, and just recall back next time? *shrugs* Not sure. Can you mark in the ISS?

  16. Re:So far, 2 for MIT... on World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip · · Score: 5, Funny

    Texas A&M may be able to find an organic replacement for the silicon used in the chip, and then implant it in farm animals to further research on the effects of "I can't beleive its NOT silicon" based RFID chips in them.

  17. Re:Press release and marketing hype. 1st paragraph on World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip · · Score: 1

    Hmm, Im batting for an MIT student, and I bet that Dan Bernstein (slightly obscure reference) will offer $500 dollars if ANYONE can clone it!

  18. A few things to ask yourself. on Online Website Backup Options? · · Score: 1

    In order to properly facilitate a backup schema that will work for you, there are some important questions I would ask as a consultant to start offering suggetions.

    1. What is the host OS?
    2. What level of access is provided to the host OS?
    3. What OS level utilities are already in place to facilitate backups?
    4. What budget constraints are factored in?
    5. What options are currently provided by the host?
    6. What is the data that needs to be backed up?
    7. Databases: Can you commit/lock/backup/unlock these databases to provide data integrity to a degree?
    8. Timelines: What timelines need to be kept for the data.
    9. Static data: Will weekly increments suffice?
    10. Dynamic data: Will daily increments suffice?
    11. What is the acceptable CDE (Collateral Damage Estimate) for data loss? (1% or less)
    12. What sensitive or privacy act data needs to be encrypted, if moved insecurely over wire?
    13. Is archiving necesarry, or can the data be recycled in conjunction with the timeline structured backups?
    14. Can you do it yourself?

    There are more questions but that will give us a start in helping you get a real solution that will help YOU out.