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  1. beyond.com 's naked man! on A Look Back At Ten Dot-Com Flops · · Score: 1

    Not even death is it remembered.

  2. Holiday Inn for one...Re:Which hotels? on Hacking Hotels 101 · · Score: 1

    Well then, you didn't read it closely enough because he metions Holiday In..

  3. Not accurate .... Re:Great....but what if the w on 107 Cameras to Scan Discovery for Damage · · Score: 1

    There is a plan, and in a nutshell, if something happens where the shuttle can not return, it is to dock with International Space Station. At that point a Soyuz capsule can be used for the astronauts to return to earth.

    To quote from one article:
    "If they find major damage, NASA might have the seven shuttle astronauts use the Space Station as a lifeboat until a new shuttle arrives - a worst-case scenario that would involve dumping the stricken shuttle in the Indian Ocean."

    http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0712/p01s01-stss.htm l?s=eee

  4. It's Florida...Re:What a bunch of assholes. on Man Arrested for Using Open Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    What do you expect?? Everything's illegal there.

  5. Re:I got Password Safe but what about my swap file on ID Theft Made Easy · · Score: 1

    Mac OS also keeps information like your password in the swap file. If a box is rooted, it's rooted. Swap is not encrypted.

    This is not a windows problem.

    sudo strings -8 /var/vm/swapfile0 |grep -A 4 -i longname

    Reference this o'reilly article

  6. Ever heard of Ucontrol? on Apple Updates PowerBooks · · Score: 1

    UControl Mapping control to caps lock since you were in diapers.... .... well, not really, but you get the idea.

  7. Really good point on Video Formats for non-Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    Makes me wonder what type of bandwidth the typical users to the site are on and whether that's taken into account. Is there any easy way to tell with a javascript or something how much bandwidth your users have?

  8. Real Player on Video Formats for non-Windows Users? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Works on linux(Helix Community), mac (www.real.com) and windows of course. And if it is a pay-site and you can afford to buy the encoders you can get professional support as well.

  9. Re:Microsoft Gallows 2.0 on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 1

    Hahahhaha.... Actually, there have been plenty, they just don't get hyped. When iTools/Mac.com was launched in January of 2000, the software was barely ready to go . The software it was being demoed through crashed multiple times DURING the keynote. A simple white-screen WebObjects error message popped up in front of the whole world in Jobs' web browser. No one was fired for this and no one really noticed. Probably because Jobs' did a good job of talking through it and not panicking and also becauset the fine sys admin with quick fingers in the background restarted them quickly enough ;) hahahaha

  10. Classic Bill Gates...."we will crush linux" on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 1

    After seeing Bill Gates speak at the Microsoft Developers Conference in Redmond last year, I was convinced the man is a dinasour in the industry. He's a relic and an icon for the company but it seems for the most part completely irrelevent.

    During the Conference many of the Microsoft presentors and developers spent a good deal of their presentations talking about embracing the open source community. This wasn't a suprise as Microsoft's gobbled up a great many open source developers during the IT slump of the past five years. From SOAP to app server design and so forth every speaker during the conference made some point about having open APIs and working with Linux and UNIX in general.

    Then, during Gates' closing statements/keynot about the third sentence out of his mouth was something along the lines of "We will CRUSH LINUX.... and we will CRUSH open source." This was an interesting message given his troops speeches over the previous three days.

    If I'd had some balls I would have called his ass on this. Most people just asked questions along the lines of "Can I get my picture taken with you?" But just being in the same room as him made me have trouble breathing. I felt like I was in the presence of Darth Vader or something (goes to show you how warped I am by being in this industry). But in any case, I think Bill should stick with his philanthropy and stop giving technical demos. He's no Steve Jobs.

  11. Re:Is this a good trend? on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    hahahahahhahaha LOL

  12. Re:Is this a good trend? on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting if someone posted the stats on this industrial laser thingie. Supposedly used to test fibre optic lines.

    I agree with you, the use of the patriot act to go after stupidity is an erosion of our constitutional rights as US citizens.

  13. Re:Is this a good trend? on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    I like your "modest proposal" there ;-)

    Actually there are a lot of good people in Texas. Maybe we can build an island out of landfill off the coast of Texas and use that instead.

  14. Is this a good trend? on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We're basically now arresting and locking up stupid people. Maybe this is a good trend, but honestly, before "terrorism" this guy would just get a slap on the wrist.

    Now, because we're at war a simple act of (admitedly dangerous) stupidity will get you facing the patriot act.

    Hmm.. maybe this isn't such a bad thing. I wonder if they can arrest the guy who weaves down the freeway lane-hopping and tail gaiting under the patriot act too, he treathens my life every day.

  15. I don't know about this VI (Virtual Intelligence) on How Company Employees Use The Web · · Score: 2, Funny

    Personally, I prefer emacs.

  16. Thanks.... on FBI Investigating Laser Beams Pointed at Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's what I was in fact trying to say.

    However, as it turns out, it's not that hard as I thought. They just caught a guy who admitted to doing it.

    Man admits to points at aircract . I guess these really are bored hobbyists.

    The sick park is he tried to blame it on his kid!

  17. Paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you on FBI Investigating Laser Beams Pointed at Aircraft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given the complexity of tracking a jet plane and the angles involved in getting a beam into a cockpit, one of the most likely conclusions is that this in fact is a malicious threat. It sounds pretty paranoid but heck, someone has obviously gone to some trouble to setup a mechanism that can track a rapidly moving object in flight. I'm glad the FBI is investigating because I fly almost every month and the last thing I want is to wind up in a plane with a blind cabin crew.

  18. Recent incidents of aircraft being targetted... on Green Security Clearance Laser Pistol Available · · Score: 1

    Just this week an aircraft was tracked for a while with a laser pointed into the cockpit. I don't really understand how this is possible given the angles and so forth with a plane travelling at 8500 feet.

    The article is here at SFGate Newspaper . They say that "interfering with a commercial flight is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison."

  19. Re:Legality of Harmony on New iPod Firmware Locks Out RealNetworks Music · · Score: 1

    Then we agree. So there's no point in people bitching that Apple change this or Apple changed that. Like many other people have said, this was totally obvious that Apple would do this.

    What bothers the most is people who get mad at Real or get mad at Apple and somehow think the hardware is a sacred entity protected by God and Government!

  20. Re:Updates have a TOS agreement on New iPod Firmware Locks Out RealNetworks Music · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it bother you that the people who you bought your hardware from can change how you can use it sometime in the future?

    What if your Ford Focus came out with a firmware ugprade that didn't allow you to drive it on Highways anymore, but only on toll roads? Or something really weird like that?

    Isn't this just about the same thing? This is a piece of hardware, a disk with audio.

  21. Re:Legality of Harmony on New iPod Firmware Locks Out RealNetworks Music · · Score: 1

    Once again, Real did not hack the ipod to allow compatibility. Not even "Basically" as you say. They didn't reverse engineer, they didn't employ "hacker tacticts".

    The ipod belongs to the owner who paid for the device. Not to Apple. If you want to load Real content on it or if you want to store your Microsoft XP home directory on there, you should be able to do whatever you want to do.

  22. Totally different corporate cultures on Daring to Dream: Apple & IBM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sorry folks, this would be an unmitigated disaster. If you've spent any time with employees of IBM and Apple (in a professional setting) you will know that the cultures are wildly different.

    IBM is still all about sales, employing thousands of technical salespeople, they have a whole fleet of techies in each theatre of operation devoted to on-site support, technical "deep dives" and so on. Apple is trying to do the consumer thing, their consumer touch points are the Apple stores and their entire marketing campaign is aimed at young, hip, urban folk.

    The marriage of these companies would undoubtedly alienate one or both sets of employees. Jobs could not be on top (running pixar, apple AND IBM??) and Apple could not operate how it does, with micromangers roaming the halls making last minute design changes and changing the direction of projects on the drop of a hat.

    Anyway, this seems like wild speculation to me and if it's true, more power to them. But I see very bad things for a marriage of this type.

  23. All you people who think the solution is to Reply on FTC Recommends Bounty on Spammers · · Score: 0

    ...... Reply to Spam? Click on the links? In order to cost them bandwidth and make their inboxes too noisy for them to conduct business properly??

    I'm convinced the people posting these messages are themselves spammers. This is the most inane thing I've ever heard.

    Yes, and the way to make advertisers go away is buying lots and lots of their sodas, beers, cars, etc whatever.

    Oh and of course, we know that every spammer users a legit return address so hitting reply will, of course, go back to them.

    No way.

  24. Re:Vuln list; is Apache 1.3 effected as well? on Apache httpd 2.0.51 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apache 1.3 uses mod_ssl as an "add_on" . Their home page is at http://www.modssl.org/ It's a different workflow than apache 2.0. I don't see any updates there, so I assume that as of _this point in time_ ssl on 1.3.x is not impacted.

  25. Re:Go Ashcroft! on Justice Dept. Raids Homes of File Swappers · · Score: 1

    Youth vote? hahahahahahahhaha that's a good one.

    The percentage of kids that vote in the US is so hysterically low that is borders on pathetic.

    If even 25% of the kids of voting age voted it would be a different world here in the US.