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  1. Websites? on Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites · · Score: 2, Funny

    I want hese ratings on PEOPLE. They need to be endorsed by the official Ministry of Truth.

    This law is enacted retroactively, yesterday.

    Those not conforming to official truth records are subject to reformation and compulsory psychological medication.

  2. Re:AMD and Intel? on AMD Employee Charged With Stealing Intel Secrets · · Score: 1

    'Zactly.

    Any one else notice that this story was submitted by Putin?

  3. Jaguar and Ferrari on AMD Employee Charged With Stealing Intel Secrets · · Score: 1

    LeMans and Rheims, 1950-1960.

    BTW - if you ar egoing to do car analogies people, THOSE are cars!

  4. Re:mockery of the education system on Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast · · Score: 1

    I like the syphillis, and lack of bathing.

  5. Re:MacOS could be based on RiscOS on Ubuntu To Pay for Upgrades To the Free Software User Experience · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Right. MkLinux + OpenStep! == Fun.

    A lot of NeXT source just built on this.

  6. Re:RACIST! on Researchers Find Racial Bias In Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    Yeah.

    But the pale ones are 'less hawt'.

  7. Re:RACIST! on Researchers Find Racial Bias In Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    Am I blue?
    Am I blue?
    Ain't these tears in these eyes tellin' you?
    Oh, am I blue? Well, I bet you would be, too,
    if each plan with your man done fell through.

    There was a time I was his only one.
    but now I'm the sad and lonely one.

  8. Re:RACIST! on Researchers Find Racial Bias In Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    Racial Stockhausen Syndrome.

  9. Re:mockery of the education system on Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast · · Score: 5, Funny

    What d'ye mean, man!

    I took the "Sword in the Stone" course they offered a few semetsters back, and now I'm "Dux Bellorum", soon on my way to being the legendary Once and Future King of England! And need I remind you of the lovely ladies, swathed in luxurious white samite, that just crawl all over a SitS alum? I think not.

    They say that 'strange women, lying around in ponds and distributing swords is no basis for a system of government'. I couldn't agree more - but what a way to sway the midaeval babes!

  10. Re:MacOS could be based on RiscOS on Ubuntu To Pay for Upgrades To the Free Software User Experience · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I didn't say "simple" :-)

  11. Re:MacOS could be based on RiscOS on Ubuntu To Pay for Upgrades To the Free Software User Experience · · Score: 2, Informative

    HA! Almost forgot about Mach! BSD was just a subsystem on a Mach kernel, too. More 80's-isms. Now we call Microskernels "Hypervisors" and isolated I/O subsystems "Virtual instances".

    'Cos maybe they'll work this time!

  12. MacOS could be based on RiscOS on Ubuntu To Pay for Upgrades To the Free Software User Experience · · Score: 5, Interesting

    for all that it mattered. BSD was free and worked, in 1986. That's why Jobs - when he solicited his engineer's choice - was told to use BSD 4.

    MacOS is "based" on NeXT - which was derived from extending the Smalltalk-like model of Objective C to a whole series of desktop and application frameworks.

    You see, Jobs and his guys were SO blown away by the GUI at PARC, that they missed the object revolution, used to create it. They were all determined to do this again, the 'right' way, without saddling Mac/Lisa compatibility to the horse.

    That got engineered on later ;-)

    You want further illustration of this argument? Try managing an OSX workgroup from the network with existing BSD and opensource. You effectively manage the POSIXy parts of the system, while having almost no policy or configuration management of the Finder/Application experienc through which much of the Mac user interacts. You could - in theory, with the sources available, swap a modern Linux distro under there instead of the hybrid BSD. Almost no one would notice.

  13. Re:NAT BOX would easily hide device from scans on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 1

    I doubt this was stealthed as such. Besides, there is traffic I can craft to map traversal behind yur NAT, if I know what I'm doing.

    I mapped a whole university network who used NAT and port filtering alone, without packet inspection and reassembly. They believed they were secure, but allowed DNS traffic. I lied in my packet headers and found everything. For this to be effective, a real traffic inspection needs to happen. That's a firewall, not a filter.

  14. Re:This is a job for nmap on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 1

    Of course, it wants for a skilled operator. ;-)

  15. Re:This is a job for nmap on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 1

    Right. I can't keep track! I think it's the CEO / Founder that went to Red Siren? Or they just courted, at one time.

    Farm9 was the bomb. All their customers know it, too.

  16. Re:This is a job for nmap on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 1

    You'd ID the "missing" device.

  17. Re:This is a job for nmap on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 1

    Slow leak, lazy repair. :-)

  18. This is a job for nmap on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hey! Fyodor! They need your number!

    Fyodor spent much of this summer scanning tens of millions of IPs on the Internet (plus collecting data contributed by some enterprises) to determine the most commonly open ports. Nmap now uses that empirical data to scan more effectively.
    Zenmap Topology and Aggregation features were added, as discussed in the next news item.
    Hundreds of OS detection signatures were added, bringing the total to 1,503.
    Seven new Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) scripts were added. These automate routing AS number lookups, "Kaminsky" DNS bug vulnerability checking, brute force POP3 authentication cracking, SNMP querying and brute forcing, and whois lookups against target IP space. Many valuable libraries were added as well.
    Many performance improvements and bug fixes were implemented. In particular, Nmap now works again on Windows 2000.

    With just nmap, my old buddies at Farm9 could have sussed this out in a few hours. I think they are still around - as Red Siren / Getronics.

    Ahh. I miss running netcat at 3 AM!

  19. Re:On-topic:... on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 0

    We have a fork - NinaFS - in the works.

  20. Hurricane? on Preparing Computer and Cellular Networks For a Hurricane · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Blow me. ;-)

  21. Re:Oh, THAT'S It! on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 1

    Money? The paper promises for noncollectable debt? They are tickets in a ponzi scheme, who's eventual collapse is held away by the threat of those weapons.

  22. Re:Oh, THAT bit on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 1

    We'll never know. Dick Cheney had his meetings on energy policy in 2001 - which probably include the pre-9/11 'invade Iraq plan' - classified forever.

  23. Here's Why You Want Wind and Solar on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Keep the Baby Killers in their cages.

    First Sgt. Hatley and the Beauchamp TNR Affair

    Updated below
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    A U.S. Army sergeant outed as a murderer in today's NYT seems to be the same one that led the unit involved in last years New Republic / Beauchamp controversy. Then he denied atrocities Beauchamp reported on.

    In July 2007 a U.S. soldier under the pseudonym Scott Thomas wrote about the war in Iraq at the The New Republic's Shock Troops blog. Scott Thomas described some disgusting behavior by his fellow soldiers. Such included running over dogs with Bradley fighting vehicles and playing with a child's scull found in a mass grave.

    The rightwing media, the Weekly Standard, the National Review and many others, went nuts over these reports. The blogger's name was disclosed as Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a member of Alpha Company, 1-18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division, and after some heavy push and pull and an army investigation, The New Republic said it "cannot stand by these stories."

    At the time of that controversy, a mil-blogger in the U.S. wrote to Beauchamp's company senior non-commissioned officer, identified as First Sgt. John E. Hatley, and got this response:

    My soldiers conduct is consistently honorable. [...] Again, this young man has a vivid imagination and I promise you that this by no means reflects the truth of what is happening here. I'm currently serving with the best America has to offer. [...]

    Sincerely,

    1SG Hatley

    Today the NYT reports about willful killing of Iraqis who were taken prisoners by the U.S. troops.

    In March or April 2007, three noncommissioned United States Army officers, including a first sergeant, a platoon sergeant and a senior medic, killed four Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots to the head as the men stood handcuffed and blindfolded beside a Baghdad canal, two of the soldiers said in sworn statements.
    ...

    After the killings, the first sergeant -- the senior noncommissioned officer of his Army company -- told the other two to remove the men's bloody blindfolds and plastic handcuffs, according to the statements made to Army investigators, which were obtained by The New York Times.
    ...
    The soldiers, all from Company D, First Battalion, Second Infantry, 172nd Infantry Brigade, have not been charged with a crime.
    ...
    The accounts of and confessions to the killings, by Sgt. First Class Joseph P. Mayo, the platoon sergeant, and Sgt. Michael P. Leahy Jr., Company D's senior medic and an acting squad leader, were made in January in signed statements to Army investigators in Schweinfurt, Germany.

    In their statements, Sergeants Mayo and Leahy each described killing at least one of the Iraqi detainees on instructions from First Sgt. John E. Hatley, who the soldiers said killed two of the detainees with pistol shots to the back of their heads.
    ...
    Last month, four other soldiers from Sergeant Hatley's unit were charged with murder conspiracy for agreeing to go along with the plan to kill the four prisoners, in violation of military laws that forbid harming enemy combatants once they are disarmed and in custody.

    Is the First Sgt. John E. Hatley who l

  24. Re:Oh, THAT'S It! on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Protected". I don't think that word is appropriate. "Stolen". There I fixed it for you.

    What part of Global Military Adventurism in support of Corporate Profits can be construed as the sworn mission: Defending the Nation and it's Constitution?

    America is like a giant, sucking leech. With guns.

  25. Oh, THAT'S It! on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 2, Funny

    The grid can't handle wind power! Now I get it!

    It's the gospel truth. I read it in Pravda.