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  1. Revocation on MS to Trade Passwords for 2-Factor Authentication · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, sir - the database with the signature hash for your retinal record was compromised, so we cannot regard your eyes as valid authentication tokens. Please consider your retinas revoked. Any attempt to continue in their use will be construed as an attempt to defraud, and will subject them to confiscation.

  2. Metaphor on WinOS+QEMU+Knoppix 3.8 = WinKnoppix! · · Score: 1

    for America, right there...

  3. Re:Insecure on Japanese Firms Claim 170Mb/s Service Via Powerline · · Score: 1
    I don't know if I'd miss A.M. - what's it do to shortwave?

    High-voltage powerlines for data? The security I'm worried about is getting my pairs mixed up... ZZZZzzzZzzAaaP!

  4. Re:so what? use a different client on AIM's New Terms Of Service · · Score: 0
    SimpLite-AIM, the free AIM encryption solution!

    You are using AOL Instant Messaging to chat with your friends or colleagues. Did you know your messages are sent over the Internet in cleartext form?

    By encrypting messages before they leave your computer to the Internet, SimpLite-AIM prevents eavesdroppers from reading your personal AIM conversations. As the original successor of Simp 1.0, SimpLite-AIM benefits from state of the art algorithms to secure your messages, whilst maintaining an intuitive interface.

    SimpLite-AIM is free for a personal use at home or at the office. The only restriction is that only one product from the SimpLite family can be launched at the sametime: either SimpLite-AIM, SimpLite-MSN, SimpLite-ICQ or SimpLite-Yahoo!.

  5. Re:Don't feed the troll on GNOME Ignoring its Own Users? · · Score: 1

    And what's with the DumbTags (tm) "feature", that hrefs terms like "Cell Phone" with dubious pop-up tags like:
    "SPONSORED LINK
    Discover Windows Mobility Marvels -
    Learn how to build mobile
    applications for pocket PCs and
    Smartphones using .NET technologies.
    Attend free Microsoft webcast series now. "

  6. Re:Too many words... on Got Game · · Score: 1

    Nintendo/XBox/PS2 controllers?

  7. Re:Too many words... on Got Game · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm changing the world!

    My thumbs are sore... Do we got anymore Doritos?

  8. Ether Goods? on Wisconsin Governor Proposing Tax On Downloads · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I will pay with Ether Cash!

    Reminds me of Mullah Nasruddin!

    One day the Mullah went into an inn as he felt a little hungry. However, he found at once the food there was too expensive for him. He was just about to leave when the innkeeper came up to him.
    "Do you think you can leave without paying?" said the innkeeper.
    "Why should I pay since I haven't eaten anything here?" asked Nasruddin.
    "Then why did you come in?"
    "I found your food smelt good,but it was too expensive for me!"
    "Well, now that you've enjoyed smelling my food, it is the same as enjoying the food itself, so you have to pay."
    "The mullah frowned at the innkeeper's words, then smiled and took out his purse, jingling the coins in it:
    "Do you hear the sound of my money?"
    "Yes,I do." the innkeeper said in excitement.
    "Then we have concluded business!" cried Nasruddin, "That sound is the same as enjoying the money itself!"
  9. Re:Good to see progress... on Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What's this "Bittorrent Opensource License" thingee?

    Do we need another? Was there some subtle variation not covered under another? BSD? GPL? NPL? MPL? ETC?

  10. License Notwithstanding... on Gamespy Reveals Xbox Next Specs · · Score: 1
    Q: Does MOL run on non-Apple hardware?

    A: It does. MOL runs for instance on the Pegasos board, the Teron board and on AmigaOne hardware. In short, MOL should run on any PowerPC hardware (with the except of 601-based systems). However, the EULA of MacOS prohibits its usage on non-Apple hardware (it is of course perfectly legal to use MOL to boot a second Linux though).

  11. Re:wait.. on Gamespy Reveals Xbox Next Specs · · Score: 1
    There will be folks who are SURE to get linux running here. It may take a few months...

    After that, a simple re-compile of MoL should make the rest almost trivial...

  12. Re:No matter what on Gamespy Reveals Xbox Next Specs · · Score: 1

    No matter what, I will be running LinuxPPC on this puppy, with a copy of MoL, and dusting the Mac Mini!

  13. Re:Fifty-Five nodes? on Integrating Microsoft's AD into Apple's OD? · · Score: 4, Informative
    C'mon, with the schema additions for *nix, AD looks like any LDAP to a pam/ldap client. That's all OD will ever look like.

    Adding Vintella or Centrify to the mix allows to to manage not just sign-on authentication, but fine-grained network and client policy with the native AD controls. This is something OD doesn't come close to.

    AD is the second best directory in the world - after NDS. NDS doesn't come close to the level of third-party application and tool support, any longer.

  14. Fifty-Five nodes? on Integrating Microsoft's AD into Apple's OD? · · Score: 3, Informative
    Doesn't much matter!

    Sorry for that. Use AD - it is more flexible and will have more applications leverage the directory, as you grow.

    Populate the AD with the Apple Schema additions, and migrate your Mac info to AD - ditch OD. For fifty users, the headaches and over head of directory synchronization are not worth the trouble. Not even the education value is worth the complaints that you will endure on the way, if something goes awry.

    When you are huge, you can synch directories with MIIS. This is the cheapest Identity Management solution to play nice with all your parties - but still too much for your scale.

  15. Re:Write Only Memory on Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM · · Score: 1

    Fortune quote at the bottom f the page as I am reading this:
    It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -- Phil White

  16. Re:yeah.. right.. on New Dr. Who Episode Leaked · · Score: 1
    There has been discussion of late, to replace television licensing with Computer licensing !

    Reminds me...
    I told one of my old Telly license stories on /. a couple of weeks ago, I won't tread that weary track again. But before that some years, there was a friends neighbor with a TRS-80. He had no television, so the Licensing detector picked his address up. This was around 1980, and it must have have been a funny little scene! He ended up not having to pay, after some real confusion.

    The newest detectors are sophisticated enough to tell the scan-rate, and wouldn't "false positive'. They also no longer have visible antennae - so you can't spot 'em coming!

  17. Re:it's on usenet on New Dr. Who Episode Leaked · · Score: 1

    Does it include the pseudo-Pink Floyd music of the Baker years? I called it "Careful with that toothpick, Eugene."

  18. Re:Been there, done that on Is Horse the New Mouse? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    How about Them Moose Goosers,
    Ain't they recluse?
    Up in them boondocks,
    Goosin' them moose. p Goosin' them huge moose,
    Goosin' them tiny,
    Goosin' them meadow-moose
    In the hiney.

    Look at Them Moose Goosers,
    Ain't they dumb?
    Some use an umbrella,
    Some use a thumb. p Them obtuse Moose Goosers,
    Sneakin' through the woods,
    Pokin' them snoozy moose
    In the goods.

    How to be a Moose Gooser?
    It'll turn ye puce.
    Gitchy gooser loose and
    Rouse a drowsy moose!

    Mason Williams

  19. Re:My Advice? on In Need of Repatriation Advice? · · Score: 1
    You read selectively. You stil have a sizable part of the population of the U.S. who think the sun goes 'round the earth!

    This is inexcusable - and is symptomatic of how deeply disinformed the U.S. public is. these are a sleeping people - dangerous if roused from dreaming.

  20. The skin... on Firefox-Based Netscape 8 Beta Goes Live · · Score: 2, Funny

    That theme looks like a Howard Johnson's had sex with my clock radio.

  21. U.S. Foreign Policy States... on In Need of Repatriation Advice? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    That free and fair elections in Lebanon are compromised by th epresence of occupying troops from Syria.

    I leave the exercise of Swiftian irony in completing these thoughts to you, the reader.

  22. My Advice? on In Need of Repatriation Advice? · · Score: 0, Troll
    Stay in Japan!

    No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No. 1." Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In fact, anyone saying otherwise will be labeled "un-American." We're an "empire," ain't we? Sure we are. An empire without a manufacturing base. An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable. We're No. 1. Well...this is the country you really live in:

    • The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (the New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004).
    • The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).
    • Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005).
    • "The International Adult Literacy Survey...found that Americans with less than nine years of education 'score worse than virtually all of the other countries'" (Jeremy Rifkin's superbly documented book The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, p.78).
    • Our workers are so ignorant and lack so many basic skills that American businesses spend $30 billion a year on remedial training (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004). No wonder they relocate elsewhere!
    • "The European Union leads the U.S. in...the number of science and engineering graduates; public research and development (R&D) expenditures; and new capital raised" (The European Dream, p.70).
    • "Europe surpassed the United States in the mid-1990s as the largest producer of scientific literature" (The European Dream, p.70).
    • Nevertheless, Congress cut funds to the National Science Foundation. The agency will issue 1,000 fewer research grants this year (NYT, Dec. 21, 2004).
    • Foreign applications to U.S. grad schools declined 28 percent last year. Foreign student enrollment on all levels fell for the first time in three decades, but increased greatly in Europe and China. Last year Chinese grad-school graduates in the U.S. dropped 56 percent, Indians 51 percent, South Koreans 28 percent (NYT, Dec. 21, 2004). We're not the place to be anymore.
    • The World Health Organization "ranked the countries of the world in terms of overall health performance, and the U.S. [was]...37th." In the fairness of health care, we're 54th. "The irony is that the United States spends more per capita for health care than any other nation in the world" (The European Dream, pp.79-80). Pay more, get lots, lots less.
    • "The U.S. and South Africa are the only two developed countries in the world that do not provide health care for all their citizens" (The European Dream, p.80). Excuse me, but since when is South Africa a "developed" country? Anyway, that's the company we're keeping.
    • Lack of health insurance coverage causes 18,000 unnecessary American deaths a year. (That's six times the number of people killed on 9/11.) (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005.)
    • "U.S. childhood poverty now ranks 22nd, or second to last, among the developed nations. Only Mexico scores lower" (The European Dream, p.81). Been to Mexico lately? Does it look "developed" to you? Yet it's the only "developed" country to score lower in childhood poverty.
    • Twelve million American families--more than 10 percent of all U.S. households--"continue to struggle, and not always successfully, to feed themselves." Families that "had members who actually went hungry at some point last year" numbered 3.9 million (NYT, Nov. 22, 2004).
    • The United States is 41st in the world in infant mortality. Cuba scores higher (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005).
    • Women are 70 percent more
  23. Re:Secure? on Face Recognition Comes to Cameraphones · · Score: 1

    ...As in "Baby's got"???

  24. Re:Can I be the first to say... on Game Makers Could Be Liable For Violent Games · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Assume I am a violent person, with psychopathic disorder.

    I like to play violent games

    I am occasionally violent towards real people, and their pets

    Must be the game/movie/Janet Jackson that is th eroot of my problems, not being the product of the same culture that produces these other artefacts.

    Blame the fruits on the flowers, and not on the roots.

  25. Game Awards? on Half-Life 2 Sweeps Bafta Games Awards · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Do J-Lo wear that dress?

    I ain't goin'...