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  1. Re:The tendancy to run everything on port80 on Web Services - More Secure or Less? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you use the paradigm that each service has an associated port, you can be sure that nobody is running any unknown services merely by blocking ports

    Ah ha! Pronoun trouble!

    Unfortunately, you can only be sure that nobody is running any unknown services if they use the paradigm that each service has an associated port. Some fool rigs up a VPN layered over HTTPS or DNS, and what good is your firewall then?

    In some ways, SOAP's obvious security problem is better; at least it's clear you're screwed.

    Solving this correctly is a very hard problem.

  2. Re:C takes too long to write? on Kent M. Pitman Answers On Lisp And Much More · · Score: 2

    Obviously, "C" is quicker than "Lisp" to write, especially if you already have capslock on. It's shorter.

    I predict the new language I am designing, ^H, will be very sucessful.

  3. No. on Massachusetts Holds Out On MS Case · · Score: 2

    Hey, this is the same approach CA is using to push electric cars, so maybe they'll go for it!

    However, you are confused.

    Bundling is not a crime. Exclusive contracts are not a crime. They got in trouble for being a monopoly.

    Exclusive contracts and bundling are a crime if you're a monopoly. Being a monopoly is perfectly legal.

  4. go figure. on Massachusetts Holds Out On MS Case · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a MA resident, I'm pleased by the principled action of my State's officials. That's just about a first.

    For about 10 years, the president of the state senate was the kid brother of the major local mafia boss. I kid you not...

  5. not as bad as I feared... on More Details of MS/DOJ Deal · · Score: 2

    It looks like this might do a decent job getting the PC vendors out from under MS's thumb.

    It's still backward looking, though. MS will weasel some way of doing the same thing, and then what?

  6. Intercal on Ternary Computing · · Score: 3, Funny

    Excellent. This will translate Tri-Intercal, with native bitwise trinary operators, into much more efficient machine code.

  7. Re:Microsoft objected? on SSSCA Hearings Postponed Under Heavy Opposition · · Score: 2

    Not too astonishing; MS is Harmful, not Evil.

    They haven't (to date) been nearly as obnoxious about patents as they could have been, and they're generally reasonable about this sort of thing. If they weren't so hypercompetitive and locked-in to the vision of software as a product they'd be quite tolerable.

  8. DMCA violation! on MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated] · · Score: 2

    Uh oh, now you're circumventing an access control mechanism, it's off to the big house with you!

  9. Laser? on Building Cheap 100 Inch TVs · · Score: 2

    Suppose you used a middling-sized laser rather than an LED: could this be bright enough? (Monitor burn-in is an issue, though. :)

    Alternately, instead of a pixel-mapped display, you could use this scheme for a vector display (anybody remember those?). Trickier to drive, but potentially a lot easier to get enough brightness.

  10. two data points on Husband and Wife Computer Games? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Same story here. I don't know other women who play RTS, but my wife will do Total Annilihation, especially in multiplayer team mode.

    We actually make a good team; I tie up opponents with constant harrassment while she sits off in a corner playing a building game. Eventually, I say, 'Um, dear, I could really use some help now.' She says, 'Oh, right, other players.' and sends over a massive force from her heavily fortified base, laying waste to all in her path.

    What a girl.

    :)

  11. um, no. on Microsoft FrontPage License Prohibits Anti-Microsoft Speech · · Score: 2

    IANAL, but...

    The Constitution says that the Government can't pass laws impeding freedom of the press; this doesn't mean that they guarentee everyone the right to speak. If you sign a contract not to talk about X that's more-or-less binding.

    Whether enforcing licenses which restrict press freedom could be held as violating the 1rst amendment is way unclear to me...

  12. Re:Armed Air Marshals on planes now(?) - FAA on New York Red Cross Needs Tech Help · · Score: 2

    The DOT is working with the Department of Defense to see if other highly trained agents may be deployed to augment the Federal Air Marshal force.

    There are reports they're borrowing members of Delta Force (Army elite hostage rescue team) for this short-term...

  13. is AOL that stupid? on Chief Lizard Wrangler axed · · Score: 2

    Maybe. But if AOL thinks they can afford to let MS control internet client software, they're dumber than I think they are...

  14. Re:It'll Never Work on EU Expands Microsoft Inquiry · · Score: 2

    Also, you'll find that in many countries in Europe people have a reasonable amount of trust in their governments i.e. that they are not corrupt and will do the right thing.

    he he he, that's so cute!

    Never trust a monopoly. Especially nota monopoly of force...

  15. works now... on Evolution Bug-Hunt! · · Score: 2

    Works for me on unstable; a lot more solid than the .10 release, which was prone to choking on certain messages for some reason.

    Now, if I could just figure out my $%!#$$ font problem (help/about and gimp menus are gibberish - WTH?)...

  16. all about the $$$ on NYSE Goes To Linux · · Score: 2

    Remember, the stock market crash just took a big bite out of these folks' bottom lines. Management still wants to see an increase in profits. Two years ago their problem was keeping up with new growth; today, the name of the game is cutting costs.

  17. me, too. on RIAA To Target CD-R · · Score: 2

    I have no real interest in copying CDs; it's far and away the most practical way to back up my data.

  18. the Red Queen explained it all on Convicted by the Movie Cops · · Score: 2

    Verdict first, trial afterwards!

  19. Re:rsbac, snort/hogwash, iptables on HP To Sell Custom High-Security GNU/Linux Distro · · Score: 2

    Sure. You want to do that for me? Not for free? Well, you'ld better beat $3000 then, 'cause I've *heard* of HP...

  20. chapter 11, folks on Loki Files For Chapter 11 Protection · · Score: 2

    This is Chapter 11, not 7 bankruptcy.

    Basically, they're telling the court that there's no way they can pay the interest on their existing debt and stay afloat - *but* the business itself is viable, and if they're allowed to write some of that off or at least delay payments they'll eventually be able to pay the rest.

  21. Re:Interesting Metric (well, maybe) on Knuth's Volume IV Preview Available Online · · Score: 2

    This is a popular view, but I think it's at least partially wrong; the idea that high-level algorythms are easier than low-level ones. Nothing is easier than building abstract, efficient black boxes into a global system that doesn't scale.

  22. Re:Star Wars all sucks, but it's hard to notice on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 2

    And Luke's starting out as a teenager, when even Anakin at 8 (or is it 10? I forget) is thought by Yoda to be too old to begin.


    And Yoda was right, too.

    Just look how Anakin turned out; and Luke was a second-rater who wouldn't have lasted 5 seconds against Darth Maul.

  23. scary thought for the day on Your Qwest Leads To MSN · · Score: 2

    What if the business and politics stories in the paper are just as accurate as the technology stories?

  24. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 on Computer Books For A Library? · · Score: 2

    Everything you need to know to write your own TCP stack. Surprisingly useful in day-to-dayu work - a must-read IMO.

  25. Re:methods for keystroke logging? on Legal Challenge to FBI's Keystroke Sniffing · · Score: 4