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  1. Re:Physical access == pwnage on Attack of the Trojan Printers · · Score: 1

    I've done work for a number of small businesses that use 40 bit WEP to "protect" their Wifi network -- and no amount of persuading from me will make them change it.

    Do they have old hardware only capable of WEP?

  2. Re:US DNS Tampering a Real Threat To Outsiders on Chinese DNS Tampering a Real Threat To Outsiders · · Score: 1

    And the US is just trying to suppress illegal content, while China is actually trying to censor criticism. The latter is IMO much worse.

  3. Re:No, the hardware is special on How Apple Had a Spectacular Year · · Score: 1

    I remember when I read that Sun itself was not exactly sure whether it was a software or hardware company. I realized it was really both, and there was no reason they had to try to choose between the two.

  4. Re:Defaulting is worse! on The Luck of the Irish Runs Out · · Score: 1

    Yep, why do you think the US put federal deposit insurance and separation of investment and deposit banks in the same bill?

  5. Re:yeah on Operation Payback Shuts Down IFPI Site · · Score: 1

    In particular, nowadays, e-book piracy is emerging. I really hope that the same response that the music industry did to piracy won't happen this time.

  6. Re:yeah on Operation Payback Shuts Down IFPI Site · · Score: 1

    Ultimately the right solution of course is try to get the companies to change the business model.

  7. Re:yeah on Operation Payback Shuts Down IFPI Site · · Score: 1

    Yea, I agree that a DDOS is ridiculous.

  8. Re:Despicable isnt it. on UK Asks News Outlets Not To Publish WikiLeaks Bombshell, US Prepares For Fallout · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I also want to start a thread here about how to solve it the right way, because this is the long-term solution.

  9. Re:Despicable isnt it. on UK Asks News Outlets Not To Publish WikiLeaks Bombshell, US Prepares For Fallout · · Score: 1

    If diplomats have to start couching their language, governments will have a much more difficult time making sensible decisions.

    Agreed, not the right solution. The right solution is to fix the real problem that is covering up wrongdoing.

  10. Re:Despicable isnt it. on UK Asks News Outlets Not To Publish WikiLeaks Bombshell, US Prepares For Fallout · · Score: 1

    And IMO Wikileaks is a hack solution to the problem. The real solution is to directly fix the problem in the right way.

  11. Re:ludicrous on Coder Accuses IBM of Patenting His Work · · Score: 1
  12. Re:ludicrous on Coder Accuses IBM of Patenting His Work · · Score: 1

    It was to USPTO.

  13. Re:ludicrous on Coder Accuses IBM of Patenting His Work · · Score: 1

    So if the addition is avoided, would the software be non-infringing?

  14. Re:I'd better not post here on Anxiety and IT? · · Score: 1

    Why is that a problem? What specific problems are you talking about?

  15. Re:Windows XP does not support SNI on HTTPS Everywhere Gets Firesheep Protection · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Windows XP does not support SNI on HTTPS Everywhere Gets Firesheep Protection · · Score: 1

    To be more precise, XP's built-in crypto library do not support SNI. While IE uses it, I don't think Mozilla uses it, instead they use NSS instead.

  17. Re:https://twitter.com almost works... on HTTPS Everywhere Gets Firesheep Protection · · Score: 1

    Ah, I think that was from days ago. I just checked today using Wireshark again and they fixed it, which means https://twitter.com/ should be safe now.

  18. https://twitter.com almost works... on HTTPS Everywhere Gets Firesheep Protection · · Score: 1

    https://twitter.com/ almost works, but I sniffed the packets using Wireshark and unfortunately they still make one HTTP request, which because the session cookie is not marked secure is sent insecurely along with it. I remember reading that it was made using XMLHTTPRequest.

  19. Re:The "enhanced" procedures are useless on TSA Saw My Junk, Missed Razor Blades, Says Adam Savage · · Score: 1

    Yea, the flaws of top-down command and control. Happens in the corporate world too. What do you think the word "corporate zombie" come from?

  20. Re:Possibly SCO-related? on Attachmate To Acquire Novell For $2.2B Cash · · Score: 1
  21. Re:The Other Half of the Problem on Oregon Senator Stops Internet Censorship Bill · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'd just declare that money is not speech, period! Giving money to anybody should not be considered the same as speaking.

  22. Re:no soup for you on Lawsuit Shows Dell Hid Extent of Computer Flaws · · Score: 1

    Yea, the comments make me wonder how many people actually read the PDF linked. It was still better than last time, when they didn't provide the document that the quotes were sourced from at all!

  23. Re:Ha on Lawsuit Shows Dell Hid Extent of Computer Flaws · · Score: 1

    One of the big reasons stock options are flawed. In fact, I don't think stock price-based compensation of ANY kind is a good idea nowadays. They came from the "shareholder value" age when markets were presumed to be perfectly efficient, which later was found to be quite flawed.

  24. Re:Chicago... on Lawsuit Shows Dell Hid Extent of Computer Flaws · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know! I have railed against such "legacy" MBA courses that teach this and a bunch of other horrible stuff for a while now. The sad thing is that even if MBA classes have stopped teaching this stuff, there are still MBAs out there who still believe this stuff.

  25. Re:It was not just Dell's fault in this lawsuit. on Lawsuit Shows Dell Hid Extent of Computer Flaws · · Score: 1

    Nowadays, there are Mini-ITX SFF systems that are much smaller, easier to stack, and much more suitable for this purpose.