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  1. Re:VOIP and ADT ??? on Qwest & Cablevision Launch VoIP Service · · Score: 2, Informative

    I cannot see why not, as long as you have your security system routed to your phone switch and you have an internet connection. If memory serves they usually just splice the red and green wires into the master panel but a simple RJ-11 termination would allow connection to a standard outlet. Security systems also can be equipped to use cell phone technology to make the connection as it is usually dead obvious where the phone line has been run to the system or where to cut it on the main panel box. I have used by VoIP to make fax calls and even dial-up just for kix and grinz.

    Course that could be an even better deterent as a determined theif cutz your phone box main and runs a cell jammer...surprise the person with doughnut in one hand and cuffs in another has a nice ride lined up for the theif.

  2. VoIP and Qwest on Qwest & Cablevision Launch VoIP Service · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am glad to hear the propagation of VoIP with a cable company. This is the type of tie in that is required with responsibility of the used lines for a service to show the public reliability. Additionally this may be the key to getting standard 911 working as it does over the POTS and ease the concerns of some in switching and saving the almighty dollar. However, this also has a downside equal to the involvement of Qwest in this whole mess. Once you start getting these giant corporations involved...won't we get pulled back into paying the right to use us taxes and other fees required to make sure that hard working CEO gets their oh so needed 5.7 million dollar holiday bonus? On the same token, the major restrictions in place for POTS network such as no international calling and other restrictions and absurdities such as your calling list must all be victims of the major coroporation's service as well for you to take advantage of their plan of the month. Call me paranoid...but why can't Qwest offer these services through their POTS? Who is footing any loss of profits for them losing focus on their POT network? Somebody has to be taking the hit somewhere.

    This is still a new growing alternative communication technology which is correctly making use of a global connection as everything is fated to do. Cell phones already make use of this and research is working on a better computer to do this and really harness the power of the internet intelligently. I hope major corporate players who seem to have a tendacy to stiffle the competition and development of new technologies in the name of business do not destroy what is shaping to be a very good thing. True, the heavy hand of the government will get involved fiscally for their cut but we should all keep an eye on how corporate giants will try to abuse VoIP and brandish the tools they purchased in congress such as the DMCA.

  3. Re:911, same as cell phones on Qwest & Cablevision Launch VoIP Service · · Score: 1

    It connects to the same public emergency switchboard that you reach via cell phone 911. However, there may be extended information available with some quick digging as you must register your physical address of the number you will be dialing from and it must be confirmed as valid. Consult the FAQs or customer service number of the service you are considering for the best details as always.

    Until then however, your 911 is not activated and you must wait for a confirmation email once you do register confirming your information has been entered into a database.

  4. Daleks and Time Lords and Tardis oh my! on New Animated Dr. Who Series · · Score: 1

    I remember watching the black&white Dr. Who on PBS everytime I could. I found Tom Baker (Doctor #4) with Leela and K9 to be my favorite, but later Doctors where tolerable. This is true nostalgia restored at it's finest! No scarf or Jelly Bellies true, and a bit odd artwork but in true Dr. Who fashion the story hooks you deep and hard pulling you in.

    So...how long till DVD box sets!

  5. Re:Black list on GameSpy Sends DMCA-Based C&D To Security Researcher · · Score: 1

    Niiiiiiiiiiiice :)

    Don't forget: Boycott till our digital butts are kissed and showered with apologies.

    And should they start tossing threats, I wonder how somebody else discovered this and posted anonymously a POC and script for the kiddies to use and bring the glaring flaws to the media's attention?? Damnedest coincidence.

  6. Infallible DMCA sheild on GameSpy Sends DMCA-Based C&D To Security Researcher · · Score: 1

    Dear Bringer of Progress:

    How DARE you point out disugusting flaws and gaping holes in our client's insecure security program! According to the DMCA this is an encouraged practice to hide their poor in shop testing and sloppy coding along with monopoly foundation building. Do you honestly think things improve when defects are pointed out? Do you honestly think anybody else would even bother to exploit these things? Well THAT is why they have a clause in their license you paid for that makes them immune to their products shortcomings.

    Cease and desist, or we will sue you so hard your dead grandmother will have to pay up.

    Sincerely,

    Bleedum, Drainum and Lowlife
    DMCA Firm, the friendly maggots.

  7. Blowing Smoke & Caught Bluffing on IBM Puts Pressure On SCO · · Score: 1

    SCO's supplemental response to Interrogatory No. 1 fails to identify a single allegedly-misappropriated Unix file or line of code -- not one

    I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me somebody played a junk hand in poker and got nailed when somebody called their greedy bluff. I would imagine the law they are using to sue IBM would PROTECT the source they refuse to disclose to the defendant and allege mis-use of. How much more of everything is going to be wasted on this giant ball of shit?

  8. CGI Pornstars...mmmmmm on Search for Miss Digital World · · Score: 1

    Nothing like a digitally altered portrayal of the poifect woman, and best of all should this flop out they may be able to try to pitch a digital art gallery!

    Forget Vogue ladies, THIS is how we want you to look!

    -1 Overrated (Too many big words for me to comprehend)

  9. Solar Chili - Take 2 on Sun Produces Strongest Flare Ever Recorded · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hydrogen Hydrogen, the nuclear fruit
    The more you burn, gravity can let it toot
    The more you toot, the better your feel
    So burn Hydrogen in every nuclear meal!

    In Space...nobody can smell your vapors

    -1 Troll (I wish I could think of something to post)
    -1 Overrated (I wish my ADD would let me read and absorb all of this...functional illiteracy doesn't help either)

  10. They say cell phones... on Handy Wristwatch Phone · · Score: 1

    Push enough RF to induce cancer, well given where my watch usually rests close to when typing on a keyboard all day or hanging down resting when standing...Homey Don't Play that.

  11. Good riddance on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    I find this whole "we need to pester you" argument a hard pill to swallow. TV is also a horrible example to use, I have every channel under the sun and still have my time wasted with commercials. If your site depends on all your popups and banners and other annoying ads, your business model sucks and/or you need to fess up to needing that extra chumpchange for the real dirty swedish porn sites.

    Granted this call should be in the hands of the consumer, but I'm still glad to see things wiping away some of the crap we have to endure.

  12. And when the controls are hacked on Tanker Truck Shut Down Via Satellite · · Score: 1

    It will be oh so much more an easy task to stop a tanker for hijacking and uses seen fit by radicals. This is a stupid idea that goes beyond excessive control on the government's behalf. If satellites still cannnot be secured, what makes them think they can secure the easiest way to stop a heavy fast moving truck.

    I hear you, fair enough, lets run with the idea this is supposed to stop a truck already hijacked because nobody would ever be able to figure out or aquire the knowledge to remove or disable this device. I'm so glad they were able to stop this truck full of high explosives and radioactive material because now since it's not moving there would be no way those explosives could be detonated and even if so there would be no way radioactive material would spread into the wind I mean...they turned the engine off using a satellite.

    Mod it Overrated, mod it Troll, mod it Flamebait.

    The assumed ignorance "That will never happen" is why shit like 9/11 was *allowed* to go down. A better investment would be to address the hatred that inspires such acts not start choking the targets of it and removing their liberties .

  13. HELL YEAH it is on Will A Price War Run VoIP Out of Business? · · Score: 1

    You can get an unlimited calling package from Vonage, that includes Canada. Additionally, you are not burdened by these alleged taxes and right to use us tax. You also can monitor phone activity online including seeing what you will be billed for according to usage. You also have a world portable phone where anywhere with a broadband connection it's still a local call to people it was before. For the cherry on top, you can choose to keep your existing phone number and add virtual area codes to make it cheaper and easier to keep in contact with people in other places in the US. The quality is very near an overpriced POTS that lines the pockets of a greedy CEO for their oh so needed 7.4 million dollar holiday bonus. My only issue lasted a mere 24 hours, and that was an echo in the phone which may be caused by the phone. Since my issue resolved itself in time, I assume it was routing tables being updated for the new data stream to my Cisco phone switch(which is very small). Take all this that AT&T won't do for you and add all the features they offer to really jack your bill up and you have a very affordable communications package that you really cannot tell the difference in regards to quality. If you have a real broadband connection and DS bandwidth to spare you can max out quality and _maybe_ use about 150Kbps of your bandwidth.

    VoIP has been one of the better decisions I have made, and should price wars drive down the prices and keep the quality...sweet. If you have a reliable ISP and a real broadband connection with bandwidth to spare, I advise to switch over to VoIP. I have been a customer for 3 months now, and finally don't hate paying my phone feeling like I got ripped off and taken to the cleaners. If your only reservation is quality, I would say visit the website and read up. I am not sure, but they may have a short money back time period to make sure you are happy with how the service works with your connection. Only drawback, your VoIPhone is totally net dependent but thats what the cell is for when emergencies come around.

  14. Reactive instead of Proactive on Microsoft Offers A Bounty On Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    I am glad that M$ has finally decided to not only take the near non-stop parade of serious flaws in their OS seriously, but attempt to do something about it. What is disturbing is the fact that they have chosen to take of things AFTER the fact and react to poor decisions to begin with. It's great that a message is being sent out to the script kiddies who know just barely enough to read through bugtraq and security sites and slap together chunks of code they barely understand. This may curb some, but by no means all if not push things to the next level of cat&mouse and force new more creative ways to unleash slop code upon the masses of clueless users and admins.

    A proactive use of chunks of chump change like that would prove much more useful. For instance, use $250,000 - $500,000 to hire a few security ananlysts and a few programmers to find, proove, and relay to the main codemonkey department security risks, flaws, and unstabilities that could be exploited. Not only would this save them face, but it would give them a chance to fix things in house and put out patches in updates for a short time before releasing the information. It would also show to the public they so heavily market themselves upon and the corporations they try to bully that they are indeed serious about security and not just serious about cleaning up a mess that was not cared about until it showed somebody's fecal stained undies to the world.

  15. This search has performed an illegal... on Microsoft Looks At Other Search Engines · · Score: 1

    This search has performed an illegal operation and must be shutdown immediately. If you continue to get this error message, please contact the program vendor.

    (!)Fatal Error
    This search engine has become unstable and must shutdown now.
    (OK)

    Guess we won't coining a new phrase to search the web anytime soon...better Google that to make sure.

  16. Solar Chili on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: -1, Troll

    So the Sun let a few rip, who isn't guilty of this? Granted ours are methane based and not radioactive flatulence...

    In Space...nobody can smell your vapors.

  17. Re:Upgrade factor as well on When a PDA is better than a GBA for Gaming · · Score: 1

    PCs can be upgraded to handle the newer more resource intensive games, so they are never hindered by architecture such as a console is pending the next generation release. This is lacking in GBAs and is a pitiful attempt in most PDAs.

    Besides, who wants to spend all that extra money on hardware to get that portable stuff onto your 25" monitor or waste time with it at the airport when you can be reading up on the latest geek books.

  18. Re:Commercial spammers or advertisers? on Spammed by Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    I am sure this was the mentality when Spam first started clogging our inboxes, wasting our bandwidth and dDoSing our mailservers. Yet, to this day people still do it and I hardly think it is for the fun or the incredible popularity Spammers bask in. Some pinheads somewhere actually enjoy and like this kind of pestering (same with telemarketing). Which means it cannot be repulsing all that much business (grounds for immediate lifetime boycott in my book) and somebody is cashing in on it.

    Should the victim have to pay for this solicitation I can see a very bitter court battle as we all still get commercials(advertisments) on most channels we pay for on cable or for dish owners when they have reception.


  19. Now how long till mostly non-music content? on MTV Getting into Music Download Business · · Score: 2

    Had to take that stab at em, mod as need be. :)

    Wondered when they would start to offer this service, and along with previous posters I am wondering when they will offer the music videos as well and really offer some content (Aside from Troll subject). Wait a minute...I think a faltering .com's business model has patented that already. (Again mod as needed)

  20. Re:A few points in REALITY on Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nicotine is actually a poison . Before downplaying the intake of poison I would learn the facts. As for cigarettes and the diseaes they help bring on learn about how they get those little numbers on their packs before thinking you are any less exposed.

    Course, you could just prove it all wrong by soaking a pack or two of cigarettes in 32oz of water and chugging it after cutting off your phone service and access to medical help.

  21. SPAMmers Tactics & You on Spammer DDoS-By-Virus On spamhaus.org · · Score: 1

    I personally have noticed that Spam has been slightly on the decrease. But what must be remembered is for every great idea put forth by somebody that understands what is going on there are cries from the countless hordes who do not and only see the end results. Take for instance the near univeral blocking of port 25 at the ISP level. For the person connecting to other mail servers aside from their ISP's, I guarantee they will be having a fit like a two year old being teased with candy just out of reach, for those with understanding and Admins open relays from stand alone computers has just been permanently stuffed. Who has greater numbers, those near countless hordes who whine and still just open any .exe they can get their hands on or the Administrators? Use of lists are getting very common as well denying all non-dynamic scoped IPs or taking somebody's word for who is and is not a spammer in an unregulated and uncontrolled environment. Again, the cries of the many outweigh the few who understand the full extent of damage Spam can cause to a network and a network's reputation.

    The constant cat and mouse game was inevitably fated to move to new levels until the scourge of Spam is addressed as seriously as the nature of it is that being a wholesale waste of time, bandwidth, and storage space in addition to DoS possibilities. It is very possible that Spammers added Script Kiddie to their list of slimey traits, it would be a logical progression in attempts to circumnavigate anti-spam measures. What we should be discussing as a community is how to bring education to the general public to get the numbers on our side and have the whole Spam issue properly addressed. Laws might be one way, Technology and advancements may be another but in the long run bettering understanding of the basic principles of email and the consequences of sending 12,000 emails to a server at one time may further the issue. It would also pave the way for education on system comprimises which are now a major factor in sending Spam (Own a Windows box with a self SMTP engine, check the MX records for the domain and rip data right out the Windows password file) With everything basically already at the computerized stage and growing and near everything approaching the ability to be networked, allowing the masses to bask in ignorance is a great invitation for us to keep having to deal with these issues.

  22. Intellectual Property & Security Agreement on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 1

    I've contracted for and worked for big players like M$, and part of the pile of paperwork that required my John Hancock was disclosure of company information. I have little to no love for M$, but in this case I am sure that a signed written form had it's agreement breached. Harmless as the information may be that was revealed it could show also other more sensitive information might not be protected. Not only could it be endangering a project or part or even the whole company...but perhaps even the jobs of the people there |337 enough to have blue and orange badges.

    P.S.
    Billy still just can resist dipping into the Apple Pot eh Steve?

  23. 2 years tops before the public's turn on New P2P Battle is Heating Up · · Score: 1

    the RIAA and MPAA have found suitable replacement hosts in three key members of the House of Representatives. Lamar Smith, R-Texas; Howard Berman, D-Calif; and John Conyers, D-Mich

    Within 2 years tops the public can show their appreciation for these new overlords by voting for the Independent Candidates.

    "Paybacks uh motherfucker!" - Wise old proverb

  24. "Privatization" = Line their pockets on VeriSign CEO on Commercializing the Internet · · Score: 1

    I see tremendous issues with this whole concept. Any arguments for "best interests of shareholders and company wealth" must ask themselves...where will the business end of this quantify itself? Pay per Resolution? Force a tax down American's throats by purchasing enough Senators to make a tax to impose on ISPs like the RIAA and MPAA purchased the DMCA? This stinks like mandatory insurance and 7 day old fish left out at room temperature in the summer.

    If Verisign is so sure they or the corporate sector can do it better, how about showing by example rather than grab and destroy. If they really can do that much better of a job I am sure it would attract the masses, wait a second...shouldn't a bean-counting MBA know that?

  25. I Patented bad Slashdot Articles on Third Anniversary of Bezos-Backed Patent Reform · · Score: 1

    So using SCO Math I figure Cowbowneal has about 30 days to purchase a license from me in the amount of $47,000 which is fair market value of my imagnination.