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  1. Stopping on UK ISPs to Shut Down Spamvertised Websites · · Score: 2, Informative
    Spammers don't stop. One spammer I asked to stop after the first spam said they would stop, but didn't. After the 91st spam, I made a demand for money and for them to stop -- they continued to spam. I sued, they stopped and paid me money.

    Spammers will stop spamming when it stops being profitable. If every time they spam, they get sued and have to pay money to attorneys and plaintiffs, they will stop -- BECAUSE it destroys their business model.

  2. Not just shut down. on UK ISPs to Shut Down Spamvertised Websites · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Not just shut down the site, but set up a page saying they were shut down and have the real data on the spammer, and some of the original page.

    That allows the people who have been spammed to identify and track the spammer.

  3. Yeah, especially... on Survival Time for Unpatched Systems Cut by Half · · Score: 1

    If your root password is "1234" or passwd you deserve to be rooted.

  4. What about garbage? on Two New Saturnian Moons · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If we throw a trashbag out of the the ISS does that become a moon? What about a bolt that is dropped when repairing a sattelite?

    There must be some definition of a moon that includes some reasonable minimums -- like gravity or magnetic field.

  5. Wasn't this found unenforcable? on You've Got PC · · Score: 1

    Back a few years ago, didn't they find that 12 month commitment not enforceable in California?

  6. Thought it was legal. on Judges Junk Jailcam · · Score: 1

    In Boston, they have/had "John TV" where arrested Johns would be shown on TV. I thought that was held to be legal.

  7. No...No...No... on Big Brother In Your Front Seat · · Score: 1

    They will first threaten Slashdot with a lawsuit, the news of that lawsuit gets out, then the instructions are mirrored. Then the hacking instructions will be the most downloaded thing on the internet -- more than porn.

  8. I meant on Smart Glass Blocks Infrared - But Only When It's Hot · · Score: 1

    I meant that the visible light would cause the glass to darken -- not based on temprature!

  9. combination on Smart Glass Blocks Infrared - But Only When It's Hot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    An interesting combination would be to incorporate it into a photosentive dye (photogrey?) like sunglasses. When it gets brighter, it gets darker. It would be useful in keeping rooms or cars from getting too bright.

  10. Not just banks on Fed-Up Hospitals Defy Windows Patching Rules · · Score: 1
    Many cash registers run OS/2. Many airlines run OS/2 or did until recently.


    Of course this situation gives a whole new perspective on system crash or BSOD.

  11. Two ways on More On Shatner's Possible Return To Trek · · Score: 1
    1. He is there from the episode where he ages rapidly.


    2. Lots of special effect makeup.

  12. This trend on Publisher Renames 'Katie.com' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This trend only happens when the little people stand up to the corporations.

  13. Bablefish proves there is no god. on Are We Alone in the Universe? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The proof of the non-existance of god
    The proof of the non-existence of god.
    Theory:
    God is based on faith, if proof on gods existence exists, the faith is no longer required.
    Without faith god no longer exists.
    The proof:
    Since the bablefish is such a neat construction,
    it couldn't evolve by random, god must have created it,
    and therefore since god proved his existence god doesn't exist.

    In audio
  14. Hard to find on Are We Alone in the Universe? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hey, it is even hard to find intelligent life on this planet.

  15. damaged on Katie Jones Interviewed · · Score: 1

    If I had a radio station that said that you could win a free lunch, fax a contest entry to your telephone number, then you are harmed.
    But if send lots of traffic to a site, there is harm -- especially when you send people to the wrong site . If you send people to a site that is unrelated to what you are sending them for. If you go to a store for a car part, but the store is really a watch parts, wouldn't you be pissed?

  16. The MPAA on Lawsuits Force 321 Studios Out Of Business · · Score: 1

    The MPAA then will try shutting down the web sites distributing it, like when they went after 2600 and Jon.

    Of course, they can't get everyone. :)

    Besides, I suspect that since it is a Winoze application, they didn't write it to be ported. But, it can provide a good start.

  17. efficient versus speed on Don't Nurse Old Hardware - Emulate It · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you keep the old system, it is running at .8mhz, 5mhz, or some other slow speed. It still runs faster emulated, though the emulation is not efficient. It also takes care of problems of repair and replacement of parts.

  18. Risking sanctions on McBride Says No More Lawsuits From SCO · · Score: 5, Interesting
    It is not just the issue of expenditure of money and time to fight the lawsuits, if they bring more -- but the risk of sanctions.


    In Damler, the judge threw out most of their case, so they can't argue that the next one is brought in good faith.

  19. Not using a debugger on Mozilla Starts Bug Bounty Program · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Using a debugger without knowing what you are looking for is virtually useless. One needs to apply scientific methods and smart tool related methods.

  20. Skills on Mozilla Starts Bug Bounty Program · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It may help the "budding CS majors" to build code analysis and debugging skills. Debugging skills are not taught in school.

  21. Real fun on Remote-controlled Bolts and Screws · · Score: 1
    Somebody cuts you off, you instruct their car to disassemble. Or, you can have rolling chop shops, you drive down the street, instruct the cars to disassemble, then come back and pick up the parts.

    A safe use, the police can have the car open itself when there is a suspect in the car.

  22. Advantages to moving to Texas on Microsoft Outsourcing High-Level Work · · Score: 5, Funny

    As for Texas, I can't imagine anyone voluntarily moving to Texas being labelled as "smart." :-)

    Actually it can be. Here are some of the advantages:
    • Lower Cost of Living, I bought a house in Austin for $100k
    • More space
    • Nobody looks strange at you when you date your sister or cousin
    • You can date your farm animals
    • With such a low average intelligence, you are much smarter than anyone else.
    But there is one disadvantage: You are in Texas.
  23. Computation power?? on NIST Proposes Abandoning DES · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It is always expected that any encryption will be crackable given sufficient computing power, and with Moore's law, that will always eventually happen. But of course by that time, a new more secure, algorithm that requires more computing power to encrypt will be available.

    It is interesting to note that they recommend using a faster algorithm.

    Of course us, of the tin-foil-hat, brigade know that the government has a very secure algorithm (gotten from area 51), but they never tell us about, just so we use an algorithm that we think is secure, but they have their own back-door.

  24. Re:Not so... it is the scientific method. on Debugging in Plain English? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And what takes you between 2 and 3... and minimizes the number of attempts... is experience. Nothing more, nothing less.


    Sometimes it is relatively easy and little knowledge or insight is required. But some bugs require huge leaps of intuition to solve in a reasonable amount of time.


    To go from 1 to 2 is the hard part. But, you can use tools to instrument the problem and determine where the problem may be.
  25. Not so... it is the scientific method. on Debugging in Plain English? · · Score: 1
    1. Determine the problem.
    2. Create a hypothesis of the cause of the problem.
    3. Test the hypothesis.
    .