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  1. Re:Why not make information public? on Ask ISP Owner Barry Shein About the Spam Wars · · Score: 1
    In most cases spammers get a domain and ISP service. Once spam is reported, the ISP/registrar can call to confirm the address and phone number. If the credit card is stolen, contact the credit card company -- which may avoid a chargeback charge.


    Then if not stolen, cancel the account/domain and make the information available to the public.

  2. Why not make information public? on Ask ISP Owner Barry Shein About the Spam Wars · · Score: 1

    Why don't you make a spammer's information public?

    When a spammer has been found to be a spammer, you make avaiable, without a subpeona the information on the spammer so that people can file lawsuits against them.

    Spamming can be profitable. Take the spammers to court and take away their money.

  3. Actually on Compiling Under Wine · · Score: 1
    Actually, once running under Softice with virtualization turned on, I saw that the screen (DOS app) was being being repainted twice on every screen refresh.


    I doubt that profiling would reveal that.

  4. I mean for others on Compiling Under Wine · · Score: 1

    Of course all my code runs right the first time. I was thinking of everybody elses code.

  5. No! No! No! on Compiling Under Wine · · Score: 0
    No, VMWARE is not Windows. There are bugs in Windows that VMWare may not duplicate.


    Cutomers will not be running it, so don't bother.

  6. WRONG! on Compiling Under Wine · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It may eliminate the need for a reasonably fast machine to develop on, but you always need a target machine for testing! But, the test machine should be slow so that one can find performance bottlenecks and see the program operate under non-optimal conditions.


    If the people are forced to test applications on slow machines, we may not have word processors that need 40MB of ram and a 933MHZ pentium III to run.

  7. Depends on the impact too on Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If I punch somebody in the face, that is a relatively minor crime, but if killed him with that punch, it is now murder. If I rob a bank with a gun, it is not the same as if I rob the bank with the gun and a person died of a heart attack in the robbery.


    With the computer tresspass and fraud act, you have a minimal amount to trigger the act ($5000) and a large penalty. If you steal a car (worth $5000) you get a much smaller penalty.

  8. Re:the article is from 1995 on Slashback: Compromise, Bugs, Slag · · Score: 1

    Didn't Bill Gates also say that OS/2 is the operating system of the future.

  9. New category? on Pennsylvania Court Forces ISPs to Block Porn Sites · · Score: 1
    I thought most of the filter lists has a category for porn, not child porn. This is may to force a new set of categories, for each state. There is a category for illegal activities, which could include child porn, but I don't think that the lists were built that way.


    This may be unconstitutional as it may put too much of a burden on interstate commerce.

  10. His eyes are brown on Microsoft: Because Bugs are Cool · · Score: 1

    He is so full of it, his eyes are brown.

    Lets see, drivespace toasting data is not a bug that people want fixed. Machine hanging, is not a bug people want fixed.

    Yeah, right.

  11. Dilbert! on Realistic Portrayals of Software Programmers? · · Score: 1

    I thought the Dilbert is accurate.

  12. Spooks on Should you Fear Google? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the government had spooks working at google as spooks, do you think that they would have traces of ever being a government employee in their history? Unless, they would know that a spook would not have a government employment history in their backround, so they would put government employment that in their history. Unless,..... this gives me a headache, forget it.

  13. More terror tactics on The RIAA and MPAA Target Day-Job Downloaders · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Companies will take action and institute policies against downloading copywritten materials. This will be their defense against the company being liable for the downloading.

    The RIAA/MPAA is doing this to aim at deep pockets that can order lots of people to do, or in this case not do, specific acts.

  14. Will they arrest Bill Gates? on Crack Windows XP With... Windows 2000 · · Score: 1

    Since Windows 2000 is a circumvention device under the DMCA will they arrest Bill Gates for selling it? Or does the people who make that decision gets paid too much from Microsoft to do this?

  15. Responsibility on ABA Withdraws Consideration of UCITA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The UCITA is an attempt of software companies to get out of responsibility. It is one thing to not be responsible for every minor unknown bug, but it is completely different disclaim everything and enforce many of these all to common draconian terms in shrink wrap license agreements.

  16. Turning on the computer on Stupid Security · · Score: 1
    They used to have you turn on the laptop computer so they can see something on the screeen. As is you could not remove the hard drive and replace it with a weapon.


    Going into the JFK Federal building in Boston, one of the security guards told me that they had it because of the Oklahoma bombing. Yes, if they had Timothy take the truck through the metal detector, they would have caught him.

  17. Changes on California EULA Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    What about changing the contract at the counter?

  18. Might work if.... on Do-Not-Email Registries? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It might work if it had some of the following provisions:
    • Trap names on the list so that the states' sttorney general's office may go after them.
    • Statutory penalties for violations.
    • Liability for companies that hire spammers.
    • The ability to block domains, not just individual users.

  19. Same as a degree on Red Hat Certification Program For Education · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This is the same type of issue as people with degrees.


    A person with a BSCS may be able to program a 2000 line program, but give them a problem to fix on a 200,000 program and they are dead.

    All a degree or certification does is state that the person has taken course work and exams that show they they knew some knowledge at some point. It is not an end-all-be-all determination of skill. It is only one aspect to look at when determining a persons ability.

  20. Not applying patches? on Microsoft Blasted For Lax Security · · Score: 1
    According to the article, the patch was released about a week before the attacks started.


    Some people blame the admins for not applying the patches, but should you?

    Some things to consider about patches:

    • How often should patches be applied? And will you need to take down the system when you apply the patches
    • When you install some patches, some companies include new terms that allow they to have complete control of your machine, if you install the patch.
    • A patch may introduce a new problem

  21. Re:Perhaps going after those whom cause the issue. on Microsoft Blasted For Lax Security · · Score: 1
    Actually that may happen. Not on a criminal level, but on a civil level.


    A lawsuit against a company with many systems that are left unprotected and are being used as a relay or zombie for an attack may be comming soon to a court near you.

  22. Art v. Science on Grade Inflation in Higher Education · · Score: 1
    That is not true. You can sort a database with a bubblesort and it still compiles and sorts.


    Or you can write an OS that MUST be rebooted every month, or you can write it right. They still work, still compile.


    Even though there is art in code, there is still metrics and obvious concrete methods on evaluating code that works.

  23. Re:not new suggestion on Long Computer Sessions Could Cause Blood Clots · · Score: 1

    When you are in pain during all your waking hours and being told that you would not be able to do anything with a keyboard again you may not think so.

  24. not new suggestion on Long Computer Sessions Could Cause Blood Clots · · Score: 1
    Doctors have been saying that people should take a break from the computer once or twice an hour. This is to ward off RSIs, not death -- is there much of a difference?

  25. Saving code on Immortal Code · · Score: 1

    In some cases, I save source code in the file code by commenting it out. There are some cases where I remove features, but leave the code behind where I think it may be brought back in the future.