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  1. Re:Thats too bad. on Vonage Hit With $69.5M Judgement · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is convenient as most of my family, as well as my wifes, are located in one geographic area which is a long distance call. I can't tell if you made a grammar mistake by leaving out the apostrophe, or a spelling mistake by not change the f to a v... Or maybe both?
  2. Re:Kids today grow up so fast on 12 Year Old Gets $6.5M for Gaming Company · · Score: 1

    This one turned 13 before I got to the article. The kid and company magically changed names too!
  3. Re:Ask a writer on Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer · · Score: 1

    LyX is a LaTeX editor.

  4. Re:So pay for the whole day up front on Canadian Bureaucrats Don't "Think Different" · · Score: 1

    Not sure of the type of meter, but all I've seen will let you put in more than one quarter at a time. So have someone feed it a day's worth of quarters every morning. They usually have a limit on the amount you can put in at once. Well, you can put in more but it will only register a certain amount. This is to avoid someone doing exactly what you propose.
  5. No on Should We Spam Proxies to China? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The people who really want to know already know.

    The people who don't will just be annoyed by your spam.

    And, by the way, the people who don't really care to know vastly outnumber those that do.

  6. Re:Catalyst for change? on Storm Worm Rising · · Score: 1

    #1. Spoofed IP addresses - not that common anymore. It used to be that you'd tie up a machine by having it send replies to machines that did not initiate the connection. There is a simple solution to this. Anyone assigned a block of IP addresses has to make sure that all outbound traffic references IP addresses on that block. There might be a simple solution to #1, namely ingress/egress filtering as you suggest, but its not very effective unless deployed nearly everywhere. Anywhere that doesn't use filtering can be used to basically spoof anywhere. Plus, according to results from the Spoofer Project at MIT, even those networks where there is some level of ingress/egress filtering are able to spoof large amounts of IP addresses. Note the percentages in those results are percentages for hosts which do encounter some filtering. If you consider hosts which don't encounter filtering, pretty much any address can be spoofed.

    Basically, although there is a simple solution, it doesn't work. It hasn't been deployed everywhere yet and doesn't look like it will ever be everywhere. There is still active research in discovering better ways of discovering and filtering out spoofed packets that don't require 100% deployment. Another poster mentioned uRPF, but that doesn't work in many cases because it assumes symmetric paths (the direction packets take to reach a network is the same direction packets take when coming from that network), but paths on the Internet are not symmetric.

    Plus, I believe spoofing still is common. Botnet owners would rather keep their bot identities as anonymous as possible. Spoofing adds another layer of protection in this regard. Sure it can't be used in all situations, but situations where it can be used it usually is used.
  7. Re:He's wrong, you know. on William Gibson Gives Up on the Future · · Score: 1

    The sky above the port was the color of a television, tuned to a dead channel. That's not going to make as much sense to future generations where all television they've watched is digital. A dead channel is just a black screen with the text "No signal detected." :)
  8. Re:Not that big a deal on iPhone Root Password Hacked in Three Days · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd submit it!

    Is this like the geek equivalent of the frat-boy phrase, "I'd hit it!"?
  9. Re:Unrealistic convergence plan on Marriott IT Exec Shares Network Horror Story · · Score: 3, Informative

    Slingbox is not P2P at all. You stream content from your computer back home to wherever you want to watch it.

  10. Re:What's the big deal.. on Economic Analysis of Toilet Seat Position · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure I'd always have enough length to make it to the end of this tunnel.


    That sounds like a problem unrelated to your pants.
  11. Re:MBA? on Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT? · · Score: 1

    What do you think of the MBA program at UO? I'm doing my PhD in CS at UO right now and my wife is doing her BS in accounting here as well. She's not sure if she should do her MBA here as well or not.

  12. Re:Mac, anyone? on Soldat 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    It's not even freeware -- it's shareware.

  13. Re:Photo Radar on Police Objecting to Tickets From Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    The problem is people aren't going to slow down everywhere. They're going to slow down near the vicinity of the photo radar, and be just as fast everywhere else. People increasing/decreasing their speed near the radar is more dangerous than just having the same higher constant speed through the area.

  14. Re:Photo Radar on Police Objecting to Tickets From Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the photo radar did reduce the speed on the freeway

    Okay, I'll give you that.

    and thus made it a safer road to travel.

    But not that. Decreasing the speed does not necessarily make it a safer road to travel. Maybe yes, maybe no.
  15. Re:WiiConnect24 and Power Use on NiGHTS Wii uses Forecast Channel for Game Weather · · Score: 1

    Enable WiiConnect24, but have the console connected to a power strip which you turn off when not using it. Or does the Wii not like being totally without power?

  16. Full Journal article on Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings · · Score: 1

    The full journal article is available here.

  17. Re:Well done, the OpenBSD team. on Remote Exploit Discovered for OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    And another one from December.

  18. Re:Well done, the OpenBSD team. on Remote Exploit Discovered for OpenBSD · · Score: 2, Informative

    Other than kernel 2.0.x (10+ years ago), has Linux ever had a kernel bug that was exploitable remotely?


    A quick search turns up this from just last May:

    http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/1916
  19. Wet.. on Dresses Made from Wine · · Score: 4, Funny

    must be kept wet


    I'm all for any clothing technology that requires dresses to be wet or else they fall apart. Either way, we win!
  20. Re:Well done, the OpenBSD team. on Remote Exploit Discovered for OpenBSD · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could this be a sign of overconfidence in the Linux community?


    Not really, since this has nothing to do with Linux. It's OpenBSD, not Linux.
  21. Re:sell without operating system on Why Dell Won't Offer Linux On Its PCs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, FreeDOS doesn't come preinstalled. It comes on a CD and there is a paper that says, in a big bold font, the system can't boot until you install an operating system. This paper also says that Dell is giving you FreeDOS without any form of support whatsoever.

  22. Re:Damned if you do, damned if you don't.. on Helping Dell To Help Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think people also keep forgetting that Dell's FreeDOS option doesn't mean they preinstall FreeDOS. They send a FreeDOS install CD. The system is blank and cannot boot as shipped. The only thing installed is the Dell diagnostic system, the rest of the hard drive is empty space.

  23. Re:Myst... on Can Nintendo Save the Adventure Game Genre? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree 100%. I never understood the whole fascination everyone had with Myst. Okay, the pictures were pretty... And? It was not fun.

  24. Re:Nearlyfreespeech.net on Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? · · Score: 1

    Isn't it pretty standard for a company to have that in its terms of service?

    The real question is how often, and for what reasons, they will exercise this right.

  25. Re:I've heard of this new startup... on Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you have to tell people it's funny, then it's not funny... Sorry.