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  1. Re:The SEC may be interested... on Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger · · Score: 1

    Does "some measure" include his current medical condition? Can I call Microsoft and demand a stool sample from Mr. Ballmer so that I can determine if he's healthy?

  2. Re:Parts: The Clonus Horror on Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A share holder of a company that uses it's CEO as one of it's primary selling points does have a right to know if that PR asset is about to kack.

    Really, a right? How exactly was that right bestowed upon them? What gave them that right? Is there some sort of shareholder's bill of rights that I haven't heard about which says that if a company uses its CEO as a PR asset then shareholders have the right to know if the CEO is having medical problems?

  3. Re:Ummm on Could We Beam Broadband Internet Into Iran? · · Score: 4, Funny

    How is an emerging tyrannosaurus (presumably a fossil just being uncovered) going to help with widespread broadband?

  4. Re:Possible work-around on Attack On a Significant Flaw In Apache Released · · Score: 1

    ..but you can't give an example?

  5. Re:Possible work-around on Attack On a Significant Flaw In Apache Released · · Score: 1

    It sounds like Apache needs more than one timeout, then. Sitting there with an open connection with no data going through and receiving a stream of post data are two different situations that should be handled differently. A timeout for when the connection is essentially open but idle should not come into play when the server receives a content-length header and is receiving data that hasn't reached the content length yet.

  6. Re:Disturbing trend on Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    OK, well I'm glad that we can agree that the presence of Opera's servers adds some security, including authentication, even though it doesn't protect against all known and unknown attacks. If you find a system that protects against all known and unknown attacks, by the way, please share it.

  7. Re:Still an Epic Fail on Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Look around, there's a lot of Opera hate on Slashdot. Don't get me wrong, I get a spicy boner when I think about Opera, but I'm not a typical slashdotter.

  8. Re:Disturbing trend on Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does, actually. Nice sig.

  9. Re:Disturbing trend on Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Goddamn, how difficult is it? If they demand you use MySpace, fine, post a message on MySpace:

    "check your email"

    No one is forcing you to use MySpace, you're making that choice.

  10. Re:Possible work-around on Attack On a Significant Flaw In Apache Released · · Score: 1

    Why would you ever need a timeout that high? When is a 30 second timeout not enough?

  11. Re:Seems to be a general problem. on Attack On a Significant Flaw In Apache Released · · Score: 1

    the damage is easily rectified - restart the web server

    Good idea, mitigate a DoS attack by taking the server offline.

  12. Re:Boring on Attack On a Significant Flaw In Apache Released · · Score: 1

    fairly trivial to fix ...
    I'd be embarrassed to publish something like this

    So why isn't it fixed? Let me guess: it's a case of all of the Apache developers saying "you have access to the code, you fix it, it's trivial."

  13. Re:Why not IIS? on Attack On a Significant Flaw In Apache Released · · Score: 1

    Is it really correct and standard to hold a session open for a client that isn't sending any data, while excluding other clients in the process? Where in the spec does it say to do that?

  14. Re:Why not IIS? on Attack On a Significant Flaw In Apache Released · · Score: 1

    no Apache developer believed that any self respecting attacker would stoop so low.

    That's a brilliant approach to security.

  15. Re:WTH? This is an absolutely trivial attack on Attack On a Significant Flaw In Apache Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not really, it just means you need more than one attacker.

  16. Re:WTF on Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts · · Score: 1

    Bah, I think the whole thing is stupid. Lawyers should be barred from using any and all phrases that mean something different in the court than they do in normal speech.

  17. Re:WTF on Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts · · Score: 1

    Arg, sounds like college again. I was perfectly happy to be done with discrete math and linear algebra. I seem to remember "iff" being sort of similar to XOR.

  18. Re:But the real question is... on iPhone 3.0 Update Delivers Prodigious Patch Batch · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a 30 year old Nude Photographer

    Really? People don't have a problem when you show up at their wedding naked?

  19. Re:Seriously? on In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 · · Score: 1

    And certainly, this verdict (a) will itself be set aside, and (b) gives added ammunition to the lawyers like myself who are arguing that the RIAA's statutory damages theory is unconstitutional.

    I'd love to agree with you, but at this point it seems like the only thing that's certain is stupidity during these trials.

  20. Re:WTF on Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts · · Score: 1

    If you can show that you are not required to provide that one account, "list all..." by itself means that you can now list none and be in full compliance.

    I don't really agree that "list all" can be legally satisfied by "list none" (the polar opposite) if one of the items isn't able to be listed. I just don't understand why "all" suddenly turns to "none" when one item doesn't apply. I would think it would still mean "all that apply".

    OK, then why don't they just say "any"?

  21. Re:WTF on Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts · · Score: 1

    OK, now take that back into context with this agreement. "Please list any and all sites" has no additional meaning than "Please list all sites", right? This isn't a declaration of fact, it's a request.

    Also, +1

  22. Re:WTF on Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts · · Score: 1

    "Please list any and all,...."

    Why do lawyers like phrases like that? What does the phrase "any and all" add that the word "all" lacks by itself?

  23. Re:Listen... on The State of Iran's Ongoing Netwar · · Score: 2, Informative

    No one is interfering in their politics, people are just trying to help the lines of communication stay open.

  24. Re:any story about this that doesn't mention Fark. on The State of Iran's Ongoing Netwar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Email me@austinheap.com, he's compiling an unpublished list of proxies that Iranians can ask for when they contact him. He's in one of the best positions to make sure the proxies get to the people who need them.

  25. Re:Fark on The State of Iran's Ongoing Netwar · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here, here. Fark has stepped up to provide explanations and filter through the noise, and 4chan has stepped up to provide technical support and services to keep communication open. I'm actually a little surprised that Slashdot is as quiet as it is, considering the technical knowledge that it's known for and the many cries over censorship. This is censorship at its greatest, and no one here seems to want to lend a hand to the people who need some help getting around it.