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  1. Re:Well... on The Apple Name Game · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Did you read the article? Did your moderator read the article?

    Originally from Hong Kong, he started Apple three years ago to challenge mobile phone company Orange.

    Of course, the amusing thing about this is there used to be an Apple ][ clone called "Orange".
  2. And the answer is... on Cheap SSL Certificates for Small Websites? · · Score: 1

    Fuck karma. I'm tired of crap question with OBVIOUS answers on /.

    Go to google.com. Type in: free ssl certificate

    It is trivial to find free certs good for 6 months, or $50 certs good for a year.

  3. Re:There's no sound in space. on David Brin on "Attack of the Clones" · · Score: 2

    No, Kubrick didn't have 10 minute long space fighting sequences.

    No, he simply had that gawd-awful 10-minute long starfield journey THROUGH the monolith.
  4. Re:By David Brin, Ph.D. on David Brin on "Attack of the Clones" · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    My father (who also has a doctorate) would quote the first Austin Powers movie on this:

    "I didn't go through four years of evil medical school to be called Mr. Evil."



    Er, hello? Didn't your dad take the time to explain to you that:

    Ph.D != MD

    David Brin, Ph.D
    [Doctor of Philosophy (Space Physics), UCSD]
  5. Re:This is a bit silly on "Fastest Browser On Earth" Cuts Crud · · Score: 2

    Between Opera, IE, and Mozilla, the speed difference is small enough for your average user not to know the difference.

    Unless, of course, you are running on a non-M$ platform.

  6. Oh yeah on Subversive Gifts for New College Students? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Oh yeah, this is really news for nerds when info about the RC5 challenge nearly being over isn't.

  7. Get your degree on System Administrators - College or Career? · · Score: 2

    I've been working for Raytheon for a bit over three years as a systems geek. They just hired a new systems geek to do the same thing I do in the same place on the same contract. They started him at $10k more because he has a degree, even though he has less experience.

    Get your degree if you're going to enter the commercial sector in big business.

  8. Re:Well... on Cingular Filtering Porn From Wireless Web? · · Score: 2

    They are free to block whatever they want.

    Except the little problem that once they block something, they are liable for blocking any material that anyone finds objectionable.

  9. And for those of you who can't wait... on Atari Announces an Official Portable 2600 System · · Score: 2

    There's already a similar system out there.

    Just go to 9the Tee and look at their Arcade Video Game System - complete with two controllers, a light gun, and 76 built-in games. $36.95 Sure, it won't fit in your pocket, but still...

  10. Didn't we already... on Computers and Cars: A Maddening Experience? · · Score: 1

    see this story a few months back? Sure, new review but OLD NEWS.

  11. So, how long till we see a walking web server AIBO on Teach An Old Aibo New Tricks · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised no one's asked yet. Place your bets. How long till we see a web server ported to AIBO?

  12. Re:Best Buy Ate my Balls on Worst Buy · · Score: 2

    gee, too bad. every motherboard i bought from Fry's has rocked.

  13. Re:Doesn't that defeat the purpose? on Cross-platform Password Management? · · Score: 1

    The problem with the 8+ theory is that NT passwords are stored in two 7-character blocks. More than 7 characters nets zero benefit on Windows platforms - at least from a brute-force standpoint.

  14. Re:Debatably? Yes! on Farscape Returns Tonight · · Score: 1

    Additionally, the science in SG-1 is (usually) a lot more grounded in fact than Farscape's is.

    Oh, you mean like transporter technology? Screw Hiesenberg s uncertainty principle. Teleporting from a ship to earth is entirely grounded.

    Yeah, that worm hole technology sure is bogus in Farscape's starburst, yet totally acceptable in SG-1's stargates.

  15. Here are a couple of tips on Yahoo Knows Best, Resets Users' Marketing Prefs · · Score: 1

    A) Of course, no one puts their REAL personal information in a yahoo account, right? Put in the phone number for the White House switchboard.

    B) Put a forwarding rule to forward all mail to postmaster@yahoo.com. That'll teach 'em.

  16. Re:ratings of foreign films on LoTR Takes 4 Oscars · · Score: 1

    I'd be very grateful if anybody could explain why e.g. Amelie [...was] rated "R"

    The suicide and the sex in the loo.

  17. Re:PERC? on No Hassle RAID 5 Implementations? · · Score: 1

    Count yourself lucky. I have problems with the PERC 3 boards in PowerEdge 6400s. If they run out of juice (power outages that last longer than the UPS), they forget about the array. The only fix is to remove the cache SIMM, power up, power down, and reinsert the cache SIMM.

  18. Re:That doesn't mean VNC won't run. on Microsoft XP License Prohibits VNC · · Score: 2

    The only thing it lacks is a built encryption scheme, and file transfer utility.

    And it isn't lacking that. Doesn't EVERYONE tunnel VNC through SSH? It solves both problems.

  19. Re:DivX on Limited-Use DVD Technology · · Score: 1

    Yeah, fuck the environment and waste more oil to produce another piece of plastic used for a couple of weeks. The hell with future generations of humans.

  20. How are the IT jobs in Vermont? on Vermont Goes Opt-In, Corps Unhappy · · Score: 1

    Let's see....

    [X] opt-in law
    [X] default concealed carry OK law

    I'm packing up my stuff and moving to Vermont! I like the idea of a state that puts the people first.

  21. Re:Reality check on Rogers Cable Plans Fees to Curb Bandwith Hogs · · Score: 2

    Yeah, and just like the power companies make people who use more electricity pay more. And the same as gas companies make you pay more if you use more gas.

    Yeah, and just like when I signed up for power and water I signed up for metered rates. And when I signed up for cable modem, I didn't sign up for metered rates. Bad analogy.

  22. Re:On the other hand... Anti-MS guy uses O-Express on Borking Outlook Express · · Score: 2

    If it doesn't currently support it, well, it doesn't work. :)

    But thanks to your prompting, I did some digging around. Turns out that PC-Pine supports non-certified certs and SSL. I don't have all the GUI features I'd like, but I can use PC-Pine with SSH for my remote secure e-mail needs.

  23. On the other hand... Anti-MS guy uses O-Express on Borking Outlook Express · · Score: 2

    Anyone know of a Windows GUI e-mail client that supports imap-s with unsigned certificates? I've tried Eudora and several other clients from Tucows. Only Outlook Express seems to happily work with my SSL'ed IMAP server that has a self-signed cert.

    Until I can find such a client, I'll continue to use Outlook Express in spite of my desire NOT TO (of course, I do go in and turn mail messages into plain text mode instead of the default HTML mode).

  24. Re:methods on Comcast Gunning for NAT Users · · Score: 2

    Damn I wish I had moderator points to mod you up. All these people going on and on about Linksys/etc router/wireless MAC addresses.

    You are entirely correct. As you said, the only device connected to the cable company is the cable modem. The cable company CAN'T see other MAC addresses beyond the modem.

  25. Re:This is a shame for Opensource on Custom OpenBSD 3.0 with IPFilter From Darren Reed · · Score: 2

    another keep bashing and won't let IPF re-unit with OpenBSD even after some modification to
    the license


    I'd leave your troll alone, except for the upmodding it has received from some idiot.

    *NOTHING* prevents you from downloading IPF and compiling it into OpenBSD. There are *MANY* packages that aren't a part of the distribution. There are even more source tarballs that aren't part of the distribution. You want it, add it. What is so hard to understand about this?

    I guess the moral of the story is that, all Opensource developer should bond more together and remember our real goal for opensourcing.

    And OpenBSD believes in that. If one looks at the license of IPF, one realizes Darren doesn't believe in that in regards to his changing license on IPF (changing from vague to strict to loose).

    By writing separate PF, OpenBSD team has to spend extra time to re-code the new PF and going through the code audit, testing....

    And that's a bad thing? Should software only go through one audit?

    As I mentioned in a prior message, PF adds some new features (which I greatly appreciate) that I didn't have with IPF.

    Being a security consultant

    Welcome to the /. crowd. We'd offer you the secret handshake but we don't know your public key.

    but I would wait a bit before PF

    What's a bit? How long is long enough? How do you know someone didn't hack Darren's distribution? Have you run MD5 sums on all files in Darren's release to make sure that except for his changes, the code is still true OpenBSD? Did you audit his source code? How do you know he didn't inadvertantly introduce a flaw into OpenBSD?