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  1. Re:Not really. on Ten Reasons to Buy Windows Vista · · Score: 2, Informative

    Parental controls: That could be very nice, and is unique

    Uhh, no. It's been in Tiger.

  2. Re:Dollar Power? on Sony Rootkit may Lead to Regulation · · Score: 1

    Because the market depends on full disclosure. How do you make informed decisions about the rootkits when they don't tell you?

  3. Re:Mr. & Mrs. Smith DVD on Sony Rootkit may Lead to Regulation · · Score: 1

    Right, they're .dylib

  4. Re:Illegally? on Sony Cutting Back on UMD Sales · · Score: 1

    However, wouldn't breaking the protection for shifting be legal due under the interoperability exemption?

  5. Re:Signed SSL certs worthless on Phishing Site Using Valid SSL Certificates · · Score: 1

    Looks like I haven't kept up with this one. It was patched a while ago

    Not just MS was afflicted with this

  6. Re:ok on Mario All Grown Up? · · Score: 1

    Not quite what I meant. There are those out there that think violence is the be all and end all of a game. How many adult gamers (not high schoolers) are in that demographic, relatively speaking? In my experience, it's less than 5% of adult gamers that fit that. Of course, this is in people I personally know and interact with offline, so YMMV.

    Less than 20% of games coming out are "M", so I wouldn't call it an excess. An excess of negative publicity for sure.

  7. Re:Signed SSL certs worthless on Phishing Site Using Valid SSL Certificates · · Score: 1

    Because of the way IE checks, if the SSL cert is signed by a cert that was signed by the CA, it will show up fine. So if there's DNS poisoning, you could still be talking to another server. This bug may have been fixed, I'm not sure off the top of my head.

  8. Re:Public school system on Phishing Site Using Valid SSL Certificates · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do browsers check revocation lists? I didn't think so

    Yes. At least IE does. It slows things down if you're on an isolated network, so it's one of the first things I turn off on those machines.

  9. Re:ok on Mario All Grown Up? · · Score: 1

    I wonder how big that demographic actually is. Of the people that I know that are gamers, I can think of only one that fits that, and that may be borderline (won't play Wind Waker because of the "kiddie" graphics). Everyone else is happy playing a good game, violent or not.

  10. Re:PC's need a tag to identify important systems on Botnet Attack Shuts Down Hospital Network · · Score: 1

    so that they can comunicate the information to other systems

    That is why they are networked. Again, why are they on the Internet? You can have gateway systems that shuffle the data to other computers and networks that are on the Internet, if needed.

  11. Re:ok on Mario All Grown Up? · · Score: 1

    IMHO, adult gamers are 18 year olds with an immature mind who just need to grow up.

    OK, why?

    Over 18 (well over)
    Pay bills on time
    No credit card debt
    Married
    Employed, shows up to work on time, gets good reviews (and no, not at McDonald's, I'm a senior software engineer)
    Avid reader
    Gamer

    So, other than games, how am I not grown up and immature?

  12. Re:Student's Fault on Botnet Attack Shuts Down Hospital Network · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But beyond that, diagnostic instruments and otherwise are so complicated they need to be on some sort of computer system.

    On a computer system, yes.

    WTF do they need to be on the Internet for?

  13. Re:Catharsis argument? on Step Away From The Games Legislation · · Score: 1

    And neither has the opinion that it's unhealthy been supported by research. The meta-study from the Attorney General shows that.

  14. Re:The problem is retailers... on Step Away From The Games Legislation · · Score: 1

    They can't refer to the existing ratings system. Using a private system for enforcement of age limits by law has already been struck down by SCotUS with regards to movies.

  15. Re:The problem is retailers... on Step Away From The Games Legislation · · Score: 3, Informative

    I misremembered, or I'm remembering a different year: From the FTC for 2003:

    Movie Theater Ticket 36%
    Movie on DVD 81%
    Music Recording 83%
    Electronic Game 69%

    Games are kicking the butt of DVDs and Music, so why are enforcement of game ratings the issue?

  16. Re:The problem is retailers... on Step Away From The Games Legislation · · Score: 2, Informative

    The retailers do a better job policing games than movies (81% vs 75%) so why aren't movies attacked first?

  17. Re:the 'dot net' language? on .Net Programmers Fall in CNN's Top 5 In-Demand · · Score: 1

    cow

  18. Re:Internet Security on Symantec's Genesis to Usher in a New Age of Trust? · · Score: 1

    It's a default configuration semantic that is _trivially_ addressable by the end user.

    Incorrect. Too much software assumes admin rights.

  19. Re:The End of the Internet, for USians on Pay-to Play and the Tiered Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're a little off on how they'd do things.
    New model:
    500 power user customers @ $100/month = $50,000
    4500 email and light web users @ $50/month = $225,000

    New Income: $275K

  20. Re:Who out there stilll doesn't get it? on Clock Ticking for Nyxem Virus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow what an optimist.

    Melissa didn't do it.
    Love didn't do it
    MyDoom didn't do it.

    Why do you think this will?

  21. Re:Makes Total Sense on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Did you do anything more than a grep? Those are all about voting and office holding. Anything that talks about rights uses "person", even the 14th that you listed as critical.

    nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

  22. Re:Makes Total Sense on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    No, the Constitution applies to the government of the United States.

    Where (other than voting and holding office) is citizenship mentioned?

  23. Re:No particular, but any? on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    You do? You can pay cash when you buy a car.

  24. Re:OmniGraffle on The Most Desired Linux Ports · · Score: 1

    Hence it would be a port.

  25. Not any safer on Is Obsolescence Good Computer Security? · · Score: 4, Informative

    After I switched my father to Linux, I kept an eye on the logs.

    Time from dial up connection to blaster hit: 8 seconds
    Time from dial up connection to Nimda Hit: Two and a half minutes

    So no, it's not safer.