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  1. #1:maintaining a versioning scheme ... on The 30 Best Features of Windows · · Score: 1

    ...across two consecutive versions!

  2. Picked a fine day to give in and use them on PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning · · Score: 1

    Needed a part, available almost exclusively on Ebay. All the sellers accept only paypal. Must all be masochists or something. Wish I had stuck it out now, but today before I heard about this I used paypal for the first time in *years*. And the last time, ever.

  3. Re:As the years going by - Bing the Singer on Bing Crosby, Television Sports Preservationist · · Score: 1

    Huh. People think of a search engine when they hear the word 'bing' ? Why? What search engine? /googles

    Huh. /shrugs

  4. some good classical stuff on Magnatune on String Quartets On the Web? · · Score: 1

    Depends what you're looking for, of course. The major works are pretty well represented.

  5. Quick way to figure out which side is right on SCOTUS Rules Petiton Signatures Are Public Record · · Score: 1

    Was the majority opinion >= 6 in favor? Check.
    Was Clarence Thomas opposed? Check.

    Clearly, petition signatures should be public.

  6. Re:Porn Musicals on Uwe Boll, Other Filmmakers Sue Thousands of Movie Pirates · · Score: 1

    My wife and I enjoyed that one. It worked on several levels. Even the acting was decent! Bless the Grand Illusion Theater for digging it up!

  7. Re:Polygraph on The Truth About the Polygraph, According To the NSA · · Score: 1

    while I disagree with c6gunner as to the likelihood of encountering a dishonest cop, this is not a troll.

  8. Government can do no right...when run by GOP on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Seriously, wtf?

  9. Re:Failsafe recovery? on Long-Running Underwater Robot Lost At Sea · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You think there is a mechanism of recovery more robust than the device itself? The pressure that sub handled was ungodly.

  10. that's a nice way to frame it, thx on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1

    the fundies won't agree, but they are necessarily logically challenged. If a self-contradictory text can be 100% true, then Spock wouldn't have gotten past those androids.

  11. Re:Are these useful yet? on New Open Source Intrusion Detector Suricata Released · · Score: 1

    Try the sguil console, and you'll be happier with handling alerts. It presents the data from full content pcaps, Snort alerts, and session data, together with a handy window to to reverse DNS and whois. It will give you the signature that fired the alert, or, if no alert fired (say someone emailed abuse@yourdomain.tld with an IP and time range) you can look back in time and see what connections your host had open when. It will even help you decide which alerts are useful and which are useless, but you still have to tune the rules yourself. For handling that, I use oinkmaster. Sguil scales to billions of rows.

    Some folks have worked on integrating bro (or was it prelude?), which is another interesting alerting engine. It might be possible to integrate with this project.

    http://sguil.sourceforge.net/

  12. one thing is sure: we'll see IFF it vindicates cop on Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing · · Score: 1

    if it vindicates the guy's account, it'll get "lost" or be shielded in the name of national security for revealing camera positions. The assaulting BP will get cover from his agency. OTOH there will magically be no security issue if it even approaches a vindication for the cops.

  13. law is glutted even top tier grads begging on Moving Away From the IT Field? · · Score: 1

    Do NOT go to law school under any circumstances. The job market is glutted and there is no guarantee of ANY work at all. The salary stats are inflated by bogus reporting, cherry picking from among those who have a job. More than half of recent grads had no job 1 year after graduating. Check out http://temporaryattorney.blogspot.com/ and http://www.lawschoolscam.blogspot.com/

  14. Are you kidding? I hate them like poison on Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA · · Score: 1

    Fuck them in the neck with fire.

    I went through a bullshit audit back in the day, when a disgruntled employee tried to inform on the college where we worked. He was largely responsible for the mess, I was largely responsible for cleaning it up in spite of political pressure from the top to keep things working as they always did. A couple of months after the cleanup, they notified us we were being audited. We had the ability to run our own audit and when they were not helpful in narrowing the search, supplied a multi thousand page report in 8-pt type giving every executable on every machine.

    Months later they found one classroom still had software on it that was not being used in that room (class was moved to another building). They asked for something like $30K in fines. We told them we were poster children for compliance, could prove that the software was not used, and told them to fuck off. They did.

    Bastards went on a fishing expedition elsewhere, hitting non-profits and other underfunded .edu's where they figured the IT depts would cave rather than fight because they lacked the resources to control their environments.

    So much effort that delivered nothing toward the mission. Fuck them.

  15. No, never. The Sony rootkit requires response on Sony To Convert Online Bookstore To Open Format · · Score: 1

    Corporate dissolution is suitable, since you can't incarcerate a fictitious person.

  16. Re:Funny this was submitted by kdawson on Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" · · Score: 1

    Oh, all the time. Hannity routinely takes comments out of context to ascribe statements to people that the opposite of what they actually said. Obama had a speech where he said something to the effect of, "Some people say we're in decline. I disagree." Hannity quoted and ranted, "He said, '...we're in decline'! he hatez america!" They've edited video to distort the plain meaning of what someone was saying. And wasn't it them who touched up photos to make two journalists, who were reporting something embarassing to the Republican Party, look 'more Jewish' ? Why yes, Mr. Orwell, it was.
    http://mediamatters.org/research/200807020002

    Seriously, there's a conservative case to be made on most issues, but Fox news will not present it or anything else but the most brazen political propaganda. Other media outlets might get the story wrong, might emphasize something irrelevant (though usually in a rightward lean), but Fox is a party organ in the style of Pravda.

    They lie.

  17. Re:Where are you finding these "requirements"? on Keeping Up With DoD Security Requirements In Linux? · · Score: 1

    Yep - STIG compliance is a pain, esp. if your linux box is an appliance, not a general-purpose multi-user box. I do think it cool they appear to care about securing their systems, though.

  18. Yep: Policy. Enforcement. Audit. on Testing So-Called 'Unified Threat Managers' · · Score: 1

    3 separate realms.

    Policy to define what's allowed (you haz a policy, whether it is written down or even thought about).

    Enforcement of that policy. FW, IPS, application fw. The higher in the stack the fw goes, the closer it should be in the net topology to the target it defends.

    Audit the enforcement of that policy. IDS, stats, flow.

    And rather than tie everything together, how about focus on the 3-4 sources that really kick ass? FW logs are not useful. Focus on what your targets are doing, not what the millions of bots are prevented from doing.

    http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/ is your source for clear thinking on this subject.

  19. NYT is right to show the cost of the war on Konami Cuts and Runs From Iraq War Game · · Score: 1

    It's the role of the press to bring us the story, especially if the powers that be want it hushed up. I think the Pentagon was chickenshit to hide the homecomings up to this point. Did you see that under the new process, 3/4 of families are fine with the photographs? Someone struck exactly the right note, giving families the right to make the call.

    My agenda is truth. The truth is some of our people come back dead. It dishonors their memories to pretend otherwise, and to minimize their sacrifice. So I'm not willing to accept your formulation that its just a political bias that determines whether one should or will approve of their publishing the events.

  20. My daughter regularly produces better software... on Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' · · Score: 1

    in her diaper. Seriously. A wiki, only you have to pay for it and search is broken. WTF?

  21. You are happier with WSUS than I was on 95 Of Every 100 Windows PCs Miss Security Updates · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We deployed it at my previous job, for 1100 machines. I found it a huge waste of time with large numbers of machines unable to update, or only partially updating. Almost none were completely updated. Status reports were off, reporting missing patches that I KNEW were on the box (installed manually and verified). I'm pretty sure it reported patches on that weren't. So not only could I not rely on it to do the job, I could not rely on it to tell me where it had succeeded and where it had not. I found it marginally better than nothing, not a solid enterprise ready tool.

    It will take MS another 10 years before it's products are enterprise ready. Enterprises use their stuff anyway, but the products aren't ready.

  22. WTO @ Seattle a really bad example for you on Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun · · Score: 1

    There were over a hundred thousand demonstrators and a couple of thousand dollars damage committed by a handful of twits. The police refused to arrest vandals identified by protesters. Then they went on a rampage with indescriminate use of tear gas and mace. It was a police riot. One sheriff's deputy saw a woman videotaping, knocked on her car window and when she rolled it down maced her and the other occupant of the car. He won the appeal of his suspension instead of a conviction for assault.

    The news media recycled the same miniscule footage over and over. It was bullshit.

    The facts are that WTO was a great example of civil disobedience, passive and pacifist. The cops were freaked out and undisciplined and very badly led. Also much prone to unconstitutional abuses. Puppet workshops were raided soley because they make good t.v. Paint was "stockpiling hazardous substances"

    When the legal fallout settled, there were no convictions of protesters and some hefty payouts for false arrest.

  23. Didn't get through the first one on Fantasy Author Robert Jordan Passes Away · · Score: 1

    s/Trollusks/orcs/g

    Now, I know you need baddies, but it just seemed derivative and stale. There are some problems with the Song of Ice and Fire, but it has texture, characters, fractal conflict. Jordan seemed to offer page count.

  24. Has there EVER been a warrent denied ? on Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    I believe the govt was unable to show ANY cases where, when presented with even the flimsiest of evidence, the "Spy Court" denied law enforcement the warrants it needed. They can even apply retroactively !

    I think the problem is that the judiciary is only giving law enforcement handjobs, and not using enough lotion. They want a little more service, you know?

  25. Re:Got it in one on Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Well, suppose someone builds this and it becomes the central academic computing cluster where none existed previously?