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  1. Re:Not as bad as it sounds on New Windows Attack Can Disable Firewall · · Score: 1


    While this is certainly a valid attack... so are a lot of other attacks once you're already in the LAN. This one just happens to nuke a software-based firewall from the inside. Big deal.


    Well, if a trojan or virus gets on a LAN-based machine and it takes out ICS and the firewall, that leaves that machine more open to attack. It would also be a DoS as IP forwarding is killed.

  2. Re:Huh? What? on Overconfidence in SSH Protection · · Score: 1

    A slashdotter who did not build his own computer is like a jedi who did not build his own lightsaber.

    So does this apply to the female jedis or are girls only to stand around in skimpy outfits and be oggled by geeks??

  3. Re:Quick interview on CBC on Using Barges to Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1
    it seems like the energy used in creating that ice would end up negating the benefits

    no, no. They will be using Cold Power!

  4. Re:They call hackers researchers now? on Exploit Released for Unpatched Windows Flaw · · Score: 1
    All poodles are dogs but not all dogs are poodles.... (from a Law and Order episode)

  5. Re:VERBS on Star Trek Spoof Top Finnish Movie · · Score: 1
    My favourite was a headline in the Port Lincoln Times in South Australia: "Parents Watch Son Pass Out". The article referred to a college graduation ceremony where, in Australia and I think the UK, students are said to "pass out" of the college when they graduate. It was intentional, the journalist wrote some really pathetic headlines.

  6. No political control of domains?? on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 1
    The currect (US led) system has 0 political control of domains

    Grammar and spelling aside, this is not quite true. The .gov and .mil domains can only be used by the US govt. Surprisingly, there are other governments and militaries in the world.

  7. Re:Legend of these people in Tonga on More Evidence For Hobbit Sized Species · · Score: 1

    Yes, my wife knew some women in one of the villages whose great-great grandmothers had come from 'Ata - I had thought it was just one of those unconfirmable things but it was just out of living memory.

    As to the island it is probably a bit colder there, so not much motivation for resettlement. It would have been great to have gone there, though. As it was I travelled to Niuafo'o and Niuatoputapu, the two northernmost islands of the group and I was the first white person a 4-6 year old had ever seen. Certainly off the tourist circuit!

  8. Legend of these people in Tonga on More Evidence For Hobbit Sized Species · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I lived in Tonga for a couple of years in the 70's and there was a tale of very small people that were living in Tonga at the time the Polynesians arrived, at least on one island. They said these people were found on 'Ata Island (the southernmost island in the group). The new Tongans apparently gave them food initially, then for whatever reason decided to kill them off and blocked them in a cave. This is quite a similar story to that told on Flores Is. where the current discoveries have been made.

    The interesting bit is that this island is uninhabited as South American slavers came in the mid-1800s and captured all the males off the island. The King then had the women and children rescued and declared the island off limits. When I was there we tried to go to the island for a scientific survey but King Tupou Fa refused. The place is only visited by occasional fishermen.


  9. Upgrade we must on Getting A Handle On Vista · · Score: 1
    All corporate windows users will be forced to upgrade because it will become the current version, newer versions of apps will only run on it, MS will drop support for W2K, etc, etc. It has happened with all the previous versions and will happen again.

  10. Story wrong on McAfee, Macromedia Flirting With F/OSS Community · · Score: 2, Interesting
    McAfee has had VirusScan for Unix available for years. This is not its first "solution", nor does it say so in the press relase....


  11. Detection of oxytocin in crowds on Trust in a Bottle · · Score: 2, Funny
    According to the wikipedia:

    in lactating (breastfeeding) mothers, oxytocin stimulates myoepithelial cells, causing milk to be ejected into the ducts of the mammary glands.

    So, if you are worried about being affected by this hormone in public gatherings, just stand near a group of lactating women. If they all start leaking milk, you've been hit.

  12. Re:Pfft. They care so much. on BusinessWeek on Hacker Hunters · · Score: 1
    As with RM6f9, I have some sympathy with the problems of law enforcement. But $50,000??? This means that anyone can physically break into a business, steal less than $50,000 and not be prosecuted? Oh, that wouldn't be a federal offence? What happens when that person crosses a state line? Will they be prosecuted then? Of course they will.

    All this clearly is not acceptable. If there aren't enough officers to handle this, it is up to the authorities to secure better funding so they can handle what is clearly a massive problem.

  13. Re:syslog! on How Should an Application's Logs Work? · · Score: 1
    The problem with not being able to independently log virtual web hosts separately can be solved by using different facilities: local1 for host1, etc. There are up to 16 of these depending on the syslog variant. A bit of a kludge but it is there.

    I agree with the parent's rant that Unix progs don't necessarily exploit existing interfaces like syslog or tcp wrappers guess - my pet peeve is people not universally using --version or --help as parameters - perhaps if everyone continues to complain....

    Another sibling of this post states Apache et al don't use syslog because Windows(TM) doesn't have it: bollocks. One of syslogs strengths is remote logging, it is trivial to provide a syslog client in an application. IMO, this is a serious shortcoming as I don't want to have to look at tens of computers for separate log files, they should be centralised.

  14. Re:My experiences with advertising on Our Ratings, Ourselves · · Score: 1

    You may laugh at our quaint ways and humble origins, American, but our jihadis will soon

    damn, I shouldn't have said that.

    BTW, the elder daughter apparently has a copy of that picture in her wallet and is showing it to her "friends". She will pay, you all will pay...

  15. Re:My experiences with advertising on Our Ratings, Ourselves · · Score: 1
    You are missing the m@rketing opportunity of a lifetime. Reach milli0ns of r.eaders for just a couple of hundred do||ars! Terrlfic response rates - a recent BBC survey revealed 1/3 cl.ick-thr0ugh response and one out of ten making purchases!!!!

    Just c. l1ck h3re N0W

  16. Re:Pardon my ignorince but ... on Laptops, Headless Servers and KVMs? · · Score: 1
    What none of your solutions offer is console access to an intel box. I agree the original post glossed over non-intel equipment, but console access was the main point of the original post.

  17. Re:Imagine the greater system possibilities! on MIT Making Computer Parts from DNA · · Score: 1
    I almost wrote a SF story about this - how about making computers out of plants? They could use photosynthesis for energy, grow its own logic from silicon in the soil, their roots could create a huge network underground - link cities, countries, probably create storage using DNA sequences or ???, all of which would be self-repairable.

  18. Re:Can anyone tell me... on Should We Follow Novell v. MS in Detail? · · Score: 1
    I'm sorry but this is 99% false.


    Patently false???

  19. Somewhat off-topic on Godless Godzilla and Godzilla at 50 · · Score: 1
    Several years ago I saw Godzilla here in Australia on a public tv network - I never knew the version we saw when I was a kid in the US was highly edited. In the original there was no Raymond Burr as the American Reporter and much was cut (including a rather poignant scene with school children singing before the attack). This movie was a not-so-veiled protest against the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and much, much better w/o the American meddling.

    Has anyone in the states seen the original??


  20. Re:I saw spammers are ready for this on IETF Decides On SPF / Sender-ID issue · · Score: 1
    ISPs monitor what goes through their relays - I'd be very surprised if they explictly allow spam.

    Also, any ISP that did allow spam route directly through their servers will get innundated with complaints and forced to stop it.

  21. Wietse Venema on Unsung Heroes of Open Source Software? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Author of postfix and co-author of the Coroner's Toolkit (along with Dan Farmer).

    An IBM research fellow. Nice guy.

  22. The price you pay on Technology Review Profiles Miguel de Icaza · · Score: 1
    From the article:


    Matt Asay, Novell's Linux business office director [said] "I would say that the greatest benefit that Novell got from Ximian was not their technology; it was their DNA."


    It isn't just your thoughts they are after ....

  23. Re:Project GoneME on Gnome 2.6 Usability Review · · Score: 1
    Couldn't this be done as a 'skin'? I just use Gnome, not a developer, but surely all this user junk should be abstracted just as backgrounds and button styles are?

  24. Re:At least it's not a "For Dummies" book on Linux for Non-Geeks · · Score: 1
    Hey, i found Programing for Crackhed Asshats very helpful. I'm looking froward to contributing to kernel development with my kickass code.

  25. Another vacuum robot on Robots That Serve Beyond The Vacuum · · Score: 1
    This vacuum-robot actually uses a pattern rather than random movement in its travels - won't do corners though.