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  1. Re:Bank error in your favor! on Our ATM Is Broken, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Your paycheck doesn't count. I don't know the full details, and as an AC pointed out, if I did I wouldn't be allowed to disclose them, but I think the timespan for serial deposits is measured in days, not weeks or months, and known regular deposits will quickly get flagged as OK when a bank employee investigates why you triggered the alarm, as the intent is to catch laundering, not throw up lots of false positives.

  2. Re:Way to confuse NEXT with Mach and BSD on Etoile Project Releases Mac-Like Environment · · Score: 3, Informative

    4. Apple buys OPENSTEP and uses it to produce Mac OS X
    5. GNU implements the OpenStep API as GNUstep

    I think you have these two the wrong way around. GNUstep dates back to at least 1995, while Apple did not buy NeXT until December 1996.

  3. Re:I'm sorry but I am not feeling the indignation. on Comment Deadline For NYC Photography Permits · · Score: 1

    "Public nuisance" is such a vague concept that there is potential for abuse. The proposed permit system at least defines what the limits are, even if the limits reach too far into legitimate amateur activity. As for why the permit - the permit is for those who want to exceed the limits, that's fair enough as they don't want to prevent all such photography/filming in New York, just regulate it. Personally I think a better balance would be permits that are harder to obtain, but required in fewer circumstances. By harder to obtain, I mean that if you are going to cause disruption to traffic, pedestrians, residents, business or whatever, you should have to justify the scope and timing of the disruption and demonstrate that you've taken steps to inform those disrupted and accommodate them as much as possible.

    The proposed system seems to place too much burden on the small guys, while its really only a rubber stamping exercise to the big film companies etc, who are causing the real disruption.

  4. Re:If you're going to build new ones on DeLorean to Come Back (Sorta) · · Score: 1

    The GP may be referring to the fact that being a Japanese car, the 350Z is required to be limited to 180km/h when it comes out of the factory (assuming they're assembled in Japan, not one of the US Nissan plants).

  5. Re:If you're going to build new ones on DeLorean to Come Back (Sorta) · · Score: 1

    why not do it properly and use modern underpinnings

    No doubt they would have to anyway, to meet modern safety and emissions standards.

  6. Re:Well... I don't want to _live_ in the US anymor on US Blocks Entry For German Black Hat Presenter · · Score: 1

    Me? I'd like more guns, fewer laws

    Try Somalia, or Nigeria or somewhere like that, then. Seriously, do you think more guns and fewer laws makes a good place to live?

  7. Re:I don't want to go to the US anymore. on US Blocks Entry For German Black Hat Presenter · · Score: 1

    sorry to break it to you...but that is 100% and in ALL ENTIRETY....YOUR responsibility...

    Yet another reason to avoid visiting the US. Seriously, I've been to about 30 countries around the world. Most of them are friendly and helpful when it comes to helping you get the documentation right, Singapore even let me in once when they shouldn't have, and they haven't hassled me on subsequent visits, so they don't seem to have taken it down to be used against me in future either (something that has happened to friends of mine on visits to the US). Only the US has this "100% YOUR responsibility" attitude.

  8. Re:Not A Good Sign on US Blocks Entry For German Black Hat Presenter · · Score: 1

    This is not good. It's my understanding that once you've been kicked out, it's much, much, much harder to get back in.

    Being refused entry is not the same as being deported. If he was deported, he basically wouldn't be able to come back for some number of years. Having been refused entry under the Visa Waiver program, he'll now have to apply for a visa in advance for every trip (even as a tourist), the Visa Waiver program no longer applies to him.

    A friend of mine had this happen to her because of bad record keeping. When she turned up at the border last year, they started asking her about a trip she made 12 years ago. It turned out they had combined two trips she'd made 9 months apart into one trip in their database, and accused her of overstaying. Since this was 12 years ago, she didn't have the relevant passport with her to prove that their records were wrong, and ended up paying a one-off $80 fine to allow her in that one time (effectively admitting the offense) and was told she'd have to apply for visas for future visits.

  9. Re:Bank error in your favor! on Our ATM Is Broken, Go To Jail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Having had some experience on the periphery of KYC software, I can tell you you're wrong. The six nines is one of the checks that rings alarm bells on personal accounts, but there are plenty of others, serially depositing lower amounts being one of them.

  10. Re:I'm sorry but I am not feeling the indignation. on Comment Deadline For NYC Photography Permits · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Blocking a sidewalk or part of a street, barring entry to buildings and businesses and holding up traffic both vehicle or pedestrian can cause a nightmare.

    These all seem like sensible criteria for requiring a permit. They also make the case that getting a permit for such activities should not just be a case of filling in some form, residents and business owners that will be affected should be informed as well and have a chance to object or suggest changes to timetables to fit better with their lives. But two people using a tripod do not cause such disruption, and should not have to seek permission to take photos.

  11. Re:ext2 supported everywhere on Cross-OS File System That Sucks Less? · · Score: 1

    NTFS read write is reliably supported under Linux, if anything its the Mac that would be the problem there.

  12. Re:Renting == Future Model on The Trouble With TiVo · · Score: 1

    Except you own the hardware, and can do anything you want with it.

    What rock have you been sleeping under for the last few years?

  13. Re:Sure looks like a scam. Pull up a whois on it on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 1

    Clevo make white label laptop chassis, which get fitted out and rebadged by various smaller computer companies. If you were going to launch a low cost laptop with low scale production, it would probably be a good place to start. The upfront costs for tooling for custom plastics and custom made motherboards just doesn't make sense until you reach a certain size.

  14. Re:History Repeating Itself... on Malaysia Uses Anti-Terrorism Laws To Stop Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Overthrow the state that the Terrorists occupy? Nope, look at Iraq.

    Try looking at Afghanistan instead. Iraqi terrorism grew out of the war after it started.

  15. Re:/. gets a D on Yahoo's YSlow Plug-in Tells You Why Your Site is Slow · · Score: 1

    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you filter out all +5 Funny posts, so didn't see the two ancestors to my post commenting about the D grades of both Slashdot and Yahoo. It seems like mostly A and F grades get handed out for specific tests, since you either do something already or you don't. And it also seems like any mixture of A's and F's results in an overall D grade. Hence my comment that it seems to be the standard grade (at least two of the tests are mutually exclusive, so straight A's is out).

  16. Re:/. gets a D on Yahoo's YSlow Plug-in Tells You Why Your Site is Slow · · Score: 1

    Most requests will fit into a single TCP/IP packet anyway so its not worth complicating the HTTP protocol with a requirement that servers remember information about browser capabilities for indeterminate time and the extra round trip for the "308 Forgot your Headers" responses that would be needed to recover from such situations would undo any savings that you'd gain.

  17. Re:2500$ for a remote? on Steve Jobs Hates Buttons · · Score: 1

    And that's just the start. Any guesses as to what the speaker cable costs?

  18. Re:/. gets a D on Yahoo's YSlow Plug-in Tells You Why Your Site is Slow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My own site also got a 'D', so that seems to be the standard grade. Everything that matters, it got an 'A' for, except for using non-inlined CSS which it got a 'B' for the test that said you shouldn't (to reduce HTTP requests), and an N/A for the test that says you should (to take advantage of caching). Then there were a whole lot of irrelevant things that it got an 'F' for. The fact that none of my site is hosted on a distributed network, the fact that I leave the browser cache to make its own decision about expiring pages since I don't know in advance when I'm going to next change it, and something about ETags, I'm not sure whether it is saying I should have more of them, or I should get rid of the ones I've got.

  19. Re:iPhone as a server on iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim · · Score: 1

    Remember though, that the iPhone has 128MB of RAM, with no swap. It has more in common with your server in an RJ45 connector than the servers you are used to installing Apache on.

  20. Re:iPhone as a server on iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim · · Score: 1

    The fact that its Apache makes even less sense. Low footprint servers like thhtpd or lighttpd are the usual choices for this type of hardware platform.

  21. Re:Overnight Flights & sleeping on Qantas To Offer In-Flight Internet, Laptop Amenities · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On the flight back, I had one a-hole nearby who thought it was good to read in the middle of the night. It would been better to go up into the galley area to read.

    On my last long distance flight (a proper long distance flight with two legs lasting 15 and 13 hours respectively), they handed out eyeshades so self-righteous pricks could sleep without worrying about what their neighbour whose bodyclock might be on who knows what timezone is doing. As for going to the galley, do you really think getting in the way of the staff is better than quietly enjoying the facilities that were put there for you at your own seat?

  22. Re:Wasted chance on Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? · · Score: 1

    Saddam still wasn't cooperating with the UN after Bush took over.

    The official reports of the UN inspectors do not appear to agree with that statement.

  23. FUD on Password Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.5 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Firefox's password file has never been in plain text, although if you don't specify a master password, the decryption key is stored in the same directory, so the encryption will only stop casual opportunists.

  24. Re:Update Deployment on Security Flaw Found That Allows Control of iPhone · · Score: 1

    The only OTA upgrades I was aware of was Windows Mobile 6 (for which phones are only just starting to appear). My Sony Ericsson requires you to go to their website, hunt down the support section for that particular phone model, follow promising looking links in a circle for a while, then click through a huge warning message that it might brick your phone and misleads you into thinking that you might need a special service cable (in fact you just need special USB drivers, which should be activated by the installer, but you have to hunt those down and install them separately too).

  25. Re:Wasted chance on Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Clinton believed they were there, because at the time Saddam was refusing to let UN inspectors do their job. By the time Bush had invaded, the UN inspectors had already been in and found nothing.