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  1. NASA bypasses 902.11b flaws on NASA Overcomes 802.11b Wireless Security Flaws · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmmm. Not so much a bug fix as a work around

  2. md5 on Checksumming Webpages Patented · · Score: 1

    It ought to do well indexing pages with text hits counters...

  3. Have some pity. on Internet Filter Plan Hits Snag · · Score: 1
    Ofttimes its hard to be a censor.
    Seems I am always in some jam.
    I save the species,
    From words like "feces" --
    Then Peacefire calls my work a scam.
    I search the Web of Wicked Pages.
    I look for drugs, hate, guns, or sex.
    And when I find it,
    I mark it "unfit" --
    Because the Rules I Have won't flex.

    (more)

  4. Can't vote for Gore, because... on Candidates' Positions On Internet Filtering · · Score: 1

    Gore wants, "a feature that allows parents to automatically check, with one click, what sites your kids have visited lately.' The relevant quotes are on the third page of the Posts's debate coverage..."

    Before you vote for Gore, think. Do you really want Amazon.com to get all those royalties?

  5. Not outside Mir on Space Fungus Eating Mir (Really) · · Score: 1

    Nowhere does the article claim fungus is growing on the outside of Mir.

  6. Re:Severe Orwellian nightmare on FCC to Require Anti-Piracy Features in Digital TVs · · Score: 1

    > Big corporations got the hurt on you?

    You misspelled "corpoRATions"

  7. Re:Disinformation in the 21st Century... on Maryland, Virginia Consider UCITA · · Score: 1

    Riddle: If you're filtering packets at the public router, and you're doing stateful packet inspection at the proxy server, and you're doing network address translation, and you're properly securing privileges with passwords--how can a vendor break into your system?

    Answer: The license key portion of the software makes a request out through your firewall to the MegaEvilSoft key server. The software will only if the key server responds positively. If no response comes back the software jumps to the help page 'how to configure your firewall' and/or quits. If the MegaEvilSoft key server sends back a negative response the software will delete itself and any other MegaEvilSoft code it can get write access to.

    Side effect 1: MegaEvilSoft can collect statistical data about how you are using thier software.

    Side effect 2: A local network failure will bring down all the software on your computer. A person with a backhoe will be able to reduce the productivity of an industrial park to zero.

    Side effect 3: Crackers succeeding in swamping MegaEvilSoft's key server with a DoS attack will shut down all copies of MES software worldwide.

  8. Re:Yes, it is a monopoly... on Everything Microsoft · · Score: 1
    If Microsoft is a monopoly and if the government thinks monopoly is evil the government should not be buying products from that monopoly. If they can't manage that little step they have no business [fining | breaking up] Microsoft

    Think that will happen? I don't.

  9. Special web sites for .au? on Australia now has Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    Is anyone considering diddling their web server to provide special pages to any computer from .au? It would slow things down terribly; you would need to do a reverse-dns before sending the page.

    Turn their web black.