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  1. Re:The blind watchmaker on Calculating God · · Score: 1

    Is it novell?
    No, it seems more like NT: as usable as religion with a spattering of buzzwords. nothing like novell.

  2. Re:Gee... on Colleges Urged To Ban Telnet And FTP · · Score: 1

    security by obscurity is never the answer. You could change the port, but a cracker would simply need to portscan you.

  3. umm two words on Intel Announces Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    Nissan skyline 4 banger, 4 wheel power, so much antislip tech they come off the line faster than everything. Muscle isn't everything. Then again, I'd love to have a `93 mustang cobra.

  4. This is how I play old school games. on Intel Announces Pentium 4 · · Score: 5

    Without their cache, these modern chips amount to nothing. They are no good unless you have something filling the pipeline with the next instruction.
    Take your k-spiff pentium III 950 and turn off cache. Boot windows. Have fun in your misery. THis is how I slow games enough to play them on my 450. Gabriel knight works just fine without cache. :)

  5. Re:Top 10 Other Names Considered for Pentium 4 on Intel Announces Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    portmium
    gritsium
    Thank you.
    (just kidding, It's a great name, really.)
    nevermind.

  6. Not a preacher on The Great Internet Con · · Score: 2

    If you read even the first page you will find out Fenne wasn't a preacher. But who needs editorial control anyway?

  7. Re:My hosts file on Cookiegate Explained · · Score: 1

    that's interesting, but you could have just put junkbuster proxy on your system, and set up the block file like this:


    doubleclick.net
    flycast.net
    /ad*/
    etc...

    It would save you a lot of trouble, since dblclick changes its server names around to different schema from time to time. I prefer to block the whole domain.

  8. Re:Doubleclick. on Cookiegate Explained · · Score: 1

    Yes, and that's why all my junkbuster configs have "doubleclick.net" in the cookieb file. Nothing from dblClick gets through.

  9. Re:And this is a suprise how? on Cookiegate Explained · · Score: 2

    And also DUI is a national industry. Everyone who is tagged for DUI is usually sent to a "Track 2" program where they must participate, and they must pay for. The class is bs, as it is pretty much a "scared straight" or high school detention in nature. Did I mention this is a multi-billion dollar industry? no better monopoly than the government.

  10. Be careful on Microsoft Announces .net · · Score: 1

    Be careful using up your VDE resources while in shell. Also, if you write a custom script, make sure it doesn't spawn subshells, or it will easily chomp 255 vde units at a time. Set your max run to 5-10 and you should be ok.

  11. I'd settle for on Cookiegate Explained · · Score: 1

    I'd personally settle for EPIC to not call it "cookiegate". We have "Monicagate", "Chinagate", "travelgate", etc. You'd think we could come up with a suffix NOT related to the Watergate hotel. That's why it's called the "Watergate scandal". Since cookies are not related to breakins of the watergate hotel, they should find a new name. mumblegrumble pissondis.

  12. Re:Jeez, pretty poor privacy? on Pretty Poor Privacy · · Score: 1

    from The spec:

    P3P does not include mechanisms for transferring data or for securing personal data in transit or storage.

    This was exactly what I was looking for.

  13. Re:Jeez, pretty poor privacy? on Pretty Poor Privacy · · Score: 1

    It has nothing to do with your settings. Yes, they could say that, but the standard has a way to simply override and accept.

    This system does NOT NOT NOT send out your information for you! It is not a "wallet" program! It informs you of site policy, should you want to sign up. It does not sign you up indiscriminately. that is up to you.

  14. How they will make money... on Blender Goes Freeware · · Score: 2

    From the email Ton sent out to c-key owners:

    Later, you will also get a pretty nice discount at the Blender 2.0 boxed version (manual, tutors, cdrom) to be released in november.

    blender 2.0 will make money from this boxed set. Sounds like a linux distro model.

    I cannot wait for my tutorial guide!

  15. Re:Beware: rant ahead on Pretty Poor Privacy · · Score: 1

    You sound like someone who actually read the spec or listened to the report yesterday on NPR. Good. This program/initiative seeks to make sites take responsibility for their actions when selling names. Nobody likes a welcher. You can refuse to enter data on most sites, and still get something out of it. /. doesn't require you to login, but if you want a name, you have to give up the comodity of information (which has never been abused so far.) which they do not resell.

  16. Re:Too bad... on Pretty Poor Privacy · · Score: 1

    Isn't that "There are two kinds of people: People who categorize people into groups, and people who don't"?

  17. Jeez, pretty poor privacy? on Pretty Poor Privacy · · Score: 2

    The P3P standard is being developed to let users decide how much of the data their computer will give up about them.

    It has nothing to do with PGP, even though it begins and ends with P. btw, so does PHP and PCP. I don't think anyone is confusing those with PGP either. It is not an encryption technology, but a policy technology.

    It would send out a PICS-like code to a user, and it would match to user preferences to check for violations of personal security rules.

    This would let people collect a certificate that states "this site (will|will not) (sell|share) you information. Information is kept for (foo) months." If visitorse have a problem in the future that they think is a result of visiting this site, or accuse the site of violating their stated terms, they have evidence by which to prove it.

    There really aren't many implementations available yet, aside from some of you usual startup-of-one-purpose companies.

    This is a consumer protection measure intended to keep governments (particularly the pesky US) from passing yet more laws that don't work.

    This was reported on NPR yesterday. Some folks form junkbusters commented on it saying it was a good idea to take back personal information, but more needs to be done to ensure enforcement, or the whole system would fail.

    I needn't remind anyone that using junkbuster with cookie protection is usually enough for most privacy addicts.

  18. How about? on Microsoft's New Language · · Score: 1

    Cb {c flat) -- it seems much more appropriate, since it is destined to fall flat.

    It's c-like and Java-like? Here I was thinking java is like c. So to me, c# is like c.

    Also, a music metaphor is simply a stupid play, especially when we are programmers, not musicians.

    If I recall correctly, M$ made a visual J++ that was their version of java. It didn't involve an analagous transformation like c -> c++ (objects) but rather a closer tie to the M$ paradigm.

    Since "innovation" and "plagarism" seem to mean the main thing when M$ is concerned, I guess they didn't consider this an issue.

    Didn't "cool" stand for "C object oriented language" or some rubbish?

    I'm certain we could find some epathet for this one too, ala "wince"...

    All the same, I'd rather call it cb

  19. Re:Open Media? on Analysis: The Rise Of Open Media · · Score: 1

    iOpener, $100. This is the price of what 6 hits of crack?

    iOpener service, $20/mo. You can go without your crack just once, can't you?

    It may be hard to get a phone line in a crate though..

  20. The same. on Analysis: The Rise Of Open Media · · Score: 1

    those both point to user 7654.

    That is a curious number...

    Slashdot is not unix.

  21. .ORG in the first place! on Court Orders Owner Of Peta.org To Give Up Domain · · Score: 1

    What I can't believe is that PETA didn't go for the ORG TLD in the first place! They are a (supposedly) non-profit lobbying group, and as such they should have grabbed the peta.org domain straight off. PETA.COM is rather a lame domain for something that tries to appear as a grass roots lobbying group. I would have no objection to a peta.com leading to a company, but I have a problem with it pointing to a non-profit. Didn't TLDs have enforcement at some point in the past?

  22. Re:Only for white-folk? - Of course!!!! on Software That Can Censor 'Sexual Images.' Or Not. · · Score: 1

    Well, yes. It appears to be some sort of aesthetic given that white people are in porn. Perhaps a lot of it comes from America where the census puts whites at 70-80% of the population. Or perhaps idiots post messages on usenet that say "don't post ugly n*gger b*tches!" to intimidate the posting of only whites. There seems to be a problem here, but it's most likely that white women/men have higher opinions and half the magazines contain whites. Go figure.

  23. Re:Insightful? No... sorry... on BT To Enforce Patent On Hyperlinking? · · Score: 2

    This is like the memex posited by Vannevar Bush. It was a system to organize all of your notes based upon a pre-hyperlink concept. It would be a series of documents on supermicrofische accessable by record numbers like the hyperlinks of today. Very cool, but I don't know if it is invalidating.

  24. Re:Review of "Katz" (-1, true) on Review: 'Titan A.E.' · · Score: 1

    Actually, you are guilty of the sin of mis-appropriating parody as criticism. I'm making fun of Katz, not being critical of him. There is a difference.

  25. Re:Review of "Katz" (-1, true) on Review: 'Titan A.E.' · · Score: 1

    It was meant to be a troll, if that's what you are implying. I just wish it actually went by totals. the actual total of the response is 6. It started at 2, got 6 points, dropped 2, and should now be 6. sounds like it doesn't go beyond 5 or it is broken by not re-totaling everything. Blame the moderators for pointing it out, and for you reading it. It was funny or interesting by the estimation of 6 moderators. it was "overrated" by two of them. I win. nyah.