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  1. Cross over on No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Then you can simply install a MacOs-compliant version of Wine and run Windows builds of MS Office natively. Office 2000 is Gold status with CrossOver. And if VBA support in Office 2000 is not enough for you, I hear that CodeWeaver will announce improved support for Office 2003 soon.

  2. Re:c:\progra~1\Micros~1\Powerp~1 on Linux/Mac/Windows File Name Friction · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Careful with that because if you install -- say -- a software called ProGrabber in c:\, it now becomes Progra~1 and Program Files becomes Progra~2.

  3. Re:If it stops accidents... on Airbus Plans to Expand Cockpit Automation · · Score: 1

    The guy was actually Danish, although he was working for a Swiss air traffic control agency.
    I say 'was' because he died murdered by a Russian dude who had lost his entire family in the crash.

  4. Thanks for killing my daily news fix on Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out · · Score: 1

    ... So I ping every machine I know of in onmac.net, go on netcraft to get statistics, read every mac forum I think of to see why the sites might have been taken off line ... And then I come to Slashdot, and I see the story. Alright, then. Now, I get it.
    I'll just have to wait a day or two for the army of clickers to move on to their next preys.

  5. Re:ARGH LEVERAGES on Java Virtualization for Server Consolidation · · Score: 1

    Of course, they can use that word. This is a Press Release after all. All Web Ecomony Bullshit keywords are allowed.

  6. Re:And evolution is? on Federal Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design · · Score: 1
    Okay here's one for you: explain the eye. It either works or it doesn't. There is no evolutionary intermediate form that would function so how could it have evolved?
    That's the argument of Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box (The Free Press, 1996).

    Here is somebody else's counter-argument (one amongst many).

    "Behe's colossal mistake is that, in rejecting these possibilities, he concludes that no Darwinian solution remains. But one does. It is this: An irreducibly complex system can be built gradually by adding parts that, while initially just advantageous, become - because of later changes - essential. The logic is very simple. Some part (A) initially does some job (and not very well, perhaps). Another part (B) later gets added because it helps A. This new part isn't essential, it merely improves things. But later on, A (or something else) may change in such a way that B now becomes indispensable. This process continues as further parts get folded into the system. And at the end of the day, many parts may all be required."

    -- H. Allen Orr
    -- The latest attack on evolution is cleverly argued, biologically informed - and wrong.
    -- Boston Review, December/January 1997.

  7. Re:That's Irrevellant on Cross-Site Scripting Worm Floods MySpace · · Score: 1

    You're right. The least they could have done was looking at the source code for IE and analyze its logic for the interpretation of script tags.
    ... Oh wait ...

  8. Re:How useful is this? on USB-Powered Linux Server Fits in Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    Can't use for encryption, no. At least not unless the hardware is unhackable -- or self-destroys when it is being tampered with.

  9. Re:The Complete Military History of France on France Will Be Home To Fusion Plant · · Score: 1

    Actualy, both 'personal' and 'hygiene' have French origin.

  10. Re:Yes, but . . . on Pure JavaScript Unix-Like Web Based OS · · Score: 1

    As soon as it does, I'll send them my patch to enable JavaScript support in Lynx!

  11. Re:Uh oh... on Mad as Hell, Switching to Mac · · Score: 1

    ' cause he is bashing WinTel, not just Windows.
    He is complaing about the hardware as much as he is about the operating system.
    That's why he went to Apple: more stable OS and hardware.

  12. Re:GTA 4 on GTA3 and Vice City now Online Multiplayer · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

    ...

  13. Re:This is just what open sauce needs. on Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend · · Score: 1

    It's actually .

  14. Re:Show me the security on Visa To Push Swipeless Credit Cards · · Score: 1
    Hey, here is an idea: deliberately using 3DES instead of AES might actually be very smart. Since it is inefficient compared to newer block ciphers such as AES, then it could potentially also be slower to brute-force.

    That is -- of course -- assuming that you are using a 128-bit AES key for comparison. If you use 192-bit or 256-bit keys for AES, it's a whole other story. Bottom line is, if for any kind of reasons you can only play with 128-bit keys ('cause you have limited storage such as on a smart card for example), then use 3DES because it's slower to brute-force than AES.

  15. Re:Show me the security on Visa To Push Swipeless Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    OK, 1977, right... My source is fscked up.
    Here is the original web source instead: http://www.disappearing-inc.com/D/des.html

  16. Re:Show me the security on Visa To Push Swipeless Credit Cards · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Maybe they shoud have moved to the latest standard: AES. Deploying 3DES solutions today is deploying legacy.

    "While 3DES appears to be secure for now, it takes at least 3 times as long to run as DES, and this means that it is inefficient and slow compared to other available block ciphers such as the new standard, AES, which has replaced DES."

    -- W. Diffie and M. E. Hellman, "Exhaustive Cryptanalysis of the NBS Data Encryption Standard," in IEEE Computer, vol. 10, 1977, pp. 74-84.
  17. Re:Hold on... on Microsoft Opening Office XML Formats · · Score: 1
    More exactly:
    note that the patent and copyright provisions in the license for the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas require you to include a notice of attribution in your program.
    Mind the word "program". Readmes likely do not count. You'll have to spell it nicely in the About menu, the splash screen, etc ... and create one if needed.
  18. Re:NOOOO!!!!!!! on Episode III Opening Crawl Released · · Score: 1

    Unconceivable.

  19. Re:Yes on 'Evil Twin' Threat to Wireless Security · · Score: 1

    ... until the DNS server or DHCP sever is compromised.

  20. Re:Yes on 'Evil Twin' Threat to Wireless Security · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is actually easy once you also spoof the DNS servers -- which is a piece of cake when you already own the gateway and the DHCP server.

  21. Re:Erm? on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative
    From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/use r-preface.html:

    PostgreSQL offers substantial additional power by incorporating the following additional concepts in such a way that users can easily extend the system:

    • inheritance
    • data types
    • functions

    Other features provide additional power and flexibility:

    • constraints
    • triggers
    • rules
    • transactional integrity

    These features put PostgreSQL into the category of databases referred to as object-relational. Note that this is distinct from those referred to as object-oriented, which in general are not as well suited to supporting traditional relational database languages. So, although PostgreSQL has some object-oriented features, it is firmly in the relational database world.

  22. Re:About security through obscurity on Security Holes Draw Linux Developers' Ire · · Score: 1

    You mean like wearing a t-shirt over a bullet-proof jacket? That's for sure is going to stop anyone with the firepower of shooting through the jacket! Starting to have doubts? So am I.

    I mean, if somebody singles your architecture out and has the computer power to crack the AES key you are using, it's not a little extra XOR step that is going to even slow that guy down. His cryptanalytic hardware-based cracking cluster can probably exhaust all 1024-long XOR keys in a single CPU cycle...

  23. Re:The point of Exeem on Decentralizing Bittorrent · · Score: 1
    Maybe ...

    netstat -n
    ... would do it.
  24. Re:Captured robots on Military Robots Get Machine Guns · · Score: 1

    In Korea, only old people capture machine-gun robots and hack them!

  25. Re:Real Website on ZAP Smart Car Approved for Sale in the US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The rest of the world calls it Opel.