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  1. cool, refreshing pop on In-Game Advertising Breaks Out · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Probably not far. The "health packs" won't have a big red cross on them anymore, and the strengths (effectiveness, +X, whatever) will be determined by brand.

    GUINNESS +100
    Coke +20
    Pepsi +10
    Shasta +2

    #include "std_disclaimer.h"
    #include "trademarks.h"

  2. Corporate -vs- home use on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 1

    I think this concept is more important for small webmasters or home users than big corporate sites.

    As one person pointed out, on a big popular site, someone could easily just probe the port, waiting for someone else to knock.

    Trying to do that to my home site would be an excercise in frustration, though, since I am unlikely to try and login more than once a week. Especially if I additionally ran the sshd on a nontraditional port.

    Additionally, those big sites have admins available round-the-clock, watching traffic, reading up on the latest sshd vulnerabilities, etc, and may be able to jump at a moment's notice to get things patched. For myself, though, I'm a slacker & don't have that kind of time every weeknight to fix some urgent vulnerability. It might take me a month to update my software; If sshd is running on a port that is always visible, crackers could have me rooted before I have a chance/get around to it. If they don't even know that it might be there, much less how to get it running, I've got lots of spare time to get around to my upgrades.

  3. Are you an AI? on Ask Internet Expert Dave Barry · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, not really *you*, but have you ever let an AI do your column? For just a week, fed it your email and a selection of world news and pasted the results to your editor?

    Sorry, I have to ask, it's just the conspiracy theorist in me.

  4. PERMISSION on Blogspace vs. NPR · · Score: 1

    PLEASE! to me, it doesn't look like NPR is trying to eliminate ALL links to their site, they are just trying to exert unreasonable control over them.

    They want you to get their permission, so they can make sure you aren't referring to them as The Origin of all Satanism, or gay fascists, or otherwise misrepresenting what they are trying to say.

  5. Marketing knows what it's doing. on Updated Slashdot Advertising Policy · · Score: 1

    Actually, this was posted on April fools day to gauge the outrage. If it's no worse than a standard slashdot flamefest, it's a great policy to add to the corporate coffers. If the moral outrage reaches new all-time-highs, then it's easy to blow it off;
    HaHa, wasn't that funny... (now, lets see if we can get something a _little_ obnoxious by; maybe pop-unders)

  6. Personal Copters are everywhere. on Personal Helicopter · · Score: 1

    There are LOTS of ways to do personal helicopters. Goto google & enter "ultralight helicopter". The best one I've ever seen though, isn't returned by google; it's the GEN H-4. Most of the entire device is the engine! look for yourself; http://www.engineeringsystem.co.jp/Prd_InFlight.ht m