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  1. MIT = 26? on Intel Ranks Colleges with Best Wireless Access · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wonderful what kind of technology they are teaching there? Obviously not wireless computers :P

  2. Re:Ringtones? on Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying · · Score: 1

    Actually.. as crazy as that seems... I sometimes put my Sprint phone (I'm now with Verizon) on R&V when I'm in the server room cause it's so loud and often I'll be bending over or doing something and won't totally feel it vibrate.. that's the best of both worlds and it doesn't affect anyone but me in there =) Yeah I dunno my Verizon phone has
    VIBRATE
    BEEP
    RING :)

  3. Re:Ringtones? on Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's what vibrate is for.. I've never once thought someone else's phone was vibrating on my side =) Funny how that works, and it's quiet and doesn't interrupt others when it goes off.

  4. Bye Bye Spectrum on Use Multiple Channels for Faster Wireless Networking · · Score: 1

    Yeah,
    that's right now we don't have ANY spectrum left because joe smith, mary smith, and dan smith (who are all my neighbors) are using their 3 channeled access points at the same time to download music off kazaa and I'm left with no good open channels.. woohoo! great management!

  5. Re:This is a bad idea on Stop Cell Phones Without Stopping Pacemakers... · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately way too often businesses seem to want to keep customers rather then enforcing rules.. be it.. a theatre throwing out noisy viewers... an ISP keeping users who keep violating the TOS and getting viruses and spam sending because of those viruses, etc.

    Businesses need to learn they can't be nice to everyone!

  6. Re:Real counting? on Diebold Fails Again in San Diego · · Score: 1

    So you change information on the flash card.. woopie do! You just voted for someone else... you are only allowed to vote once... how's this a problem.. it was YOUR vote to do with as you please.

  7. Re:I'm not sure if I understand on Air Canada Sues Over Misuse Of Employee Password · · Score: 2, Informative

    Tough bananas. As the account holder it is MY responsibility to make sure that the account is secure. Whatever is done on or with that account is my responsibility and I am ultimately responsible.

    Same goes if Joe Smith user gets a virus on his computer that spamms the heck out of an ISP and the ISP gets on blacklists. Joe Smith user is ultimately responsible for the spam, and should be booted from the ISP (assuming the TOS allows it) for letting the spamer (knowingly or otherwise) use his account to send spam.

  8. Once again.. on Humanoid Robot Conducts Beethoven Symphony · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is at the blazing from of news.. this is an OLD story!!!

  9. Re:Price? on Red Hat Recap · · Score: 1

    still ES is 1,499! thats alot... why would I do that when debian is fairly stable? and even so there are other distros.

    Even so what's so great about AS that WS doesn't have?

  10. Price? on Red Hat Recap · · Score: 1

    I'm seeing people throwing out like $130 or $200 for a license for RedHat.. where are you getting these numbers from? We were looking at purchasing a license at work the other day and it's like $500 for workstation $750 for AS and $1,200 for ES.. I could have those numbers not quiet right.. but they should be fairly ball-park.

  11. Real or Not? on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 1

    I dunno but www.gmail.com is owned by google.

    GMAIL.COM
    Registrant:
    Google Inc. (DOM-425410)
    2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy Mountain View CA 94043 US

    Domain Name: gmail.com

    Registrar Name: Alldomains.com
    Registrar Whois: whois.alldomains.com
    Registrar Homepage: http://www.alldomains.com

    Administrative Contact:
    DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc.
    2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy Mountain View CA 94043 US
    dns-admin@google.com +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506188571
    Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
    DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc.
    2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy Mountain View CA 94043 US
    dns-admin@google.com +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506188571

    Created on..............: 1995-Aug-13.
    Expires on..............: 2006-Aug-12.
    Record last updated on..: 2004-Mar-31 16:50:22.

    Domain servers in listed order:

    NS1.GOOGLE.COM 216.239.32.10
    NS2.GOOGLE.COM 216.239.34.10
    NS3.GOOGLE.COM 216.239.36.10
    NS4.GOOGLE.COM 216.239.38.10

  12. Re:How's this work? on Australia's Great Linux-Based Satellite Network · · Score: 1

    Ok that's kinda what I thought... so they aren't giving it to people via 802.1x. of the 'lites. Interesting.. wonder what it costs to put a bird like one of these up? Still, it's only one way, according to the article.. blah.

  13. How's this work? on Australia's Great Linux-Based Satellite Network · · Score: 1

    So what happens when you have a hard drive failure in space? Or are they firmware? Pretty cool idea, that you can run a satellite off Linux...but hardware failures are still very real :)

    Also, my understanding is they use the satellites to get the internet TO the locations, then give it to people via 802.1... not 802.1 coming from the satellites.. am I correct?

  14. Re:Simple Solution on Wireless Hotspots in a Large Environment? · · Score: 1

    See the issue we are faceing is:

    A) We want to make it free (I think that's what the higher ups are thinking).. but want a slight level of accountability.. (I argue what's to keep someone from filling the form in laksjdflkajsdflkjasdflkj) but anyway.

    B) The higherups would like a 'splash page' that is displayed when you aren't authorized, which, ot my knowledge, can't be done via 802.1x radius. (which BTW seems to work fairly nice.. hehe)

  15. I SHOULD ALSO NOTE on Wireless Hotspots in a Large Environment? · · Score: 1

    We are trying to make it as easy for the customer (ie no third party software).. and would like to have a 'greeting' page that comes up if they aren't authenticated by bring up a web browser.

  16. Please use IE? on US Military Builds MMO Earth Simulator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    UG.. Please use Internet Explorer? No thanks..

    http://www.there.com/help/browser.html

    We've noticed that you're currently using a non-supported browser.

    Please switch to Internet Explorer v. 5.0.1 or later to continue.

    You can get the latest version of IE free at
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.as p.


    no thanks.

  17. Re:I dunno on Hackers Hall of Fame · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, as I'm thinking about it.. hacking is fairly easy.. I've watched several hollywood movies and I think that I am now certified to do hacking... infact let me see.. based on what I've learned you bring up an SSH prompt and then start banging away at keys and the password is always something like 'password', 'opensesame', or some random array of characters that you will just happen to hit with your hand... it's really very easy!

  18. Re:I dunno on Hackers Hall of Fame · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What else do you hack for?
    You crack for information, you hack for recognition.
    Cracking is illegal.
    Hacking is very legal.

  19. Re:I dunno on Hackers Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    No,
    If you don't get caught what's the point? You have to atleast get some recognition or there is no point in doing it.. no self gratification.

  20. Analog all the way on Analog Approach to Displaying Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course.. we live in an analog world.. we'll never be able to take things in digitally because we don't work digitally. Even your computer needs to be able to display in analog (speakers/monitor) before you can figure anything out. We can't do anything in digital... :)

  21. so where are they? on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 1

    So many I'm just not looking on the right pages or something.. but where are these ads? I've surfed all over these sites today and can't find them? (As for another article reporting this it's today not tommorrow).. can anyone confirm or deny this/

  22. umm yeah.. no on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    These will play for everyone everywhere no matter what? I'd really REALLY beg to differ... I'm fairly sure my Mozilla based Linux distro of choice will be just fine and dandy hiding from these things.. goodgrief.... man!

  23. Re:This does reduce spam on AOL Now Publishing SPF Records · · Score: 1

    Spamassassin supports SPF checking? I was not aware of this!

  24. Re:Some of us have reasons for spoofing our addres on AOL Now Publishing SPF Records · · Score: 1

    Which is good for machines that have several users on them.. Get 40,000 users and all joe spammer needs to do it run some dictionary level attacks on the SASL SMTP AUTH and bam.. free spam relay! SASL SMTP AUTH is worse then an open relay, in my opinion.

  25. I see a problem here.... on AOL Now Publishing SPF Records · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Question on this whole SPF thing.
    I'm interested in it but have a slight issue with it at the moment that
    I'd like to get resolved.

    My domain is: mydomain.com
    Customer A is traveling and is using his e-mail of joe@mydomain.com
    However, I do IP filtering on my mail server (not SASL AUTH), for my
    dial-up pools.
    When Customer A is at hotel he must use their mail server to send mail
    out, so his mail will be rejected because the hotel mail server isn't
    listed in mydomain.com's SPF txt list.

    You suggest running SASL AUTH as a work around for this, however in my
    experience this creates MORE of a spam problem then not using SPF..
    here's why:

    On a mail server with over 40,000 users it's relitively easy for someone
    with a password cracker to hammer away at common names like 'joe'
    'jeffp', etc and try to get some passwords. Once they have a
    username/password combo they can happily send e-mail out as that user
    through MY mail server, and I can't do anything about them. Doing IP
    filtering requires that they are on MY network to send mail through MY
    server, thus allowing me to terminate/prosecute/etc the person.