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  1. Football? No-brainer dude on Tech Team Traditions? · · Score: 1
    Have a football pool.

    For added excitement, add Over/Unders on project completion dates.

  2. Re:yet another worthless article about IPv6 on An Introduction to IPv6 · · Score: 1
    If you are doing MASQUERADE, you are doing SNAT. If you are doing SNAT, it makes it almost a firewall anyway because you would be hiding non-routable ip addys which must be SNAT-ed to traverse the net. External attackers can't route to any machine on your lan, except your gateway/firewall machine.

    The main problem these days is having a non-trusted machine on your lan that calls home.

    For more, see this article .

  3. Re:It's All A Mystery... on New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life · · Score: 1
    Yes, just a theory. Then after you bust your arse, they fire you because you are burned out and cannot produce enough per day to cover your salary, because sales and marketing over-promise for cheap.

    Back on topic, perhaps some in congress are starting to fell like bush is a lame duck before his second term? Granted, just because the House has done so, and the senate will not, could be very, very interesting. Very unlikely to come out with a compromise in committee. So, the possibility exists that bush will have another issue to mess up before the election!

  4. Re:"Emergency" use on Faster Updates for DNS Root Servers Arrive · · Score: 1

    "We will be bringing most of the web down for maintenance starting in about 5 minutes."

  5. Re:The Electoral College in Action on West Virginian Mayor Might Defy Popular Vote · · Score: 1

    Plus possibly the state of Colorado may change to vote on a percentage basis. Colorado has nine electoral votes, so it could go 5-4 or 6-3 for example. More here.

  6. Re:Unreal on Satellite Pics Going Dark? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Years ago (around 1996), one of the satpics (infrared) indicated an anomaly over North Korea.

  7. Re:Good! on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1
    Advertisments by individuals and parties will be greatly restricted that late in the campaign.

    Is that why the veep started the fear-mongering yesterday?

    I predicted this crap would happen over a year ago. You have to be a really sick desperate administration to stoop so low. For those that missed it, Cheney basically said to the American people: If you don't vote for us this election, the terrorists will attack again, in worse ways.

    Mr. Cheney, how do you know that?
    Mr. Cheney, are you financing the terrorists?

  8. Re:Accounting? No Problemo... on Open Source Apps for a Law Office? · · Score: 3, Funny

    But will it handle more than 24 billable hours per day per staff-person?

  9. Re:Malda-Bates 2004! on Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, troll, and redundant are often applied to comments that the moderators either don't understand or they disagree with. Instead of replying with a logical argument, it's easier and quicker to just moderate down. The astro-mods prefer that especially in the case of disagreement, because they hope that others don't read what you have written.

  10. Re:Quote from TFA on The Death of the Floppy Disk · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Booting from CD only works if the BIOS supports booting from CD.

    Can you create a bootable CD *and* write back to it?

    CD emulation can be a problem, depending upon what you are trying to do.

    Never, ever, buy/build a PC that does not have a floppy. MS wants to kill the floppy so they can control what you can boot. They already have the BIOS manufacturers in their pocket (most), and with DRM they will be able to influence the manafacturers to the point that you won't be able to boot Linux.

  11. Lynx on More Microsoft Patents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How obvious does it have to be for the USPTO?

  12. Re:'clean room' on MIT Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in Kerberos 5 · · Score: 1

    Well, MS does have coding standards that they have to follow.

  13. Re:Two possibilities... on Can DVDs Kill DVD Players? · · Score: 1
    Having overheated a old 486 doing kernel builds, leading to random crashes, I'd have to say that it's more than theory.

    But, in this case, the region crap is more likely.

  14. Re:Why I didn't bother... on Last Words On Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1
    A 'FUD attack against Microsoft'? Please.

    There is no need to use Microsoft tactics against Microsoft.

  15. My mouse on Cure for Mouse Pattern Baldness? · · Score: 2, Funny

    has no hair already. Because if it did, it would really cause problems when I right-click.

  16. Reiser4 on A Grep-like Utility That Works on More than Text? · · Score: 1
    Oh, you want it to work now? Nevermind.

    But, down the road, maybe ReiserFS4 will do the trick.

  17. Re:Let them train themselves... on What Should be Included in a Linux Crash Course? · · Score: 1

    And have them install Linux on their desktop, preferably at work *and* at home.

  18. Not necessarily on Am I a Spam Zombie? · · Score: 1

    Most of those are forged to look like bounces.

  19. Re:elgooG on Googling Behind China's Great Firewall · · Score: 1

    !de-todhsalS eb lliw ti neht dnA

  20. Re:missing the whole point on Googling Behind China's Great Firewall · · Score: 1
    Good points. Except for your last point.

    there are great fights, much more important fights, going on outside the borders of the western democracies for rights most of us take for granted, and that is a shame, as real good can be done if the children of the western democracies took up ideological and rhetorical arms in that fight, rather than obsessing over comparatively much more minor issues in their home countries

    s/outside/inside/

  21. SCO will be saved! on Power Generation With Nanotubes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yep, all of the smoke they have been blowing can finally be put to good use.

  22. Cool.... but wait on Linux Secure Enough For The Army · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does MS and SCO know about this?
    How many days until TPTB change this decision?

  23. Message to marketing folks and CEOs on Universal Garage Door Opener OK under DMCA · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Don't try to protect your junk by hiding behind the DMCA. You waste your money on lawyers too.

    Reading through the courts document, it appears that Skylink does not circumvent anything. Chamberlain built a GDO (Garage Door Opener) system that also has a 'feature' to help prevent someone from 'stealing' the code to open the door. However, the system also has a 'feature' that allows the system to be reset. The Skylink transmitter (Model 39) takes avantage of the second of these 'features'. Using the Skylink transmitter with the Chamberlain GDO allows the door to be controlled, but you lose the first feature.

  24. Re:Nothing wrong with this... on Searching For Trouble With Google · · Score: 1

    It's called cash. HTH. HAND.

  25. Re:Idiot on Secret Service Seeks Indymedia Logs · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but you give bush way too much credit.
    He is a puppet, being controlled by forces that he cannot understand.