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  1. Re:what the heck? on Secret Service Seeks Indymedia Logs · · Score: 1
    I totally agree. McCain actually was speaking out for honesty, integrity, and what is needed for the U.S., but he has totally flip-flopped.

    *Everything* about this coming election is really, really, starting to smell. If John McCain can be so easily swayed to toe the party line, what does that tell you?

  2. Re:your posts on slashdot aren't a political platf on Secret Service Seeks Indymedia Logs · · Score: 1
    Just being pro-hunter/sportsmen is in itself not a problem. In fact, the whitetail deer population in the U.S. is out of control, and without the hunting season, you actually have a greater chance of being killed because you struck a deer while driving.

  3. Re:Not like SCO at all... on VeriSign Pursues ICANN In State Court · · Score: 1

    FYI: Also frequently known as 'suicide by cop'.

  4. Re:Captain Obvious Strikes Again… on Vote Tabulator Security Hole Exposed · · Score: 1

    Because the compiler generates the code, which then can be easily patched, so instead of multiplying by 1 you can patch it to multiply by 2 for example. Same applies for the divide ops.

  5. Re:"...ask /. readers the first of these questions on Making Stuff Out Of Broken Computer Equipment? · · Score: 1

    Actually, isn't all computer equipment broken?

  6. Re:I may hate microsoft, but... on New Prior Art Cited In 2nd Eolas Patent Rejection · · Score: 1

    Is just over two months from now immediate enough?

  7. Re:At last... on NIST Unveils Chip-scale Atomic Clock · · Score: 1
    Hmmm. So, why is it that there isn't a rule that says:

    'all routers must run ntp and any machine requesting time services should communicate with it's nearest routers'.

  8. Re:Ah Hah! on Anatomy Of A Bug In Microsoft Office · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It's not just 'distributed', but P2P in the truest sense. Marketing people are so used to lying to each other that they actually start believing their own BS.

    And that folks, is how we have arrived at the mess in the U.S. we have today.

  9. Re:Beginning to sound like the M$ antitrust case on SCO Says 'Linux Doesn't Exist' · · Score: 1
    Exactly why the bush administration must go. Remember, this SCO crap is basically a huge distraction from what MS is up to, and you can count on the fact that MS wants the crooked, lying, corrupt bush administration to remain in office.

    Did I mention the corrupt bush administration?

  10. Re:ONLINE on Portable Storage? · · Score: 1
    Just build your own online storage solution.

    <tinfoil>Or not?</tinfoil>

  11. Re:OpenPGP Anyone? on MS Releases License For Sender-ID · · Score: 1

    If you signed *all* of your e-mails, and you made it your standard policy, then you can refute forgeries.

  12. Re:Debian ideology++ on Knoppix 3.6 released · · Score: 2, Informative
    The trick you are looking for is called Morphix

    Of course, it's based on Knoppix, but you can build your own custom Knoppix if you wish.

  13. Re:Security? on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1
    I think you miss an important point: this can clearly be construed as political harassment.

    Let us know when you hear of a 'publican politician having to put up with this.

  14. Re:When did you stop trusting sponsored 'research' on MPAA Piracy Survey - Junk Research · · Score: 3, Informative
    Apparently true for some courts.

    From here:

    Upholding a lower court decision issued in April of 2003, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled P2P technology is legal even if the software itself is used for illegal purposes.

    "The technology has numerous other uses, significantly reducing the distribution costs of public domain and permissively shared art and speech, as well as reducing the centralized control of that distribution," Judge Sidney R. Thomas wrote in a unanimous opinion.

    The three-judge panel acknowledged that copyright violations do occur on the decentralized P2P networks, but the companies owning and distributing the enabling software cannot be held liable for the infringements.

  15. Re:Less incentive to develop on Businessweek Recommends License Switch for Linux · · Score: 1, Redundant
    s/DistroInc/Microsoft/g

    and therein lies the problem.

  16. Re:Ha on Internet-Enabled Thermostat · · Score: 1

    Mods, WTF are you smoking?

  17. Re:Ha on Internet-Enabled Thermostat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Looks like an excellent application for Port Knocking.

  18. Re:A better solution on Internet-Enabled Thermostat · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was going to comment, but she just came in and delivered me a nice cold one.

  19. Re:Could it have been... on Senator Blacklisted by No-Fly List · · Score: 4, Informative
    Really. Now the FBI is tailing people just to harass them because of their political views. Lots of recent reports here.

    And this kind of crap is not going to be buried by the media!

  20. Re:Possibly the best news ever... on IBM Moves To Enforce GPL By Summary Judgement · · Score: 1

    Besides the penguins, the fact that SlashDot posted this story early in the day was excellent! Most of the astro-dudes are still asleep and are not prepared to spin this story yet.

  21. Bwahahaha on Microsoft Funded Study Cinches 10yr Deal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The joke's on Newham. Let's hope they do another study in a few years and see how much they really saved.

  22. Re:Linux embedded integrators are lazy on NSLU2 Now More Useful · · Score: 1
    Linux is a great thing, on the desktop. But in embedded systems, the kernel is too tangled to successfully create a small distribution that is at the same time useful and feature-limited.

    Not true at all. Check out uClibc and BusyBox. In fact, I may get one of this NSLU2 boxes *just* to hack on it.

  23. Re:Zone Alarm? Blech on How Secure is Windows Firewall? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree that if you have to use Windows, you should use TPF. But, make no mistake, you have no way of really knowing for sure that TPF is actually seeing *all* of the connections. Your best setup is to use TPF on Windows, but also have a separate hardware firewall anyway.

  24. Re:Not very useful on Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive · · Score: 1
    Not always accurate. Based upon the problems that the CIA has encountered in recent years, your argument that it's only useful if not everyone knows the intel can actually be false. The reason is, is that in this modern world (Hi Tom), with the Internet, it's actually more likely that someone *outside* of the the CIA (or any of the other intel agencies) may have seen something the could tie into this information and actually be more useful intel.

    Please, stop believing that the TLA agencies are the only true sources of useful intel. Trusting a handful of 'select' intel agencies can actually be a problem.

  25. Re:Astroturf? on Microsoft Windows: A Lower Total Cost of 0wnership · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, no, they're busy on Groklaw. Remember, the puppet-masters are busy everywhere.