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  1. Re:Physical access! on Just How Paranoid Are You? · · Score: 1

    Well .. It's for Windows, so I didn't. Not much to it, however. Basically tail the firewall log, and parse out the port and type: TCP, UDP, ICMP, outgoing program, etc, and then look up a table for the sound to play. (The Win app is at my page, as well as a pile of wav files. I should update the version there with the source even if it is crud.)

  2. Re:Physical access! on Just How Paranoid Are You? · · Score: 1

    I have sound effects by port. Every day when Korea tries port 25, it's Godzilla! (I have a Star Trek theme when Slashdot checks on my first post of the day/IP.)

  3. Will hand-dryers be next? on Lexus Computers Infected Via Bluetooth · · Score: 1
    Today I was in the washroom at the Eaton Centre. The auto-urinal and sinks are old tech, but I noticed that the hot air hand-dryers have a two line LCD display with a scrolling "Thank you for making a hand dryer happy" message. (Okay, not quite so Sirius Cybernetic GPP, but close.) Talk about over-engineering! The evil haxor in me wanted to check for an interface to change the message, of course...

    Eventually it'll make sense to toss a chip and OS with far more power than required into every appliance .. and probably far more hackable.

  4. Re:Obligatory on Lexus Computers Infected Via Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    If you do either in a Lexus you'll probably be embedded for life.

  5. Re:Don't Panic on Asteroid Named After Douglas Adams · · Score: 1

    Just so long as it's not perfectly safe. Then we're doomed.

  6. Re:Speaking of simulating life... on Grand Challenges For The Next 20 Years · · Score: 1

    Doctor's office? You'll stuck on the visphone to first-level body support. And they'll just tell you to reboot and re-install your soul. (You have backups right?)

  7. Re:Now I have proof... on Google Moves Into Video · · Score: 1

    Start a grassroots campaign for sites to add Differential Titration to drive up the ranking.

  8. Re:great.. just great on Google Moves Into Video · · Score: 1

    Maybe they could just route it straight from the speech writers to the close captioning and cut out the middle men?

  9. Re:No... on Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service · · Score: 1

    Hurricane Electric isn't known for being clueful and keeping on top of client problems. At least not when it comes to spam. (On the other hand, I personally don't recall when I last got something out of their space, YMMV.)

  10. Re:Get an Amarilys on Plants for Cubicles? · · Score: 1

    Unless it's actually a man-eating Triffid and it kills everyone. Gotta watch out for that.

  11. Re:SPAM is annoying on The Spam Conference 2005 · · Score: 1

    You should try some good SPAM recipes.

  12. They think they can win. I'm shocked! on Chinese DVD Makers Sue Over Royalties · · Score: 1
    Handal & Associates, [..] indicated that its national class action lawsuit against the 3C DVD Patent Group [..] may eventually be successful, according to lead attorney Anton Handal
    Somehow I can't imagine him saying that they don't stand a chance. And I wonder how long "eventually" will be.
  13. Re:The sad thing is... on Robert Zemeckis to Direct Beowulf Movie · · Score: 1

    Fruit cart!

  14. Re:Kooks are a problem too on FBI Wants To Limit Document Searches · · Score: 1
    Ms Schwartz's record abuses of the FOIA and the courts against the FBI (and others) are related to the topic. I think wacko and kook are pretty factual too.

    BTW, do you ever wonder if Scientology is watching you?

    No. (BTW, I don't post to Factnet.)

  15. Re:the Gaiman factor on Robert Zemeckis to Direct Beowulf Movie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damnit! Now you've got me itching to read his shopping lists!

  16. Re:Neil on Robert Zemeckis to Direct Beowulf Movie · · Score: 1
    We went off to Mexico together and wrote it as a sort of Dark Ages Trainspotting

    Trollspotting? (Like that would be a problem around here!)

  17. Re:Bookmark whoring on FBI Wants To Limit Document Searches · · Score: 1
    Or the nazi martians:
    Plaintiff's FOIA requests in that case related to the Rathbuns, their attorneys, Hubbard, an independent or special counsel, Germans, schools in a submarine village in Great Salt Lake, and Rosemarie Bretschneider. That case was dismissed on the ground that it failed to state a claim on which relief could be granted and was frivolous or malicious. The Court concluded that the complaint was "not based on legally arguable challenges to actions on Plaintiff's FOIA requests. Rather, it [was] based on Plaintiff's misunderstanding of reality and therefore must be dismissed because it both fail[ed] to state a claim on which relief can be granted and [was] frivolous.
  18. Re:All the FBI Needs is... on FBI Wants To Limit Document Searches · · Score: 1

    I dunno. Stories like this one might worry them. (Like, how many web cams does the FBI have?)

  19. Kooks are a problem too on FBI Wants To Limit Document Searches · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There are also wackos who request all sorts of information (over and over again) from every FBI office and then sues them because it doesn't match her delusional reality.

  20. Re:it runs on everything now? on Cooking With Linux · · Score: 1
    Damn , hope it can serve it to me in bed as well.

    I'm not sure that Real Dolls have a processor, let alone run Linux.

  21. Re:Dial a phone number? on Build Your Own Rotary-Dial Cell Phone · · Score: 1
    Anyone *really* old remember the letter prefix phone numbers?

    ITYM: Anyone remember the *really* old letter prefix phone numbers?

    WAlnut .. hmm.

  22. Re:I am glad those things are gone... on Build Your Own Rotary-Dial Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    All radio station contest lines were usually assigned a local junk exchange. There were a number of tricks you could pull depending on the era and your own phone system. (Mainly for those step-by-step b'tards and none for crossbar.)

  23. Nostalgia can be cured on Build Your Own Rotary-Dial Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    That particular model was pretty buff! There wasn't a spring-limit on the dial-forward, so that you could zip the dial around and let it buzz back into place. I war-dialed a few exchanges in Montreal with a phone like that--and then I built a computer!

  24. Re:Fun with rotary dialing... on Build Your Own Rotary-Dial Cell Phone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ah my. Back in 1975, 1-604-555-1212 [2600] and then a four digit number I forget. That would get you a recording "Five cents, ding, ten cents, ding-ding, twenty-five cents, gong!". (And it probably red-flagged you to the phone system since the Vancouver loop-line had already been shut down by then.)

  25. Re:IRC on Is IRC All Bad? · · Score: 1
    last time I logged on it was for help with my Slackware box.

    Those FBI agents use Slackware? Cool.