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  1. Wall Of Shame on Code Red Back For More · · Score: 1

    I noticed that PenguinPPC has a Code Red Wall of Shame that details their hits. Interesting :)

  2. RIAA!! on Code Red Back For More · · Score: -1, Troll

    Get this while you still can and change the address to riaa's IP ;) *Evil grin* Let's get the MPAA, too. And microsoft.com

  3. Re:New Linux User on Slashback: Mexico, Ukraine, Oceania · · Score: 1

    Did you make install as root? If not, you don't have the permission to copy to /usr, etc.

  4. Re:Bah.. on Sony Sells Defective, Damaging CDs in Eastern Europe · · Score: 1

    Just because "Sony Music" makes bad products, doesn't mean that "Sony Electronics" does. The only thing that they share is "Sony". If Sony Music fails, the Electronics division isn't going to back them up. So for all practical purposes, they're two separate companies.

    And besides, my new Sony DAV-S300, is very cool. Espically with a USB->optical adaptor connecting my computer to VIDEO 2.

  5. Re:Just my RANT on Sony Sells Defective, Damaging CDs in Eastern Europe · · Score: 1

    rant.java:1: 'class' or 'interface' expected

  6. GPL uninforceable? Maybe... on MySQL AB Counter Sues NuSphere for GPL Violation · · Score: 1
    "they will deny the charge and, if that doesn't work, deny that the GPL is enforceable."
    The problem, of course, it that the GPL is an extension of copyright. So if they don't agree to the GPL, then they have no right to do anything with the software. And if they claim that the GPL is uninforceable, then they'll be violating copyright. Oops!

    Jonathan Rockway
    Head Notes Developer
  7. Re:Colorless GameCubes? on Nintendo Announces Gamecube Launch Numbers · · Score: 1

    this is +2? This looks like -1 Flamebait/Offtopic/Troll!

    What does homosexuality have to do with light?

  8. Re:Registering sucks on Slashback: DCS 1000, Dmitry, Lizardry · · Score: 1

    That's right. It's those damn liberals wanting to take away our freedom. True conservatives (er.. libretarians like myself) would _never_ sign the DMCA (and anyone with a background in constitutional law ;-). You could pay me millions of dollars, but I would never trade money for my fundamental freedoms. Hopefully some other people think this way (and are involved in politics!).

  9. Re:Payments on Pop Up Advertising Continues to Suck · · Score: 1

    How about OSDN doing this? I'd surely pay a small fee to get one account on all the OSDN sites with no ads. Too many jrockway's with different passwords floating around.

  10. Re:Sweet! on The Jet Powered Beer Cooler · · Score: 1
    Yeah, but would you really want a JET ENGINE with this sticker on it?
    This Jet Engine is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
    Now when it blows your beer to the next county and you try to sue, you won't be able to. And you'll have to release all derivative works under the GPL.
  11. Re:PGP Mail against the rules? on Workplace Privacy Lacking · · Score: 1

    How can you tell if it's encrypted?

    Content-type: text/english
    yjod drmyrmvr od rmvtu[yrf nu pggdryyomh ,u jsmf nu s lru yp yjr tohjy.

    Reads: This sentence is encrypted by offsetting my hand by a key to the right.

    Would I get fired for doing that? Or is it just "strong" crypto that's banned? And how strong is strong? Don't you think that the courts would like to decide that for your poor employees?

    What would stop me from sending out company secrets cleartext? If Company B is going to pay me 1,000,000,000 dollars for your secret, once they have it, I don't need your money anymore. So screw you ;)

  12. Re:One thing left out here. on Workplace Privacy Lacking · · Score: 1

    but not the passphrases, hopefully

  13. New? on Technical FAQ for New Linux Users · · Score: 1

    Sites like *maclinux have had "getting into Linux" type HOWTO's for a while. Hell, I know I've _written_ a few ;)

  14. Re:0.0.1? on Reptile: P2P Content Syndication · · Score: 1

    Eeek. I think I'm going to have this problem with Notes, since Lotus Notes is trademarked by IBM. Ouch, and I really can't change the name. It's a reimplementation of legacy software. *Sigh*. Maybe they won't notice.

  15. Re:Responsibility? on Congress Discovers Peer-to-Peer Porn · · Score: 1

    Great idea! SOAP over HTTP 1.1 Now P2P == Web as far as legality/blockablity is concerned. /me runs over to emacs and starts coding.

  16. Re:passwordless authentication on OpenSSH Management - Understanding RSA/DSA Authent · · Score: 1

    that's the RSA algorithm

  17. Re:passwordless authentication on OpenSSH Management - Understanding RSA/DSA Authent · · Score: 1

    RSA encrypts a number, you decrypt it and send it back to the server. The only attack that I can think of here is sending a number. Say the server server sends '39'. Well if you make a ssh client that sends '39' back every time, you're in. I guess using big numbers makes this unfesable?

    DSA sends a number, you sign it and send it back to the server. This is the same as signing a message with GPG. DSA is considered more secure (the algorithm is better), bacause you'd have to guess the entire key rather than just a number.

    Now I have a question: What if some evil user decided to put his key in some user's home directory (maybe they left it writable?) ? Seems like a great way to steal accounts :-(

  18. Re:A bit more background information on The Glories of Red Bull · · Score: 1

    An easy example of this is glucose and fructose, they're both "C6H12O6" but have different 3D structures. Thus they have different effects. [These are called isomers if you want some superflous verbiage to throw around]

  19. Re:IRC warrioring out of hand. on EFNet on the Rocks Again · · Score: 1

    OPN has NickServ and ChanServ... BTW OPN _is_ a cool place to hang out. Try #ppclinux and #imaclinux, since I have ops there ;) [I didn't DoS either...]

  20. Re:Loss of innocence on Killustrator Author Required to Pay Two Grand · · Score: 1

    I make pdf's with latex | dvips | ps2pdf. Those aren't Adobe products :) Then again, I could be wrong; and you'd have to shoot me.

  21. Re:Not to nitpick... on C Styled Script - C-like Scripting Language · · Score: 1

    no no, let's write a DeCSS implementation in CSS. It just fits :)

  22. Re:what about dates? on The Psychology of Passwords · · Score: 1

    9 digit numbers are pretty easy. 100,000,000 combinations... the program that runs crypt on all of those to compare to /etc/passwd takes about a second to run :(

  23. Re:what about dates? on The Psychology of Passwords · · Score: 1

    would that be "33137"?

  24. Re:Too many passwords? on The Psychology of Passwords · · Score: 1

    Yup! People laugh at my password, it's at least 20 characters. I show them, though. My g/f had a nice screensaver password that I needed to circumvent. Failing social engineering :), I guessed. My first attempt was correct...it was 'jon'... she uses my name to protect her system from me... *sigh*

  25. Re:My /. password is... on The Psychology of Passwords · · Score: 1

    > My mod points, please :)

    They should sell Mod Points at think geek. Really.