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  1. Right idea, but it's not all of Iceland to blame on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    It's definitely not Iceland as a whole doing this; Ögmundur Jónasson will probably be voted out before this can come to pass. However, the reason this is a thing at all is because of the "nei ýðir nei!" (no means no!) popular movement in response to increasing reports of rape against women by inebriated men.

    Having said that, in my humble opinion, internet porn and the numerous adult toy shops should of course continue to be available as healthy outlets for consenting adults; on the other hand, Iceland's ingrained binge drinking culture should be held up to scrutiny, which seems to be bolstered by the government monopoly on booze not sold in restaurants nor bars.

  2. Re:It is supposed to be "family friendly".. on Sanitizing Expression In Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    You could have at least been a more succint in your sweeping generalization. Well, more specifically, the "T" in GLBT. In what specific way is sexuality implied, if I were to state that I am transgendered? It would be shallow to assume that sexual activities and discussion thereof would be the focal point of conversation and membership within Oz, and would ignore and discredit the core personalities of the members of the guild.

    That said, I believe it is easier for a gay person to be affectionate with another gay person, not necessarily in a sexual or particularly involved way. I'd rather keep discussion of who people like to boff separate from a more dedicated gaming scenario.

  3. Re:Naysayers on RX-8 Hydrogen RE a Dual Fuel Car · · Score: 1

    Despite the Renesis' inherent ability to burn many fuels (the lack of exhaust->intake overlap is key here, unlike previous 13Bs), it still cannot produce zero emissions, as the engine burns its lubricant by design. Though, the natural progression of logic here may lead to a more important advancement in the automotive industry than hydrogen alone. Think corn oil with more viscosity, suitable for living for thousands of miles in an engine.

  4. Re:How strange. on IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees · · Score: 1

    Holy cow, thank you.

    I'm in the middle of transitioning at work, for what it's worth.

    To live in the best of both worlds, I wear a practical, and fairly neat (tidy) pair of pants each day, with any of the official T-shirts (which, by the way, ours are cool enough to wear outside of work). Since I'm mostly a support/datacenter technician, most of my roles are not customer-facing. However, PR is still a priority, and keeping a positive image and conduct during sales tours and the like are key.

    Dress reasonably, be a positive representative of your company while maintaining rapport suitable for your job requirements, and try not to draw much attention. You'll surely do fine; be up front and forthcoming with your HR department should any transsexuality issues arise. In most cases, they will be glad to assist you with any issues arising from any department or tier within the company, and will assist in communicating these issues succintly enough to carry on with work as normal. Many IT outfits these days are fairly trans-positive, from what I've observed.

    (Personally, I don't mind having work-safe attire, so long as I'm not artificially donning hints of masculinity. Work-related casual is good.)

    I apologize for my crap grammar and otherwise uninteresting post. If you are a tranny, then you probably already know this stuff.

  5. Re:ok, be honest... on Underwater Robots for Everyone · · Score: 1

    /me raises hand!

  6. Re:Don't stop at just a power button on The Universal Off Button · · Score: 1

    Oh, so they can mod their hearing aids to thump bass, too?

  7. Re:bah red hat! on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 1

    Aye. gconfd is a bit of a resource hog on my 433MHz beater; the fact is made painfully apparent by the concerted efforts of the various GNOME programs to do their configuration-related bidding. Under every kernel and libc I've tried, even NetBSD 2.0-current, it has taken the calculator no less than four seconds to appear after launching. No amount of RAM or swap I toss at it changes the fact. Sometimes, Firefox starts faster, even.

    I suppose that's the necessary trade-off if I want to work with configuration files that are well-structured AND easily readable by both man and machine. But it's unfortunate that these factors make GNOME unbearable to use on my hardware.

    All this talk of resources makes me want to hack alloywm again.

  8. Re:WGET!!! on Unsung Heroes of Open Source Software? · · Score: 1
    Actually, afaik, the NetBSD and OpenBSD ftp clients are one in the same, written by Luke Mewburn of much NetBSD fame. (It also appears in SuSE.) He's also responsible for NetBSD's mad elite /etc/rc.d mechanism.

    Mad props to lukem.

  9. Re:Should We Fear? on SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Just to alleviate further fears, you can lower the risk of confusion between a known good file and a malicious file of the same checksum by also comparing the files' sizes.

    However, I don't know enough about MD5 or SHA-[01] to know if collision is possible for every combination of bytes in certain fixed-sized samples. I suppose only quantum comping can tell. :)

    /me tucks self in snugly.

  10. Re:quick prevention of getting tracked by this... on Testing didtheyreadit.com's Mail-Tracking Claims · · Score: 1

    A lot of those advertising companies depend on round-robin DNS. Do an 'nslookup' on ad.doubleclick.net every now and then if you don't believe me. It wouldn't be easy for them to implement.

    Thankfully, it would take them a little longer than we would think to implement.

  11. Re:Responsibility? on Take Me Home, I'm Drunk · · Score: 1

    I'm sure your career paths will be far more limited in any branch when you're being drafted.

  12. Re:The word is "sex" on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1
    Hate to break it to you, but few transvestites would consider themselves to be either pre-op or post-op. The word you're searching for is transsexual.</pedantic>

    By the way, I love your sig. :)

  13. Re:Hacker potential on Mobile Wifi Backpack · · Score: 1
    If you simply wanted to sniff somebody, your idea holds little weight. Use a conventional sniffer like Kismet instead. The crux of effective sniffing is, after all, being passive.


    However, if you wanted to pose as a different wifi network, no telling what combination of packet filtering, transparent proxies, and web servers would yield.

  14. Re:Power Rangers Bastardization on The Future PC as a Set of Pens? · · Score: 1

    (quite offtopic) rofl. Capcom geek hug. ^_^

  15. Re:linux PDA? on Palm Changing OS Strategy · · Score: 1

    You should have waited for the Lycoris ROM to be released, whenever that will be. It doesn't appear to be on Lycoris.com anywhere, perhaps I'm wrong.

  16. Re:Xlib is trash. on freedesktop.org xlibs 1.0 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bullshit.

    I triple dog dare you (not necessarily the parent troll, but the general audience) to find a binary or library capable of displaying on an X11 display that's not linked, statically or dynamically, to libX11 and friends; of course, barring the things written by masochists that implement the X Window protocol themselves over a TCP or Unix socket.

  17. Re:NAT is bad? on MIT Technology Review Slams IPv6 · · Score: 1
    I have no reason to believe that changing an application to use getaddrinfo() instead of gethostbyname() or similar will negatively impact the security of said application. Garfinkel only speculates on possible security issues with individual implementations of the IPv6 protocol.

    Note that I'm not disagreeing with you wholly, I am just pointing out a flaw in your choice of words; s/application/implementation/

  18. Re:untested code... on MIT Technology Review Slams IPv6 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Extending the current IP addressing space would constitute a reworking of the protocol, which IPv6 is anyways. The same thing happened when we changed from NCP to IPv4 in the early 1970's--and that was a radical jump, which we survived. Every program that uses the BSD socket interface would also have to be tailored to use library functions that supplant the original IPv4-only code. That's already happening with IPv6. And people are beginning to use protocol-agnostic functions (such as getaddrinfo(1), as opposed to gethostbyname(1) and gethostbyaddr(1), for instance).

    Not to mention, simply Googling for "ipv6" will reveal many reasons as to why a 128-bit addressing space is advantageous to a smaller one, which you propose. Plus, a five-byte address space isn't ideal when taking general computing sense into consideration.

  19. Re:sweet! on NASA Releases Mars Data for Maestro · · Score: 1

    Mod this up, perhaps the only comment in this story with at least somewhat relevant content lays above.

  20. Re:Spare us the lecture [+5, n/t] on Slashback: Unstranding, Xecurity, Spurning · · Score: 1

    mod this up!

  21. Re:for better? or for worse? on Microsoft Retires Windows 98 · · Score: 1
    > The "activation thing" is a cripping feature.

    Thanks for the laugh. :)

  22. Re:don't forget Zaurus on Thoughts on the New Crop of Ogg Aware Players? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I'm sticking with the Sharp 2.38 ROM for now, until my shiny 256MB SD card comes in. And then I'll be running straight towards OZ 3.2. I was using theKompany.rom for awhile, but having to install the extra packages only leaves me with 16MB of space for precious media, rather than 32MB with the stock ROM, which has all of those packages in place to begin with. Plus, it lacks IPv6 support, in which case, I'll see what happens when I steal OZ's kernel and IPv6 userland utilities. (The non-Sharp-2.3x ROMs are great and all, but they tend to assume everyone has an extravagant amount of insertable storage space.)

    Speaking of battery life, I thought I may add that I was able to get about 5 hours of warwalking in, using a quick little hack I wrote to provide information via the LEDs, a-la Geiger counter. This is with a run-of-the-mill Linksys WCF12.

    Anyhow, tonight, I shall put the Z under the ultimate stress test: I'll be timing how long the Z lasts playing ~192kbps Oggs via NFS over wifi on the other side of the house, with LCD and backlight on. However, regardless of the results, I'm still convinced that the Z is the ultimate mobile tool; and just so happens to be a pretty bitchin' conduit for multimedia, too.

  23. Re:don't forget Zaurus on Thoughts on the New Crop of Ogg Aware Players? · · Score: 1

    When I play oggs, I use vorbis-plugin for the stock media player. However, outside of that, I use xmms-e for streaming audio, since I'm usually plugged in when I'm using wifi. Meh.

  24. Re:iTunes... on TunA and Socializing via MP3 Player · · Score: 1
    I've toyed with the idea of broadcasting streaming data over 802.x networks, with success, even--I devised and halfway implemented a low-level one-way transport protocol which sits right below the link layer. I've tested this both on 802.11b and on a nonswitched ethernet.

    However, ven under similar operating environments, I can never get the audio to sync properly. Buffers seem to always fill at different times :)

    Anyhow, a connectionless, one-way protocol would probably work best for this sort of thing.

  25. Re:proximity sharing on TunA and Socializing via MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    KMFDM's the ultimate sound, and a message from Satan if you turn it around--That's the best explanation I can come up with for what you say.