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  1. Re:Outdated? Sure. But there's plenty more to do. on FCC Proposes Abolishing Morse Code Requirement · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Morse, however, is still a viable means of communication. For example, it is certainly faster than SMS.

    Only if you have 80 years of practise.

    My SMS speed are faster than my Morse speed, and I bet it's not different with the rest of the world population.

  2. always sounded like... on FCC Proposes Abolishing Morse Code Requirement · · Score: 2, Funny

    That Morse Code requirement always sounded like tit for tat to me.

  3. Chain of authority on VoIP Providers Worry as FCC Clams Up · · Score: 1

    As being with a VoIP in .au, we have been thinking about this issue and found a very simple one: Setup a chain of authority for the data.

    At the begin of the search there is a phone number being called from.

    The phone number is owned by a certain telco, which terminates it at a certain PRI. This is just database stuff, it's known where the PRI terminates. 911 looks up the number in this database, and gets a refferral[sp] to the VoIP provider.

    The VoIP provider knows what VoIP-phone has that number, and thus its IP address.

    If the IP address is local (i.e. handled by DHCP server of the VoIP provider), the VoIP provider knows where the VoIP phone is. 911 knows the location of the phone.

    If the IP address is a dialin number of the VoIP provider, the VoIP provider knows what the next phone number is to search for via its Caller ID. 911 knows a new phone number to search for.

    If the IP address is a remote IP address, then the VoIP provider returns the IP address of the VoIP phone. 911 then starts searching at the owner of the returned address block.

    And yes, there is such a distributed database already on the internet, it's called DNS. The only thing which needs to be done is added LOC fields to zones and IP addresses and an e164.arpa zone with referals to owners of number blocks and it's all resolved.

    Of course, doing it by DNS doesn't help big companies which want to sell databases nor help US .gov departments which have no clue about things. But for the rest, it's all there under your nose!

  4. Re:news for nerds? on IGN Interviews Natalie Portman · · Score: 1, Insightful

    WHO THE FUCK CARES?

    If you don't care, don't read and don't post. Very easy, very simple.

  5. Re:60? on 60th Anniversary of the Atomic Bomb · · Score: 1

    such a random number

    Just because it doesn't perfectly fit on your fingers, doesn't mean it doesn't make sense. For example, 60 years plus the average age of the person who worked there is far above the average age of a person, making it most likely the last one where they are alive.

  6. Re:OS/2 is dying? on IBM Officially Kills OS/2 · · Score: 1

    As a *BSD user, I really feel great today!

    Don't cheer too much. It was the fact that there was a lot of "Copyright by the University of Berkeley" in the with OS/2 .h files which made me go with FreeBSD instead of with Linux.

  7. Re:Violation of My Privacy? on Hunting for Botnet Command and Controls · · Score: 2, Funny

    That should have been:

    Don't worry. Your personal email wasn't that interesting.

  8. Impressive school system on Calculator Flaw Forces Recall in Virginia · · Score: 1

    It's an impressive school system if the math problems given to kids 14 years are so difficult that you need a calculator for it.

    I didn't need one (nor get one) until I was thought physics and chemistry where they have all these weird kind of not-so-easy-to-add/substract/multiply/divide values.

  9. LGL is used, but does anybody have it working? on Visual DDoS Representation and Its Ramifications · · Score: 1

    OPTE is using LGL to make their graphs. Their website is at http://bioinformatics.icmb.utexas.edu/lgl/.

    I have tried to get it running on Linux and FreeBSD, but it doesn't want to compile due to mismatches in their C++ classes. This is with gcc 2.95, 3.3 and 3.4. (See http://www.mavetju.org/~edwin/lgl.fail.txt for the full log)

    Has anybody gotten LGL to compile on their machines? Or does know patches to get it working?

    Thanks in advance, Edwin

  10. Only fair! on eBay sellers Told to Include GST · · Score: 1

    If the seller suddenly starts charging 10% more because of this, then it's only fair that it is forced to be in the advertised price.

    If you are a commercial entity and need to charge GST, you should be so fair to show it in the price. And if you (or some rotten apples) don't but charge it later anyway, then they all have to suffer for it.

    If you are a simple garage saler, then it doesn't affect you.

    Very simple, I would even call it common sense :-)

  11. Re:Blocking ports 1-65535 TCP/UDP on FTC Recommends ISPs Disconnect Spam Zombies · · Score: 1

    Better block ethernet types 0x0800 to get rid of the internet protocol thing!

  12. Worsening spam tactics wrt mail headers on FTC Recommends ISPs Disconnect Spam Zombies · · Score: 1

    I've gone through a couple of bounces on your mail server and saw that the spammers had added a couple of lines to their emails, making it look like my mail server was actually the one who originated it locally:

    Received: from (root@localhost)
    by mail3.barnet.com.au (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id 1GaCy2wErDj5Ks
    for <fromms@midcoast.com.au>; Mon, 23 May 2005 14:41:04 -0700

    Kind of sucks because the untrained eye will point the finger at me now!

    See http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/000100.html for a full write up.

  13. Radio tuner encoders on Portable Internet Radio to take on XM? · · Score: 1

    Recently I was asked to see what the possibilities are to encode data from a radio tuner card into an (for example) mp3 stream.

    I only found cards which could do one channel at the same time.

    My question is, does somebody know radio tuner cards which can listen to / encode more than one channel at the time?

  14. Re:SCO.... on Hyperthreading Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    He alerted SCO to a flaw in their OS?

    cperciva told me he had contacted a lot of companies and OS distributions, but that there were only a few (four in this case) who replied to him about it.

  15. Hype it up baby! on Star Wars Sickout · · Score: 1

    With the bad reviews from fans of the previous two movies they need to hype it up to make sure they're coming.

    I just hope that the improvements in the second part of Episode 2 continue in this sequel.

  16. Re:VOIP calls aren't encrypted? on U.S. Government Issues Report on VoIP Security Holes · · Score: 1

    Easy to find out, capture the payload, push it through an iLBC channel and listen if there is any recognizable sound.

  17. But... but.... on Dutch Pass iPod Tax · · Score: 1

    But does it mean they can freely share files between iPod owners now?

  18. Re:Interplanetary TCP?? on Vint Cerf on Internet Challenges · · Score: 1

    UDP provides no guarantees for message delivery

    And neither does TCP. With TCP you have a session and you get all the *received* packets in the same order as they are sent by the source. If one packet, even after retries, can't make it to the other side, your session gets aborted too.

    Your TCP layer is as good as your IP layer.
    Your UDP layer is as good as your IP layer.

    If your IP layer fails, neither TCP nor UDP will do you any good.

  19. SPAM, SPIM, SPVOIP and now SPRPC on Report on Last Decade of Online Advertising · · Score: 1

    I was doing some network traces yesterday, and found these in the captured packets. Destination host is a Cisco 2821:

    After spam via email, spam via instant messaging and spam via voice-over-ip, the next big thing is.... spam via the MS-RPC protocol! Check the following network traces:

    U 61.235.154.101:57710 -> 202.83.178.14:1027
    ..SECURITY..ALERT..Microsoft Windows has encounted an Internal Error
    Your windows registry is corrupted.
    Microsoft recommends an immediate system scan.
    visit
    http://e-regfix.com
    to repair.
    .
    #
    U 61.152.158.123:32780 -> 202.83.178.14:1026
    ..SECURITY..ALERT..SECURITY ALERT : Windows has detected 10 Spyware programs installed on your computer!

    Spyware causes pop up messages , tracks your online activities and displays advertisements.
    Your Anti-Virus and Firewall will not remove Spyware.
    Visit: www.antieye.com for free removal information!
    .

    Bunch of sad-sad-sad persons....

  20. Re:Spam, spam, spam on Providers Ignoring DNS TTL? · · Score: 1

    I would expect, now almost two months later, to be getting -0- traffic to the .COM domain as I set _everything_ to IP address 127.0.0.1 (just to screw with the spammers high-jacked computers). Yet the spam [attempts] still come in. Every minute.

    When spammers get their email addresses, they also get the MX servers of the domains and their IP addresses.

    It's not that their DNS is faulty, it's that they use old static data. Remember: it's more profitable to sell updates than to sell a proper working product in the first place.

  21. Re:DHCP on Microsoft Tries to Patent the Internet Again · · Score: 1

    The auto configuration mechanics in IPv6 are indeed similair to parts of the DHCP auto configuration in IPv4: subnet address, subnet mask and default gateway (maybe more, but these are the ones I remember).

  22. OS versus Window Managers on A History of Icons · · Score: 1

    I wish that people who made these overviews understood the difference between the underlaying OS and the Window managers on top of it (I understand that for a lot of ms-windows people this is still a tricky concept).

    RedHat Linux isn't a window manager, it is an operating system. GNOME is a window manager, KDE is a window manager and they have different icons. And there are more window managers, with and without icons on the desktop, than these two.

  23. Boring on Imax Theaters Demur On Controversial Science Films · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The New York Times is reporting that a number of Imax theatres are passing on science-themed films that might provoke controversy among a handful of religious fundamentalists.

    Wake me up when there is something happening the US which doesn't upset a minority group which goes in search for media attention or takes it to court.

  24. Re:SETI Radio Network on Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute? · · Score: 1

    New listener here. I have downloaded two episodes and listened to them.

    The content is good, but the only thing I can remember from it right now are the subjects (and not the reasoning and discussions) and the commercials for telescopes.

    I go back to the non-commercial channels and donate a yearly amount to the station in one of their pledges.

  25. Re:Here are your options on Tracking GPL Violators · · Score: 3, Informative

    The advertisement clause has been removed a looooong time ago, specially because everybody was more interested in the art of software design than the art of tracking possible violators.