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  1. Blame Canada on Blackout Cause: Buggy Code · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought the Canadians did it?

  2. Re:Enough of the bullshit! on Online Search Engines Lift Cover Of Privacy · · Score: 1
    Uhm, maybe you could buy Opera? From the website:

    Buy the Opera Web browser to get all the Internet power tools you need, while surfing ad-free.

    And to get back to the original problem, put a pr0n picture in the document and the google ad server will not be used. Don't know how they decide there is sensitive data in a page, but if it's just https then that would be a very easy solution:

    In certain situations, the ad served in the Opera browser banner will not be served by Google and will instead be an internal Opera ad. These situations include when Google does not have access to the page content, the page contains sensitive content, the page is suspected to contain pornography, or Google's targeting engine is temporarily down.

  3. Re:supplement? on SCO Files Response To Demand For Evidence · · Score: 1

    Huhu, especially the last year SCOX vs IBM

  4. Re:Shuttle - silent XPC on Small Form Factor Comparison Matrix · · Score: 1
    I have one of the older ones, a Shuttle SS51G and must say I am very dissapointed by the noise produced by the box. The heat inside the box is high according to my standards (I'm not an overclocker). When having an ambient temp of 20-25 degrees and just browsing the web (WinXP) the CPU temp gets close to 60 degrees Celsius. This means the one fan in the box needs to cool a lot, which makes a lot of noise.

    When the ambient temperature drops, the CPU temp drops, the noise drops. So maybe I should put the box in my fridge ;)

  5. Re:Then... on Dell To Techs: Don't Help Customers Remove Spyware · · Score: 1

    The article and the letter both explain that Dell machines come with ANTI spyware. The DVDsense program will disable sending information about which movies are watched on the Dell computer. This got probably translated by the blurb as spyware.

  6. Re:OK... good on Using the Real ntfs.sys Driver Under Linux · · Score: 1

    Troubleshooting ok, but for forensic purposes? Why not use the current NTFS implementation in the kernel. The reading of files with the current implementation is excellent, and since you are doing a forensic investigation, the drive is mounted ro anyway.

  7. Re:For the love of all that's good and holy on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1
    "the spin speeds of multiple drives should ideally synchronise to the master in order to minimise vibration"

    I sure hope not. Synchronizing the discs will mean the vibration will double.

  8. Re:It's possible, after all on Climate Data Re-examined (updated) · · Score: 1

    The cost from rising sea levels are pretty big for us (yes holland), but very minor compared to coutnries like bangladesh. We have a big enough GDP to get ourselfs prepared for the rising sea levels. Bangladesh however faces a serious problem. They don't have the money to take preventive measures so they loose (a part of) their country and probably a lot of lives as well.

    That said, I always like the climate people. First of all they get more funding when they predict Bad News (tm). Second of all, almost all the data I see goes back for 200 years, 1000 years max (the data in the article goes back 500 years). This is peanuts compared to the earths lifespan. Before the year 3000 BC a lot of climate changes happenend, why can't the global warming we are facing today be a part of the regular climate change?

    Don't get me wrong, I support the Kyoto protocol and think we should live ecologically friendly. And warning about a climate change is probably the easiest way to get the John Doe to pay attention.

  9. Re:Awesome on Students, ISP Sue Diebold · · Score: 1
    The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed by Congress in 1998, provides a "safe harbor" provision as an incentive for ISPs to take down user-posted content when they receive cease-and-desist letters such as the ones sent by Diebold. By removing the content, or forcing the user to do so, for a minimum of 10 days, an ISP can take itself out of the middle of any copyright claim. As a result, few ISPs have tested whether they would face liability for such user activity in a court of law. EFF has been exposing some of the ways that the safe harbor provision can be used to silence legitimate online speech through the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse.

    Is the user part a person or can it be a company, say for example, let me think..., SCO or Diebold. What if I send a cease-and-desist letter to their ISP?

  10. Re:You can kill a revolutionary on Students, ISP Sue Diebold · · Score: 1

    That's how most revolutions start. It is not till the end that one person takes over and screws the rest of the revolutionaries and makes it into a dictatorship.

  11. Re:It Gets Worse on Software Installation/Update via Internet Patented · · Score: 1

    Common Sense?

    Did you read a different article then I did? I could not see any common sense in the patent, please point it out to me.

  12. Re:so what ? on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of a story from a security manager. He told me they actually hire people who are not all that bright, because they will follow rules and will not show initiative. Which is a very important treat in their employers.

    BTW How did his manager find out about his website? Does MS google for pictures every day. It has not even been 4 days between the first post and the fireing of the guy.

  13. Re:What? on Who Needs Radio? · · Score: 1

    The Question (at least in the article) is if we need broadcasters. It is not about the radio you buy in stores but about the people who broadcast music. The article thinks the availability of music you can download will make broadcasters obsolete.

    I listen a lot to the radio, either for the news, for the fun (at least some dj's are funny) and for the discovery of other music. Since I live
    live temporarely in an other country, I love to listen to my home radio stations over the internet. It let's me stay in touch with home.

    And yes I could listen to my music collection, but like to listen to new music and do not have the time to download every piece of music and listen to it and see if it's worthwhile. I need somebody to make this decission for me and this is where the dj comes in. If he has the right musical taste, he can show me the music I may or may not want to buy.

  14. Re:And BayStar Capital on Microsoft Behind SCO Cash Investment? · · Score: 1
    You may be able to find a few nutso small time investors who believe every press release they see and buy stock just in case

    These few nutso made a very lucrative deal if they got in about three monts ago...

  15. Re:Sanitized for your protection on Does Your Company Censor the Content for You? · · Score: 1
    Yet another set are the moral control freaks who think that they need to prevent anyone from seeing anything "naughty". (These tend to be rarer, but I have seen places where this has happened.)

    Try Saudi Arabia. They have a filter for *all* their web traffic. And here at their national oil company it is even worse. They have their own internet connection (not filtered by the governement) but they filter on things like proxy evasion, hacking and my all time favorite: Tasteless. You just get redirected to a page that tells you that the content is filtered and that you can ask them to change it if you will need it for work. You will need approval from management to do that though.

    Since I have access to a server in another contry, I have installed nph-proxy on a ssl connection. This way I can at least browse for hacker tools (it's my job, not the browsing but the testing). I would not dare to browse for pr0n here at work, because they definatly get offended. And btw Pr0n is illegal here, so you will get evicted after a nice interview by the police ;)

  16. Re:I don't understaaaand on Ballmer Touts Focus on Security · · Score: 1
    Yeah right, patching Microsoft Windows when the patches are release is a good thing (tm)???

    Having had first hand expierence with a patch blocking internet access I have become a bit more careful these days. It took me the best part of a day to get the machine working again. You really get to appreciate internet connectivity when you lose it ;) But since it took me quite a while to get the machine working again (and I consider myself tech savvy), just imagine what it could have done for the masses. They would probably have thrown the PC out of the window.

    And no, you could not deinstall the patch.

  17. Re:Ease on Microsoft Wins Browser War, Abandons 'Innovation' · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It is quicker and more stable than netscape.

    Stable is discussable (is this an english word?), but definitly not quicker. The fact that IE loads a lot of dll's during Windows startup makes my system slower during startup. You can for example enable this feature in Mozilla for Windows as well, which makes it as fast as IE. Don't know about NS though.

  18. Re:real application! on What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try irfanview an excellent image viewer, with automatic resize and slideshow!

  19. Re:Base 2 on Hard Drive Capacity Confusion, Lucidly Explained · · Score: 1

    Well put and I would like to make an other point as well. When you say
    In C, you have to learn two things...
    there is also something else. You have to "unlearn" something, which is much harder then learning new things.

  20. Re:Does it matter anymore? on Hard Drive Capacity Confusion, Lucidly Explained · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I will then suppose that when you buy 512MB memory module, you expect it to have exactly 512000000 bytes of capacity, right? It's the proper way, right?

    Actually, yes. As a scientist I have always wondered how the computer nerds (which i'm myself now) can get away with using Kilo and Mega inappropriatly. I'm very glad the IEC is finally trying to come up with a solution. It will get a lot clearer for everybody.

  21. Re:The Chinese... on Microsoft Offers A DRM Patch · · Score: 1

    Uhm, exactly what are these people at Camp X-ray held for? Before you answer, can you show me any *legal* convictions of these people.

    My point being, these people did not get a trial, let alone a fair trail and it has been almost a year and a half now since these people have been arrested. No charges, no trail, bad human conditions. Need I go on...

    Sounds like a police state to me.

  22. Proud on Dutch Court Rules That Linking Is Legal In Scientology Case · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This makes me proud to be a dutchmen. And proud to use the excellent services from xs4all. They always have been a strong supporter of both privacy and free speech and are willing to back it up. Even though they went from a hacker provider to one of the major league telco subsidairies.

    xs4all keep up the good work!

  23. Re:Sic Transit Gloria Kazaa on Google Removes Kazaa Links, Keeps Sponsored Links · · Score: 1
    I think i am entitled to download music. I have about 500 CDs and i paid too much for each and every one of them.
    So do I get a nice fat check from the companys with an accompianing letter that they are sorry that I paid too much and will lower their prices. No, they didn't even lower their prices. Prices only went up in the last ten years (that is until yesterday).

    So I think i am entitled to download at least enough music to compensate me for the excessive money that I paid on all the cds I own.

    And then there is always the thingie about copy protection and CSS, which will not allow me to make a copy for backup purposes or view a DVD on my Linux machine. Come on, The entertainment industry got it comming!

  24. Re:It is SCO on More Criticism of SCO's Claims To UNIX · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I do. They may not have a foot to stand on (if this is an english expression?), but htey canb throw a lot of dirt around. And hurt a lot of people in the process.

    This is why I take all this shit seriously. I would hate to see the demise of for example Red Hat, because nobody wants to buy their products since they are uncertain what the legallity of linux is.

  25. Re:What? on Microsoft Longhorn Delayed · · Score: 1

    Well, look, no matter what Microsoft does, people bitch.

    Yeah, isn't it nice!