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  1. Re:What's the big deal? on ICANN Asks VeriSign To Stop DNS Wildcarding · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What if my application already does different things depending on whether the service is misconfigured (DNS error) or just not responding (connection refused)? The Verisign move has merged different failures into one.

  2. Re:He has a point on Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO · · Score: 1

    You can do this today with SubEthaEdit (used to be called Hydra).

  3. Re:Do they think DNS if just for HTTP? on ICANN, IAB Ask VeriSign to Suspend SiteFinder · · Score: 1

    They can't. DNS is a delegated system. When you resolve www.somedomain.com, your DNS resolver queries the server authoritative for .com, which hands out the adress(es) of the servers authoritative for somedomain.com. Your resolver then queries that server for www.somedomain.com. Verisign's serves the .com zone, so it only sees a query for somedomain.com.

  4. Re:Real IAB Response on ICANN, IAB Ask VeriSign to Suspend SiteFinder · · Score: 1

    Exactly, please explain when and where did Verisign obtain the informed consent of the entities that are delegated within the .com and .net zones, which are all the .com and .net domains. I own several, I don't remember consenting, much less being informed.

  5. Re:China Blocks Spam Servers on China Blocks Spam Servers · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah! And since justice needs to scale, thieves and robbers will not only be executed, but so will their next of kin. Rapists and murderers will see their hometown blown to ashes (the Israelis can provide insights on how to do this).

  6. Re:AOL already tries to stop 3rd party clients on Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    haha, like msn.com is the only web site in the world that doesn't work with lynx... gimme a break, the reality is noone gives a flying fuck about the handful of retards who still use Lynx.

  7. Re:I think the interests of the Open Source commun on Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think I'd pay extra to read Slashdot with all the analogies filtered out.

  8. Re:Lost. So very, very lost. on Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing · · Score: 1

    yeah, and then we could have one unified/open/interconnected network for email. Oh, wait...

  9. Re:I'm sorry to say this. on Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing · · Score: 1

    That's not a fair comparison because MSN dialup users pay for the service, there is a binding contract where MSN agrees to provide Internet access to the customer.

  10. Re:Private property on Gaim Speaks Out on MSN Ban · · Score: 1

    What's an "archive manager"? My Mac came with Stuffit, zip/unzip, tar (with z option). Seems to manage all the archives I come across. It even has "ar", now if that isn't an archive manager...

  11. Re:You have no smoothwall experiance, moron on SmoothWall Firewall Review · · Score: 1

    Oh that is just so professionnal, DoSing someone you don't like. Just like some fucking unhappy teenager. Not necessarily the best advice for a business, you moron.

  12. Re:100:1 ? I don't think so... on ZeoSync Makes Claim of Compression Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    How can we trust an explanation by someone who can't spell algorithm? If you can't spell it chances are you're not familiar enough with the word.

  13. Re:quick way to check your openssh on Slashback: Highness, Hominess, Hole-ines · · Score: 1
    thing my websites aren't that visible as hack targets.


    That's totally irrelevant. Targets are identified by scanning zillions of IP. Whether you're NASA or the Wallace and Grommit Fan Club Web Site doesn't make an ounce of different.

  14. Re:answering everyone at once.... on Slashback: Highness, Hominess, Hole-ines · · Score: 1

    yadda yadda yadda ... use the source, Luke. This is so lame. Wonderful, the world of distros and apt-foo has created a generation of incompetent admins who only know how to install packages. Sheesh. Download OpenSSH, sh configure, make, make install and you're done. Relying on vendor packages is fine. Relying exclusively on vendor packages is lazy and dangerous.

  15. Re:Hmmm. on Message from Kabul · · Score: 1

    no, Al Gore invented email.

  16. Re:Thank you on Interim Response from Philip Zimmermann · · Score: 1

    What argument? That PGP should be made illegal so that terrorists can't use it? That's what I was replying to. What you're saying is exactly what I said: it's too late. Strong crypto exists, and terrorists will use it if they need to, whether it's legal in the US or not. It looks like you are capable to use an insulting tone to attempt to enforce your opinion, but can't yet quite grasp irony.

  17. Re:Thank you on Interim Response from Philip Zimmermann · · Score: 1

    So the terrorists are just going to stop using PGP because it's illegal? I guess they're good boys after all, they don't do anyting unless it's legal.

  18. Re:Thank you on Interim Response from Philip Zimmermann · · Score: 1

    Shoudn't we make airplanes illegal then?

  19. Re:decoding hotmail message numbers on Hotmail Hacked · · Score: 1
    No doubt the FBI...


    considering the poster is in .cz, I seriously doubt he has anything to fear from the FBI...

  20. Re:logs on Code Red Back For More · · Score: 1

    cat /etc/httpd/logs/access* | grep default.ida | wc -l

    yet another Useless Use of Cat

    grep default.ida access*

  21. Re:Please explain to me on MySQL & Nusphere · · Score: 1

    If this was the case, then PHP would be released under the GPL, which isn't the case.

  22. Re:What's new ? on WSJ Reports On MS Using Open Source · · Score: 1

    it isn't bundled with Windows, but it turns out that it's actually possible to install third party software. See http://www.cygwin.com.
    A Microsoft representative says this bug will be adressed in the next version of Windows, code named WA (Windows Alone).

  23. Re:I Have The Solution on U.S. Judge To Hear Yahoo! Web-Blocking Case · · Score: 1

    This solution would have been just fine by the court, but Yahoo decided it was easier/better to just ban the objects. The French court _never_ ordered the ban, it ordered that nazi objects not be visible by French visitors.

  24. Re:That may be true in the future on U.S. Judge To Hear Yahoo! Web-Blocking Case · · Score: 1

    but Yahoo! was NOT FORCED to remove NAZI stuff from US sites, THEY MADE THE CHOICE to for fear of offending all those CONSUMERS in France.

    that's not quite true, they made this choice because they found it easier than blocking French users from accessing those objects' pages. _That_ is what the court order was, it wasn't to remove the objects from sale. Yahoo acted that way not because they care a bit about any offence to the French user base, they did it to comply with the court order so they could continue to make profit from the french visitors.

  25. Re:English-speakers invented the technology on You Say Tomato, I say Fan Jia Qie? · · Score: 1

    For instance 15 years ago, schools in France used a French Basic, that was really hilarious to use. Anybody care to remember how this beast was called ?

    LSE (Langage Symbolique d'Enseignement)