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  1. Re:Yeah on Colorado Sheriffs To WarDrive For Safety · · Score: 1

    Not much of a difference. Let's say you have a wireless network, no mac filter, no password protection, no encryption, no nothing. Is it OK for me to gain access to your network without permission? Don't think so. Is it OK for a cop (without a warrant) to do it? I say no. Same goes for leaving your door unlocked. An unlocked door is not permission for someone to enter your house, make a sandwich, watch pay-per-view, and look through your photo albums, even if they are a cop.

  2. Re:Yeah on Colorado Sheriffs To WarDrive For Safety · · Score: 1
    just make sure you don't shoot em on video, or catch em on film.
    Of course! That would be an invasion of their privacy.
  3. Re:Yeah on Colorado Sheriffs To WarDrive For Safety · · Score: 1

    In other news, local police are going door to door jiggling doorknobs to make sure they are locked. If not, they enter your house and tell you the importance of locking your doors.

  4. Where's the other footage? on US Releasing 9/11 Flight 77 Pentagon Crash Tape · · Score: 1
    OK, the footage they are showing has been released for quite some time now, at least those 5 frames that have the plane coming in from the right, and the explosion bit. Because it is so low quality you can't really tell what hit the building (see Pentagon Strike where thay actually use the footage that was "just released".

    So where's the other footage? Where is the footage from the Freeway cameras? Where is the footage from the Sheraton Hotel roof camera? Where are the security tapes from the gas station across the street?

    Now, I don't nescessarilly think that it was a missile, and I don't nescessarilly think it wasn't flight 77... I just want to know what is on those other tapes that we are not allowed to see.

  5. Re:dolphins: unleashed on A Dolphin By Any Other Name · · Score: 1

    Everything has already happened to the Simpsons.

  6. Re:already covered? on Carrying Your IT Equipment With You? · · Score: 4, Funny

    What, no towel?

  7. Re:It's not a missing link, and nice predictions on Missing Link Fossil Discovered · · Score: 1
    What IS surprising, is that there is no image - not even the obligatory 100-pixel-across thumbnail, which links to a lame-ass 200-pixel-across "Large Picture". I am very interested in seeing this thing - so where the bloody hell is it?
    Here, provided by google image search "Tiktaalik".
    And the cut'n'paste version:
    http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Tiktaalik%22& svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi
  8. Re:Flash required on Tree Climbing Robot · · Score: 1

    A movie starring Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Kirstie Alley and Gene Simmons seems like more of a waste of time to me, but here is the video in wmf format from the manufacturer's site.

  9. Re:Is there really much of a savings? on Microsoft to Replace Blackberry? · · Score: 1

    I already get "push" emails all the time from my regular old cell phone, via text messaging, unless I am missing something herre.

  10. Re:I doubt it.... on Microsoft to Replace Blackberry? · · Score: 1
    your
    if it ever does occur, for people to switch over to Internet Explorer.
    argument is flawed.

    Internet Explorer caught on so quickly because it was given away for "free", whether you wanted it or not, with the Windows OS (which was also "free" whether or not you wanted it when you bought a new computer). If Microsoft starts giving away their PIM then it probably will catch on quickly.

    Of course, since most of the epople I know who run windows go out of their way to remove as much of IE from their computer as possible, I still don't think it really "caught on", I think it's just the default choice for people who don't know any better. Kind of like Outlook.

  11. Re:The real reason on Windows on Intel Macs - Yes or No? · · Score: 1
    Yup, I didn't know that, thanks for the info. Do you know how that's done? Do they have 2 microswitches in there with just one big button over the top? Can you "chord" the left and right buttons for a middle click, as it's done with X11 / xorg? My main gripe with apple laptops is the lack of second and third button functionality.

    I always thought it would be a great idea to just use two trackpads, one where the trackpad goes, and the other where the button goes, then with software you could split up your "button" trackpad into how ever many virtual mouse buttons you want. That would be killer.

  12. The real reason on Windows on Intel Macs - Yes or No? · · Score: 1
    You can't run Windows on a Mac because 90% of what you do in Windows requires right clicking.

    I would be very interested if laptops came with 2 trackpad like things. One where rthe trackpad goes, and the other where that big old 1 mouse button goes. You could then split uop the "mouse button" into any number of virtual buttons with software. Only want one button? Fine, only have one, make it default for all I care, but how's about giving me the ability to choose how many mouse buttons I have without restorting to an external mouse on my laptop. What if I'm not at a flat surface? Mouse is no good then.

  13. Re:Stupid name on MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop · · Score: 1

    You're right! I forgot about the pre-power-pc powerbooks. I even used to have a powerbook 160. My mistake.

  14. Re:Stupid name on MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop · · Score: 1

    I assumed the USB ports were split (they are also like that on my gateway laptop) so you can use a usb mouse on either side, depending on if you are right or left handed.

  15. Re:Stupid name on MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The PowerMac name likely wont change either.

    I assumed they wanted to get rid of the "power", since they aren't using Power PC chips anymore.

  16. Re:I have an idea on Linux in a Business - Got Root? · · Score: 1
    You could do that. One problem you may encounter though is everything your setuid script is going to do is going to be shell, and as I recall, you can't setuid a shell script. You could do it in bash and have it exec the shell commands, but still, that script is going to have the power to do anything root can do, and it's going to be executed as apache. And it's run through a web interface.

    How do you keep users from building an html form, either on the server (they have some shell access, there is a web server, they could possibly have some sort of accessible html space) or a form on their own machine that just "approves" whatever commands they want your setuid cgi to perform?

    Another way would be to just give the user access to a form that a root user could check, and instead of having the cgi run the commands, why doesn't the root user simply copy and paste the command into a terminal window? Like someone mentioned earlier, email would work just as well for this.

    In my office we use IRC, someone in another department needs something checked out of cvs or a permission change, or whatever else, they simple tell us (IT staff), and we do it if it seems sane. Automation is good, but too much automation is inviting trouble.

  17. Re:I have an idea on Linux in a Business - Got Root? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you're going to end up giving the apache user on your production server sudo access to do "anything" to make that work though.

  18. Re:Been there, done that, this worries me! on Nissan and Microsoft Create Videogame Car · · Score: 1

    Unpossible! Think about it: The CD (or DVD) would be skipping to much when the car was in motion.

  19. Re:It would rule if: on Linux Boots on Treo 650 · · Score: 1

    There are some handheld linux distros. Check out linuxdevices.com for an example of what people have been working on.

  20. Re:Bah, Sayeth Scrooge on Intel Calls $100 Laptops Undesired Gadgets · · Score: 1
    But finding 1,000,000 used notebooks may be a bigger challenge than building 1,000,000 new ones
    Particularly finding 1,000,000 100$ used notebooks with batteries that still hold a charge for more than 45 seconds.
  21. Re:Bah, Sayeth Scrooge on Intel Calls $100 Laptops Undesired Gadgets · · Score: 1

    I used the built in 300 baud pulse dial modem and BASIC to make my first war dialler. Still have two of them sitting in the closet at home.

  22. Re: What? on Podcasting Officially a Word · · Score: 1

    Don't misunderestimate the power of podcasting! It clearly embetters the english language.

  23. Re:The real question on Remarked Celerons Sold As P4s · · Score: 1

    These chips come with motherboard. So yes, you do have a mobo right there. So, if you go shopping for a P4, and someone sells you one brand new with motherboard for under 100 bucks, well you are probably buying the knock-off.

  24. Re:Oh, I'm all for it. on Should Linux Have a Binary Kernel Driver Layer? · · Score: 1

    If you talk to Dell, I'm sure they would recommend you use the megaraid2 driver instead of the megaraid. At least, that's what they keep telling us to do to our 2550's and 2650's with the PERC 3/DC, I imaging your 6850 has a PERC 4 of sorts. For the record though, I've never had a problem with the megaraid driver on any of our Dells, PERC 3 or PERC 4.

  25. Re:Problem is downlink on Build Your Own Linux-Based Satellite · · Score: 1
    Console redirection to COM1 (well, COM1 in BIOS, ttyS0 once booted). I don't see why you couldn't rig up some kind of serial / RF converter.



    Of course, the downside is someone could change your password if the satellite flew over their house :)