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  1. call your bookies now!! on WA Law: 5 Years in Prison for Gambling Online · · Score: 1

    so what are the odds that this law will
    1 be used to trap some stupid yahoo
    2 be struck down
    3 result in a conviction for a church that has a website and does bingo nights
    4 have very few convictions (say less than 1 a month for the first year)
    5 turn out to be SuixEyeSighed for the folks in office

  2. Re:Two Questions on Two-Tier Internet & The End of Freedom of Speech · · Score: 1

    bad idea for several reasons

    1 the person in question may object forcefully
    2 you just might get a Copyright Object* in the frame
    3 you may get a government/DOD controlled object in the frame
    4 its rude
    5 its a good way to get sued/arrested
    6 any combo of 1 and 3 may get you put on a plane to Gitmo

    *other than the BT earpiece itself

  3. Re:Simple answer? Kinda on More Details of the NSA's Social Network Analysis · · Score: 1

    heres a big problem with "data mining"

    imagine that you wanted to hit #target you would have a number of things you would need
    split the list into sections CONTACT USING VARIOUS OTHER MEANS your "group"
    then when the time is right make one phone call and say
    "its time to run emerge -fu bunnyslippers" or post this to a common website.

    can the TLAs connect the dots??? (hmm wasn't that the problem with...)
    if you do this right nobody has the complete details the entire group is not connected
    and it may only have one phone call

  4. Re:NYPD? on Jobs' Glass Elevator Locks in Group Customers · · Score: 1

    i think that it may be a case of either the PD was the first on scene or steve wanted the PD handy when they did get out just in case they decided to riot.

    I hope for steve that no "Family Members" were trapped.

  5. Re:Beware MMORPGs on S. Korea's Stress-Driven Online Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    its like the joke about a fat guy with a bunch of friends that were "health nuts"

    1 fell off a mountain
    2 had a stroke during a marathon
    3 had a heart attack
    4 went nuts and jumped off a building

    and for the next 15 years the fat guy visted each guys grave and smoked a cigar every year

  6. Re:Cult of death? on China Files Case Against Intel's Wireless Network · · Score: 2, Funny

    actually a good chunk of Non catholic Christians do believe in a bodily resurection
    (catholics have thier own problems and jewish folks also think its not Kosher)

    besides its RUDE to yank chunks of a person out without their permission.

  7. Re:Or not on Our Indie Experiment - MadMinute Games · · Score: 1

    How about this version of "corporate sponsored" education

    1 a Corp agrees to sponsor a school
        the corp gets
                a possible new workers
                b a nice chunky tax deduction
                c a group of very heavily regulated workers (little jobs that have a huge "play factor")
        the school gets
                a funding
                b other resources (do you really think that a school sponsred by Coke won't have..)
                c a lower problem of disipline (having kids paid to run around would keep them out of trouble)

  8. Re:MIT students definition of a party... on Freshman MIT Students Automate Dorm Room · · Score: 1

    the ethanol problem is why the CS and organic chemistry geeks need to get together on this
    this is the draw women part so all they need is some grain/corn and a still.

  9. Re:Huh? What? on Overconfidence in SSH Protection · · Score: 1

    um i think this is either a case of
    1 ~99.99% of slashdot geeks are in fact male
    2 he and his are assumed neutral gender

    but i think that getting beaten by a female "warrior" has an extra +20% damage to fame

    why does anybody think that a mangled config on any guard software won't cause "issues"

  10. Re:Upgraded? on Mars Rover Upgraded · · Score: 1

    is this a version of the
    "ive got a job for you"
    "but you said there was no job on earth you would trust me with"
    "that is correct" ...
    joke??
    hey why don't we send the next survivor cast with them???

  11. Re:Old News on Chicken and Egg Problem Solved · · Score: 1

    If you dismiss the first chapters of Genesis as being fiction, then you MUST dismiss the entire Bible as being fiction.

    Why? Jesus told a lot of parables to get his point across. None of these were meant to be taken literally.
    ----
    yes and the problem is they were "labeled" as being parables
    the first five books are to be taken as historical fact (actually large chunks of the OT and a few chunks of the NT are also HF) to do otherwise is like questioning (as part of faith) gravity being 9.8ms^2.
    First Adam blew it so it required the Second Adam to fix things (we are just waiting for God to back us up so he can do

    mkfs ext3 /
    emerge -fu universe)

    psst the chicken came first (Gen 1:5)

  12. Re:This brought to you by... on Ozone Layer Improving Faster Than Expected · · Score: 1

    the true measure of a scientist is what would happen if his lab was dropped into a realm where "magic" actually worked.

    a True Scientist would grab the nearest "stone of eternal lightning" keep his stuff online and begin to chart what does what (and besides imagine what would happen if he copied scrolls left and right).

    the pretenders would just go nuts

  13. Re:Proactive protection... on AT&T Accidentally Leaks NSA Suit Information · · Score: 1

    of course there are times when they would confess to having "nuclear weapon components" on board (but not say that they just happen to have 110% of actual weapons on board and guys that have the tab A in Slot B >tab C in slot D... instructions memorized)

  14. Re:sneakernet and Novell being used together - why on Fixes for WinXP Ignoring Novell Disk Mapping? · · Score: 1

    of course one big way to solve this would be to stop using "drive letters" at all
    (unc paths or mount points)

    i propose that the phrase air gap be modded to air/faraday gap (indicating that both a hard line and wireless net is not present)

  15. Re:Wait a minute! on The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time · · Score: 1

    hand in your troll card

    the company name has been RadioShack for 5? years now

    and besides you have recently signed a doc that says ~speaking to the media without permission from the corporate pr dept is grounds for termination (among other things)

  16. Re:Hormel won't like it... on BlackFrog to Take up BlueFrog's Flag · · Score: 1

    they do in fact don't like it details: http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm

  17. imagelinkusa.net comments on Identifying and Avoiding Dishonest Hosting Providers? · · Score: 1

    having a single point of data but i have had good results from imagelinkusa.net

    1 linux server (i think its RedHat)
    2 direct ftp/http access to the server
    3 unlimited subdomains/email/sql dbs
    4 fast service (i had to do a bit of a reset and they moved my stuff to a new server/reset my cp password and did a package upgrade all in the matter of 5? hours

    not that i have anything big on site but THE SITE DOES NOT GO DOWN and if they dink with the servers you get a set of emails (weeks before, week before, during , just after)
    psst if you do decide to go with them mention laurencemartin.com

  18. Re:It's sad really on MPAA Being Sued For Allegedly Hacking Torrentspy · · Score: 1

    how about creating a JEJ tag? (being the initals of James Earl Jones)

    hmm how about a whole class of people tags
    RMS (GNU fanatic)
    SCO (corporate scumbags)
    L?T (Linux)

  19. The real reason bugs get shipped on Why Buggy Software Gets Shipped · · Score: 1

    THE LAST BUG

    "But you're out of your mind," They said with a shrug. "The customer's happy;What's one little bug?"
    But he was determined. The others went home. He spread out the program, Deserted, alone.
    The cleaning men came, The whole room was cluttered With memory-dumps, punch cards. "I'm close," he muttered.
    The mumbling got louder, Simple deduction, "I've got it, it's right, Just change one instruction."
    It still wasn't perfect, As year followed year, And strangers would comment, "Is that guy still here?"
    He died at the console, Of hunger and thirst. Next day he was buried, Face down, nine-edge first.
    And the last bug in sight, An ant passing by, Saluted his tombstone, And whispered, "Nice try."

  20. Re:Dumbasses on Student Faces Expulsion for Blog Post · · Score: 1

    personally i would think that "the school district" needs to sponsor his enrollment in a boarding school that will nurture him and show him the limits he can go.

    (in the case of my high school there would be no hearing he would be GONE (but then again
    my high school had/s ties to BJU))

  21. Re:A failure in the hypothesis. on Dan Geer's Monoculture Bomb Goes Off · · Score: 1

    In this case, a polyculture actually HURTS security, becuase the hacker only has to find one flaw in any of the many different applications people are running. Can't hack his way into Word? That's okay, some nerd in the office is running StarOffice and he can find a backdoor for that. Or whatever. ----- you have a point but imagine a "terrorist" walking into an office and finding a mix of "admininstrative assitiants" (different ages /races/backgrounds) he doesn't know who he is going to find first is it the Pretty and Trusting one or is it the Massad import who has a 9mm (with Black Talons) in her desk. polyculture takes time and as Time increases your exposure goes up ( imagine you need to roll 2d6 every 5 minutes)

  22. Re:Open-source monoculture just as risky on Dan Geer's Monoculture Bomb Goes Off · · Score: 1

    easy every program somehow someway gets to the kernel (or the running libc) eventually
    it would be nontrivial (for a kernel hakcer) to dink with timings or something so that any reference would maybe fail/work depending on which way it was set
    (if you assume memory has xyz but it has zxy or wxy then your bug goes splat)

  23. Re:Seems to Me... on DRM Protest in Hazmat Suits · · Score: 1

    okay lets just say MS makes a secure TPA "data server"
    in normal operation it transparently "unlocks" the files needed for your US$65K an hour business life is GOOD
    except

    1 a disgruntled employee sets off a thermite charge on the primary and secondary servers
    (your backups are useless (tpa keys the data to the server) and any other copies are useless)

    2 Microsoft decides to take over your business and revokes your keys (check your eula yes they can)

    so now you
    A are losing that US$56k an hour
    b will most likely need to pay #BIGNUM to get your data back

  24. Re:How do we make money? on Free Nationwide Wireless Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    speaking of "shotgun" + modem does anybody have a copy of the old Diamond multimedia ads for shotgun modems? if they do please send a copy out in the normal manner

  25. Re:poles or buried on Free Nationwide Wireless Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    so which ieee standard is the
    "method of detirming current location by summoning a backhoe with operator"?