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  1. Re:"US Governments"? on U.S. Governments Advised to Use Open Source · · Score: 1

    1 Federal Government
    50 State Governments, + a handful of US Territory Govs
    more county and municipal governments than I care to count

    In short, there's a lot of them.

  2. Off the top of my head: on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 5, Informative

    AVG Anti-Virus
    Hijack This
    Spybot Search and Destroy
    Adaware
    Microsoft Anti-Spyware (aka Windows Defender)
    SpywareBlaster
    KeyloggerHunter
    ClamAV
    avast!

    That should get ya started.

  3. Re:Redhat Abondons me? on Red Hat Gives up on Fedora Foundation · · Score: 2, Informative

    This has nothing whatsoever to do with Fedora Core the distribution, this is about the Fedora Foundation, a non-profit corporation Red Hat setup for various reasons. It proved unwieldy and not worth the hassle so they shut it down.

    This does not affect Fedora Core, you and other Fedora Core users have not been abandoned.

  4. Again? on Redhat and Intel Team Up for Linux Business · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So they're pairing up again? I've still got some junk left over from the party Red Hat and Intel (and Dell that time) threw at LinuxWorld 2000 to announce some kind of partnership then.

  5. Re:EVE-Online..yes it does this too on The Secret Life Of MMOG Characters · · Score: 1

    Yes, your current training skill continues to train if your account is suspended. However, once that skill finishes you'll have no way to start another until your account is active again.

  6. Re:weight& speed are the big issue here on The Physics Behind Car Crashes · · Score: 1
    you don't have to be Einstein to remember that e=mv^2
    I'm starting to think the new-for-2007 Toyota 'Antimatter' is a bad idea.
  7. Re:Hoax? on Slashback: Little Red Hoax, Firefly, Google · · Score: 1

    It reason the article say anything about the student's claim being a hoax is becuase the submitter picked just about the worst possible story to link to. Here a better link, taken randomly from a Google search for "Little Red Hoax".

  8. Re:Thats what SSL ceriticates are for on Korean Banks Forced to Compensate Hacking Victims · · Score: 3, Informative

    SSL certifcates are almost never issued to IP addresses, only to fqdn hostnames. In fact I've never seen a certificate with an IP address in the CN field, and I'm not even sure how a browser would handle it. In fact, issing a certificate to an IP address would make things even less secure. With a hostname, the broswer can check against a forward and reverse looklup, theoretically maximizing the number of machines that would have to be compromised to hijack the connection. It also subverts the only real check most certificate authorities do - verifing that the cert request is coming from the domain owner on record.

  9. Re:World of Warcraft on Build Your Own MMOG · · Score: 1
    Blizzard

    You misspelled Vivendi Universal.

  10. Re:More Misdirection from the Biometric Community on Hashing Out the Next Step in Biometric Security · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The three mechanisms for authentication are generally grouped into, something you know (password), something you have (swipe card), and something you are (biometrics).
    In reality, those groups are actually:
    • something you can forget
    • something you can lose
    • something that can change as you age
  11. Re:I'm missing something on NCQ Improves Performance for SATA Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Command queueing allows the drive to complete requests out of order. So, say the OS issues two read requests, the first one requires a head seek, the second for a block already in the drive's cache. In a drive with command queueing the second request can complete while the head is moving to read the block for the first request.

  12. Re:What happened to H I J K L & M? on Wireless Networking Speeds of 540 Mbps w/ 802.11n · · Score: 1

    Also note there is an 802.1x (note missing digit) working group on port based security that figures prominently in wireless standards.

  13. Re:In a word... YES, but... on Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal? · · Score: 1

    A lot of the commodity WiFi APs with external antenna connections use RP-TNC connectors. Linky

  14. Re:faster, how? on Rail Guns Closer to Reality · · Score: 2, Informative

    Clearly a solar centric frame of refernce, as (1 AU * 2 * pi) / (1 year) is roughly 29,700 m/s. Which is close to, but less than, the speed quoted.

  15. Re:Someone always says it on NSA Announces New Crypto Standards · · Score: 1

    Why is this funny? If he had said along the lines of "factoring prime numbers" like so many people do your correction might mean something. But he said "prime factorization" which means finding the prime factors of a composite number, which would be correct.

  16. Re:You're a genius! on 1.7 Billion Digits Of Pi On CD · · Score: 1

    Do you know what this means? Someone better tell Mr. TimeCube right now ...

  17. Re:Stephen King's short story about teleportation on USAF Studies Teleportation · · Score: 2, Informative

    That sounds a lot like Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination" (originaly published as 'Tiger! Tiger!'). Even the term 'jaunting' is used the same way.

  18. Ob. Futurama Quote on Review: Juvenile Felis Catus · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Kittens give Morbo gas."

  19. Inquiring minds want to know.... on FBI Ordered to Turn Over Lennon Files · · Score: 1

    Will these files be good news or bad news for this guy ?

  20. Finally.... on Red Hat Acquires Netscape Server Products · · Score: 1

    Maybe Netscape DS will finally work with RHEL3. Up to now it was RHEL 2.1 only.

  21. Changes? on Star Wars on DVD · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hear that in this version Alderaan shoots first.

  22. Re:Wow. on Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets · · Score: 1

    Think about that carefully. The earth as seen from the moon is larger than the moon seen from the earth, true. However, there's no atmosphere to disperse light reflected from earth - a moon based telescope will always have perfect seeing and perfect transparency over 90+ percent of the sky all day, every day, even when the sun is up. And no cloudy days, ever.

  23. 802.1x + RADIUS on Restricting Wireless Access on Campus? · · Score: 4, Informative

    What about using 802.1x with a RADIUS server that has time based access controls (like Radiator) ?

  24. Re:How's it smell? on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great, so then every cop in a 10-mile radius is magically drawn to your car. Even if you're not doing anything wrong it would still be unnerving as hell leading a parade of squad cars all trying to get a contact sugar high from your exhaust.

  25. Hate to say it, but ... on Alternatives to Autoconf? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... Those who do not understand autoconf are doomed to reinvent it. Poorly.