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  1. Re:I love ebay, you can buy anything on The Perfect Store: Inside Ebay · · Score: 2
    I just thought it was incredible that people would pay:
    • $50 - low-numbered ICQ account
    • Thousands! - online characters and equipment for games
    • $10 - Pet feces

    • These are just a few odd things out there. When on eBay, search for words like "shit", "crap" or "condom" -- get enlightened!

  2. MTV winner on MTV Movie Awards Webpage Pull a Lone Gunman · · Score: 2
    I vote for Kellie Osbourne all the way! She did a great job performing Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach".

  3. BAPA circuits on Community Sets Up Their Own DSL · · Score: 2
    I read somewhere that people were ordering cheap burgler alarm circuits to run their own DSL on. Anyone have stories about doing this?

  4. Unhackable Linux on 'Unbreakable Linux' · · Score: 2, Funny
    Simple....

    for i in `chkconfig --list | cut -f 1`; do

    service $i stop
    chkconfig --del $i
    done

    Then, echo -n > /etc/shadow

    for i in `cat /etc/shells` ; do rm -f $i ; done

    No hacking then!

  5. Re:DEFCON, HOPE, etc on Moronic Hacking Contest Ends In Free-For-All · · Score: 2
    I'd see if you can get something detailed on advanced firewall configuration or performance tuning


    It hasn't worked out where I can attend the Red Hat firewall course this month (I am an RHCE now), but aside from that type of intense course -- where are the other options? I am beyond what I can learn from a CompuMaster or security boot camp type workshop.

  6. Re:DEFCON, HOPE, etc on Moronic Hacking Contest Ends In Free-For-All · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Security seminars are geared so that everyone learns, cons are geared so that people who already know can have fun.


    I am finding myself unable to get anything out of going to seminars. So, maybe I am closing that gap between needing to learn basics and picking up information at a conference. It is tough when I am told that I must attend training, and it is boring information about ports and services and maybe something about some Windows software I will never use that can do "what is called a port scan."


    Maybe I will go to DEFON or the like and see what I can input and bring back...

  7. DEFCON, HOPE, etc on Moronic Hacking Contest Ends In Free-For-All · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Do many companies feel that these are more beneficial to send employees to (IT nerds, information security people, etc) than some of the security training courses/seminars we all get junk mail from? I am working really hard for my company to send me to Red Hat's firewall school, DEFCON, and then SANS. What is the general concensus?

  8. Bankruptcy strategy on Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy · · Score: 2
    Couldn't they just release all their code to the public as their strategy for restructuring? Making Napster's configuration to allow for your choice of a server would be great, and if Napster sold the "server" for $100 or something, think of how many non-US servers would pop up.

  9. *BSD on FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed · · Score: 2
    A lot of companies prefer *BSD to avoid a lot of complications of the GPL.


    My question, again, is who?

  10. Apple on FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed · · Score: 2
    Apple?


    Not exactly fair to claim this as embracing a free BSD base, as OSX is not free, portable, and open-source. This is like claiming MS-DOS is based on Unix because it has files and directories.

  11. Re:leader to 2 billion people on Copy That Floppy? Go To Jahannum (Hell) · · Score: 2
    It is funny that the RCC wants to claim this huge following, but whenever a Catholic is indicted in something the first response is, "they aren't a practicing Catholic."


    So, 2 billion Catholics; 100,000 practicing -- the rest are Hell-bound.

  12. Wildcat! with Frontdoor on Remembering the BBS · · Score: 2
    Mail hubbing for ThrobNet, FidoNet, NukeNet, ToadNet, CandyNet, KinkNet -- all with my bank (at the end at least) of 16.8K USR Dual Standard modems. When I started the mail hubbing, it was with 2400 baud! Those were the days...


    RIP The Parole Board

  13. Major commercial support for (Free)(Open)(Net)BSD on FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed · · Score: 2
    Just wondering -- with so many companies now getting behind Linux (maybe just because of the cute logo), what companies are building solutions with *BSD code? This is not a slam, as I use OpenBSD on my Sun boxes, but seriously, I would like to know if IBM, Compaq, Sun, etc., have any BSD solutions.

  14. Re:Punk Music on Homogenized Music · · Score: 2
    In speaking with Fat Mike on this they did not recover more than a $10,000 penalty above attorney's fees for this. MTV claims more than that per minute, and they aired over 45 seconds of NOFX...so, show me how that is selling out or getting rich.

  15. SpamAssassin on Australian Spammer Sues Back · · Score: 3, Interesting
    This is the beauty of Spam Assassin. You do not blacklist or build elaborate access tables. The spammer never gets a notification that his mail violates any RFC or is triggered as spam. All that happens is you rate inbound mail by certain criteria and if it hits a scored threshhold it is placed in a container mailbox for admin review. No lawsuits can be filed...

  16. Punk Music on Homogenized Music · · Score: 2
    It is interesting that now some independent labels for punk bands are selling 100,000 copies per disc. Look at labels like Fat Wreck Chords, Dischord, Alternative Tentacles and Epitaph. Bands like NOFX and Right Turn Clyde are really selling tons of "albums". Sometimes corporate backing isn't needed, heck NOFX loathes it to the point were they sued MTV for playing a cut of one of their releases in South America.

  17. Changes to Star Wars on George Lucas May Be Completely Evil · · Score: 2
    I think that it is cool that the director is still interested in making his old movies change by revisiting them. Think of how many movies you can't get on VHS or DVD because the director and actors don't want to mess with them. It would be wonderful if these movies were touched up, fixed, or at least released -- especially some of the movies integral to the director or actors' careers.

  18. World Legalism on How to Own the Internet In Your Spare Time · · Score: 2
    I am just wondering that since now in the US it can be a terrorist offense to wreck networks or create DDOS attacks, are other countries jumping on this bandwagon? I mean, what can you do about things coming from .no, .nl, .jp, etc?

  19. Iridium on Iridium May Have To Reinvent Itself Again · · Score: 2

    Interesting enough if anyone cares, iridium the element was discovered when dissolving platnum using aqua regia (acid).

  20. Re:You just can't win on Music Industry Seeks Payola Inquiry · · Score: 2
    RIAA or Clear Channel? Sometimes there just isn't a white hat in sight.


    Internet-based radio stations are going to help, as will I think the DMX stuff out now. Now, fans, not lawyers, will get to decide completely what is the listening interest. Internet radio has gotten mixed results, and I was sad to see Fat Free Radio disappear because what I listen to isn't often found on the airwaves.

  21. Not about copying DVDs on DeCSS' Continuing Saga · · Score: 2
    DeCSS is not just for copying DVDs. Its intent is to allow playing of DVDs on any computer, not just the ones approved by the Motion Picture industry.

  22. Ender's Game Awaited on Slashback: Swiftness, Ender's, Streams · · Score: 4, Interesting
    How many times have we heard that this will be made into a movie and then nothing happens? Is there serious money behind this project yet?

  23. Brazil theme song on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 2

    I saw an interview with Terry Gilliam and he said the title of the movie came from the feeling he got from the song used as the theme. It is from the 1930's and it is called 'Beaches of Brazil'.

  24. Script and other downloads on Review: Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones · · Score: 2
    Click here or click downloads off the main site.


    Enjoy!

  25. Attack of the Clones Script and other Downloads on Quickies from a Galaxy Far Far Away · · Score: 3, Informative
    Here is the script and the downloads are here (click on downloads).