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  1. Re:Digital copying is ALWAYS possible. on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    Actually, worse yet, the data has to be decrypted into memory and sent to your sound card. All you need is a driver to act like a sound card, to write to your disc.

    -s

  2. Re:No... on Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    No security is full proof. Making your security more obscure raises the bar on breaking it. Key locks are not secure, and most can use a master key. Having the locks there make it hard for the novice to get in. Stegonography too is like that. Sure, an expert MAY be able to get in, but a novice? It's just a little harder.

  3. Re:Unkillable on EverQuest Players Defeat 'Unkillable' Monster · · Score: 0

    Simple. Use 0. If there's a state change of some number greater than 0 to 0, it's a death. If something is already AT 0, it's already dead. Can't attack dead things, eh?

  4. Re:What are you talking about? on Effective XML · · Score: 1

    I think he's talking about it's displayed in hierarchical way, though you can reference nodes in the language.

    (Note to other readers, all tree's are graphs :)

  5. Re:Priorities.. on The Amazing Shrinking Supercomputer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Depends.

    Do you need to find the cure for cancer via simulations faster or do you need to send a machine up on a 747?

    Different needs, different solutions.

  6. Re:What's the problem here ? on Web Pages Are Weak Links in the Chain of Knowledge · · Score: 1

    There's a difference. CB traffic is usually casual conversation. People create websites to give out "important" information to a large spectrum.

    One has an active listener with active feedback. One is completely passive.

    Only in the case of an interview would CB traffic be completely informational. I don't remember the last time I put up a web page to say something to someone. People do put up "web applications" such as forums and chatrooms of sorts.

    While they are of the same fruit, they are still apples and oranges.

  7. Re:While you're at it on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Then people would be able to flood the system. It also wouldn't be as portable as a website.

  8. Re:If he really cared... on MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    M. Robertson is a business person first and foremost. It's all a game of making money. If it's not making money, you have to do /something/. If he had tons of money and doing this for the sake of charity, or the greater good, , then it'd be fine to criticize him. If you can do a better job, then please do.

    I'm no robertson lover, but running a business is a very hard thing to do. No one likes creating a money maker and then selling it off just for the cash. They'd rather make MORE money.

  9. Re:Mind the electronic spam, don't mind the paper. on Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No' · · Score: 1

    Says the person with a normal size mailbox. I recently had to call a dept store to tell them to not mail me their catalogues. I get one for me, one for the woman, in this tiny little apartment building box.

    Yes, I *COULD* get a postbox, but my mail box is meant for mail, not bulky items that bend and fill it up.

    -s

  10. Re:The problem is (AGAIN) government regulation on NERC Releases Interim Report on Aug 14th Blackout · · Score: 1

    no... you know that power companies sell each other electricity. Heck, electric companies will buy electricity from those that produce. Think wind energy and lots of fields.

    This isn't a case of stupidity of the gov't. It's probably stupidity of not testing their systems periodically for failover. And not the entire grid testing for failover, which would be ideal, but just one company. Or so says the report ..

    -s

  11. Re:I work for an ISP... on Cisco Working to Block Viruses at the Router · · Score: 1

    You argue for one side of the coin, where a layer 2 router does just that, and a layer 3 router inspect its data. A level 4.. 5.. so on and so on.. Best device for it's job right?

    But you can argue the other way.

    All a router does is inspect a level of the network layer, pulls out some data, and pushes the traffic depending on that layer. So what's wrong with a router or switch inspecting one layer more? Routers and switches already do it on the mac and ip level. Nothing wrong w/ inspecting the application data level :)

  12. Re:$40,000? on The Ultimate Desk... Sort Of · · Score: 1

    You see that big foot by the article? Or Mr taco's comment for the "dept"? Or the category? Or the site that's selling it?

    I think you didn't quite put 2+2 together. But if you did, you somehow got 40k ;)

  13. What I do on Rules for Teenage Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit more on the tech side, and my gf, who lives w/ me, isn't. She knows how to ssh about and look at files, but that's about it.

    Anyway, we host a mail server for ourselves. To show her I trust her and she shoudl trust me, I've given her root on the mail server. I explained to her completely how the mail system works and if she ever so wants to, look, but don't edit. Otherwise, things could break in ugly ways.

    Perhaps some funky thing like, having URLs, IMs and tcp connections logged to another comptuer that you (parents) can write to, but anyone can view. Setup view accounts and keep tabs on "last" to at least know who's been on the machine. It probably would be a concern that your children shouldn't see what the others are doing, unless it's harmless type stuff, but that's hard to determine on-the-fly. And keep the logs of what's seen older than a day, so you can filter your own naughtier bits.

    It's not fool proof. It's not intended to be. Worse comes to worse, the kid can use another machine, outside the home, and do whatever he wants. The point of the exercise is to show trust. When they are "of age", explain that certain things are "ok" to look at, and you won't be surprised or pissed, but to not allow others to know, or else access will be taken away.

    Once all your kids are of age and show responsibility, take the device away.

    Simple as that. I guess the goal, all-in-all, is to teach responsibility for their own actions and mutual respect. Sorta like lending your kid the car. First you make sure they can drive, then some day, they can go on their own, eh?

  14. Re:Innocent Until Proven Clueful on The Computer Owner - Guilty or Not Guilty? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What if the trojan hacks someone's computer and then makes itself scarce, ala a rootkit?

  15. Re:i have a question on The Official Samba 3 HOWTO and Reference Guide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can you get windows 2k running with 30 users on a p2-266?

    How about giving people access to a development unix jboss webapps directory, directly from their windows workstations?

    Sometimes, it's not whether windows is good or bad.. it's just bloody inconvenient with what you have before you.

  16. Re:I wonder... on Satellite TV From a Moving Car · · Score: 1

    Duh. Point is to at least have tv at all, not necessarily keep a continuous stream.

  17. Re:I wonder... on Satellite TV From a Moving Car · · Score: 1

    Um.. yes it is. Unless you usually drive underground all the time. Most of the time, one who drives outside of large metropolitan cities have line of sight. Once you are in line of sight, it'll re-buffer.

    Or don't you see that.

  18. Re:I wonder... on Satellite TV From a Moving Car · · Score: 1

    Hah! Easy problem. Easy solution. Use something like tivo and buffer tv by say, the amount of time you expect to be out of line-of-sight.

    And most everywhere isn't obscured... just those who live in cities. On the open road, you mostly have clear skies.

  19. spyware on IE To Block Pop-Ups · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now it they could only stop spyware and crap that integrated with aps in nasty ways you can't remove.

    Bloody registry entries..

  20. Re:I Wonder ... on Mac OS X Update 10.3.1 Available · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not all updates require restarts. Some which I suspect use kernel extensions, prolly do, just to ensure that they get unloaded and reloaded properly.

  21. Re:Confused on 5 Reasons Not to Buy an iPod · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is, I normally get at least 9 hours and if I don't sit there skipping songs all day, 10 hours of play per charge.

    Something with version 1.2 or so of the firmware screwed up the battery life to a max of 8 hours, but it was fixed and is back up to 10.

    This brings up a good question.. who listens to 10 hours of continuous music a day? Why is this even thought of as a problem by C-Net? The iPod sseems to have the average amount of play time among all the players.

  22. Re:seen the price of VS.NET? on Kylix in Limbo · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apple. Orange. Meet the Fruit Fucker 2000!

  23. Re:Great, more crap to raise tuition.... on Penn State Students to Get Free Music From Napster · · Score: 1

    But you forget, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

    Sorry.. couldn't help it. :)

  24. Re:Netcraft confirms it! on What the Candidates are Running · · Score: 0

    If he were running IIS on his home machine connecting to then net... then he'd just be dumb.

  25. Re:Just because the domain expired... on Microsoft Forgets To Renew Hotmail.co.uk · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh.. that depends on the registrar. Last I checked, netsol/verisign didnt' run .co.uk.

    It also depends if the registrar in question decides to ignore the expiration of the domain and makes it available, not by checking the registry but their own local db.

    Just 'cause it doesn't get deleted till 54 days later doesn't mean the registrar can't sell the rights away.