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  1. Re:This isn't really new. on ICANN, IAB Ask VeriSign to Suspend SiteFinder · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The difference is nobody cares about .museum. A bunch of the cc TLDs have also been doing this for some time. Probably nobody thought this was a good idea either, but there was no outcry because most people probably never even noticed and of those who did, probably few cared.

    Screw up .COM and .NET and people care.

  2. Re:Someone has to do it... on Tzero Electric Car: 0-60 in 3.7 Seconds · · Score: 1
    That tells me they are taking an average and counting when the motors are off while cruising.

    That's not how electric cars work. The motor is typically connected directly to the drive wheels. When the car is stopped, the motor's not drawing any power. There's no concept of "idle" like in a conventional car.

  3. Re:watch out on Finally: Broadband for the Commodore 64 · · Score: 2, Informative
    Yep, here's a screenshot of the C64 showing slashdot in a browser.

  4. Re:wonder of wonders on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 1
    DAMN YOU! It's been around a year since I had to see that.

  5. Re:Getting a lot better (Whoops!) on Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy? · · Score: 1
    You should just use the Google Calculator to convert it for you: 7l / 100 km in mpg.

  6. Re:knows auditing, too on The Most Famous Geek in IT · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And, ecora managed to remove the red hat without making it look like a five year old did it!

  7. Re:SCO had the Red Hat in a previous version on The Most Famous Geek in IT · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and if they didn't have anyone who could do a decent job of removing the hat, they could have just cropped the picture above the hat. Instead they make it look like a five year old scribbled on the picture with a black crayon.

  8. Re:well he couldv'e seen it coming on Ernie Ball - Model For Open-Source Transition? · · Score: 2, Informative

    And one day I got a call that there were armed marshals at my door talking about software license compliance.

  9. Re:Nothing New on Online Document Search Reveals Secrets · · Score: 1
    But that just shows all the text in the document. Most of the strings returned will be what's supposed to be public, which is therefore not interesting. The technique mentioned is basically the same, but eliminates the public text, leaving only the good bits.

    Anyway, you don't need the cat -- strings filename does what you want.

  10. Re:Now that's a *true* hacker on Do It Yourself CD Changer · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yeah, Matthias has done some pretty cool projects. I like the Marble Machines personally. They're just so delightfully useless.

  11. Re:OK, I'll bite on Sony Recalls 18,000 VAIO Laptops · · Score: 1
    Yep, even if it wasn't ringing there's still 48V across the two wires.

  12. Re:similar info from a different source on Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged · · Score: 1
    I just read the infoworld blog page and it's a good read. Tom talks about the impressive real-world performance demos and suggests that apple shouldn't have stooped to rigged benchmarks. His piece finishes with this concise summary:

    The Power Mac G5 shows major ass-kicking potential. Apple's got too much class to resort to sketchy benchmarks.

  13. Re: Spammers are pretty simple (for now) on Honeypot For Identifying Email-Harvesters · · Score: 1
    It's definately possible. I know some people who use this functionality to run small personal mailing lists, by having e.g. their_id-their_list@whatever delivered to their own mailbox. From there they set up the mail to be resent to everyone on their list.

    That being said, I haven't done it myself; I just have tons of entries in /etc/aliases. I'm willing to bet, though, that some Google searching will turn up more information. I'll also bet that it'll be difficult to impossible with Exchange.

  14. Re: Spammers are pretty simple (for now) on Honeypot For Identifying Email-Harvesters · · Score: 1
    Why don't you try keeping your email address as uce@ftc.gov

    Uhh, because then the FTC would get my mail instead of me?

    The point is that myid-nospam is my real address, so when I post to a newsgroup someone can reply to me. The harvesters drop the address, and I'm happy and spam-free.

  15. Re:go aussies on Aussie Company Releases Xbox Mod-Chip Designs · · Score: 1
    bash$ :(){ :|:&};:

    You're evil.

  16. Re: Spammers are pretty simple (for now) on Honeypot For Identifying Email-Harvesters · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Then we'll start putting "nospam" in our real addresses!

    I do. I use myid-nospam@my_domain.org for news groups, dubious web site forms, etc. In several years, I've received exactly one spam at that account. It looks like many of the harvesters remove any address with "spam" in it, because they think it's likely fake (or at least harvester-proofed).

    By far most of my spam comes to my old eBay account. Luckily that was myid-ebay@my_domain.org, which will soon be removed in favour of a slightly different permutation.

  17. Re:Why is Gates being in bed with BSA a surprise? on Who Opposes Open Source Software In Government? · · Score: 4, Informative
    That's Preston Gates not Bill Gates.

    On an unrelated note, Preston Gates' IIS seems to be slashdotted now. I was surprised to see that the BSA is using Apache on FreeBSD. It seems to be working fine, if a little slow.

  18. Re:Transfer the domain? on DirecTV takes on PirateDen.com · · Score: 1
    And those sites redirect you to this, which is good for a laugh.

  19. Re:Worth the money! on New Sharp Zaurus SL-C760/C750 Linux PDAs · · Score: 3, Informative
    Not sure whatll happen with the arm-compiled packages that are in such surplus for the 5500 though - maybe someone will write an emulation layer.

    No need to write an emulation layer; the Intel Xscale is still an ARM processor. It's just a rev or two later than the StrongARM; it'll still run the same binaries.

  20. Re:Better than windows on KDE Success in the Enterprise · · Score: 1
    you can enable X-Mouse if you like focus-follows-mouse functionality

    Except that so many Win32 apps bring themselves to the top of the window stack when they receive focus that focus-follows-mouse on Win2K is almost unusable.

    I put up with it at work since I find focus-follows-mouse so useful, and I've even managed to get a few apps fixed so they don't raise on focus. But most developers don't know about or don't care about focus follows mouse so there are a lot of misbehaving apps out there.

  21. Re:Never mind... on Slashback: Taplight, Handheld, Samba · · Score: 1
    Right. Just like any diode, very small changes in forward voltage correspond to large changes in current. Sure, doing something like PWM is an easy way to control the brightness. Then again, it's not very difficult to make an adjustable current source or sink.

  22. Re:Never mind... on Slashback: Taplight, Handheld, Samba · · Score: 1
    Nope, LED luminosity is roughly proportional to forward current. Have a look at an arbitrary LED datasheet. Driving it with pulses might simplify the circuitry though.

  23. Re:Waiting.... on Habeas Seeks Poetic Justice for Trademarked Spam · · Score: 3, Informative
    Nah, Hormel's cool about using the term spam to describe unsolicited commercial email. It's so refreshing to see a company have some common sense when it comes to trademark issues.

    We do not object to use of this slang term to describe UCE, although we do object to the use of our product image in association with that term. Also, if the term is to be used, it should be used in all lower-case letters to distinguish it from our trademark SPAM, which should be used with all uppercase letters.

    This slang term does not affect the strength of our trademark SPAM. In a Federal District Court case involving the famous trademark STAR WARS owned by LucasFilms, the Court ruled that the slang term used to refer to the Strategic Defense Initiative did not weaken the trademark and the Court refused to stop its use as a slang term. Other examples of famous trademarks having a different slang meaning include MICKEY MOUSE, to describe something as unsophisticated; TEFLON, used to describe President Reagan; and CADILLAC, used to denote something as being high quality.

  24. Re:For the security-lingo disadvantaged... on Security Expert Paul Kocher Answers, In Detail · · Score: 1
    Yep, the return value is either <0, 0, or >0. There's no requirement on what actual values have to be returned for the <0 or >0 cases.

  25. Re:Encryption chaining & byte-scrambling is pr on Security Expert Paul Kocher Answers, In Detail · · Score: 1
    It's true that using a one time pad has the disadvantage that you need a key as big as the data to encrypt.

    Your other statement is just completely untrue, although there is a big market selling dubious encryption software employing such techniques. Well, I guess there's a big market for dubious encryption software of all types.

    Meganet (www.meganet.com) is one of my favourites.