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  1. Re:X.org, openoffice.org on X.Org 6.8.2 is Out · · Score: 1

    Openoffice is registered in the benelux, see openoffice.nl. OpenOffice sells opensource desktop solutions. The owner of OpenOffice (.nl) had contact with the OpenOffice.org guys and they agreed that OpenOffice.org was ok to use.

  2. Re:Remember... on Microsoft Soft-Pedals Dialup · · Score: 1

    In 1995 I got my 4Mbit Zenith cable modem to connect to the Wageningen University network... 3 years later the cable company was taken over and they switched to 3Com modems... only 2Mbit with a lousy service.

  3. Re:Concorde II on Farewell To The Concorde · · Score: 1

    So is the eurofighter.

  4. Re:The Alternative to OpenSSH or SSH (commerical) on Slashback: OpenSSH, Bio, Timeliness · · Score: 1

    If the details to this vulnerability would have been released (even with patches) just about every Linux box on the planet would have been cracked before the owners would've had time to install the patch. Publishing a fix to this problem will only tell the cracker exactly where the problem is.

    So they first work around the bug, without actually fixing the bug and telling what is it and where it is, so crackers can't make an exploit before people are immune (and I repeat, a direct fix would exactly tell the cracker what the bug is.)

    A bug like this is what every cracker is dreaming of, a way into just about every unix machine on the planet!

  5. Re:Please consider the fact... on Warcraft III Gone Gold · · Score: 1

    that would mean that 88% of the users agree on something, namely that the numbers don't add up to 100%
    :)

  6. Aids on Orbiting Lasers for Hydrogen Power · · Score: 1

    For some city blocks the infection rate is upto 90%
    Aids in africa is not gonna have any effect on world population as Africa is simply too sparsly populated. The problem there is going to solve itself and the only way we can help it is with education.
    A Major aids epedemic in india or china could have an effect on the world population.