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  1. RoyMNH0977 post on Analysis of MediaSentry Wins Music-Download Suit · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Re: traceroute logs:

    It is apparent from the log that the operation has failed for the MediaSentry software, as the log shows neither the addresses nor names of the intermediary hosts nor realistic timings of packet round-trips between them and the MediaSentry computer. The fact that this standard operation has failed suggests flaws, or "bugs", in either the MediaSentry software, or in its system or network congurations, or both.

    Karma for the post of this log. That should provide a few minutes of fun. I can only image what Dr. Bratus thought when he saw it.

  2. Re:Myths and History on Bozeman, MT Drops Password Info Requirement · · Score: 1

    Thanks for reposting that link.

  3. Thanks to the translators on The Futurological Congress · · Score: 1

    I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the translators, "riding between the post-houses", who've brought Lem to those of us less able to read Polish. I see that translation has been hit a bit about the neck and shoulders in replies to this review. Thanks to Lem and Kandel, I don't have (nor do I want) a security clearance, wince while stirring the contents of styrofoam coffee cups, quote Snow more often than is necessary, and see the Phools everywhere.
    On another note: Penguin Classics edition of Calvino's "Complete Cosmicomics"

  4. Re:Linux on NSA Wages Cyberwar Against US Armed Forces Teams · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if VMS was even allowed in the competition. Yeah, I know: "It wasn't banned, the rules were changed!"

  5. Re:it was a commentary on a long running debate: on Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble? · · Score: 1

    sure, they got rid of the squid, but peter jackson also got rid of mr. bombadil from lotr and no one seems to give him that much flak for that. both the squid and mr. bombadil are kind of completely out of context of the stories they inhabit, so really, no big deal

    Only to someone who reads entirely for plot, or who identifies with the characters. The plot line is merely the skeleton on which the story hangs. That's why Bombadil could be cut from a movie that was merely a plot line of the original story. Please keep making movies: you don't understand why that character was important to the story of LOTR.

  6. Going w/ Prof. Samuelson on this one on Google's Plan For Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged · · Score: 2, Informative
    From TFA:

    While the registry's agreement with Google is not exclusive, the registry will be allowed to license to others only the books whose authors and publishers have explicitly authorized it. Since no such authorization is possible for orphan works, only Google would have access to them, so only Google could assemble a truly comprehensive book database.

    "No other company can realistically get an equivalent license," said Pamela Samuelson, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.

    Her analysis of Sony V. Universal is required reading. Other articles can be found here

  7. Re:Sorry, but they're absolutely right on Mixed Outcome of Texas Textbook Vote · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not on point.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

    Read the first paragraph.

    Oh, never mind, I'll copy it for you:
    "In the natural sciences, abiogenesis, or origin of life, is the study of how life on Earth could have arisen from inanimate matter. It should not be confused with evolution, which is the study of how groups of living things change over time."

    I don't have to read the fucking website and I don't have to post as an AC

  8. Credentials on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dyson's opinions on climate are as valid as Shockley's on genetics.

  9. Re:Answers on Making Sense of Mismatched Certificates? · · Score: 1

    Who the fuck modded this "informative"

    Stupid jackass answers like the above do nothing to assuage the concerns expressed by the poster.

    Get out the fucking basement

  10. Re:No, they don't on Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping? · · Score: 1

    While using that same anonymity to protect your cowardly ass.

    Worthless fucking troll.

    Who modded this up?

  11. Re:Why Authentication is a good idea! on Diebold Election Audit Logs Defective · · Score: 1

    Once again, the shit-stain thought pattern emerges: "OMG teh brwn warriez cuming to r cuntry to vote!"

    Not every citizen can prove their citizenship, shit-stain.

    Then again you're probably white, privileged and living in your parent's basement. So 'shit-stain' is not the correct color.

  12. Jobs shipped overseas on Obama Stimulus Pours Millions Into Cyber Security · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The money will go to $5.00/hr bidders on RentACoder. There's no incentive in this bill to keep the money in the US

  13. Forth on Sony Makes It Hard To Develop For the PS3 On Purpose · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From the DDJ article, this looks like an interesting machine for which to develop a Forth engine. How do I get one of these?

  14. From May,2000 on 1-Click Smacked Down Again, While Reexam Languishes · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is a transcript of an interview conducted 24-May-2000

    Dipshits = /.

  15. Re:Potential for Netbooks on Web-based IDEs Edge Closer To the Mainstream · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't worry about it. Those who know enough to use ssh to start a remote X session will establish the connection via PKI, not xhost.

  16. Re:I hope P.B. win this trial on The Pirate Bay Is Making a "Spectrial" of It · · Score: 1

    Hey shit-for-brains: Google maintains a cache of what it finds. They store actual content. TPB stores no actual content. In the case of copyrighted material (Google books), they don't make it available via the cache.

  17. Re:News in english about the trial: on Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Monday · · Score: 3, Insightful

    filesharing = heroin

    People will come up with any analogy to justify their perceived moral superiority, won't they?

  18. Possibel for years w/ studio recording on The Deceptive Perfection of Auto-Tune · · Score: 1

    Led Zep, Yes, Rush were known for "adjusting" imperfect sessions in the studio. They can now do it via software.

    Now get off my lawn!

  19. Re:Users read? on Shuttleworth Proposes Overhaul of Desktop Notifications · · Score: 5, Insightful

    <cluebat>
    Other humans do what's important to them, not what's important to you.
    </cluebat>

    <description type="job">
    You don't control people, you control machines.
    You do your job so others can do theirs.
    </description>

    If it's that important to perform a remote restart, drop a widget on the machine that enables remote control.

  20. Re:That is impractical. I mean, impossible. on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 1

    Oh god, think of the children!

    Jamie, close your eyes and pray harder.

  21. Re:Unjust on New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Especially when the trespassers are dead of drowning

    You are an ignorant little shit-stain, aren't you?

  22. Re:We Can Only Hope the Same Happens to Obama on McCain Campaign Protests YouTube's DMCA Policy · · Score: 1
    bullshit. bullshit. bullshit.
    See Wikipedia entry for the Glass-Steagall Act

    The repeal enabled commercial lenders such as Citigroup, the largest U.S. bank by assets, to underwrite and trade instruments such as mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations and establish so-called structured investment vehicles, or SIVs, that bought those securities. Citigroup played a major part in the repeal. Then called Citicorp, the company merged with Travelers Insurance company the year before using loopholes in Glass-Steagall that allowed for temporary exemptions. With lobbying led by Roger Levy, the "finance, insurance and real estate industries together are regularly the largest campaign contributors and biggest spenders on lobbying of all business sectors [in 1999]. They laid out more than $200 million for lobbying in 1998, according to the Center for Responsive Politics..." These industries succeeded in their two decades long effort to repeal the act.

  23. Re:Just Basic Organic Chemistry... on CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop" · · Score: 1

    Who the fuck modded this insightful?

    Hey shit-for-brains: it's a FUSION REACTOR

  24. Re:Yes, let's blame the geeks on The Rise of the (Financial) Machines · · Score: 1

    Debunked by media matters:

    Summary: In a blog post, Jay Carney claimed that Sen. John McCain's "campaign has released a 60-second ad that uses Bill Clinton's words to pin the blame for the mortgage crisis on Democrats" without noting that in the interview clipped in the ad, Clinton actually said that "the biggest mistake" was the SEC's repealing of a regulation on short selling, when President Bush was in office.

    Time's Carney falsely suggested Clinton "pin[ned] the blame for the mortgage crisis on Democrats

  25. Re:VERIFICATION on NSA Open Sources Tokeneer Research Project · · Score: 1

    Formally prove resistance to XSS or XSRF and I'll listen. Until then...