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  1. Where's the update? on Historians Recreate Source Code of First 4004 Application · · Score: 5, Funny

    I found a buffer overflow. Exploit code to follow...

  2. Dog Bites Registrant on ICANN Investigates Insider Domain Name Snatching · · Score: 1

    This is old news. I wrote about it last July for eWEEK.

    It definitely happens but it's in small enough quantity that I think it's being done with targeted compromises of servers involved with domain lookups at hosting services and the like. Either that or someone is selling the lookup data.

  3. Re:Better than humans in the long run on Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9 · · Score: 1

    I've never worked on such systems, but I bet you could have a human identify a target at some distance, say "kill" and then the machine is much better at tracking and shooting it. IOW, don't assume the human element has been removed.

  4. Re:Stupid lawsuit again...? on Apple Sued Over iPhone Bricking · · Score: 1

    Everyone who buys an iPhone knows about these rules. You don't like them, don't buy an iPhone. It's not like it's an actual necessity of life.

  5. Google has a similar effort on Microsoft Working On Health Information 'Vault' System · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Happened to me on Verizon, Copper, Fiber, and the Truth · · Score: 1

    I specifically asked them not to cut the copper and they didn't. Insisting that they have to move the POTS to fiber seems not-unreasonable to me; sure it's a big profit item for them, but I can see them wanting to move away from providing copper service.

  7. Re:a sign on Aids For Communicating With Hospitalized People? · · Score: 1

    Yes, exactly. It's perfect! And when he's unconscious we can get what he's thinking from it.

  8. a sign on Aids For Communicating With Hospitalized People? · · Score: 1

    After my father's hear surgery many years ago he was intubated and couldn't communicate. I quickly drew up a chart of all the letters, numerals and "YES" and "NO". He spelled out "SEDATIVE".

    People were impressed with it, but it's bloody obvious.

  9. Re:In Other Words on More Than Half of Known Vista Bugs are Unpatched · · Score: 1

    I think the delay is more likely attributable to them putting less-severe bug fixes on a longer and more rigorous test cycle.

  10. Re:No, it's *not* about fighting spam on ISPs Starting To Charge for 'Guaranteed' Email Delivery · · Score: 1

    This is why the canard works: because most people don't get a really obvious point.

    Goodmail does nothing to prevent spam from getting on your system. All it does is to ensure that legitimate mail is not stopped mistakenly by anti-spam filters.

    Isn't that clear? Why is this hard for some folks?

  11. No, it's *not* about fighting spam on ISPs Starting To Charge for 'Guaranteed' Email Delivery · · Score: 1

    It's an old canard against Goodmail to claim it's an anti-spam system and then comdemn it as an ineffective solution. It's not supposed to be an anti-spam system. It's a system for legitimate senders to avoid false positives.

    It's not just a matter of ponying up the money to them. You have to demonstrate that you are a legitimate business and a legitimate e-mail source, and not a significant source of complaints by users.

  12. Re:video of the crash on New Jersey Sues YouTube Over Crash Video · · Score: 4, Informative

    Read the news article just above you dipshit. He had seizures. But even if he didn't he might have had a heart attack or some other diabling condition with sudden onset. You going to blame him for that?

  13. Re:WTF? on Municipal Wi-Fi Networks In Trouble · · Score: 1

    Range isn't the only reason, but it's a good one. If you read the terms for the Philadelphia network, for example, they are specific that it may not work with interior rooms.

  14. Re:Korea has 10MBPs to the home... on Broadband isn't Broadband Unless its 2Mbps? · · Score: 1

    >>How many more small businesses would buy a server if they could actually get the pipe to host their own apps?

    Very few of them should. They should be outsourcing such things, no matter how cheap bandwidth is.

  15. Hey, I'll miss him on Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Dies At 84 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That was one hell of a graduation speech he gave a few years back.

  16. "Stop Crazy Lawsuits" on Microsoft Sued Over Vista Marketing · · Score: 1
    Check out the banner ad atop the article (at least the two times I called it up):

    STOP Crazy Lawsuits in Washington Before They Cost You.
    Visit nocrazylawsuits.com
    Paid for by the Liability Reform Coalition
  17. IIS on Surprise, Windows Listed as Most Secure OS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Someone else mentioned IIS and I thought it was worth mentioning, appropos of parent's remarks, that it's been years since the last really serious IIS vulnerability. In the last two years or so it actually has a better security record than Apache, especially Apache with PHP installed (Apache of course has a really good security record too, but IIS has been stellar).

    Look at Secunia's page on IIS 6.0, which is 3 or 4 years old: 3 vulnerabilities total, all patched and none of them seriously critical.

  18. Dating on Groovy in Action · · Score: 1

    'Groovy' is a 60's word. By the 70's it was only used in Archie comics

  19. Re:Communists and Stallman on Stallman Convinces Cuba to Switch to Open Source · · Score: 1

    I'd say vegetarianism and fascism are less directly related than communism and property rights issues.

  20. They call this "free" software? on Novell May be Banned from Distributing Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    Watta buncha hypocrites.

  21. Re:Thanks Microsoft? on Adobe To Release Full PDF Specification to ISO · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can Adobe open up the spec like this and still threaten Microsoft legally for including a reader in Office 2007?

    A: Of course they can, the whole thing was hypocritical to begin with.

  22. Re:Mac OS X for the PC on Top Ten Apple Rumors of All Time · · Score: 1

    That would be great for Mac users, but not so good for Apple. Remember one of the first things Steve Jobs did when he came back was to stop allowing 3rd parties to build Mac-compatible systems. He wants to control the hardware sale as well as the software.

  23. Re:top of the line? on Microsoft Bribing Bloggers With Laptops · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've met several relatively senior Microsoft personnel who love their Acer Ferraris. I was recently shopping for a high-end notebook on which to run Vista with XP in a child VM and asked several people at Microsoft. Some recommended the Acer, but I'm a Thinkpad bigot and got a duded-up Z61p.

    I write about their products all the time and they're always trying to influence me, but nobody's ever offered me anything like a notebook.

  24. Unprecedented? on Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like this has never happened before. How many people lived on Atlantis?

  25. Re:automatic grouping on A look at Thunderbird 2.0 Beta · · Score: 1

    Like Outlook rules.

    You may all now tell me why Outlook rules suck.