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  1. FWIW... on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 1

    ...I still have an SB8 sitting in the drawer, right next to me.

  2. Re:Result: jettison all personal data on New Privacy Laws In Asia May Cripple Data-Centric Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    When your $3,000,000/yr pool of employees is replaced by robots, OF COURSE the percentage of IT goes up. The other costs have been eliminated, silly.

  3. Re:Are you kidding? on New Privacy Laws In Asia May Cripple Data-Centric Outsourcing · · Score: 3, Funny

    Offshore data processing is just so Web 1.0. In the Web 2.0 world, it's "Data Rendition".

  4. Re:I have a solution!!!! on Thousands of SSL Certs Issued To Unqualified Names · · Score: 1

    I don't see the problem. The existing process simply needs to require you to send something (by snailmail, email, or fax) on Company Letterhead.

    Since "using fake letterhead to spoof a request to a CA" has recently been patented as a business method, the patent would stop any bad guys from requesting fake certs, and all your certs are now secure, again.

  5. Re:Yet another example on Samsung Plants Keyloggers On Laptops · · Score: 1

    You do realize that they could simply throw a few OS-specific turds into the firmware, right? Or even bypass the OS entirely?

  6. Re:WTF? on Samsung Plants Keyloggers On Laptops · · Score: 1

    Wholly untrue. If I'm building a house to sell, and install a hidden CCTV camera in each bedroom for my own use after the sale... all joking aside, there is no doubt what would happen to me when the buyer discovers them in 10 or 20 years. And that's without playing the "OMG there were children in that bedroom" card, and nevermind the "OMG they were MAKING children in that bedroom" card.

  7. Re:Ok, this is coming from Australia on Are the Days of Individual Security Over? · · Score: 1

    > It only takes one person in the world to have an insightful thought,

    The last time that happened, the Vogons showed up.

  8. Re:More weasel words? on Are the Days of Individual Security Over? · · Score: 1

    I remember that incident. Their computer processor got thrown into an Nth complexity binary loop. It was horrible!

  9. Re:*yawn* on Are the Days of Individual Security Over? · · Score: 1

    No. Once we move everything into the cloud, all of this will be moot. The cloud uses SSL, for chrissake!

  10. Re:Can we fix it? on Can We Fix Federated Authentication? · · Score: 1

    Can't we just use Comodo?

  11. Re:262144 pixels on a grid. on Wikipedia Moves To Delete the Free Speech Flag · · Score: 3, Funny

    Worse than that... "5" is clearly a derivative work of your product.

  12. Re:Not at all on Comcast-NBC Deal Accidentally Protects Internet? · · Score: 1

    Err, "the inherent right to a free internet"... means that I can do whatever I want with my little chunk of it.

    Just sayin.

  13. Re:Old news... on Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Putting a

    return;

    at the tail of a function is unusual? Are you high?

  14. Re:Animal Rights count, too... on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The firefighters did not set the fire. Also, you have no clue what "negligence" means.

    Also, the homeowner had TWO HOURS to get those animals out of the house. He didn't.

  15. Re:Uh.. on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    You put a lien on his burnt double-wide?

    Ok, there's $12. Where's the remaining $14988 come from?

  16. Re:well maybe on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    You also neglect to mention the timeframe involved - how much time the homeowner had to remove the pets, himself.

    Two hours, I hear?

  17. Re:This happened to me once! on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    You're a full of sh*t troll.

    If there were humans in that fire, the FFs would have done what was necessary to rescue them. It's called a Duty to Act.

    Once life-safety issues are resolved, the duty ends.

    Period.

  18. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    In a training weekend last year, I met a girl who'd come down from Alaska to participate. Her "district", if they took a left turn out of the firehouse, was 45 minutes to the nearest district border. A right turn would be up to 93 minutes to the border.

    Note that the word used was "border". NOT "next firehouse".

    Yes, I did ask the obvious question - "Are there many houses out that far?" "Oh yes, quite a few. But mostly it's car wrecks."

    Clearly, no reasonable person would consider that situation to be compatible with "since it lies upon the government ... the voters have no say in the matter", in any way, shape or form. Any good-faith compliance would require a fully staffed firehouse next to... every SINGLE damned house, out there. Clearly, an interpretation saying that fire/emergency response is a forced-issue... is based on a grossly myopic life.

  19. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    ...or the check bounces.

    Then what, reignite it?

  20. Re:Why didn't somebody tell us? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Damn those irresponsible zero-day announcements!

    They should arrest those people that told everyone we're running out of these addresses. Now all the bad guys know, too!

  21. Re:force-cached PNG's on Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie · · Score: 1

    > Yes you still can delete the history automatically, but there is no indication that this actually is taking place.
    > It's less about what's being done or not...it's about *knowing*...in a very clear and obvious way...that something to protect your privacy is being done.

    Totally agree. And they should never have removed that "Firefox is shutting down" confirmation window, nor the "Firefox has exited" confirmation window either.
    It's less about if the program actually quits or not.... it's about *knowing*... in a very clear an obvious way... that something to manage a running process is being done.

    You seem to have confused "feel good" with actual results.

  22. Re:*Only* 150k? on Users Say Sprint Epic4G 3G Upload Speeds Limited To 150kbps · · Score: 1

    Verizon.

  23. Re:1, 2, 3, Profit! on The Real Truth About Oracle's 'New' Kernel · · Score: 1

    Support? "Complete failure of Oracle security response and utter neglect of their responsibility to their customers":

    http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Oct/56 (the infamous Litchfield letter)

    You mean,

    3. Charge for Support

    Big difference. :)

  24. Re:*Only* 150k? on Users Say Sprint Epic4G 3G Upload Speeds Limited To 150kbps · · Score: 1

    You are mistaken - both my previous PocketPC phones were webservers that could be reached by the public; my current phone does so as well, which includes a webcam on an alternate port. Obviously don't use it often, but it does work.

  25. Re:It's a hardware limitation on Users Say Sprint Epic4G 3G Upload Speeds Limited To 150kbps · · Score: 1

    They're just uploading it wrong.