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  1. Re:Not too hard on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 1

    That's gonna be one hell of a walk.

  2. Hack the Plan^H^H^H^HGPS! on British Village Requests Removal From GPS Maps · · Score: 1

    The town council should look into Inverse Path's "Injecting RDS-TMC Traffic Information Signals". How many truckers would willingly drive through a village when their GPS alerts them that there is a bullfight or air raid in progress?

  3. Re:And Opera on Comparing Memory Usage of Firefox 2 vs 3 · · Score: 1

    189100 4-22:59:07 /opt/opera/lib/opera/9.50-20071102.6/opera

    189MB with swap after running for about 5 days with 28 tabs open

  4. Re:Frankly... on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    When anything more than the dismal world of blue-collar education requires a university degree, it sure is a necessity. What do you consider "blue collar"? Looking around the office, most people here don't have university degrees, and half of the ones that do got them while already working here and paid for by the company. I wouldn't consider any of these jobs "blue collar", and I've seen very few "white collar" jobs where a university degree is a mandatory pre-requisite. If you want to be "the boss" it will certainly help, but even then it is not necessary.

    As far as second rate schools go...well, we can't all go to Harvard and MIT. Some of us are stuck going to these second rate state schools, Georgia Tech, University of Illinois, University of California, University of Texas, etc.
  5. Re:My security dream on End-to-End Network Security · · Score: 1

    kindof a netboot + SAN i think... kindof?
    The computer labs where I went to college were setup this way. It's really the only sane desktop policy for 30,000 users who would love nothing more than to mess up every single computer they touched that they didn't own. Every reboot and you're back to a normal windows image.
  6. Re:that's awesome on Russia Honors the Spy Who Stole the A-Bomb · · Score: 1

    Want more proof? What do arguments like yours conveniently overlook? Hint: How many nukes were dropped? If it was as your argument suggests, then why was the 2nd one dropped? The 2nd one was dropped to show that the first one wasn't a fluke and that we had more. At this time, all the major powers were working on nuclear weapons and noticing the insane resources it was taking to just develop one. It wasn't like that was needed was the secret formula and some machine tooling to setup an assembly line.
  7. Re:The Gov't can't even put free Wi Fi in airports on Municipal Wi-Fi - A Promise Unfulfilled? · · Score: 1

    Tampa airport managed it somehow.

  8. Re:location, location, location on Datacenter Robbed for the Fourth Time in Two Years · · Score: 1

    I've heard that's just for their office facilities though. Their datacenters are all located elsewhere, safe from zombie outbreaks and rampaging gremlins.

  9. Re:misleading on Microsoft Forces Desktop Search On Windows Update · · Score: 1

    I heard some gnashing of teeth by the windows and desktop folks at my business about the desktop search auto-install as well, and we have a similar WSUS setup. Of course, instead of shaking fists at Microsoft, they followed standard business procedure in the cases, internal witchhunt.

  10. Re:Think of the pigeons! on RIAA Sues Usenet.com · · Score: 1

    That's fine...as long as nobody tells them about the station wagons.

  11. Not a vote of confidence for OES on With OES 2.0, Novell Moves NetWare To Linux · · Score: 1

    This sounds like Novell's version of Microsoft's "good news! We're going to keep offering Windows XP until next June!". When OES was first released, Novell proclaimed "NetWare is dead! Long live OES!". OES is supposed to be a complete NetWare replacement, running eDirectory, NSS volumes, print services, etc, etc. So now Novell is saying that the ability to run their old "dead" product on top of it's new replacement is press release worthy? And if you're running OES with NetWare in a Xen hypervisor, then what is the point of OES? Why not just install CentOS or some other well behaved Xenish distro, you'll save money and the support will be just as good.

  12. Re:Yes They Have on openSUSE 10.3 Public Release · · Score: 0, Troll

    By 10.2, SUSE was back to its standard, highly-polished state. A polished turd is still a turd. How can you still trust a distribution/company that screws something as fundamental and important as updates as Novell did? Does 10.3 still rely on Zen and mono?
  13. Re:What I Want to do with GIMP on GIMP 2 for Photographers · · Score: 1

    I have 2.4rc2 installed and it lets you do this.

  14. Re:Marketing on Novell Linux Business Spikes Since Microsoft Deal · · Score: 1

    Try SAN booting SLES and RHEL, then come back and say that they are the same.

  15. How is one protected in this case? on GoogHOle Exploits GMail, Picasa and 200K Other Sites · · Score: 2, Insightful
    FTFA

    For such an attack to be successful, the victim just needs to visit a malicious website while logged in Google, e.g. by following a link from an incoming message This is something that can pretty much be said about any site where you login, and is really nothing new. If you're logged in someplace on one browser/profile, then anywhere you visit can potentially have the same rights as you on this site. With the prevalence of XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities around the internet these days, I don't consider any site "safe". This doesn't mean I suggest going all tinfoil hat, just be aware of what rights you currently have and take measures to protect the data that correspond how valuable the data is to you. If it's something really important, use a completely separate browser/instance for it; browse with Opera and read email with Firefox.

    It's really an extension of "don't log in as an admin" mentality to web-based services.
  16. Re:Call me paranoid... on GoogHOle Exploits GMail, Picasa and 200K Other Sites · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... but I already use a separate SeaMonkey browser profile for my GMail account (don't want it being associated with my normal Google searches) ...and this "gmail only" browser is on the same computer, with the same IP as the one you use for general google searching? I think they'd figure that out.
  17. Re:Name? on A Gut Check On Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 1

    Poking at some distro kernel names I have available, I can find that SLES 9 is "Zonked Quokka", SLES 10 is "Sliding Snow Leopard", and RHEL 5 is "Avast! A bilge rat!".

  18. Re:I never knew copyright law was THIS broken on Apple, the RIAA, and Ringtones · · Score: 1

    $2,000 for a cellphone? And people were screaming about how expensive the iPhone is/was. In what is surely a first, the Sprint Blackberry 8300 I have will let you use anything it can play as a ringtone...beating out a Europhone in an area of functionality.

  19. Re:CentOS vs Ubuntu on Bossie Awards Honor Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    What packages were you setting up?
    I have a feeling that "You're doing it wrong".
    If you want something that has all the toys ever created use Gentoo or something.

  20. Re:Curious... on Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer · · Score: 1

    The last time I installed it, yes.

  21. Re:The United States welcomes its 51st state: Germ on Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    d'oh...actually cut those in half and take off a few of those countries. I added them up without noticing that the first column is the total (which doesn't equal the sum of Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines listed for some reason).

  22. Re:The United States welcomes its 51st state: Germ on Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    Since I still have the .pdf open, it looks like the current US military strength in Finland is 18.

  23. Re:The United States welcomes its 51st state: Germ on Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    That is quite an impressive list, although I found a few of the countries on there surprising and had never heard about US forces currently in residence. I checked the source to see how many are listed for countries like Fiji, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Lebanon, and Venezuela. Here's those troop counts
    Fiji: 2
    Ethiopia: 30
    Eritrea: 4
    Lebanon: 6
    Venezuela 32

    Most of the countries on that list have less than 50 American "occupiers"

    The countries that have more than 100 US military personnel are:
    Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, UK, Australia, China and HK, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Diego Garcia, Egypt, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Djibouti, Canada, Colombia, Cuba (Guantanamo), and Honduras.

    These are 2006 figures taken from http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2006/hst0606.pdf

  24. Re:Use foreign language on Ophcrack Says Your Password Is Insecure · · Score: 1

    I did that for some of my online accounts....I kinda stopped doing that once I had to log in somewhere from a computer I didn't own and couldn't get into the configuration to setup cyrillic characters.

  25. Re:Elsewhere, on Alex the African Grey Parrot Dies · · Score: 1

    Well, if the politeness level of Chinese waiters is any indication, it would be safe to say that none of these miners were ever rude.
    You DO like Chinese food right?