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  1. Re:Is this really the same? on Ring-Tone Royalties · · Score: 3

    The problem is that mobile phone companies are charging money to deliver these crap sounds to your phone...Therefore the artists should get a share...........If there was no money involved no one in their right mind would try to charge for this "art".

  2. Re:Simple Enough on FBI: Massive MS Exploits Over Last Year · · Score: 1

    I just checked - you are absolutely right, the patches it just added to my ServicePack 6a'ed NT 4.0 Server were - IE 5.0 SP1 and a miscellaneous "security" patch. It didn't come close to adding the 27 patches available for download from the NT 4.0 download page - nor did it even try to do apply IIS related patches (when I have IIS installed).

    The question is do you think you're IIS server is secure because you used windowsupdate?

  3. Re:Simple Enough on FBI: Massive MS Exploits Over Last Year · · Score: 1

    Don't work for NT 4.0 - the primary IIS web server platform out there......

  4. NT Service Packs on FBI: Massive MS Exploits Over Last Year · · Score: 1
    Nt Service Packs are fine - easy to install, no problem. The only problem is that for security updates since the last service pack (6a) you have to manually download and individually install, with reboots, 27 different patches. This means for your average NT admin numpty it's in the too hard basket. Not to mention idiot VB/ASP programmers would have no idea about programming.....

    Nt 4.0 Security Patches are here.

  5. Re:Secret Mailing lists are still evil. on Slashback: Bindery, Locality, Gruviness · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the point? The key "out" statement is that they'll notify Bugtrak and then their members only list - If bugtrak chooses to delay the announcement then that's bugtrak's issue - talk to them.

    On a personal basis, I'm more than happy to get the root servers and TLD servers upgraded before an official security notice out - these things are critical to the operation of the whole internet - no root servers, no internet.

  6. Re:Count your blessings on What is Carnivore, and How Does it Work? · · Score: 1

    Actually any one who is a registered Telecommunication carrier must open their networks (voice and data) to the police on demand. You'll find that all first tier and most 2nd tier ISP's ARE official telecommunication providers. On the flip side, I've yet to see a proposal out of any of the law enforcement angencies on exactly how they want (to do/have provided) the wiretap on data.

  7. Windows based PC? on What is Carnivore, and How Does it Work? · · Score: 1

    Err, I can't see how a Windows PC with a 100Mb Ethernet card is going to keep up with a OC12 or OC48 backbone data stream as is prevelant in large ISP backbones.

  8. Re:Dispute Resolution Policy? on Corinthians.com Taken Away, Given To Soccer Team · · Score: 1
  9. Re:There must be some kind of mistake. on Report Of New Outlook Exploit · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Mobile phone bands. on How Many Frequency Bands Are There? · · Score: 1

    What does NexTel use? (Are you talking about their walky-talky feature?)

  11. Re:A couple of shady points here. on How Many Frequency Bands Are There? · · Score: 1
    The only way to pack in more data is to use analog transmission, and the power required to get more bits grows exponentially with the number of bits per sample (gets impractical very quickly).

    Huh? You need to use more granualarity, which means more sensitive receivers and more transmission power to achieve the same range, but what's this analogue crap?

  12. Re:A more detailed chart from 137MHz - 10GHz on How Many Frequency Bands Are There? · · Score: 1

    It's interesting how quickly these go out of date... recent FCC spectrum auctions don't seem to be included

  13. Re:Searches are safe, downloads are not on Gnutella Copyright Enforcement? · · Score: 2


    Nope, search responses have ip addresses in them, they also have a unique identifier to allow the network to pass push requests around when you can't directly connect to the end router. fake ip's and working push stuff makes the whole thing a little more anon.

  14. Re:802.11b on Crusoe WebPads By FIC · · Score: 1

    I thought the whole point of those Transmeta chips is they run an on chip microkernel so they can appear to be any chip to any OS.

    Linus wrote (or participated) in the microcode which means that by tenous logic every machine based on a Crusoe is running linux!

  15. Not just eCommerce on A Matter Of Trust? · · Score: 1


    As a regular traveller staying at hotels all over the world, it's just about impossible to simply provide your credit card number and expiry over the phone to make a reservation and pay for the room. The majority of want a photocopy of the card faxed along with a company letterhead explaning all this in detail. Then 50% of the time they ask for the card when you turn up, the fact that it's 3am in the morning back at head office, so no, there isn't anyone who you can call, doesn't seem to phase them.

  16. Re:My Configuration on Net Access On The International Trip? · · Score: 1


    Another option is iPass, really simple software creates dialup networking icons for the management clubies to use (doesn't stop them calling in the odd hours of the morning - but at least I can talk 'em through it in my sleep)

  17. Loophole? on Australian Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    Just browsing through the legistlation and I notice that once a site is "classified" it cannot be considered for reclassification for 2 years.

    So whats to stop you getting your URL rated G with happy pleasant content, then changing it to a full on porn site once you've got your classification?