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  1. Re:Invasive Security on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 1

    But with a password for example, you know where the servics is listening and therefore can attempt to exploit problems with the service that can be exploited without a password. This is like putting the password before the protocol is even accessed.

    All services should be this way. Passwords entered after the service has been accessed in some way always gives a chance for exploitation. This only gives the oportunity to attempt to expoit the OS's basic network funcationality.

  2. My idea on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I though about this along time ago as a way of hiding a trojan. Of course I didnt patent it so no money for me : /

  3. bad andy on Author signs MyDoom virus · · Score: 1

    Hey, what about this guy ?

  4. Re:I don't get how that should be possible... on Second Hypersonic X43 Scramjet Ready for Testing · · Score: 1

    Oxygen has an atomic weight of 8, Hydrogen 1. Given there are two H per O, that should meen it is 4 times heavier.

    Actually, Oxygen has an atomic number of 8, and and an atomic weight of 16. Therefore the original number of 8 times heavier is correct.

  5. Legislation is the answer on Expert Says Glass Is Major Threat to Birds · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ban Glass !
    The greedy Glass manufacturing Corperations are out to ruin our envrionment !.

  6. Re:Excellent on Second Hypersonic X43 Scramjet Ready for Testing · · Score: 2, Informative

    A few?

    In earlier history, virually the only reason for engineering was for military purposes.

    Military:
    Bronse processes
    Iron processes
    Steal processes
    Basic Physics
    Boats
    Radio Communication advances
    Planes
    Atomic Physics
    Rockets/Space vehicles
    Satalites
    Computers
    The Internet

    Religion:
    Architecture
    Printing Press
    Mathematics

  7. Re:I don't get how that should be possible... on Second Hypersonic X43 Scramjet Ready for Testing · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's not entirely correct. The O2 is a third of the mass.
    I'm not sure what relavence the % of Oxygen's mass is. The main point is that the mass doesn't matter if it is fuel/oxidizer mass. Typically you want -more- of it because it makes life so simple if you can have more powerful engines that consume it in large quantities.
    --You are both wrong. In a Liquid Hydrogen/Liquid Oxygen rocket, 8 times as much oxygen mass is needed compared to hydrogen mass.

    4H + O2 => 2H2O ...twice as many hydrogens as oxygen but
    Oxygen is 16 times more massive.

    Rocket engines are -very- efficient, but of course they have to push their own oxidizer along.
    --I dont know how you define efficiency but in my aproximation having to lift 20x the payload mass because of extra fuel is an inefficency.

    Vastly smaller requirements for what? O2 which is amazingly cheap? Why bother?
    --Going back to the previous point. Its not a matter of the price of oxygen, but the bulk that it causes to carry it. This results in hugely more complex lift vehical, which is... um... huge, and expensive.

    You don't get very far up before you run out of oxygen to power a scramjet
    --In fact it cant operate at low altituteds because there is too much oxygen.

    scramjet... weighs quite a bit itself.
    --Compared to fuel weight ???? Are you nutts ?

    Sir, I dont think you understand this at all.

  8. Re:Personally I like wxWindows on C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 · · Score: 1

    Wx doesnt have a (working) GUI GUI builder. When laying out an interface, writing it in code is just stupid. Therefore I use Qt because I have Qt builder which while not perfect, is very usable.

  9. Dont feed the.... on Rolling Your Own Wireless Communications System? · · Score: 1

    Way to feed the troll...

    Jackass !

  10. Yeah on The Future of NASA · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and comon, what does everyone think the first space race was about ???

  11. Re:High Tech in the right place? on Army to use MMOG for Simulation Training · · Score: 1

    Im not concerned with growing my testicles. They are big enough thanks.

  12. Re:Accurate? on Performance Benchmarks of Nine Languages · · Score: 1

    I think its pretty hard to separate the difference between the strength of the compiler and the strenght of the language. You could try with many compilers on the same language, but that still doesnt factor out maturity since the newer languages' compliers havent had the time to mature.

  13. Wow on Performance Benchmarks of Nine Languages · · Score: 1

    Wow.... according to this gcc C sucks : (

  14. supply down on The Cost of 12 Days of Christmas · · Score: 1

    Im thinking the supply is down.
    I ate my swans last year.

  15. Re:bin laden.. on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    The 1991 gulf war was never legally declared over. Only a ceasfire was declared. On those grounds the war would not be considered illegal. That is why no one has said anything while the US, (including under Clinton) and UK have, for the past 12 years leading up to this second conflict, intermittantly bombed Iraq's air defense systems.

  16. cycle on New Zealand Shows Music Piracy Boosts Sales · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its a..*sniff*... visious cycle....*sniff* :,(

  17. apologize on Linux: the GPL and Binary Modules · · Score: 1

    I apologise for my knee jerk reaction. Upon re-reading your post, I realized that my response was overdrawn.

    Sorry

  18. Re:Pragmatism on Linux: the GPL and Binary Modules · · Score: 1

    Do you believe that our economy could work without being profit driven? Dont complain about capatalism until you have lived in a communist country. Is it possible to over do capitalism, yes, but capitalism itself is not the problem. Capitalism is like sex: Necessary for continuation, but possible to be irresponsible with. It is part of human nature, and like sex, dening our need for it absoulutely is a futile and counterproductive struggle.

    Im sick of hearing socalist fanatics speak of capitalism as if it were a disease the should be swept off the planet, just as Im sick of religious fanatics acting as if sex was a disease that should be swept off the planet.

  19. Re:Pragmatism on Linux: the GPL and Binary Modules · · Score: 1

    I am inclined to agree with you, however I can think of a similar example that is already possible.
    Imagine using the Linux Kernel in an otherwise propriatary setup:
    i.e. propriatary shell,
    windowing system,
    compiler,
    browser,
    office sofware,
    database,
    media player,
    Instant messenger,
    email client.

    This is all already possible.
    In fact, I believe that there are PDAs out there that do just that.

  20. Re:It's hardly bad... on New IE Holes Discovered · · Score: 1

    Im pretty sure the necessary "undoccumented features" are there intentionally to keep things from OS/2 (or wine) to comming into compatability.

  21. Re:Incident response times on New IE Holes Discovered · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People are stupid... its proven every couple seconds.

  22. Stop with the generic US bashing on South Korea Plans National 100 Mbps Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While this sounds like a good idea, and may well be, these types of projects tend to go way over budget, and tend to be mismanaged. Feelgood social projects are always nice in principal, but often the downsides and pitfalls are not fully explored.

    I think its unfair to take pot shots at the USA, and villanize us. We have a different system than South Korea, its more of an economic ecosystem rather than an engineered environment. If their system works for them, then great.

    I am doubtfull of how sucessfull it will be, but I admit that I do not know exactly what the economic environment is there, and nor am I an economist. I would guess however that neither do you have these credentials.

    Economic practicality, I think, should over-ride socialist philosophy, because once you break the bank, there isnt any money left for social programs.

    Finally, there are plenty of socialist countries, this simply isnt one of them. If you disagree with the economic system, then fine, but put forth thought out arguements rather than flamebate overstatement. I certainly am not impressed with your generic US bashing. There is good and bad in every system.

  23. Same "problem" on Head Injury Induces Foreign Accent Syndrome · · Score: 1

    I have the same problem as you do. However when Im around only Americans, some people seem to think I still speak with an accent, though they cannot place from where.

    Some girl even refused to believe I was from the USA, and demanded to know where I was really from despite the fact that the rest of the group could not hear an accent in my speech.

  24. Re:Trust them on Rules for Teenage Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    Damn it, dont mod this one up, mod my previous post up. This one is out of context.

  25. Re:Trust them on Rules for Teenage Internet Access? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I have nothing against liberals, but as long as we are pointing to dictionary definitions one looking for a less flattering defintion might also have scrolled farther down the dictionary.com page and found this one:

    6. Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious.