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  1. Re:Cynical on MPAA Puts Words in Mouth of CA Attorney General · · Score: 1
    that's not a huge margin. You know, without getting any insider info, it just possibly *could* be the case that Senators are slightly more intelligent than your average investor, and slightly more aware of what's going on.

    Then again, Hillary made some 1000% quick returns...that certainly skewed the average some, I'm sure. And I make no excuses for Hillary.

  2. Re:Impossible? on Tracking Social Networking In Shakespeare Plays · · Score: 1

    yeah, I started to ask that same question.

    Anyone who needs a BOT to understand the connections needs to read more. Or aim for less lofty goals, like sorting belly button lint.

  3. rendering farms? on Pixar Switches to Mac OS X and G5s · · Score: 1
    So, they wanted something to show HD on a desktop, with a smaller file size. OK. Makes perfectly good sense.

    What's on their rendering farms, though? Are they moving those to apple servers?

  4. Re:Yes Yes! on Comcast Cuts Infected PCs' Network Connections · · Score: 1
    well your point is bad. The ISP will know if she is sending out traffic. People can forge whatever headers they like, but her ISP will know if she's participating in a known DDoS (since the targets are well known soon) and they'll know if she's throwing out a lot of smtp traffic.

    So...your point is pretty flawed. The headers only fool the recipient, not the sender or the sender's isp.

  5. Re:Golden Opportunity for Open Source on Microsoft Customers Get No Bang for Buck · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    now THAT is funny...your actual post is mod4 for funny, but your post saying you were being serious is mod5 for informative.

    They give mod points to anyone these days!

  6. a band's friend on New HP Drive Lets You Burn Your Own Label · · Score: 0, Redundant
    even at monochrome, this is great! Handing out demos of your music can be done with a semi-professional look, instead of the sticky label crap. Then, if a few are well received, you send them to be mass-produced.

    That, and you can shuffle things around...if you have a couple dozen songs recorded, you can make a mix of 2 or 3 (all a demo for a club should have) that fits the club better. Harder club, put your harder songs on. And then label it, so it looks a lot more professional.

    I'll certainly be trying one out.

  7. Re:bios on A Motherboard That Doesn't Require An OS · · Score: 1
    this post starts EXACTLY like one I metamoderated a couple days ago, up to where they say "televisions and recorders.."

    The rest of the format feels the same, its written the same...methinks there's someone who just feels like this particular format is effective. In both the posts though, he comes off as someone who really doesn't have a clue.

    Oh well...new and exciting ways to troll. Goes with all the other spam :P

  8. RTFA - selling back at PROFIT. on EB Demands Payment From Victim of Theft · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I've seen so many people say crap about them just wanting to recoup their losses. First, they have to do that via the *thief*, not the victim. Second - RTFA:

    But when Michelle went back to EB Games to pick up her lost property, she got another shock. EB Games insisted on selling her back her own property for roughly twice as much as they had paid the thief.

  9. Re:Fixing Opportunity after the fact on NASA Says Mars Once "Drenched With Water" · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Hi ass, let me introduce myself. My name is Tax Payer.

    See, the funny thing is that "We the people" do all sorts of things. "We" are supposedly responsible for Iraq, right? Not France, England, and Russia, who made the mess in the first place decades ago...no, "we," the people of the US of A.

    No one could get to Mars on their own. No one person could even design a system capable of leaving the earth, flying to mars, landing on it, and scouting the ground there - not all of their own ideas. No way. And those that could even do it with someone else's ideas - those who could put the ideas together and make them work...guess what, they wouldn't have the money to do it.

    So yes..."we." Ass. Collectives do things all the time. "We" make open source work. "We" went to mars. "We" are hated by the baathists.

    We.

  10. Re:This customer: Taking it in stride on SCO Identifies EV1Servers as Linux Licensee · · Score: 1
    I wish I had points right now...

    I mean, its an obvious point to me, but this is slashdot, after all...

  11. Re:Initrd tools? on Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released · · Score: 0, Redundant
    you could always try:

    emerge mkinitrd

    to install it...heh. Then type "mkinitrd" and it will tell you the format. Its really a very simple tool.

  12. Re:Bosh on Superflu Being Brewed in the Lab · · Score: 2, Insightful
    except you said "Tens of millions is quite low number. Many diseases have killed more in the short timespan."

    Many have killed more

    The "regular joe flu" kills far less than 10's of millions in a "short timespan." Only once (NOT "many") has a disease killed "more" in a "short timespan" (keeping "short" relative).

    So while the person you were responding to may have conceeded, he shouldn't have. Its not many, its not more. Tens of millions is NOT a low number.

  13. Re:Don't run ActiveX as Administrator, simple. on Malicious E-Cards - An Analysis of Spam · · Score: 4, Insightful
    that simple? Really?

    My wife had to use MS office for something, so I installed XP on one of my laptops for her. It wanted to add a user. I put her name in.

    Gosh, whatya know...it made her an admin. Yeah, default behaviour. That's peachy. The problem is what the normal people will do.

    for the normal user, the win98 lack of security has not changed in XP. Still there. And activeX is enabled by default as well.

  14. Re:Toothless? on Canadian Privacy Act · · Score: 1
    How am I going to save money in my piggy bank when I'm paying more in rent than I would be on a mortgage?

    This isn't Mexico, you know...home loans there are...well, pretty damn scary. Can get like 200% APR interest on home loans. Why? Lack of stability in the monetary system, so loans in general are risky.

  15. Re:Toothless? on Canadian Privacy Act · · Score: 4, Insightful

    well, unless you want a credit rating. All the "down with the man!" in the world won't help when you're trying to buy a house...and your credit history is tracked with that number.

  16. thinkgeek shirt? on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1
    back long ago, I got a couple of the DeCSS shirts from Think Geek as part of the silly-protest thing.

    So umm...not that it would be protesting anything really, but when can we buy shirts with a bit of this on it? ;)

  17. Re:i386 on Fedora Core 2 test1 Released · · Score: 1

    took me barely any longer than the redhat build, personally. Of course, mine was a dual athlon-mp system...but the kernel built in like 5 minutes or some crazy crap. I barely had time to get a glass of water, much less drink it!

  18. very effective, yet cheap solution on Good Demo System For A High-Bandwidth Link? · · Score: 1
    make ramdisks on both ends. Make them pretty large - I'm assuming that with the link in question, there has to be some hefty hammers on both ends. Mount the ram disks. Then use bonnie to test the performance of copying from one to another.

    Its one thing to turn on the echo ports and toss 1Gb back and forth to each other...its another to see what actual file transfers would be like. Of course, then you have to find disks that will keep up...

  19. Re:Doesn't work on California Man Sues Penis-Enlargment Firms · · Score: 1

    you know...I may be strange, but other than Britney (who is like what, 22 nowadays anyway?) I don't find myself wanting to do teens. Mid 20's is far hotter, really. Well, except the Olsen twins, but only if they come as a package. Individually, they definitely are far less hot than a single Paris Hilton.

    My wife (who is watching me type this, and is being kind enough to spell-check as I type) is hoping that I'm coming across as sarcastic as I'm intending. Eh, who cares.

  20. Re:But in the end, don't open port 22 on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 1
    gosh, that would be a brillant solution...

    ...if it weren't for the fact that any attempt to connect to whatever port it is will respond in a very ssh-server way. IE, it will be completely recognizable. The port is hit, the server responds back "yeah, what do you want?" and the client says "oh, I was just looking for you...would you like to buy some viagra?"

    Hopefully you read past the humour.

  21. another thing about sniffing... on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 1
    same quote as I used last time, different point:

    This assumes the port sequence and system login credentials are not captured by a third party and used before the legitimate session ends.

    Simple solution - limit the number of open sessions to the port then. Duh. Allow only 1 login. Have the script watching to see when the session ends, then close the port up directly after. That, combined with the dynamic sequences, and viola - you could almost forget about needing a password! I kid ;)

    Now that we'll have scripts out there that randomly knock on various sequences, trying to get luck. Geeze....great.

  22. to those making the obvious "sniffing" comments on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 1
    In the linuxjournal article (yeah yeah, who could be bothered with actually reading these things?) this was actually discussed.

    The justifiably paranoid administrator can open the ssh/22 port on his system by initiating TCP connections to ports 31,32,30. At the end of the ssh session, the port would be closed by using the second sequence shown above. If the host from which the administrator is connecting is not trusted (if, say, keystrokes may be snooped), the use of the third sequence would deny all further traffic from the IP, preventing anyone from duplicating the session. This assumes the port sequence and system login credentials are not captured by a third party and used before the legitimate session ends.

    A simple extension to this is that instead of blocking the current IP, you could simply use a smarter script client and server side. The first time you successfully log in, it goes to the next thing. You don't even need to disable the port - it only keeps it alive for your current session. The client and server both know what the next (different) sequence then should be...if it was 32,30,31 before, now its 30,32,31. That sort of thing. Obviously, this qould work better with more than 3 ports, but as the article (that darn thing) points out, even in the sub-1024 range, about a quarter are usable for such things.

    Also note, for those that didn't F@#$ing read the article, that the sequence merely opens a port - the reference was SSH, as an example. So if you get the sequence, it allows you to attempt an SSH login. Its not just security through obscurity at that point. Its additional security through obscruity :P

    I'd love to see this paired with a dynamic set of sequences. Or...nah, I won't mention the idea I just had. I might want to patent it [snicker]

  23. Re:typing url's? on Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click · · Score: 1

    I thought it was funny....heh

  24. typing url's? on Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click · · Score: 1

    I thought amazon had patented:

    "the process for manually entering, via human interface device (keyboard, mouse, voice recognition, etc) a URL into a web browser, so as to increase security."

    Didn't they? And as such, wouldn't that mean we'd have to pay royalties each time? That would suck.

  25. Re:Wow on Hektor: the Graffiti Robot · · Score: 4, Informative
    I know you're just being silly, but it looked to me like the can was very controlled. There were fine details that lacked any drip. The drip that did exist looked pretty intentional.

    Look over the pictures again. Any picture that shows drip will show plenty of areas with none. There are also other pictures with no drip at all.