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  1. Re:When Policies are set by PHB's and you need to on One-Third of Employees Violate Company IT Policies · · Score: 1

    I know. But you need an extra executable and that is not allowed. I cannot even see the c: drive. I tried really hard.

  2. Re:When Policies are set by PHB's and you need to on One-Third of Employees Violate Company IT Policies · · Score: 1

    Oh come on. I have to type it every 20 minutes because I cannot get putty to save things in the registry to aid automated login. I keep it short and stupid, like the security regime.

    Passwords like ASDF12#$ and Welcome22@@ are easy on my wrists.

  3. Re:Call Microsoft's bluff! on Red Hat Vows To Stand Up To Patent Intimidation · · Score: 1

    The question that I would have, as shareholder, is: why are we not suing and collecting income?

  4. Re:You insensitive clod! on Radiation Absorbing Mineral Found In the Arctic · · Score: 1

    Does that mean slashdot is hell or heaven?

  5. Re:This is not your responsibility on System Admin's Unit of Production? · · Score: 1

    I see the admin 'clickety-clicking' already (BOFH scene arising in head).

  6. look at Saas development on Learning High-Availability Server-Side Development? · · Score: 1

    Generally, Saas (software as a service) providers have to scale their apps. The development issues they have are more or less solved. Look it up on Google... ('saas scalability problem').

  7. Re:Passwords in general on Password Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.5 · · Score: 1

    This is why we need something better that text passwords for authentication on the web. Well you could use a USB stick which emulates a keyboard that can insert username/password combinations. Or you could use standard encryption methods... (signing, etc).
  8. Re:Highly improbable on Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell · · Score: 1

    This story proves you wrong... You so very much do not understand circle reasoning LOL.

  9. Re:Evolutionary Adaption? on Forgetting May be Part of the Remembering Process · · Score: 1

    I wish that those were the worst problems in the world. War, hunger and diseases are imho far worse.

  10. Re:My windshield washer tank on What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? · · Score: 2, Funny

    In this category: I had a car, an Opel Astra. When I wanted to use the windshield wiper fluid it would first use the windshield wiper to scratch all the dirt into the window and then add some fluid to wipe all of it away. The window had a ton of scratches.

  11. Re:Um... on IE Devs Criticize Bank Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1
    Says who? Wikipedia does not agree:

    In cryptography, a man-in-the-middle attack (MITM) is an attack in which an attacker is able to read, insert and modify at will, messages between two parties without either party knowing that the link between them has been compromised. If you define party as 'computer' then you would be right. But I don't. Generally, in the Netherlands, the link extends further to a 'verifyer'-device. This device checks that there is a valid card + PIN.

    I think that 'party' == me.
  12. Re:Scale back your expectations on Quickly Switching Your Servers to Backups? · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that we are talking about an eventuality that would only occur if your primary site was entirely disabled for an extended period of time, which is highly unlikely to happen if you're hosted in any kind of modern data center Ha, this happened to IBM last year. The whole site in Belgium burned down when they tried to upgrade some electricity. Our contracts stated 72 hours but it became 1,5 weeks.
  13. Re:Um... on IE Devs Criticize Bank Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Bzzzt, wrong. As the man in the middle, I don't have to physically be in the middle. I can be on your insecure computer which has 0 day bugs which can become 0 day exploits.

    I am not aware of any bank transaction system that is impervious to man in the middle attacks.

    Do not trust what is on your monitor because it can always be fake.

  14. nothing spectacular on Next-Gen Processor Unveiled · · Score: 4, Informative

    Right, let me begin by saying that after reading ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/dburger/papers/IEEECOM PUTER04_trips.pdf it actually became a bit more clear about what they were talking about.

    It might sound very novel if you are only accustomed to normal processors. Look at MOVE http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=103228 8&lastnode_id=0 to see what transport-triggered architectures are about. They are more power efficient, etc etc.

    Secondly, they talk about how execution graphs are mapped onto their processing grid. I don't think any scheduler has a problem with scheduling an execution graph (or whatever name you give it) to an architecture. Generally, it can be scheduled in-time (there is a critical path somewhere) or it is scheduled with a certain degree (generally > .9 efficient) of optimality. I don't see the gain there in efficiency.

    Now here comes the shameless self-plug. If you want to gain efficiency in scheduling a node of an execution graph you have to know which node is more critical than the other. The critical nodes (the ones on the critical path) need to be scheduled to the fast/optimized processing units and the others can be scheduled to slow/efficient processing units (and they can get some communication delays without penalty). Look http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/publicationfiles/786_11_dh ofstee_v1.0_18july2003_eindverslag.pdf here for my thesis.

  15. OT: Re:Digital Vinyl data capacity blows CDs out on Return of the Vinyl Album · · Score: 1

    Hey, I liked that discussion ! :-)

  16. my thoughts... on Creating A Virtual Office? · · Score: 1

    Cost. Well, I wouldn't do it because it costs less. Do it because travelling is a nuisance during traffic hour. Would you create the virtual office if you and your co-workers were neighbours?

    Management. Remote working is often not allowed because managers get scared that their employees have other things to do at home. At times/with certain persons they have a point. You can still check what they do with IM/video. Second you can ask them to spend the last 15 minutes of their day to write a small diary of the jobs they did (and check). Second, I would still want to meet my collegues twice a week. Ensure that communication doesn't die in the process.

    Technical requirements. I would want an on-demand video link to any of my co-workers. Easy file sharing / networking / vpn / (terminal/X) server.Maybe even an always-open audio line that is dampened. Basically, the technical environment should allow ALL communications that previously existed in an easy manner. Maybe even make some better.

  17. true but... on Why the Semantic Web Will Fail · · Score: 1

    the author can sign those keywords. Second step is to keep a rating of this author somewhere. A bad author can be added to blacklists, a good author can be given extra karma.

    Lying cannot be expelled but people can recognize it.

  18. Re:Good luck guys on Microsoft Segments Linux "Personas" · · Score: 1

    I'm one of these people and yes I would... There is one place for windows: VMWare without networking.

  19. Re:Without certification on iPods to be Used as Flight Data Recorders · · Score: 1

    This exists: http://volkslogger.de/cms/index.php?option=com_con tent&task=view&id=30&Itemid=66
    It is a GPS combined with a certified file format that is signed by the apparatus. Gliderpilots use it in contests. Search for .igc .

  20. Re:Compare against the best. on A Bad Month for Firefox · · Score: 1

    I cannot reproduce that on linux either...

  21. Re:To change some badness... rename Terminal.app on Mac OS X Struck By Severe Security Hole · · Score: 1

    I guess I wasn't thinking strait at the moment of posting.

  22. To change some badness... rename Terminal.app on Mac OS X Struck By Severe Security Hole · · Score: 1

    Within the zip file of another example, there is a file called Secunia.mov which starts with /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app. Terminal.app is by far the most powerfull tool in the system, so any bad guys should/would use it.

    Terminal.app can be easily renamed to something different. Most people never use it (i think) and it can be easily undone.

  23. Re:for loop inside a printf -- gcc does it on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    I guess the formatting misses out on the < character.

  24. Re:Real World? on ZigBee Alliance Triples in Size · · Score: 1

    I've seen a demo of products that where supposed to use ZigBee in 2002 (but I haven't been able to verify it, technically).

  25. Re:We don't need them, until we need them. on Budget Issues Force Spy Satellites Into The Open · · Score: 1

    dude, come back when you have proof for your opinion. Until then, go karma whoring somewhere else.