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  1. Re:No such thing as two-party consent on Save a Chatlog... Go to Prison? · · Score: 1

    Possibly... but you won't find that wording in the various laws. Since this article is on the topic of IM which could have dozens of people in on the chat (depends on the program) then I'd say it much better to not use the "two-party" wording and stick with what the laws say. I could see someone getting confused by that wording snafu.

  2. No such thing as two-party consent on Save a Chatlog... Go to Prison? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, actually the party consent is considered under federal wiretapping laws and mimicked with state laws. All but 12 states have one-party consent law where only one member of the conversation must consent to the recording. 12 state have an all-party consent law where all members of the conversation must consent to the recording. There is no such thing as a two-party consent law. I had this discussion earlier this week so it's very fresh in my mind. Google for "one party consent wiretap."

  3. Re:Supermicro on Rack Mounted PCs for the Home User? · · Score: 1

    A 4U-5U system is a desktop case on rails. That's not a nice rackmount case with hot-swap bays and rollers. You might as well just buy shelves for your rack and lay a standard ATX case on its side on the shelf if you want to buy a 4U-5U case. The original poster said he wants rack mount systems for development and simulation. Since he's asking for rackmount solutions he's surely not implying that wants something other than a low-end server.

  4. **AA Cartels on Netsky Worm Variant Attacks P2P Services · · Score: -1, Troll

    I SO want this variant to be identified as the work of the **AA Cartels. That would be like "Oh happy day." It really wouldn't surprise me either. How better to attack the alleged cause of a loss of income? The **AA cartels could probably even find a way to spin the blame for this on pirates.

  5. Supermicro on Rack Mounted PCs for the Home User? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It really doesn't sound like you need to spring for a rackmount system. It will cost you more in the end if you go that route. Still, if you want to, I would not build your own system. You'll drop a couple hundred at least on a rackmount case and $50 to $100 on a PSU for it. The mobo will be at least $300 since it's a rack mount mobo and thus a server mobo. Add in the 1U CPUs and fans and possibly short DIMMs and you'll find you could have spent less money buying a complete system. I recommend you look into the SuperMicro line. They have dozens to choose from. I have a 6013P-T and love it. I bought might from Wendy @ Acmemicro also known as 8anet.com.

  6. Re:Quote from the article on Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases? · · Score: 1

    What's that county in Nevada where prostitution is legal? IIRC the Bunny Ranch is there. How would you declare a service like that?

  7. Re:Keeping Track For You on Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases? · · Score: 1

    At that point I hope to be rich enough to buy a small island in the South Pacific and move.

  8. Wow on Spam and the Law Conference Report · · Score: 1

    I don't think I could possibly control myself at such a conference. I'd love to serve court papers at a gig like that. :)

  9. Re:Disproof on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid you don't understand the genetic diversity tests, or rather I didn't explain them very well. They aren't tests on remains. They are tests on living man, literally you and I. These geneticists (I wish I could remember their names) performed gentic testing on thousands of individuals around the world. The minute changes in the genetic sequences provide a precise road map for our ancestry. The closer you get to southern Africa the less diverse the genetic code. Think of it like pure bred dogs. Pure bred == inbred. They can only remain pure as they breed within a primary bloodline. Really they are just inbreeding. In a way so are we. Our lineages of course mix many times. Ultimately we're all cousins. So basically they aren't testing remains (which can be hard to find and could technically be moved). They are testing current genetic lines to trace each one's origins. It was a pretty neat study from what I've read.

  10. Re:It's Not Magic, It's God(TM) on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1

    I believe he did say that. I've read much of what he wrote and that's my opinion on his beliefs. Many famous people express one belief publicly and another privately. Really that doesn't necessarily apply to famous folks but to us commoners as well. We do that for a number of reasons. I've long since believed that Galileo really wasn't gnostic. Everything he viewed went against was the orthodox believed. He publicly said he was a believer but you have to take his words into context. If he'd said he was a non-believer (the term agnostic wasn't coined until the late 1800s and was first published in 1870) he would have been executed. The church back then had absolute control. Non-believers would be executed as heretics. I believe that he had to give the appearance of gnosticism to staty alive but personally did not subscribed to those beliefs. That's my $.02 anyways. It makes sense. Even today if you were to say that you were Atheist you would be on the receiving end of a lot of verbal punishment. Nothing like being ostracized before breakfast to get the blood pumping.

  11. Re:The Score on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1

    No doubt! I wish I had the time to seriously become a history buff. I know a fair amount now but no where what I'd like to know.

  12. Disproof on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1
    What can't be disproved at this point is the existence of God. What can be disproved is many of the "sacred" beliefs that religion teaches, beit verbally or in what religion considers its sacred texts. For example, I forget the exact number for numerous religions believe that "Eve" came from the Mesopotamian valley. Well science disproves this with genetic diversity testing. Those tests prove that our oldest genetic relative came from southern Africa. Science can disprove a number of religions beliefs. It's fascinating to watch what ensues after each new announcement of that sort. The scientists are publicly attacked on their lack of belief and how they are directly attacking out most sacred yadda yadda yadda. The sponsors of those research projects are persuaded to stop funding the project. The scientists and their families are ostracized from their communities. They fall short of burning them at the stake or beheading them. Other than that it parallels religious acts dating back as far as history has been recorded. It's really quite sad.

    My only belief is simple: Tolerance. Nothing more, nothing less. Have it for me and I'll have it for you. Try to tramble my rights and you won't like the consequences. :) BTW, I'm an Atheist too.

  13. Re:It's Not Magic, It's God(TM) on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1

    Einstein? Well, sorta yes but really no. His particular beliefs would be considered but almost all established religions to be that of a non-believer. Einstein was a Deist/Agnostic but not quite an Atheist. Search on Google for "Einstein and Religion." His works called "Science and Religion" are really a fascinating read.

  14. Re:It's Not Magic, It's God(TM) on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that you're a Deist, correct? If you don't know what the word means look it up.

  15. Re:It's Not Magic, It's God(TM) on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1

    Also remember that most people are followers, not leaders. These people need to be told what to do, what to think, how to live. They need positive feedback. Many semi-intelligent people (educated but not really really smart by our standards) are on the borderline between morons and smart folks. Not quite the In crowd and not quite the Out. One won't accept them because they aren't good enough, but one will. These folks tend to not have enough social graces to get positive feedback anywhere else. They aren't good enough business folks to climb the ladder very far. They aren't athletes. They are just your everyday blue/no collar worker. They are smart enough to stand out in church though. They can get a sense of being needed in a crowd of lesser intelligence, or manipulative intelligence. That's my take on it anyhow. I read a really good article on it last Fall and summarized what I can recall here. I wish I could find that article.

  16. Re:The Score on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Really though it was nothing to do with "magic" but instead it has everthing to do with that person's religious beliefs and whatever supreme deity that person happens to subscribe. Anything that challenges that person's beliefs must be the devil. Think about the Salem Massacre. They thought that women were witches not because they concocted evil brews in big pots in their kitchens. They took the smallest unusual point about each of those women and used it to say they were witches simply because they felt their religion was being challenged. Those women, those "witches" were probably prostitutes. Or perhaps they simply didn't attend church. Maybe they were of another belief and were waiting for a church of that belief to be built in the area. Who knows. It didn't fit in with the views of the bigots in Salem though so those women were tortured and burden at the stakes as witches. Calling them heretics or infidels would be confessing that really you just don't agree with their religious views, hence the use of witches. Intolerance is mans' oldest flaw.

    "Oh it must be a sign from Allah, Sedna, or the Great Spirit! They put it there for me to see. It must be a sign. They are commanding me to Kill Bill!"

  17. Re:Suspicious timing on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1

    I saw this on my local PODUNK rural-Kansas news station last week before the 1st.

  18. EtherPeek on What Network Sniffing Tools Do You Use? · · Score: 1
    You need to have a tool that works well and is easy to use when under fire. Ethereal is nice but it is not ready for the prime time yet IMHO. EtherPeek by Wildpackets is a very honed tool. Sniffer is a good tool but too damned complicated. EtherPeek is intuitive, powerful and easy to use. You can't go wrong there. I highly recommend it.

    That said I use numerous open source programs including most of the ones already mentioned. They work in a snap if you are used to them. If you really want to delve into the guts of a packet and have it readily able to read (decoded) then you want a tool like EtherPeek. Excellent product. I rarely recommend commercial products when there are open source alternatives. Sniffing tools is one place I make an exception. It's got to work when you need it.

  19. Fair weather on U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n · · Score: 1

    I call them fair weather Christians. They make the religious arguement when it suits their needs. Otherwise they live their lives like the rest of us. I swear this country is breeding a bunch of fucking prudes. It's embarrasing. George Carlin had it right when he talked about the pussification of the United States.

  20. MOD UP on U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n · · Score: 1

    Pretty please. This guy is right. Asscroft lost the 2000 Missouri Governor's race to a DEAD MAN. The former Governor who was running for reelection died in a plane crash. He still won the election over the living (barely?) Asscroft.

  21. Dark on Task Force Finds Blackout Was Preventable · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, at least one good thing came out of the Blackout. CowboyNeal is no longer afraid of the dark!

  22. Re:Linux Changelog Email Publishing on Linux 2.6.5 is Released · · Score: 1

    Thank you Mr. Troll Moderator. Damn slashdot. Why don't they implement the simple negative double-voting single confirmation scheme we've all been asking for?

  23. Re:Linux Changelog Email Publishing on Linux 2.6.5 is Released · · Score: 1

    LOL. No, I would never do that. I only send out my resume in emails. :-)

  24. Snowball Earth on A Completely Separate Ecosystem on Earth · · Score: 1

    Why not? I mean they have proven that single celled organisms could live under many yards of ice that existed even at our equator during Earth's Snowball Earth phase. Why wouldn't they expect to find life in the ubber deep lake?

  25. Re:Linux Changelog Email Publishing on Linux 2.6.5 is Released · · Score: 0

    I make many thousand dollars a year filtering spam for other people and building new systems to house bigger and better spam filters. In fact I made over $10k last month (I'm not kidding, or bragging for that matter). Do you really think that spam is a non-problem? Do you think that perhaps we'll all just making most of the spam horror stories up? I suppose you think that NASA never landed on Luna either. :-)