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  1. Re:w/o Warez where would we be? on Operation Fastlink Cracks Down on Warez · · Score: 1

    If you sign up to be an Oracle developer, you get access to their documentation and a non-deployable (single-user) license to Linux Oracle. (At least you used to, we did this a few years back)

  2. Re:Random issues I have with Javascript on Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser · · Score: 1

    your right. -1 unclear sentence structure.

    #include'ing stdio.h is optional. It'd be a rare program, but if you were using your own IO system, you'd have an unstdio.h to include...

  3. Re:Random issues I have with Javascript on Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser · · Score: 2, Insightful

    FYI, neither C or c++ have a built-in output function. printf() comes from #include'ing stdio, and even then it's optional.

    Prototype OOP is weird at first, but amazingly powerful.

    Also, javascript support's eval's and even closures: ( pardon slashdot's indenting, or lack therof )

    //Map takes a list, applies a function to that list,
    //and returns a list of the return values
    //from application of that function.
    function map(code,list) {
    var result = new Array();
    for (var f in list) {
    result.push(code(f))
    }
    return result;
    }

    var = foo {a: 1; b: 2; c: 3};

    map function(a){ do_stuff_on(a) }, foo;
  4. Re:How about a simple firewall instead on Debian World Domination Plan · · Score: 1

    Are you running X?

    That's port 6000. (Unless you disabled it)

    Not sure about newer gnome apps but some used to open ports to recieve RPC messages and what not

  5. similar problem, dell helped on Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I had snapped off the metal hinge that attaches the LCD panel to the base. (And my laptop is out of warantee) I looked up part numbers in dells online manuals, called a Dell representative, and $40 later, they sent me the part, no fuss whatsoever.

    I was actually really surprised that the process went so smoothly.

  6. Re:Suspicious activities on FBI Can Inspect Bank Records w/o Court Orders · · Score: 1
    Since it is accessable to a subset of that financial institution, it weakens any argument that the information is yours since it's available to a number of people besides yourself.

    So... taking this argument with copyright law means that media created, since it is available to pretty much everyone, weakens the argument that it belongs to the creator?

  7. Universal ID on Working Toward Roaming For Wireless ISPs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can use your bank card anywhere, because it's a distributed Universal ID system.

    Your account includes a bank identifier, and an account identifier, which uniquely points to your pile of cash.

    To allow a similar system w/ Wireless, you'd need some kind of 'accepted' universal ID system.... and we've a disussion of where this goes a few months back (see Liberty Alliance and MS's .net Passport)

  8. Re:security concept on Radio Credit Cards Move Closer · · Score: 1

    Don't authenticate with the register --- Authenticate w/ the card's provider. This would raise the bar in the complexity required to steal your card info. (Would-be theves would need an active connection to the CC Provider, and a merchant account themselvs)

    Since the register has to verify that you have sufficent funds for the transaction anyway, why not ask the card's provider for a signed [by the provider's] token, which the radio card will then respond to.

    This scheme works where a trusted third party has to verify card details anyway. Card holders and merchants already trust CC card issuers to some degree. This scheme woulden't be sufficent for anonymous cash transfers --- where the radio card holds some value.

  9. Re:Good points... on PC Mag - Mac OS X Insecure · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's almost root.

    W/o some extra frobbing of permissions, all the Applications (in /Applications) are world writeable by users in the 'admin' group.

    The first user in macosx is in the 'admin' group. Unless you make a 2nd user for yourself, you can basically overwrite anything in the Applications folder.

    files /System/Library is root:wheel; 755, so that mitigates an OS-level attack... but still.

  10. Re:Going up... on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This one isn't really submarine --- They created FAT in 1976, according to the microsoft.com page ... but the earliest patent was filed in 1995.

    We need a public domain minuxfs implementation now, to be the standard.

  11. Re:I'm not sure if we'll see it in knoppix on Using the Real ntfs.sys Driver Under Linux · · Score: 5, Informative

    The same way grub or lilo loads linux from a reiserfs or ext2/3 partition --- rudimentary read-only access is coded into the bootloader.

  12. Re:So long as a single OSS Coder lives... on Microsoft Proclaims Death of Free Software Model · · Score: 1

    My apologies, your right. I was confusing This page.

  13. Re:So long as a single OSS Coder lives... on Microsoft Proclaims Death of Free Software Model · · Score: 1

    the GPL does not require acknowledgement, this is one of the issues Stallman has w/ the "BSD w/ Advertising" clause. (Evenentually, you end up w/ multiple-screenfuls of acknoledgements of where you borrowed code from)

    I can very well take any GPL'ed project, rename it, and call it my own. I wouldn't be very nice, and probably would be shunned by the community. But as long as I release my code for the renamed project under the GPL, I've fulfilled the requirements.

  14. Re:legal way to have internet connection shutoff on Using Honeypots to Fight Worms · · Score: 1

    This happened to me. (well, no court order or what not). My ISP monitors for network anomolies, and thought that I had welchia (I had actually ran a portscan against one of my servers). They put a flag on my account, and disconnected me, and waited for me to call them to find out what happened.

    What would be a good solution, is some kind of 'secure' winpopup. (ie, mabey an ISP gives you a public key, that your machine will accept messages from) ISPs could then give their users notice of suspected activity, then if no action is taken, pull the plug.

  15. Re:standardised medical embedded gui on Integrating A GUI Into An Existing Medical Device · · Score: 1

    If your a C-coder, then your idea of an interface is exit(1), char** argv, STDIN, and STDOUT.

    If your an HTML jocky, you might be better versed in the aesthetics of UI design than most C coders.

    By seperating the two parts of the app, UI specialists can make a clean UI, and Systems coders can do what they like -- code systems.

    (note that these statements don't mean that all C coders are terrible @ UI design. ;) )

  16. Re:Maybe they haven't heard... on CCAGW Misreads Mass. Policy, Open Standards Generally · · Score: 1
    It's "Communism".

    Now I'm going home to sleep with my wife.

  17. Re:Independent IM Client Futures on Yahoo Restored in Some IM Clients · · Score: 1

    For the curious ...

    The IBM/Lotus product is named Sametime. It ties in nicely if you have an existing Domino network. (w/ little isonline icons in your notes mail, and other random integration features.)

    And yes, having setup jabber recently, it is somewhat of a pain in the ass. All the extenions have their own way of being compiled and setup. (AIM extenion, & the Jit ICQ extension) It's starting to make sense how it works, but it's tricky to get the hang of.

    hopefully jabber2 is a bit easier to setup ...

  18. Re:Leave the flags out of it on China Joins EU in Galileo Satellite Venture · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's unfortunate, but it's because other nations [rightly so] distrust the U.S.

    I don't think we'll ever have world peace and collaboration until everyone starts trusting everyone else. And then all it will take is one bad apple to screw it up for all of us.

    It's great being human.

  19. Re:Mixed feelings. on Senate Approves Measure to Undo FCC Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is --- if one organization owns all channels tv, radio or otherwise, they are tempted to weave their biases into every program they produce.

    By requiring a duplication of effort, it assures the public that there will be differing viewpoints presented to them, so they can hopefully do their own thinking. It is true that it makes the market less efficent, but I believe that this is a neccesary sacrifice.

  20. kittens with mittens? on Statistically Optimal Music · · Score: 4, Funny
    <meta name="keywords" content="eigenradio, eigen, radio, non-negative matrix factorization, pca, ica, dwt, singular values, machine listening, whitman, brian, media, lab, kittens with mittens">

    anyone look at the page source?

    I bet this is how they Really make the music ...

  21. Re:Ultimately... on Worm vs. Worm Battle Slows Networks · · Score: 1

    Actually, that block seems to have been requested by the Dept. Of Homeland Security, according to my ISP.

    See:
    http://support.cox.net/custsup/safety/port_135.s ht ml

  22. Re:In other news.. on Florida's Version Of TIA May Spread To Other States · · Score: 5, Funny

    All we need now is to figure out how to clone a blue-haired 14-year-old-girl to pilot a large robot to defend it...

  23. Re:Mac Linux? on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Hey, that's what i'm running:

    Linux delicious 2.4.21-j02 #3 Sun Jul 20 21:11:42 EDT 2003 ppc 740/750 GNU/Linux

    I thought "w00t, for once the x86 folks will have to compile it!"

  24. Re:NBC? on Sensor Networks for NBC Threats · · Score: 3, Funny

    CBN? That'd have to be the CowboyNeal threat.

    Gotta watchout for that one.

  25. Re:Need to read a book to print? on CUPS - Common Unix Printing System · · Score: 1

    Well, i'll just hit this print button, and *DOH* I forgot, printers not configured.

    OR

    Well, now that my printer's working, I don't need to print out this book again.

    I suppose it'd make a good test print ;)