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  1. Re:It's too late.... on Why (FM, Not XM) Radio Sucks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In Cincinnati its no different. Its either Clearchannel or Infinity. Although we do get WOXY which is independantly owned and operated and quite good.
    Offtopic, but, just went to Cleveland a few months back and I have to say I am quite impressed with what has been done to the downtown area, the flats, rock and roll hall of fame, science museum, etc.. very nice. Cheers

  2. Answer on Snood, the Simple Game · · Score: 1

    "Or is the engagingly simple game doomed to extinction?"
    As long as people like my boss and my wife exist, absurdly simple games will continue to be popular. How many hours have been wasted by snake or memory on Nokia cellphones? Solitaire, Freecell, etc.

  3. Re:THIS IS A HOAX - EVIDENCE TO FOLLOW: on Has the RIAA Wormed 95% of P2P Networks? · · Score: 1

    Didn't you know?

    Gobblez knows how to spoof any MD5 or SHA1 checksum. In addition, the trojan also disables and fools all known and unknown anti-virus checksumming features regardless of hardware/software platform. If you can think of a new way to checksum, they've already beaten it! It has a piggy back size of 512 bytes(so as not to cause suspicion) and was written in Multi-Platform Assembler Perl, which is like Java VM code, but doesn't require a runtime environment or any code, so it gives you really tiny file sizes and is utterly impossible to read. They invented that to.

    Oh, and it roots any server using .net services, but that was by accident.

  4. Re:So? on OpenBSD SMP In The Works · · Score: 1

    SMP really isn't a big deal with firewalls, which is really where OpenBSD has its 'target market'. I think thats been said about 1000 times, but hey, I'll say it again.

  5. Re:Does anyone think... on British To Release UFO Files · · Score: 1

    no doubt, but this comes from Middle English taken from Latin, which, I don't believe includes the Americas, the North American continent, or the United States.
    As the brit I used to work with used to say, "Management is nothing more than the redaction department for my ideas."
    Google returns about 65,000 hits.

    The etymology is here

  6. Re:Oh no... on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, but Cheney's secret hideout is here and its perfectly legal to discuss this and enter into your favorite rendering program all the building information that you can glean from the satellite photos, make a quake mod, practice assaulting the place. However, you will go straight to hell for [reading, discussing, thinking about] faulty joystick drivers. God Bless the USA!

  7. Re:Security depends on many things. on Windows vs Linux On Security · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think the kind of functionality you may be looking for is obtainable with systrace
    Or check out Niels Provos' page

  8. Re:Inevitable death of commodity PC on Coursey on Palladium · · Score: 1

    I think I just read yesterday that PC sales have hit 1 billion worldwide and are expected to double by 2008.

    That sounds like a growth market to me.

    oh yeah here is the link.

  9. Re:Is it just me.... on OpenSSH Vulnerability Disclosed, Version 3.4 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not sure why people think this was handled badly.
    OpenSSH enjoys a broad user base and is on a lot of trusted systems, a lot of admins trust their jobs to it. Theo, Neils, Markus et al. have been pushing for people to upgrade to the later versions that contain support for Privilege Separation which make this hole pretty much worthless in the first place. However, as Theo stated on the Announce list people have been hesitant to upgrade to the newer version.
    ISS notified the OpenBSD/OpenSSH group of the security hole and just like every other exploit they find, they worked WITH the developers to give them a little time to develop/test the patch before they made the announcement. How is this different than anyone else?
    Theo also said OpenSSH and the exploit wouldn't be released until next Monday, but the fix has been released today. My guess is that they agreed to do the announcement as soon as the patch was developed or Monday, whichever was sooner. The patch was completed/tested ahead of schedule, so there you go.
    Congrats to ISS for discovering the flaw, they killed the five year streak.
    Congrats to the OpenBSD team for putting together such a good system and hopefully the next streak will be even longer.

    Now the hole has been disclosed, the patch has been released. Get off your arse and start patching or don't bitch when you get rooted.

  10. Re:Didn't you read the article on EU Ratifies Kyoto Treaty · · Score: 2

    From what I've read, and no I really don't feel like finding exactly where I've read this at...
    Germany should get great praise in reducing emissions and it certainly is laudable. However, Germany had a bit *easier* time of it being that it was divided into East and West. The West side had pollution controls, a very healthy economy and all that jazz... The East side had abysmal pollution controls and a very crappy economy. Under the reuinification, many of East Germany's factories were closed down or revamped entirely. France, the UK, the US, and the rest of the countries don't have that convenience.

    Russia could *possibly* get that type of improvement IF it was annexed by a country with a very nice economy to pay for all of the improvements.

  11. Re:An interesting point? on MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source · · Score: 1

    Maybe. A nice feature of open source is that projects have a much broader peer review for security flaws/bugs. Certainly it doesn't guarantee that the software is bug/exploit free, but it does help weed a good bit of them out.

    I would suspect that if M$ source code was opened up there would be a deluge of exploits within the first few months and then slowly taper off as the "easy holes" are plugged. This is true of nearly all open source software after its initial release.

    So yes, initially open source software may be more vulnerable due to its complete exposure, but over time, say a few months, it should be more secure as exploits become harder and harder to find. This is why I personally dont use 'bleeding-edge' software in production environments -- give the software a chance to be hardened.

  12. Re:Cable used to be commercial free on Top Ten New Copyright Crimes · · Score: 1

    I think it hit me that something was seriously fucked up in this business when I had to sit through Pepsi and Ford commercials at the local cinema just after paying $8 to see the movie.

  13. Re:Terrible company on Spyware Fights Back · · Score: 1

    Shhh!! Quiet man! Didn't you know its illegal to criticize Netscape on /.?

  14. Re:Nothing new on Spyware Fights Back · · Score: 1

    Which spyware did this?

  15. Re:Styrofoam on Recycle Fee For Each PC? · · Score: 1

    Well that depends,
    Does it taste like anything?

  16. Re:Save us the self-righteous diatribe... on Time Warner to Charge Extra for Over-Quota Bandwidth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes but I subsidize other people in my neighborhood for phone service. I still pay the same rate for my phone even though I very rarely use it. Now there are other people that gab on the phone all day long, do they pay more? No.
    I have a subscription to DAoC, yet I haven't logged in in 3 months. Other users will play it 24x7. In effect, I subsidize their playing time. Am I bitter? No.
    Your cable modem rates are not going to go down I can guarantee you that. Your quality of service is not going to go up. The cable company will allocate bandwidth in the cheapest terms possible. You will get the same service for the same price, while the users you consider 'annoying' will get less service for more money.

  17. Re:If your life is Everquest... on Suing Sony for Everquest Related Suicide? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Its a hobby like any other. Some people get immersed in their hobbies and some take them casually. To make a judgement on what that hobby is is silly.

    My boss plays/reads/talks/lives about golf 24x7. Same thing.
    My brother-in-law can't get enough of anything relating to NASCAR. Same thing.
    A guy I used to work with did nothing but work on his "tricked out" Honda. Same thing.
    My ex-roommate read, fiction, all the time; did nothing else. Same thing.

    Comic Books, Trading Cards, Fantasy Football Leagues, March Madness -- the list can go on and on.

    Escapism is universal.

  18. Re:1 Ethical Question, 1 Assumption on Twin Robots Scope Out Titanic, Europa Next? · · Score: 1

    IIRC, both 2010 and 2061 talk about life on Europa. So to me, your right both times.

  19. Re:the bothersome part on What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment? · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Moderation of the above post signifies the cluelessnes of the moderator. If you don't understand a post, or dont "get it", that doesn't mean its a troll.

    Your pal,
    Rosie.

  20. Re:Music that doesn't blow on RIAA Almost Down To Pre-Napster Revenues · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how Aphex Twin got lumped into the

    Limp Bizkit
    Linkin Park
    Incubus
    Korn
    Creed

    category.

  21. Re:DeltaV on Highspeed Downloads Via DTV · · Score: 1

    Oh I really didn't intend for it to mean anything. Except to say that it really didn't have one iota of relevance to broadband technology in Porkopolis.

  22. Re:DeltaV on Highspeed Downloads Via DTV · · Score: 1

    No, the kids in the city can just walk 3 blocks (from where the riots started) to the Hamilton County Public library and have free high speed internet service.

    Oh yeah and the officer was acquitted, but I'm not sure what that has to do with broadband technology.

  23. Re:US, Too on Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox · · Score: 1, Informative

    The US Government stopped all research in chemical and biological warfare (except to produce vaccines and treatments) ~1970 (I think it was '68). The Soviets' work was continued until the early '90s.

  24. Re:Thank the US government on Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox · · Score: 1

    And the US government is unique in the world as being the only country to develop and research biological weapons? I don't think so.
    The Soviet program far far far outweighed anything the US government did in that arena.

  25. Re:More important than that... on Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox · · Score: 1

    I agree and disagree. True, we (the US) have the 'limelight' being the only remaining superpower, and sometimes use that power incorrectly, but bin Laden and crew are members of a religious Mass Movement.

    Mass Movements, and the people within them, generally look to alienate themselves from the rest of the world so as to strengthen the bond between their own members.

    Quite simply, if not the US, they will find _someone_ to hate (what is struggle without conflict?). We are merely being used as a scapegoat.