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  1. Re:Why would this break RSS readers? on Netscape Dumps Critical File, Breaks RSS 0.9 Feeds · · Score: 0, Redundant

    My only recourse is to take the DTD lines out of the various config files. (Reason: My JBoss server is deployed in private networks where the server can't reach the internet).

    why not change your hosts file so that my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd points to a copy on your_local_network/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd ... (for example, 192.168.1.96 my.netscape.com)

  2. Re:Hmm.... on Netscape Dumps Critical File, Breaks RSS 0.9 Feeds · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the new Quantum Web Computing Experience. Blink again, and there's a 50/50 chance it'll be back to normal - or your computer will disappear.

  3. Re:Zero-Knowledge Proof Authentication Systems... on Secure Ways to Determine 'Something You Have'? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure this is not the case for NAGRA-2/P5.

    Nagra2 has been cracked for almost 2 years http://dishnewbies.com/nagra2.shtml ... and a lot has happened since.

    Most decent aftermarket receivers nowadays don't need a card to decrypt either dishnet, expressvu or echostar. Just plug them in, wait 5 minutes, and everything's "open". Example: I know someone who has a Viewsat Ultra, and it works fine.

    This was an example of a single-point failure of depending on "something you have". You were supposed to "have" to have a valid access card ... except that you no longer need any access card to decrypt the satellite signal. If you can do it in hardware, you can do it in software - it just takes more time.

  4. Re:So CCTV is OK? on The Snoop Next Door Is Posting to YouTube · · Score: 1
    You'll never stop all crime. However, studies show that taking cops off the streets and sitting them in front of cctv cameras is no guarantee of reducing crime - on the contrary ...

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2071824.s tm

    Part of the problem is that people in general haven't got a clue. For example:

    Nothing is more frightening to a criminal than the thought of being caught and going to jail, so if CCTVs make him or her think twice before they go ahead and commit the crime I think it's worth it and a step in the right direction for winning back public confidence. M Khan, UK
    Crooks don't mind going back to jail too much - they regard it as a vacation. They can meet their old buddies, make new connections, etc. Why do yu think they refer to jails as "crossbar hotels"? Heck, they even get conjugal visits, and drugs are easily available.

    Talk to any prison guard - they'll tell you who really runs "the joint."

  5. Re:Quick Fix Redux on When Your Site Ceases To Exist · · Score: 1

    5. Have midgets properly proofread all posts

    Why? Not proofreading gives it that "authentic slashdot editor" feel.

    They have a script called "PudgeThis.pl" that takes every 3rd article and inserts a random error/non-factoid/dupe/non-sequiteur before it can be posted. Its the "magic sauce." It helps that it is written in perl - and that the original author was drunk as a skunk at the time.

    Of course, on slow news days, they change the parameters from every 3rd article to twice per article ... which explains the dupes/trifectas/quaddies and the occasional octo- and sextuplet-dupe-posts ...

    The "My Little Ponies" thing has no relation to "PudgeThis.pl" - its just a bad flashback ... cheap drugs ...

  6. Re: rankingg vs. utility on When Your Site Ceases To Exist · · Score: 1

    Fair enough ... if it has the answers, people will go to it no matter where google places it.

    What gets me is how self-feeding all this infatuation with being on the first page of google has become. I'm not dissing google - I use it dozens of times a day at work - but the intrnet is much more than pagerank.

  7. Re:Call me a Luddite, but... on Secure Ways to Determine 'Something You Have'? · · Score: 1

    Have we really become so damn busy (or lazy) in today's society that we can't work a trip to the bank into our day?

    Hey, some of us have to work for a living. The don't call them "bankers' hours" for nothing ...

  8. Re:One password - many combinations. on Secure Ways to Determine 'Something You Have'? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Shouldn't take more than n/2 on average ... and for the two digits, just pick any 2 digits at random, and you have a 1/100 chance of being right the first time. If they give you 3 chances each call, you need, on average, to make 18 calls to get access, no matter how long the actual password is.

  9. Re:Zero-Knowledge Proof Authentication Systems... on Secure Ways to Determine 'Something You Have'? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, it works SO well for satellite TV ... oops ...

    A $50 receiver cracks the rotating keys in minutes, a $200 receiver in seconds ... (the latest models run linux, btw).

  10. Re:my cu's solution, for comparison on Secure Ways to Determine 'Something You Have'? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For those who missed it, the above post is enclosed in [sarcasm] tags

    I could never figure out how anyone could believe that "name of favorite pet" or "last 4 digits of your phone number" or "name of your [insert whatever here]" is a good security question.

    Now, to answer the REAL question posed by the article's title:

    " Secure Ways to Determine 'Something You Have'?

    - the answer is obvious - go to an anonymous clinic in another part of town, use a fake name, and pay the doctor in unmarked bills :-)

  11. Re:Never heard of them before, so nothings' change on When Your Site Ceases To Exist · · Score: 1

    As a "community forum" it should be able to weather not being listed by google ... right?

    After all, how many people ended up on slashdot via google as opposed to word-of-mouth?

    Google isn't the be-all and end-all. There's no "live by Google, die by Google." If you've got something good, people WILL tell others.

  12. Re:Well.. on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1

    Fundies don't believe in "mortal sin" ... but then again, they don't believe that "them thar Cath'liks" are "saved" either ... so maybe they think they've got that loophole covered ...

    Fundies will take anyone. Just say the magic words, and you're good as gold. G. Gordon Liddy. Delorean. Hitler. Anyone ... "except gays, lesbians, and transsexuals, or course ... they're goin' to hell!"

    I guess that explains why everyone in heaven dresses so tacky :-)

  13. Re:Pick up your frigging dog shit!!! on The Snoop Next Door Is Posting to YouTube · · Score: 1

    Actually, some of my friends and I did that ... we "infiltrated" a Jehovah's Witness group, and it turns out that most of them don't really believe ... they just go there because if they don't their spouse/parent/whoever will make their life miserable (ok, MORE miserable).

  14. Re:Google needs to do more of this. on When Your Site Ceases To Exist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, anyone stupid enough to buy SCOX deserves what they get ... but I notice the #1 article is boston.com (Boston Globe) - the same people who did the hatchet job on Peter Quinn for advocating ODF for Massechussetts

    We know who was behind THAT one ... Microsoft. And of course they're behind the SCOX stuff ... perhaps this is just another Team99 tactic?

  15. Re:Never heard of them before, so nothings' change on When Your Site Ceases To Exist · · Score: 1

    I can't say for sure, but maybe he's connected with some moron that phoned me the day after Christmas !!! about a domain I registered for someone else (obviously looked up my contact info via whois), and got pissed off when I told them that they don't need help gaming the search engines.

    Is his phone number 425-882-8838?

    BTW - if anyone else has been phone-spammed by these c*ck-gobblers at internetadvancement, please get in touch with me so we can file complaints about abuse of the information in the whois database.

  16. Re:Well.. on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1

    Ohh, hit a sore spot, didn't I?

    I pointed out the flaws in your argument (btw - your comparison is way off - you used as an example people's actions when the consequences are at some indeterminate date far in the future, as opposed to my immediate consequences scenario, so your argument sucks ass, just like your ad hominem attack).

    The simple fact is that most religious behaviour (like the fundies, for example) is exactly like any ther pathological addictive behaviour. They're off their nut, psychotic, delusional and just plain boorish.

    Now they have a right to be that way ... I never said they didn't ... but they don't have a right to use the school system to linfect the next generation with their wacko beliefs.

  17. Never heard of them before, so nothings' changed on When Your Site Ceases To Exist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Javalobby? Another slashvertisement ...

  18. Re:Well.. on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1

    Good point. Want to see a fundy christian squirm? - Ask them if its possible Hitler is in heaven. After all, who knows, maybe he "accepted Jesus" at some point in his life, and was "just a backslider", and repented at the last instant ...

  19. Re:Pick up your frigging dog shit!!! on The Snoop Next Door Is Posting to YouTube · · Score: 1

    I agree that its not the size of the dog ... but I've seen a LOT of small dogs on those 25' retractable leashes, where the dog is far enough away that the owner can "pretend" not to see "precious" taking a dump.

    Or other times, people trying to "nudge" the turd off the sidewalk and onto the road rather than pick it up. You really can't get away with that when its a 5-pound log from a St-Bernard even if you wanted to, but enough people try it with smaller dogs.

    And then there's the ones that "walk" their dog behind their bike ... the dog has to take a dump "on the run" and the owner doesn't even look ... I wish I had taken a video of that. Its just plain cruel.

  20. Re:Dog crap? on The Snoop Next Door Is Posting to YouTube · · Score: 1

    Good point.

    The door handles are good because, at night, someone is likely to find out "the hard way" and their first instinct is "ewww! wipe it off quick!" on something close - like their pants leg.

    And of course, taking it to a car wash just forces it into the door itself.

    People who don't pick up after their pets shouldn't be allowed to have them in the first place, but that's another story.

  21. people _can_ be a useful natural resource ... on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1

    but I still feel that people _can_ be a useful natural resource

    2 words: Soylent Green :-)

  22. Re:Full of themselves? on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1

    Two was enough - replacements, and that's it. Having 7 kids nowadays is selfish - its saying "I have a right to over-breed, and spread my inferior genes all over the place" ... because lets face it, this guy is no Einstein.

    What happens if smart people stick to 2 kids per couple, and the mouth-breathers continue to over-breed? Well, within 1,000 years, the mouth-breathers represent more than 99.99% of the population. Of course, the dumbing down of everything shows we've already started down that road ...

    Think of it - at this rate, within a couple hundred years, Homer Simpson won't be representative of your average American - he'll be too smart.

    Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, within 25 years, Chinas' population will be going into negative growth. With that will come increasing wealth concentration into each succeeding generation, and fewer resources needed for each succeding generation to enjoy a better standard of living. The US, by contrast, will continue to grow, topping out at more than 650 million in 2050, with a continual decline in living standards. Survival of the fittest? It'll work the same way it works in Bangladesh and other countries that refuse to get a grip on their population growth.

  23. Re:So CCTV is OK? on The Snoop Next Door Is Posting to YouTube · · Score: 1

    Which would you rather have - not have your place broken into in the first place, or have it broken into, but they catch the perp 6 weeks later after finally going over the video, he doesn't have any assets, so you get no restitution ... and in the meantime he's also smashed a couple dozen other windows, done a few B&Es etc.

    Britain's cctv system doesn't work. It doesn't lower crime rates. Cops on the street are what make the difference.

  24. Re:catch up on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How many Americans has BushCheneyRumsfeld's "quick little war" killed so far? More than 9/11.
    It took nearly four years to get to this point. Bill Clinton's inaction and ineptitude in the years leading up to 9/11 got 3000 people killed in less than two hours. The two are hardly comparable.

    You forget, Bush was in power for almost a year by the time 9/11 happened. He also ignored the warnings. He also made sure all his Saudi friends were able to leave the country by air while all other air traffic was grounded. Bin Ladenis Saudi. If you're going to play connect-the-dots, they lead to Bush, not Clinton.

  25. Re:Pick up your frigging dog shit!!! on The Snoop Next Door Is Posting to YouTube · · Score: 1

    The local SPCA gets 2,000 dogs and 25,000 cats a year. Most of the dogs find homes. Most of the cats get put down. Why so many cats? Because cats are allowed to run loose.

    Leash laws for cats would change this.