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  1. Re:Those who do not learn from history.... on Asia Running Out Of IP Addresses · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's also why Al Gore isn't your president.

  2. Re:Yes, we must filter out the dummies on Bayesian Filtering For Dummies · · Score: 1

    A browser plug-in could be made for this too... Just find what separates comments and hide them if they fall below your "spam treshhold". Could be more personalized than just a server-side script.

  3. Re:Is the GPL forcing? No! on FSF Threatens GPL Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Man, what a big fallacy.

    1) I think the GPL is bad;
    2) I am a professional programmer
    3) Therefore professional programmeres think the GPL is bad.

    Are you saying that you are more professional than me? Heck, are you more professional than Linus or RMS?

  4. Here's a tought on Microsoft To License SCO's Unix Code · · Score: 1

    Microsoft used parts of Unix and FreeBSD into their own operating systems, AND their relationship with SCO goes back a few years, AND SCO owns some Unix code IP.

    Now, imagine if MS used SCO's code, and SCO released its own code under the GPL (when they had a Linux distro), does it mean MS could have used GPL'ed code in Windows?

    I know you have to stretch the facts and a lot of coincidences have to merge, but hey, it's a possibility, isn't?

    Imagine if there's GPL code inside Windows...

  5. Re:When is X12 coming out? on Linux Desktop Without X11 · · Score: 1

    Geeks around the world are still expecting XXX :)

  6. Consultants on Security Plans for When Your Senior Developer Leaves? · · Score: 1
  7. Re:C++ = Cobol? on The Unix-Haters Handbook Online · · Score: 1

    That's the whole joke, COBOL of the 90's. You wouldn't believe how many COBOL apps existed or still exists, specially on in-house jobs...

  8. Re:why now? on Mozilla Branding Strategy Clarified · · Score: 1

    I guess they were just thinking about what to do.

  9. Re:Man, another filesharing story... on RIAA, MPAA Lose Suit Against Streamcast and Grokster · · Score: 1

    We didn't "blew" it. We've changed the system.

  10. Re:You people are completely missing the point her on RIAA, MPAA Lose Suit Against Streamcast and Grokster · · Score: 1

    Do you think prisons budget will be enough for 2004?

  11. Re:He has a funny idea of "Innovation." on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 1

    Knoppix. Truly awesome stuff.

    I've packed a demo of our web systems into a customized Knoppix distro and sent to dozens of potential clients. Start computer with the CD, press enter and BUM you are fully testing our work, including dynamic content (from databases).

  12. Re:We didn't have social engineers - we had audito on Social Engineering Still Best Way to Crack Security · · Score: 1

    You are going to Heaven ;) I'll be personally lobbying with Saint Peter for a nice cloud for you up there.

  13. Re:Passwords themselves are bad social engineering on Social Engineering Still Best Way to Crack Security · · Score: 1

    Passwords are supposed to identify you, right? So what other cheap methods of uniquely identifying a person do we have?

    Ex-wifes don't count... ;)

    What we truly need is to change the user mindset, the way they think what passwords are. Passwords for them are just an annoyance between where they are and what they want to do.

    We are paranoid about passwords because we know their value. Users don't. They at most think it's just to personalize the system for them. They don't care about data or security. And that's what we need to change.

    We need to tell users passwords are *THE* most important thing....

  14. Re:The best password I've ever used on Social Engineering Still Best Way to Crack Security · · Score: 1

    I've used a similar password internally on our company. It was the word "nothing". So when an user tried to login to test the app and asked me for the password, I said:

    Me: The password is nothing.
    He: I am sorry, it doesn't work.
    Me: I've said it's nothing.
    He: I put your login "inerte" and pressed enter.
    Me: No, type nothing at the password filed.
    He: That's what I did.
    Me: No, the word "nothing". You know, (spelling it) N-O-T-H-I-N-G.
    He: Ooooooooh

    I don't know why but it's a funny trick.

  15. Re:Gaming after Photorealism on Carmack On Doom III And The Evolution Of Graphics · · Score: 1

    Maybe it will follow the path that art (specially painting) did. Realism on Renascence, impressionism (all about lights) then came photography, and after that we got Picasso, Andy Warhol, postmodernism, etc...

    We might go from crude to perfect to abstract in games. What it will be graphics of this age, and how will we interact with it?

  16. That's the way on Fox Sues Over Reuse Of Public-Domain Documentary · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That it's suppose to work. If we consider "can't use because it's the labor of someone else", goodbye public domain.

    It is not only a right, it is a Good Thing (tm). It expands our culture.

  17. Re:Wrong Idea on World's First Encyclopedia of Future Inventions · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't. Progress is when you are your employer :)

  18. Hey on Ethics and Video Game Reviews · · Score: 1

    Don't worry about me. You would never piss me off.

    *cough* Emule *cough*

  19. Re:Wow on Hydra: Rendezvous-Enabled Text Editing · · Score: 1

    Imagine a proficient coder that doesn't like to add comments with someone who does it, or a security expert fixing holes at the same time where a more creative developer adds new funcionalities.

    Just think that two people with different sub-sets of expertise can instantaneously work together...

  20. Re:Should Sourceforge be a location for stable... on Too Much Free Software · · Score: 1

    Stable now doesn't mean stable forever.

    And there's the bandwidth bills and communication channels for support...

  21. Re:One good point on Too Much Free Software · · Score: 1

    While there are projects that are not maintained anymore, that are also stable projects, working software, that simply are not being updated. But sometimes you really don't need it anyway.

    So I would add another filter, based on Status..

  22. Re:Where is your Freedom going? on Broad Bills to Protect 'Communications Services' · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or are these new laws being passed over the last couple years seem to really deprive the average citizen of regular rights and freedoms?

    It's just you.

    I am not allowed to talk on this subject. ;)

  23. Re:begin? on Gnutella2 Specifications · · Score: 1

    That's one of the goals of Gnutella2. Altought "global search" is not possible on practice (scale problems), Shareaza/Gnutella2 does an AWESOME job, close to it.

    When Shareaza 1.7 was released, the network came close to 80/100k users. And the search was global. You clicked a magnet link and in less than two seconds it would find the source.

  24. Re:New Tactic on CDT Releases New Report on Origins of Spam · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not new. In fact quite common.

    I use Evolution and it can block loading images from the web.

  25. Re:I love todays propaganda, it's so transparent on MPAA, Microsoft Testify Piracy Funds Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Pick one:

    Sonny...?

    Or do you prefer:

    Sony...?