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  1. Re:Why is NAT so bad? on How Things Will Change Under IPv6 · · Score: 1

    In fact, hiding behind NAT gives you about 17 million potential addresses. Anybody trying to get info on your computer or network has to first find the needle in the hay stack.

    IPv6 offers each business client a block that's 300 million times larger than that. Suddenly the haystack is much much bigger. Home users will probably have just as much obscurity because the ISP will potentially have a block that big for it's clients.

    Proponents of not switching to IPv6 because of NAT's "security" are doing themselves a diservice (sp).

  2. Re:What ya need is... on IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees · · Score: 1

    Each line (named after cool-sounding components like "Capacitor", "Resistor", "North Bridge") has its own signature style and contains a 3 or 4 of each type of item (pants, shoes, shirts, sweaters, coats, blazers). Any combo within the line will look good. Buy two complete lines and you have a week's worth of outfits.

    Wait a second.. 4 pants and 4 shirts means I can go 16 days between washings! That's only one line every three weeks! The only real problem I see with this is that they need to develop a ton of lines. If only 4 lines are designed, then you will always match about 1/4 of the IT department.

  3. Re:Attack the messenger (please) on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    However, whatever you have made has an obligation to you (for example, something as simple as a bookshelf whose job is now to hold books). God doesn't owe us anything. If He made us (which He has), then we owe Him our loyalties.

    Wow, that's scary. I must be naive 'cause I never would have thought anybody actually felt this way.

    This bookshelf theaory of yours makes no sense. These bookshelves did not sign any sort of contract saying they would hold your books if you made them. You make them and force them into servitude regardless of what they want to do. Maybe, just maybe, they'd rather be night tables.

    It's one thing to be greatful for existence, it's another to be indebted for something you never asked for.

  4. Re:Windows without a compiler?! on .Net Framework and Visual Studio Now Available · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the old days computers were only bought by geeks. Nowadays only a small percantage of people care about a compiler. 'sides, can't you just code using in CRL and a text editor as long as you have the .Net framework?

  5. Troll deficiency on The exhaustion of IPv4 address space · · Score: 1

    Maybe a new troll modding system needs implemented to weed out the weaker trolls. At least then, new gibberish will be good gibberish.

  6. Delayed? on Microsoft Threatens To Withdraw Windows in S.Korea · · Score: 1

    ...or delay offering new versions in Korea.

    So what? South Korea will have to wait for what? The release of Longhorn? It's not like they aren't already making everybody wait.

  7. It probably wouldn't matter on U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet · · Score: 1

    I bet that if the US tried to make some policy change that was very unpopular with the world at large, it would probably not be able to really enforce it.

    The internet is to distributed to completely control it. Sure, things could get real messy for a while, but it would eventually get sorted out.

  8. Re:"record our entire lives" on 100 Terabyte 3.5-inch Optical Storage · · Score: 1

    "Record our entire lives" is not very quantitative. I for 1 think we are getting shortchanged if that's all we get to record our lives with. The sound bytes alone won't fit on that.

    Other, less windy, folks can probalby fit that and more.

  9. Re:Record labels are still up to their old tricks on Labels Find New Method of Payola · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they don't care about the art as much as the fame. In that case, starving sucks :|

  10. Re:There is probably already a bittorrent on Night Vision Goggles vs Pirates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anybody that wants to take the time to download and watch a poor quality pirated copy shot in a theatre is a huge fan. That person is also going to go watch the movie themselves, probably more than once.

    Warner Brothers is delusional if it actually believes that it's losing money because of theatre copies.

  11. Re:Question about ICANN's place in the world on ICANN Budget Questioned · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would a (I presume) for-profit corporation like ICANN be preferable to a system controlled by governments?

    Actually, ICANN is a non-profit according to their website. I'm guessing they want to jack up their salaries 20 fold and the easiest way is to try and hold everyone at gunpoint.

  12. Re:how about it moving every year ? on LinuxWorld Moving to Boston · · Score: 1

    Why not just visit LinuxWorld in San Francisco then? I think it's around August and it's a hecka great place to visit. I like the idea of having two shows on opposite ends of the country.

  13. Re:yes!! on Viral GPL Misconceptions Elegantly Explained · · Score: 1
    The GPL states a single, specific requirement, above all else: that if you create a software program that is a derived work of another software program, then that combined work must be distributed under these terms, no more, no less.


    The one thing about these statements is that they always gloss over the fact that it only applies to software you plan to sell or release. If the software is written strictly for internal use, then you don't have to make any source codes available. No one ever seems to mention that. I guess it's pretty obvious, but I think some managers that are new to the entire GPL concept read that statement and assume that by using GPL code to build their internal applications they somehow have to give away what they would hope to keep a proprietary secret.
  14. Is Linux trademarked? on Lindows Ordered To Stop Using Lindows Name · · Score: 1

    I'm curious.. is the name Linux trademarked? Not that I see it happening but could Linus gone and sued Lindows in the same fashion?

  15. Re:Now I have a reason to switch... on Solaris 8 & 9 Free for x86 Once Again · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait a second! They own the copyrights to nothing? Does that mean if I'm sitting at my cube doing nothing I'm infringing on their work?

    I'm sure there must be prior art to this. Someone somewhere must have done nothing before 1984 and documented it.

  16. Re:Those are shorts? on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 2, Funny

    I call them mediums.

  17. PS2 too on Finding Holiday Discounts on iPods? · · Score: 1

    I saw the PS2 on the Best Buy sales circular for sale at $179.00 on the day after Thanksgiving. I figured it must be a deal. I mean it's in the sales circular and it's the day after Thanksgiving.

    Well, I go and do a little price shopping and guess what.. everyone sells it for the same $179.00 new. I check out the ad again and Best Buy doesn't have it on sale, it's just in the circular.

    Some stuff just doesn't go on sale. I really dislike the way prices are controlled. Paranoid guy that I am, I'm sure it's The Man that's doing this and somehow making even more money of me.. oh well.. no PS2 for me I guess.

  18. Re:Yes, and so is the patent office on AT&T Sues PayPal and eBay for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    You may own all the patents to toast but I'm gonna patent the process of selling toast on the web. I'm suing you for everything you make from your posts :P

    It really is ridiculous what can get patented. Next thing you know folks will patent the most direct routes from point A to point B and sue you any time you drive your car.

  19. Re:Isn't Microsoft culpable in this mess? on Gangs Extort Companies With DDoS Attacks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Another way to look at it...

    If a company makes windows without locks can you sue because your house was so easy to break into? Or better yet, can you sue them cause it was so easy to break into your house to rack up long distance charges on your phone? Who the heck was calling Eastern Europe from this number?