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  1. Re:Two of my prayers for FireFox Improvement on Firefox 2.0 To Debut Tuesday · · Score: 1

    >>so why not pray for FireFox

    Thanks but no thanks. I think IE requires more in the way of faith than FF does.

  2. Re:As I understand them, on Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating · · Score: 1

    That's a shame, I had this mental picture of little Jimmy, up before the Troopmaster in front of the rest of the squad, having his non-piracy patch ripped off and his sword broken in two before being booted out - just like Chuck Connors in "Branded".

    I guess that dates me...

  3. And in other news... on Iran Caps Net Access to Keep West Out · · Score: 1

    The Iranian Government has imposed limits on the road network - no traffic is allowed to go faster than a horse-drawn cart. Er, except for Government vehicles.

  4. IT Types have the wrong approach on IT and Divorce? · · Score: 4, Funny

    They tell the woman that they love 'em, and figure that the woman should understand that the value of love for that woman should be 'true' from now until they tell her that it is now 'false'.

    Unfortunately, the woman needs to have the value of love set every time she boots in the morning, and occasionally during the day also.

    Playing Call of Duty 8 hours a night for a month straight doesn't help either.

  5. Call of Duty on What Are Your Top Five 'Comfort' Games? · · Score: 1

    That would be

    1. Call of Duty
    2. Call of Duty
    3. Call of Duty
    4. Call of Duty
    5. Call of Duty (well, maybe Unreal 2004)

  6. Those long winter evenings... on Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits · · Score: 1

    ...must really whiz by at his place.

  7. Same old, same old... on U.S. Government Crippled by Sex, Gaming Sites · · Score: 1, Funny

    As per the old jokes:

    Q. How many people work for the government?
    A. About half of them. ..and..

    Q. What do you get when you put 50 lesbians and 50 gov't workers in the same room?
    A. 100 people who don't do dick.

  8. Re:Why errors are good for crackers on How Prevalent Are SQL Injection Vulnerabilities? · · Score: 1

    As I mentioned in a prevous post on this topic, explicit error messages are a godsend for a hacker. Rather than try to insert a numeric value where one isn't required, you could, for example insert (Select name from users where id=1) and the nice error message will tell you something like "Unable to convert 'George' to an Integer". I've actually seen this on a commercial website.

  9. You don't need to bother with SQL Injection on How Prevalent Are SQL Injection Vulnerabilities? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you search for "mdb" you can download the entire database without too much trouble.

    I recently came across a commercial site where you could substitute, for instance, "(select first_name from users where id=1)" into the page url and a nice error screen came up telling you that it couldn't convert "George" into an Integer.

    It's not the SQL Injection per se that is the biggest problem, but the nice error messages you get back giving you, more or less, a SQL command line interface. Errors should be detected and redirected to a sanitized page, or if you can't be bothered, an unceremonious crash.

    I notified the owners of that site by the way.

  10. Re:Very funny Scotty, on Teleportation Gets a Boost · · Score: 1

    I like this result best of all.

  11. Re:Hmm on Invisible Unmanned Aircraft · · Score: 5, Funny

    No no no, what you're seeing is the craft edited into the video in the first place. You can't see it normally 'cos it's invisible.

  12. If you add another terbium atom on A Buckyegg Breaks Pentagon Rules · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could give it to the Kiwis to play with ;)

  13. Don't you mean on MySpace Trumps YouTube in Video · · Score: 1

    MySpace Wallops YouTube?

  14. Softly softly catchee monkey on How to Encourage Use of OSS? · · Score: 1

    Firefox is a great ambassador for OSS - it gives people a good experience and makes them open to trying other offerings, so start with Firefox and then if you get a good response, suggest maybe OpenOffice or Thunderbird next. Eventually, you can say "well you know that all these programs run under Linux too, so if you want, you can get rid of Windows altogether and then you don't really need Spybot, Ad-Aware or that subscription to Anti-virus either".

    Once people focus on using OSS applications and not on the underlying OS then they will be much more receptive to a change.

  15. Re:Casino on Googling for ATM Master Passwords · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure big Tony will be along shortly to remove your kneecaps...

  16. Quick question. on What Came First, the Violence or the Videogame? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How many people didn't go out and perform real-life violence today, because they found relief in a violent videogame?

    I guess statistics are a bit hard to come by on that one.

  17. So basically, what you're saying is... on DoD Wary of That "Open" Word · · Score: 1

    ...that the wrong people are making the decisions on which software to use. They're going off its label rather than its functionality.

  18. I'm sorry... on Is the Do Not Call System Working? · · Score: 1

    I don't give out any personal information over the phone.

    Works every time.

    Sometimes, if call display shows an anonymous number, I tell them flat out that I don't believe them and I suspect that it's a scam.

  19. Re:Excuse me... on Hardware Hacking a Voting Machine in 4 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Point taken, thanks. But if you can open the box, you can replace the innards with any voting system you like.

  20. Excuse me... on Hardware Hacking a Voting Machine in 4 Minutes · · Score: 1

    You can open the lid on one of these things?

    Doesn't that mean they can be owned without having to muck around with the card? Admittedly more difficult to pull off, but feasible nonetheless.

    What's the point of the security tag if you can open up the box?

  21. Windows Firewall Device? on Windows vs Mac Security · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm just wondering if anyone has ever built a firewall device from a Windows box. When I search for "windows firewall" all I get are references to the application that runs on windows, not any kind of firewall device.

    You could build (and Linksys, SMC, DLink etc have built) a firewall device from Linux, *BSD, maybe OSX of which I have no experience, but who could or would build a firewall device from Windows?

    Would you really have to be off your gourd to trust one?

  22. Re:SQL injection target? on The Face of One AOL Searcher Exposed · · Score: 1

    Just a thought but are the people who are hosting the aolsearchdatabase saving the queries made on the data? And will they be releasing the results by IP at a later date? I think we should be told.

  23. Re:Correction to Correction to the Correction? on Sophos Reveals Latest Spam-Relaying Countries · · Score: 1

    Dude, you gotta check your links!

  24. Re:Eliminate the zombies on Sophos Reveals Latest Spam-Relaying Countries · · Score: 1

    You have just described SPF (Sender Policy Framework).

    Check out OpenSPF for more details.

  25. They wouldn't want to make Vista too secure... on Windows Vista still Rife with Insecure Code · · Score: 1

    Otherwise there'd be no incentive to upgrade to the version that comes after, would there?