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  1. Re:RTFA on Broadband Data Improvement Act Clears Committee · · Score: 1

    I consider anything that isn't baseband as broadband, but what do I know :P

  2. Re:Why not v3.3.x? on Samba Adopts GPLv3 For Future Releases · · Score: 1

    My guess is that they reserve odd minor version numbers for development branches. 3.0 and 3.2 are stable versions.

  3. Re:Ouch. on AT&T Announces Plans to Filter Copyright Content · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ah but SSL/TLS can be detected and they can just block it.

  4. Re:OS requirments? on StarCraft, Nothing But StarCraft · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Life in prison? on Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy' · · Score: 1

    I was debating exactly this with some friends and it would be very hard not to use a computer today. Technology has penetrated our dailty lives. Even my HS job at a grocery store involved regular use of computers.

    Self checkout lanes?
    Electronic timecard systems?
    Cell phones?

    On the extreme end of things even a car's ECU is modifiable by an owner...

  6. Re:This is news? on No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1
  7. The cure is vampirism on Possible Cure For Autism · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Issue? on Charter Implements SiteFinder-Like DNS · · Score: 1

    Totally Agree. Where I used to live Charter was the *only* high speed internet access in the area for a long time.

  9. I see they are using rule 6 on Scientists Attempt To Calm Volcano · · Score: 4, Informative

    The opposing viewpoint shown in the article reminds me of the 6th networking truth:

    "It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving the problem to a different part of the overall network architecture) than it is to solve it." --RFC1925

  10. Re:Oblig. on Fight Spam With Nolisting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't have numbers to back it up, but most things I read say that the Secondary MX is *more* likely to be targeted by spammers on the belief that fewer filters will be in place to prevent spam.

    Those statements could be refering to their use as open relays though.

  11. Re:C says... on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    People should not be afraid of cookies, cookies should be afraid of people.

  12. Re:#10? on Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers · · Score: 1
  13. CowboyNeal for President on How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we use this to create a CowboyNeal option in the next election.

  14. public IP space on Enabling Bittorrent at the University Level? · · Score: 1

    I guess another question is whether your university has the public IP space to actually do that for all your students. If you don't already have enough public IP space then you're gonna have to deal with begging ARIN for a bigger allocation which might not be worth your time. /my university has a /16 //its only using 16% of it by my last check

  15. Re:Think again about academia.... on Industrial Labs that Still Do Fundamental Research · · Score: 1

    Bell Labs wasn't killed by shareholders, it was killed by the US Government. The Bell System was heavily based upon the idea of the less profitable areas being subsidized by the more profitable areas. One example is the urban telephone subscribers subsidizing the rural telephone subscribers' connections. They both paid the same amount, but the rural lines actually cost more. Another would be the regional Bells subsidizing Bell Labs.

    With the breakup of AT&T in 1984 this method of doing business died. In fact from 1956 to 1984 AT&T was mostly prohibited from profiting from the research from Bell Labs. One notable item they were forbidden from profiting from was UNIX.

  16. Re:LSB is worthless on Porting to the Linux Standard Base · · Score: 1

    Not if the package versions need to go downward instead of upward

  17. Re:LSB is worthless on Porting to the Linux Standard Base · · Score: 1

    Actually you probably can dist-upgrade Debian to Ubuntu. This is not a task for a novice and is definetly not supported, but it should work.

    Its slighty more involved than "vim /etc/apt/sources.list;apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade" though.

  18. MY HERO on What Spore May Spawn · · Score: 0

    WILL WRIGHT IS GOD!

  19. i'll bring the marshmellows on Space Shuttle Heading Home · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can bring the marshmellows is someone else can bring the chocolate and graham crackers!

  20. Re:Icredible on Web 2.0, Meet .Net 3.0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wish PHP had correct and useful user contributions.

  21. Yeah they learned from their mistakes... on Nintendo Learns from Mistakes with GameCube · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...this time they are making completely new ones.

    Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

  22. What I want in a war simulation on What Would You Like to See from Game AI? · · Score: 2, Funny
  23. Re:Splenda - not NutraSweet(tm) on The Soda Situation - Succulent Drinks w/o the Sweets? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Diet Coke with Splenda has all the sickening sweetness of regular Pepsi.

    There I fixed it for ya

  24. which architectures? on Ambidextrous Linux/Windows Virus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The article says the worm was written in assembly and I assume it means x86 assembly. Can the worm infect non-x86 Linux hosts?

  25. local lug on Coding Communities - What Works? · · Score: 1

    I use the IRC channel of my local Linux User Group. (course I'm also slightly biased as it's administrator)