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  1. Re:RIAA/MPAA Nightmare on Sony Announces a Super Playstation 2, the "PSX" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Considering it's Sony, I'm sure they would find a way to get PS2 game pirating in there somehow.

  2. Re:Good God Man on Cyber Insurance Between the Lines · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually commas could be inserted properly.

    It discusses a case in which an administrator, who set up back doors in the system with which he was trusted, deleted files to which he could access after he was fired.

  3. Re:BOFH on Cyber Insurance Between the Lines · · Score: 1

    Lets not forget the new home
    http://theregister.co.uk/content/30/index.ht ml

  4. Heh on Cyber Insurance Between the Lines · · Score: 1

    If you can't trust a bloodsucking insurance company who can you trust...

  5. Re:Martian and Bugs Bunny on Pictures of Earth From Mars · · Score: 1

    Where's the KABOOM? There was supposed to be an earth shattering KABOOM!!

  6. See ya in 5-10.... on Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well I guess I'm going to jail, my cell phone ocassionally intercepts other communications and I hear their conversation in the background of mine...damn the luck.

  7. By this same logic... on Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? · · Score: 1

    That would mean a voice mail recording of a wrong number is a crime because you intercepted a call that was not meant to be directed at you.

  8. Mainframe Techies Are A Dying Breed on Mainframe Techies Are A Dying Breed · · Score: 1

    Mainframe Techies Are A Dying Breed...Damn SARS

    Sys Admin Reduction Syndrome

  9. Must be a typo.. on Hijacking .NET · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "As a bonus, you get a great introduction to how Windows security works"

    Should read: "...how Windows security doesn't work."

  10. Re:Jesus Christ! Get with the program, grandpa! on HTTP: The Definitive Guide · · Score: 2, Informative

    *psst*

    HTML != HTTP

  11. Re:Considering lack of spam legislation otherwise on FTC vs. Open SMTP Relays · · Score: 1

    Umm...for clarification I was thinking incompetent sysadmin...but upon closer inspection you wanted to drag the spammers so...yeah

  12. Re:Considering lack of spam legislation otherwise on FTC vs. Open SMTP Relays · · Score: 0

    Oooh, and we get to see how good Cowbeal Neil really is with a lariat!

    Here "sysadmin, sysadmin, sysadmin, GOTCHYA!"

  13. Re:Looks like... on FTC vs. Open SMTP Relays · · Score: 0

    ...I think your employer should let you run around outside once in a while instead of keeping you locked in the server room. You appear to be a little on edge.

  14. Oh joy... on FTC vs. Open SMTP Relays · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm thinking most of these letters will be filed in the round bin.

    50% of the people recieving the letter will be the wrong person and not have a clue what it is.
    10% will read it and panic, but ultimately it won't get to the sysadmin and nothing will change
    20% will have some obscure reasons for using open relays
    and 20% of all statistics are made up as they are typed.

  15. Re:Actually.... on Electrolux Robot Vacuum Cleaner · · Score: 0

    Yeah that works, but at 6'3" I'm just a little too tall to clean under my couch with the sock technique. ...and my poor white...err...gray socks.

  16. Hmm... on Linux Desktop Without X11 · · Score: 0

    Athene (-n)
    n. Greek Mythology
    The goddess of wisdom, the practical arts, and warfare, and the protectress of cities, especially Athens. ...but can she protect my inbox from spam?

  17. Re:Or heres an idea on Too Cool For Secure Code? · · Score: 0

    Ussually in open source there is a person or group responsibility for that code that you would send the hole to for them to patch, this CAN be kept quiet like everything else.

  18. I'm not sure on video games but... on Legality of Renting Video Games? · · Score: 0

    My mother worked in a small video rental shop and it was inhumane how much they had to pay for movies so they could rent them, top releases were upwards of $600 USD. Some B movies were "cheap" and only $50USD but at those prices you had to rent the movie ALOT to get your money back.

    Places like Blockbuster and Rogers video pay less since they buy 1000s of copies of each movie and would get price breaks due to the large quantities involved.

  19. Re:GREAT! on XML Co-Creator says XML Is Too Hard For Programmers · · Score: 0

    You do realize the difference between xhtml and html is virtually nothing but a properly formatted html document with matching opening and closing tags.

  20. Re:Why not abreviate the element close tag? on XML Co-Creator says XML Is Too Hard For Programmers · · Score: 0

    For readability and it makes parsing an XML file easier.

    Try and find the bug if you forget to close a tag with , but if all your closing tags are labelled finding the bug is simple.

  21. Maybe it's just me... on XML Co-Creator says XML Is Too Hard For Programmers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    But wasn't the entire point of XML for data exchange. You use XSLT to transform incoming data into the format your software wants, your software doesn't NEED to be able to read an XML format, but it's alot easier to knock off an XSLT file to transform data coming in to work with your app, than coding your app to handle more than one file type.

    You create another XSLT for outbound data to transform your proprietary format to XML so it can be consumed by another application, company, etc.

    XML isn't made to be used as the be all, end all of file formats, it's made to be a simple, yet robust, generic format for transporting data between disparate systems running on any OS, in any programming language.

    The other advantage is XML is self describing, I can glance at an XML file and see what all the data is and write an XSLT to get what I need out of the XML for my application alot easier than glancing at a flat text file for the same information.

    And considering there is an XML implementation for nearly every language out there that can be had for free why are people bothering to write there own parsers? What a waste of time.

  22. Could it be the first? on The Theory of Leech Computing · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well is this the first post...?

  23. Re:I've carted my LEGOS... on Why Can't LEGO Click? · · Score: 1

    I had both, you could build some really great stuff if you combined them.