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  1. Re:oldie but a goodie on Microsoft's Most Successful Failure · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fucking dumb. No "goodie" about it, that was just stupid.

  2. Re:Only $50,000? on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    What does it take to get certified as a Sofer ?

  3. Re:SPOILER Re:Stupid writer on Concepts That Should Be Games? · · Score: 1
    Oh, I understand perfectly well the rest of your comment, and you will hear no argument from me on that score.

    Shalom!

  4. SPOILER Re:Stupid writer on Concepts That Should Be Games? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Why this ain't done, but instead children are used isn't really explained in depth.

    It's hinted at and stated openly several times throughout the book. If you enjoyed it at all you might do well to re-read it because you managed to gloss over one of the central themes of the book.

  5. Re:All inclusive on Next-Gen Gaming to be Uber Expensive · · Score: 1

    I didn't know people were doing this for video games, but my understanding is that this has been done for a long long time by people in order to get extra sensation to pick locks quickly.

  6. Re:Arr! on Virtual Magic Kingdom Beta Launches · · Score: 1

    But you can say "booty"

  7. Re:Good luck on Virtual Magic Kingdom Beta Launches · · Score: 1

    *shrug* Soon enough there'll be a universal translator mod just like WoW had.

  8. Re:It happened ages ago? on Voyager 1 Crosses The Termination Shock · · Score: 1

    Well, the barrier is ~100AU out there. An AU is about 150million km. Light travels at 299,792,458 m/s.

  9. Woohooo! on Voyager 1 Crosses The Termination Shock · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Worlds grow old and suns grow cold
    And death we never can doubt.
    Time's cold wind, wailing down the past,
    Reminds us that all flesh is grass
    And history's lamps blow out.

    But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
    Time won't drive us down to dust again.

    Cycles turn while the far stars burn,
    And people and planets age.
    Life's crown passes to younger lands,
    Time brushes dust of hope from his hands
    And turns another page.

    But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
    Time won't drive us down to dust again.

    But we who feel the weight of the wheel
    When winter falls over our world
    Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes
    To a silver moon in the opened skies
    And a single flag unfurled.

    But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
    Time won't drive us down to dust again.

    We know well what Life can tell:
    If you would not perish, then grow.
    And today our fragile flesh and steel
    Have laid our hands on a vaster wheel
    With all of the stars to know

    That the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
    Time won't drive us down to dust again.

    From all who tried out of history's tide,
    Salute for the team that won.
    And the old Earth smiles at her children's reach,
    The wave that carried us up the beach
    To reach for the shining sun.

    For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
    Time won't drive us down to dust again.

    (c) 1975 - Leslie Fish

  10. Your Lightsaber and You on Home Made Star Wars Movie Injury · · Score: 1

    Jedi training film here.

  11. Re:Huh? on No Billboards in Space · · Score: 1

    Message in a bottle doesn't count. :P

  12. Re:On the subject of software piracy. on Software Piracy Will Get Worse · · Score: 1

    I was once told sir,
    That sanriu is the word
    If nature is absent.

  13. Re:Is Freenet doomed to failure by design? on Revamping Freenet · · Score: 1

    The site you're referring to is (I think) "The Freedom Engine" and it is still the top link. The guy says he'll take any link he's sent, as long as the site is retrievable.

  14. Re:640k, Anyone? on Bill Gates: Cellphone will Beat iPod · · Score: 1

    And we please STFU about how he didn't fucking say it and stop feeding the 640K trolls?

  15. Re:startups on Paul Graham: Hiring is Obsolete · · Score: 1

    And lo! I've been reading a lot online as well as in dead-tree edition. Why, exactly, would that obviate recommendations on specific materials from someone witb a couple of tries under their belt?

  16. Re:startups on Paul Graham: Hiring is Obsolete · · Score: 1

    I'm 26 and am seriously considering starting my own company. Can you recommend any good reading material? I'm working my way through a lot of books and would love some pointers on ones to look for...

  17. Re:Proof of concept? on Cell Phone Virus Threat Overblown · · Score: 1
    Assume I've got access to security firm worm code. I would want a lot more than a dollar to break my NDA and share that with you. I haven't got it, and I haven't signed such an NDA but I think any resonable person can assume it exists and is far more sophisiticated than any worm yet released into the wild. The first portion of this supposition is borne out by the fact that more than one POC worm has been published and then compiled and set loose.

    Yes, a worm will need an infection vector in order to compromise a system. Frankly, that's the least interesting portion of the worm. How it chooses to attack the network after that will determine if it's going to be another Code Red or if it's going to be a non-story. Look at how long it took between initial reports of Blaster and the estimated point when every vulnerable host on the network was infected. It was fast even with the flaws in how it looked for targets.

    Overall the important thing to remember is the lifecycle of a software security flaw... "Theoretical vulnerability only", becomes a "proof of concept exploit" which turns into "all hell breaking loose".

    Well, I'm going to go watch a movie now. Be well.

  18. Re:Proof of concept? on Cell Phone Virus Threat Overblown · · Score: 1
    POC need not come from a security firm. Anyone can prove the concept of a virulent network worm spreading by a given vector, or the concept of how it might choose to parcel IP-space to probe and attack. Other concepts might include algorithms to back-off when re-infected, or back-off when failing to infect a given percentage of the targets.

    And overall the concept you're proving to me is back-off when talking to free ipod spammers. Because you can bet your ass that security firms have POC worms exhibiting all of the traits I mentioned and many, many more. Active response to emergent threats is the one of the biggest, one of the most lucrative, and overall largely unsolved security problems out there right now....

  19. Re:Proof of concept? on Cell Phone Virus Threat Overblown · · Score: 1

    Hardly surprising but you missed the point. POC no-payload bugs have done plenty of damage just by spreading.

  20. Proof of concept? on Cell Phone Virus Threat Overblown · · Score: 1
    the majority of which are fairly benign. They are mostly developed as "proof of concept"

    And all of the other benign proof of concept bugs have caused no damage at all. I mean look at blaster, and slammer, and code red, and...

  21. Re:Pre-FP on Google DNS Glitch Caused Outage · · Score: 1

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  22. Re:Welcome to 1999 on Simple, Bare-Bones Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    Man -- the last time someone mentioned doing it with 2 laylas... Well, it wasn't audio recording we were interested in...

  23. Mirror? on Encrypted Fileserver with Bittorrent Web Interface · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Site is not responding. Anyone have a mirror? Anyone who happened to read it able to comment on how this compares to Freenet ?

  24. Re:Atari Star Wars on The Chewbacca Awards · · Score: 1
    If by the atari arcade game you mean the old old old old one with the flight yoke and you're shooting sparks as you make the run through the deathstar I cannot agree more. I still love that game. Every time I see it (less and less frequently) I will take the time out to pump $5 into it.

    TIE Fighter, too, was awesome, except for some serious problems in the flight environment. As I recall there was no real way to use the throttle on my joystick in it, which was a bummer. Trying to line up perfectly for the long-distance torpedo missions was a bitch with the joysticks of the era -- some control to increase/decrease joystick sensitivity on the fly would have helped a lot... But the absolute worst was the shield. There was no way to keep them auto-balanced so periodically (even in a dog fight) you'd need to tap the shield key three time to run through the fore-aft-neutral sequence to get them balanced.

  25. Netstumbler? on Kernel, Shell Boots on DS Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not netstumbler. I wanna see some tux racer.