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  1. Ports vertical? on Mac mini in a Volkswagen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Did he mount the various ports vertically? In a car that seems like a very bad idea as paper, grime, food will likely all get stuck in it.

  2. not a bad idea on Nero Burning for Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I have nero OEM but don't really like it. I have all the linux burners too. (I especially like eroaster's ability to pick files out to fill up a CD for when your backing stuff up).

    But if the OEM upgrade fee is reasonable, I would like to have the full windows version of Nero and a consistant GUI on my linux box too.

    On the other hand, the price I saw was 50. I am reluctant to pay $50 for a game that has no sale of progressive builds let alone a utility program who's basic functionality is built into most OSs,

  3. Web Mail and Evolution on How Do You Store and Reconcile Email Archives? · · Score: 1
    I have a question along the same lines. I use Evolution to pull down my local email. But I would like to also be able to read it externally. If I set usermin to use the evolution mboxes, they become unsync'd in evolutions view.

    So how do I use evolution and a browser view without keeping double copies?

  4. Neighbor's music on Coming Soon: ZigBee Control by PDA · · Score: 4, Funny
    So now I can shut off my neighbor's music from the privacy of my own home?

    (notice: did not RTFA)

  5. Re:Where's the innovation? on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Preview · · Score: 1
    I don't think OO.org is or will be in the near future the best. It's nitch is "the best for free". Usable, but not as good.

    MS Office 2003 is nice stuff. From outlook poping up emails so you don't have to click over to it to find out someone left their lights on at the company office 10 states away to the review features so yo uand your buddies can work on a documen and keep track of what your doing to it. I think office 2003 is a solid improvement. Open Office.org is at about the office 98 or maybe 2000 level. The only thing I like about it over MS OFfice is it's tracking of different styles.

  6. Re:You can't sell shit to a cow farmer on China Walks Out of Wireless LAN Security Talks · · Score: 1

    I highly doubt that there is any real link between the chinese's concern and their justification.

  7. Re:Better explanation, (From the article) on Norway Considers New Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    Stop buying CDs. Buy the tracks on the media you want or in a way where no media is sold granting you the choise of media.

  8. Better explanation, (From the article) on Norway Considers New Copyright Laws · · Score: 4, Informative
    The amendment, which requires parliament's approval, would make it illegal to crack security codes on DVD and CDs or to provide software or hardware for doing so, a news release said. It would still be legal for a person to make a copy of their own CD or DVD for private use, even if that means cracking the code, as long as it was being copied onto the same digital medium and not onto another one.

    "For example, a CD's (security code) could be cracked to play a recording on a car stereo, since a CD-player would be seen as an appropriate medium," the news release said. "But the security code could not be cracked to copy the recording onto an MP-3 player, since such a device would not be seen as an appropriate for a CD."

  9. Re:Deploying Software on Free Open-Source vs. Commercial Security Tools? · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand why the DoD pays extra for things. Basically it's for process. Boeing gets 100x what a small contractor would to do something because Boeing has a defined and implimented process. Now, a few decades ago someone decided that repeatable and improvable processes were the way to reduce failure and that the extra cost was worth it. The alternative is like the X-Prize where a small team does something amazing for little money, (but the real cost of doing it should include all the teams that DIDN'T make it).

  10. Re:Deploying Software on Free Open-Source vs. Commercial Security Tools? · · Score: 1

    I also work for the DoD, and our program DOES use open source tools for the most part. The reason though, (I think as I wasn't here when the decision was made), is that the contractor who's doing it had OS advicates and is also cheap.

  11. Re:Valuable Open Source Security Assement Tools? on Free Open-Source vs. Commercial Security Tools? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do you use Snort and Tripwire (from the child's response) for penetration testing and risk assessment? I understand using them as part of an IDS, but not for the initial risk assessment.

  12. Bastards! on 6 Firms Form Holographic Versatile Disc Alliance · · Score: 1

    I go to the trouble to get a 1TB raid 5 array for my home and these jerks are invalidating it already?!

  13. Re:Non Event on FBI E-Mail Server Breached · · Score: 1

    Though, if it were, the other network's operator would have all of the same accreditations for sensitive but unclassified and classified information that the FBI would have had had they managed it.

  14. Re:How? on FBI E-Mail Server Breached · · Score: 1

    How many email servers can you send through right now?

  15. Real Application on Secret Data: Steganography v Steganalysis · · Score: 1
    While steganography is wonderful and all applied to images and music, it really isn't applicable to most of our work.

    What I want to know is how is steganography, (and more importantly steganalysis), applied to network communication? If I have a network that has very defined traffic, how could someone embed their own data in our normal traffic. And how could I detect it?

  16. Re:Interesting issue tho on Is Anti-Municipal Broadband Report Astroturf? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Should the money I pay the government be used for something I want, would use, and enjoy?

  17. everything is art on Is Computer-Created Art, Art? · · Score: 1

    Personally, I consider the circuits I design to be artwork. visually enjoyable, technically witty, and fundamentally useful.

  18. White Paper? on HP's Crossbar Latch... Next-Gen Transistor? · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have a published white paper from HP anywhere to read some technical writing about this? I'm interested, but news sites just don't tell me what I want to know.

  19. Re:Seems they took a lot of time... on Could Your Blackberry Be Damaging Your Thumbs? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can tell you exactly who got an idea for this. Someone thought, *shit, they're going to give me a blackberry at work and I really don't want that leash* and thought of this. The next time my boss says he wants me to get a blackberry, I'm sending him this link. I will avoid that thing like the plague. There is no email that I need to get when I am not in the office. If they want to get me, they can take the trouble of calling.

  20. My use is legal on Is IRC All Bad? · · Score: 1

    I had a whole post written up, but the gaps in the logic used to pick his sample aren't even worth my time to comment on.

  21. Re:Rule #1 when you pay someone to code for you... on What Do You Do When Outsourcing Goes Bad? · · Score: 1

    Well. we know you don't work for the government.

  22. What a load of fud on 'Evil Twin' Threat to Wireless Security · · Score: 1
    Give me a break. My connection passes over 30 hops on the internet, none of which I know. It is detectable from 55 miles in any direction w/ LoS. And I'm supposed to worry about the fact that I might not be able to trust the guy runnin the AP? give me a break. The internet has always had insecure routers. Anyone who works in IT or security has known to assume that the routers are hostile. Must have been a slow news day at the beeb.

    Now I can see how this might apply to a corporate network with a government network, but maybe you should realize that the fact that the AP doesn't have any protection and the network doesn't look the same should ring some warning bells.

  23. Re:The reason why Carnivore failed... on Why Did The FBI Retire Carnivore? · · Score: 1

    This makes completed sense to anyone in the government. The government is heavily in favor of not building anything they can buy. They built Carnivore because, at the time, they couldn't buy a system that fit the requirements. Now, such systems exist so they retire their proprietary system an guy the COTS (commercial off the shelf). This is text book government procedure

  24. Re:Few people deserve something like this on Independent Developer Projects in the Workplace? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most people I've worked with say they can't get what they're supposed to get done with 100% of their workday and really spend most of the day looking at pictures, talking to friends, or doing anything BUT work.

  25. Re:Lack of rational thinking on Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math · · Score: 1

    I am an engineer. I accept my inability to spell.