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  1. Phone equivalent? on Federal Judge: Keystroke Logging Isn't Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know if it is considered wiretapping to a phone signal between the handset and the base? Or for that matter, a cordless phone between handset and base? I'm guessing it probably would be because the audio signal is directly transmitted. Although in the case of a cordless there may be some A->D->A converting going on.

  2. Re:A valuable skill on Steel Bolt Hacking · · Score: 1

    Illegal in some places in the US if you are not a registered locksmith. Not everyone on /. lives in the same place as you do.

  3. Re:spoofed? on IETF Decides On SPF / Sender-ID issue · · Score: 1

    If you can pull off a MITM, you might as well just append your spam to every email that goes by your segment. And insert HTML ads in all the web traffic too.

  4. Referal odds on Did You VoteOrNot.org? · · Score: 1

    The more people you get to enter, the HIGHER (not lower) your chances of winning $100,000.

    Actually, this is might not be the case. Say, for example, there are 5 people currently entered (of which I am one). My odds are 1/5. I then refer 5 friends. My odds are now 6/10. Those 5 friends each refer 5 other friends. Now my odds are 6/35 (17%), which is lower than the original 1/5 (20%).

    This case occurs when the number of "second level (and greater)" referals (refered by those I refered and so on) is significant comprared to the total number of entries.

  5. Re:we're almost there... on Space Elevator Prizes Proposed · · Score: 1

    Technical in your FAQ: Centripetal acceleration is acting on the upper two-thirds pulling it outward, and the lost angular momentum is replaced very quickly (essentially as fast as it is lost). Centripetal force is the force is pull inward. Centrifugal force is the ficticious force pulling outward. In actual fact there is only centripital force pulling in against momentum.

  6. Re:Oh no! more memory wastage... on Enlightenment Lives · · Score: 1

    Until you want to run an X11 app (which could be using any number of toolkits) or you want to run a classic app (which requires a whole second layer of OS).

  7. Re:Lockout....Business edition on Software For Slackers: Lockout · · Score: 2, Interesting

    EGAD! I hope you aren't a parent. All using this on your kid is going to do is teach him/her that:

    - You don't respect them (won't even give them 2 minutes to finish that email?!)
    - You have no backbone (can't enforce anything with out a program that makes it very difficult for you to go back on your word)
    - You spend way to much time on /.

  8. Re:Haha on Software For Slackers: Lockout · · Score: 1

    Why is this modded informative? It's not a joke. You can download the perl script from the site.

  9. Re:AIM Anonymous on Software For Slackers: Lockout · · Score: 1

    if you read the article, you'd see that you could do this.

  10. Re:Makes Open Source More Attractive on The Spyware Inferno · · Score: 1

    Hell, when I do "emerge -u samba" in Gentoo, I pretty much trust that whatever gentoo mirror I'm leeching from has untainted good code.

    No, you are trusting that the digest files that you got from the rsync server are good. Also, I believe the Portage developers are working on adding GPG signing.

  11. Re:flabbergasted on Sampling Short Sequences From Long MP3 Recordings? · · Score: 1

    Maybe he designed it on older recorders that couldn't hold all the audio it would take to split after the fact. Besides, programming a microcontroller isn't very hard.

  12. Re:A better gun analogy on UK High Court Rules Modchips Illegal · · Score: 1

    But there is a law that says "automatic weapons are illegal". Is there a law that says "machines that can play copied games are illegal"?

  13. Re:This is Microsoft PR from a different mouth on SCO Claims Linux Lifted ELF · · Score: 1

    For those interested, see the "About the GNU GPL" section to learn why the GPL isn't "viral". Brave GNU World

  14. Re:Won't help on When RSS Traffic Looks Like a DDoS · · Score: 1

    Why would that be? If I start at 1:37, and check every hour, It will always be xx:37. There's no drifting.

  15. Re:Gentoo MacOS? on Gentoo for Mac OS X Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps "Portage MacOS X" would make more sense?

  16. Re:Resistance is Futile on Gentoo for Mac OS X Released · · Score: 1

    emerge openoffice-bin

    Granted openoffice takes forever to compile, but I bet MS office takes even longer.

    Portage is not in any way limited to source-only.

  17. Re:AMEN! on Top Ten Linux Configuration Tools? · · Score: 1

    I'll bite.

    Vim, emacs, etc are hardly "arcane". Have you ever looked at what these editors are capable of? Folding, regexes, marking, buffer operations, macros, compiler integration, syntax highlighting, scripting, and source tagging just to name a few.

    It is true that vim would be very difficult to use without a manual, but just type ":help" and you get a very good and extensive one. I'm not sure how good emacs' documentation is, but I imagine it would be similar.

    For all those who have never learned the features of an advanced editor, I highly recommend it. You will wonder how you lived without it.

  18. Re:VI? on Top Ten Linux Configuration Tools? · · Score: 1

    I never use the XFree86 configuration program anymore. I always found it extremely annoying to go through all the junk in order to change one thing. Hand editing the config is much easier.

  19. Re:Cool, .com dyn-dns on Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates · · Score: 1

    My registrar provides the option of running the authoritative DNS server for you.

  20. Re:Yawn. on Using AI for Spam Filtering (w/ Source Code) · · Score: 1

    it does solve it if it works so well and has such wide spread usage that spam becomes unprofitable. i don't think this sort of filtering is going to accomplish that though.

  21. Duh. on Tubes vs Transistors: An Audible Difference? · · Score: 1

    Any guitar player already knows tubes sound better when overdriven.

  22. 85%, is that all? on UN Takes Aim At Spam Epidemic · · Score: 1

    On our network at work, we get over 99% spam. The amount of legit mail that comes from the internet is so miniscule that a spam vs non-spam graph is usless (all you see is spam).

  23. Re:Why does it take so long? on Online MD5 Cracking Service · · Score: 1

    Folders? Why not just sort the list?

  24. Outlook?! on Windows Compatability on the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Why not use Evolution with the (now GPL'd) exchange connector?

  25. Re:this *is* a big deal on New Linux Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered · · Score: 0

    I agree with you on all points, except #4. This bug lets a local user halt the system, worst case causing downtime and slight chance of data loss. Recent Windows bugs allowed remote users to run arbitrary code, worst case causing widespread worms, privacy problems, data loss, and pretty much anything else nasty you can think of.