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  1. Re:This bears watching on Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? A welded-shut hood isn't a copy-protection technology, and not even the most foolih judge/jury would think it was. Yes, even in the USA.

  2. Re:give me a break on Rapid Internet Growth In Iran · · Score: 1
    Another puzzling thing to note, if encryption is being used, and the government can support their claims, someone in government must have the capability to crack encryption, and assuming "Muslim extremists in Afghanistan, Albania, Britain, Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Syria, the USA, the West Bank and Gaza and Yemen" are using crypto, some agency must have some ultra powerful quantum based grid computer up to crack anything in seconds.
    Maybe they were tipped off by the big ---PGP ENCRYPTED MESSAGE--- header on their emails?
  3. Re:You know, a thought [OT] on Rapid Internet Growth In Iran · · Score: 2, Informative

    My school uses this. My current theory is that it saves a copy of the FAT (or for NTFS whatever it uses) in memory, and uses copy-on-write to an unused block whenever you alter the filesystem. I don't actually have any comfirmation for this though.

  4. <img src="/files/misc/lt.gif" on Migrating Device Drivers to the 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    These people can't even figure out <, but they feel that they're qualified to comment on linux module coding?

  5. Re:Compiled client for linux on BitTorrent's Creator Bram Cohen Interviewed · · Score: 1
    It's highly configurable and works well on this Linux box.

    Except for the bug where it never closes its socket file descriptors
  6. Re:Sad on NASA Prepares to Open Source Code · · Score: 1

    If you combine GPL'ed code with proprietary code you either relicence the proprietary code or infringe the GPL code's copyright. It dosen't force you to relicence, per se, but you'd be sued if you refused to, probably.

  7. Re:A Solution on Verisign's SiteFinder - An Engineer's View · · Score: 1

    Cryptographic public keys could take the place of authoritative NS entries for a zone, and sign all keys within said zone. Only problem is if some host consistently responds with an old but valid entry long after it should have been replaced.

  8. Re:The tides have changed.. Positive outlook on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fireb^Hfox has a HUGE number of :config options, many of which rarely (if ever) need to be used. They can't make a GUI option for all of them. In addition, it's still beta, even though most people seem to forget. So if it really bothers you, file a feature request for that specific option, and/or wait for the final release.

  9. Re:The do. on Transmeta TMS5xxx Reverse Engineered · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. They ship the output, which is *not* covered by the GPL.

  10. Re:And no mention of encryption on Building A Better Package Manager · · Score: 1

    What's the point of installing from source instead of binaries if you get the same thing as everyone else [and check that that's the case]?

  11. Re:Just To Clarify... on Napster Business Model Not Generating Revenue · · Score: 1
    The iTunes Music Store (iTMS) is the web service.

    It's not a web service unless it uses [X]HTML over HTTP[S]. In this case, it's just an Internet service.
  12. Re:For your perusal on Microsoft Releases Allegiance Game Source · · Score: 1
    "You may use this Software for any non-commercial purpose, subject to the restrictions in this License." In other words, no commercial use, which means no inclusion in Linux distributions and such. The only way they want anyone to be able to fetch Allegiance's source code is through their clickwrap licence.

    Non-commercial distros could use it, right?
  13. Re:Konsole slow? on Review: KDE 3.2 · · Score: 1

    What about GNU Screen? It has the added benifit of allowing you to attach to an already-running session from a new terminal (or ssh session).

  14. Re:Why not use PKI authentication instead? on Would you Warranty Your Email? · · Score: 1

    iQA/AwUBQCOn5jjI/tvlmNBeEQLIdwCfTzU3AFyy3vAyqJ1T re ICmreO16YAoJ3J

    Not to mention that the signature may be corrupted by inserted whitespace...
  15. Re:toupper() call = moron, MOVE on Learning Computer Science via Assembly Language · · Score: 1
    Of course, the CS guy will defend his code by saying it also works on EBCDIC, or any other alphabetic encoding. *sigh*

    Actually... I don't think ISO C guarentees that the letters of the alphabet be contigous. I may not remember correctly though.
  16. Re:Gentoo's bootscripts do not use Python. on Which Style Init Scripts Do You Prefer? · · Score: 1

    The downside of this is that rc-update takes ages to update the deps. I'd like to see it use python or perl when available (when /usr is mounted), of bash when not.

  17. Re:My init scripts on Which Style Init Scripts Do You Prefer? · · Score: 1


    rc-update (add|del) (service) default
    rc


    Have fun.

  18. Re:toupper() call = moron, MOVE on Learning Computer Science via Assembly Language · · Score: 1

    Can't toupper() be implemented as a macro that does an array lookup?

  19. Re:IPv7? on Remotely Crash OpenBSD · · Score: 1
    Yes, it's far easier to write:
    ping6 127.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1
    than:
    ping6 ::1
  20. Patching? on Remotely Crash OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    What about raw sockets?

  21. Dupe! on Leaked X-Box 2 Specs Include PPC CPU · · Score: 2, Insightful
  22. Re:I WILL SAY IT AGAIN... on Microsoft, Yahoo Investigate Spam Solution · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's called a Web of Trust, not a ring of trust, and it's the basis behind PGP and GnuPG

  23. Mod parent down redundant on What Was the Very First MP3 You Downloaded? · · Score: 1

    This is the exact same link that is in the parent post, at the end.

  24. Re:Why this is a big deal on AOL Now Publishing SPF Records · · Score: 1

    How can one send from users.sourceforge.net forwarder addesses then? Or no-ip.org addresses? (they don't let you add TXT records)

  25. Re:winder if a new DE will come out of this on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Framebuffer is fine with one program, but you can't have multiple programs just randomly writing to one bitmap. Or fighting over the mouse/keyboard in fact. X's primary purpose is to mediate multiple programs accessing the hardware.