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  1. Re:Uhhh..yeah. on ICANN Board Election · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself. Personally I do care. Especially on one topic. See also RoelofOsinga.com or its FreeBSD and CATV driven original at RoelofOsinga.com.

    And so should anyone else who either has a domain or hopes to get one eventually. Someone has to stand up and defend the inalienable right that every dog has to his, her or its own domain (e.g. Cairni.com).

    And that is just one of the issues that ICANN deals with.

    Ah well, as usual the damnations people give is inversely proportional to the import of the matter. Until it's too late, of course.

  2. FTL on Pushing Microwaves Faster Than Light · · Score: 1
    So if I get this right, thean - sorry - the nose of the wave gets FTL'd through the cesium only to be bounced back in inverted phase just in time to extinguish the wave -- that caused the bounce in the first place -- itself.



    OK, so it's not killing your grandfather; but doesn't killing your father before the 'fact' count, too?



    Roelof

  3. Sure [was Re:Right on! Tell it like it is!] on Confirmed: U.S. Spies On European Corporations · · Score: 1

    You're right.

    It's A-OK to buy a country (with media budgets) but it's plainly wrong to buy a deal.

    Sure.

    You're right.

    You have just got to keep an eye on such buggers, don't cha.

    Who knows? They just might get a clue and buy a government. Worse. They might just buy *your* government. Or have they done so already?

  4. It's all for the best on "I Would Strongly Advocate Full Disclosure" · · Score: 2

    Which brings to mind a quote from a SciFi
    author who has to remain nameless in that I've
    forgotten his, or her, name. To wit, Wizards
    Rule #2: "The worst of harm may often result from the best of intentions".

  5. Re:email must be read in browser that you surf wit on Cookies are Security Hole in HTML Email · · Score: 1
    Yes, that is entirely correct. What most people seem to have missed is that the article is about the cookies that are sent out to the site. Not about cookies that are received.

    IOW, you must already have visited that site and have gotten your cookie in order for this to work!

    And you really should've paid attention to that great sign above all porn portals which reads: "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!".

  6. Re:It is, actually ..NOT on Knuth lectures on "God and Computers" Online · · Score: 1
    If the premise is that we'll wake up in a lake of fire and going with the assumption that Joyce is not immortal either then I'm forced to conclude that rejoycing is more likely to happen than rejoicing.



    But you're right. It was a typo. Anyway, I hadn't intended to turn it into a programming problem, merely to put things into perspective.



    After all, determining deity-space is easier said then done. E.g. what about buddhism and reincarnation in general? Three rebirths and you're out (into the pool of fire)?



    What about pagean beliefs? E.g. all the bible, release 1.0, has is an arch-angel that quit. Whereas wodanistic/odinistic beliefs do have a hel (single l), but that wasn't such a bad place at all. Sure, no valkieries and eternal fighting followed with great banquets and free mead for all, but otherwise much like home.



    Now, if there has indeed been mutual influence of holy writ, and the bible has the right of it then that can only lead to the conclusion that the pagean beliefs were true as well. For if they were not, thus imaginary, then surely they could not have had any influence on the one true text.



    Since it is hardly likely that merely parts of them were right and thus existed/exist, all must of necessity have been right. Guess what that does to Pascal's little wager?

  7. It is, actually on Knuth lectures on "God and Computers" Online · · Score: 2
    Any old atheist who actually wakes up after (s)he's died is going to rejoyce. But what is a believer (whatever the god(s)) going to do when (s)he stays dead? Complain? Ask ones money back? Denounce retroactively?



    Before you try to scare people you should consider what scares them. Promising a hell to someone who believes in no afterlife whatsoever is hardly a threat, now is it. Consider the alternative... It is what scared most believers so much they took religious insurance to try and ward it off. Your hell is actually an atheists heaven. Yet an atheists reality is your worst nightmare.



    So who is scaring whoom here?

  8. protecting apache on Ask Slashdot: Securing Web Servers Against Cracking · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you want to protect apache? It would make more sense to protect the OS apache runs on. In which case lists/sites like buqtrack, l0pht, rootshell, etc. spring to mind.

    They don't actually crack apache but gain access by some means to the site it is running on just so they can leave funny looking grafity all over it.

    Also I gather that OpenBSD claims to be one of the more secure OS's out there.