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  1. Re:That's an interesting take on it. on Verizon Claims Free Speech Over NSA Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Does the 4th amendment not constitute protections for privacy?

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constituti on.billofrights.html#amendmentiv

  2. Re:AJAX is the antithesis of security. on Five AJAX Frameworks Reviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Piping it all over X11, RDP, VNC, or SSH merely shifts the pseudo-problems of your Levels 5 thru 8. How are you going to handle authorization, authentication and access control for these protocols? What about transport-layer vulnerabilities in each? All four of your suggested protocols have had a plethora of vulnerabilities, and they still have a handful even now (we just haven't found them yet).

    You have only repeated and restated the existing problem but using different words. The problem hasn't gone away, in this scenario; it has just been shifted and re-dressed.

  3. Re:Illegal? on HP Dishonors Warranty If You Load Linux · · Score: 1

    Yep! I did that for a lady at my bank one time. It's USAA, military-related that acts like a credit union, so it's "member-owned" too. I talked to her supervisor, gave the praise and the supervisor said they had a special program for things like this. The customer service lady got a little certificate and some recognition among her group, and I think a little bonus or something, too. It was well-deserved, too. (I was missing some money in my checking account and she helped track it down and saved me from overdrafting, by a LOT, that month!)

  4. Re:Remote, what about stealth installations on Remote Code Execution Hole Found In Snort · · Score: 1

    I agree. In all of my IDS deployments, Snort is started with snort -u snort -g snort so I don't understand how/why people are using root, and why a default install would be setup that way. Haven't we learned anything from the last 30 years of Unix?

  5. I saw a cell today on "Free Wi-Fi" Scam In the Wild · · Score: 1

    I saw a cell today in Raleigh, NC (near Crabtree Valley Mall) labeled "Free WiFi" with no encryption. I thought that was ... odd.

    I didn't join it, but even if I did, I use Linux (no Samba either) and I already had my iptables firewall configured.

    Very interesting, tho, now that I come home and read this. Very curious...

  6. Re:Cookies on The Dangers of Improper Cookie Use · · Score: 1

    Explain to him why he should use a salt in his data:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar#Synta ctic_salt

    Really, it's not *that* hard, people...

  7. Re:Dupe on NASA Avoids "Happy New Year" On Shuttle · · Score: 1

    The shuttles were designed 20 years ago, based on technology from 10 years prior to that. I think they should be a perfect fit.

  8. Re:The problem, as I see it.. on Depressed? Net-based Treatments Can Help · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Dude, you are soooooooooooo right. I'm not kidding.

    Been there, thought that,... even did some trajectory calculations and timings to see if the bridge was empty before I take it out. My problem was that I'm too considerate of others. I didn't want to go fuck up someone else's day. No need to be selfish and take myself out if I also end up smashing a lady's minivan with her 3yo daughter and 8yo son. That'd be stupid.

    So yeah. I guess I should score a 'win' for "traffic"? :) hah

    But I'm glad you made it back. I know it's tough (still is, isn't it?), but I hope you've been able to put some pieces back together and live good. I found it interesting when I lost all of my friends and then came back later to pick up some of those pieces and found all of it was changed greatly. Everything was almost unrecognizable. Very strange. But I liked it, because it gave me a chance to start over, in a way.

    Welcome back.

  9. Braun Syncro on Moore's Law For Razor Blades? · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why everyone still uses the barbaric shaving methods. An excellent shave, without the junk, (and high "coolness factor") is from Braun's Syncro shavers. Dry shavers, doesn't eat the face, and has a super-nifty automatic clean and recharge base. Replace the cleaning cartridge every few months, and replace the cutting foil+block every 6. Ok, it costs more dollars, but damn... saves a lot of pain.

  10. Re:As expected on The Future of ReiserFS · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...remnants of the victims DNS embedded in...


    You know you're a geek when you mistype DNA as DNS.

  11. Bush speech on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Bush just got off the wire with his speech. Highlights include:

    * These actions are unacceptable and deserve immediate response by the UN Security Council
    * We will hold NK accountable
    * The US remains committed to diplomacy
    * NK people deserve a bright future and we will help them if we can

    No war mongering and threat of retaliation and attacks.

  12. Re:If this is true on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    The guy on Robot Chicken itemized it further:

    spiders, sharks, aliens, werewolves, dying alone, Johnsons' wife, and 'fear' itself

  13. Re:Late? on Atlantis Expected to Launch Today · · Score: 1

    Welcome to America :-/

  14. Re:Cheesy, but true on Atlantis Expected to Launch Today · · Score: 1

    Oh wow! That is so cool, man. It's awesome that you spend that kind of time with them and exposing them to that awesome tech stuff! :) And reading your writing of their reaction... that actually gave me a few chill bumps :) That is amazing. I don't have any little critters of my own, so I can't relate to your experience. But if what I imagine is anywhere close to what you had, then.... wow. That is super super awesome!

    I wonder if, in their minds, they may have thought of the shuttle on-pad as a 'toy' of sorts. Then when it lifted off the realization set in *very* fast that "oh.. this is a real thing... oh my." :)

    I, too, was watching it with hope and wishes along the lines of 'come on, big money!'

    But I'm glad your little ones could see that. Very awesome.

  15. Re:I *would* have watched it, but nobody covered i on Atlantis Expected to Launch Today · · Score: 5, Informative

    NASA TV always has it available. www.nasa.gov and it's a link on the main page. You need RealPlayer or Windows Media Player. It streams the whole thing including the Mission Control guy's narration.

  16. Re:Don't be so quick to judge on Hot Jupiters May Indicate Hospitable Planets · · Score: 1

    despite your mid-range user id, you must have been away for a while.

  17. Re:There's a perfectly good word for rocky worlds on Hot Jupiters May Indicate Hospitable Planets · · Score: 1

    oh please mod parent up!!

  18. How about.. on Hot Jupiters May Indicate Hospitable Planets · · Score: 1

    ..hot grits in Natalie Portman's pants? Isn't that hospitable?

  19. Re:This is INCORRECT on Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Arrives · · Score: 1

    oh please please mod parent up! haha

  20. Re:Bull on Deja Vu Recreated in a Lab Setting · · Score: 1

    With some practice you can control your read through the metaverse timelines and forcibly jump from one to the next.

    Yep, I get the feeling I flip to alternate universes often. A friend once told me he liked dark roast coffee. So, when I came by to visit, I hit the Caribou and got him a 16oz dark roast. He said, thanks, but I generally prefer light roast.

    I was a bit confused, and then realized, "ah, ok. alternate universe", and proceeded to explain the situation. He didn't really believe me, but I think it happens.

  21. Re:Gore and the Internet on United States Cedes Control of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Very well put. Very informative. My mod points were used earlier today, but kudos!

  22. Re:What a sad day it is on United States Cedes Control of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was the merger of NSFnet and ARPANET. And of course adding a TCP/IP stack to BSD and System V which was the great tug-of-war between the two.

    The book Nerds 2.0.1 has a fantastic origin story. I highly recommend it. It is an amazing story.

    Amazon has it.

  23. Re:obligatory on United States Cedes Control of the Internet · · Score: 1

    The little registrar that could:

    I think ICANN, I think ICANN, I think ICANN

  24. Snort atoms? on 'Laser Tweezers' Used to Sort Atoms · · Score: 1

    When I first read the headline I thought it said "Laser Tweezers Used to Snort Atoms"

    wow. that would've been tough.

  25. Re:It's approaching immorality at this point... on An Alternative to Alternative Fuels and Vehicles · · Score: 1

    In the south (below the top half of North Carolina) there is nothing but ice. Real powder snow is rare. So the SUV monkeys driving in ice are absolutely stupid. And using SUV as the reason for driving in winter weather, in the south, is ludicrous.

    No, it's vanity. And pretentioness. Elitism for the non-l33t.

    The "3 mpg" was hyperbole. Compare to a Saturn SL-2 or even an SL-1, or a Toyota Camry, or Honda Accord, VW Jetta, etc. etc.

    Either way, we're all gonna die. Sooner rather later, if the current war-mongering state of affairs continues.