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  1. Re:Identity theft? on Surgeon Says Face Transplants a Reality · · Score: 0

    How right you are. If you look at a person you know, before you even look directly at thier face you can tell if its the person your after. there are just so many other pieces of the body that our brains take in, its nearly subcoincious

  2. Re:SCP on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 0

    Running an ssh server isnt all its cracked up to be security wise. If a person has a username and a password, depending on the configuration that user could tunnel connections to any host, or even invoke a shell (even if youve set thier default shell to /usr/bin/false or something like that). But again thats configuration dependant.

    Use things dependant on how much you trust the users. If they are anonymous users from the net, Then dont trust anybody. Use HTTP because its passwordless and unless you use some funky POST stuff, or some .htaccess stuff, or something equivilant, then there is no distinction between privliged users and normal users. HTTP may be for the less clued, but it does the job and it does the job well

  3. Re:Bill Gates for President on Elect Steve Jobs President of the United States · · Score: 0

    Yea, Bill would make a great president, cause he is an excellent business man. Terrible software engineer but an excellent business man ;)

  4. Re:Resolution on "Red is Dead" Optical Mice LED Change · · Score: 0

    You could just up the sensitivty in Quake and turn off any mouse smoothing, and get the same effect. Its not the mouse that makes the wierdo, its his .cfg ;)

  5. Thieves! on SETI@Home Faces Funding Problems · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know, I never really liked the idea of somebody other then the people sharing my computer with me (eg my sister) stealing my cpu cycles. No wait, I dont like anybody who does it :D

  6. Re:bloat on Mozilla 1.2 Betas Start Flowing · · Score: 1

    then dont use it? oh if all of lifes problems were as simple as that :D

  7. SSL on Security In Voice Over IP Converged Networks · · Score: 1

    Why dosnt somebody _make_ it secure? SSL is an open standard, a proven one at that, why not use public\private key encryption for the data, and have the VOip software the part with the encryption?

  8. re: quake on Gaming on the IMAX · · Score: 1

    you should of played with the "fov" setting, its normally set to 90 (an aparent third of normal vision)

  9. Re:SS#??? on AT&T Concerned About H2K2 · · Score: 1

    With centerlink (Australia's Unemployment mob) each time you want to talk to them about something, all they *usually* ask for is a reference number listed on whatever document your refering to, and an address. If somebody were to steal a welfare recipients mail, they would have half of the neccessary ingredients for disaster allready :(

  10. Re:Lucas... on Spielberg Denied Crack at Star Wars · · Score: 1

    When I first saw the title, thats what I seriously thought it meant! that Lucas wasnt sharing his stash :P

  11. Heres a thought... on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 1

    If you can tell what browser the user is using at runtime, via GET headers, why not send them code specific for that browser? sure, you might have to re-write the code a few times for each major browser (IE, mozilla and its wannabe's, opera, lynx\links) but that way, everybody is happy

  12. Re:My 3 meg line on 3 Megabit Cable Modems, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    cause windows sucks :P~

  13. Re:A step in the right direction. on 3 Megabit Cable Modems, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    Ah hello? Im on dialup and id go through over 3gb a month, and Im not even a l33t little doze warez dealer :P~

  14. Half now, Half Later on Migrating Your Office from Windows to Linux? · · Score: 1

    At a comunity employment and training facility in .au, I am doing volenteer work building, installing, and configuring redhat workstations, and training people to use them. We are doing half of the office and training rooms first, waiting a month for peoples views on linux, and then moving the rest back if they like it

  15. Everybody is different on Finding the Programming Zone? · · Score: 1

    Everybody's idea of comfort is going to be different, so the one thing you should do right after you have employed somebody is do the 20 question thing and ask them what would make them the most comfortable and most productive at work, and cater for them. I find that *background* music works wonders, it can be nearly anything, so long as it wont invoke thought about it (and yes deftones make good background music :P~ ) can of pepsi (or coke for those who want the inevitable aftertaste to swell thier mouths) as well as a glass or bottle of water within hands reach is a good idea, and sammiches or something thats not greasy, but still tasty. NO and i repeat _NO_ glare whatsoever! figure out a way to give your employee's more tasks without having to talk to them, talking is a distraction. something like bugzilla usually works. just minimise distractions, its not hard if you think about it. and just remember, you can employ people other then your programmers to handle distractions like clients, etc

  16. Hhahaha at least your EB's are quicker then au's on Magazines Faking Game Reviews? · · Score: 1

    all the EB's ive been into in aus (about 3 or 4) have all had games marked as "comming soon" when they have been released for about a month ;)

  17. Dont i know it on The Laid-off Techie · · Score: 1

    ive just left school, and being the poor unemployed student that I am, tried to get into the IT industry with only my years of experience. All employers want to know is weather I have a MSCE. Ive heard many a story of MSCE idiots scewing up jobs that I could of done well in my pre-teens ;) Oh well, such is life...