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  1. Age old tactics again. on VMware: Another Netscape? · · Score: 1

    Embrace, buy out, destroy competitors.

    Hopefully VMWare will break the trend.

  2. Re:The state of the World from google on Web Log 'Word Bursts' Could Identify New Crazes · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but those are the things that everyone is ALREADY asking questions about.
    This study is to find the things that the "fashionable" people are talking about BEFORE they get big.

  3. Even journalists do it. on Soundless Music? · · Score: 1

    By Laura Davis, Daily Post
    Some physical affects were also experienced...


    Some physical effects were also experienced

    You've got to cry when Slashdotian type errors occur in proper (?) journalism.
    I'm surprised that they didn't mix up you're, and your, and there, their, and they're.
    Laura Davies, hang your head in shame.

  4. Re:Swordfish... on Realistic Portrayals of Software Programmers? · · Score: 1

    I wish I could get into the FBI by typing bypass.....
    You could, but I changed the password when I installed the rootkit.

  5. Developers are either: on Realistic Portrayals of Software Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Very fat. Or very thin.

  6. Re:No Encryption? on Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 Million Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. Passwords are stored encrypted. Why not credit cards?

    I'll tell youwhat I don't get :)

    You advertising your rather nice large mp3 collection on Slashdot. I tested an MP3 for download, and it came down fast, and correct. Are you mad? ;)

  7. Re:Because of technology...AND GREED on Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 Million Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Simple replace the word credit with debt.

    Debt card.
    Debt limit.
    Debt rate.

    Suddenly it all makes sense.

  8. Re:PIN numbers? on Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 Million Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    The ideal solution would be a credit card that works like a SecureID token. The credit card number changes every 60 seconds, AND you need a pin. In fact - any venture capitalists want to start work with me on an, er, secret new project? I reckon 5-10 million should get us started. Oh, and your chances of return are slim.

  9. Re:Uhh.. isn't that article a little late? on Science Editors Urge Nondisclosure Of Bioterror Info · · Score: 1

    That is, if you can provide the U-238, machinery, materials for fuse, high-powered explosives, simulation computer and all the other stuff I need, I can do it.

    Sounds like you're after a job or something? :) I think there was a story a few weeks ago about Saddams personal email address - just mail your CV to him direct :)

  10. Re:On MY bootsector on TurboTax DRM Writes to Your Boot Sector?! · · Score: 1

    I trust that if you value your data, you have a backup of that key or the whole bootsector.
    dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/bootsect bs=512 count=1

    Then copy the /tmp/ file to somewhere else.
    In the event of corruption, you can dd the bootsector back

  11. Re:Maybe in the US... on Keyboard Layouts for the 21st Century? · · Score: 1

    Have you every tried a French keyboard?

    All the numbers need shift. Oh, and so does the . character. So when you type an IP address, you hold the sift key down.

    And one of the keys on the standard qwerty keyboard is in the wrong place. Z and Y, I think.

    Now that's freaky.

  12. Re:"Backwards Apostrophe"? on Keyboard Layouts for the 21st Century? · · Score: 1

    Feeling argumentative. Not on my keyboard it isn't. Shift ` = Shift \ = | Shift # = ~ And the correct place for the backslash is immediately left of the Z.

  13. Re:This first post brought to you buy on Keyboard Layouts for the 21st Century? · · Score: 1

    The QWERTY layout was NOT designed to slow typists down. It was designed to place the most commonly used keys the farthest apart.

    Er yeah. Q P Z and M are all the keys I use most often.

  14. Re:Very IE biased, isn't it? on Building a Better Back Button · · Score: 1

    By IE I meant any shit browser that does support tabs ;)

    Hope that clears it up.

  15. Re:Oh boy... on Goodbye, Dolly · · Score: 1

    Dave, I can get 5 out of the 6 words in your sig - B soviyetski Rossee, yob tvoya mat!

    I feel sure I know the 6th.

    So go on - In Soviet Russia, what happens to my mother? :)

  16. Re:Oh boy... on Goodbye, Dolly · · Score: 1

    lots of individuals familiar with the science had already predicted she'd suffer from advanced and premature aging

    I heard this and I wondered about it.
    Do they treat the embryoes or whatever? Otherwise I can't see how it's different to a normal birth. Why should the result age more rapidly?

  17. Re:GoodBye Dolly... on Goodbye, Dolly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or is it that chicken tastes like everything else?

    Who came first, the taste of chicken, or the taste of other things that happen to taste like chicken?

  18. Re:Groovy. on Buy Broadband From Your Neighbor · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'd pay my next-door neighbor to let me connect through his WAP

    Connect through WAP? Surely you won't see much on that mobile phone screen...

  19. Very IE biased, isn't it? on Building a Better Back Button · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Net surfers use the back button more than any other key.

    Not me - I use Mozilla, and I just open links in a new tab and carry on reading. Then when I'm done, I just close the tabs.

    If you haven't tried tabs yet - you should. Just remember to check the box that says "Open in background"

  20. Re:I'll bite on Intel Announces New, Slower, Chip · · Score: 1

    Nope, but pounds/bhp, yes.
    That's what makes the Subaru Impreza 4WD Turbo such fun - lots of bang for your buck.

    I don't work for Subaru btw.

  21. Getting around the VPN ban on UK ISP Imposes Download Limits · · Score: 3, Informative

    FreeSWAN with some patches allows you to wrap the ESP packets inside UDP packets.

    Then all you have to do is get around the initial udp/500 IKE stuff.
    I assume you could edit the ports that pluto listens on on both ends.

    If ISPs blocked udp/500 and protocol 50 and 51, that would stop IPsec based VPNs.

    Of course, there's always CIPE, and SSH tunnel, etc.

  22. Re:Where does the money go? on MS Faces Hard Sell in EU Antitrust Case · · Score: 1

    3G. UMTS. As in the web address in my prefs. And no. Not O2.

  23. Re:Of course they want it back! on The Search for Secret Shuttle Parts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The last thing NASA wants is for a l33t hax0r to deploy the landing gear while still in orbit! Good encrytion will play a large part in this.

    So surely, signing of commands is more important that encryption of commands.

  24. Universal. on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 1



    What's the selling point of Java? Write once, run any/everywhere?

    I know something else that's like that. C/C++ source code, Makefiles, configure scripts.

    If you write something, distribute it this way. Unix manufacturers should write a source-build tool/script that does all the ./configure, make, sudo make install stuff (just for the command line phobics.)

    This leaves out Windows users (who on the whole don't have a C compiler to hand), but that's a tar.gz sourceball, and a setup.exe. Voila, you have all your bases covered, and it's "universal".

  25. Where does the money go? on MS Faces Hard Sell in EU Antitrust Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm sure it's partly due to the fact that Microsoft is a US company, and is a large money spinner for you guys.

    Over here, slowing down the torrent of money that floods out of Europe into the US can't be a bad thing for us.

    It's another reason why Open Source is good for non-US countries - money doesn't go to Microsoft, Sun, IBM etc - it stays in the local country (consultants, etc)

    PS. I'm posting this over 3G - is it a first for ./ ?