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  1. Re:The Real News on Hezbollah Hacked Israeli Military Radio · · Score: 1

    I came to post just this, but eldavojohn beat me to it. Damned subscribers :).
    If I had access to my enemy's supposedly secret information, I would not take advantage of what I had learned in case they could work out that their channels were compromised. Until the day came that losing the ability to monitor their communications was less important than whatever strike I could make with the information gleaned.

  2. Re:umm on Earthlink Offers Alternate DNS Without "Dead DNS" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Buy your own domain, and point the MX records wherever you like. Get a VPS somewhere?
    Or just open a Gmail account.

  3. Re:On the subject of Asterisk on Cisco VoIP Ditched for Open-Source Asterisk · · Score: 1
    $ emerge --search freepbx
    Searching...
    [ Results for search key : freepbx ]
    [ Applications found : 0 ]

    $
    Hmm, shame it's not in portage.
  4. Re:How to counter data mining. on Google to Use PC Microphones to Listen In? · · Score: 1

    Damnnit. I will proceed to promptly disappear in a puff of logic.

  5. Re:Not a developer on COWS Ajax - Ajax Evolved · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are these "slow connections" of which you speak?

  6. Re:How to counter data mining. on Google to Use PC Microphones to Listen In? · · Score: 1

    I'm a statistician.

    What are the chances of that?

  7. And? on New Super-sized Customer Database for Amazon? · · Score: 1

    religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity and income.'

    Atheist, straight, caucasian, £30-50k. What's so scary about that?

  8. Re:Warning Calls on Tracking Your Cell Phone for Traffic Reports · · Score: 1

    Although it currently says I'm just off the coast of Somalia.! I can sadly assure you that this is not true. That means I've done about 3000mph in the last few hours. Just send me the ticket, Wiggum.

  9. Re:Warning Calls on Tracking Your Cell Phone for Traffic Reports · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have access to my own phone's location data, and I (apart from doing all sort of other funky stuff with it) set up a system to measure my speed.
    It didn't work well.
    First, I could only poll it every 15 minutes. Secondly, cells overlap. Thirdly, it just gives you a triangulation based on which towers you can see.
    So basically, on a drive to London along the M4, I stuck at exactly 70mph for the test, and it showed me doing everything from 59 to about 84, with one sector at 97. It's not accurate enough. Until the 3G phones come along.
    And you can see where I am (or rather where my work phone is (which is on the desk next to me)) now on my homepage....

  10. Re:No hand luggage... on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    Excellent. This is the sort of information I was after when I asked "And what are they?" earlier on.

  11. Re:Drug laws are currently stupid on The Technology of Drug Prohibition · · Score: 1

    I know all that, and I'm definitely not an alcohol advocate - in fact, I probably agree that cannabis is less damaging than alcohol - however, I repeat : "And you blame it on the alcohol? I'm not saying it isn't, but I can't see the irrefutably link that it is."
    It's the logical jump that says "It occured after I started drinking, and wasn't there before - therefore it was the alcohol that caused it" that is logical, but not necessarily true.

  12. Re:a better way on HSBC Online Banking Security Flaw Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Lloyds TSB use drop down menus to bypass keyloggers.

    Yeah, it's not a bad solution to the problem, I think. It also asks for the same set of characters until you get it right, so even if you only knew the first half of the secret word, you couldn't keep refreshing until it asked for chars 1, 2 and 3.

  13. Re:No hand luggage... on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    But isn't the danger that they give you too much, and you slide over the thin line from anaesthesia to death? Sounds to me not like there's any adverse, unknown reaction to it - just that there's a problem if you have too much (like anything else - alcohol for example).

  14. Re:Legalise Drugs on The Technology of Drug Prohibition · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let me first state that I can't stand the thought of drugs. Anything that messes with my mind is a serious no-go in my book.

    Laughter? Sport? Exercise? Fear? The buzz you get from doing something dangerous? Adrenaline, serotonin, dopamine?

  15. Re:Drug laws are currently stupid on The Technology of Drug Prohibition · · Score: 1

    I used to smoke pot, often heavily, regularlay for a long time. ...... I've developed hypothyroidism, peripherial neuropathy in the feet and eczema, recently on the hands.

    And you blame it on the alcohol? I'm not saying it isn't, but I can't see the irrefutably link that it is.

  16. Re:No hand luggage... on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    Nausea, allergy

    Is that all?
    If I'm being sliced open to perform some life-saving operation on me, and the only side-effect of the cocktails of drugs is nausea, and a little allergy? I'll dance around, singing Hallelujah.

  17. Re:Good work on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    What do you do? Fly back and forth carrying only your (what 5kgs worth) carry on luggage between your new and old home? That sounds time consuming and expensive.

    20kg in the UK.
    I'm not saying you carry your entire possessions to and fro on airline journeys. I'm saying that you send most stuff over freight, or by courier as you point out, and take the stuff that you couldn't replace with you.

    Basically, stop assuming that you know better than me what is best for my particular circumstances. If people (and countries) kept their shit out of other peoples' (and countries') business, the whole world would get along better.

  18. Re:No hand luggage... on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the bad effects of general anesthesia.

    And what are they?

  19. Re:Good work on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    Don't talk nonsense. You know that people sometimes move house between countries? You are aware that there is more than 1 country in the world? Stop presuming that people never need to carry anything valuable (monetarily or sentimentally) on an aeroplane.

  20. Too many alerts in one go on Homeland Security says 'Patch Windows Now' · · Score: 1

    less than a day after the release of 23 patches from Redmond

    Yeah, boy, did I get bored reading about them as they came out on the mailing list I'm on. Can't they just sum them all up?

    Internet Explorer: Bad
    Powerpoint: Bad, etc.

  21. Re:Good work on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    On a side note - thank christ for the reduced on board luggage rules. Why the hell does anyone need more than their book & a passport anyway?

    Are you stupid? Let your laptop, digital SLR camera, expensive phone, possibly family heirlooms, travel in a completely separate way from you, perhaps not even being loaded on the same plane, perhaps being swiped by baggage handlers?

  22. Re:No hand luggage... on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    Smoking, alcohol, and sex are already off-limits or difficult. I hope these are really short flights, and the planes have plenty of distractions for the passengers, otherwise we'll wonder if being blown up is not the better alternative.

    I wonder how long before they require that everyone travelling goes under a general anaesthetic? You sit in your seat, have a thing strapped to your head, and you pass out, waking up after landing.
    Probably rather unlikely, as just sedating one person needs an anaesthetist to make sure they don't drift "too deep"...

  23. Re:Ok, so the machine was in Admin mode... on Vista Hacking Challenge Answered · · Score: 1

    Security? What's that? They don't care.

    Charge £40 an hour, and they'll soon start caring.

  24. Re:OSSEC is great on An Open Source Security Triple Play · · Score: 1

    Que? Nagios is tool for monitoring, and alerting. As far as I know, it doesn't do stuff like detect cracking attempts, and block them, etc.
    Are you thinking of Snort, maybe?

  25. Re:Company behind it on Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com · · Score: 1
    I think Mr rf0 has the answer.
    ssh fw
    iptables -I FORWARD -d 72.51.27.0/24 -j REJECT
    ^d
    Job done. Nameview Inc will see no traffic from this company. And if they supply advertising for other ventures other than .cm, they'll see less traffic to those too.