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  1. Re:Why 49.7 days? on Windows Upgrade, FAA Error Cause LAX Shutdown · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think they solved it by Windows 98 - however, maybe there is an old app running on said Windows 2000 server that uses 32 bit milliseconds. Come on guys - we're going to get nowhere by harping on about issues that were fixed years ago. If we stand still, and laugh, Windows is going to sneak up, and run past.

  2. Re:What happens if encryption becomes impossible on IBM Tech Detects & Changes Spin of Single Electron · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Silly arse. OK, post all your credit card records, emails, bank details, usernames and passwords here. Record and make available all your phone calls. IT'S NOT JUST CRIMINALS THAT USE ENCRYPTION!

  3. Re:I had one of these before on AOL Moves Beyond Single Passwords for Log-Ons · · Score: 1

    Interesting - wonder if it's the same company as me?

  4. The really interesting pages... on Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The really interesting pages are the ones that have had to be protected due to vandalism or flame wars. Ie the ones that get people really annoyed/are controversial :)

    Look right down at the bottom

  5. Re:another graph on A Visual History of Spam · · Score: 1

    Or we could all collectively graph our kernel panics.

  6. Re:1.0 and no gaim-vv merge? on Gaim Releases Version 1.0.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah :( I get so many offers from girls wanting me to watch them on their cams, that it sometimes almost pains me to have to disappoint them.
    "No, cos I'm not using MSN."
    "No, I can talk to you cos I'm using a different client."
    "No, I can't download the Windows version."
    "Because I'm not running Windows."
    "Because I don't want to."
    "No, not running a Mac either."
    "The spawn of the devil - Linux."
    "Hello?"

  7. Re:Sounds awesome. on Ubuntu Linux Preview Released · · Score: 1, Troll
    How do I justify not just taking the safe route and installing vanilla Debian?

    www.gentoo.org. Seriously. And ignore the trolls who don't understand what it's all about.

  8. Not Georgi! He's defected! on Critical Mozilla, Thunderbird Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    snip
    Provided and/or discovered by:
    1) Georgi Guninski
    2) Wladimir Palant
    3) Georgi Guninski


    Hey! Georgi! Didn't someome remind you? You're supposed to find out bugs in IE, not Mozilla!!
    That guy seems to find a new browser vuln. every 15 minutes - someone write him a Wikipedia entry.

  9. Re:Solaris Vs Linux? on Solaris 10 to be Open Source · · Score: 2, Interesting
    *Even* More secure than Linux

    I don't know. Linux has iptables, PaX, Grsec, Selinux, etc. I still see Sun boxes around without SSH on them - either client or server.

    If I had to choose between a Solaris install, or a Linux install, on it's own, with a live IP address, I'd choose Linux every time.
    If I had to choose a box to give shells out on, I'd choose Linux.
    In fact, I can't think of anything that I would choose Solaris for.

    But then again, I'm a lot better with Linux.

  10. SSL wouldn't help with a key stroke logger on New Worm Installs Sniffer · · Score: 2, Insightful
    hope-you're-using-ssl-for-everything

    Mmmm, cos that would prevent the key stroke logger from working. It's probably more dangerous if you are using SSL, as you will have that warm fuzzy feeling that all is well, and you'll tap away all your privatest things.

    Bad encryption is worse than no encryption.

  11. A machine on one of our networks.... on New Worm Installs Sniffer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is strange - I found a bling.exe on a Windows machine at work a while ago, as it was spewwing out 445 if I remember rightly - several weeks. I searched for info on it, and I didn't find anything, which I thought was strange.
    I think I must have got hit by an early-adopter version.

  12. Re:imagine on Linux Clustering · · Score: 1

    One of the funnier posts I've seen on here... :)

  13. I tried to publicise it. on Savebetamax.org National Call-in Day · · Score: 1, Informative

    I modded this comment up, but some kind souls modded it down again.

  14. Repulsion on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 2, Funny
    repulsion.

    What better place to ask about repulsion than a website where sweaty geeks hang out?

  15. Re:And there is a video too ! on New Trailer For Upcoming Hitchhiker's Episodes · · Score: 1
  16. Re:I hate to ask a stupid question, on An Introduction to IPv6 · · Score: 1
    why would anyone WANT to have to replace all their equipment (like routers, etc.) just to get IPv6

    All your networking stuff probably supports it already.
    Linux, BSDs, Windows, and Cisco do, to name but a few. And you can always get a block of addresses to play with via a tunnel broker.

  17. No HTML version. :( on Internet Chess Club Security Defeated · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why no HTML version? Grrr.

  18. Re:Interesting... on Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because most of the main US media outlets are, at least from what I see in the UK, terribly right wing?

  19. Re:imagine on World's Largest Working Computing Grid · · Score: 1

    Yeah, cos you couldn't make just one, and then netboot with NFS and DHCP, for example? Or image hard drives?

  20. http://slashdot.org/www.cern.ch ? on World's Largest Working Computing Grid · · Score: 1

    Fenimor can't make hyperlinks.... :)

  21. Wonder if Windows Kerberos will be affected? on MIT Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in Kerberos 5 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It would be interesting if the Windows implementation of Kerberos used in AD was vulnerable too. Apart from MIT, and Windows, who uses Kerberos nowadays? Doesn't SSH, and public-key based authentication pretty much make the whole thing irrelevant?

  22. VPN 3000 boxes not vulnerable on MIT Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in Kerberos 5 · · Score: 4, Informative
    The vulnerabilities also affect the VPN 3000 line of Cisco VPN concentrators.

    Only if they're configured to authenticate against a KDC. From the Cisco advisory:
    Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators not authenticating users against a Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) are not impacted.

  23. Stone age brains. on The Downside of 'Hypertasking' · · Score: 1

    "Prof Marois said that a VSTM capacity of four was probably not much of a problem in the relatively slower-paced lives of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Not so today, however. The fast pace of modern life is stretching our Stone Age brains to the limit." The article is here.

  24. Re:Smaller? on Port-A-Nuke · · Score: 1

    And to add another question - is there no way of neutralising/normalising radioactive material once it's past its sell-by-date?

  25. Smaller? on Port-A-Nuke · · Score: 1

    How small can they make it? Can they make one small enough to power a laptop? In fact, how much radioactive material would you need to power the average laptop?