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  1. Re:You can do this yourself. on Earthlink Deploying Challenge-Response Anti-Spam System · · Score: 1

    And do you really know that address? You can get mail from the employer you never heard of!

  2. Re:You can do this yourself. on Earthlink Deploying Challenge-Response Anti-Spam System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, imagine you have no job and selling yourself
    You posted the resume, and waiting for emails.
    Do you seriously expect that prospective employer will have time to respond to "confirmation" message?

  3. What do you put as memento on document, named on Mementos as Document Retrieval Keys · · Score: 1

    Memento mori!

  4. Re:What about on Build Your Own Cruise Missile · · Score: 1

    Not so tough: a child actually almost did that:
    Read here:
    http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1111/n178 2_v297/ 21281407/print.jhtml
    And on slashdot there was an article about that too.

  5. Re:What, exactly, is the problem? on Ink Cartridges with Built-In Self-Destruct Dates · · Score: 1

    Whenever.
    I cannot buy pelmeni or buckwheat in ORDINARY american stores. There probably is a demand for that food, especially in Russian-speaking places. The only international food that present on the shelves is French, Italian, Spanish.
    But there is not enough to convince the ordering clerk to change the assortment of food. MOST people are not complaining at all.And the clerk who orders food don't think about it at all.

    I cannot buy a good matrix printer.
    You are FORCED to buy inkjet printers, you have no real alternatives at all.
    You are FORCED to buy food that is sold in supermarkets, you cannot really change what's in the shelves.

    And when you'll be able to buy ONLY 4-year PCs with time bombs inside and printers with 5-minute non-refilling cartridges, don't complain, you live in a free corporate-owned WORLD.
    I mean WORLD, not country, because the problems like that arises everythere...
    Whenever.

  6. Re:pop up killlers on New Ultra-Intrusive Pop-up Ads Introduced · · Score: 1

    Galeon can have per-page javascript and pop-up controls...
    As far as I remember, Konqueror has that options too.

  7. Re:Mandatory Access Controls! on Securing Your Network? · · Score: 1

    So far vserver has been checked for absence of known chroot jail breaks

  8. Re:Mandatory Access Controls! on Securing Your Network? · · Score: 1

    Much easier MAC can be implemented using Virtual Private server project (http://www.solucorp.qc.ca).
    You can have "mother" server with no access to it and virtual servers with the information what bears different security needs. For example, you can have
    virtual server for games and testing, for your mail, for web browsing, for financial stuff.
    Those virtual servers will run on the same machine
    and by default they cannot access any information
    from each other.
    Mother server can be configured to oversee the work and security policies of the virtual servers
    As it's not an emulation, it has a huge performance benefit against User Mode Linux.
    Additional benefit you can bear that if you upgrade your hardware you can tar the contents of your virtual servers, install virtual server patch on a new server and reroll the contents of the virtual server on a different setup - completely with no hardware dependence!

  9. The world (yet) is non-homogenous on Calling Software Reliability Into Question · · Score: 1

    Imagine the liability law on software has been accepted.
    Ok. I am an software creator. I just move to a different country, which have no such law,
    and will continue to create and publish software. It'll just will bear clause in license: Not suitable for use where prohibited by law (US).
    Whenever.

  10. Re:why the DMCA? on Using the DMCA Against License Violations? · · Score: 1

    GPL doesn't need to be "enforced". If GPL is the only license for the code, and the guy is in violation of it, he essentially have a code without a license at all. THIS is copyright violation.

  11. Re:Open Source never made that claim on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 1

    this is not an innovation at all, this is only a recreation of an old Smalltalk-80 and its virtual machine. Old stuff just being redone.

  12. A great Olia Lialina on HTML: Is it Art? · · Score: 1

    http://art.teleportacia.org
    http://www.teleportac ia.org -> go to Agatha appears
    Lovely!

  13. Re:I'm an asshole, and I'm proud of it. on Run Your Car on Grease · · Score: 1

    The opposite is true: breed as much as possible,
    may be one or two offsprings of you survive and find a way to better life...

  14. Re:I remember on Ten Years of Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    no. that was one of the first search engines for the web.

  15. Re:Advent of html/http worse thing for online apps on Ten Years of Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    No, you are wrong.
    There were various MUSE thingies,
    (www.maricopa.edu), telnet on-line BBS,
    WAIS.
    they were much more intellectual than WWW.

  16. I remember on Ten Years of Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    the World Wide Web Worm (www.wwwww.(com?org?))

  17. I really miss gopher... on Ten Years of Web Browsing · · Score: 2, Funny

    and I really miss Internet Policy, which have had banned commercial stuff from the Internet.

  18. Re:A good idea to stop that on Charlie Northrup's One-Man Patent Grab Continues · · Score: 1

    Ain't patents designed to protect the INVENTOR rights? Now they protect the patent holder rights, who is usually NOT the inventor himself!

  19. Re:A good idea to stop that on Charlie Northrup's One-Man Patent Grab Continues · · Score: 1

    No. That only forces R&D CEOs to treat their employees with more respect.
    The employees then grant non-transferrable licenses to use that patent for corporations. They MAY grant such licenses to other places, too.
    To prevent the latter... treat employees with respect.

  20. Re:A good idea to stop that on Charlie Northrup's One-Man Patent Grab Continues · · Score: 1

    No. Your logic is a little flawed.
    Not be able to transfer patent != not be able to use it.
    The inventor can license non-transferrable right to use the invention to a corporation, like a EULA for a fee.
    He remains the inventor and the holder of IP.
    He cannot be deprived by that by a greedy corporation that demands all.

    Last piece of your logic is utterly disturbing:
    you mean that patent is worthless for an individual at all.

  21. A good idea to stop that on Charlie Northrup's One-Man Patent Grab Continues · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is to make patents NON TRANSFERABLE...
    so he would have defend that stuff by himself

  22. Re:Trusted Computing. on Trusted Debian v1.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    RSBAC (mentioned here)
    does that and more.

  23. Re:trusted for what? on Trusted Debian v1.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    For example: you have only one computer.
    You mostly do tho tasks on that computer:
    - Managing your money in spreadsheet.
    - Browse the web.
    In trusted RSBAC system you can create different
    levels of information protection: for example
    your spreadsheets will be marked "My Own Important
    Data" and you can have access to them only if you
    switch your security level to "Manage Important Data". In this case browsing will be disabled and only trusted programs will be allowed to run.
    No web data or malicious programs can then interfere with your financial stuff.

  24. In other words... on "Super-DMCA" Bills In Tennessee and Arkansas · · Score: 5, Interesting

    posessing a natural number

    278293794287349823794872398472938479234872934872 39 84792384729384709239
    4887948798720824071874091674 1738178274821797837491 23874
    9872384712874913874928748274938743658736587 4368522 34263746
    3276472347293847273948237948237472349234 2348273498 2374

    is illegal and will be prosecuted by the full extent.
    Because this number just happens to be a Britney song encoded in Radix-50 MPEG-4 format.

    If you got this number in your calculations, you MUST
    stop now and erase it as soon as possible.

  25. Phew... on Building a Bigger Search Engine · · Score: 1

    An enormous amount of spiders that are hunting for an enormous amount of web flies - pages...