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  1. Re:Even if unlocked still breaking and entering on Australian Police Database Lacked Root Password · · Score: 1

    "Can you be charged with breaking and entering a house that has the door left wide open?"

    NO, but you can be charged with trespassing and if you take anything, burglary. If the door was closed but not locked it would be breaking and entering. IANAL, but I just asked one...

  2. Like everything else on Amazon US Refunds Windows License Fee, Too · · Score: 4, Insightful

    they will just raise the price for everyone else.

  3. Re:Canada getting 21bps on Verizon 4G LTE Tests Planned For Seattle, Boston · · Score: 1

    I was talking to a Verizon rep about this the other day. He said they will do tower to tower over the LTE network until it hits one with a fiber connection, at least in the beginning. But yes, to really see these speeds, you would need fiber not copper to the towers.

  4. Re:Duh.. on Break-In Compromises 160k Medical Records At UC Berkeley · · Score: 1

    From the university's press release:

    The attackers accessed a public Web site and subsequently bypassed additional secured databases stored on the same server.

    OK, What moron keeps sensitive databases on a public web server?

  5. Re:Has anyone actually seen him on Obama Looking To Symantec CEO For Commerce · · Score: 1

    This is Slashdot. No one cares about facts...

  6. Re:Nothing new here... on Obama Moves To Link Pentagon With NASA · · Score: 1

    And the Hubble is based on the KH-11 - which is why the mirror was screwed up.

  7. Re:I had no idea on CCC Hackers Break DECT Telephones' Security · · Score: 1

    As I get the article, the DECT system has pretty good security. The problem is, it can be disabled almost on request! It's pretty easy to attack sloppy implementations of any security system, no matter how secure. I may be wrong, the version I read was pretty mangled...

  8. Re:Not Web Based on Windows Is Dead – Long Live Midori? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is Slashdot. Don't confuse the issue with facts...

  9. Re:What was the point of BeOS/Haiku? on Haiku OS Resurrects BeOS as Open Source · · Score: 1

    Because it's not Microsoft. And here at Slashdot, that makes it significant. But I would prefer to see effort put into improving linux's multimedia rather than resurrecting dead OS'es.

  10. Re:ouch on IBM Slams Microsoft, Calls OOXML "Inferior" · · Score: 1

    I'm all for the fight, but when put like that, it makes it sound like we alread lost... but hey, look at that lone guy vs a tank in tiananmen.

    Who, it was later reported, died in a prison camp. Great analogy...

  11. Re:IE on Firefox Struggling to Compete as Corporate Browser · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. In our IT Dept, everyone runs Firefox at home. So why don't we use it here?

    1) No Active X support - none of our core systems will work with it - and since these are sytems costing millions of dollars, replacing them just to use another browser ain't gonna happen.
    2) Can't manage it through Group Policies
    3) Can't manage updates centrally (and more important, prove to auditors that all machines are patched)

    Firefox is definately not enterprise ready...

  12. Re:Apparently it doesnt hurt them enough on Businesses Generally Ignoring E-Discovery Rules · · Score: 1

    "I scanned over the old article, but, couldn't find WHAT all businesses are subject to this."

    Any business that might be sued in federal court. So it applies to all businesses.On the other hand, all publicly traded companies were already subject to similar SEC regulations, so for them this was nothing new.

  13. Re:Looks right... on Ohio Plans To Encrypt After Data Breach · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that removable storage drives and media would include backups

    And you would be wrong. It encrypts mountable file systems, which does not include tapes. The encryption would have to be in the backup software.

  14. Re:[OT]Re:CompUSA on Peru Orders 260K OLPCs, Mexico to Get 50K · · Score: 1

    When you fold something, it's not exponential. Ten fold is ten times, not ten to the tenth power.

  15. Re:CompUSA on Peru Orders 260K OLPCs, Mexico to Get 50K · · Score: 1

    And your point is what? So he's saying the cost to CompUSA is $2.00. A perfectly reasonable price for printer cables in bulk. I doubt they're paying that much, so the markup is more than ten fold.

  16. Re:Buffalo Linkstation on Best Home Network NAS · · Score: 1

    I agree. They're cheap, work great, easy to set up and manage, and are reliable. I have 25 of them, installed in our branch offices for remote storgae.

  17. Re:Why? on Comcast Targets Unlicensed Anime Torrenters · · Score: 3, Informative

    Irrelevant. The work is automatically copyrighted in the US. Registration has advantages once you sue, but is not required to protect the work from theft.

  18. Re:Blog on Italy Wants to Restrict Blogs · · Score: 1

    Anything they don't like. The other websites are news outlets.

  19. Re:Unhealthy listening levels? on A Recap of the iPod's Life · · Score: 2, Informative

    The negative research is centered around the in-ear earphones, which Sony and others have had for years. If you read the research, if you use over the ear earphones with an ipod, the risk of damage is much lower.

  20. Re:security through obscurity? on HSBC Online Banking Security Flaw Analyzed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since when are banks required to protect themselves against people who have keyloggers on their computers? Not really much one can do IMHO if there's a keylogger present...

    On Oct. 12, 2005 the FFIEC issued regulations that must be met by end of year 2006 that banks must use a 2 level authentication that includes a method that cannot be logged by a keylogger (ie, entering the numbers on virtual scramble pad).

  21. Re:Public vs. private infrastructure on U.S. House Rejects Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I assume we're talking here about ISPs discriminating in favour of their own paid subscription services, as opposed to the backbone operators doing the same.

    You assume wrong. Do some research...

  22. Re:It won't.... on TiVo from AdZapper to Advertiser's New Best Friend · · Score: 1

    Tim Warner rents the DVR for $5/month. The thing is such a worthless piece of crap compared to the Tivo, I'm going to the new Tivo at $17/month. The Tivo is worth much more than the $12 difference in price. I think Tivo's new pricing is going to do very well, they certainly have a far superior product.

  23. Re:I want to switch, I really want to... on TiVo May Be a Buyout Target · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you use a Tivo for a week, you'll see what how bad other DVR's are in comparison. I'd gladly pay more for the Tivo...

  24. Re:Apple=occultism? on Why Everyone Loves Apple · · Score: 1

    And if everyone loves Apple, why is their computer market share so low?

  25. Re:You're right, it's a small box on Viiv 1.5 May End Traditional Media PCs · · Score: 1

    Fine, but the Tivo can access the files on my PC. So I can play the media files on my PC, and the Jukebox covers all my DVD's. I could convert the DVD's to a computer format and access through the network with the Tivo, but with the jukebox costing around $250.00, why bother?