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  1. XFT2 needs the XRender XFree86 extension ... on The Next XFree86 Wars: XFT2 vs STSF · · Score: 2, Interesting
    in order to run fast enough, but Sun and other non-XFree86 X11 implementations don't support this extension?

    Why don't/won't they support the XRender extension?

    Are the features available from STSF (which is under the BSD license) sufficiently better than what is available to warrant the work necessary for making the changeover?

  2. Remove mountains? Good start. The real question: on Synthetic Vision · · Score: 3, Funny

    Remove clothes?

  3. No one can tell you what the Nexus is on Microsoft To Demo 'Palladium' At WinHEC · · Score: 4, Funny
    You have to experience it for yourself.

    Oh, and it does the opposite of setting you free.

  4. Not until 06/30/03 it isn't! on Microsoft Refuses To Fix NT 4.0 Exploit · · Score: 1

    They are contractually obligated to support NT 4.0 until June 30, 2003. Not forever. Just until then. "It's old and boring and we don't understand it" isn't an acceptable excuse.

  5. Give them a break. Really. on Microsoft Refuses To Fix NT 4.0 Exploit · · Score: 4, Funny
    If you had to deal with half as many security flaws/exploits/holes as Microsoft, you'd be tired too.

    Plus, why are people so irksome in not upgrading to ever newer and more expensive operating systems like they're supposed to? Constantly forcing Microsoft to keep looking back over legacy code. It's ugly, dirty and scary back there, not like in candy XP land.

  6. Since Paul couldn't tell us ... on Security Expert Paul Kocher Answers, In Detail · · Score: 1

    Can we get some names of "companies that make misleading or unsupported claims about their security" that people keep buying (other than Microsoft, which is too obvious to list)?

  7. The essence of the NDA ... on Security Expert Paul Kocher Answers, In Detail · · Score: 1
    precludes him from going to the police or further identifying the offending company.

    And don't call me Surly.

  8. Try www.rot13.com on Security Expert Paul Kocher Answers, In Detail · · Score: 1
  9. That's right! Windowsize it! on Mainframe Operators Needed · · Score: 2, Funny
    Five 9s is old school. Five reboots a day, that's the cutting edge!

    If the system never goes down, how can upper management ever appreciate your valiant efforts at 3:00 am to restore the essential programs underpinning your whole corporations future? Again?

    Windowsize it! Because you haven't suffered enough!

  10. Simple obvious answer: on Mainframe Operators Needed · · Score: 5, Funny
    Add some Windows code:

    Things too reliable? Predictable? Functional? Secure? Just can't find anything to do?

    Windowsize it!
    Just ten lines of Windows code will have you scrambling for hours to try and figure out what in the heck has gone wrong!
    Add twenty lines of Windows code and you've got a month worth of worries on your hands!
    And for the truly daring: A mission-critical Windows application!
    Kiss the wife and kids goodbye! You'll never eat/sleep/bathe in peace again!

    Windowsize it!
    (Not approved for those with heart conditions/risk of stroke/high blood pressure/pregnant)

  11. While the Dali/Buneul film was ... on Andalucia Adopts Free Software · · Score: 1

    "Un Chien Andalucia", I was initially referring to the Pixies song Debaser, where the lyric is the mixed language "I am un chien Andalucia".

  12. As the Pixies (and Dali and Buneul) put it ... on Andalucia Adopts Free Software · · Score: 1

    I am un chien Andalucia.

  13. Wait. There are ... other things? on Gnutella2 Specifications · · Score: 1

    Oh, I see. Like cheezy pr0n and bad MP3s. Okay. I understand now.

  14. Amateurs, all amateurs on 2003 Big Brother Awards · · Score: 5, Funny

    A.G. John Ashcroft and crew: "Stop having thought crimes and we won't have to arrest you."

  15. This Just In: on Watching Kids Via Mobile Phone · · Score: 4, Funny

    A.G. John Ashcroft requires all citizens to carry mobile monitoring system. "Stop whining, be patriotic and recognize that this is for your own good. Now bend over."

  16. In other words ... on Beep! Beep! You have Broken the Law. · · Score: -1, Funny
    All Your Base Are Belong To Us!

    Seemed relevant at the time.

  17. Non-corporate rights ... on Library of Congress to Hold DMCA Hearings · · Score: 1, Funny

    are distracting, destructive and a thing of the past. Haven't you been listening? Stop being so selfish and unpatriotic. Now go unlock your doors. It makes it easier for us to check your homes for illegal content while you sleep.

  18. Let's see ... on Cirocco Live Liquid Cooled Rack · · Score: 0
    liquid cooled rack
    hot swappable
    quick couplings

    Now I feel dirty. In a bad way.

  19. This raises two important questions: on Bug Reporting Etiquette · · Score: 4, Funny
    a) What is the same as "the developers must do my bidding"?

    b) What is the phrase or action that will get the developers to actually do my bidding? I'm very busy and quite imperious.

    You may answer me now.

  20. Scalia says "No, there aren't" on DRM and Threat Analysis · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Justice" Scalia has explained that you are wrong. You see, "Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires." But don't worry; he promises to protect the constitutional minimum. I feel safer already.

  21. Common misconception on Local Root Hole in Linux Kernels · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With so very many vulnerabilities (and ever expanding), it's easy to see why you'd assume that Windows was the only buggy vulnerable bloated operating system. This isn't true. It just seems that way. It feels that way. And, considering how wide rangingly destructive Windows vulnerabilities tend to be, for all intensive purposes, it is that way. But, deep down, we all acknowledge that it isn't technically true.

  22. Duke Penguin Forever ... on LGP Announces Game Development Team · · Score: 1

    will come out when it's ready. Not before. Now go away.

  23. Apache security alerts? on WebDAV Buffer Overflow Attack Compromises IIS 5.0 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Would you also send them the list of Apache security alerts? Or is that too much truth for you?

    All seven of them? All long fixed? Page not updated since January 23, 2003? I'd LOVE to send them that. Comparing that to the long and varied string of IIS compromises/failures/destruction would be enough to get even the pointiest headed boss to make the switch. Good idea. Thanks!

  24. Worst implementation? on Ask Security/Cryptography Expert Paul Kocher · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In your consulting capacity (and without naming names), have you ever run across a companies security implementation that was so bad, so insecure, so open to exploitation that you felt an overwhelming compulsion to shut down the servers, lock the doors and call in a security SWAT team? That you actually felt like going out and shorting the companies stock? That you had to hold back from whomping someone upside the head? That you inquired about having the head of security investigated to make sure he wasn't a black hat hacker/competitor's security spy/foreign agent? How bad was the worst implementation you've ever seen?

  25. While hydrogen car fuel is fine ... on A Hydrogen-Based Economy · · Score: 1
    What about all of the other non-automotive industries that are dependent on hydrocarbons? Like (say it with me) plastics. Hydrocarbons are not just an automotive thing, after all.

    That said, burning hydrocarbons up for vehicles should be stopped. No problem with that.