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  1. Overhyped? on The Backstory of the Kaminsky Bug · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Come on. It was really a giant effort to synchronize all the DNS vendors to release patches at the same time. And somehow I don't belive they did that just to boost Kaminsky ego. Give him a credit where credit is due. He discovered a bug that was considered critical by everybody and forced almost everybody on the Internet to upgrade their software. That really is something.

  2. In other news on Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy · · Score: 1

    Blackamil Victims Association is suing Telco companies for allowing anonymous blackmail phone call. Oh wait..

  3. Re:Not quite there yet on Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed · · Score: 1, Informative

    Not to mention they still lack mitochondrial DNA. Without it you won't get your peth mammoth. Of course they can try to replace it with lets say elephant DNA. But that still wont be mammoth ;)

  4. SETI != CETI on Is SETI a Security Risk? · · Score: 1

    In case you don't know SETI stands for The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

    From http://www.seti.org/site/lookup.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE& b=179295 It is a passive experiment, designed only to look for signals, not to send them. However, humankind has been unintentionally transmitting signals into space - primarily high-frequency radio, television, and radar - for more than fifty years. Our earliest TV broadcasts have reached several thousand nearby stars, although any alien viewers would have to build a very large antenna (thousands of acres in size) to detect them.

    The project that could be risky is CETI - Communication with ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence. Unlike SETI, which is a passive, listening pursuit, CETI attempts to initiate a dialogue with intelligent extraterrestrials. It does this by actively sending out coded signals at specific target stars, star clusters, or galaxies.

  5. Re:DNA Testing... on Search for Copernicus Over · · Score: 3, Informative

    They want to compare Copernicus DNA with the DNA of his uncle Lukasz Watzenrode, bishop of Warmia. But first they have to find his grave. There is a catch though. They dont know where is his grave yet...

  6. Re:gmail invites on Gmail Adds Features · · Score: 1

    Guess I'm too late. But just in case: gxz AT o2 DOT pl Pretty please with a cherry on top

  7. Re:Hmmm... on ECC2-109 Winners Certified · · Score: 1

    Here is what they will do. Their DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES CONCERNING ACTIVITIES FOLLOWING THE DETECTION OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE says nothing about money. Besides each signal is analyzed at leats 5 times. Sometimes at the same time.

  8. Re:Will this be based on RFC 3514? on Omniscience Protocol · · Score: 1

    And will it work when it's tunneled over the avian carriers?
    www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html

  9. Site is fragged... on IF Quake Takes Fragging To Whole New Level · · Score: 1

    ...and hasn't respawn yet.

  10. Memories on Rexx Is Still Strong After 25 years · · Score: 1

    Back in 1995 my first IRC client was written in REXX, running on IBM 3090 machine. I learnt Rexx tweaking it. C'mon guys... isn;t infinite loop declared by 'DO FOREVER' beautiful?

  11. Re:...internet access is highest among females 35- on U.S. Home Internet Access up to 75% · · Score: 1

    Originally it was "Welcome to DALNet! Where the men are men, the women are men, and the teenage girls are undercover FBI Agents!". Old MOTD message on one of DALNet irc servers. Before it was DDoSed to death.

  12. Re:I'm both disappointed and relieved on FreeS/WAN Project Bows Out · · Score: 1

    I'm disappointed that FreeS/WAN is not going to be developed. I guess John Gilmore has lost interest, or decided to stop funding it. Note: who really funds FreeS/WAN is not public (and I do not know), but John Gilmore is widely believed to be one of the major forces behind it.

    John Gilmore? I can't deny he made a lot for freedom of speech - EFF and stuff. But look what he writes here

    The blacklisters hate me, so they put me on their lists, even though I have never sent a single spam message. They don't like the way I administer my machine. (I don't like the way they administer their machines either.) It will often be hard to get your ISP to admit that they are censoring your incoming email -- but ask them why you can't get email from IP address 209.237.225.253 (new.toad.com). They will tell you that that address must be a scurrilous spammer because it's on the blacklist, but you will know better.

    I know better. And it's not about hating John Gilmore. It's about hating those, who abuse and limit MY freedom.
    Mr Gilmore has forgoten that freedom of speech includes the right not to listen, if not interested.

  13. Re:Walmart on SCO Says They'll Sue A Linux User Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Maybe: Walmart is somewhat vulnerable, having been recently accused by the US DoJ of knowingly hiring illegal aliens.

    Damn. Somebody, call Men in Black!

  14. Re:The solution is simple on In (Sort Of) Defense of Spammers · · Score: 0

    They're called marketoids here

  15. Obligatory Profit! joke on MyDoom.C Making Its Way Across The Net · · Score: 1

    Spammer:
    1. Spread a virus opening backdoor in infected systems
    2. Send spam trough these backdoors
    3. ....
    4. Profit!

    Geek:
    1. Spread a virus opening backdoor in infected systems
    2. Install seti@home clients trough these backdoors
    3...
    4. Fun!

  16. I already have it on Microsoft Looks At Integrating Forums and E-mail · · Score: 1

    It looked kinda similar for me. I know why now. Microsoft has invented something that I already have. This basically is private usenet server that requires autorisation. Way to go. Now you should try to invent something as new as Usenet. How about Gopher? You could kill Google with your own MsVeronica.

  17. BOINC is great on SETI@Home Expanding Goals With Sun's Help · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Old S@H protocol was full of security flaws. Due to lack of verification of returned data it was possible to modify the workunits. And people did it, just to make them compute fast. In the fisrt 100 places of current Top 1000 list there is at least 10 cheaters. I've heard some time ago that approx 30% of workunits results returned to Berkeley was fake.
    BOINC prevents this. S@H will now able to verify iof returned result is real or cheated.

  18. PRO on Paid to Play Video Games · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    PROsports PROgaming PROstitution

  19. Ok. on California Makes Recording in Cinema a Crime · · Score: 1

    Arrest me for rape. I'm carrying proper equipment with me.

  20. U.N. could restrict content on Internet on WSIS to Consider Internet Governance Under U.N. · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Yeah ... and? on Mame on the Nokia N-Gage · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And now they are.
    Thousands of them. From MAME

  22. Re:Shooting themselves in the foot again on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 1

    Well. If you'll watch Microsoft for some time you'll sure notice they rather don't shoot own feet.
    There hast to be something more about it. Something wicked comes this way.

  23. Enough is enough on Another Worm Targets Anti-Spam Sites · · Score: 4, Funny

    If law enforcements agencies cannot handle the problem it's time for the Wild West solutions. And it seems we have to be the sheriffs. Let's fight those bastards with their own methods. They claiumed OUR network, they use it for their own dirty purposes. And they try to 'kill' those who fight with them. We're the majority. Law & order people! DDoS DDoSers. Kill spammers!

    Ok. This is bad idea. But what else we can do?

  24. Beer on How to Misunderstand Open Source · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Still a lot of companies thinks: "If it's free it cannot be woth much".
    This is basically free as a beer/free as a speech paradox: They have to understand that it's not about price but it's about values.
    But even if they do - it hes to be 10 times better than MS Crap to beat their MS Marketing.

  25. Again on BT's Predictions for the Future · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And the slashdot effect killed the future