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  1. Good old days? on Stephen Hawking Asks The Internet a Question · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to the good old days, when the bubonic plague and smallpox were the only biological weapons to worry about and a month's wages were a pound of salt? When civilization could barely defend itself against the onslaught barbarian hordes and half the population was enslaved? When wars would drag on violently for decades rather than last as cold-standoffs with very few casualties on either side? When those god-damned genetic engineers wouldn't design custom vaccines and insulin-producing potatoes? If only those greedy industrialists wouldn't provide enough jobs to keep us out of chains, enough food to fatten even our poor, and enough technology to put a significant portion of our species' sum total of knowledge into the hands of anyone with a library card and ten fingers to type with. If only they wouldn't provide us, in each successive year, with ever greater value at ever lower cost.

    Who are we to kill trees so that we may live?

  2. Call Nelson at 512-464-6300! on Students Banned from Blogging · · Score: 1

    McNeil High School's full phone number is 512-464-6300. Be sure to call Nelson and explain why the school blog shouldn't list its home phone number, a list of its faculty, student events, and even pictures of students that pedophiles could use!

  3. solaris on Linux Hacked Onto Fry's Cheap Wireless G Router · · Score: 1

    It's called a SunRay, and they're even available with built-in 1280x1024 displays.

    So far as I know, there's no Linux port, but you can boot its regular firmware from a Linux server using these directions if you aren't lucky enough to have a Solaris machine.

  4. x86 on No Threat to Linux with Apple and Intel Deal · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it works on X86. In fact, it was working on Darwin/X86 long before Darwin/PPC or OS X because on X86 it doesn't have to do processor emulation.

  5. already done on No Threat to Linux with Apple and Intel Deal · · Score: 1

    Mac-on-Linux already lets you run OS X at full speed within Linux.

  6. works for me on 10.4 on Display at FOSE · · Score: 1

    The exploit compiles and gets a root console on my 10.3.8 box, which isn't missing any updates.

  7. rtfm on Automated CD/DVD Archival? · · Score: 1
  8. Dock Icon? on Aqua OpenOffice.org v2.0 Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Why can't X11 apps get dock icons in Aqua as they do in GNUStep? I realize Aqua's dock format isn't as powerful, but there has to be enough common ground for X11 apps to have their own icons.

  9. postscript/PDF and XML? on Vendor Neutral File Formats? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    XCircuit, a circuit layout app for X, uses postscript as its default format. If you have XCircuit, you can load the postscript file into it and edit it like any other circuit. If not, you can still print it or view it as you would any other postscript file.

    XML is a good start, because it's easy for a new app (the fictional YCircuit) to add support for the format, but you are still stuck unable to print it if you don't have the skills to write a conversion script and no one else has written it for you.

    Why not combine the two? XML embedded in a standard PDF file would allow any application with support for the creator's XML tagset to import the file, and at the very least those without any similar application could view and print the file.

  10. how to narrow it down on Secret Agents Hold Code-Breaking Contest · · Score: 1

    Grab a list of celebrity names (you should already know these are movie stars, paired by movies they were in) and have a script check by length and monoalphabeticallity to list the possible equivalencies of each name.

    If you don't waste your time following celebrities, you can use google by a script to match them up. The more results a pair has, the more likely that pair is to have stared in a movie together.

  11. the idea on The Threat From Life on Mars · · Score: 0

    The idea is that any Martian bacteria evolved independently of ours, so we have evolved no resistance to it.

    Think about how European diseases nearly exterminated the native populace of North America. Mars is much more isolated from Earth than Europe was from North America, and we have no experience whatsoever in fighting the diseases it may harbor.

  12. Re:How accurate is this? on Nearby Galaxy Surprisingly Young · · Score: 1

    As a young earth creationist, why do you believe that the universe is only 6,000-7,000 years old? What in the Bible, or whichever religious text you follow, gives you cause to believe this? Do any of the gospels quote Jesus as claiming that he was born X many years after the creation? I ask because I have never understood where that particular belief comes from or why it is so prevalent.

    As for your question, google found this.

  13. Re:Free Forking? on ESR Responds to Sun's Claims of Being a Better Bazaar · · Score: 4, Informative

    The difference is that Microsoft did it maliciously. If Sun forked an ancient version of Redhat, and sold it as Sun Redhat/Linux, Redhat would be rightfully pissed when people assumed that their modern software is crap because of it.

    When Microsoft implemented J++, they touted it as Java, but it lacked many features that became standard in Java, like Swing. Including their own VM with Windows made users think they had Java, when they didn't, such that Swing applets couldn't be generally deployed for years.

    I'm not defending Sun's claim that Java is more open than Linux, just that they had every right and every duty to keep Microsoft from fucking Java up for all of us.

  14. Solution: on Competition Fosters Next Generation Of Linux Talent · · Score: 2

    Study a bit more grammar, tell your principal to fuck off in front of several hundred witnesses, and enter college rather than waste a fourth year in high school.

    It worked for me. I ended up with a PowerBook and a free ride while my high school friends were being taught history by Bill and Ted.

  15. yeah on More on the Dangers of eVoting · · Score: 1, Redundant

    How educated must voters be with regard to the issues when they only get to choose between a giant douche and a turd sandwich? Personally, I prefer the votergasm campaign.

  16. it's simple: on Gates on Spyware and OS Competition · · Score: 1

    Such a backdoor wouldn't be obvious. If you were trying to slip a backdoor into anything, you'd do it as something that appears to be a mistake, like the vulnerability that made MSBlast possible. Nothing looks intentional, by the code, so it's easy to deny if anyone makes accusations.

    If the NSA uses Windows--God help us--they could patch that particular vulnerability by use of a simple firewall.

  17. damages? on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 1

    "Ok, I confess, it was me. I shared a copy with my friend. You know owe me the $0.05 in bandwidth costs that I saved you."

    The item being copied is valued at $0. How can MS show damages to sue over?

    Free isn't a non-issue in civil court, which is where copyright law will stay until some super DMCA makes it a felony.

  18. ways to avoid that: on Does Your Employer Own Your Thoughts? · · Score: 1

    1. Sign it "John Doe" in messy cursive.
    2. Never turn it in. Most professors/departments won't notice. If they place a hold on your account for it, get that hold removed by another department.
    3. Tell the CS department to fuck off, and find a better university.

    By creating crap for us to circumvent, they inspire original thought.

  19. firewall solution on Multi-Core Chips And Software Licensing · · Score: 1

    Assuming it is a firewall, just charge by the number of computers on the local side of the firewall that packets are being routed for. If the user pays for 50 users, have it remember the states of sockets for 50 computers. If the user pays for 20,000 users, it could handle the states of sockets for 20,000 computers.

    I realize it isn't a firewall, but the solution works for nearly any networking tool. Charge by connected systems rather than users. Failing that, you can always assume the honesty of your customer and charge by the number of people relying on your product.

  20. Re:Two wrongs don't make a right! on 419 Scammer Gets Scammed · · Score: 1

    Would the USA extradite to Nigeria over such a matter?

  21. Re:Didn't Mitnick go to jail? on Mitnick Speaks About Hacking · · Score: 1

    "Hi there Sir, I seem to get this damned new biometric dololly to recognize me. Can you let me in so that I can send a quick email to Bob in security about it? Thanks."

  22. I use Solaris on UltraSparc on Commercial DVD Software Comes to Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I still don't have a single legal way to play DVDs.

  23. No, it doesn't. on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are no known exploitations of this in the wild, so it in no way shows that attackers are going for the common denominator of Mozilla installations.

    Also note that this is a problem with Windows URI Handler rather than Mozilla. Mozilla passes any protocol it doesn't understand to Windows, and Windows uses it to execute a local file. That's why this problem doesn't exist in anything but Windows.

    This just goes to show that Microsoft makes insecure software, and that insecurity often bleeds into otherwise trustworthy programs.

  24. link on VAX Users See the Writing on the Wall · · Score: 1
  25. Re:How is Routing Between Two Networks Non-Obvious on An 802.11 Router For 3G Internet Service · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just see if a competent engineer can work backward, generating the desired result from the claims without the rest of the patent. It would be a piece of cake to implement such trivialities as the SUID bit or swinging sideways without being told the solution, but it's much more difficult to create a light bulb without previously understanding how one works.