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  1. Re:Selective Slashdot Acceptance on Netscape 8 Breaks IE XML · · Score: 1

    Don't worry it will be outsourced soon to India, and since India uses proper British spellings this will not be an issue.

  2. Re:Possibly beryllium oxide on iPod Dangerous When Wet · · Score: 1

    Umm no dude he said YOUR B-O was the problem. - Sorry I couldn't resist the entendre

  3. Re:Salute the Dutch on Dutch Academics Declare Research Free-For-All · · Score: 1

    Right, because none of that is important... You don't read much history do you? Because when those decline, so does the nation.

  4. Re:bankrupt on Yahoo Introduces Competitor for iTunes · · Score: 3, Insightful
    form TFA:
    "As with any such music service, songs will become unplayable if the subscription lapses. Alternatively, users can purchase individuals songs they wish to keep indefinitely for 79 cents, or 99 cents for customers who forego the monthly fee."
    So if you stop paying th emonthly fee you will either get a hudge bill or have a lot f useless data on your hands... until the authentication is cracked of course.
  5. Re:Speaking of power; "only electricty?" on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    But it has already been shown that MS vacuums don't suck they blow

  6. Re:Speaking of power; "only electricty?" on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    It could be a natural gas or steam powered turbine... yeah or a really big hamster wheel.

  7. Re:Evolutionary Naturalism Vs Intelligent Design on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    I have never claimed no one disputed it. Try again, this time after you take a basic reading comprehension course.

  8. Re:Evolutionary Naturalism Vs Intelligent Design on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Ad homonym is not a viable form of argumentation, If you see Plantinga as Hogwash and hand waving then you are either A) ill prepared for any jaunt into philosophy and thus would be ill advised to read anyone save base references or B) Have not actually read the argument. However given that you are likely both (slashdot cant take the formatting required to prove such within a reasonable doubt) You then put me in a position to devise a list of natural philosophers and limit it (while any such a response is certain to garner a reply along the lines of "well what about so and so"). You can also try doing a simple search at your local college library for the original paper and then adding "in response to" as part of your query. You can try similar searches online, but given the fact that there are no standards as to who can publish online your results may be more incongruous.

    If you have a reasonable argument showing that the defeaters as described in "An Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism" are in fact not defeaters, or that there is some hole in the argument I would be glad to hear of them and discuss them.

    For those who do not know who Alvin Plantinga is, he is The John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame and a sometimes lecturer at Biola, Stanford et al. You may of course take a look at his faculty bio page at Notre Dame

  9. Re:Evolutionary Naturalism Vs Intelligent Design on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Try reading the article they cannot dispute ... otherwise you are effectively saying you want to read a bunch of failures.

  10. Evolutionary Naturalism Vs Intelligent Design on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: -1, Troll

    It takes just as much faith to believe in evolution as it does Intelligent design, more in many people's estimation (Drs Plantinga, Creamer et al). One of the primary reasons is that the very act of evolution requires certain assumptions and that the probability of evolution creating cognative ability approaches null. It is a very sound argument which as yet the best of natural philisophers have yet to overturn.
    You can listen to Plantinga's audio commentary on his argument that Pr(E&N/R) is in fact self defeating.

  11. Re:Potentially Interesting Finds, and a correction on Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail' · · Score: 1

    Actually there are about 7 different sources with regards to Jesus .. and in honesty I should be able to quote them from memmory bt cannot right now ... I will try and do a journal article in the next few days for them.

  12. Re:Potentially Interesting Finds, and a correction on Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail' · · Score: 2, Informative

    So all of those external references to these characters were also false? The Bible is one of teh most criticly attested documents ever studied. Archaelogy continuously affirms it and when it seems to contradict it it is usually only a few years before better studies (better meaning better documentation, archaelogical evidence, scholarship, acceptance in scholarly circles etc) show the Bible correct again.

  13. Re:Potentially Interesting Finds, and a correction on Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Holy Blood Holy Grail is hilarious, Especially to scholarly study! For any one who has never read it it goes something like this in thought:

    There is a very small likelyhood that someproposition is true
    since it is true there is this other proposition that has a much better likelyhood it is true (from virtually impossible to only completely laughable) since it is true there is this other proposition we couldn't mention before because we would be laughed at for even looking at before. and so on.

    The idea that trained executioners allowed a criminal to swoon rather than die, that guards whose lives were on the line would then allow a swooned criminal who had been peirced through the heart to push a several hundred or thousand pound rock in a channel away so he could walk out and they could likely be executed for failing their task and "sleeping" on the job. Then said criminal would first be encountered by a group of women (whose testmonies wouldn't have been allowed in courts). then he married one of those women ( a former prostitute) and his children founded the merovingian dynasty because they were half fish men is silly to say the least. Oh and that said criminal would have his birth certificate found in the desolated temple to begin everything ?
    Seriously neon magic try taking a critical look at the things you read.

  14. Re:Call me anal.. on Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, I have a product I have developed that stops all known chartreuse buzzards from stealing your cheese if you send me 50 bucks I will letr you use it. (I mean since you are using a product that detects all known viruses on OS X you must be interested in using my product too right?)

  15. Patch covers a bit more ... on Apple Plugs IDN Spoof Bug · · Score: 5, Informative

    Security Update 2005-003

    AFP Server Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.8, Mac OS X Server v10.3.8
    CVE-ID: CAN-2005-0340
    Impact: A specially crafted packet can cause a Denial of Service against the AFP Server.
    Description: A specially crafted packet will terminate the operation of the AFP Server due to an incorrect memory reference.

    AFP Server
    Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.8, Mac OS X Server v10.3.8
    CVE-ID: CAN-2005-0715
    Impact: The contents of a Drop Box can be discovered.
    Description: Fixes the checking of file permissions for access to Drop Boxes. Credit to John M. Glenn of San Francisco for reporting this issue.

    Bluetooth Setup Assistant
    Available for: Mac OS X 10.3.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.8
    CVE-ID: CAN-2005-0713
    Impact: Local security bypass when using a Bluetooth input device.
    Description: The Bluetooth Setup Assistant may be launched on systems without a keyboard or a preconfigured Bluetooth input device. In these cases, access to certain privileged functions has been disabled within the Bluetooth Setup Assistant.

    Core Foundation
    Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.8, Mac OS X Server v10.3.8
    CVE-ID: CAN-2005-0716
    Impact: Buffer overflow via an environment variable.
    Description: The incorrect handling of an environment variable within Core Foundation can result in a buffer overflow that may be used to execute arbitrary code. This issue has been addressed by correctly handling the environment variable. Credit to iDEFENSE and Adriano Lima of SeedSecurity.com for reporting this issue.

    Cyrus IMAP
    Available for: Mac OS X Server v10.3.8
    CVE-ID: CAN-2004-1011, CAN-2004-1012, CAN-2004-1013, CAN-2004-1015, CAN-2004-1067
    Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in Cyrus IMAP, including remotely exploitable denial of service and buffer overflows.
    Description: Cyrus IMAP is updated to version 2.2.12, which includes fixes for buffer overflows in fetchnews, backend, proxyd, and imapd. Further information is available from http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/imapd/change s.html.

    Cyrus SASL
    Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.8, Mac OS X Server v10.3.8
    CVE-ID: CAN-2002-1347, CAN-2004-0884
    Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in Cyrus SASL, including remote denial of service and possible remote code execution in applications that use this library.
    Description: Cyrus SASL is updated to address several security holes caused by improper data validation, memory allocation, and data handling.

    Folder permissions
    Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.8, Mac OS X Server v10.3.8
    CVE-ID: CAN-2005-0712
    Impact: World-writable permissions on several directories, allowing potential file race conditions or local privilege escalation.
    Description: Secure folder permissions are applied to protect the installer's receipt cache and system-level ColorSync profiles. Credit to Eric Hall of DarkArt Consulting Services, Michael Haller (info@cilly.com), and (root at addcom.de) for reporting this issue.

    Mailman
    Available for: Mac OS X Server v10.3.8
    CVE-ID: CAN-2005-0202
    Impact: Directory traversal issue in Mailman that could allow access to arbitrary files.
    Description: Mailman is a software package that provides mailing list management. This update addresses an exposure in Mailman's private archive handling that allowed remote access to arbitrary files on the system. Further information is available from http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/security.html.

    Safari
    Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.8, Mac OS X Server v10.3.8
    CVE-ID: CAN-2005-0234
    Impact: Maliciously registered International Domain Names (IDN) can make URLs visually appear as legitimate sites.
    Description: Support for Unicode characters within domain names (International Domain Name support) can allow maliciously registered domain names to visually appear as legitimate sites. Safari has been modified so that it consults a user-customizable list of scripts that are allowed to be displayed natively. Characters based on scripts that are not in the allowed list are displayed in their Punycode equivalent. The default list of allowed scripts does not include Roman look-alike scripts. Credit to Eric Johanson (ericj@shmoo.com) for reporting this issue to us.

  16. Re:They said the same thing about Micros vs Mainfr on EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable · · Score: 1

    FWIW Rick Inatome was a/the Computer City founder Henochowicz and Keith were the names of CompUS(l)A(ve)

  17. an older system on PCs For A Workshop Environment? · · Score: 1

    Try finding an older comercial grade system, A Pentium-pro, compaq proliant server, HP Vectra etc they are often built with milspec components and can survive the extremes you are talking about especially when modified in the manner others have been suggesting

  18. Re:"Splitting atoms" on New Advances Bring Fusion Closer to Reality · · Score: 1

    In radioactive decay, atoms do not split - they emit a neutron or some other particle. Because those darned alpha particles aren't really just quickly moving helium anions right? wouldn't that qualify as spliting an atom ... I will give you the benefit of the doubt however, and presume you were refering to the splitting of an aton into 2 relatively equal sized atoms instead.

  19. Re:I was modded down as troll for saying this on 3D Election Results Map by County · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Of course affordable healthcare so people don't die in the street is also a value. Giving people a wage they can live off of is also a value. But those don't count I guess
    Sure they are of value, they are just not provided for in the constitution as being in the domain of the Federal govt. Thus constitutionally, the feds shouldn't be dealing with it anyways. If you honestly feel th efederal govt should provide these things thats fine, but then we need to modify the constitution, as the federal government is only entitled to the powers and responsibilities granted there in.
  20. Re:Well.. on Kerry's Record On Electronic And Civil Rights · · Score: 1
    Kerry SAYS he is against it ... his own actions and policies say otherwise however example: Boston Capital & Technology

    Also note the actual stats on outsourcing as provided via the National Review Online

  21. Re:An embarassment of security. on Lexar JumpDrive Password Scheme Cracked · · Score: 1

    He was trying to be humourous, and it worked at least for me.

  22. Re:Video Toaster on Linear Video Editing Software for Mac? · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with the 040 it was a pretty nice Proc for its time ... (but don't get me started on the 603 series) As for running OS X the PPC revisions would require some mods to run it, but then we have seen OS X run on intel with emu so who knows.

  23. Video Toaster on Linear Video Editing Software for Mac? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Snag an amiga video toaster / flyer or try open video toaster.

  24. Re:You are a tetrachromat! on RGB to become RGBCMY · · Score: 1

    Because if you don't spoil your night vision with blue LEDs and such you can see better at night w/o having to use your hi-beams. Take it from someone who suffers from night blindness every bit helps (though that is a not so little bit)

  25. Re:Audio Hijack 2 runs w/o APE on Digital Radio With Removable Flash Storage · · Score: 1

    Not a problem for me, maybe I will drop 10 bucks on the U/G thanks for the link.