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  1. As others have pointed out, on Yahoo! Releases Desktop Search Tool · · Score: 1

    it's just X1 search. A showstopper for paranoids like me is that X1 calls home on startup. Anything indexing sensitive files shouldn't be calling out for updates, activations, or what have you without my explicit command.

  2. Re:Cute, but... on RIP Pentium II, 1997 - 2006 · · Score: 1

    Nerd :).

  3. Re:Language laxatives needed on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1
    She did get a lot of joy out of using Deloitte's Bullfighter though. . . . Unfortunately Deloitte isn't distributing it anymore.

    archive.org is your buddy. (The ZIP is apparently something nonstandard maybe PKware proprietary?) but the EXE works.) Get it before they pull it.

  4. Re:Many offer free shipping on 12 Christmas Gifts Not To Buy Online · · Score: 1

    I find generally that the cost of shipping is offset by the lack of sales tax, when choosing merchants carefully. (Oh, yes, of course, I do pay the use tax at the end of the year for things I buy out of state. Doesn't everybody?)

  5. Re:Oh, well. on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 1

    There is no question that at the time of the post, the above site was spamvertised. And the upstreams, innocent though they may be, might have some incentive to cut the downstream (whose money's just as green as everyone else's) off once they can't pay their bill. Sprint and other major carriers knowingly allow spam on their downstreams (google "pink contracts") and I have no pity on them if they lose money because their downstreams are running a spamvertised site.

  6. Shamefully assisted by "American" companies on China Blocking Access to Google News Site · · Score: 2, Funny
    "The Weekly Standard writes that despite expectations, the Chinese Government has been very successful in suppressing free internet access for their citizens. Key to this success was the assistance of Cisco, who built a giant firewall tailored to the state's needs, Yahoo (who helpfully censors search results and monitors online chats), and other Western companies."

    The executives at Cisco and Yahoo should be torn from their offices, blindfolded, briefly tried, then hanged for crimes against humanity for having assisted the brutal PRC government with the oppression of its own people.

  7. Oh, well. on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 1
    Back to
    while :;do wget -O - http://www.bhex.com/rep/rolex/ > /dev/null; done
    The above could be construed by misguided spam apologists as an illegal attack on a spammer's bandwidth. Don't do it.
  8. Re:This is not new on Feds Propose National Database of College Students · · Score: 1
    But they only have that information for aid applicants, which is as it should be. IPEDS and FISAP are aggregate data (as you again pointed out). NPSAS uses personally identifiable data, but only on a sample. There is no reason the claimed goals of IPEDS unit records can't be accomplished using sampling. If it's good enough for cohort defaults . . .

    Anyways, congrats on entering the wonderful world of tech in higher education. And if that young woman on your page is your girlfriend, and you haven't already, propose :).

  9. Re:Very misleading on HD-DVD Wins Support of 4 Studios · · Score: 1

    People are used to giving their Dish Network/DirecTV boxes access to a phone line, and the tube-addicted digerati have their TiVos. However, I don't see the day coming soon when people willingly plug in a box that is supposed to only play movies they "buy" into a network jack or phone line. Of course, no one ever went bankrupt overestimating the idiocy of consumers.

  10. Re:Copyright expiration? on HD-DVD Wins Support of 4 Studios · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who are we kidding? By the time any copyrights on motion pictures made today are allowed to expire, civilization will have completely collapsed and/or the Sun will have burned out.

  11. Re:Heh. A silver bullet for bulletproof hosting on Lycos Declares War on Spam Servers · · Score: 1

    This is a pretty minimal use of upstream bandwidth in comparision to, say, Bittorrent or KaZaA. I doubt it will even be on their radar.

  12. Re:False Positives on Lycos Declares War on Spam Servers · · Score: 1

    They say these will be hand-verified. This means an innocent bystander isn't going to make the cut of sites to which to generate traffic, but ph3netr1ine.info and the like will. I assume they're monitoring for DNS trickery; some of the Chinese spammers are already returning false DNS results to SpamCop during its parse.

  13. Heh. A silver bullet for bulletproof hosting on Lycos Declares War on Spam Servers · · Score: 1

    This is a capital idea. And you say they're going to sue? I can see the filings now--our Chinese/Korean/Russian server, which had been happily serving up ads for \/!@g!-a, m-o-r-t-g-@-g-e-s, and pr3scr!pt!0n drugs, was taken down by these filthy thugs. We demand justice!

  14. Re:What? on Spies Riding Shotgun · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, because everyone reads through every paragraph at the airport car rental counter on every business trip. And has an attorney on retainer to just ring up on his cell if there are any questions. Your attitude is precisely why consumer protection laws were enacted, and the problem the OP describes of sneaky contract riders is one that would be most appropriately addressed by one.

  15. Re:Just rip them out on Spies Riding Shotgun · · Score: 1

    They're integrated with the airbag system. It's a clever legal hack that makes disabling the black boxes against the law.

  16. Re:MPAA will get their way regardless on MPAA Looks to Sniff Internet2 Traffic for Sharers · · Score: 1

    (Of course, in the above, I meant the snitch student running the monitoring software is the one expelled, as performing monitoring for the RIAA is a commercial use.)

  17. Re:MPAA will get their way regardless on MPAA Looks to Sniff Internet2 Traffic for Sharers · · Score: 1

    And when that evidence is used against an I2 member student, it becomes public record. The administration of the insititution then expels the student for using I2 for commercial purposes. Sounds like a plan.

  18. Regulation will be coming -- on The Continued Advance of VoIP · · Score: 1

    in particular, backdoors to any encryption will be built onto the major chipsets. Make sure portable, open-source soft phones remain in your communications arsenal.

  19. Re:OT: by and large on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 1

    Sorry--maybe this is along the lines of what you were looking for. So we both learn something today :).

  20. Re:OT: by and large on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 1

    It can be translated as an adverb--"mostly" works well in its place. HTH.

  21. Re:New Term (and software needed) - RCOSM on Pioneer Ultraviolet Laser Promises 500GB Discs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Something along these lines could help with media dropouts. You can build these files with as little or as much redundancy as makes you feel comfortable. Of course, if Timmy Toddler uses the medium as a frisbee or the dog eats it, you're still SOL.

  22. Loophole you can drive a truck through: on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 2, Informative

    By citing Article VI of the Constitution and using it to say that treaty obligations require the seal, the government can conduct any black bag job it wants just by arranging a "confidential" request from any "friendly" foreign power.

  23. Translation: on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It'd be rather embarrasing to admit we clamped down on a leftie news site just for political reasons.

  24. Re:$650 for 3Mbps? on Speakeasy Will Test IEEE 802.16 In Downtown Seattle · · Score: 1

    Sounds right to me--I was saying the SLA and upstream speed are missing from DSL.

  25. Re:$650 for 3Mbps? on Speakeasy Will Test IEEE 802.16 In Downtown Seattle · · Score: 1

    A service level agreement and upstream spead.