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  1. Re:Not good for large installations. on 'Dumb Terminals' Can Be a Smart Move for Companies · · Score: 1

    (replying to own post--sorry) Took awhile, but finally found it -- "Authorized Program Facility". Programs from those libraries can run in key zero (supervisor mode) and bypass RACF and other protections.

  2. Re:Not good for large installations. on 'Dumb Terminals' Can Be a Smart Move for Companies · · Score: 1

    What does APF authorized mean?

  3. Re:Fair enough -- as long as they follow the rules on 'Full-Pipe' FBI Internet Monitoring Questionably Legal · · Score: 1

    And if you happen to be driving by with an unpaid parking ticket, in handcuffs you go. If the warrant doesn't cover the traffic, it's inadmissible as evidence.

  4. Re:Really? on One In Five Windows Installs Is Non-Genuine · · Score: 1

    . . . and probably a homo!

    What leads you to believe he's running a pirated copy of XP on a Mac?

  5. Re:Hmmmmmmmmn, on Fluendo To Sell Proprietary Codecs For Linux · · Score: 1

    Noted -- don't know if WMP runs under WINE :).

  6. Re:Hmmmmmmmmn, on Fluendo To Sell Proprietary Codecs For Linux · · Score: 1

    Get Media Player Classic, and you can avoid most of the spyware properties associated with WMVs. Otherwise, you can turn those features off in WMP setup, but that would also involve trusting Microsoft to unconditionally honor those settings, which I would not.

  7. Sounds like a good solution . . . on Giant Rabbits To Feed North Korea · · Score: 1

    . . . so long as the rabbits aren't only the size of dogs, but also taste like dog.

  8. Re:on what grounds anyway? on Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case · · Score: 1

    My point is that being regulated, public accommodations, they shouldn't allowed the right of arbitrary discrimination, which is what ID requirements are in the presence of effective weapons searches. In fact, given the degree of taxpayer subsidy, airlines are at best quasi-government agencies, much like the Postal Service.

  9. Re:on what grounds anyway? on Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case · · Score: 1

    They should be able to refuse passage to spics, kikes, and niggers too, seeing as how they're not a public accommodation and can thus enforce any requirement they want. Oh, wait.

  10. Re:So let the flame wars begin! on The Birth of vi · · Score: 4, Funny

    But a nano sense of humor is 1,000 times as humorous as a pico one. Surely you got it!

  11. Re:THE Ohio State University on What's Hidden Under Greenland's Ice? · · Score: 1

    The legislature ought to just merge OSU and OU and shut them both up for good, firing any administrators who don't like it. The "THE" thing is one of the dumbest things going.

  12. Using search engines . . . on Microsoft Using Personal Data to Target Ads · · Score: 3, Informative

    . . . while logged in, be it with the Great Satan Microsoft or the All-Angelic Google, is a recipe for having a dossier built on yourself that Bob-knows-who will have access to in perpetuity. If you must use Hotmail, Gmail, MSN messenger, or what-have-you, at least use a separate browser instance running through TOR or JAP that's not logged in as you for your searching needs. Years later, when you need a security clearance, have to have a background investigation, or heaven forbid run for office, you'll thank yourself for not having left those behavioral breadcrumbs behind. Even if your searches are totally innocent, their being dredged up can't be of benefit to you, only detriment.

  13. Re:Not a surprise on Borland/Codegear Doesn't Plan to Revive Kylix · · Score: 1

    Maybe the problem was that it was a piece of crap (you cite IDE defects and abandonment of VCL in your post), rather than "Linuzzz" (is that like Micro$oft?) users not being willing to pay for anything.

  14. Re:The Internet is fine on Judge Rules Against Deep-Linking of Content · · Score: 1

    How does telling people where your house is constitute tresspass? A tresspass analogy, to be correct, would require that you have already opened your house for visitors and then sue someone for giving directions to the master bedroom.

  15. Re:Did ERP systems replace COBOL? on 100 Years of Grace Hopper · · Score: 1

    The language used for event-driven programming in PeopleSoft via Application Designer is called PeopleCode. It's syntactically similar to Visual BASIC. Under the hood, though, there are *numerous* COBOL processes.

  16. Re:So... how many on Citigroup Plans Thumbprint ATMs For India's Poor · · Score: 1

    They're drawing a steady paycheck working for Citibank as outsourced CSRs.

  17. Re:Demagnitize the card! on Drivers License Swipes Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    No, but it's pretty trivial to cover it with the 2D barcode containing the information of your choice.

  18. Re:There's law, and there's reality on Man Used MP3 Player To Hack Cash Machines · · Score: 1

    There's a business model somewhere in the idea of covert cameras that record audio and video from a car, digitally sign it in as tamperproof a way as possible (well enough that you could drag in an expert witness to testify of the videos authenticity) and broadcast it to off-site, secure storage in realtime. You could sell subscriptions to the service to people who had been arrested for driving while black, driving while young, driving with legal but offensive to the po-po window tint, etc.

  19. Re:not sure what I think about this on Rootkit Could Hide In PCI Cards · · Score: 1

    Exactly -- I noticed that little nugget conveniently slipped in there, too. Makes me wonder what stake the author has in TCPA/Palladium/NGSCB/DRM flavor of the month.

  20. Re:Quick question... on Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use · · Score: 1

    Bochs is open source, so if it provides hooks, it could be modified to eliminate them. But then the OS could just check known characteristics of the emulated hardware.

  21. Re:Quick question... on Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use · · Score: 1

    VMware provides hooks and documentation for software to tell it's running in an emulated environment. I won't be surprised at all if WMP refuses to play digital restrictions-managed content under a VM.

  22. Re:My input on it on Students Protest Turnitin.com · · Score: 1

    Good points, all. A CC license is a great idea for an academic -- it allows non-commercial use, but restricts the ability of others to commercially exploit his or her material for commercial gain without compensation.

  23. Re:My input on it on Students Protest Turnitin.com · · Score: 1

    College courses are a work-for-hire, and the copyright of course content belongs with the institution, not with the individual instructor. Anyway, claiming copyright on course content while making a living in academe is hypocritical, anyway.

    Why shouldn't students who are downloading music and movies assert copyright over their papers? After all, they stand to lose a lot if sued by one of the fascist *AA organizations. Shouldn't turnabout be fair play?

  24. Re:Lack of evidence... on RIAA Wants to Include Song Files it Can't Produce · · Score: 1

    In fact, to the *AA it would be interesting to see that a certain peer can be contacted from an untainted IP address, but not from a tainted one. That way they know you're using PeerGuardian. If I were them, I'd go after those people just to scare PeerGuardian users. They can even use the fact that you used PeerGuardian to argue that you knew you were doing wrong.

    There's a paper I've skimmed describing exactly that approach. Can't find a link right now, but it was basically what you described--use a known PG-blocked address and a consumer DSL or cable connection, and bust those to whom you can connect with the latter but not with the former.

  25. Re:In what's probably a first on Weird Al Premiere Cancelled Due to Net Leak · · Score: 1

    Well, apparently, yes they do. Unenforceable intellectual "property" laws are pretty much meaningless in this situation.