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  1. Re:"Deny" for certificate? on Evaluating Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC2 · · Score: 0

    Thanks! That's good to know, and enough for me to jump into the fray and try it out.

  2. "Deny" for certificate? on Evaluating Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC2 · · Score: 0

    Will RC2 finally grant the ability for IE users to deny any ActiveX control signed with a certain certificate? It would be nice to be able to check "Never trust content from TheSpywareVendorFormerlyKnownAsGator." It's only fair, since the option to "always trust" is already there.

  3. Re:You could just... on Handling User Grown Machines on a Large Network? · · Score: 0
    Along with their free condoms, give 'em free Linux CDs.

    What would be the point of that? The intersection of people who would need each of those items is the empty set.

  4. Re:I hate to sound like a karma whore... on Using P2P for Legitimate Applications? · · Score: 0

    It would help if the folks at Mandrake seeded the file. It'd be pretty rough being the first person to offer a couple of GB over a typical asymmetric residential line. But it wouldn't be bad if Mandrake started off seeding Kazaa, eMule, &c. and then let those downloading help shoulder the load.

  5. Re:Renaming It Shows What They Think About us on Bruce Sterling On Total Information Awareness · · Score: 0
    You probably have a point with the manipulation of the people. But the best anti-terrorism plan is the one Bush has pursued thus far: you attack us, we invade your country.

    I wouldn't have been opposed to a nuclear strike on Medina, with the one on Mecca held in the balance should there ever be another attack.

  6. Re:Well on Bruce Sterling On Total Information Awareness · · Score: 0

    The first clue should have been a Ph.D. in such a bullshit "discipline."

  7. Re:Won't work on Using Palladium to Secure P2P Networks · · Score: 0

    There are currently special versions of Windows for corporations (e.g. VLKs, Shared Source). It isn't far-fetched to think that corporate NGSCB/Pd/TCPA/Fritz-Chipped hardware could be delivered with endorsement keys from both Microsoft and $CORPORATION. And when the corporation sold those machines on the surplus market, there could be a means to zeroize the corporation keys or they could simply be left there--but the disks wiped of any corporate software.

  8. Re:I just saw an AOL commercial on Case to Step Down from AOLTW · · Score: 0

    Someone modded that Flamebait. Shouldn't that be Flamerbait?

  9. Re:Do you wish you'd raped someone instead on Talk To a Convicted Warez Guy · · Score: 0

    It's always nice to know that a blatant troll like NDP* can post a pro-DMCA post and be guaranteed dozens of multi-line rebuttals.

  10. Re:Hypocrisy on Internet Filters - Libertarianism is Hate Speech? · · Score: 0
    I like the "inductive basis of property ownership" one. I'd never thought of it that way before.

    I wasn't trying to be inflammatory: I just get tired of hearing that the answer to any abuse of an employee by an employer is to just get another job. The asymmetry of power between employer and employee makes free contract impossible for the employee in that relationship.

  11. Re:A few words of sanity on Effects of the Patriot Act on Librarians · · Score: 0

    If you didn't have them, there wouldn't have been anything to dig for. Does UK law require libraries to retain borrower circulation records for that length of time?!

  12. Re:Hypocrisy on Internet Filters - Libertarianism is Hate Speech? · · Score: 0

    When employers collude and your choices are to "freely" contract with them or starve, is it oppression then?

  13. Opt-out is valid on Challenges to Opt-Out Privacy Policies at Colleges? · · Score: 0
    Perhaps you'd like for your school to be able to verify your full-time status to mom and dad's insurer, report your accession to the Dean's List to your local paper, or for your school to verify your degree for a potential employer someday. All of these are prohibited without the student's written release for those who choose to restrict their directory information.

    Denying these customary information releases for a few privacy fanatics isn't in the interest of a college or its students. On the other hand, the process of restricting and unrestricting one's directory information should be made as frictionless as possible. And in an ideal world, schools wouldn't sell out their students to marketers for chump change.

  14. Re:What's the problem here? on How The DMCA Is Enforced · · Score: 0
    but giving out addresses publically like some vigilante right-to-lifer is rediculous.

    Yeah. It'd be a crying shame if um, something were to happen to him or someone in his company. I know I'd bawl like a little girl if that happened. Yeah.

  15. Re:Heh on Palladium, 'Trusted PCs' in the News · · Score: 1

    Not yet. But what about the time when consumer PC's won't boot anything but a "trusted" operating system?

  16. Apple is evil, again. on xtunes Forced to Change Name, Appearance by Apple Lawyers · · Score: 0, Troll

    Film at 11. They're just like Microsoft, only not as good at it. The sooner the Mac f@nb0yz get that through their thick skulls, the better off they'll be. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying unencumbered hardware that runs free software and is manufactured by companies that don't sue every time their overpriced hardware revenue model is threatened.

  17. Heh. on Hot-Rod Your CD-RW Drive · · Score: 1

    Wait until everyone figures out that all the new IDE hard disks are 160GB and just need a firmware update to turn a 20GB drive into a 160GB one!