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  1. Re:Good to see game developers put their foot down on New Aliens Vs. Predator Game Doesn't Make It Past AU Ratings Board · · Score: 1

    Most of the blood was put there by government killing. If you aren't talking about that, then GM and SAB Miller have a lot more blood on their hands than the gun manufacturers.

  2. Re:Desk on Are Often-Changed Long Passwords Really Secure? · · Score: 1

    I use a password manager that requires you to remember one password to access the rest. It's called Figaro's Password Manager (fpm). It appears to be pretty safe, and it encrypts its files on disk. The passwords are never displayed unless you want them to be, so it's safe to use while someone else is looking at your screen.

  3. XP SP2 Checksum on Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes · · Score: 1

    "The MD5 checksum of the file named WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe is 59a98f181fe383907e520a391d75b5a7"

    Taken from this site: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxp pro/maintain/sp2top.mspx.

    Found with this Google Search (first link).

  4. Re:Thats like, how many dvds now ? on Macs Do Star Wars Dirty Work · · Score: 1

    Yup, yup, just like in the picture in the article. You can tell where they squeeze the people up in between the computers on the racks. It's the most efficient people storage I've seen!

    Or maybe I'm mistaken and it was a cluster of G5's??? nah that's not possible!

  5. Re:Keep in mind on FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 Released; 5.3-RELEASE Soon · · Score: 1

    You really should run one of the -RELEASE (like 5.3-RELEASE) version of FreeBSD instead of running -STABLE. -STABLE on FreeBSD is like the "testing" distribution from Debian, while -CURRENT is like the "unstable" distribution from Debian. Sort of. Except that -STABLE is turned into a -RELEASE a lot more often than "testing" is turned into a real release of Debian.

  6. Re:Natural on South Korean Music Retailers Dying · · Score: 1

    Ah, so what kind of cross-contract do you and I have now?

    You've read the (automagically copyrighted) text that I entered here, and I've read the (also automagically copyrighted) text that you've written.

    Since I wasn't aware of the terms before entering into the contract, I'm not sure that I'll abide by its provisions, but I'd still like to know what the terms are ;)

  7. Re:As it has been it will be on Copyright Law Mashup Moving Through Congress · · Score: 1

    "since the majority of people in the US do believe in some form of god (~60%)"

    I guess that since the majority of the people in the US (for now) are Caucasian or otherwise white, you wouldn't object to having a bill (that's where "under God" came from, right, A bill? Nooo that's not government sponsorship(*)) that adds, "under your White Masters" to the pledge. It would include the majority and not directly affect the minority. It would probably affect the minority less than the "under God" portion, because people probably wouldn't beat you up as frequently after school for not saying it.

    *"From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty." President Eisenhower (1954) after signing into law a bill to have "under God" added to the original pledge.

  8. Re:Natural on South Korean Music Retailers Dying · · Score: 1

    Excuse me for being confused, but what exactly does contract law have to do with the subject matter at hand? I sign no contracts whenever I purchase music in any form (well, excluding if I pay with a credit card and sign the line saying I'll abide by the credit card issuer's terms of service). I buy music files quite often, and once in a while I buy music in the form of CDs. No contracts, anytime. Your argument is all well and good, but it's irrelevant.

  9. Re:QT costs too much. on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "the QT license has left me to develop commercial applications using GTK, simply because the GPL does not impose any financial overhead. "

    That's not right. The GPL does impose overhead. If you use libraries that are GPL, then your code must be GPL, too. And that is what the parent of your post was talking about. QT is GPL. GTK is LGPL, which allows some usage of it in non-Free applications. The thing with QT is that if you want to develop closed source applications, you have to purchase a license (it's dual-licensed).

  10. Re:Auto-Generated Fake Warez Movie Site on MPAA Blames Linux Australia Notice on Human Error · · Score: 1

    Isn't that also kind of the point of this story? Linux AU had a Python framework and memory tool offered for download and the MPAA thought they were movies. It doesn't matter if a human can tell the difference if no human ever sees it. And these files were not named like movies, they probably had .tgz or similar extensions. Putting a 15K file with a .avi extension is probably enough to fool the humans at the MPAA if they actually start checking.

  11. Re:Dear Internet, on Dear Microsoft Windows ... · · Score: 1

    He didn't say that it was turned on during the two month period!

  12. Re:Does it use IP's or URI's ? on SpamAssassin 3.0 Released · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One of the problems with using IPs is the massive amount of Virtual Hosting being used. Say I'm a 1&1 customer, and there are 400 other domains going to the same IP as one of my domains, and I send you an email with a link to something on my site, but one spammer has managed to get an account with 1&1 for now. If they're on the same box as me, you just blacklisted 399 other domains that shouldn't have been blacklisted.

  13. Re:So will it be Mozilla's fault... on Critical Mozilla, Thunderbird Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    "Everyone knows that Netscape Communicator Gold 4.0 was the best software ever produced."

    I think you mean 3.04? NS 4.0 was the reason I switched to using IE 4.0 back in the day.

  14. While everyone is talking law, here is GA's take on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1

    From GA Code 16-3-21:
    (a) A person is justified in threatening or using force against another when and to the extent that he or she reasonably believes that such threat or force is necessary to defend himself or herself or a third person against such others imminent use of unlawful force; however, except as provided in Code Section 16-3-23, a person is justified in using force which is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm only if he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily injury to himself or herself or a third person or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.
    ---
    Obviously, preventing death and great bodily injury doesn't include the protection of property, so we should at what a "forcible felony" is instead, so here we go!
    ---
    Forcible Felony is defined in GA Code 16-11-131 subsection (e):
    (e) As used in this Code section, the term 'forcible felony' means any felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against any person and further includes, without limitation, murder; felony murder; burglary; robbery; armed robbery; kidnapping; hijacking of an aircraft or motor vehicle; aggravated stalking; rape; aggravated child molestation; aggravated sexual battery; arson in the first degree; the manufacturing, transporting, distribution, or possession of explosives with intent to kill, injure, or intimidate individuals or destroy a public building; terroristic threats; or acts of treason or insurrection.
    ---
    A "forcible felony", as described in the Chapter 11 of Title 16, includes burglary, robbery, armed robbery, arson, threat of use of explosives, and hijacking of vehicles. So if you are present, then deadly force may be applied in those situations.

  15. Re:Why Harry? on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1

    You could count on that sort of hospitality, but first you'd have to get together a gang of other men and try to forcibly enter the house of the person with the daughter with the intent of gang raping a male visitor of the house. Remember, that story is one of the ones brought up when demonized homosexuals...because obviously they all form roving bands of rapists*. To appease the evil group of men you can offer up your daughter to try to convert them back to the one true sexual orientation.

    *I have nothing against homosexuals, that's just the way the story of Sodom and Gemorrah went.

  16. Re:The secret on CAN-SPAM Is A Bust · · Score: 1

    Are you counting the mail that lands in your bulk mail folder for the yahoo account? I opened up an account on 13/07/2004 and the only group that should know about the address is Yahoo!. I have told no other individuals or companies about it. I've already gotten 427 spam emails to that address. There have been 8 false negatives. For some reason, the hotmail account that I opened on the same day has gotten far fewer spam messages. 40 spams and 0 false negatives. Both of them are the same username, and neither of them have been given to anyone.

  17. Re:That was appropriate on Alabama IT Whistleblower Fired For Spyware · · Score: 1

    You mean "If the security guard had broken into some guy's office, and found that he'd stolen a couple of million dollars worth of company equipment, with reasonable suspicion that the user of the office had perpetrated a crime," right? It's not as if the computer the supervisor was using was a personal computer. It was ALDOT property, and it appears that it was a well know fact that the supervisor was abusing company property.

  18. Re:Earthlink? WTF? on Phish Scams Fooling 28% of Users · · Score: 2, Informative

    the link in the middle goes to:

    http://www.earthlink.net@curvet.co.kr/curvetdb/i ma ges/CVS/

    I think that's probably not legit.

  19. Re:Unfair test on Phish Scams Fooling 28% of Users · · Score: 1

    I guess tests like these show how well that generic slashdotters read instructions before plunging ahead with whatever it is that they're trying to do.

    Click on the link for each question, review the email, read it, and scroll (sorry, no clicking) over its links.

    when you run your mouse over and then off the link, the link that it would've gone to is shown in the status bar.

  20. Re:80% right, 100% ugly colour scheme. on Phish Scams Fooling 28% of Users · · Score: 1
    I'm not positive, but if I received an email that said this:

    An error occurred while loading http://www.n15th.com/mailfrontier/phishingtest/mes sage_7/message7.htm:

    Timeout on server
    Connection was to www.n15th.com at port 80


    I probably wouldn't consider it to be a scam.
  21. Re:Buy a cheap shell on Unix Shell Accounts? · · Score: 1

    Many places that offer Dedicated or Co-Location hosting specifically disallow IRC. You'd almost have to go with a bulletproof hoster to get IRC without breaking the Ts&Cs.

  22. Re:No-risk, non-abusable on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    2 letter registrations were allowed in the past, but now three letters is the minimum for a non-cc domain. I think the cc domains can allow whatever they want still.

    It's not as if there are any two letter domains available, anyway.

  23. Re:He wasnt talking about the tray on Microsoft Patents Grouped Taskbar Buttons · · Score: 1

    eg. Internet Exploder, Notepad, command prompt

    That's why you should use konqueror or firefox, kate, and konsole instead.

  24. Re:I for welcome our new VIN invaders on Auto Manufacturers Running Out Of Unique IDs · · Score: 1

    starting from the beginning of 1981 and going til the end of 2010 is 30 years. They weren't off if that's when they started.

  25. Re:I will also be switching from Telus on Comcast Port 25 Blocks Result In Less Spam · · Score: 1

    I don't know what OS you're using (assuming OS X), but there are email programs that handle using different transports fairly easily. Take Kmail for instance. It easily allows you to switch mail transports whenever you're composing a message, and it keeps that setting for each subsequent sending until you change it again. If you didn't want to do something like that, you could always set up a text based reader like Mutt and just ssh into your machine at one location and have all of your mail facilities available from wherever you happen to be as long as you can ssh...