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  1. Re:Im actually waiting for a callback right now... on Symantec CEO Says Bad Service Fix Only Temporary · · Score: 1

    If you think any of symantec's products are "good", you're right where you belong in support hell.

  2. Re:listen to ads? on Google Shows Off Ad-Supported Cell Phone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Agreed. Google, to date, has proven to be quite effective at dishing out ads that don't negatively affect me. I'm not inundated with doubleclick monkey shooting win IPOD ads, rather I get ads based on somethings I'm writing about in email, searched for, or reading about.

    Google has a chance to pioneer "effective" advertising, of the type that is extremely context sensual - enough so that it wouldn't arguably be a nuisance to most people. Try this: Go to google and search for "japan". Then search for "vacation". Boom - it puts up small ads about vacations to japan. Convenient? Yes. Obtrusive? Hardly. Innovative? Absolutely. Relevant? Likely.

    There are a hundred things, I, as a consumer, would love to see ads on *right now*, but not the old school ads - the new kind. The kind that advertise there's a new chinese restaraurant with 5 star ratings 1.4 miles from my current location. Or the kind that let me know there's a new used game store 3 miles from me that pays more than gamestop for trade ins and sells them for less. Or the kind that say there's a new book at amazon with 5 star ratings on PHP OO when I'm bitching about PHP's OO in IM. There are zillions of these kinds of examples, and if google pioneers it, I will gladly welcome the demise of the doubleclick assault.

  3. Re:further proof on Google Shows Off Ad-Supported Cell Phone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Would it _really_ hurt you to look up the definition of "monopoly"? Seriously, it's not a terribly difficult concept to grasp, I swear. Don't be afraid of the dictionary. It is your friend. It cannot hurt you, unless thrown at or dropped on you.

  4. Re:I wonder how this will affect Sony on GTA IV Delayed Into Next Year · · Score: 1

    Is that true that you need a console for CoD4? I thought the even releases were supposed to be for pc/console and the odds were going to be reserved for consoles.

  5. Re:Once, yes. on New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions · · Score: 1

    It takes energy to encode for, grow, and sustain a tail. Since it's not vital to our survival, that would explain its absense. You may already know this, sorry for being redundant if you did.

    Note, this isn't to say that everything non-vital to an organism doesn't exist.

  6. Re:I wonder how this will affect Sony on GTA IV Delayed Into Next Year · · Score: 1

    Wow, every time you post that list it gets a little smaller.

  7. Re:Perfectly reasonable hypothesis? on New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It looks like it just got sensationalized from "Varied levels of cosmic radiation" to "Mass extinctions". What the paper does a better job describing is how such cycles would account for increased diversity in lifeforms. Consider, for instance, the cambrian explosion. Based on what we know about evolution, such an explosion is unprecedented and highly unlikely, despite the evidence. Perhaps increased Cosmic Rays caused a massive amount of mutations that forever changed the genetic data of organisms by making them more likely to survive.

  8. Re:Line Printer won't scale on DSS/HIPPA/SOX Unalterable Audit Logs? · · Score: 1

    You're able to make suggestions. You were also able to make suggestions when your congressmen drafted it.

  9. Re:Syslog on DSS/HIPPA/SOX Unalterable Audit Logs? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, it's rather stupid, actually. Someone sniffing plain text on the network could see failed logins, successful logins (and infer the times of the day logins are allowed) they type of logins (AD, local machine, ssh, console).

    The commands they ran and infer the software on the machine, the network layout and machine names and thousands of other things that could be used to gather the information needed to compromise the machines.

    Did I mention it's incredibly stupid to broadcast logs?

  10. Re:But delete is still easy to do on DSS/HIPPA/SOX Unalterable Audit Logs? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's not about "deleting" the data, it's about trusting the data you have. Just like there's a difference between disinformation and no information - though I admit there should be procedures in place to keep said things away from your super powerful 1200 watt coffee maker.

  11. Re:A genius! on A CIO's View of Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that vmware snapshots provide a much better solution to constantly having to redo/startover from scratch huge amounts of your quicken db because the buggy piece of shit somehow magically died. I'm not just talking about restoring from backup, I'm talking about the program itself which occasionally stops working on some things (like online updating, etc) for no reason whatsoever, only to magically start working the next week.

    Not surprisingly, though, is that ms money does the _exact_ same thing but only stops working for a few days at a time and at least it has a consistent GUI for those of us not in love with a Mouse like you need to be with the newer quickens.

  12. Re:mod this shit down on FBI, IRS Raid Home of Sen. Ted Stevens · · Score: 1

    Technically, the burden of proof is on you, as you made the assertion.

    I must admit, however, based on your 3rd grade level arguments above that you probably have no idea what I'm talking about.

  13. Re:Sun as usual is copying IBM on Sun Says Project Indiana is Not a Linux Copy · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry that's the only reply you could muster. Tell you what, I'll let you go look in your 1001 insults book to find another. Keep trying, you may still succeed!

  14. Re:Sun as usual is copying IBM on Sun Says Project Indiana is Not a Linux Copy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I dont understand how Sun can be seen as innovative anymore. They just lurch this way and that, never following any kind of coherant strategy.

    No need to try to reverse engineer their strategy, it's openly published:

    http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.me dia/sunstrategy1.gif

  15. Re:Good Gnus? on Sun Says Project Indiana is Not a Linux Copy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, let's keep package. Then, every time there is a patch we can reboot to single usermode to install it. We can even have changing versions of packages that are now longer compatible with older versions - and hell, who needs config file management? We can just have it overwrite everything without asking.

  16. Re:Who is doing this? on Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    What should be concerning you is why the hell you're not encrypting the sensitive government work yourself, or your IT department hasn't mandated it. The responsibility shouldn't be "They should just leave me alone", rather "I should CYA".

  17. Re:If only it were that simple on Study Proves Having Fat Friends Makes You Fat · · Score: 1

    Same here. 6 months ago I found that I weighed about 40lbs more than I used to about 4 years ago or so. I don't own a scale so it really snuck up on me. In those 6 months, I'm down 35lbs just by eating less and riding bike occasionally. Not that big of a deal, but it is something you have to be aware of. Good thing I had a friend who pointed out that I ballooned, or it would have taken longer to notice. I guess the whole going up in size thing (like my jeans from 32->34) was hidden since I had been used to growing for the past 20 some years (desensitized), and I wore baggy jeans.

  18. Re:Insane level of backup... on Multiple Sites Down In SF Power Outage · · Score: 1

    That's fine and dandy for a data backup, but he was talking about a telco CO. It's not like it's just a redundant webserver - there are physical connections that exclusively connect to that location and that location only.

    P.S. Try to write your posts a little less, well, advertisement like. Unless you're a shill. In that case, carry on.

  19. Re:Insane level of backup... on Multiple Sites Down In SF Power Outage · · Score: 1

    Like the andrea gail's epirb, let this be a lesson for those who think there should be an off-and-completely-disabled button for some important things.

    People do stupid things!

  20. Re:My Opinion on Ubuntu Continues to Grab Market Share · · Score: 1

    I can agree with this. I am a long time linux user with experience with just about every distro. The debian arch and slick integration got me hooked on ubuntu. I've kept ubuntu as my main distro for much longer than I kept any of the other ones, excluding debian - which still runs on my servers at work. When I get the confidence in ubuntu I need as a server OS (I run it at home and in work development), I will install it as a server and likely recommend purchase of canonical support to my employer.

  21. Re:from the "no shit" dept. on Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic · · Score: 1

    I
    Owe the
    World an
    Apology

  22. Re:Firefox on Any "Pretty" Code Out There? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen a busy mail server? Using pids and time is absurd for such a combo.

  23. Re:Comments lie. Code never lies. on Any "Pretty" Code Out There? · · Score: 1

    It's not clear to me an actual case has been made that warrents the $500.

    Moreso, the "bugs" describes above can be "features" to somebody else.


    Was it the privilege escalation, root privlege escalation or remote crashing that you consider features?

    http://www.guninski.com/where_do_you_want_billg_to _go_today_4.html

  24. Re:Comments lie. Code never lies. on Any "Pretty" Code Out There? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Guninski's code works for any default qmail installation figuring the right arch and memory. Depending on your org, most currently shipping machines are capable of fostering said environment. An AMD64 with 8GB+ of ram is not uncommon. I have 4 of them and work for a small company. My previous company had several dozen (Sun 4100s).

    These exploits can be performed by any user who owns such hardware, and can read. They are not theoretical. Many bugs have existed in linux kernels that only manifest themselves under extreme circumstances, and I don't see Linus or anyone else of respectable programmer status that attempts such dismissals with a handwave. Maybe it's because pride doesn't get in their way?

  25. Re:Firefox on Any "Pretty" Code Out There? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    IMHO, postfix takes the cake for the most elegant and readable code I've ever looked at. At one point I found an screenshot of qmail vs. postfix code in similar areas for handling some condition. The qmail code was hardcoded, had nasty loops and was just plain unbearable. The postfix version, however, was exceedingly elegant and I knew right away what the code was doing.

    I only wish firefox was 10% as elegant and cruft free as postfix.