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  1. bad idea on Secure Voice Communications While Travelling? · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you are in a foreign country and the state agencies are bugging your calls, you better be darn sure of what their crypto laws say because you might get arrested for spying if you break them.

  2. Re:What about Google? on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It would seem fairly straightforward for Google to change their code to skip that host entirely.

  3. Re:What about Google? on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fortunately there is a robots.txt hosted on that server:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

  4. Re:Verisign would look nice in gasoline and flame on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the absense of a MX record for a given domain, the MTA will attempt to go to the A-record for the domain.

  5. Good idea on Should Software Engineers Seek CCNA's? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Think of it as an opportunity to better understand the platform your applications will be operating on. Understanding the network infrastructure would probably help you when building applications that require High Availability or exotic network requirements.

  6. Re:How about a real email client or real rules? on Lousy E-mail Filters Complicating Outlook Worms · · Score: 1

    As long as the REJECT is performed before the postfix daemon accepts delivery, then the burden of generating the bounce is on the sending daemon (ie the Sobig built-in smtpd) -- which is to say it won't happen.

  7. Re:The easy way isn't always popular on Blocking MSN Messenger? · · Score: 1

    I'm almost certain all calls to/from a trading company are recorded.

  8. Re:Agree wholeheartedly on X-Plane - An Obsession For Realism · · Score: 1

    I'm not a 747 pilot, but I imagine there are a lot of status guages that could be ignored most of the time. Things like engine temperature, oil pressure, hydraulic pressure, etc. Assuming nobody shot up the engines or the wings there are probably a lot of guages that indicate things that _might_ be important in a mechanical failure, but can be ignored if all you want to do is keep it from nosediving. Altitude, speed, rate-of-descent, gear, flaps and spoilers are the core indicators of any plane (well, many planes don't have spoilers or retractable gear) and someone who can idenfity and read them can go a long way in keeping the plane from making a large crater.

    A controlled crash landing is much better then an uncontrolled dive.

  9. Re:Testing on Risk Management For Electronics on Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Your cellphone might be only a few feet away from the receiver, while the cell tower is quite a bit farther. I believe radio waves attenuate at the square of the distance.

    As for avionics, there are probably very few things that are more tested than avionics. You won't find any 'hack jobs' on a commercial airliner -- the liability is too great.

  10. probably illegal on Installing Halon Fire Supression System at Home? · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure halon is illegal to install in the US; I think existing installations are good until they discharge and then must be replaced with something else. Also, imagine the liability if it went off (kids playing around unsupervised, some electrical fault) and whomever was home didn't know to run away, or slept through it? Just go with sprinklers.

  11. Unlikely on On Obtaining Appropriate Compensation... · · Score: 0

    I doubt there is any sort of labor-law to protect you from an employer who doesn't want to pay you competitively. Try threatening to quit unless they bring your pay back into line, then quit when they refuse.

  12. Netropolis on Sega's Legacy Online MMO Rated · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Sounds similiar to a game called Netropolis II which was running under a previous version back in '96.

    Netropolis description:

    Netropolis is an online multi-player strategy game where you match your wits as a corporate gangster/tycoon against other real people. Buy some land, set up a few businesses and watch the money roll in. Easy, right? Not in Netropolis.


    Legacy description:

    A must play for any hard-core competitor who thinks it's cool to engage in cut-throat business dealings and who is tired of the rudimentary hack-and-slash that most massively multiplayer titles base their businesses on.
  13. DRM on No Business Like SCO Business · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd like to note that if SCO Unix employed DRM technology, then they would have the power to remotely shutdown everyone who was no longer 'licensed'.

  14. Re:PGP as the new competitor on .ZIP Standard to Fragment? · · Score: 1

    I believe PGP encrypts the data _prior_ to encryption since compressing encrypted data is useless.

  15. Re:Slot machines aren't random on Cheating Fruit (Slot) Machines · · Score: 1

    I think it is less devious then that. Casino's can't determine the order in which a slot will pay, just the percentage of time it will pay and the amount it will pay-per-win. However, in any random sequence you will eventially get duplicate values. So, if you were to cat /dev/random long enough you'd see your SSN and your phone # next to each other.

    The concept of a 'paying' machine is just that it's RNG has happened to have generated a series of 'wins'.

  16. Re:Non-Free? on Justin Frankel Resigns From Nullsoft · · Score: 1

    I bought it when it was $10, and no there were no unregistered limitations at all -- all you got was a reg. # that you could print out.

  17. Re:Who Hacked the Matrix? on Hacking Enter The Matrix · · Score: 1

    My understanding was when Trinity entered the matrix near the end, Link said something like "This has to be the ugliest hack I've ever done."

  18. New keyboard on Using Password "Keyprints" as Another Form of Authentication? · · Score: 1

    What about when the user siets down at a different type of keyboard; ie normal vs 'natural'?

  19. Re:Yeah Right... on Making Change · · Score: 1

    Nowadays you might be accused of attempting to counterfeit / launder money for terrorists!

  20. Re:But 3 Lefts Do! on Fizzer Worm Uninstalling Itself · · Score: 1

    Has there ever been a documented case where an electrical utility's operations (not just their website) have been affected by the internet?

  21. Re:Hmm... on Planetside Beta Analysed As Release Approaches · · Score: 1

    True, but Tribes is max-64 players (on an imaginary high-powered server and infinite bandwidth), and this sounds like it has much larger scale and variety. Tribes was pretty great though.

  22. Sounds great on Planetside Beta Analysed As Release Approaches · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If they can create a game that truly handles large-scale FPS battles, I am going to join up! Unfortunately I suspect that there will be significant lag issues, plus perhaps the WW2 Online issues with only a small subset of players being visible at once, causing 'invisible killer issues'. It'll be great if it succeeds though.

  23. Re:air purifier on An Affordable Air Purifier For Dusty Computer Labs? · · Score: 1

    I had a similiar type setup; the dust particules were practically welded to the wall! It took quite a bit of work to get them out. You could definetely see the color difference though. No other normally-uncleaned areas of the wall suffered such a fate.

  24. Re:great.... on Kroger Testing Fingerprint Payment System · · Score: 1

    Well, the credit card people may not agree. Most cards say that the card is the property of the issuer. They gave *you* permission to use it, but that permission isn't necessairily transitive in their eyes.

  25. Re:whitelist vs whitelist on Email (As We Know It) Doomed? · · Score: 2

    Welcome to TMDA. It even has a SMTP proxy for those email clients that can't call it directly.