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  1. Re:"Already own"? on MS To Limit Security Fixes to Legal Copies of Windows · · Score: 1

    You might not get a free phone, but you wouldn't have to go through the credit checks and 'new account activation' since you already have a valid account with them.

  2. Re:PGSQL has its own gotchas on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    The optimizer should make count(1) and count(*) equivalent as neither returns any of the fields to the user.

  3. Re:ianal but.. on Caveats In Reselling DSL Bandwidth To Neighbors? · · Score: 1

    Use a linux box that can route your packets out equally over the two interfaces. If the ISP isn't doing egress filtering you'll get double the upload speed (approx).

  4. Re:Credit? on Privacy Resolutions for the New Year · · Score: 1

    There is the concept of a 'soft' and 'hard' credit checks. Checks you perform on yourself are considered 'soft' and thus don't count against you.

    Here is some more info

  5. Re:Nice Job... on Dead? Hope You Left Someone Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    Presumably if she were still alive she would notice that her password no longer worked and call and to have it reset again.

  6. Re:Under the Google radar on Net Worm Uses Google to Spread · · Score: 1

    eicar is a standard virus-detection test string. It isn't actually virus.

  7. Re:The solution! on Feds Propose National Database of College Students · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course, the problem there is that opting out of the federal money doesn't decrease the federal taxation level. A state opting out of those funds would have to raise its own taxes to provide the equivalent service. The net effect is an increase in taxes on the population of the state which is hard to sell under the the banner of decreased federal oversight.

  8. Re:Inaccuracy in article? on Intro to Encryption · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't think the use of a symmetric system is considered a hole; the idea is that symmetric systems are strong keybit-for-keybit. As long as the symmetric and public key stregths are similiar there isn't a weakness one way or the other.

  9. Re:thanx for the free advertising on So You Want To Host Your Own Linux Mail Server ... · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been very happy with Linode.com. They also have Gentoo and Mandrake images to start off with.

  10. LaTeX on Pretty Printing From An XML File? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Generate a LaTeX document file, compile it using PDFLatex and print. Or, use normal LaTeX and print directly from it, depending if .dvi files offend you.

  11. Cartoony on Tribes Vengeance Now Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    After playing the multiplayer demo I feel this latest version feels a lot more cartoony then the prior versions; the vehicles feel like they only 2lbs and have no inertia at all. Gameplay is very fast paced (think Quake 3) and the maps feel small. Kinda disappointing.

  12. Re:Wait for the investigation... on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    Tho unpaved portion gets pretty sandy, so a wide-open throttle is probably just going to dig a bit under the wheels.

  13. Product placements on Instant Messaging Goes Graphical · · Score: 1

    I wonder how long it'll be before the IMVU starts putting product placements into its backdrops and rooms?

  14. Re:Supreme Court Appointees? on The Dangers of One Party Rule · · Score: 1

    Not making any comment on the abortion aspect, but in general I thought the idea was that the Constitution said what rights were reserved for the State and Federal governments, with the implication that all other rights were reserved for the people. Didn't one of the founding fathers comment that the Bill of Rights might wrongly imply that only specific rights were granted to the people?

  15. Re:How to find jobs after outsourcing. on Learning About Outsourcing in College? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Outsourcing is bad from a jobs perspective if one is working for the company that is now considering outsourcing, but if one doesn't yet have a job then working for the company that won the outsourcing contract is perfectly feasible.

  16. Higgs-bosun on German Lab to Host International Linear Collider · · Score: 1


    I just hope they don't attempt to find the mass of the Higgs-Bosun particle and collapse this type 13 planet into a super dense particule the size of a pea.

  17. Re:Just do what I do on Passwords - 64 Characters, Changed Daily? · · Score: 1

    Use a S/KEY password and it won't matter if they get your password; as soon as you use it it is useless.

  18. Re:I use RAID 0... on Raid 0: Blessing or hype? · · Score: 1

    That should be 1.6 TB.

  19. Re:Be a rebel! on Software Monoculture in Schools? · · Score: 1

    Running unapproved software (let alone unapproved OS's) in a school computer lab is quite likely to result in getting rejected for 'hacking'.

  20. Re:Get an external hardrive on Online Storage Solutions for Home Users? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's why you pipe the tarball through gpg before storing it.

  21. Re:Not there yet on Redundant Internet Access? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Beware, I recall a story about how redundant lines were leased from two different companies, only to find that they both leased their lines from the same company and it was all contained in the same conduit .

  22. Re:Hardware insecurity on LiveCD for Secure Web Browsing? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    True, but it is a lot harder to install a $89 hardware dongle on a lot of machines than it is to infect them with malware.

  23. Re:Crazy! on Dan Kaminsky Suggests Having Fun with DNS · · Score: 1

    m4 'automates' sendmail configuration too.

  24. Re:The story was vague, but here's what I think. on Playing GTA On Phone Leads To Bomb Threat? · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine the lawsuits the restaurant owner would be hit with if, while checking out the claim, a bomb did in fact go off and hurt his customers?

  25. Re:LaTeX for Linux + Google on Where Can I find Sources for Learning LaTex? · · Score: 1

    I found it useful when pounding out a research paper that required footnoting / Works Cited. BibTex made handling the citing easy and working in vi is much more focusing then being bombarded with all the screen clutter of Word. Vim even has syntax coloring which gives you just enough color to be able to visualize your document.