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  1. Re:Consumers? on Verizon Wireless To Buy Alltel For $28B · · Score: 1

    Alltel firmware is the hot download for frustrated Verizon customers. Verizon knows what is best for everyone. I am just waiting for them to (cough) open up the network like they told Google they would.

  2. Re:The Iraq theater on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    I guess asking you to read is a bit much. How about just renting "Kingdom of Heaven" for a start. I think it took place over 60 years ago, and it was not the first thing...

  3. Re:Offtopic bitchslap re: guns vs criminals on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    A gun owner is still most likely to die from a heart attack. Number 2 is cancer. Number three is "Other medical." (Love that one) A car wreck is still well above gunshot...

  4. Re:Oh Sure on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    Well, if "Aunt Betty" breaks into my house, the bitch is getting shot. But then I don't have that many random people just walking into my house uninvited. (One, and she would be in the bed next to me) Could be because they know better...

  5. Re:The Iraq theater on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    Here "they" was referring to Iraqis. None of your examples involved Iraq.

    And a large part of the combatants captured in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia... The point is that there is a large and mobile population that has decided to make war on the US. Right now the fight is in Iraq. It has been in many other countries, including the US. If we suddenly leave the mid-east, it probably will be again. This is a war that is over 2000 years old. It will not be solved on slashdot today.

  6. Re:Can't get shot by beer and snacks on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    Please note that it is VERY difficult to conceal a 4-foot long rifle in the front pocket of a hooded sweatshirt. And walking around on the street with one is likely to get you very odd looks, if not phone calls to and visits from the police.

    No, that is not a rifle in my pocket! I'm just glad to see you!

  7. Re:Fingerprint scanners on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    The used to have thumb scanners for auto ignitions in South Africa until car jackers started taking thumbs with the cars...

  8. Re:The blinking red light on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Revenue... The shops charge to "fix" the radio.

  9. Re:subtitles on VLC Hits the Device Market · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would not be surprised if Ti and company fix this. That would mean the code comes back and it fixes it for all of us.

  10. Re:Philosophy students on Manager Disables Web Server by Sneaking Away Xbox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They consider if the web server is actually down, or if they just perceive it to be down.

  11. Re:So it's illegal? What does that mean? on Finnish Appeals Court Rules Breaking CSS Illegal · · Score: 1

    I would say the crossing and the weeds correlate, and the RIAA would say the axe and the copy would correlate. And while I think this statement is funny, I also think it is not far from true.

  12. Re:So the quality of security matters not, then? on Finnish Appeals Court Rules Breaking CSS Illegal · · Score: 1

    But the EULA terms are inside the encrypted text, and unenforceable.

  13. Re:criticized on Finnish Appeals Court Rules Breaking CSS Illegal · · Score: 1

    There is also Fluendo as a source for codecs, and they will have a DVD player "soon." And LinDVD is available from some sources as well. Of course this will all change with the next case...

  14. Re:Hawking external antennas on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 1

    I just use external cards. I have never had good luck with built in wireless.

  15. Re:Agreed on Cisco CSO Says Antivirus Money "Completely Wasted" · · Score: 1

    Well, I though calling it a debacle was a little much. :)

  16. Re:Hawking external antennas on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 1

    I have used this indoor antenna outdoors by the ocean for years with never an issue. http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/productlist.php?CatID=32&FamID=58&ProdID=152 The signal booster as also very good.

  17. Re:Proper Antenna on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have done well over 500 yards many times. In one case obstrusted with masts, and over water. I used the wrt54gl with Thybor firmware, and Hawking a Antenna http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/productlist.php?CatID=32&FamID=58&ProdID=152 (no problem outside) and amplifier http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/productlist.php?CatID=32&FamID=72&ProdID=187 with no issues at all. Well under $400 and 1 hour of time.

  18. Re:Stating the obvious.. on Cisco CSO Says Antivirus Money "Completely Wasted" · · Score: 1

    Well, a lot of businesses have been hiring me to remove Vista and replace it with XP, and Linux. Not 140,000,000, of course. If so I would be posting from a nude beach in the Bahamas.

  19. Re:Agreed on Cisco CSO Says Antivirus Money "Completely Wasted" · · Score: 1

    Any system is exploitable. One error. That's all it takes.

    Unless you have more than one layer of security...

  20. Re:Agreed on Cisco CSO Says Antivirus Money "Completely Wasted" · · Score: 1

    And of course, managing Symantic (SomeAntics) is always so easy it takes no time at all. Not to mention the cost of bandages for my forehead...

  21. Re:Agreed on Cisco CSO Says Antivirus Money "Completely Wasted" · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it is created by man then man can break it. Can you make an Operating System that contain millions of lines of code 100% error free and 100% optimized? Also can you make it free from errors that may allow hackers to exploit code remotely?

    It is easier to put a lock on a door if the building is designed with walls to begin with. Windows was an open air pavilion that had clapboard and sheeting tin added on after the fact. And yes you can "pick the locks" on Linux, as the Debian key debacle has so aptly proved, but with windows you just kick out some tin sheeting.

  22. Re:Agreed on Cisco CSO Says Antivirus Money "Completely Wasted" · · Score: 1

    Any of them if you use something like Marimba. Also, if you package your os updates, and key files, you get security benefits... And yes, this ain't free. But it also ain't just AV. It is an automatic patch, update, and security system. I would say your money is better spent here.

  23. Re:I feel very sorry... on Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The number of legal users who end up in the top X% of their ISPs' resource expenditure graphs is so small as to be insignificant.

    Unless you are one of them. Then it gets very significant, very fast.

  24. Re:not me on Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade · · Score: 1

    The connection I bought is 3 meg down, half a meg up. So I am paying for that "up' part. It is in all the adds...

  25. Re:Info - Anti rootkit tools on New Antivirus Tests Show Rootkits Hard to Kill · · Score: 1

    Also consider rootkitty on the UBCD4win disk. Simple and elegant... It is a diff of a recursive directory list in clean and dirty states. Anything that shows up clean and is hidden dirty is listed. It is very nice.