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  1. Re:If you know enough to change the name... on Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs · · Score: 0

    AC should have said "your're" instead of "your", but as the poster, I agree - I have never had an issue with not broadcasting the SSID.

  2. If you are not smart enough... on Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage · · Score: 1

    I say, if you are not smart enough to request public assistance, then weed thee out of the gene pool, forthwith!

  3. If you know enough to change the name... on Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs · · Score: 1

    Why don't you also check the box to not broadcast the SSID?

    I know it doesn't really buy much security, but still. I have never broadcasted my SSID. If you need to know it, I'll tell you, and add you to the list of allowed MAC addresses (again, I know, not totally secure, but still... another hoop to jump thru.)

  4. Re:What kept them? on Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lynx is pretty secure

  5. Who has salvage rights on the Moon? on Lord British's Lost Lunar Rover Found, After 37 Years · · Score: 1

    If I can go get it, can I have it? Some of the Apollo gear would fetch a pretty penny on eBay, but I assume I would have to deliver it, not just "sell it in place".

  6. Re:Hold on... on 11th Circuit Eliminates 4th Amend. In E-mail · · Score: 2, Funny

    I read the article, and I'll quote it in full, here: "Error establishing a database connection".

    That was not too enlightening. However, my question is about this "after delivery" bit.

    For server based mail (web based or even Outlook, etc.) the mail stays at the "ISP" even after it has been "delivered". However, if I pull a message from a POP server, with the delete option, the message should "legally" no longer be on the server after delivery, right?

  7. Re:Hmm... on FCC Asks You To Test Your Broadband Speeds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where would that money come from?

    Reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pockets to do so is despicable and deserves condemnation. - Walter Williams

  8. Audio is Very High Bandwidth on Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs · · Score: 1

    Obviously you don't know the acronym "TMI".

    Every instance of TMI I have ever experienced was delivered via audio frequencies. Q.E.D.

  9. Re:Too much salt? on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 1

    You should use homeopathic salt if you are worried about it doing anything.

  10. If you want the signal to go through walls... on Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs · · Score: 1

    The Fraunhofer Institute also has an audio-frequency wireless solution that will go through walls, with the proper amplification.

    Very high bandwidth, it conveys a lot of information, especially in thin-walled multiple dwelling buildings.

  11. Re:Wonderful news on Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When I'm laid off and searching garbage cans for food, it will bring me great comfort to know that at least someone is doing well.

    It should, because if everyone were poor the world would be an even nastier place.

  12. Exactly - they are "energy" companies on Gas Wants To Kill the Wind · · Score: 1

    Some "gas" companies may still have "gas" in their name, but many are moving to be "engery" companies... they don't really care where it comes from, as long as it is the cheapest. If they have the wires to deliver it, so they don't care where the power comes from, as long as they can put it on their wires and sell it to their customers.

  13. Re:An iptables recipie on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1

    That's too much typing. My mom wants a GUI for that.

  14. Re:You are being brute-forced on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, seems to me a million failures is what you want to see... it is the one success that is a bitch.

  15. Re:Video Games on Some Newegg Customers Received Fake Intel Core i7s · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone can get a shrink wrap machine

    I always figured a good slight-of-hand magician could get away with all kinds of "at the cash register" mischief. No shrink wrap machine required...

    "Hey! You just saw me open it, and there was nothing in the box but this rabbit!"

  16. Re:conservatives don't pay on The Role of Human Culture In Natural Selection · · Score: 2, Interesting

    [conservatives don't pay] for public or private resources Huh? Conservatives pay for plenty of both.

    the ultimate effect of a conservative ideology is a third world country: a rich upper class of a few, and a vast underclass of poor The ultimate effect of a liberal ideology is a third world country: a rich elite ruling class of a few, and a vast underclass of dependents of the state.

    there is no room for the middle class in conservative ideology. this includes no room for middle class idiots who believe the corporate propaganda about "evuls socialisticisms". some people are their own worst enemy I think you are confusing plutocracy for a "conservative ideology". A liberal ideology can lead to the same problems by believing all the propaganda about "evuls greedy capitalists". the road the hell is paved with good intentions.

    the money you have in your pocket is an abstract expression of the wealth of the society you live in. if you do not invest in your society, the money in your pocket loses value. if you invest in your society, you are paid dividends of a richer society, which pays you back with more business opportunities, etc The money in my pocket is an abstract expression of the wealth that I have earned. I know best how to invest my money. The money in the pocket of someone who didn't earn it represents the generosity of a charitable person, or the fruits of another's labor, taken by the state, diminished in value through the inefficiencies of layers of bueracracy and allocated to those who can get it.

    "but dem freeloading welfare queens..." These are the ones who don't pay for public or private resources.

    oh shut up retard. take a look at denmark someday. tell me they aren't happier healthier and wealthier than the average american. and then take a look at their tax rate Denmark is a country with a population the size of an average US state. Conservatives want to "conserve" the original intent of the constitution - e.g. the Federal government has very specific duties, and then ought to butt out and leave each State to sort things out, state by state. After all, who knows better what a population needs, then the people themselves?

    i'd rather be taxed to high hell than worry about declaring bankruptcy if i get cancer I'd rather buy a really high deductable major medical policy. Nobody can insure your health, everyone will die sooner or later. You can, however, insure against financial risks - like your house buring down, or a major medical bill. Allocate your resources as you see fit.

    but the conservative answer about a rising poor underclass (made up of previous middle class people) is to buy more guns Huh? I don't know what to say about this. Oh, wait, I think I just saw the perfect quote somewhere... "oh shut up retard".

    the greatest irony/ tragedy/ comedy is how many previously lower middle class people who are now the new american poor (because of conservative initiatives like gutting depression era financial protections that created the real estate bubble) support with such rapturous passion the gutting of social safety nets that only exist to serve them. some people are full of so much stupidity and hatred- for their own neighbors, their own society, and their own government, that they only destroy themselves There is a fine line between a safety net that breaks your fall and a net that catches one into a life of dependency. The greatest irony /tragedy is that the previously lower middle class of people who "use these services" are now caught in the net, to their own detriment, yet demand more and more.

    but i'm not going to let the morons take us all down. and if you read my words and agree with me, roll up your sleeves: there is a real life zombie apocalypse of propagandized retards out there, and we need to fight them to save our country from their self-destructive conservative stupidity But I'm not going to let the morons take us al

  17. Will it affect global climate? on Chilean Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will it affect global climate?

    Yes - the days are shorter, therefore less sunlight per day, ergo - global cooling!

  18. Does anyone have the text of the resolution? on California Legislature Declares "Cuss-Free" Week · · Score: 1

    I didn't look too hard, but I couldn't find the text.

    If it was written by lawmakers, it should be long and rambling, and I am hoping to find the list of proscribed words, otherwise how will I know if I am in compliance?

    Or are they just sticking to the classics; Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits.

    Tits? seriously? Piss doesn't seem like a swear word anymore either.

  19. But is it Art? on Scaling Algorithm Bug In Gimp, Photoshop, Others · · Score: 1

    Looks ok to me. Besides, I think I just read a Slashdot article that all digital media is going to rot in the long run.

    In the short run, look for a new marketing bullet point.

  20. Re:The fight is lost on Avoiding a Digital Dark Age · · Score: 1

    I have files from at least as far back as 1982 (Z80 source code). Of course they are not on their original media (which, might of been 8" floppies, I really don't recall.)

  21. Wouldn't it have been easier on Newspaper "Hacks Into" Aussie Gov't Website By Guessing URL · · Score: 1

    To just Google what they wanted to know? Google even has a "url" specifier!

  22. OT: a la carte pricing on Who Will Control the Cost of the NYT On Digital Readers? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the "lyfestyle" and other sections I really dont care about so they have a zero value to me

    This bundling is a problem in other places as well... I am this close (fingers 3mm apart) to canceling ALL of my cable TV, because the prices keeps going up - the reason "channels such as CNN and ESPN are raising their rates."

    Fine, can I get a package with Discovery, History, and a few others, WITHOUT CNN and ESPN? no.

    Broadcasters are starting to have many of the same issues The Press is having.

  23. Exactly on Was This the First Denial of Service Attack? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't think it was quite as early as 1974, but somewhere right around there, I remember going to the "math room" in Jr High, and being able to access a terminal to get to "the main frame". It was something that used fan-fold paper (not a CRT). You could write BASIC programs on it, I think. I kind of remember writing stuff as complicated as 2D grid based Star-Trek type programs (one step up from Hunt the Wumpus).

    Anyhow, we did have a command that we could type in that would crash the system, which we did once in a while, just to cause mischief. I really don't recall if we discovered it, or it was given to us (a la script kiddie), but it eventually ended up being a program called "runme" or some such...

    Anyhow, letting random people on a "public" terminal to the mainframe of the San Diego unified school district is probably a thing of the past.

    The best security breach, by far, however was an attempt to save money by re-using the fan-fold computer paper. Man, there was some juicy stuff on the flip-side of that stuff - names, addresses and IQ rating of all your class mates, payroll runs, all sorts of entertainment!

    Simpler Times. Get off my lawn!

  24. Bah on White House Claims Copyright On Flickr Photos · · Score: 1

    Screw the law, just appoint a photo-use-czar. No "advice and consent" needed. Voilà.

  25. Bah. Anything worth writing can be written with vi on Google Docs Replaces OpenOffice In Ubuntu Netbook Edition · · Score: 1

    Or any other text editor of your choice.

    The formatting can be done later.