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  1. Re:Are these all the attacks? on NIST Releases Guide to Cyber Attacks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would think that if the majority of people did something so simple as to patch their machines, worms would posed half the threat they do now. So, yes, Education is a simple but effective measure to combat security exploits.

  2. Re:distro's on DVD CCA Drops Case; DeCSS Not a Trade Secret · · Score: 2, Informative

    you can already play DVDs with mandrake 9.2. Dont remember the app's name though. Is this feture really missing in most distros?

  3. Re:Huh? on 20 Year Anniversary of Home Taping Decision · · Score: 1

    Or maybe we'd just be calling VCRs 'video players' instead of 'video casette recorders'. i.e. The VCR's principal atribute is its ability to play videos, not record them. Recording TV shows has always been a secondary feature.

    This ruling is important, but not for this reason.

  4. Re:Keep 'em coming... on Mozilla 1.6 Released · · Score: 1

    from the texturizer page: >Pipelining is an experimental feature, designed to >improve page-load performance, that is >unfortunately not well supported by some web >servers and proxies. so, would enabling this cause conflict with these web proxies, causing some pages to not load, or would the worse case senario be that the webpage loads a little slower than it would with piplining off?

  5. Re:What?! You mean on P2P File Swapping on the Rise Again? · · Score: 4, Informative

    *ahem* Article's first sentence: The NPD Group, an independent market research firm, reported on Friday that peer-to-peer usage was up 14 percent in November 2003 from September.

  6. poopies on LaserMonks Offer Prayer, Printer Cartridges · · Score: -1, Troll

    >insert pedophile priest comment here

  7. Re:"Looks like mud, but it can't be mud" ??? on Mars Rover Sniffs First Hint of Water? · · Score: 0, Troll

    one word: poopies

  8. Re:This Just In on Mars Rover Sniffs First Hint of Water? · · Score: 3, Funny

    This one know too much.. *sets blaster to 'make go bye-bye' mode*

  9. Re:About Time! on Mars Rover Sniffs First Hint of Water? · · Score: 1

    first you welcome our true masters and then you celebrate one of their failures? Are you begging for an anal probing?

  10. Re:Hack teh Google! on SCO Responds to OSDL Legal Aid Announcement · · Score: 1