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  1. Ask and ye shall receive on The Ad-Supported Operating System · · Score: 1
    Package: Ads4Linux (Bash)
    Description: This package adds the support to display of advertisements on your favorite command line utilities.
    Depends On: Bash, wget, coreutils
    Manual Installation Option:
    Execute this command as root
    echo "alias ls='wget --quiet http://ads1.example.com/advertisement?1321 -O -; ls'" >> /etc/bash/bashrc
     
    Alternately, you may replace /etc/bash/bashrc with ~/.bashrc if you are doing a local installation.
     
    You may need to configure the uri to point to your favorite advertisement server.
    Have fun!
  2. Re:Wrong Headline on Square and Blizzard Drop The Banhammer · · Score: 1

    Sure it's possible, especially as a priest - just psychic scream whatever the farmers are fighting, fade, and run. The feared mob should run around and pull friends, which will go towards a farmer and very soon he will start spamming 'cao ni ma'.

  3. Re:Honest, officer, I was just checking the doors on Immunizing the Internet · · Score: 1

    Equation to that may be slightly different if your house happens to be in a warzone, where other crooks can use your house as a staging ground to attack _my_ house. The Internet is more like a warzone to me than a quiet residential district. As for Microsoft sniffing around your computer, it's most likely covered under their EULA, if not, buyers of Windows got what they paid for.

  4. Re:Wow on Web 2.0 Recipes With PHP + DHTML · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, moving comments around inside a hidden field increase bandwidth requirements for a particular site. Offloading that particular part will reduce that, but the dependancy on javascript will cause problems for the simpilar browsers, hence a fallback of using the hidden field/resubmitting comment will need to be done. In the end, both solutions should be present, but that increases maintainence costs. It really comes down to what browsers (I mean, a browser that support/not support javascript, not IE/Mozilla/Opera, but each have their own quirks with javascript) the site owner wants to support.

  5. Piracy means what again? on Faking a Company · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is not supposed to be called piracy of a company, it's a trademark violation, unauthorized and fraudulant usage of the NEC trademark. The affected factories claims that they have papers to prove that they were licensed to manufacturer the goods, but the papers were faked, which is considered fraud. The term 'piracy' has been utterly bastardized and overused already, please be more specific.

  6. So she's not serious... on The Secret Cause of Flame Wars · · Score: 1

    I guess all those times when I think the chick was interested at me was only a 50-50 guess...

    Never be deceived by those ^^;; or :D or whatnot, because she might just be doing that for her own amusement.

  7. Great way for them to alienate customers. on The Great HDCP Fiasco · · Score: 1

    Well, I won't bother buying one of those media then. Why do I need insanely high resolution? I mean, the difference between a good dvd rip compared to a dvd is quite marginal.

    Oh yeah, be sure to tell your friends who is really responsible for putting in that restriction if they thought their card could have played these new "better quality" content.

  8. 10th lowest on How Interesting is Your IP Address? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I punched in the current IP address of my server... and...

    Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #64524 of the 64534 IP's spotted so far.

    That hurt =/

  9. Re:Blaming Apple on Sony Doing An End Run Around Its Own DRM · · Score: 1

    That's interesting... I wonder why wouldn't they use SSL to encrypt the connection to prevent such dumping. Oops, did I give something away? Oh wait, I supposed someone could read the memory of where the songs are decrypted to before they get re-encrypted... but that's probably hard.

  10. Re:Sounds like bull on New Legal Threat To GMail · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Interestingly, this British Company had to pick May of 2002 as the claimed launch date for their service. Take a look at the whois information for whois g-mail.com

    Registrant:
                    Google Inc. (DOM-1287346)
                    1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
                    Mountain View CA 94043
                    US

    Created on..............: 2002-May-20.
    Expires on..............: 2008-May-20.
    Record last updated on..: 2004-Nov-01 09:49:32.

    gmail.com, on the other hand, has been registered for a little while (since the 90's), wish I can find out since when it was transfered to Google.

    This company does not own gmail.co.uk or g-mail.co.uk either.
  11. One easy workaround... on Wayback Archives as a Law Tool · · Score: 5, Informative

    $ cat robots.txt
    User-agent: ia_archiver
    Disallow: /

    My site is not archived there, problem solved.

    (Of course, if another of these service pops up...)

  12. Re:I love when this happens on Zlib Security Flaw Could Cause Widespread Trouble · · Score: 2, Informative

    What are you talking about? All I had to do was to rebuild zlib and restart apps that used zlib. Oh, I did that while I ssh back home from work, all I had to do was to fire off a couple commands to do the same fix as apt-get.

    Please, learn how a Linux/BSD system work, how linked/static binaries work before start critiquing other distributions with non-sense.

  13. Wasn't it "free" before? on CNN Now Offers Free Online Video · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I recall correctly, a while ago (3 years ago or so) CNN offered videos for free to the public before they added in a paid to view pass system.

  14. My rule of thumb is... on Protecting Your Personal Info While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    If you have no idea what's installed in the computer you are using, everything you do with it may no longer be exclusively your's. I am not just talking about software, hardware is also included (think the Key Katcher Thinkgeek sells). If I wanted security, I would bring my own computer, use SSL on all communication channels, and even that may not be completely safe in a public location (hidden cameras, etc...). I guess hiding in the basement and keep the windows shut, because who knows if they (http://news.com.com/2100-1001-912785.html) can actually see what you do.

    Oh, travelling? I guess the short answer is mostly no if public terminals are used.

  15. Re:Is the lead suit included? on Nuclear Battery That Runs 10 Years · · Score: 1

    The only problem is: tritium is a gas, and if the gas leaked and breathed by humans, those beta particles could wreak havoc in the lungs.

  16. Re:Turian rhymes with durian on AMD Plants Turion Line of Mobile Chips · · Score: 1

    Dude, you know you could kill things with this fruit, so I supposed Turian could nicely spike and squish Celeron just like how a Durian could be used to spike and squish some Celery. It's a cool name for a possibly deadly processor!

  17. Re:Don't give in, go to jail! on Apple Subpoenas, Sues Over Leaks · · Score: 1

    Are you telling all the tabloid reporters to continue their privacy violating coverage of various entertainers? A good reporter should know where is the reasonable limit for each respective subject matter.

  18. Re:Cheap Diamonds on Nanotech Brings Cheap Flat TVs From Diamond Dust · · Score: 3, Funny
    Drag a white dwarf into orbit and mine it.

    If one such white dwarf is made to orbit Earth, it would be Earth orbiting around it instead of the other way around. Depending on the orbital distance, the orbital period can be extremely fast, could be much faster than twenty-four hours, Earth's rotational period will be locked into this orbital period, resulting that the length of a day will change (it will probably be short). The side that face this white-dwarf will be bathed in radiation. Not to mention the sun and this white-dwarf will also share a center of rotation somewhere in the middle of each other, will definitely throw Mecury and Venus into unpredictable orbits, Mars will also have its orbit messed up, the asteriod belt will destablize, Jupiter and the rest of the planets may also be slightly affected by this new gravitational source. Who knows what will happen to the moon.

    On second thought, that might be *more* expensive.

    Oh whew, economics surely put a stop to this crazy plan to destroy the solar system for some giant diamond. Also, such a diamond would surely be expensive, and such an influx of wealth can surely destroy the global economy anyway.

  19. Re:Hydrogen = BAD. on Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water · · Score: 1

    Do some basic research into simple chemistry before making comments like this, please. When two molecules of water is turned into two molecules of hydrogen with an input of energy, a molecule of oxygen will also be formed, which will be released into the air. The hydrogen fuel will then be combined with oxygen to produced energy, and water forms as a by-product, with no net loss in water or energy (aside from losses in inefficient conversion processes and inability to utilize energies released).

  20. Re:Good for them, but not far enough. on Apache Rejects Sender ID · · Score: 1

    I never said it will stop spammers from spamming, I said it will stop spammers (and other people and worms) from sending mail/spamming with a faked domain name from any computer connected to the Internet (which is what I meant by _everywhere_). I addressed compromised boxes in a later paragraph.

  21. Re:Good for them, but not far enough. on Apache Rejects Sender ID · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are horribly wrong, and I will bite. I had my email address 'spoofed' by the W32.Netsky worm a while back, and it was sent from a machine that is not of the domain of my address. An SPF enabled mail server would reject emails with spoofed headers, and so my friends (victims) will not see the infected email with *my* email address. On the other hand, non-SPF enabled mail servers will accept it, and my friends sees it, and accuses me of sending them a 'virus'.

    SPF will not only stop spammers, but will stop (or at least prevent) people and worms from spoofing the from address *sent from _everywhere_* to claim to be from a user@domain they do not own. I do not want spammers or anyone to claim to be from my domain (or my legit email address even), and have angry letters accusing me of letters I did not send.

    If you have your machine hacked, or running a mail relay by accident, you should have secured those equipments, and if you had anything important on it (eg. financial records), you probably have much bigger concerns, like identity theft.

    Yes, I know, we are supposed to check the email headers, but most home users are completely ignorant of those features.

  22. Re:Reminds me of several previous MS efforts on Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, I think Reiser4 and a database plugin will be able to do what WinFS can, and more.

  23. Re:Pay attention! (esp. me!) on New Alliance Hopes To Standardize Web Plug-Ins · · Score: 1

    Mozilla 1.7 supports SVG on its own more or less nicely now, provided that you compile it with the option set. (Gentoo use flag - USE="mozsvg".)

  24. I did receive one on Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have an hotmail account, and my cousin was able to send me a Gmail invite to that account a week ago. Perhaps the situation changed, I don't know.

  25. Re:In other news... on SELEX at Fermilab Discovers New Particle · · Score: 5, Funny

    The fire at Los Alamos has had one significant consequence. A secret scientific document was discovered in a bunker whose security systems were mostly destroyed by the fire. This document was leaked to the public last weekend.

    Actually it reveals nothing that we didn't already suspect. But it does show that besides arsenic, lead, mercury, radon, strontium and plutonium, one more extremely deadly and pervasive element is known to exist.

    This startling new discovery has been tentatively named Governmentium (Gv) but kept top secret for 50 years. The new element has no protons or electrons, thus having an atomic number of 0. It does, however, have 1 neutron, 125 deputy neutrons, 75 supervisory neutrons, and 111 team leader neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

    These 312 particles are held together by a force called morons, that are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since it has no electrons, Governmentium is inert. However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.

    According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Governmentium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second. Governmentium has a normal half-life of approximately three years. It does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the deputy neutrons, supervisory neutrons, and team leader neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium mass will actually increase over time, since, with each reorganization, some of the morons inevitably become neutrons, forming new isodopes.

    This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to speculate that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as the "Critical Morass."

    http://www.appleseeds.org/governmentium.htm