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  1. Re:1989? (you must be new around here) - try 1977 on EFF Attacks Online Gaming Patent · · Score: 1

    The patent's not for something so broad as network gaming, but for the ladders. MUDs aren't prior art, but some other games are.

  2. Re:Obligatory Office Space Comment on Three Parents Contribute to Experimental Human Embryo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Killjoy scientists. They even find ways to take the fun out of three-ways!

  3. Re:To all those complaining about Ron Paul on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    could it be worse than undeclared wars
    How does a senator get involved in an "undeclared war"? Only Congress can declare war! And they did so in public law 107-243. Do you have to have the VP put on his Napoleon costume from Halloween and shout "This means WAR!" after the vote?
  4. Re:Senators and Governors on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    A governor has been the worst...I will leave him unnamed.
    Only two Presidents have been impeached, and they had both served as governors. I'm dying to know which one you think was the worst!
  5. Re:For Reps: McCain on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    Too bad you think the terrorists in Iraq are Iraqis.

  6. Re:Hmm on Physicist Calculates Trajectory of Tiger At SF Zoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'll make sure you (or a loved one) are the next to be sacrificed to an animal who-- I assure you-- has absolutely no regard whatsoever for the value of your life. Please, for our sakes, go back to surfing PETA.org and munching tofu.

  7. Re:Microkernels are the future on The Great Microkernel Debate Continues · · Score: 1

    I guess you didn't read the article, either.

  8. Re:crickets on The Great Microkernel Debate Continues · · Score: 1

    Don't like to read the articles, eh?

  9. Re:Call your senators on Technical Risks of the US Protect America Act · · Score: 0, Troll

    I assume you mean Kucinich. No, he didn't do what you ask, because he didn't get the job done. Cheney remains unimpeached, mostly because few senators are as foolish, petty, and misguided as yours. Dick Cheney is not the problem, and we'll all do a lot better if we stopped looking for scapegoats and started working on problems.

  10. Re:Well, whatever. on P2P Fans Pound Comcast In FCC Comments · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have only one thing to say to that:

    +++

  11. Re:Yes on Trend Micro Sues Barracuda Over Open Source Anti-Virus · · Score: 1

    Yikes. So all this time Bowser was the good guy?

  12. Re:Standard statement... on Charter Accidentally Wipes 14K Email Accounts · · Score: 1

    Only companies that are defendants in a lawsuit or criminal investigation need to keep their email in the USA.

  13. Re:Um... on More Federal Workers are Telecommuting · · Score: 1

    They arbitrate with the telephone sanitizer's union.

  14. Re:Fewest Admitters = Fewest Flaws on Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws · · Score: 1

    I assume by "jacking up the whole unwholsome [sic] mess" you mean the WOW subsystem. That won't work, as we're already on Win32, Win64, and .NET. As far as 1960s mainframe design, NT is actually built using the same concepts as VMS, a 1970s design that is still very secure and reliable.

  15. Re:Fewest Admitters = Fewest Flaws on Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws · · Score: 1

    If they wanted to ditch backwards compatibility in favor of security, they wouldn't have implemented UAC as they did. Instead, they would have forced the creation of an unprivileged account as the first user, then popped up a much simpler UAC box that asks for the Administrator's privileges when they are required. Administrator wouldn't see UAC at all, probably because it's already privileged! Display a warning message whenever the user logs in under a privileged account, then leave them be at their own risk.

  16. Re:Stapler on IBM Responds to Overtime Lawsuits With 15% Salary Cut · · Score: 2, Funny

    I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.

  17. Re:Sad but necessary on Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, pal, but I had no problem understanding that post. You might want to work on your reading skills... or you could just take the blinders off.

  18. Re:Sad but necessary on Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"? · · Score: 1

    Probably incorrect on my part to imply the Republican party came entirely from the Whigs but the Whigs did find a home there and they were a prominent faction in the early Republican part.
    The Democratic party was full of segregationists in the first half (and more) of the 20th century. Does that mean the modern party is full of minority-exploiting elites? Oh yeah, I guess it still is. *blush*
  19. Re:Free Speech Areas on Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"? · · Score: 1

    You must have gone to one of these fine indoctrination... I mean academic institutions; because your grasp of history is poor. Antitrust legislation began in the late 19th century with the Sherman antitrust act, well before the great depression. The legislation during the Great Depression only succeeded in discouraging success, creating the welfare state, removing the right of citizens to hold precious metals instead of perpetually deflating fiat currency, and ultimately lengthened the depression.

  20. Re:Free Speech Areas on Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"? · · Score: 1

    Where do you live? Do they restrict your speech in any way? Censor movies or video games? Restrict access to arms? Require government approval to see a doctor? Restrict your ability to move within or without the country? Limit what you can buy or sell on eBay? Prohibit religious symbols or speech in public? You're not free, either.

  21. Re:Most Pooter owners too dumb to own one on Drive-By Pharming In the Wild · · Score: 2

    With a real network, hand out your own addresses and make them random in the third and fourth hex digits so that hackers will have to guess out each and every terminal on your net.
    Sounds like someone doesn't understand how DHCP and subnetting work. You can change the DHCP addressing range on your router so that it gives out, say, 192.168.100.0/24. There is no need to use manual addressing unless you have untrusted people able to physically plug into your LAN. Also, IP v4 addresses can be expressed in hex, but normally decimal is used. I assume by "third and fourth hex digits" you mean the third and fourth octets. If you want to do that, you would have to use a 16 bit subnet mask. Although addressing has been classless for many years, using the range 172.16.0.0/16 would be the safest.

    Now add MAC security to your router so that the hacker not only has to correctly guess from a crore of non standard addresses to address it,
    Small children know that this can be easily circumvented with a simple network sniffer. Unfortunately, it seems that not many small children frequent Slashdot as your post has been modded up to +4. I note that you did not even mention encryption or authentication, which are two of the most common security methods (as opposed to the obscurity methods you mentioned) that one could use on a network.

    You really should reeducate yourself before you start sounding like this guy.
  22. Re:Pfft on Drive-By Pharming In the Wild · · Score: 1

    I use a redundant RAID array of disks.

  23. Re:Accountability maybe another thing... on Can Sun Make MySQL Pay? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think they are kidding themselves, because all the big software houses include hold-harmless clauses in their EULAs that would make it difficult to sue them for defects.

  24. Re:OT: Drunk driving on Geekonomics · · Score: 1

    Just because those countries have more restrictive limits does not mean that they are correct, nor does it mean that the USA should follow. This is the bandwagon fallacy. I provided a link in my post which provides evidence that BAC limits lower than .10 are not more effective than limits of .10. That is the basic for my opinion that anything under .10 is ridiculous.

  25. Re:With gmail on Corporate Email Etiquette - Dead or Alive? · · Score: 1

    This is incorrect. You can sort by conversation in Outlook for threads.