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  1. Longevity on Your Digital Inheritance? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How long do CDs last (industrial pressed/CDR/CDRW) before photovoltalic decay?

  2. asynchronous? on Is Your AJAX App Secure? · · Score: 1

    what does the author mean using this word in this context? yes I looked it up

  3. legally multiboot? on Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader · · Score: 1

    How could such a modification be illegal if there is no piracy going on, OTHER than with a tv tuner?

  4. LAMP on The 2006 Underhanded C Contest Begins · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Now that I'm getting PHP under my belt, do I have any reason to learn C? Isn't it Ruby time? Shouldn't everyone go LAMP beginner programmer or otherwise?

  5. progress? on Self-Parking Cars Coming To U.S. · · Score: 1

    Figuring out how to parallel park is a right of passage worth preserving. Just like learning to spell parallel.

  6. Eliot Spitzer: Is he cool, or is he whack? on New York Attorney General Sues Spyware Company · · Score: 1
    I cannot make up my mind about this guy. I like this move, I hate his anti-online gambling moves. And then I saw him on CNBC's Mad Money with what's-his-name and he seemed like an aimeable dude.
    So,

    Eliot Spitzer: Is he cool, or is he whack?

  7. Conversely... on Slow Starters Have Higher IQ? · · Score: 1

    this suggests that fast starters have lower IQ. Or are they not mutually exclusive? Logic police!

  8. Snort and Netfilter on Open Source For Perimeter Security · · Score: 1, Informative
    Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules based logging and can perform content searching/matching in addition to being used to detect a variety of other attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, and much more. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alerts being sent to syslog, a separate "alert" file, or even to a Windows computer via Samba.

    With netfilter, you can do the following: What can I do with netfilter/iptables? * build internet firewalls based on stateless and stateful packet filtering * use NAT and masquerading for sharing internet access if you don't have enough public IP addresses * use NAT to implement transparent proxies * aid the tc and iproute2 systems used to build sophisticated QoS and policy routers * do further packet manipulation (mangling) like altering the TOS/DSCP/ECN bits of the IP header

  9. not about "quality" per se on Ask.Com's New Look Competes Well With Google · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Though a competitor may try to make advances against google with revampments, Google's already got the golden brand and in this industry the guy who's at the top stays there as people feel more comfortable using what everyone else uses ... what's established. They're not going anywhere, move along.

  10. Getting started on Ruby On Rails Goes 1.1 · · Score: 0

    I'd like to learn Ruby. Where's a good place to start for a beginner familiar with some php -- online tutorials or a particular book? How about a website that shows off what the language can do? Thanks!

  11. Supreme Court's role on U.S. Supreme Court Hears eBay Case Wednesday · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It should not be forgotten when convenient that the Supreme Court's role is limited to combing through the constitutionality of a past ruling. Roe v Wade being the "Law of the Land" is a misnomer. In this case, it seems that one part of the government established by the legislature made a ridiculous choice that doesn't pass the laugh test, but that's the legislature's job to fix, not the Court's.

  12. Re:Windows is slow? on Why Windows is Slow · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily so. I've been here for years, and when once in a while a both pro-Windows and anti-Linux post gets written intelligently with sources or well-recounted personal anecdotes to back up otherwise flagrant conjecture, the mods can tell and they will generally give it points as it deserves.

  13. Re:OMG on The New Force at Lucasfilm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just imagine how awesome this first post would have been if rendered in a 3D environment!

  14. visual traceroute on 20 Network Changing Products · · Score: 1

    I find that xt, visual xtraceroute, only knows the geographical location of one in twenty hops. This thing which is an online visual traceroute somehow does a lot better.

  15. btw on Preview Google's New Search Results Page · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FYI, Google made it to the S&P 500 which, in addition to being a good milestone itself, means many mutual funds must purchase their stock which is at the moment is back in business.

  16. linking=vouching for on Web Site Attacks Against Unpatched IE Flaw Spike · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You'd think that websites would only link to sites they found interesting (or I suppose were paid to link). People just don't head for these nefarious sites unreferred. So how do these sites get hits? Are they Good sites that have just been compromised?

  17. Re:Is this necessary? on The .XXX Saga Continues in Wellington · · Score: 1
    There is plenty, plenty of freely available porno

    Like the one in my sig. Not even a single advertisement.

  18. Re:Obligatory on Sun Grid Compute Utility · · Score: 1

    Somebody already said it in a much funnier way than you did. And without that lame ass parenthetical apology or using AC.

  19. apache estimate on Intel Launches New Pentium Extreme Edition 965 · · Score: 1

    My LAMP running Gallery in cached mode gets 11.5 reqs/sec tops running on a 1.7 celeron with 512 ram. If the only variable I changed was the chip to this new sucker, how many reqs/sec might I be able to crank out? They average 30K.

  20. jump the shark on New Star Wars TV Series Confirmed · · Score: 1

    I think TV Star Wars just jumped the shark before it even started...

  21. mysql on Database Business Problems at Oracle? · · Score: 1

    Other than commercial support, is there any reason to use Oracle over MySQL?

  22. Re:How much do "court costs" usually run? on GPL Price-Fixing Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 1

    I don't know how much the court costs run, but I imagine it's nominal compared to the sixty grand a year it'll cost the tax payers if the trial produces a guilty verdict. Think about that.

  23. the system on GPL Price-Fixing Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 1
    Do not assume they can try again and appeal. A higher court may only hear a case if there are any apparent Constitutional violations in the lower court's proceedings.

    Parenthetically, double jeopardy only applies when a mistrial is declared at which point the prosecution may or may not try to try again.

  24. google ads versus others on The State of Online Advertising · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'd like to use Google advertisements on my website but apparently the ass on my site is too hot to handle and I could only use small brokers like adsense.com which I am guessing don't pay as much. So I said screw it and took off all the ads on my site. Is it worth toning down the ass heat to get google ads?

  25. easier? on Microsoft Releases Atlas · · Score: 3, Insightful
    which they claim will greatly reduce the effort in developing AJAX style applications on their platform

    ... provided you buy and use their coding gui frontend ware?