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  1. ayup on Avoiding the Bat-Belt Syndrome? · · Score: 1
    P800 and one of these serber M4's: http://www.nortex-products.co.uk/en-gb/dept_50.htm l
    and you're good for anything. i've bought every multitool on the market and the only one i'm guaranteed to have with me *all the time* is one small enough to go on a keyring. if this puppy had a 5mm torx driver for compaq kit it'd be all i needed.

    if it's too big for you to always have it on you, you won't always carry it.

  2. my KVM switch on Xen High-Performance x86 Virtualization Released · · Score: 1

    lets me do exactly this, not quite as portable though but i trust the HAL better this way...

  3. that's the point! on Xen High-Performance x86 Virtualization Released · · Score: 1
    hate to point out the obvious, but the whole point of FAIB is that:
    a) if you want to, you can brew your own - it's open source, kinda
    b) if you can't be bothered or don't have the mad skills, you can buy it for cheap at the local shop
    c) if you want, you can choose to drink expensive imported stuff because you like the taste

  4. as ever, it's a legal issue on Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    for example: expert systems. the first work into these focussed on medical issues, and had a respectable hit rate in diagnosis when compared to a Real Live Doctor (tm). They never got implemented because a patient could end up suing the software vendors/authors for misdiagnosis...

  5. i read slashdot on mine on MIThril Jacket Showcases Wearable Computing · · Score: 1

    sony P800, opera and GPRS = even more pointless hours spent reading slashdot whilst in queues...

  6. then they deserve to go out of business on Sobig Worm Attacking RBL Lists? · · Score: 1

    ...that's the beauty of the blocklist approach. it's fair, it's simple, the good prosper and the bad go under.

  7. Re:Some add'l tidbits on Changes in the Network Security Model? · · Score: 1

    you should probably get out more, rather than fantasizing about being Simon Trevaglia.

  8. +1 insightful? on Sobig Worm Attacking RBL Lists? · · Score: 1
    you are an idiot.
    "my ISP has found itself on one blacklist, and no matter what they're doing, they can't get off"- well, if they either didn't lease lines off RFC-ignorant companies, or behave as RFC-ignorant companies themselves, they wouldn't be in the hole they have dug for themselves and tipped their paying customers into after them.

    they're a business: it's their job not to do business in a dumb way. you have an excuse: you're an ignorant customer - they don't.

  9. MOD THIS UP on File-Sharing Ethics Taught In Classrooms? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    +5 funny, nice one.

  10. wow! you're so friggin 133t! on Personal File Server For The Masses · · Score: 1

    and they're backing up to what? a centralised disk outside of their pc or a partition on their single disk? or are you assuming that joe sixpack has a home network? jesus, some people.

  11. and probably not legal on Use Multiple Channels for Faster Wireless Networking · · Score: 1

    from memory, there's a legal maximum to what you're allowed to broadcast wifi with without a licence. it'll be less than half a watt as well...

  12. bollocks, again on Sony, Intel To Push Content Protection · · Score: 1
    Line out will have DRM on it? Perhaps they'll put a little padlock on the socket and you phone Sony to come and send an engineer round to lock it to your hifi?

    This is crap, mr genius. Motherboards, hard disks etc then yes, eventually and with some caveats. Line out, no. Until they bolt the headphones to your ears, if you can hear it then you can take an analogue copy.

    Even with a closed system, you can hold a mic up to a loudspeaker. A headphone is a cone that vibrates when you apply a voltage, it's not an electronic device.

    I notice you don't reference any of your claims.
    If you don't understand this, you may be doing more harm than good shouting the odds in public.

  13. C'mon people, this is NOT NEWS on PowerBook 15" and 12" Disassembly · · Score: 1
    someone's field stripped and reassembled a laptop. Woohoo!

    If this was an Intel-based machine, no-one would give a toss...

  14. Re:Digital Content Protection on Sony, Intel To Push Content Protection · · Score: 4, Informative
    well, if you want to record in mono and overload your mic preamp, go ahead. otherwise, do it properly and plug it into the the LINE IN on your sound card.


    sheesh, someone tells you to plug something into your soundcard and it gets a plus 4 insightful? whilst i'm here, anyone want to mod me up if i tell you how to unplug your keybo....

  15. you could, but your mum probably couldn't on Personal File Server For The Masses · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...try putting in an easy-to-use backup system for your parents gigs of photos and video. it's not easy...

  16. native americans on VeriSign Sued Over SiteFinder Service · · Score: 1

    ...ring a bell, anyone?

  17. Re:regarding recharging on New PowerBooks, Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 1
    1) You will not get anything like a year out of a wireless mouse. Try a month or two tops.

    2) You will eventually run out of mouse batteries when you need to use it unless you're as anal as you sound

    3) This is a non problem? I didn't realise the wires on my keyboard and mouse were a problem

    4) Non-rechargeable batteries are frigging TERRIBLE for the environment

  18. I don't understand your point. on Is Your Banking Information Accidentally On Ebay? · · Score: 1
    What is it?

    It's on record that, for example, the manufacturers of DES IDE hard disk encryption cards have a backdoor inserted.

  19. Re:regarding recharging on New PowerBooks, Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 1

    no, not a big deal from a cost point of view, but wait until you run out of batteries...

  20. Re:innovation on New PowerBooks, Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 3, Funny

    you'd probably just get nerf-gunned by someone who stores his mountain bike over his cubicle

  21. Re:A good solid thick head.. on Is Your Banking Information Accidentally On Ebay? · · Score: 1

    did she work in the department of senile old incompetents?

  22. Polite?!? on Is Your Banking Information Accidentally On Ebay? · · Score: 1
    It's also the way not to get fired for breaking data protection and human rights legislation, not just nice of you...

    check your AUPs. you do have AUPs, yes?

  23. Re:Encrypted HDs on Is Your Banking Information Accidentally On Ebay? · · Score: 1
    nope, as has been pointed out numerous times, the company's IS security people just need to do their job properly. wipe them if they're penny-pinching enough to want to sell the old drives. start encrypting drives and you'll have several problems:

    support/maintenance will become nightmarish very quickly. even if you can get hardware encryption on, say, a RAID array it won't be easy to look after. likewise, people WILL lose their keys. also, you're assuming that encrypted hard disks exist that don't have master keys in escrow with large governmental agencies. this is not a Good Thing to assume to be correct.

  24. Re:images? on CDs, DVDs Eyed For Long-Term Archival Use · · Score: 1

    that's the whole point. if i have an app that, say, captures ECG waveforms and saves them to a proprietary format with annotations, then i'm going to have a problem archiving them.

  25. Re:great example! on Beer-Coated CDs are Optical Biocomputers · · Score: 1

    probably only if it's 100% proof, though.