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  1. no on United Paper Shuffle · · Score: 1

    I am fairly certain Ted was united unions and united costs and new graphics and advertising costs.

    This is why you haven't heard about Ted lately - you cannot make a high cost operation into a low cost airline simply by keep saying that you have a low cost airline

    ostiguy

  2. Re:Are budget cuts that severe? on Hacker Penetrates T-Mobile Systems · · Score: 1

    Donno where I was that week on slashdot, but that article just confuses me.

    It really doesn't explain where the pin to pin messages were captured. In the messages they show, they show all names next to email addresses - on a blackberry, on a received PIN'd message, if I do a "show address", it replaces the user name with their pin - it does not show their email address. Basically, I am curious as to whether the data from PINs was achieved via the mobile data network provider. The article seems highly accurate re: blackberry's email capability, but leaves questions on pin to pin. I know admins can remotely wipe clean devices with recent blackberry server software, but I donno if they can do a remote backup of a device, included all PIN message content (I tend to doubt it as some blackberries now have 32MB of data storage)

    ostiguy

  3. Re:Are budget cuts that severe? on Hacker Penetrates T-Mobile Systems · · Score: 1

    I don't believe Sidekicks have anything - aren't they just dump pop3/imap devices?

    Blackberries encrypt the data on the device, send it to the cellular network, to blackberry and back, IIRC (I believe blackberry acts as the routing between the different networks hostings its devices - i.e, nextel vs tmobile, etc)

    ostiguy

  4. Re:unusable on MacWorld Expo Traffic Analysis · · Score: 1

    I couldn't hit www.apple.com during the keynote.

  5. Re:Never owned a Mac in my life but I'm getting on on iPod Shuffle, Mac Mini, iLife '05, iWork · · Score: 1

    FWIW, we bought some ps/2 to usb adapters to use some hp provided ps/2 mice on macs, and got nowhere with them.

    ostiguy

  6. Re:cat /proc/cpuinfo on AMD Chip Fraud Delays Release of New Chipset · · Score: 1

    interesting - wcpuid groks p4s correctly - my 2.4ghz is running at 2990ish mhz, but the name string shows 2.4 ghz.

    ostiguy

  7. Re:As always, the answer is "depends..." on iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel vs. Direct Attached Disks? · · Score: 1

    are lefthand and equallogic on the windows hardware compatibility lift? i know another follow up shamelessly plugs netapp, but i am fairly certain they are on the list. if the hw is not on the list, MSFT could tell you to pound sand if you have a support issue. (imagine you buy 3 million worth of HW, but for some reason exchange runs like a dog)

    ostiguy

  8. Re:The problem is... on Mozilla Lightning to Challenge Outlook · · Score: 1

    There is a way with exchange 2000 and 03 to ban MAPI clients by version number - the exchange best practice analyser tool talks about it.

    As for IMAP, the exchange admin might have pop and imap disabled. I am not sure if the admin can ban certain imap clients by version string

  9. Re:A LOT more new stuff... on New Apple iPod with Photo Capabilities · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Am I the only one who wants to be able to plug a camera directly into a mp3 player and transfer photos without needed a 3rd party (belkin) widget?

    I don't really see the appeal of the ipod photo otherwise - I think my blackberry pager/phone has higher resolution

    ostiguy

  10. Re:I don't buy it on America's Most Connected Campuses · · Score: 1

    Yep:

    1. Why is forcing kids to buy a pc a great idea? This methodology skews in favor of forced choice, and does not count freely acquired computers owned. This makes things easy for campus IT depts, but is not necessarily the best thing for students.

    2. Some things appear to be factually incorrect- I am an American University alum - I had a web page hosted on their old VMS box in 97. They retired that circa 99, but I am fairly certain they have some facility for students to host pages - Forbes says there is none.

    3. What is the difference between online classes and those that stream audio and video? Offering streams might be just a facility for students to not leave their beds.

    4. Usenet access? Does even 5% of *any* student body use usenet?

    ostiguy

  11. Re:Sickness on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1

    The reason your mindset is dangerous is because you do not realize that you perceive economics as a zero sum game. All of your rhetoric is about wealth being taking things away from other people.

    My fundamental beliefs: If I were to become a billionaire, I think I would likely:
    employ a lot of people along the way
    buy a lot of services and material goods from others along the way
    even with all of my tax lawyers working to minimize my tax burden, still pay a decent percentage on a huge chunk of money.

    Your fundamental beliefs:
    That all wealth is confiscation.

  12. Re:The SOLE mandate of the ACLU... on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1

    Then why isn't the ACLU concerned with the second amendment?

  13. Re:The Bush administration is habitually dishonest on Senator Alleges White House Wrote Allawi's Speech · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Are you serious? Claiming that any American author has any standing because they have never lost a lawsuit is ridiculous because it is damn near impossible for a celebrity to sue - research the "Actual Malice" standard for libel set in N.Y vs Sullivan. Furthermore, having *lawyers* do fact checking sounds more like lawsuit insulation than fact checking.

    ostiguy

  14. Re:A smart move on Red Hat Acquires Netscape Server Products · · Score: 1

    But is it really smart if IBM makes all the money on consulting deployments of it? I guess I am still not sold on how these pure play linux companies will make money

  15. Re:18-35 #1 ELECTION/VOTING REFORM: on Help Select Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    Plurality based single electee per district systems seem to have a high tendency for establishing 2 party systems. Systems with proportional representation tend to support a wider variety of parties.

  16. Wrong! on DirecTV Plans 1500 HiDef Channels by End of 2007 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apparently Paramount studios' tv productions were shot on film. Some of their back catalog is being restore for HD syndication - Cheers is already being shown in HD on some local channels.

    ostiguy

  17. Re:Emergency use on Faster Updates for DNS Root Servers Arrive · · Score: 4, Informative

    This isn't that. You are talking about regular DNS A record changes on your dns server. You could have done what you sought a year ago, or 10. This is about what DNS servers are responsible for your domain, among other domain level changes (responsibility, etc) - if Chicago burns to the ground, Schlotsky's House of Bacon, having lost their headquarters with its server room, could then outsource its DNS, enter records, and make a root change to indicate that schlotskyshouseofbacon.com's dns servers have changed within 5 minutes (ideally).

    ostiguy

  18. Re:$100 CN on Make Money Fast · · Score: 1

    If they wanted US dollars for oil, then why are Asian countries' foreign reserves in US dollars skyrocketing? If they wanted dollars to give to the Saudis, et al, those reserves would not be skyrocketing. S. Korea and Japan have big problems creating domestic demand, and thus have pinned their hopes on an export led recovery. Who imports more than anyone else? The US of A. Thus their dollar buying policy to keep their goods cheap.

    If you don't think Chavez' regime in Venezuela is worth demonizing, they you need serious help. Nationalizing oil interests, and converting the vast majority of oil revenue into bread and circuses is not a strategic plan for long term viability of oil exports. Oil exports from Venezuela are marketedly down from past highs due to lack of investment in both repairs and development. This will ensure, over time, in the reduction of revenue from oil exports, and the need to reduce whatever social benefits Chavez's regime has created. Chavez is managing for the present at the expense of the future.

    ostiguy

  19. Re:$100 CN on Make Money Fast · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do you really believe this crazy talk? At peak, Iraq exported 3.7 million barrels per day, or 1.35 billion barrels. 1.35BB * US$40 a barrel = 54billion dollars for a year. Within the last year, the Japanese were spending as much as 40 billion a MONTH to sell yen and buy US dollars to keep their goods cheaper for US consumers. Asia's foreign exchange reserves totally swamp any one oil producing country's oil revenues.

    Furthermore, oil is traded on markets. Getting a commodity to be traded consistently against a different currency is no easy task (resulting in things like the investment premise for gold is predicated on the US dollar). Markets crave liquidity. Saddam era Iraq would have needed a handful of other countrys togo along with him in a game of brinksmanship to try to tweak the oil market enough to change its ways. Not likely. Pricing oil in Euros was a political tactic, but not one that would ever succeed

  20. Question for ya on First Portable Media Centers Hit Store Shelves · · Score: 1

    Can you directly attach a digital camera to it? Belkin has an adapter for ipods that allow you to move photos from camera --> adapter --> ipod = no laptop necessary on vacation. I am hoping someone can get to camera --> device where device plays mp3, etc.

  21. Re:Myth's about WEP on 80% of WiFi Networks are still Insecure, Kismet Author Says · · Score: 1

    Start throwing rocks. Write up advisories and fire them off to full disclosure, et all.

  22. Re:And people think Linux is HARDER????? on Complete List of Bugs Fixed in SP2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You download everything, and it installs what it needs.

    Would you be happier to have to fix a pc that someone installed XP SP2 - Intel Tualatin edition on instead of AMD Thunderbird edition? Or carry around 12 cds with various permutations of SPs?

    ostiguy

  23. Are these new jobs? on IBM Adding Almost 19,000 Jobs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or jobs they pick up from outsourcing deals? If schlotsky house of bacon outsources its IT dept to IBM, and transfers 500 employees to IBM, that aint job creation, but it is increasing IBM's headcount.

  24. Re:Limited outbound connections on Windows XP SP2 Impressions · · Score: 1

    I want be be able to run nmap while connected to a vpn, that may or may not already use a virtual adapter, in order to test client and server firewall policies. This is not feasible to test on linux or any other os.

    ostiguy

  25. Re:Impressions? Or bad reviews? on Windows XP SP2 Impressions · · Score: 1

    I am peeved that the elimination of tcp data over raw sockets is not unchangeable with a registry edit. I want to be able to run nmap on windows xp now, not when the port maintainers find a workaround.

    ostiguy