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  1. Re:We saw it too on How Google Can Make or Break A Small Business · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html#A1 Do you people even bother researching before opening your mouths. Here is the reasons your site might not be listed. Moron. And if you chose to I am sure you could read on and find more information.

  2. Re:Well, there go the logfiles on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 4, Interesting

    does it only open the port for that one IP somehow, using also advanced IP filtering, cause otherwise this is dumb, it would be like unlocking your door for the first customer to knock right, but having to leave it open the whole time the customer is shopping.

  3. Re:Well, there go the logfiles on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 2, Insightful
    beautiful, now instead of a 1U router I will need a 6U router that will cost 10000$ because it needs to be able to constantly process log files for all security requests.

    Also can you imagine trouble shooting problems on this.
    oh I see the problem, your connection wasn't able to send a knock from your network on port 8019, but it was on 1223,6789,9865 oh but not 7024, oh crap you have another ap on 7024 and when you send requests, it gets bad request errors in the error logs, well lets switch that to 2345. Or other problems to be seen, also now hackers won't just port scan me, they'll port scan me a trillion times, trying to find the right combination to open my ports.

    Beautiful

  4. Re:It's not just about Viruses on The Impact of Technophobes · · Score: 1
    Stuff really does just work when you plug it in. What are you comparing here, what kind of problem? Because I worked at Dana corporation where the Dana university people used Macs, and the rest of Dana used PCs, mostly on XP. And the Macs side had tons of problems. Sure not with anything that came standard in the system, but I should hope that if your building, the hardware, and the software, you should be able to make them play nice together, but if you plugged something non-mac into a mac, like for instance controller cards that grab testing data from Dynos, or the Texas Instruments cards for gathering data from electronic testing equipment it would be a nightmare.
    Also sometimes they would lose their NICs, in the laptops, they would suddenly just not show up on the wireless network.

    Linux and windows are both coded for a variety of hardware environments, so that I can run the newest version of linux, on the newest hardware, or on my K6-2 machine.

    but Try taking OSX and putting it on your old mac. Try putting new hardware in your mac and customizing it. My response is simple, yes, if you take exactly what the manufacturer gave you, and you never change anything hardware wise you'll be fine. But some of us, in the real world, can't afford 2500$ for the G5 dual 1.8 ghz, which is what it would take to compete with my 1200$ Athlon XP 3200 machine. That was 1200$, for Gforce FX, Asus 400mhz fsb mobo, with dual nic, onboard 5.1, 2 gig of 3200 DDR from crucial, and my 19" perfect flat(CRT, I don't like flat panels, I have one at work, and it's been a year and I am already down 3 pixels, and when the rest of the screen is white in a word document, those black pixels are irritating.).And my 160 GB SATA Drive.
    Granted that was the initial build and since then I have installed two Sata Raptors in a raid zero to get that load time down for my OS, and added 2 120 GB Hitachis. But other than this drive space addition, the system has worked beautifully from the beginning, just installed OS, got updated nforce drivers, and that was all she wrote, good to go.

    I know i rambled too much, but a Mac, for someone with computer experience is a poor choice, because I built my computer in very little time, and even since turning it into a beast, putting it into this gigantic Chieftec case so I could add more drives, I still haven't spent anywhere close to 2 grand. And I bought my OS, probably one of the few out there. lol.

  5. Re:My solution:My solution: on The Impact of Technophobes · · Score: 1

    Apple simply couldn't do it because 90% of their marketing is oriented around fitting a niche, around "being different", around rooting for the underdog, and so on and so forth. If they were the big guy, they would have no one to bitch about and all their customers would move to Microsoft, cause it has less viruses, and isn't just for the majority of computer idiots(this based on if Apple was suddenly 90% Microsoft would be the 5% competitor)

  6. Re:Oh well, them's the breaks on The Impact of Technophobes · · Score: 1

    your analogy is pretty flawed, considering that with a basic XP install, and a cable modem router installed, and having simply changed the password from the default, you are pretty safe. People aren't having random other dump sugar in the gas tank. They are doing it to themselves, maybe driving up to a gas station and grabbing the diesel pump for a gas engine is a more appropriate anlysis. Sure there are viruses out there, but most peoples virus problems, stem from opening random emails, clicking yes, every time something asks to be installed and other such things. If i walked up to your door, rung the bell and asked if I could install a really cool appliance in your house, but wouldn't tell you what it was, or you had no idea what it was, wouldn't you say no?

  7. Re:We saw it too on How Google Can Make or Break A Small Business · · Score: 1

    I bet you were one of the sites that got blocked because you were filling pages with invisible text, or other such offenses that google won't stand for.

  8. Re:Why did they leave out ... on Current Processors Tested With Linux · · Score: 1
    I am USMC, and I don't recall seeing anything about G4s or G5s in any of our weapon specs. Not even in the new Anti Tank weapon.

    http://www.global-defence.com/2001/WSpart12.html

  9. Re:But if G5 boxes were shown to be ... on Current Processors Tested With Linux · · Score: 1

    sorry, i was implying the whole computer was a waste of money when you could have built a PC for half the cost, ran Linux or XP, and done everything you can do with your G5

  10. Re:Force Stores to ID on California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released · · Score: 1

    I didn't, I made the claim that you have no idea what our for fathers would have thought on this issue. They weren't fighting England video taping their stores, and other than your "interpretation" of the bill of rights, you have yet to cite any written reason why I should believe what you have to say.

  11. Re:Linux becoming a lot more mainstream? on Current Processors Tested With Linux · · Score: 1

    Wait you think that because slashdot(linux fan boy homesite) picks up an article on linux being tested on different processors, means that linux is becoming more main stream.
    Just checking to make sure I heard you right, and that my brain didn't explode from the stupidity of the comment

  12. Re:Why did they leave out ... on Current Processors Tested With Linux · · Score: 1

    Many other millitary applications
    may I ask what other millitary applications? And be careful when you answer, you never know how much the person your speaking to, knows

  13. Re:But if G5 boxes were shown to be ... on Current Processors Tested With Linux · · Score: 1
    so it sounds like you spent about 2000$ more than you needed to for the software you run. This is the inherent problem with multi proc machines. Most programs are designed to take advantage of it.

    I am disappointed to hear it though I assumed considering apple made the hardware and the software, they would have optimized the software for the dual proc.

  14. Re:Force Stores to ID on California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released · · Score: 1
    And I am sure you would know what Thomas Jefferson would think on the issue. I am sure he gave lots of privacy to his slaves as well.

    Remember our founding fathers were rich, well off, nobility.

  15. Re:Interesting Business Model too... on Cory Doctorow Releases 'Eastern Standard Tribe' · · Score: 1
    I don't think I believe that. I own two sets of the lord of the Rings, so I can give one out, and I own 3 sets of the dark tower series (up till book 5) by steven King. Cause I have two sets out on lease to friends. I like to re read my books, I like to take them to work for lunch time, or bring them on the bus, or in a plane. And I realise that there are laptops and tablet pcs, but tell me the truth, wouldn't you rather just have the book in your hand, with a good binding, and nice flippable durable pages, that aren't an oversized 8 1/2 by 11.


    I could be wrong about this, but if I had never read an author, and started reading online, I would buy the book, and sit down in my hammock outside.


    Or maybe people should just make it a very small fee to buy the online version. Say for instance 2$ or something, so for the people that won't buy the book, you still get 2.00$ and then just have a promotion that if you have already purchased the online version you can get 2$ off on your purchase of the paperback or hard bound.

  16. Re:Force Stores to ID on California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released · · Score: 1
    There are several books on this as a matter of fact. That calling it private property is necesarilly true when your talking about a comercially zoned building and facility.And you keep saying government in broad terms but really it's a matter of city ordinance voted on by the city council, not constitutional law or anything, just like how some cities and municipalities can decide guns are not allowed in their city. Or that you can not carry a weapon in certain establishments, or that if your selling certain goods you need servielance in your store.

    here is my question, answer this if you respond because this is the important one. Why wouldn't you have survielance anyway? Why are you willing to risk lots of damage to machines and stolen items for?

  17. Re:Force Stores to ID on California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released · · Score: 1

    you missed the point of that sentence, you don't have right to privacy in a public place, and I can interpret a lot from the bill of rights, and have read the constitution through several times, as should everyone if they have a decent American History teacher in high school. I am 3 years into a 5 year engineering degree, not just some jar head.

  18. Re:Cha ching? on Microsoft, Yahoo Investigate Spam Solution · · Score: 1
    And your post is simply filled with contradiction and no helpful information.

    If spammers run their own SMTP servers, than it will be easy for me to trace the spam back to them now won't it. Then I report the IP to their ISP, who then discontinue their service.

  19. Re:Force Stores to ID on California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released · · Score: 1

    I don't really think it falls under unreasonable search and seizure. Because they are not searching your person in any way. And it is the government mandating on a federal level, it's on a local level. Cities have a lot more flexibility in deciding ordinances and such within their city limits. Also, other stores are required to surveil as well. For instance bars and clubs in some cities are forced to have noise dampeners installed, so that the surrounding town can get to bed. Your government, that you voted in, voted for this, if you live there. So don't vote for those people next time. Or run yourself in a campaign and change things.

  20. Re:Cha ching? on Microsoft, Yahoo Investigate Spam Solution · · Score: 1

    forcing authentication is not a problem, it's simple as all hell. Jesus christ.

  21. Re:Cha ching? on Microsoft, Yahoo Investigate Spam Solution · · Score: 1

    Oh I hope so, send me in. screw terrorism, nothing pisses me off like spam.

  22. Re:Nope, nope, nope on Microsoft, Yahoo Investigate Spam Solution · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whenever someone has an open relay, we should go to their company, drag their server outside and run that shit over with the biggest truck we can find.

  23. Re:Force Stores to ID on California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released · · Score: 1

    No one ever promised you privacy in this country. I don't recall your privacy in a public place in the bill of rights. Granted I am in the millitary and have a clean background, and have no fear of people seeing what I do, but if your worried. So sorry, no one promised you shit about your privacy in a public place.

  24. Re:Cha ching? on Microsoft, Yahoo Investigate Spam Solution · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ummm...don't even need to mod the protocol, if people just set up their mail servers to force authentication before outgoing mail can be sent, there wouldn't be any problems. Sorry there will be some problems, but I bet it would eliminate a lot of spam. Or if we just convinced the RIAA that spam was affecting their music sales, they would find a way to take every one of them to court.LOL

    also, best answer to spam, don't click on the links in it, don't read it, just delete it, if it wasn't profitable they wouldn't send it out. Sadly dumb people buy shit from telemarketers and spammers.

  25. Re:Force Stores to ID on California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released · · Score: 1

    No offence but if you buy spray paint or bullets, you probably did walk under a camera at some point while you were in the store. And if these kids are getting in fights, and causing damage, then why wouldn't the stores have already taken care of getting a surveillance system. I have purchased nice network cameras for 220$ that work beautifully as security cameras. And I run them off a 600$ machine with a tape backup drive. No muss, no fuss really. It's an ordinance, there are lots of them, hell in my town you can't have a car in your driveway without a license plate and current tags. I just got a letter from the city because I have too much folliage in the ditch which I am pretty sure is owned by conrail, and is 100 yards behind my house. So cameras in internet cafes, not really a civil rights violation. Most of your paying customers won't even care about the cameras.