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  1. Re:One of Our Cancers on DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names · · Score: 1

    According to the TSA, if it were not for their "thoroughness", planes would go BOOM.

  2. Re:This is necessary why? on Google's New Meta-Tags For News Story Authors · · Score: 1

    Citations are references to other sources. These elements suggest to others how the work itself should be cited.

  3. Re:Too Much on Seagate To Pay Former Worker $1.9M For Phantom Job · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That may be why he started his own company and now earns "a fraction of the income he earned as a yield engineer," according to TFA.

  4. Re:First Post on Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend a prize for him, except he's probably not short of cash.

    You must be referring to his Wikipedia page of November 16th.

  5. No way this could be misused on Internet Blacklist Back In Congress · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Got a site you want to shut down? Just a) post some copyrighted material there, and b) complain. Problem solved.

  6. Re:Let's make one good language. on Which Language To Learn? · · Score: 1

    Why should we all wrestle with different languages? Why can't there be one language that handles most of the cases?

    Remember PL/I? ADA? Every time we try come up with a language that handles most cases, it seems to inherit the worst features of its predecessors.

  7. Re:Break digital locks for lawful purposes on Net Neutrality Supporters Hammered In Elections · · Score: 1

    Not really. None of Boucher's legislation passed.

  8. Works for telco landlines, too on Cooking With Your USB Ports · · Score: 2, Funny

    For those who still have landline phones, Mike Sandman, purveyor of genuinely indispensable old-school telephony gear, has some telco line powered goodies.

    Don't even try to order any of them, though.

  9. It's a feature on Denver Airport Overrun by Car-Eating Rabbits · · Score: 1

    Car manufacturers: "To protect the environment, our cars are now greener than ever. Why, even the wiring is biodegradable!"

  10. Re:Interesting timing on In Australia, Rising VoIP Attacks Mean Huge Bills For Victims · · Score: 5, Interesting

    By all means use fail2ban. But setting alwaysauthreject=yes in sip.conf will generally stop the attacks faster, and also in cases where they try s-l-o-w-l-y, hoping to slip under fail2ban's radar.

    Setting alwaysauthreject causes asterisk to respond the same way to an invalid peer registration as to a valid one using a bad secret. In other words, the attacker can't get a list of valid extensions for later password cracking attempts. Note that this violates RFC3261, but I'm unaware of anything that it will actually break, and in fact it's the default in asterisk 1.8.

  11. Re:I WISH this were me on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 1

    I wonder whether, thanks to MTV, that's why Buzz Aldrin is so much better known than McCandless.

  12. Re:That's Life on Minnesota Moving To Microsoft's Cloud · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In general, you're correct. But here we're talking about civil servants, who never get fired for anything short of criminal malfeasance.

  13. Re:Cue the crying on ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Legitimate dealers will sell bullion coins (e.g., Eagles) for about 4% over spot, and buy them for 1% over. That 3% difference is where their profit comes from.

  14. Re:He could sing on Bing Crosby, Television Sports Preservationist · · Score: 2, Informative

    A "preservationist" is someone like Martin Scorsese who has worked tirelessly to make sure old celluloid films aren't lost. He's doing it to make sure others can get the kind of exposure to the history of our culture as shown in cinema.

    Thanks for mentioning Scorsese. Besides working to preserve old films through his Film Foundation and as the DGA representative to the National Film Preservation Board), he has spoken eloquently and often on such evils as "pan-and-scan" and time compression, and how profoundly they can alter a director's work. I have great respect for that man.

  15. Re:Doesn't work on Hole In Linux Kernel Provides Root Rights · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Doesn't work on Hole In Linux Kernel Provides Root Rights · · Score: 1

    The most desirable identity for the intruder to assume is that of the super-user. System administrators acquire super-user privileges by executing a program called su.

    -- F. T. Grampp* and R. H. Morris*, UNIX Operating System Security, AT&T Bell Lab. Tech. J., 63, No. 8 Pt. 2 (October 1984), p. 1660.

    *AT&T Bell Laboratories.

  17. Re:They didn't describe the powerline! on Turning Your Home Wiring Into a Giant Antenna · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My house was built in 1957. All interior wiring is in EMT or IMC (plus a little Greenfield to the fixed appliances) or within steel conduit bodies and device boxes. Not an inch of NM.

  18. Re:Doesn't really matter... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let's get this clear. Literacy tests were applied discriminitorily in the South to disenfranchise black voters. That was a wrong that needed righting. I would have been much happier if the tests had been required of every voter rather than being banned, but it could be argued that in the '60s blacks did not have the opportunity to attend the same K-12 schools as whites. "Separate but equal schools" was bad, as was, "If your grandfather could vote, so can you", (the original grandfather clause, which was intended to allow even illiterate whites to vote). This is no longer the case. Even the original authors of the act intended that it sunset in 5 years.

    When I got the motorcycle endorsement on my driver's license, the test included a "quick stop on a curve." Too many people were dropping their bikes on this part of the test, so it was eliminated. I would have preferred that they'd kept it, culling some of the least competent motorcyclists. Ditto for voters.

    If your choose to infer from this that I'm some sort of skinhead racist, go right ahead. I can't stop you. But if you're trying to pigeonhole me, here's a better fact: I have many friends, but not a single one of them cannot read. Does that make me an elitist, too?

  19. Re:Doesn't really matter... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 0, Troll

    Like so many laws, it is well-intentioned. But the result is that people can vote on issues without understanding them at all. And vote they do.

  20. Re:Doesn't really matter... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sorry. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 pretty much did away with literacy tests for voters. Sigh.

  21. Another thing about Shatner on The Many Iterations of William Shatner · · Score: 2, Funny

    I haven't fully researched this, but I'm guessing that Shatner went on to a bigger career after Incubus than anyone else who starred in any Esperanto film.

  22. Re:motorcycles on Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife · · Score: 1

    I'd almost managed to forget about Chernobyl Girl. Thanks a lot for reminding me.

  23. Did this guy ever work for BP? on Criminal Photoshops Himself Into Charity Photos In Bid For Leniency · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    BP likes to use crappy, self-serving 'shops, too. Like their "crisis command center."

  24. Re:Obvious party possiblities on Live a Month At the Museum of Science and Industry · · Score: 1
  25. Re:The fact is, US is just as bad as China on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The vote was 5-4. All the "conservative" justices voted for Kelo, all the "liberal" justices for New London. Kennedy, often the swing vote, chose to side with the liberals on this one.