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  1. Re:WAN, SCHMAN on LAN Turns 30, May Not See 40? · · Score: 1

    With IPv6, every computer in your house, and every piece of dirt in your finger nail (including every finger nail on the planet) can have it's own unique IP address.

    The only reason to keep a LAN around that has separate addressing is if it improves security - i.e. if it prevents your personal local traffic (or sensitive business information) from going on to a more public network when it otherwise would be restricted to local lines that are less able to be wire sniffed via ethereal/snort etc.

    If a switch is properly configured, this shouldn't be a problem - assuming that you don't tell your banking machine to send unencrypted traffic between sites without having your own OC line to wherever the traffic is going.

    Where's the problem with a LAN dissapearing in this scenario? Besides that right now we know sending traffic to any 192.168.x.x IP will not get routed on a public network?

    reference re: address space size

  2. Re:Great, another tax on Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing · · Score: 1

    Well, for one, just browsing webpages can pretty much guarantee you will stumble upon content that's considered infringement. Unless you stop the music applet on a website of some twink girl that's hitting on you, that doesn't have permission to play Rihanna's Umbrella publically / no broadcast license, then aren't you just a little bit guilty? Fine, it's the girl that should be charged, but to make a system like this work, everybody needs to be in on it.

    Isn't it impossible to avoid infringement these days? Unless some kind of definition of "reasonable" begins to come in to play.

  3. Re:!Slashdotted on Stanford's New Website Converts Your Photos to 3D · · Score: 1

    This would be do-able. Moebius strips can be made and represented in real life. Why not an impossible triangle?

  4. Re:Great, another tax on Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing · · Score: 1

    Modding this insightful? bull shit..

    $5 a month is fair considering how often people "would" generally purchase a CD. I wouldn't hesitate to say that without the internet, the average person would buy a CD for themselves every few months. That adds up to averaging this $5 pretty easily when distributed across a general population.

    The movie industry? I don't know many people that see movies in theatres less than they used to. Buying DVDs? maybe, but those seem to generally be the people that can't otherwise afford DVDs - that's what I used to do, and I've been replacing the movies I like on my computer with actual DVDs because of the quality difference, now that I can afford them. If anything, the internet has increased my DVD sales, as well as for a lot of people I know. I only know one person that actually feels bad or weird to buy DVDs, as if it's a waste of money.

    Computer software companies? It's far more acceptable to build licensing in to software than it is in to movies/DVDs. The average DVD player doesn't have an internet connection to verify a license, the average computer does - and Microsoft makes it very clear that it's current home operating systems -require- a broadband internet connection. It's on the packaging. That means if you don't have a broadband internet connection, Microsoft can't guarantee it to work. If they have software activation issues, that's their own problem that they can solve by raising the price of their software.

    Bloggers/supermodels? bullshit. Supermodels want and need the publicity the internet provides. Photographers can much more easily sue any website that reuses their images. It's far more acceptable than the RIAA suing somebody that put music on their blog without permission. It's a frikken stollen image from the internet.

    Book industry? Maybe if there wasn't such a strong case for fair use in quoting text books. Full books being republished on the internet? I don't think people would object to it being sue'd off the net. Google indexing all books? Great, valuable service that I think will lead to a rise in book sales, and potentially a huge revenue source for Google if they sell the books themselves, or buy Amazon.

    Lots of books only cost like 5$. I don't know many people that buy two books a month. Nearly all of your figures are being pulled out of your ass with seemingly no basis. 5$ is a small fee for parents to pay each month for their kids to have as music as they want, and not worry about whether or not their kids are doing something illegal. 5$ is a great fee for anybody who pays for their internet connection, because they are already the bill-paying class of citizens, not the living out of a college dorm / parents basement type that would have to budget and plan for this, and the rights get passed on to family/friends for non-profit purposes.

    My only question is what happens for coffee shops? Isn't it for-profit to allow users to buy internet time, and from there download/burn CDs? or are they still paying for use of the connection, regardless of the use. Would internet cafe owners have to specify that a certain amount of the user's fee is going towards a percentage of the shops 5$ per month internet tax, or make the user pay a 5$ per month membership fee?

  5. Re:Fewest Users = Fewest Flaws on Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws · · Score: 1

    you have a pretty shitty definition of the word "fix"

  6. Re:Different beast methinks on Is There Such a Thing As Absolute Hot? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Your logic is flawed

    If the question was to ask for the opposite of "cessation of motion", you may be right

    However, asking for the opposite of absolute zero is not asking for the opposite of the results of absolute zero. The defining attribute is that absolute zero is the lowest amount of heat possible, therefore to reverse this we are looking for the "opposite of lowest" amount of heat possible, or the lowest amount of "opposite of heat" possible, both are the same thing, and that's what this article is talking about.

    Of course, if you instead define absolute zero as -273.15 C then you might define the opposite of absolute zero as +273.15 C, but if you decide to do that, you're stupid.

  7. Re:Not really? yeah really. on How To Configure Real PC Parental Controls? · · Score: 2, Informative

    1. Install something like OpenWRT on your router

    2. Set up a proxy app like squid (with plugins) *on the router*

    3. Set the proxy app to block out porn using one of many available blacklists or whitelists (google for it).
            I think squid has a plugin that only lets you access sites from a search engine, and restricts the search engine to having safe search at full.

    4. Block outgoing port 80 and 21 from your kids computer (on the router), or on all computers. If your kid really needs FTP (port 21) then you can whitelist
            the IP addresses he needs (for example, whitelisting his school's ftp server if he needs to upload assignments)

    5. Set up two passwords to view otherwise blocked sites on the proxy. Give one to him. Make sure he knows that you can get a list of all sites he accesses when he uses that password, so that he won't override a porn site.

  8. Re:DRM strikes again? on Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance? · · Score: 1

    no, nearly any computer made that supports Vista well comes with a motherboard with an onboard gigabit NIC.
    Data to this NIC does not go over the PCI bus or PCI bridge, it goes directly over the north bridge or south bridge (depending on the chipset).

    The person you were quoting was explaining that it should not be an issue with a PCI based audio card taking bandwidth over the PCI bus that should be managed better in the UART.

    Aside from that, most systems use an on-board audio controller anyways, which goes over the south bridge (the south bridge goes over the north bridge), but both of the two have far more than a gigabit worth of bandwidth - check your hypertransport bandwidth for the minimum bandwidth value of your north bridge and you'll see for sure.

    If these reports are true, it's definitely either an issue with Vista's HAL (hardware abstraction layer), or one NIC/driver, or one audio controller/driver, or a combonation of NIC & Audio controllers or drivers. But we'll assume that it's Vista's HAL since most Vista drivers are the same used in XP, and this issue isn't reported in there.

  9. Re:Ask Slashdot: Pause a running Javascript on DNS Rebinding Attacks, Multi-Pin Variant · · Score: 1

    The point is that a faster processor, regardless of if it's multi-core, gives the OS a much better opportunity to arrange for multitasking with other processes of the same priority.

    I really hope nobody is scheduling javascript applications above the default priority.

    OTOH, can't a plausible fix for this be to have web browsers run all scripted functions within a lower priority thread?

  10. Re:Ask Slashdot: Pause a running Javascript on DNS Rebinding Attacks, Multi-Pin Variant · · Score: 1

    we repeat:
    You should probably consider upgrading from a 486.

  11. Re:Before anyone calls this sentence excessive on 30 Years For Online Pharmacy Spammer · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, your sentence wasn't excessive.. I see run on sentences here all the time and yours was hardly.

  12. Off-topic on Microsoft Claims a Billion Windows Installs by End of 2008 · · Score: 1
    Re: your signature

    Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes. Not true..
    just get them to say "Not tonight, I'm on my rag"
  13. ....LOL on Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE · · Score: 1

    [quote]The security of Firefox[/quote]

  14. Re:Any reason to switch from VLC or BS? on Democracy Player Is Dead, Long Live Miro · · Score: 1

    where the heck did you hear that load of bull?

  15. Re:Call my cynical, but... on Rewritable Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    instead of being closed minded

    maybe you could think of it as

    "Neat idea, finally a recording studio is trying something new to appeal to a fanbase"

    They're trying to make more profit (and break in to the industry) by tearing down molds instead of suing file sharing P2P network-users.

  16. Re:By a woman? on Female Astronaut Sets Space Record · · Score: 1

    Lets tell girls _and_ boys that they are incapable of accomplishing anything more than bagging groceries

    then I can keep my job when I'm 40 years older

    OTOH having a plateau halfway up the mountain could be seen as a good stepping stone for any lesbian.. they're going to try and take the man down from the top no matter what, but they only have to go halfway first & then get a boost of adrenoline.

  17. You've opened my eyes on Female Astronaut Sets Space Record · · Score: 2, Funny

    [quote]the playing field should be level for everyone[/quote]
    We should tell boys as well as girls that they are worthless and will grow up to bag groceries
    that way nobody will try

    (and I'll keep my job when I'm 40 years older)

  18. Re:Dizzy on Probe Shows Jupiter Moon 'Puking' Into Space · · Score: 1

    sounds like it got as drunk as I did last night
    I wonder if it's hang over is as terrible..

  19. Re:Factually inacurate on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    Apparently people give birth once every twelve years?

    I think a lot less generations have gone by since 6,000 years ago...
    not to mention according to the bible, before the flood, people generally lived for like.. 400 years? I don't know the actual number. Stupid bible.

  20. Re:Physical Keylogger on City Almost Loses 450K to Keylogger · · Score: 1

    Keylogger? They didn't even say that word!

    It was a COOKIE1!!

    *thud*

    Oops, I mean

    *fud*

  21. Re:Still Around on Thousands of ICQ Numbers Deleted · · Score: 1

    I'm a six digit number.. 655x9x

    I wonder if anybody will catch that.

  22. Re:Top this on Big Red Button Disasters? · · Score: 1

    The best part about that story is that no one will ever figure out where it came form.

    Yeah it's kind of alanis-morisette-type ironic, I was thinking that as I wrote it and wanted to write something like "before you mod this offtopic, redundant, trollbait or overrated, READ TFA~!"

    muahaha

    ok so maybe it's overrated anyways, like your mom >8)

  23. Re:Are you trying to get us in trouble? on Are Sysadmins Really that Bad? · · Score: 1

    he clearly works in an IT call centre where the lowlifes under him think they know even more than him

  24. Top this on Big Red Button Disasters? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I was at my dad's take-your-kids to work day, and the CIO kept doing these god-awful presentations.. but my dad is an 1337 super hax0r like me, and we both knew that there was an IBM P695 with a big red button on it that uber-switches the server off in milliseconds. The high-availability systems were currently undergoing maintenance, so I knew it'd get me out of this crap presentation if I were to press it....... bam! it took them 72 hours to recover all of the virtual systems from backup. Unfortunately, the CIO didn't really learn his lesson - he still does these damn presentations one day a year.

  25. Re:ICK. on Transform a Regular LCD Into a Touchscreen · · Score: 1

    Or just clone the monitors. I wouldn't mind placing a 17" touch screen where my keyboard normally rolls out of my desk, and putting the actual keyboard up on the desk. It'd be even more beautiful considering my desk is made of glass ^_^