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  1. Re:Weird... on Internet to Pakistan Goes Down · · Score: 1

    India has multiple fibre optic links. You wouldn't even notice it.

  2. Re:Yet again no *nix version. on Google Earth Launching For Free · · Score: 1

    Unix geeks do:
    $make universe
    $sudo make install

    You dream small if you only dream of putting up buildings.

  3. Re:Welcome to the new world. on AMD Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel · · Score: 1

    You mean litigate? They're not writing the law...

    Yet.

  4. Re:OpenBSD, of course! on What is the Best Firewall for Servers? · · Score: 1

    And the cracker walks right in via HTTP, if you forget to patch Apache.

  5. Re:Ok. So I'm confused on Cable Internet Service Not Common Carrier · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between a "communications service" and a "data service"?
    But wouldn't you have to communicate data in order for it to appear? And wouldn't communications be meaningless without data to communicate?


    Think of the difference between a layer 1 provider and a layer 3 provider. One provides the physical connectivity, the other provides the logical connectivity. The first is a communications service, the second is a data service.

  6. Re:IANAL but... on BitTorrent: Sysadmins to face the music · · Score: 1

    You really need to go through the mail sent to the postmaster and abuse addresses, particularly if there are other users on that system.

    Also, email is not a reliable protocol, so it cannot be used for delivering legal notices.

  7. Re:Scum on Indian Call Centre Worker Sells Customer Details · · Score: 1

    Would you pay the service fees for those call centre employees salaries?

  8. Re:Home workers on Hotmail To Junk Non-Sender-ID Mail · · Score: 1

    submission is 587/tcp, not 589.

    Please tell me the costs of having SRS for a few million users, and a system handling over a million inbound messages a minute, quite a few of which get forwarded out directly from our servers (distributed over two continents).

    If you are willing to pay to build that infrastructure for us, let me know.

  9. Re:EMAIL IS BROKEN TOO on Hotmail To Junk Non-Sender-ID Mail · · Score: 1

    Look, who cares if SPF breaks things. The things it breaks arn't really that important

    Except to those of us who run real mail servers.

    Let me know when you run a service handling over a million messages a minute, a few million user accounts and need to deal with forwarding mail with server farms on two continents that what SPF breaks is trivial.

  10. Re:sql go boom on Firefox Extension for Applied Social Networking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Trusted by whom? Just because your OS vendor trusts someone does not mean that the rest of us do.

    A trusts B
    B trusts C

    does not imply A trusts C

  11. Re:Hardware support is an issue that needs a look on Desktop Linux on x86 - Adapt or Die · · Score: 1

    Desktop != Laptop.

  12. Re:Desktop Linux will not die, but grow instead on Desktop Linux on x86 - Adapt or Die · · Score: 1

    Laptop != desktop.

    Can you show me a point to point Mac desktop vs PC desktop comparison please?
    Take a 500 USD budget for starters (a reasonable whitebox PC fits in that range).

  13. Re:Slackware on Beginner's Guide to Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    I hope your grandmom can administer a computer, or shje has a professional do it for her. like it or not, a computer is capable of running arbitrary code, and hiding the complexity does not make it go away.

  14. Re:It's the responsability of the ISPs to monitor. on Zombie Report By ISP · · Score: 1

    Do you really want to allow an ISP to search your PC?

    What if this was a corporate laptop? The CEOs laptop? Configured to only VPN into the corporate network, and the scanner breaks something?

    Do you want to fight those lawsuits?

    I would just disconnect those users, and let them go to my competitors, except that there are too many idiots and any good ISP would soon go out of business that way. Plus, charging for reconnection has exactly that effect. Maybe ISPs should charge for outbound bandwidth by the byte, forcing users to clean up or pay.

  15. Re:Next up on Pure JavaScript Unix-Like Web Based OS · · Score: 1

    How long before a Javascript interpreter is coded into emacs?

  16. Re:More intelligent software or users? on Britney is #1 Virus Celebrity · · Score: 1

    So you mean that HTML email, Outlook and Outlook Express should be banned, and only plain text emails should be allowed? Any attachments must be GPG/PGP or S/MIME signed?

    Good idea. Now enforce _that_ in the American workplace.

  17. Re:Dearest Slashdot Readers, on Largest Privately Owned Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Dear government,

    All my secret stuff is hidden in the porn. The encrypted stuff is just to lead you down a false trail.

  18. Re:REVENGE! on Largest Privately Owned Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, Intel processors can be obtained at a mere 3 cents per CPU, with networks of upto a million CPUs available.

  19. Re:minimum mass on Rocky Planet Discovered · · Score: 1
  20. Re:3 years was worth the wait on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (r0a) Quick Tour · · Score: 1

    up2date, or yum.
    Works just fine.

  21. Re:What's taking so long? on The Death of Folders? · · Score: 1

    Think home directories shared from a central server to a bunch of desktops. AFS, Coda, NFS....

    Large scale corporate requirements are different from those of a single user system.

  22. Re:What's taking so long? on The Death of Folders? · · Score: 1

    They should show up as different devices. i.e. I have a repository over here on the server, and over here on the desktop.

    NFS. The remote system is just another directory. It isn't another device

    Some of us need more than a pretty desktop for real work. Apples work for you. They don't work for everyone, and where their UI clashes with the requirements of other people (including device transparency), the UI will go.

  23. Re:HA! on Computer Security Lacking at Homeland Security · · Score: 2, Funny

    The ministry of peace.
    The ministry of truth.
    The department of homeland security.

  24. Re:Congratulations are in order! on A Decade of PHP · · Score: 1

    The trick is to be able to have an abstraction interface between the database access and the rest of your code.

    function get_info($dsn, $query, $parameters) {
    }

    Now the bulk of your code not know what DB you use.
    tie your SQL very tightly to the database. Put an abstraction layer between DB specific code and non specific code. Works well.

  25. Re:Reduced scripting for IE on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 1

    Fix their security holes by taking away features which now give them a lead in companies?

    The security holes created by those features are what is causing them to lose market share. They would be best served by removing ActiveX, and treating all input to the browser as malicious.