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  1. Re:Subdued Release on Intel Begins Shipping 64-bit Prescotts · · Score: 1
    The Monty Python Processor:

    The Knights of NIH...

  2. Re:Where are the 64 bit apps? on Intel Begins Shipping 64-bit Prescotts · · Score: 1
    Actually, 64 bit processors have been available for years already: Alpha, Spark, MIPS...

    and to answer your question, GCC handles them OK.

    Intel is not the leading processor developer - they are the leading CONSUMER grade processor manufacturer. There are other bottom feaders below them too, eg. VIA.

  3. Re:Users will see it as Microsoft's problem anyway on Microsoft has Delayed SP2, Again · · Score: 1

    MS distributes Alexa with IE - that is malware and since you download it off the MS web site, they obviously do condone, support and maintain malware.

  4. Re:Users will see it as Microsoft's problem anyway on Microsoft has Delayed SP2, Again · · Score: 1
    Well, yes. Microsoft distributes Alexa free with Internet Explorer. They have to ensure that existing spyware will continue to work.

    Mediaplex will sue MS for interfering with their business if all the cameras and microphones that they turned on with their Flash advertisements will suddenly quit on them.

  5. Re:FYI: The SP2 RC2 problems are spyware related on Microsoft has Delayed SP2, Again · · Score: 1

    Uhhh, so what you are saying is that the MS QA Dept has virus infected PCs which they use to test their software on?

  6. Re:Bogus conclusions. on Exploring Linux Desktop Myths · · Score: 1
    Relax d00d. You are ranting about things that were fixed years ago. This is like complaining about something that won't work on Windows ME...

    Get with it and try a newish version of Mandrake or Suse Linux.

  7. Re:IAAL on Licensing Computer Techs As TV Repairmen · · Score: 3, Funny
    So what test does Americans have to pass to get a Marriage license?

    So American girls can go around and say: I'm a licensed bride? Would a hooker be an 'unlicensed bride?'

  8. Re:From my spam box on Licensing Computer Techs As TV Repairmen · · Score: 1

    No, this one is much better:
    www.universityofnigeria.com
    You can get your degree and 34 Million Dollars...

  9. Re:I can't rightly apprehend this... on 70% Of 2004 Virus Activity Down To One Man · · Score: 1
    That member of parliament actually was decades ahead of Babbage. Error correction codes come to mind.

    Also, Babage's later engines had special mechanisms to detect accumulations of rounding errors, so he was eventually clueing in to the imprecision of his machines.

  10. Novell buying Sun on Sun Pondering Buying Novell · · Score: 1

    is more likely...

  11. Re:Pointless CEO toys on More On Silent Supersonic Planes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well now, nothing prevents the poor from getting a good education and becoming rich beyond measure: http://www.universityofnigeria.com

  12. Re:so much for science.... on More On Silent Supersonic Planes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yah and the two damn supersonic planes did nothing to frighten the poor little tortoise?

  13. Unix is God on Can GNU Ever Be Unix? · · Score: 1
    Linux is the son of God.

    Therefore Linux is God and consequently Linux == Unix.

    That would make perfect sense to 60% of Americans...

  14. Re:Account on TiVo Has to Fund Your Local Stadium · · Score: 1

    Well, if you use the same data everywhere, then you have not accomplished much. You have simply established a new identity that can be traced back to you. It may need a few nanoseconds of NSA processing time, or an hour of work by a PI, but doesn't buy you any privacy really, apart from maybe reducing spam a little bit. Think about it.

  15. Advertisements and Spam on Network Attacks Via DNS · · Score: 1

    are more of a problem than covert channels. Every cell phone is a covert channel out of a business. Since DNS can't be used to deliver advertisements, I don't see a business threat here. It may be a concern to a military installation though.

  16. Depends on Memory Card Torture Tests · · Score: 2, Interesting
    on where exactly you put that nail...

    Circuit boards are washed during manufacture in something closely resembling a dishwasher, using orange oil. Puting them through a home dish washer is nothing special.

  17. Re:Why is port knocking a good idea? on Combining Port Knocking With OS Fingerprinting · · Score: 1
    SSH uses TCP, so sending a UDP packet to open the TCP port would be great as an additional access control.

    I may be missing something, but port knocking sequences is just a silly waste of time as far as I can see - kinda amateurish actually.

  18. Re:So how long.... on Combining Port Knocking With OS Fingerprinting · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Install portsentry. Wait until corporate Nazi scanned your machine and got added to hosts.deny. Enjoy the freedom.

  19. Re:It's kinda cool on Combining Port Knocking With OS Fingerprinting · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I use portsentry for protection against scans. The result is that all my ISP scanners are now in hosts.deny and consequenlty I can run any server I want and they will never know and can't complain about it...

  20. Moviehouses don't charge on Guerrilla Drive-Ins · · Score: 1
    for movies either. Instead, they charge you $20 for popcorn and $10 for a drink.

    So, sit on your driveway, project against the garage door, sell 'I am an official friend of Joe SoapOpera' badges, pocorn and drinks... Hah!

  21. It doesn't get stolen? on Guerrilla Drive-Ins · · Score: 2, Funny

    This must be in Canada eh? Anywhere else the equipment will get stolen in the blink of an eye eh?

  22. Re:the UI is a pain on Automated Software QA/Testing? · · Score: 1

    Expect, autoexpect, Tcl/TK and Perl. With that combination you can even test GUIs, mouse and touch screen applications, but yes, it is a pain in the derrier...

  23. Autoexpect on Automated Software QA/Testing? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Expect and Perl.

    Expect is a Tcl thing, that is also a module in Perl.

    Autoexpect is a script generator of sorts for Expect.

    Using that combination, you can create a test harness that can also test things that were not designed to be tested, such as GUIs, Browsers, SSH and Password sessions.

    However, it is not easy and yes it works on Windoze too...

  24. Re:Uh-huh on Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 1
    Well now, I had all those pesky Javascript features disabled in the FF config menu and it still did it.

    I had to go and manually edit prefs.js adding some lines as suggested in other posts and even then the status bar still gets overloaded.

    Do you have any idea why?

    OK, I am running FF 9.1, but is this fixed in 9.2?

  25. Re:Holy Shit on Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try this, it mostly works:
    ./.mozilla/firefox/default.flc/prefs.js
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.locat ion", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.menub ar", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.minim izable", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.resiz able", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.scrol lbars", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.statu s", true);

    It is only the last line that seems to be buggy, since the status bar still gets overloaded.