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  1. Re:Credit Freeze = Relief on Credit Industry Opposes Anti-ID Theft Method · · Score: 1

    strange. I work in the UK and possess a UK security clearance and have a bad credit report... they just asked me to explain it and give details of the debts still owing and what I was doing. They were only worried if I was shifty about it or trying to hide that I was in trouble.

  2. Re:This is my single biggest push to free software on Vista is Watching You · · Score: 1
    is that a database of games that work correctly with Cedega? or is it just a list of games that people tried and had partial success. As I can't actually see any details there, I'm not sure what it is... At least the Wine database actually gives some indication of how successful people have been...

    As FS2004 is listed there, I may actually stump up for it... I doubt that the free version will work with FS2004 though as the full version has the proprietary disk reading stuff included so protection schemes can work with the original disks...

  3. Step 11... is where things get interesting on Cart Locking System Released as Open Source · · Score: 1

    we have hot geek girl acquired... sadly with face out of shot we cannot determine just HOW hot...

  4. Re:hacked in 3 seconds: on Cryptography To Frustrate Printer-Ink Piracy · · Score: 1

    what sale, they bundle the bloody things for "free" with the computers these days... "free Lexmark printer with your PC sir?" You get the bloody thing whether you want it or not and Joe average doesn't realise that he's been stitched up with a printer that guzzles ink

  5. Confused... about two aspects of that story. on Winnipeg Demands Immobilizers on High-Risk Cars · · Score: 1
    why is the city mandating immobilisers? Surely it's the job of the insurance companies to raise the premiums for those cars without immobilisers. Then it's up to the owner to either buy a car with one fitted, or else pay for one to be fitted himself and benefit from the reduced premiums.

    The city should NOT be getting involved... and why is there only one insurance company for that city anyway... that's weird. Is this some mandated monopoly and the others can't do business there?

  6. Re:An Insult? on Music Industry Attacks Free Prince CD · · Score: 1

    the staff of FOPP are mightily pissed off. They came to work today to find the stores shut and they haven't had this months wages paid either... fishy that, how the chain shuts just before the pay run... especially as the chain in question was actually profitable, just had bitten off more than it could chew buying up another chain... had a bit of cashflow problem and the bank called on them. Typical, I think the creditors can see more money in the bricks and mortar than in the actual business...

  7. Re:Google Desktop menu item on Google Desktop Now on Linux · · Score: 1

    You're lucky... on my KDE, it parked the menu entries in the Lost & Found section??? how weird is that?

  8. Re:what went wrong is on Desperately Seeking Xen · · Score: -1

    last I knew, you had to have a recompiled windows kernel to be able to run windows using Xen. Linux is easy on Xen, Windows is the problem

  9. what went wrong is on Desperately Seeking Xen · · Score: 1
    you can't run Windows using Xen as Microsoft won't let you recompile the windows kernel... and this ability of being able to run windows on Linux is one of the things Microsoft allows to be done with the blessed versions of Linux for corporate customers. Normal mortals can't do it and will never be able to do it.

    Personally, I don't give a flying fig about being able to run Windows or windows programs on Linux... there isn't anything I want to do on windows that I can't do on Linux... (note the emphasis, I find everything I need in Linux...)

  10. parent is not a troll...mods wake up on Microsoft Pays Bloggers to Tout MS Slogan · · Score: 2, Funny

    the parent comment is right on the money...

  11. People Ready??? on Microsoft Pays Bloggers to Tout MS Slogan · · Score: 1

    you mean it wasn't before??? or are they trying to say anything that's not Microsoft isn't

  12. it's a phone..... on The Perfect Phone Storm? · · Score: 1

    fer fecks sake... it's just a phone... not the second coming... I'm getting sick and tired of this iPhone mania...

  13. what about ripples? on Lunar Lens Takes A Step Forward · · Score: 1

    if they're spinning the mirror, then they're gonna need some serious engineering to produce a support that is vibration free.

  14. Re:Is it just me on EU Privacy Directive — Coming To the US? · · Score: 1

    don't forget the rennet used to make the cheese

  15. Re:Voice Changing Technology on Voice Chat Can Really Kill the Mood · · Score: 1

    quick, get that idea properly into the public domain or else patent it yourself... cos if you don't some bastard will...

  16. Re:yes, but... what's the server running? on Malware Pulls an "Italian Job" · · Score: 1

    and in replying to myself, the exploit hosting server is most likely running Linux to provide the PHP and MySQL... the servers that are hosting the infected frames could be anything...

  17. yes, but... what's the server running? on Malware Pulls an "Italian Job" · · Score: 1

    as far as I can tell from the pdf in TFA, the server side exploit package is relying on PHP and MySQL... so to me it generally indicates a Linux based server... although that isn't an actual given.

  18. Re:No... on Pressure Is On IBM To Forgive Millions In IT Debt · · Score: 1

    the different accounts need ring-fencing to prevent this. Money allocated for the "Books" account should have to be spent on books. If they haven't got different budgets/accounts, then they need to be set up and enforced.

  19. It's called a "Chilling Effect" on IFPI Threatens UK Academic For Linking To Article · · Score: 5, Informative

    see here

  20. Re:I would kill for one of those! on Hilarious Antique IT Advertisements · · Score: 1

    come off it... go and watch "Wargames" and see one of those briefcase things in action...

  21. Re:Does no one get it? on Nerdy Photo in Vista DVDs Thwarts Disk Pirates · · Score: 1

    the only acceptable "proof of license" is a purchase order & receipt in the company's name... physical media is not good enough. The stickers on the cases aren't good enough, you've got to keep the receipts for when the BSA kicks in the door and demands to audit you.

  22. Re:invasion of privacy on Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and that if this ruling were extended to things like SOX, a SOX-complying company would have to keep transaction logs or images of their RAM so that the state of the RAM at any point in the past could be accounted.

    oh please let it be so... that would show just how ridiculous it is... the sheer amount of disk space and processor cycles required to effectively record the state of RAM for enterprise servers would bring this whole stupid ruling crashing down...

  23. Re:What they want you to do is on Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM · · Score: 1

    time to start encrypting my RAM as well as my disks so it only exists as real data in the cpu registers themselves...

  24. What they want you to do is on Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM · · Score: 1

    log everything relevant to serving pages as it changes in RAM as it could be discoverable evidence... so even if you weren't logging it, they want you to log it anyway as the Judge believes that it had presence for a brief period so may be relevant evidence

  25. Imagine a long, rigid pole.. very long, very rigid on Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed · · Score: 1

    held in a vacuum and you're at the middle of the pole... (it's very, very long, say 100 miles long, and extremely rigid...)

    now start to turn it around the middle (not the long axis though... around the middle of it's length)

    keep turning and applying force to increase the rate of rotation...

    what happens to time for an ant that's on the pole and decides to walk towards one end of the pole (he's got good feet and doesn't slip)