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  1. Re:"The answer to that is yes" on Playing Nice: Reviews of CrossOver Office, WineX 4 · · Score: 1

    It works for about 30min, then I can expect it to crash at any time.

  2. Re:"The answer to that is yes" on Playing Nice: Reviews of CrossOver Office, WineX 4 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Star Trek: Armada, Star Wars: Force Commander, Star Wars: Rebellion. Games are also apps, and all three of these worked fine in 2k but will either crash or be unusable in XP. when my girlfriend upgraded to 2k, the print shop program that came with her printer wouldn't even install yet worked fine in 98.

    I'd have better examples but I just have windows for games now, but its pretty well documented that Windows backwards compatibility isn't always so backwards compatible.

  3. Re:pathetic on Night Goggles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ya but the guy working at the movie theater can finally feel like he looked cool wearing the night vision goggles.

  4. Re:Two words on Appeals Circuit Ruling: ISPs Can Read E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Wiretaps are hard to set up and they require someone to go out of their way to do it, phone messages aren't transmitted in a easily interceptable way like tcp traffic is and your also not relying on someone else to store your messages, on the other hand, I could have a perfectly innocent setup and read your mail. Lets say I'm running an ISP and have a mail server for my customers. This mail server is behind a firewall and on that firewall I'm running an IDS. That IDS will log all packets, and if its an e-mail message then it will also have that message, that cross those interfaces if they raise whatever flags I have in place to mark traffic as requiring attention. Even if the rules are too broad while I'm originally setting it up, I'm going to end up reading peoples messages.

    There are numerous ways that will allow others to see your e-mails, and some of them are perfectly legitimate. If you want it to be private on the Internet, encrypt it because otherwise its publicly viewable, and there are always going to be people who will view it whether its decided its illegal or not.

  5. Re:beware... on Mono Project Releases Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    My throat is killing me and I'm feeling lathargic. Myabe I need to see a doctor after all.

  6. Re:Two words on Appeals Circuit Ruling: ISPs Can Read E-Mail · · Score: 1

    I doubt you do since I don't have a credit card. Ignoring that fact, there's a good chance your company, or companies in similar situations do use that information.

    Not specifically the credit card number itself, that is a crime handled by a different law that doesn't care about how you got my card number, but by keeping a log of every product I purchased with that card and using that info to direct ads at me offering 'specials' on products I might be interested in based on my card activity.

  7. Re:Two words on Appeals Circuit Ruling: ISPs Can Read E-Mail · · Score: 3, Interesting

    E-Mail is less of a letter and closer to a postcard since a letter is sent sealed and a postcard is a message sent in the clear. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if a postcard was read by every person that it comes in contact with.

  8. Re:Two words on Appeals Circuit Ruling: ISPs Can Read E-Mail · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You mean that you can say with a straight face that you thought E-Mail was a private medium to begin with? Its sent plain text, through who knows how many intermediaries, then stored on a system you don't have control over. At any one of those points it could be read, even accidentally.

  9. Re:Apple intruding on MS's territory? on Apple Releases Rendezvous for Linux, Java, Windows · · Score: 1

    I'm using 6.0.8 pretty frequently here, where and how exactly can I put anything more then a b/w pattern on the desktop?

  10. Re:I have to admit on Metisse - New Looking Glass Alternative · · Score: 1

    This one wasn't made be Sun. Don't you know that every project that is done by someone with not attachment to a company, esp on that Slashdot doesn't like, is automatically better then a better one made by a for profit company.

  11. Re:exploder on Why Can't Microsoft be Sued Under the Lemon Law? · · Score: 1

    Everyone involved in the accident will sue you and you'll sue the cars manufacturer. Its America baby.

  12. Re:Active Directory on Mac OS X "Tiger" Server Previewed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Last time I saw it, v3.0.0, Samba was capable of being an AD member server, not a Domain controller, and I don't see on their site that that has changed.

  13. Re:ENIAC on a chip and a java applet - enjoy! on Herman Goldstine, ENIAC Developer, Dies at Age 90 · · Score: 1

    So this revolutionary system was replaced with a very small Java applet. He must be spinning in his grave.

  14. Re:Not New on School Teaches 'Ethical Hacking' · · Score: 1

    You might be able to strip down a CS course if your only interested in Administering systems, but wouldn't someone who is interested in Security related work require at least more then a working knowledge of all of the different parts of what makes up a Networked system from design to implementation so they could actually understand how these parts are conspiring to create an insecure environment? Its going to be the MCSE's of security, secure on paper but leaving a lot to be desired.

  15. Re:how... Bizzare on Reverse Graffiti · · Score: 1

    He's not being prosecuted for cleaning it, he's being prosecuted for only doing a half assed job. He cleaned some of it and just left the rest.

    You got mad at your mother when she told you off for telling you to clean your room and all you did was slide everything under your bed didn't you. You got in trouble then for half a job, he's getting in trouble now for half a job.

  16. Re:What the fuck? on How Should Games Be Analyzed? · · Score: 1

    What constitutes a better story? Better, worse, good, bad, ugly are all subjective descriptors. I will always 'analyze' a movie that bores me (Citizen Kane) to have a worse story then one that doesn't (for example Star Trek 6), and yet somehow Citizen Kane is universally supposed to be the 'Greatest Movie Ever Made.' Greatest is also subjective.

  17. Re:First Game: Pearl Harbor? on Digital Praise Takes Up Christian Gaming Cause · · Score: 2, Funny

    Historically accurate Crusades perhaps.

  18. Re:What the fuck? on How Should Games Be Analyzed? · · Score: 1

    How do you analyze something that is entirely subjective. I like Final Fantasy, i have fun playing them. I like Edvard Munch's The Scream, I like Gladiator, and I like (understatement) my girlfriend. There's no reason to it, I just like them. You can sit and analyze FF till your blue in the face and say it sucks, but thats only your opinion, its not an objective analysis. You can even say the story was weak, graphics look like they were made by a 3yr old and the music sounds like a strangled cat, but all that is is the reasons you didn't like it, and doesn't change what I think of it.

  19. Re:this just in. on EC Suspends Microsoft Sanctions Due to Appeal · · Score: 0, Troll

    You came here for an intelligent discussion on Microsoft? I feel sorry for you.

  20. Re:Better security is not a myth. on CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox · · Score: 1

    Yes it should have been 'successfully attacked,' or possibly compromised. The point is still valid if you can understand what he was talking about.

  21. Re:Personally, I thought differently... on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 0

    Congratulations, you are now a bona fide member of the unwashed, uninformed masses. The 'esteemed' Michael Moore made the whole Disney thing up.

    Eisner never said he was worried about loosing tax benefits, what he said was he was upset that Miramax made the film, and that was over a year before the release date.

  22. Re:You gotta fight for your right on Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fry: "Wow the Beastie Boys, a 1000 years ago i had all 5 of your albums."
    Mike D: "Ya but that was a 1000 years ago..."
    Adam Horovitz: "Now we have 7."

  23. Re:Y10k bug on Computer Pioneer Bob Bemer Dies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Only if you keep using outdated and poorly engineered OS's and hardware instead of Power Macs which are designed to handle dates through A.D. 29,940

    Disclaimer: Y2K was nothing but overblown crap reported on by the uninformed media, and I would not want to be in any way associated with it. I just found it funny that PPC Mac's handle such huge dates.

  24. Re:That Y2K thingy... on Computer Pioneer Bob Bemer Dies · · Score: 0, Troll

    If only we had, we wouldn't be living in this post apocalyptic world now, I'd be able to get on a plane and visit family, and my computer would still work.

    Yes I know that in the few cases that it mattered it was fixed, but Y2K was blown way out of proportion by everyone, including some very smart people, it just wasn't that big of a deal.

    He could be remembered for many things that directly contribute to systems we have now, but but this point, I would think that most people would like to distance themselves from those Y2K shenanigans.

  25. Re:How many clusters on Xgrid Agent for Unix · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could have a whole cluster on one machine, think of the performance and all the space you'd save.