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  1. No FAQ on .JNIP extension file on Java 4K Game Development Contest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For the uninitiated and clueless, there is no HOWTO or FAQ on how to run these Java program from Mozilla/Firefox or its mime action file.

    Just how does one go about getting JNIP file to execute from a 'single-click' standpoint of view?

    When one clicks on the website's 'Run Webstart', an open dialog box indicating that this JNIP file extension is identified as a 'Java Network Launched Application', but offers no executable for this...

    What is the correct executable for this?

  2. Searching GMAIL with Thunderbird/Enigmail on How To Enable Mom w/ Encrypted E-Mail? · · Score: 1

    Brilliant Idea!

    Since Gmail POP3 has already placed these messages on your local drive, these messages are available online (until deleted).

    Obviously, the next functionality that needs to be added is to put a search engine AFTER the decryptor using a cached-passphrase.

    This would not be a hard problem to solve. It won't be fast, but still work.

    We'll just have to inform the Thunderbird/Enigmail developer of this snazzy request!

    Thanks!

  3. Sault Ste. Marie vs. Tijuana on UK Cold War Era Nuclear War Plans Revealed · · Score: 1

    Having been to both places, I'll vouch for the fact US should have had an invasion (or Annexation) plan for Tijuana's Revolucion Ave district way back when it was needed most.

    Sault Ste. Marie... Gosh.. Neat, crisp town. Ever been to the Antler's Club? Burger any good nowaday?

    Tijuana, the dump.

  4. HTML does not belong in encrypted email payload. on How To Enable Mom w/ Encrypted E-Mail? · · Score: 1

    The fact that HTML in email does not work with Enigmail is just fine with me (and it should for 99% of the other encrypted email users).

    99% of email sent to me having HTML encoding is SPAM. About 3% of those emails have embedded URLs directing me to malicious websites trying to probe your computer for vulnerabilities or phish for your personal information.

    The very IDEA of encrypting email with embedded URL DEFIES the privacy concept. Ever hear of 1-bit embedded GIF images? Oh boy, what a great tracking device. How about those MANY IE exploits? Just a mere mention of ActiveX in email makes me shudder.

    As I've said over the last 8 years, F*CK this encrypted HTML shit. It doesn't belong in email payloads, particularly encrypted ones.

  5. GMAIL and Thunderbird/Enigmail on How To Enable Mom w/ Encrypted E-Mail? · · Score: 5, Informative

    To send email securely over your Google's gmail account, just configure Thunderbird mail account to retrieve gmail email using your Google POP3 account information.

    Thunderbird/Enigmail combo neatly address your privacy issues for both sending and receiving.

    With PGP/GnuPG perfect forward-secrecy protection, you can leave all your emails in your gmail account and not bother to delete them (EVER or until your GnuPG passphrase is compromised).

    Google deux-machination of trying to find AdWords in your email for their massive onslaught of advertisement campaign will come to a screeching halt when your gmail InBox contains nothing but psuedo-random data.

    Good riddance to invasive AdWords into your emails...

  6. GPG/PGP: Thunderbird and Enigmail on How To Enable Mom w/ Encrypted E-Mail? · · Score: 4, Informative
    Checkout Enigmail extension.

    Enigmail project website features are:

    • Encrypt/sign mail when sending, decrypt/authenticate received mail
    • Support for inline-PGP (RFC 2440) and PGP/MIME (RFC 3156)
    • Per-Account based encryption and signing defaults
    • Per-Recipient rules for automated key selection, and enabling/disabling encryption and signing
    • New: OpenPGP key management interface
    • Automatically encrypt attachments for inline PGP messages
    • Powerful GUI for easy configuration and management
    • User Preferences for advanced configuration
    • Integrated OpenPGP PhotoID Viewer
    • Supports OpenPGP key retrieval via proxy servers
    • Integrates with GnuPG
    • Works with the Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite, and Netcape 7.x mail clients
    • Supports Thunderbird's Multiple Identities feature
    • Available for: Windows / Mac OSX / Linux (x86-32, x86-64, SuSe, Debian, Mandrake PPC & x86 ) / UNIX (Solaris 8.0, *BSD i386)
    • Language Packs available for localisation

    Works for me!

  7. NSA SELinux on Linux in a Business - Got Root? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Install Gentoo NSA SElinux and whip up a policy to cover these pesky guys.

    After a month or two worth of feedback, the system should stablize to the point of giving it to the researcher what they want in an extremely restrictive manner.

    The time invested results in a secured system that behaves exactly as your policy dictacts AND still be giving out 'ROOT' liberally.

  8. No different than the... on Are Americans Addicted to Technology? · · Score: 1

    Japaneses, Koreans, Germans, Englishs, Aussies, French, Polish, Finnish, Swedes, Norwegians, Dutch, Flatlanders, Spaniards, Porteguese, Italians and God knows how many other countries that have dipped into the Internet.

    Leave me along and let me go back to my Crackberry.

    Sheesh!

  9. Re:It is agreed in all probability on Ingredients of Life Found Around Sun-Like Star · · Score: 1

    Yes... it's a brainfart of mine...

  10. It is agreed in all probability on Ingredients of Life Found Around Sun-Like Star · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'll point out the criteria to a successful adenine (a component of DNA) creation as I recall from various scientific sources (Intelligent Design not withstanding):

    1. Gravity of at least 0.4 G is a requirement (micro-gravity need not apply here as a recent ISS scientific experiement shown with regard to catalyst of acytelene/water/hydrogen under electric sparks/shocks)

    2. Swirling motions (tidal pool is nature's best liquid/air agitators)

    3. Minimal radiation (asinine will not remain cohesive for long under gamma bombardments)
            This means a heavy shielding must be in place, which means dense air and/or planet

    4. Lightning... the very most improbable of all aspect of the building block starter. It's gotta strike at the right place and the right time, preferably near the tidal pool.

    I'd gotta hand it to mother nature and God, we are one lucky fools on this unqiue planet, Earth.

  11. Too little, too late on AMUST eCondom for Internet Explorer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    With some 80-odd million IE end-users getting pounded daily and relentlessly by the wild red-light district (Internet), I doubt that such AMUST 'eCondom' would help prevent 'pregnancy' (worm/trojans) or 'infection' (spyware/malware/adware) in a timely manner.

    Using a non-Administrator account doesn't stop these vector attacks.

    Just use something that is highly-resistance to these inane cross-site scripting silliness.

          Firefox 1.5 with the following addins:
                NoScript
                FlashBlock
                AdBlock

    And, you will have better control over these phishing sites...

  12. Smoking out the enemy on Juniper Sues Message Board Posters · · Score: 1

    A typical General Sun-Tzu tactic.

    Identify your enemy by any means necessary.

    It'll cost Juniper a chink in their armor, but then they will be better equip and be on better grounds to deal with these 'maurading' posters.

    I just hope it doesn't entail financial ruins to the posters once this occurs (or worst, a bat-carrying thug).

  13. Wild wild Internet on No More Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    The GP meant to show that Legal route is a non-starter in a global-sense.

    With so many juris-dick-tion to contend with, it'll be a wonder if these multi-national coalitions can all agree on any one of the same thing.

    SO, yeah. Legal route works best within a nation. BUT.... Internet is not a nation, does not answer to any one law, but a loosely-knit form of a wild wild west.

  14. Cell Phones/Blackberry Woes too! on Are Web Pages Getting Larger? · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the club.

    It isn't just low-economy bandwidth ISP that is suffering this onslaught of dazzling eye-candies of HTML pages.

    Blackberries and java-enabled cell phones also face the same problem. But, there is a way as other postings have shown -- web proxy cache.

    One can defer uploading of images with a like-sized null (one-dot) image placeholder. These images, if the end-user desires, can be retrieved selectively. This is the BIGGEST bandwidth saver. Other is filtering of ad-contents.

    Otherwise, it's more sucking raw eggs through tiny straws for ya!

  15. WHEN did the FCC root for the lil' man? on Study Finds Regulation Good For Telecom Customers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With the long lines of lobbyists/corporate pundits going through the revolving doors of our dear Uncle Charlie (oh, that's old CB-talk for FCC),

    Only FCC accomplishments that I can peg is ... wait... I had it at the tip of my tongue... hold on... Had a couple of answers in mind a second ago. Dang.

    Never mind. FCC did squat for us lowly consumers.

    But if you can't name the 14 technologies that FCC did a rim-job for consumers, you're ain't no uber-geek.

  16. PC and EMI on A Workstation for Sensitive Experiments? · · Score: 1

    One of the easiest thing that a noise-analysis hobbyist can do is configure the PC BIOS.

    1. Spread-Spectrum is a MUST enable.
            aka Clock Spread Spectrum
            aka Spread Spectrum Modulation

    Other EMI-reduction methods are:

    2. Older and slower PC have better noise level (may conflict with DAQ adapter requirements)

    3. Underclocking as much as possible on higher Ghz CPU. I'd prefer older and slower CPUs.

    4. A GOOD Metal Case. Aluminum isn't worth crap (Slashdot also had a tin-foil hat story about aluminum's ineffectual shielding for USA passport's RFI). Added Copper then Iron/Steel foils around the case are best. Screened wires of very small apeture.

    5. Run shielded cables for IDE (80-wire 40-pin preferably); SCSI

    6. Turn off Ethernet adapter, USB 2.0, firewire.

    7. UPS is a god-send and king of AC spike filtering, use it with your PC.

    8. Monitor are the worst offender in EMI emanation. Use LCD panel and lowest refresh rate.

    Every little bit goes a LONG way to a nice quiet electronic lab.

  17. Extreme Minority here... on Space.com's Top 10 Space Movies of All Time · · Score: 1

    Silent Running...
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/

    A 1972 movie that really post a good story about an psycho pro-environmentalist drifting in space who actually used a nuclear device to destroy the last batch of ecosystem in our solar system.

    (I'm just a sucker for Oxymoronic type of space movie like Space Odessey 2001, anyone else?)

  18. WTF? Who are these so-called audience on Spike TV Video Game Award Winners · · Score: 3, Informative

    Often in Hollywood, TV game or talk shows hawkers give out free tickets on the street just to fill the seats. In MY first venture out to Hollywood with friends, we all got The Dating Game and watched. (I was even pulled aside afterward, asked to be on, then became a contestant as well; Aaaahhhhhh, my 15 minutes worth of fame - Thanks, Andy Warhol).

    Apparently, these so-called audience walked out because they are, in essense, Missy's fans.

    The fault lies within the ticket hawkers' (oh so) discriminating taste. Hell! Most of them are RTVF student interns from nearby campuses (UCLA, USC, Occidential, CSUN) learning the ropes of marketing, a'la Apprentice-style.

    Sheesh.

  19. Forget the business model, YouTube works.. on YouTube Receives $3.5M Funding from Sequoia · · Score: 1

    Here using Gentoo Linux distros, I manage to view this site as the most Linux-friendly, easy to categorize than most other video sites.

    One that caught my attention is the ability to teach oneself in how to dance. Now that is something...

    Glow Girl seems to have it licked doing what I thought was a pretty good rave dance...

  20. Like many other kids... on Eight Year Old Physics Student Admitted to College · · Score: 4, Informative

    he will grow up to be socially retarded.

    Many studies have shown that rushing kids through grade levels without adequate peers will result in socially developmental retardation and, in some cases, detoriation.

    Small price to pay to get the brain for the society as a whole.

  21. Nice but... on Economist's Take On Open Source Development · · Score: 3, Interesting
    As much as I'd like fostering software competitions, it still doesn't address the following issues:

    1. Software QA, particularly SW Security QA
    2. License type (GPL IV?)
    3. Interference by intra-politics meddling
    4. Posting encryption SW
    5. Control, who maintains it


  22. Patent Office is philosophically broke on USPTO Issues Provisional Storyline Patent · · Score: 3, Informative
    Check out the most frivolous and most obvious patents, such as

    1. 'how to swing on a swing set',
    2. Stamp moistener (with your tongue!!!),
    3. Towel with a neck loop,
    4. Light bulb changer, weighing over 100 lbs.,
    5. 6 duplicative patents on 'cat toys on a string attached to a stick'1,2,3,4,5,6,


    Many of the not so credible patents have inate and self-evident common senses that have been documented by Greek/Roman historians in B.C. times!

    This is not what us commoner had envision for our ideal patent system. Oh boy, Adam Smith must be hotly spinning in his grave!

    --
    Disclaimer - I, too, am a pending patent holder.
  23. Re:MSFT Privacy of Third Parties - Yeah, right.. on Microsoft Calls for National Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is an industry leader in terms of user privacy, ...

    Too bad, they couldn't go protecting our privacy when mobsters/crackers/l33th4x0r/spammers go injecting spyware, virus, trojans, and malwares which then go invading our Microsoft-certified and Microsoft-patched Windows operating systems which goes into a spell of lifting our credit cards, SSN and PII.

    How about spending a better part of your MSFT cash reserves on a better QA force to put some money where your corporate mouth is?

  24. Adds insult to the injury from Aggregation Attack on Identity Theft-What Can Really be Done w/o a SSN? · · Score: 1
    With aggregation attack, any Joe Blow with an Internet browswer can aggregate information (try the most dangerous free database offerer/offender; ZabaSearch.com).

    Given three sets of identity aggregate information:

    1. Zip Code
    2. Last Name
    3. birth date

    and you will have an EXCELLENT chance of nailing the person down.

    Then go over to any one of those paid people finder lookup and presto, SSN.

    Perfect recipe for identity theft (groan).

    Please see my Slashdot post in how best to solve this problem.

  25. Triad Support System (TSS) on Identity Theft-What Can Really be Done w/o a SSN? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The best conceptual system to replace SSN is the three-public key system.

    1. Initiator (consumer) public key
    2. Receiver (merchant) public key
    3. Arbitrator (government) public key

    Each and every entity above can revoke the key at any time.

    Merchant can revoke a transaction or deny a consumer (due to poor credit). Consumer can revoke identity if stolen with assurance it won't be used again ever. Arbitrator can authenticate/reject for both parties.

    Zero identity theft.

    This would require a smartcard that generates rotating public key protected by a PIN/fingerprint (I'm not big on biometric, but consumer ease of use is the key here).

    Significant technical hurdles remains with regard to "WHOM" process the public-private key verification as it takes CPU-time. Perhaps the smartcard has advanced enough to the point where it can sign the keys.