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  1. Re:charity fund on Apple Upgrades Mac mini, Doesn't Tell Anybody · · Score: 1

    If you don't like the timelyness of the stories, submit more timely stories.

  2. Re:Why not update the video chipset? on Apple Upgrades Mac mini, Doesn't Tell Anybody · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because the 9200 is good enough for what the Mac Mini is intended for, and it's what they're tooled to produce, and it's what fits on their motherboard. To use a different video chipset they'd likely have to re-design the motherboard, re-do several layers of PCB mask, and re-program several robots. To add 32MB Vram they just have to put different chips in one slot. Similar changes apply for the faster CPU and drive.

  3. Re:What the Heck on Watch the First 9 Minutes of Serenity · · Score: 1

    No use... the player is a closed source java applet that aborts if run on Linux (Assuming you haven't made your applet player think it's on windows).

  4. Re:The Firefly TV episodes matter more on Watch the First 9 Minutes of Serenity · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend didn't have that problem.

  5. Re:UNSUPPORTED? on Watch the First 9 Minutes of Serenity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Never use their site again, and tell your friends to do likewise.

    They're using "video/vividas" type files, which appear to require their own applet to run, presumably for DRM purposes. DRM on marketing videos?? why??

  6. The beginning is good on Watch the First 9 Minutes of Serenity · · Score: 2, Informative

    It gave enough backstory for my girlfriend (who never saw the series) to know what was going on, and even covered some stuff I missed in the series (like the setting being one big solar system, not interstellar).

  7. Re:Somebody set us up the Innobase. on Oracle Acquires Innobase · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Narrator: In A.D. 2005, transaction was beginning.

    Captain: What happen ?
    Programmer: Somebody set up us the MySQL.
    Operator: We get signal.
    Captain: What !
    Operator: Main screen turn on.
    Captain: It's you !!
    MySQL: How are you gentlemen !!
    MySQL: All your money are belong to user 127.
    MySQL: You are on the way to destruction.
    Captain: What you say !!
    MySQL: You have no chance to ACID, make your backup.
    MySQL: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
    Operator: Captain !! *
    Captain: Take off every Table!!
    Captain: You know what you doing.
    Captain: Move Table.
    Captain: For great justice.
  8. MySQL ... considered an enterprise grade system. on MySQL To Be Ikea Of The Database Market · · Score: 1

    Right... Around this enterprise, we like strict ACID, Nested queries, Standard SQL syntax and semantics, and 24/7/365 availability. On mature systems, not the latest development release. Without having to carefully choose our table types.

  9. Re:No longer possible on MySQL To Be Ikea Of The Database Market · · Score: 1

    Actually, I built postgres on cygwin for a friend back in 1999 and even then it wasn't too bad (for his small database (~5000 products, ~300 customers)).

  10. Annother Teling quote on Microsoft to Ship New Malware Protection Utility · · Score: 5, Funny

    Client Protection's aim is to 'make sure people have fewer security products'

    Sounds like a monopoly practice to me.

  11. Re:Specifically on Schneier: Make Banks Responsible for Phishers · · Score: 1

    Which would require the phishers to have access to the victim's machine (ie a trojan), not just send them to a spoofed website.

  12. Specifically on Schneier: Make Banks Responsible for Phishers · · Score: 1

    Banks should require their users to have SSL Client Certificates

  13. thus exploiting a loophole in the GPL. on Nessus Closes Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or rather, using the GPL as it was intended, to prevent vendor lock-in.

  14. Re:Who needs SOAP? We've got CORBA!!! on Alan Cox Given Lifetime Achievement Award · · Score: 4, Funny

    In fact one of the .orgs does have soap.

  15. Re:Loopholes on CheckPoint Acquires Snort · · Score: 1

    Except having to chase down every person who ever submitted code, to ask for permission.

  16. Umm on CheckPoint Acquires Snort · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Since most attacks are based on known techniques, it can detect a lot of new attacks, such as anything that includes:
    (lots of nulls)

    const char * what = "/bin/sh";

    where: push what;
    push EXEC;
    call syscall;

    (some junk)
    &where
    On a whole lot of architectures, regardless of port. Which means it catches just about any stack-smashing attack that's not SSL encapsulated, regardless of service and whether it's known.
  17. Re:Why "Mock" on Japan Will Stage Mock Cyberattacks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They want to simulate attacks by a skilled and clandestine attacker, not the noisy fumbling of script kiddies, perhaps?

  18. Re:tin foil hats? Think not ... on Japan Will Stage Mock Cyberattacks · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    (The fact that Bush said that in June of 2003 and we're just now learning about it is telling.)

    You must not have been paying attention. This has been going on for about a decade. Or did you completely miss the fact that Yasser Arafat was president of the Palesinian Authority for several years before his death. Then there were new elections in Palestine, and the Israelis withdrew from the Gaza strip.

    If you're suprised, I suggest you pay a little more attention to international news, rather than conspiracy theorist sites like infoshop.

  19. Re:Gosh on MySQL Moves to Prime Time · · Score: 1

    But there is no marker out there that does not need ACID compliance, just those who don't know they need it.

  20. Re:I can think of a pretty big plus in the column. on MySQL Moves to Prime Time · · Score: 2, Informative

    Postgres isn't available on 80% of web hosting firms and 90% of off-the shelf web scripts (that require a DBMS). (I wish it was)

  21. Re:article text on When to Leave That First Tech Job · · Score: 1

    That's irrelevant to this discussion. I was replying to the assertion that "nuke plants don't explode". Chernobyl did.

  22. Re:article text on When to Leave That First Tech Job · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Oh, and nuke plants don't explode.
    Chernobyl !!!

    Relevant quote:
    On Saturday, April 26, 1986, at 1:23:58 a.m. local time, the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl power plant--known as Chernobyl-4--suffered a catastrophic steam explosion that resulted in a fire, a series of additional explosions, and a nuclear meltdown.
  23. Re:Service unavailable on When to Leave That First Tech Job · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Try looking in your bathroom.

  24. Too late on Linus's Baby Comes of Age · · Score: 1

    Someone else already started that flamewar.

  25. Re:Still not where i want it.. on Linus's Baby Comes of Age · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hint: PostgreSQL. If you play with proprietary vendors, you get proprietary vendor games.