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  1. Re:My 10 Year Old Son on Mozilla Usage Doubles in 9 Months · · Score: -1, Troll

    How about not breaking up families as "progress".

    Once you fix your family, THEN you can fuck around with software. Not before.

  2. Re:Spy ware and SP1 on Last Words On Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    ++Yes, I do use a Linux-based desktop system, with no VMware crud

    --Blashpemer!! VMware is not crud! VMware is one of the greatest programs I have ever used!

    I consider it crud cause if I need windows, Ill use it. Not 'emulated', mind you ;P

    --You may not have need for it but that doesn't make it crud...

    Crud = large insane amount of money to "run". Im kinda poor. I use Linux and a schol version of Windows. Most of the stuff I use to do "work" is free, or I already had that from school subsudising.

    --back on topic; as for the lack of egress filtering, you could always run SP2 inside a virtual machine and use iptables...overkill? what overkill?

    Heheheh, you're also talking to the guy who ran, recursivly, mind you, LinuxVM inside each other ad absurdum. It crashed after 1000 Linux OS 'spawns'.

  3. Re:My List on Essential Software for Thumbdrives? · · Score: 2, Informative

    UNIX/Windows Text editor
    Hex editor
    Grep
    A decent dictionary file
    My resume (backups of course ;-)
    Manuals of common equipment-or addons to equipment you know you work on
    PDF reader
    Semi-common Wi-Fi drivers (hate to not be able to network computers)

  4. This starwars.. on Made for TV Ewok Movies to be Released on DVD · · Score: 1

    Crap has gone out of control.

    It was neat in the 70's.
    It was sorta neat in the 80's..
    It was brought back in the 90's. It sucked.

    And now, there's "Boxed Set", "Super Boxed Set", "Collecters Edition Boxed Set", "Totally Unrealesed Super Boxed Set" as nauseum.

    Go read something, like Asimov's Foundatations trilogy, or some other Sci-fi.

    This shit isnt sci-fi... More like populist vomit people watch.

  5. Re:CPU Driver Problem? on Last Words On Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    Weird ;P

    So, I guess it seems to be a increased instruction set, or extra registers to diddle.

    Still, it screams of ACPI, but oh well.

    Thanks for the posting of it though.

  6. Re:CPU Driver Problem? on Last Words On Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    ACPI takes care of that...

    So is that a ACPI-firmware bus driver? As a driver tells a CPU how something is done. It seems rather unweildy for a software 'driver' to tell the CPU how to control itself.

  7. Re:Spy ware and SP1 on Last Words On Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    What do they do with people running in Linux?

    Yes, I do use a Linux-based desktop system, with no VMware crud. Just occasional Wine for the few programs that I require.

  8. Re:It's free.. on Mozilla.org Relaunched · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I get -1'ed for it. It's a new fucking template.

  9. It's free.. on Mozilla.org Relaunched · · Score: 0

    How'd they relaunch? Change HTML code?

    Big whoop

  10. Re:OT-Gmail invites on Googling Behind China's Great Firewall · · Score: 1

    Thanks a bunch ;) I now have a GMail acct..

    Btw, I took the last one..for whom it matters.

  11. Re:Here's another. on The Giants of Anime are Coming · · Score: 0, Troll

    That dude(ette) is sick.

    Like "I ned to go to Bellvewe" sick.

    Better yet, I can shoot it. Guns are good for putting sick things out of their (OUR) misery.

  12. Re:Blame the Press on The Technology Hype Cycle · · Score: 1

    Something revolutionary...

    This thing has started in the 70's.
    Colleges were on it from the 80's.
    Early 90's it was still fairly private, until..
    They opened it up to public use.

    Now, mail travels through it, voice and pictures travel through it..

    No, all our information travels through it.

    It is the Internet. That is revolutionary.

  13. I know of a .... on Multicast Imaging for Mac OS X? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..Hick High school that does everything "multicast"....

    Their whole network is BNC longhauls and 10bt to every computer. They thought hubs were "better" cause they were cheaper. They have 1 collision domain...and the network is real easy to "Snoop".

    Quite sad....

  14. Re:Grrrr.... on XM Radio Pulls PC Hardware · · Score: 1

    Bbbrrrwoong! FairPlay has not been "hacked" if you count using your private key to decrypt to an unencrypted song.

    I consider the Apple Guy to be deficient as to not let you decrypt songs.

    Break the encryption, and Ill be impressed.

  15. Re:Still availible here... on XM Radio Pulls PC Hardware · · Score: 1

    Then hack the local javascript blocking such. Make em think that its a normal transaction.

  16. Re:BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! on Windows Not Expected Secure Until 2011, Says MS · · Score: 1

    Finally, someone versed in Messianic texts.

    Th Pentarch (first 5 books of the Old Testament) are the same for all 3 major religions. It is afterwards that is different.

    Though, one mistake you made is the Koran does not speficy WHICH son. It's been known that Jews and Christans accepted Issac, so Islam chose Ishmael instead.

    The most interesting part of history between Ishmael and Issac is in the Jew's bible. Both of the brothers have feuded since they knew each other.. But once Abraham died, they met back together, realising that their petty war of who was "the one" was meaningless.

  17. Re:It's not fricken' hard on Absentee Ballots by Email? · · Score: 1

    ---Here they don't. I've been in other states where they're actually (according to the poll worker at the time) not allowed to ask for ID. She began to panic when I pulled out my driver's license and tried to show it to her.

    Aye aye aye.... Actually where I vote is just outside of a medium-sized town in Indiana. There was some problem with fradulent votes, so they ask for ID. Mind you, they dont supervise your vote unless you ask for it (some are afraid of technology).

    There is 2 places they ask for ID. One's a voluntary log of who votes, for public record. The second has a list of all valid voters in the precinct. They want a photo-ID. You flash them the ID, youre authorized to vote once. Pretty simple.

  18. Re:Of course this does not violate the GPL... on Does Shareware X-Chat for Windows Violate the GPL? · · Score: 1

    The GPL also states no extra stipulations are to be included on theS ource Package.

    So, if you bought the Xchat with *now fictional* windows source code, you could plop it on a webpage and give it free.

  19. Re:It's not fricken' hard on Absentee Ballots by Email? · · Score: 1

    >>>For the sake of the above groups (and other reasons) absentee ballots are a neccessary evil. If you want something to really bitch about, try asking why no one asks for ID at the polls. This is almost certainly responsible for more voter fraud than the drop in the bucket absentee voting.

    Where I vote, this IS the case. The voting machines are mechanical-light-up-name-who-you-vote-for with a crunchy sound(paper) once you vote. Once a vote's been done, it refuses to go firther until the person with a key clicks the key in the socket.

    At this place, they DO ask for ID's to make sure you do only get 1 vote.

  20. Re:Email voting could work, but not this way. on Absentee Ballots by Email? · · Score: 1

    Yes, youre right...

    But say there's 50 people going to vote. Each use their card when they vote, BUT the software just puts the smartcard data in a 'pile' along with the rest of that 50.

    The 50 smartcard data's along with vote are sent (pick your xmission scheme). The smartcard's prove identity of WHO voted, but not what votes were each.

    Be aware, tat with would work better for 100 or more, as it gives a 'less chance' of being found who you voted for.

  21. Re:Don't forget nmap on How Can Companies Profit While Giving Code Away? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Way I look at this is GOOD. However some of the socialists here will probably believe otherwise.

    -Insecure gives out program to scan networks with multiple methods.
    -Hacker types either trying to secure, or breaking security, use the tool
    -When tool breaks, they report bugs ...time passes...
    -Bigger companies realise that this tool would save X thousand hours of work and debugging
    -Big company pays insecure to use said tool in closed project. Insecure gets paid big bucks
    -Because Insecure now has income, they can MAINTAIN development on tool, nearly guaranteeing stability

    Who wins? If you hate profit, the 'people' have lost. If youre glad to see such a good product stay free, everybody has won.

  22. Re:I'd bet on the Higgs Boson on Odds-on Science · · Score: 1

    When the new supercollider in Europe is built, they will find it. And a few more different particles.

    I bet gravity will be found soon to follow.

  23. Re:Why ReiserFS is worth using on Reiser4 Filesystem Released · · Score: 1

    Oh well..

    ALl I know when I was playing with a new filesystem (reiserFS), things went well. I ususally used good ol' EXT2 for my server. I had no reason to play around with it, but the hd died, so I had to re-animate it.

    I did have the idiotic problems like not adding support for my FS (whoops ;), but all was well, after that.

    A few months later, the box starts making continual HD noises while im using the machine (xfering a mpeg). Windows waits forever with the copying dialog. I hop over to the server to see what happened. / is ok.. /home is ok.. /usr is now a file, not a directory ;(

    Well, I hopped up on the web to see what in the heck this was. Then I found out that the older slackware used the buggy ReiserFS version that when 2 unique ID's collide, things go "boom".

    As of now though, I have a *fixed* version of reiserFS. It's been on there happily for about a year now.

  24. Re:First.. on Best Buy Sued By Ohio · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Perhaps youve never seen the "bouncers" stop certain individuals from coming in. Ive seen it firsthand in Greenwood, Indiana (just a bit south of indianapolis).

    If thats the definition of "firing customers", then it does happen.

  25. First.. on Best Buy Sued By Ohio · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Firing customers", and now this?

    Doesnt look too good for The Yellow Tag.