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  1. Re:Problems not just with the study... on MS-Funded Study Attacks GPL3 Draft Process · · Score: 1

    Talking to MS sales division won't help you in solving MS product bugs.

    Product licensing issues are not related to product fixes. There is nothing in GPL that has to shoved down your throat when you ask a question about GPLed software.

  2. Re:Pop-up blocker on Spyware Still Cheating Merchants · · Score: 1

    IE's internal pop-up blocker works fine too.
    Install shockwave. When it starts IE and pops setup window, say that you are younger than 1x. See the result. IE claims that popup is blocked, yet you get second window.
  3. Re:Do you want to PAY for that level of stupidity? on Symantec Updates Cause Chaos in China · · Score: 1

    But to not test against the core files of the operating system you KNOW they will be installed upon?
    All localized Windows versions? 33 MUI versions and 27 LIPs? Original XP, SP1, SP2 and other intermediate patched up versions?
  4. Re:dude on Russia Accused of Cyber-War Against Estonia · · Score: 1

    *sigh* And where did those millions of deported Baltic nationals come from? Even now, there are about 4 million people in all three of them; given the growth of population rate, we can safely assume that this number wasn't higher than 2 million in the 40s. So... how can you deport millions from a region where there are only two of them? Exaggerating all along, right?

    Today's Lithuania = 3.5 mln, Latvia = 2.2 mln, Estonia = 1.3 mln. 7 mln total. Rephrasing H.Grant - "these are small countries but they're great ones, too."

    More than one thousand, less than a million. Lots of people died in Siberia. Yes, I haven't checked exact numbers. But it does not change the fact that Russians had own version of holocaust in Siberia. You can't blame others for exterminating Jews and ignore the fact that NKVD exterminated Jews, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Ukrainians, German POWs and Russians. Mass murders are mass murders and it does not matter if you call them genocide or holocaust or deportation to Siberia or starvation to death.

  5. Re:dude on Russia Accused of Cyber-War Against Estonia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the French or Belgians started digging up American WWII cemetaries and moving them I'd be pretty pissed too. Lots of Russians died fighting the Germans in the Baltics in WWII and these countries aided and abetted the Nazis (including the holocaust). Size has nothing to do with the ability to be selfrightious so I don't see why size (or Germany in this case) has anything to do with it.

    Since you remind about holocaust, remember gulag. Millions of people from Baltic states died there. And deportations started one year before Germany attacked SSSR.

    Americans haven't occupied France and Belgium for 45 years. Russians haven't liberated Estonia. In 1944 Estonia one occupant was replaced by other. If Sadam's statue is erected in Kuwait, do people of Kuwait have to leave it in front of emir's palace after Iraqies are gone. Did Russians had to leave Stalin next to Lenin in Mausoleum after 1953.

  6. Re:reminds of on Russia Accused of Cyber-War Against Estonia · · Score: 1

    the trigger for them is that statue that estonia got rid of in tallinn, which russians probably view as thousands of dead soldiers in the defense of estonia from the nazis, and estonia being ungrateful, and estonians viewing as an example of soviet domination, and a symbol of the past cold war era, and russians trying to retain their dominance
    Don't confuse defense with attack. Memorial was unveiled in September 22, 1947. Russian Red Army entered Tallinn in September 22, 1944. These soldiers died not during defense of Tallinn in the beginning of WWII. They died when Russians fought with Germans in 1944. Russian call it "freeing of Estonia". Estonians call it "occupation of Estonia"
  7. Re:DMCA notice on Students Embarrass eBay With Firefox Add-On · · Score: 1

    in 3.. 2..
    Reverse engineering in order to provide interoperability is allowed by DMCA.
  8. gpureview on First R600 Review - The Radeon HD 2900XT · · Score: 1
  9. Re:NOT COOL. on IPv6 Flaw Could Greatly Amplify DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    Paul Vixie, president of the Internet Systems Consortium, described the fault bluntly. 'It can be exploited by any greedy Estonian teenager with a $300 Linux machine.'
    That roughly translates to "It's so easy, an Estonian can do it".

    If you compare Estonia with California, Californians like Paul Vixie have more chances to exploit it.

  10. Re:Update also makes IE 7 the default browser on Microsoft Patches 19 Flaws, 6 in Vista · · Score: 1

    Did they even QA this thing?
    Are you sure that resetting was not main purpose of the patch? :)
  11. Re:Not all open-source is the same on You Can Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source · · Score: 1

    If you oppose copyright, but can't do anything about the existence of copyright, you can at least put stuff into the public domain without allowing someone to wrap it up in copyright and resell it. That's basically all the GPL does, and I don't see any conflict there at all.

    GPL is protected with copyright laws. It is not public domain. Third party can add code to GPLed software and put own copyrights on it. But third party must follow GPL restrictions and original authors keep their copyrights on own code.

  12. Re:I/O prioritisation on The Completely Fair Scheduler · · Score: 1

    CPU power is fairly abundant these days so managing its usage is less of an issue than it used to be,
    Remember that when multiuser system starts choking due to unoptimized process handling code. Linux can run on setups that differ from your single user workstation.
  13. Re:Here's an idea: on Critical Security Hole in Linux Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    > Get rid of wifi cards (PCI as well as PCMCIA), and instead implement the wifi 'client' side with an ETHERNET jack to connect

    Linksys WET54
    SMC WEBT-G

    Main issue - it is external device. It is less useful than wireless adapter inside laptop or handheld.

  14. Re:I hope it was for the client list on Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion · · Score: 1

    DoubleClick's tracking cookies are the reason I block web ads.
    Then start blocking urchin cookies. Come with any site that uses google analytics. Are added with javascript and use site's domain instead of third party domain used in doubleclick. In some cases trackers use img tags instead of javascript.
  15. Re:Solution on The Coming Uranium Crisis · · Score: 2, Informative

    1/ Find a country with lots of uranium.
    Canada and Australia
  16. Re:All of this is very nice, but I did spot one th on Dell Refunds Vista/Works With Two Emails · · Score: 1

    Recovery partition is a waste of space. Especially on laptops. OEMs (IBM ThinkPads included) that setup recovery partition, usually refuse to provide standard recovery cds or install media. If disk breaks, you lose both partitions.

  17. Re:The IEEE are as bad on MIT Drops DRM-Laden Journal Subscription · · Score: 1

    Richard Stallman urges a boycott of them. The article he links to from his website is: http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html
    RMS == DJB
  18. Re:Phishing just got a lot more interesting on International URLs Pass First Test · · Score: 1

    Rubbish. Since when does a question mark look like an 'a'?
    Slashdot uses ISO-8859-1. html entities are not supported. You can't write Cyrillic characters on slashdot.org.
  19. Re:Gotta agree with the Opera guy on Microsoft XML Fast-Tracked Despite Complaints · · Score: 1

    Opera person is Håkon Wium Lie

    I think some other person explained that html and css don't provide required document layout controls. They are designed for display and not for publication. Can't find a link.

  20. Re:Dropping MS office for the Mac could.. on Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple · · Score: 1

    Your commercial script was edited in Microsoft Word. You forgot to mention that all pcs are in other room and mac is not allowed to enter that room, because the guy from obscurity department is blocking the door.

    other version

  21. Re:Don't worry on Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight · · Score: 1

    Eurofighter Typhoon is a strike fighter. Closer to MIG 1.44 and F-35. Lower price tag, easier to produce in large quantities. Loaded weight - 15 tons. Designed to attack other ground targets.

    Su-30M and F-22 are air superiority fighters. Loaded weight - 25 tons. Designed to eliminate enemy fighters.

    I am not flight engineer, but Eurofighter's specs can't match F-22.

  22. Re:Don't worry on Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight · · Score: 1

    You are comparing fourth generation fighters with fifth generation fighter. F-22 is designed to replace F-15, so should be better than F-15 Eagle.

    You should compare it with Su-30M or Su-47.

  23. Re:If Microsoft is smart ... on Mr. Ballmer, Show Us the Code · · Score: 1

    ... they'll reveal one patent violation (assuming there is at least 1)

    If Microsoft reveals patent violation, people will know what to look for. It is possible that patent is too broad or unenforceable or there are similar patents in IBM, Redhat or other Linux company's patent portfolios. Evidence and FUD are incompatible things.

    Last time SCO showed violating code in Windings font, others explained that code does not infringe any copyrights and even does not belong to SCO.

  24. Re:mail is broken on 5 Things the Boss Should Know About Spam Fighting · · Score: 1

    I think email (as in RFC822, etc) is doomed. The protocol is broken.

    RFC822 (Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messsages) does not define the way messages are transfered. rfc822 might be outdated, but we still have rfcs 2045-2048 and 2822.

    I think you are talking about rfc821 (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).

  25. Re:Chinese hacked DoD Network on Chinese Hack Attacks on DoD Networks Coordinated · · Score: 1

    > tried logging one password

    tried one password