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  1. Re:Wow, thats crazy on Fl. County Halts FTTP Until Installation Is Safer · · Score: 1

    Ugh.. fibre along airborn telephone lines?
    I doubt this would be a viable solution. Not here in sweden at least. There's a reason why you put things underground.

    With interference, did you mayhaps mean electornic interference or pure bruteforce? You know, fibre is probably the kind of cabling least suspectable for interferance from electrical devices or cabling.

    However, brute force is another matter.. it's hell of a lot more expensive to repair fibre then telephone-lines or powerlines.

    Everyear, thousands of incidents with trees falling over telephonelines and other problems. It's expensive enough as it is with telephone, but adding fibre to it..

  2. Re:Hopefully on The Future of Star Wars Gaming · · Score: 1

    Isn't battlefront that battlefield clone?
    It's got the same kind of gamerules, capture flags and watch your enemies points drop... but yet horribly unbalanced and badly designed maps?

    And if I'm not right, it wasn't even made by LucasArts which made most of the other Star Wars games was it? A licence product.

  3. Re:Lenses on Megapixel Cameraphones Compared · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fecking 300£ every year for the latest cellphone? Hell no. I'm happy with my Nokia 6110. It does what it's supposed to do, make calls. Send SMS and eventually even have softwarecrashes. Just like the new cellphones (appart from the camerafunction) just less flashy.

  4. Horribly unscientific? on Megapixel Cameraphones Compared · · Score: 0

    Sometimes it's simply just better to use the cellphone cameras like they are supposed to be used? Simply, take photos.

    Still, I'd probably prefere a normal camera over a cellphone with camera-function bundled.

  5. Result from validator.w3.org on www.shadowcrew.com on Massive Online ID Fraud Ring Busted · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!

    Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.

    1.

    Line 1, column 0: no document type declaration; implying ""

    The checked page did not contain a document type ("DOCTYPE") declaration. The Validator has tried to validate with the HTML 4.01 Transitional DTD, but this is quite likely to be incorrect and will generate a large number of incorrect error messages. It is highly recommended that you insert the proper DOCTYPE declaration in your document -- instructions for doing this are given above -- and it is necessary to have this declaration before the page can be declared to be valid.

    2.

    Line 4, column 6: end tag for "HEAD" which is not finished

    Most likely, You nested tags and closed them in the wrong order. For example

    ...

    is not acceptable, as must be closed before

    . Acceptable nesting is:

    ...



    Another possibility is that you used an element (e.g. 'ul') which requires a child element (e.g. 'li') that you did not include. Hence the parent element is "not finished", not complete.

    3.

    Line 4, column 13: end tag for "HTML" which is not finished

    At least I would've thought they'd manage to get this done right!
  6. CNN headlines.. on U.S. Declares War on Intellectual Property Theft · · Score: 3, Funny

    "War on Intellectual Property Theft: Criminal raided, found hiding in the basement of an american family."

  7. Re:amazing on The Goggles, They Do Nothing · · Score: 1

    Say.. how many actually tried this (even if it's obviously silly and can hardly be called art)? ;)

  8. Re:global warming on Ozone Hole Getting Smaller · · Score: 1

    The ozone layer doesn't have that big impact on global warming. The biggest impact on global warming is actually water steam and water particles in our athmosphere keeping the heat from disipating into space. Old news.. but the released CO2 caused by humans will shift this balance, thus is why CO2 is often the gas we blame the most for globalwarming..

  9. Carryable! on Review: Juvenile Felis Catus · · Score: 2, Funny

    An alternative to carrying the cat in a bag: LAN Gear for kittens ;)

  10. Pff.. They're talking about 14 days? on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about the 5min average slashdot fix?

  11. Re:Servers? on Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only · · Score: 1

    Well, It wouldn't be that grand to use your department Windows 2000 server as surfstation..

    But I realise that there are probably some functions which are affected by safety-faults in IE.. after-all, it's such an "intergrated" part of windows.

  12. Re:disappointed in US government on Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast? · · Score: 1

    The solution to USA's problem in finding Usama Bin Laden:

    Declare Usama Bin Laden irretrivably lost, then just wait till the hobbyist goes out with a geigermeter and a GPS to find him.

  13. Re:lol... on Genesis: Data in good condition · · Score: 1

    Actually, they had three backup explosives which were supposed to go off. But none of the three succeded.

    Another parachute and another 3 explosives would've added a lot to the weight. (someone fill me in of the calculated cost per kilo)

  14. Re:Imagine the sight.. on "E-Jihad" Exaggerated by Russian Media Spin · · Score: 1

    You mean.. the day of the living dead?

  15. Redundant? Probably.. on Olympians Banned From Blogging · · Score: 1

    I don't really care about the olympics and I don't watch it.

    Actually, I _hope_ there are others then me who has mentioned that they don't watch the olympics.

    In 1994 when I was a child I thought the Olympics were about sportsmanship and having fun. Uniting the world during a few weeks of sports.. etc. At least that was what the guy who held the introduction speech said.. silly me.

    2004, 10 years later, I'm not a child anymore, (I've tried to remain a child at heart) and I don't find the olympics interesting anymore. The olympics to me, aren't what the guy who hold the speech says. All I hear these days during the speech is "profit profit profit".

    I'd rather go watch the local non-profit soccer club play at the local field.

  16. Re:Be sure to watch the videos. on Using a 747 to Fight Wildfires · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, don't worry about bandwidth.
    They deliver the videos to your doorstep!

  17. Re:On Xbox's lack of success in Japan on Video Games - Lost in Translation? · · Score: 1

    I still like the ability to be able to run everything and the kitchen-sink on the Xbox..
    Thank you, Microsoft for the free copy of Mechassault(TM) you gave the linux-techie at the XBOX LIVE release-party in Sweden :)

  18. Re:Why am I reminded of that scene... on OO.org Selects Its Own Sea Bird · · Score: 1

    mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine

    (Watch finding nemo and you'll understand :) )

    It's a nice mascot, however as people have pointed out it's for the ooEDU project. I'm all in for sea-gulls. ;)

  19. emigration.. on U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime Treaty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the past people immigrated to the country of the free (USA) to gain true freedom, democracy and basic human rights. When those rights have been removed to increase the profit of corporation US. Will people move to Norway? No EU, no cyber treaty and they've also got their own oil! What else is there to ask for?

  20. Re:Real counting? on Diebold Fails Again in San Diego · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I suppose that turning things digital isn't always the best solution. These kind of issues proves that fact.

  21. Real counting? on Diebold Fails Again in San Diego · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I hope they fix all these issues in time, before those votes count for real...
    There won't be any software-fixes for a flawed political-system!

  22. Re:sheesh on Control-Alt-Recycle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IT-Charity may be tough, At least here in sweden. Having had some previous experience where we tried to donate some of our computers to a local school (not that old computer parts) they refused our offers even though they were in great need of the devices. The problem that came up was actually with taxing where the school'd have to pay. The result was that it was more cost-efficient to simply get new machines and reject the gift-offer and for us to trash those machines.

    Working at a state-department has also given me a nice view on how things are, trashed over 20 perfectly fine 21" monitors just cause they were "too big", "CRT", "few years on the neck". Nowdays those office-clerks want LCD-monitors , not some old 21" Nokian monster.

  23. Re:Similar experience on How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer · · Score: 0

    Yes, but most of these software cost a lot of money. I wonder if there are any opensource-alternatives.

  24. Similar experience on How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't think that the only problem for internet-cafes are the customers who run "illegal" software, but also the security-policies of the cafes themselves. If policies are not enforced lots can happen before someone takes action.

    I'm currently a part-time employee at a Swedish Internet-cafe where I work as a system admin. I've previously only been taking care of the Linux systems which we run for sponsored websites and gameservers but have recently been forced to take over the work of our late Windows-loving administrator.

    He had the responsibility to maintain our firewall (WatchGuard), our active-directory Windows2000 server (user-database and login) and the exchange system, aswell as other system as the check-in/out machine. These tasks has now forcedly fallen onto me as this previous admin has been removed from further duties. Perhaps he had too much on his hands or he simply didn't care, but lots of security-policies were not enforced which could have saved me lots of trouble.

    Anyhow, recently I began getting calls from an employee at a university here in sweden who told me that spam were originating from our mail.domain.se machine, after doing some further checks I noticed the e-mails were infact being sent from a software disguised as "nortonav.exe" on one of our game-machines. Acting as a spam-daemon. The first thing I did when I had recieved the password for the firewall was to block all smtp-traffic except for the trusted exchange and shutdown this terminal. I've set-up a series of security policies as well as tried to teach the cafe-staff some security-values as in maintaining the antivirus/adware-awarity. Would there be other good countermeasures to take?

    Some of the firewall-blocking:
    03/31/04 19:05 firewalld[159]: deny out eth1:0 48 tcp 20 128 192.168.0.102 64.236.62.131 4697 25 syn (SMTP)
    03/31/04 19:05 firewalld[159]: deny out eth1:0 48 tcp 20 128 192.168.0.102 64.4.50.99 4696 25 syn (SMTP)
    03/31/04 19:05 firewalld[159]: deny out eth1:0 48 tcp 20 128 192.168.0.162 200.208.9.162 3525 25 syn (SMTP)
    03/31/04 19:05 firewalld[159]: deny out eth1:0 48 tcp 20 128 192.168.0.162 213.212.42.30 3524 25 syn (SMTP)

    It may be just me who has had bad experience with all administrators at companies I've worked at, who only see Windows as the only option but is it more common for these kind of people to ignore security?

  25. Re:Behold the power of the Simputer on Simputer Available? · · Score: 0

    I guess they were actually running the site on a simputer then?