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  1. Oh no! on Tuning The Kernel With A Genetic Algorithm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this means Linux will be effected by genetical diseases sooner or later?

  2. Where are all the "In Soviet Russia..." jokes? on Bootlegged Music in Russia · · Score: 1

    like: In Soviet Russia copyright owns YOU! Where is /. heading to?

  3. Re:iPod and music piracy... on U2 iPod: Any Color You Want, As Long As It's Black · · Score: 2

    What about the market of people who rips his own regularly bought CDs and plays them on the iPod? Don't always try to blame a company. Also the iPod can be used to carry around any file!

  4. No problem with Safari. on Big Day For Browser Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    I tried that test too, i read other comments about safari, but my install had a strange behaviour (and that's in a good sense). The citybank site's tab didn't even create until i clicked OK on the Javascript dialog, that has always stayed on the test page.

  5. Re:I don't understand... on Can't Draw? You Need The Inkulator 9000. · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because is called Inkulator! I don't want to be inculato (that would mean butt-fucked in italian).

  6. Re:Regarding that brandname... on Can't Draw? You Need The Inkulator 9000. · · Score: 1

    Same in Italy.

  7. Re:the punchline on Lexar JumpDrive Password Scheme Cracked · · Score: 1

    Well if the jumpdrive can decrypt the password, it means that the other XOR factor is known and stored somewhere in it, else it couldn't be decrypted at all neither giving in input a right password.

  8. Re:So What? Google does the same and is normal! on MS admits Newsbot Biased Towards MSNBC · · Score: 1

    And you think that if it was, it would not do that? But is not something incorrect or amoral, we are bashing MS just because is MS, i'd like to see the posts if the topic was:

    Google News result lists always Google's article first.

    I imagine already the post saying that is normal, and that google is anyway their search engine of and news aggregator of choice! (well after /.)

  9. So What? Google does the same and is normal! on MS admits Newsbot Biased Towards MSNBC · · Score: 1

    I don't see anything strange here, really, where is the real news? I would do the same thing in their place, who wouldn't? Also google when you search for something and it happens to be listed also in google news, it put a link to google news as first result with a nice newspaper-icon on its left.

    I think they both are in right to do that and they would be stupid if they didn't.

  10. Re:Too much zealotry on Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    While XUL can't install spyware, it can really spoof the interface, if i didn't know that thing was i spoof i may have been fooled very easily. Also i don't get why you are all saying that the same thing can be done via gif's, that's not true, gif are images, change theme in the browser (or the whole OS) and they are useless, instead via XUL the same page looks with the right style on Windows, Linux and Mac and i guess it adapts to whatever theme is installed. Currently i don't know of any example of useful XUL through HTTP, i think there are more risks then benefits. Also, isn't XUL supported by Mozilla's family browsers?

  11. Too much zealotry on Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, this IS a bug, and a very nasty one, as the author of that page said, everything in that page can be made to work. With some Javascripts you could even identify which version of browser is running and adapt to it. I've been impressed by clicking on the pad lock. I don't think web pages should ever need to load XUL, this is bad design for me. I don't get how can you say that this is not a bug, that this can be done also in IE. Is not true! Those for IE are almost all just gifs and are very easy to notice. But wait, Mozilla loading XULs via HTTP:// without even popping-up an alert is a feature, IE loading ActiveX is..bad design! Why? At least ActiveX's CAN be useful! Please stay with your feet on the floor.

  12. Re:Where is an RFID placed? on RFID More Hackable Than Retailers Think? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the answer, i've never came across one of those things, you know, if this is happening now in the world, in Italy it will happen in 20 years, as usual. However with a bit of research one could find them, i'm glad of it eheh.

  13. Where is an RFID placed? on RFID More Hackable Than Retailers Think? · · Score: 1

    Really, is that sticked in the box, or what? Would be difficult to just throw it away after buying something? While i read these topics it looks like something that is embedded in the products that you can't take away. If it is sticked, wouldn't be enough to stick the RFID from a different product to cheat automated systems? I say this because in your examples you talk about t-shirts and what not, i don't think they can embed an electronic device on a tshirt

  14. I'd prefer turning a remote in an iPod on Turn your iPod into a Universal Remote · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok that's cool but when are you going to turn an universal remote controller in an iPod? THAT would impress me!

  15. I smell profit on Microsoft and Lindows Settle Trademark Case · · Score: 1

    Damn let's make a distro and call it Next Window. Microsoft will sue you, then settle giving you a lot of money. Ok i may be stupid but seems that anytime M$ sues and lose, they obtain anyway what they want by giving the winner lots of money. They should stop this attitude or being sued by M$ will become a job.

  16. Re:hey ! hacker ! on AOL-Yahoo-MSN Messaging Unified... in the Workplace Only · · Score: 1
    Root said (yes, that's his name)
    Hey ! That f***ing bast**d has an account on my computer ! And same on my friends' computers...what a powerful hacker he must be !

    Yeah and he must work for Microsoft! He doesn't have an account in *any* Windows box!
  17. Longhorn on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 1

    Has this something to do with Longhorn release?

  18. Re:No hard evidence here on Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010 · · Score: 1

    I think their strong part of marketshare is exactly the part using Win9x/NT. These products are around since a long time, and until they serve well, why switch?

  19. The problem is in both on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While surely this is a Windows bug, as is a normal procedure to pass to the OS the unknown protocols, Mozilla shouldn't really care of rtsp://, mirc://, and what not protocols. There are apps designed to handle that, and they register as helper apps for those protocols, so why Mozilla shouldn't trust them? How would Mozilla ever imagine there was a shell:// protocol? On the other hand it should probably do a white list of common protocols and issue a warning when clicking on an unknown one. If the user is just going to click OK on whatever he see, it becomes user's fault. The white list shouldn't be required, but it is in the moment you interact with components you don't know about. Think if they make a silent work registering for the URIs imaworm:// allowing attackers to do almost anything and the user wouldn't know if he doesn't see any significant slow-down, data loss, until they go on a malicious page. A browser shouldn't really whitelist anything more than http://, ftp://, rtsp:// and mailto. All the others should be user choices

  20. Re:Talk about RTFA and grabbing for straws on McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux · · Score: 1

    If you could tell us the reasons and the improvements you obtained by switching to Linux, this can be the next story.
    P.S: You must have switched to SuSE and glorify it. If you didn't, we'll invent it.

  21. Politic move? on McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are they trying to switch their image of capitalism and globalization front of linux's fellows? No probably not. I mean, we aren't that much. Is just that Linux is pretty popular in Germany? Yeah we are near... even governament in some cities uses that, (what that Munich?) Oh damn i got it! They are trying to become a governative institution and establishing their headquarter in germany! Just genious! And will come the day when the hambugers will eat us! Beware the Majonnese of the Damn Burgers is closer and closer! Save your childs and your women! And if you were wondering, yes, i'm idiot.

  22. My 0.02.. on Mandatory Banknote Detection Code? · · Score: 1

    Obviously more the piece is little and is more likely not to get caught. If someone pays me 500 i'll probably spend 5 minutes checking them, if i own a night club and someone gives me 10 i'm most likely not to see neither if there is Duffy Duck face on it. Not to talk about coins, but probably they would be more expensive to produce than the possible gain. This choice to implement a software protection is probably the smartest thing to do, as well as a strong pubblicitary campaign on how important is to check money because there are many fake bankonote. The thing is, if someone doesn't check the money i give then i can give him whatever is similar to euro. Color differences in euro's are already present, take some fresh 5 euro, and some other that passed in many hands. It will be much lighter, and may have ducktape on it. These bankonotes gets accepted. Is easier to stop the duplication than check for duplicates, because it relay on how much people is attentive.

  23. Re:And to help the Italians communicate.... on Rome Moving to Linux · · Score: 1

    Allora sei un minchione

  24. Re:Security on Earthlink Invests In Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 1

    Yes, but anyway, i stay in the hope the servers are well administrated, and hey catch waves in hair is easier than stay in the middle of a connection with a cable

  25. From one who lives in Rome... on Rome Moving to Linux · · Score: 1

    That's a great news, and im glad to see they are going to spend money in training, have you ever seen how people goes to work at such offices? they make everything like if they are robots themselves and if something breaks the routine is a drama. Also is funny, to see you fighting with Italian words...eh remember that Cristoforo Colombo was Italian.. Just people, dont be racist (as some post demonstrated) cause we dont have nothing to envy ;)