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  1. Re:I'm an ex-member. Here's why. on Joining the ACLU? · · Score: 1
    Me Too!

    Donating to the ACLU opened the floodgates for a very large number of left leaning organizations to flood my mailbox with dead tree spam. If I ever feel the need to donate to the ACLU again it's going to be done in cash or under a false name.

  2. Rum or Vodka on Getting Back Into Shape While At The Office? · · Score: 1
    I know it's real bad in my office, especially with all the beer I consume.
    A simple switch to drinking your liquor straight will be a real help to you in your fight against the expanding waistline.

    Many people wait until the conclusion of the working day before they indulge. If this is a situation amenable to you, Scotch on the Rocks or Gin and Tonic will fit the bill nicely. If however, you are going to insist on drinking at the office you are probably going to be better served to drink either vodka or rum from a hip flask. The odor from these liquors is somewhat less than that from other liquors or beer. Drinks that require tequila or a blender (or both) for preparation are probably unsuited to the office environment.

    Dry red wine is also fairly low in calories and is reputed to have assorted other health benefits.

  3. Re:It's perfectly secure on How Reliable is 900Mhz Wireless Internet? · · Score: 1

    WEP isn't for protecting data. It's for giving the war driving script kiddies a reason to use my neighbor's wireless network instead of mine. Wireless security is a race to the bottom and as long as you aren't running downhill as fast as the rest you're pretty safe.

  4. Re:Excuse Me, But Prior Art on The New Yorker on Business Process Patents · · Score: 1

    And a one click shopping patent ought to have prior art from keeping your customer's billing and shipping information in a rolodex, but that doesn't make it so.

  5. Re:802.1x Has Been Cracked on Are You Using 802.1X? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The only credible attack in that paper was a DOS attack. A properly configured system would be able to avoid the man in the middle and session hijacking attacks described there. DOS probably isn't a really huge problem with low power wireless since it will be pretty easy to locate the attacker.

  6. Re:middle-wheel click to scroll on Netscape 7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    It's the 6th one down. Autoscroll works fine in Firebird, I assume that it'll work fine in the other Mozilla variants as well.

  7. Re:Are there even that many lines of code? on SCO Terminates IBM's Unix License · · Score: 1

    xargs is cool. I hadn't know about that command before. Thanks.

  8. Re:Are there even that many lines of code? on SCO Terminates IBM's Unix License · · Score: 1
    Ok. Here's a way that it could be done:
    cd /usr/src/linux
    sum=0
    for F in `find -iname *.c`;do i=`wc -l $F|awk '{print $1}';\
    `sum=`echo $i '+' $sum|bc`;done;echo $sum
    Didn't turn out to be as bad as I thought it might, but my first thought for solving the problem of making a total of a column of numbers was to use a spreadsheet and Excel was the one I happened to have handy.

    FWIW, if we were to repeat that command above with *.h substituted for *.c then we get a grand total of 4,651,647.

  9. Re:Are there even that many lines of code? on SCO Terminates IBM's Unix License · · Score: 1
    More seriously now, why on Earth would you use Excel to count the number of lines? Especially when you have a Linux command prompt.
    Because I wasn't counting lines, I was totaling a column of numbers.
    head lines.txt
    355 ./fs/xattr.c
    869 ./fs/super.c
    651 ./fs/pipe.c
    903 ./fs/open.c
    1070 ./fs/namespace.c
    2044 ./fs/namei.c
    2028 ./fs/locks.c
    937 ./fs/jfs/xattr.c
    43 ./fs/jfs/symlink.c
    510 ./fs/jfs/super.c
    I suppose the I could have used some nasty pipe of awk and bc to get the total of the numbers in the first column, but I had excel handy and it only took 2 clicks to get it that way.
  10. Re:Are there even that many lines of code? on SCO Terminates IBM's Unix License · · Score: 1

    cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-rc1-ac4/
    for F in `find -iname *.c`;wc -l $F; done > ~/lines.txt
    scp lines.txt windows:

    a quick import into Excel says that the sum of column B is 3,629,673. The overall codebase is going to include a lot of .h and other source files that I didn't even count. Anyway, it's a lot of code.

  11. Re:It's amazing! on Chicken Run · · Score: 1

    Dude, don't say pigfucker in front of Jesus!

  12. Re:Wiring a house for media.. on Best Options for a Home Entertainment Network? · · Score: 1

    Computer sound cards are usually not made with the best possible D/A converters. It is possible to buy good sound cards which will output a good clean line level signal that you can then send to your receiver/amplifier, but they cost more. You might as well save a few bucks and make use of the better quality D/A converter you already have in your receiver since you need to use the amplifier in your receiver anyway.

  13. df bry on Why is Everyone Still Stuck in QWERTY? · · Score: 1

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  14. Re:The MS product is... on Microsoft: We Make Hackers Obsolete · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Unless the faked login screen read kdmrc. That would be pretty damn easy since to source code for parsing that partiular file is readily avaliable.

  15. Re:Common Sense. on Al Gore Joins Apple's Board Of Directors · · Score: 1

    This snopes article explains it pretty well. Basically he did work on some legislation that helped the internet have a big boom in the '90s, but saying "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" is still quite a stretch.

  16. Re:as in... on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 1

    True enough, but noone in the US would ever Hoover their floors.

  17. Re:Putting all your eggs in one basket on Power Companies Offering Cable (TV, Net) Service · · Score: 1

    My gas-powered information delivery is telling me that I ate too much spicy food last night.

  18. Faucet? on S3's DeltaChrome Examined · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it just me or is Delta Chrome a better name for a faucet than for a video card?

  19. Re:Whats the Libertarian take on all this? on 160,000 Join Massachusetts Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 2

    My position on this is that I'm free to put a "No Trespassing" sign up at the end of my driveway and brandish my guns at anyone foolish enough to come to the door to sell me something anyway. The fact that I can't shoot assholes who harass me on the phone is unfortunate, but a do not call list law is a step in the right direction.

  20. E-bay users getting ripped off is News? on eBay Customers Targetted by Credit Card Scam · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since when is it news that someone is trying to rip off E-bay customers? I thought that that was the whole point of E-bay.

  21. Re:different perspective on Should Every Retail Outfit Have A Webpage? · · Score: 2
    For an opposing viewpoint. I do prefer to eat at resturants that have webpages vs. those that do not. My wife has some special dietary needs and it's nice to be able to look at a menu and nutrition information before we go out to make sure that the resturant in question has selections that are suitable for her to eat.

    Though it probably doesn't apply too much to the fine dining area, I really like online ordering for takout food. Overall, I find it much easier to review specials and make my order online than it is to do the same over the phone. This is particularly true for ethnic food where the person answering the phone and I probably don't have the same first language.

  22. Your local credit union on How Private Is Your Financial Data? · · Score: 2
    There is probably a credit union in your area that would be able to meet all of your banking needs. At a credit union the scale of operations is quite a bit smaller and you stand a good chace of being able to actually know the names of all the people who have access of your personal information. In addition, as a member of a credit union you get to vote every year or two on retaining the chairman and board of directors. If you don't like them, you can actually have some say in changing things.

    Chances are that as an individual, you don't really need to resources of a national or international bank. Why take the overhead that goes along with it?

  23. BULLSHIT! on Gnarly Error Messages · · Score: 2
    I call bullshit!

    First of all, arp -d doesn't take a MAC address as an argument so if you were to attempt to do this you get the error message:
    ARP: bad IP address 00-60-97-db-a3-2d
    If you do actually input your IP address you get the message:
    The specified entry was not found
    which isn't all that surprising since arp -a doesn't even show your own mac address.

  24. Re:A giant penis? on Vanishing Mobile Phone Masts · · Score: 1

    And I know just the place to put it

  25. Re:What's there to work on? on Microsoft and Wireless Authentication · · Score: 2

    LEAP is a proprietary protocol and does not have very much of the way of cross vendor support. If you want to use LEAP, you pretty much need to have both Cisco client adapters and Cisco access points. The technology has been licensed by a few other vendors, but it is far from widely accepted. PEAP on the other hand, despite being developed by Microsoft, is an open standard with a draft RFC and everything. Overall, it stands a much better chance of being able to work with generic wireless equipment (MS will see to it that the most common chipsets are supported with windows drivers). In addition, you aren't tied to a MS PKI with PEAP. The protocol is also supposed to support authentication via MS-CHAP v2, which is a username/password authentication protocol already supported by some open source applicantions, including freeradius.