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  1. Re:Breaks Jailbreak on Sniffer Hijacks SSL Traffic From Unpatched IPhones · · Score: 1

    Jailbreaking does not magically leave your phone wide open for attack.

    Yes it does.

    Jailbreaking requires you to write code to modify the bootstrap sequence. If you cannot do this, you must TRUST someone else will ENTER YOUR SYSTEM, and then LEAVE. You TRUST the program(s) they left behind (Cydia or equivalent) do not have any holes (like enabling telnet/ssh/trojan/something else bad by default) or, if they do (Strike 1), they will update their code appropriately and quickly (Strike 2 if they don't).

    And that's only if you now use your phone as if it isn't jailbroken. If you want to install unsigned apps (reason most (everyone?) jailbreak), you leave yourself even more open to attack every unsigned app you install. That isn't to say you safe via Apple's signed process, but you are definitely not *safer* than without Apple. Unless you took *additional* precautions after jailbreaking, you must worry about leaving your phone anywhere as any technically minded person can get root access to your phone and install any sort of "bad" software!

    Saying jailbreaking does not magically leave your phone wide open for attack is incredibly naive!

  2. Re:There's more than one "fear of death" on People With University Degree Fear Death Less · · Score: 0

    I read your comment 3 times before realizing it had nothing to do with the comment AC left, but was a reply to the OP.

    Why must people reply to a reply just to get their post higher up?

    If internet avatars had human sentimentality, yours would be one of those emo dudes who go around trying to get people to notice them.

  3. Re:Shoving what? on Wikipedia Pages Now On Amazon — With Product Links · · Score: 2

    Research? Who said anything about research? I was talking about completing papers for class. And it doesn't matter what I think or don't think about completing a classroom assignment - my grades speak for themselves. So far I see little difference in the pages anyway. It's just sad Wales didn't think to tap that mine before Amazon jumped his claim.

    I think you're confusing "original research" with the type of research you do to complete assignments. In essence, by doing what you are saying the grades don't have to speak for themselves. It isn't a matter of doing well on assignments, it is how you complete the assignment. There's nothing really scholarly in what you are doing, which was ColdWetDog's point.

    To understand (which you are clearly too young to understand), imagine a world without the internet or wikipedia. You would not be able to do a quick query, find a passage in a book, look up that single page on amazon, and use it as a reference in the assignment you are working on. You would have to do *scholarly research* to get the job done which is what you are NOT doing. This involves, going to the library, finding a category of the subject you are working on, choosing a selection of books and culling information from them not based on a few pages. As someone who has spent days on end doing this, and also done your way to quickly get an assignment done, the processes for each are world's apart.

    I'm not really sure why you are depriving yourself of a really good opportunity to get an education. It's also disappointing that research is not an integral part of completing papers for your class. Why bother at all? If you are going to cheat, at least acknowledge that you *are* cheating. If you don't, it makes the people who actually do the work look bad.

  4. Re:very disappointing, but perhaps inevitable on Wikipedia Pages Now On Amazon — With Product Links · · Score: 1

    A lot of experts have a problem with having no authority on Wikipedia and having to cite sources like anyone else.

    Actually, a lot of experts in a field may be coming up with original research in the field, and thus have no authority to comment in the wikipedia article as no original research is permitted.

  5. Re:very disappointing, but perhaps inevitable on Wikipedia Pages Now On Amazon — With Product Links · · Score: 1

    I stopped editing Wikipedia in 2005 or so. I can go back to articles in my subject (linguistics) that I used to follow, and I find mistakes that are still left there half a decade later. There have been plenty of edits in the meantime, but they've never fixed specific factual errors.

    I really don't get it, why not just fixed those factual errors?? It sounds like you saw those errors in wikipedia in 2005 and never bothered to do anything with it other than acknowledge something is wrong. Then, recently, you read the same article and again noticed the same error you registered in 2005 but complain about it? When you say "they've never fixed" you do realize you are really saying I never fixed it right? Because "they" is "you"!

    Why are you complaining over something you have control over? Just curious.

  6. Re:Prior ASCII Art??? on Microsoft Frowned at for Smiley Patent · · Score: 1

    So that's informative huh? I guess we *are* on slashdot. In that case let me indulge a bit of what a small little bird once let me know. (This is all from memory so bare with me.)

    (.)---(.) -- far apart

    ( . | . ) -- big and smushy (>=D)

    (.Y .) -- oops, the tity seems to be distracted (lopsided)

    (@)(@) -- large aerolas/nipple

    o o -- A cup

    . . -- Zero cup(?)

    \o/\o/ -- saggy

    (o)(%) -- extra nipple

    (`o)(o) -- zit on breast

    # (o) -- Mastectomy

    (^)(^) -- perkys

    (~)(~) -- pierced

    {o}{o} -- muscular breasts

    |O|O| -- 19th century kinda girl (corset breasts)

    (>)(>) -- 1940s rocket breasts

    (.Y.) -- Wonderbra

    Caution: Use above only as a rough guide. It is advisable to get real world experience for expert identification.

  7. Re:Ummm on Build Your Own Chat-Cord · · Score: 1

    To be the happy little dumb consumer all the big corporations like so much only costs $24.95 USD. This solution would cost less at $8.33 USD. For this little savings I might learn something about how the world works and open my mind to creative improvements either to this device or others.

    God I hate nerds who don't appreciate hacks; I think it's a "I didn't think of it, so I'll poo on them" kind of thing. Ego is a bitch on the wrong person.

  8. Re:Who Google Will Buy on Who Will Google Buy Next? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, given

    http://groups-beta.google.com/ ==> Blogger.com
    http://images.google.com/ ==> Picasa
    http://maps.google.com/ ==> Keyhole

    and as you say

    http://video.google.com/ ==> Tivo

    Maybe we could also see:

    http://scholar.google.com/ ==> CiteSeer
    http://print.google.com/ ==> University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, The New York Public Library, and Oxford University now ... and speculating at the next buyout ... the Library of Congress
    http://news.google.com/ ==> News Corporation
    http://www.google.com/ig ==> Yahoo

    I don't know, there's probably more, but it's nearing 4 so I better go to bed.

  9. Re:Who Google Will Buy on Who Will Google Buy Next? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, given http://groups-beta.google.com/ ==> Blogger.com http://images.google.com/ ==> Picasa http://maps.google.com/ ==> Keyhole and as you say http://video.google.com/ ==> Tivo Maybe we could also see: http://scholar.google.com/ ==> CiteSeer http://print.google.com/ ==> University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, The New York Public Library, and Oxford University now ... and speculating at the next buyout ... the Library of Congress http://news.google.com/ ==> News Corporation http://www.google.com/ig ==> Yahoo I don't know, there's probably more, but it's nearing 4 so I better go to bed.

  10. Re:We tried working with OO.org on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 1
  11. Worthless ... on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It has been over a year since I installed MS Office, but I know it had to be restarted and that it takes up 450MB (according to Windows).

    Wow, so this isn't even a comparison on a clean formatted disk, but one that has had bloat crap build up on the computer over a year?

    The dude says Microsoft Office, but isn't that a suite of tools? Will the program run slower and faster depending on how many were installed in the bundle? I don't know, but knowing how to take screen shots and knowing about CTRL-Alt-Del to look at processor usage time is pretty amateur. Let's see some statistical comparisons that are actually meaningful.

  12. Re:sleep habits vary on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1
    The electric chair (using AC) was pushed by DC power supporters to make AC look bad.

    Edison had it called the Westinghouse Chair since it used AC power. "AC killed" was his campaign, who wanted a killer in their homes? Truly evil marketing.

  13. Re:To kick off obligatory missing films... on Time Picks Top 100 Films · · Score: 1
    We had to read the script in english class. I refer to to the draft by Francis Ford Coppola in 1975. A quick search brought this up ...

    http://www.allmoviescripts.com/scripts/15638072093 f326632ea620.html

  14. Re:To kick off obligatory missing films... on Time Picks Top 100 Films · · Score: 2, Informative
    The correct quote, with a little added to it is:

    "You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like ... victory. Ya know, someday this war's gonna end..."
  15. Re:Prospective Node-op Concerns on Tor Anonymity Network Reaches 100 Verified Nodes · · Score: 4, Informative
    From TFM (http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-doc.html#clien t-or-server),

    Note that you can be a server without allowing users to make connections from your computer to the outside world. This is called being a middleman server.

  16. Re:Great... on Nuclear Battery That Runs 10 Years · · Score: 5, Informative
  17. Re:What I do... on Organizing MP3s and Other File Collections? · · Score: 1

    Ahh, you're using linux anyway. You can convert spaces to underlines and back easily enough.

    IFS=`echo -e "\012\015"`
    for i in `ls -1 *`
    do mv $i tmp.$i
    mv tmp.$i `echo $i | sed 's/_/ /g'`
    done

    If you want to do recursively through directories you can just use -R in the ls command.

    And there's probably a way around it, but I haven't been able to use scp with spaces. Say on my server I have /usr/local/apache/www/The Crystal Method - Vegas/ and I do:

    me@comp musicdir $ scp root@server:~/music/The Crystal Method - Vegas/* ./
    root@10.2.18.5's password:
    scp: /root/music/The: No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `Crystal': No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `Method': No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `-': No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `Vegas/*': No such file or directory

    So I just use the above script to use underlines, no big deal. I can change back in a heartbeat.

  18. Re:The performance of compiled code on A Review of GCC 4.0 · · Score: 1
    I've done some too (coding in assembly) and also use Gentoo. I agree with the points being addressed by user 701203.

    I have windows running on vmware too because I live in the Real World. I will prefer to use linux, but what are you going to do?

  19. Re:Ok, since people insist America isn't "behind" on 1Gbps Broadband Service for Hong Kong · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I don't "get it". How does "not having anything in the first place" make it cheaper and easier? I'd guess that there would be no difference either way, and it might be a little easier to upgrade in the US if you have cable conduits all over the cities and wiring in the house for it.

    The reason you don't "get it" is because you don't realize the impact of captalist economies coupled with lack of geographical world knowledge. Market economies work as getting a better product to the people at lower prices. Or in the case of British Virgin Mobile not raping me by locking me into a contract. If people don't realize what's being offered to them, and let's face it, AOL advertising will be the pushing force for wider broadband access although this is changing; people are actually starting to get a clue ...

    To get to my point, since telco lines are leased by large corps whose goal is to profit .. they can do so with cooperation of other circumstance. Namely computers have already been bought, what is it? 80% of American homes spent a couple thousand for computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, sound system, printer, scanner, digital camera, fax ... and we keep adding to the arsenal. Of course we also made way for really cheap computers by buying them very expensively; I saw an add recently for a computer for $300 including flat panel 15in ... wow ... not to mention MIT developing a $100 laptop ... double wow. I'm 21 and when I think of it, this stuff has me taken aback. I can't imagine how older people feel.

    But once again I digress ... companies can continue to rape people here because we don't know AND we don't need more, at least we're given that impression. Do you really think other countries have the same sort of threat of getting sued by the **IA? I know they have threatened, but check out Pirate Bay's legal threats section. That's some crazy stuff that I can't have the luxury of experiencing; I can still have the **IA subpoena my ISP for accessing the site, and then potentially tracking data transfer between that link and me ... I mean they are my ISP afterall (comcast; who also had the nerve to try to buy Disney).

    It's not as easy to just say "hey, let's just change this tire" when the threads are obviously still good. That's the perception we have, and the corps can make more money by not spending. I know this is only one person, but I have a 3 Mb down and 386 Kb up for $45/month. I run a web server and email server. It gets pumped through a openBSD 486dx firewall. I have wireless and what not. I occasionally download from P2P networks but more often from newsgroups. I use the internet extensively. I'm connected by a 1900+ AMD XP, 1 GB of ram on linux. I have no plans for upgrading my computer for at least a couple more years either. For the moment this speed is all I need. Would it not be cheaper and easier to upgrade. I guess I could get a 2800+ AMD and another gig of RAM, but would I really see a difference? Probably not. I don't think the majority of the rest of America would either.

    Then again I see how you have a point. I had 512 MiB of RAM before I upgraded a few months back and 3 years ago I had a 15 flat panel which I gave to my grandmother and got me a 17 in flat panel. But it's not really cheaper because I could never recoup what I already had spent in that case. The ram was a good deal, but that's about all you can "add to" and get more. Most everything else is replacement which is mostly what you would have to do with wires and what not with the telco lines. I don't know though, you could maybe put up a few more COs, but then you would forget my other point above, we're made to think we are doing f

  20. Re:Wireless seems to be the "in" thing. on Minneapolis To Go Wireless · · Score: 1
    Probably because one of the target market, businessmen, would like to transfer large 24MiB powerpoint presentations or large spreadsheet info in 5 minutes before they are in one of downtown's hotels about to give a presentation and they realize they have the wrong file. I've been in one of these situations, so why pay twice as much as dialup connection for dialup speeds?

    People walked the earth for millions of years. Why the hell do we need cars? Ok, we have cars that go 70 MpH, why the hell do we need anything faster than that?

    And the one or two ISDN channels are dedicated, not shared.

  21. Re:Wireless seems to be the "in" thing. on Minneapolis To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    remember that 11Mbits/sec needs to be shared. Not to mention you might only get 2 Mbits/sec in most areas, maybe 5 if you're lucky, or 1 if you're not. Sharing it might mean you get 300Kb or worse.

  22. Re:Giggles. on Scientific American Gives Up · · Score: 1

    And so is science, war, and AIDS ... all just words ... words are what we use to describe the world around us. If it wasn't for that, we'd all be jailed within personal cages.

    Not being an idiot of varying definitions of words, and not being able to apply them into the right circumstance, people start miscommunicating as to what they really mean. There should always be time to discuss language.

  23. Re:Coincidence... ;) on Power Outage Takes Wikimedia Down · · Score: 0
    It took some digging but here is what I found.

    Kate most likely uses DVORAK. Her uname is UNIX UNIXPC SYSTEMS 3.0INTL mc68k. The timestamp is at 12:03 am, so she is either a night owl, or had recently reset CMOS.

    In this picture, you can see her desk layout. Note that if that is her wrist, she isn't a whale afterall. But we've never seen a fat troll either so we keep looking...

    But you wouldn't want to room up with her. Two geeks a god-send? One would think, but then take a moment to consider double the mess. It's better to fit a clean person and messy person together, and then reach for some medium ground. Trust me.

    Her clickety-clackety keyboard and cheap mouse, clicky

    But we want pictures. We want to fit this busty gal to someone of the likes of Kate Kohl, right? Well comrades, here is our-ahem-mess of a girl. BAM Nice picture eh? A real tease right. You see them nice lips through that soft, flowing ... erhmm ... raggedy, tress?

    So give me more I hear you say. Alas I've run clean. No more pictures this wild stead can round in. So is there any other defining factor before I pronounce my wedlock proposal I hear you ask. Indeed, the fact she uses .... drum roll ... KDE!! Yes, yes it is true. How horrible of a woman to do so. Well, it's all part of the show.

    Perhaps a "geek" on this website who has been deluded by the inviting K, will wed her on the morrow. How ignorant of the poor chap where her cosmetics are dumped for computer bloat, and will evermore tie us up with the admin task of maintaining a proper show. She's perfectly capable of administering her own programs I hear you say, but I ask you what women really carries around her own baggage when really to have a man toil at her feet? May that ignorant sap take her away from eye and mind so she may never taunt us with her feminine nature again! (well at least until next happy hour)

    Once more into the pussy let's dive, but out before the lock lies ringed.

  24. Re:It's actually worse on Airbus Launches 800 Passenger Jumbo Jet · · Score: 1
    Slashdot automatically separates long lines with a space. See it?

    antilameness-=-=-=-=-antilameness-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--\ /
    http://www.broadcast.bt.com/home/events/resourcefo recaster/Paris_Air_Show_Jun_05.asp

    If you are too lazy to fix it yourself, Boeing, Airbus face off at 46th Paris Air Show

    From the article: The Airbus-Boeing contest is not new, but it is heightened in 2005 by Boeing's urge to make up for lost ground. Leaving a clearer field for Airbus, Boeing joined the partial boycott of the 2003 Paris Air Show by US aerospace manufacturers and the Pentagon that rose from the Transatlantic dispute over the US-led invasion of Iraq.

    It appears Airbus benefited: Virgin Atlantic Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and United Arab Emirates Airlines are among the companies that have placed significant orders with Airbus since the 2003 show.

    But whatever. I think you both are stupid ... or smart. :)

  25. Re:"Glut of fiber assets" on Google's Dark Fibre Plans? · · Score: 1
    The press makes it sound like there's dozens of dark fibers just a few inches from your house, and those darn telcos/cable companies just don't want you to have access to them.

    I don't get this impression either. My impression has been it has been laid with great intentions in very high tech places like in and around Silicon Valley, Seattle, and wealthy single home families of Colorado and other such suburban areas. It seems almost magical, yes, but magical like finding a pot of gold (read unattainable for my lower middle class living)