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  1. Sure. What's your username? on System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 4, Funny

    *clickety click click*

    Hmm... you don't seem to even have an account on this system...

  2. Re:Good for them on Free Certificate Authority Unveiled by Aussies · · Score: 1

    What's the liability? Seems all you are doing is making it easy for them to encrypt data b/n them and the end user. Anything beyond that is beyond your involvement.

    I don't think I'd get very far suing Amazon because someone stole my credit card from them even though their web server was using Verisign (this is all just an example). Odds are it happened way after I transmitted it to them via HTTPS.

    It doesn't make any sense... of course I've never understood why CA's where needed anyway. Just cause joeskillerdeals.com has a Verisign certificate are you really going to trust them?

    No way.

  3. Re:flipside on Comcast Port 25 Blocks Result In Less Spam · · Score: 1

    can't you configure your outbound mail server to just relay the mail to your provider's mail server?

  4. Re:Great Tech - But I have a problem... on Manure-Powered Generators On The Rise · · Score: 1

    my understanding of it is that while they can't be paid, they can build up a credit to use later on...

  5. maybe clippy is being replaced by the nvidia fairy on Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper · · Score: 1

    perhaps they are integrating clippy into the entire OS, but beefing him up and replacing him with that nvidia fairy girl...

    i imagine a lot of you slashdotters would buy longhorn then :-)

  6. Re:Weeks to patch on Sasser Worm Disruption Growing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Couple of thoughts in a "windows world"...

    - as soon as your baby is born and put in the nursery with the other brand new babies... they would all be infected... where would you suggest we put the new baby right off the bat?

    - have you ever dealt with Ted from Marketing? I've found that if Ted is high enough up and he can't play solitaire then the sh*t is going to hit the fan pretty dang fast!

    - if a plumber, electrician, and carpenter told you that in the long run it would be a lot cheaper just to buy a new house instead of have them out every other day, wouldn't that make sense?

  7. Re:How often do you look at you keyboard? on Flexiglow Illuminated Keyboard · · Score: 1

    my t41 one has it... i like it better than apple's (which i'll admit is cool) cause it's bright enough to illuminate any papers near by too if I want.

  8. Re:How do people archive old mail using Thunderbir on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong, but I think the mail files that thunderbird creates are just plain text files one message after the next separated by "From ...". It's the same format pine uses... can't think of the name.

    I am pretty sure I copied my pine mail files into my local thunderbird directory and it picked them up just fine.

    So I would think you could create a sub folder and move whatever files you want into it.

    also for imap, except for perhaps your inbox, the rest of your mail is stored in your home directory... usually anyway...

  9. Re:Subject of legality. on Spammer Sues SpamCop · · Score: 1

    "In america, our first ammendment (Freedom of speech) rights SHOULD protect spammers. It will be up to the private sector to create efficient ways of blocking spam."

    Taking that a bit further...

    - you yell at me.
    - i have the option of leaving so I don't have to listen.
    - if you keep following me, you're harassing me and I can get a restraining order that *YOU* have to follow, not me.

    I don't see the equivalent option when it comes to spam...

  10. Re:This will be fun to watch... on UIUC Unveils the Worlds Most Advanced Building · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought I read that during NY's blackout awhile back hotels that had electronic locks (card swipes) were locked... and guests couldn't get in... which wouldn't be a problem unless your 2 year old was inside I guess...

  11. Re:Distributed Patent Review on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1

    Take it a step further and let the rest of us acknowledge your hard work in finding the previous art.

    Then the patent office can look and see that someone has submitted prior art that tens of thousands of other people tend to agree with.

    Or perhaps a trust model like razor has...

    I think they should do the same thing with lawsuits... post it, force 100,000 people to look at it and if 80,000 think it's a stupid lawsuit, out it goes.

  12. Re:SQL injection 101 ... on PHP and SQL Security · · Score: 1

    Um... but if id is an integer won't your first line fail completely?

    And if id is a string, what happens if I do...

    $var = "x' or id = '10"

    That wouldn't do what you wanted either....

    You really need to *clean* $var to only contain what you want it to contain... just wrapping it in quotes isn't good enough...

  13. Re:Where's my wife? on Legoland Introduces Wi-Fi Tracking for Kids · · Score: 4, Funny

    This one is easy... at the mall!

  14. There's also O'Reilly's free Using Samba online... on Samba 3 By Example · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/book/toc.htm l

  15. Re:Solar powered? on Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux · · Score: 1

    actually seattle has about a dozen of them... came across my first one just the other day... but I agree.. seems a little funny :-)

  16. We're all a bunch of hypocrites... on Wind Turbines Kill a Few Birds · · Score: 1

    Save the birds! Save the whales! Save the rain forests! Save the ozone!

    As long as it doesn't interfere with my SUV - hair spraying - plastic consuming lifestyle that is.

    Geesh. What I don't understand is why it matters? Animals go extinct. Fact of life. And as far as I can tell the Earth did just fine before humans stepped in and tried to control everything.

    I'm not saying killing the birds is a Good Thing, but let's be realistic.

  17. Re:Focus on the Family on What's the Worst Job Posting You've Seen? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Haven't seen the job you're talking about they have a Sr. Internet Engineer at $44K/year at the moment... I'd say that's pretty reasonable...

    -philip

  18. Re:Search results on Google Considering Merger With Microsoft · · Score: 1
  19. Re:And the problem is???? on Reading, Writing, RFID · · Score: 1

    I think the solution is to *educate* our kids then. It's not necessarily wrong. I for one would *LOVE* if my gym had an RFID system because then I wouldn't have to stand in line and wait while the kid behind the counter takes forever to scan everyone's cards.

    I could just walk in and start working out.

    Although kids being kids I'm sure this will never work as they will all give their RFIDS to the unlucky student of the day who walks by the sensor while the rest of them go off and party :-)

  20. Can it get any more open? on CNet on WinFS · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...all into a filesystem which, accoring to Microsoft, will open up a whole new world of information availability."

    Seems like with all the worms and viruses out there that Microsoft has already achieved this goal :)

  21. Check out the css Zen Garden... on Designing With Web Standards · · Score: 5, Informative

    I happened across this site the other day... it really shows off what CSS can do. No idea how it looks in IE, but in Firebird it's pretty amazing. Pick a design from the left and note that it's all style sheets...

    http://www.csszengarden.com/

  22. froogle.google.com?? on Amazon to Take on Google? · · Score: 2, Informative

    "The startup instead is zeroing on a one of search engines' sweet spots -- e-commerce.

    As more consumers have become comfortable with the Internet, a growing number are using search engines to review products and compare prices."

    Why not just use froogle.google.com? It's excellent for comparing prices if you know the model of what you're looking for.

  23. Re:Attorney Fees? on No Americans Need Apply · · Score: 1

    Why bother with H1s at all? Just lay off your development team and outsource it to a 3rd-party company in India... as far as I know the US gov wouldn't care at all about that, but the net result is the same.

  24. Re:Is the Unix philosophy real? on Linux and the Unix Philosophy · · Score: 1

    Isn't postfix or qmail a bunch of smaller apps/scripts? Never used either, but seem to remember this being one of the benefits over sendmail...

  25. Re:Al though on 4Gb CF Card Announced · · Score: 1

    Never used them, but xs-drive's seem to do what you want.

    http://www.xs-drive.com/index.htm