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  1. Re:Well, there go the logfiles on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 1

    1) You don't know how many letters are in a password sequence. (fyi, it doesn't have to be a maximum of 8 characters) 2) You don't know which letters are used. 3) You don't necessarily know what application will open, unless you're using an app-specific login. 4) You could require two logins. Or more. So, a password login with two 697 character passwords would be as secure as a "port knock" with a 94 port knock sequence.

  2. Re:Well, there go the logfiles on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 1

    So too, could a proper "login" enable forwarding to a given host on an internal network.

  3. Re:Well, there go the logfiles on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 1

    This doesn't do *anything* for security at all. "Port knocking" is exactly the same thing as typing a password. The only difference is that you don't know which service is available. So why not just have two passwords? The only reason to use it is if you have a known insecure application that you have to access, but you do not have a way to firewall, nat, or subnet it.

  4. Re:I appreciate the sacrifice of the soldiers in I on Answers On LUGs, Life, and Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1

    You might want to look up a little remembered international court proceeding that took place in Nuremburg. It is a soldier's job to question the orders given to him.

  5. Re:And your point is exactly what? on Answers On LUGs, Life, and Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1

    And the rest of it comes from Hydro or Gas. All locally grown. The power generated from oil is a significant fourth place finisher, but in America we get most of our oil either at home or from Mexico.

  6. Re:Cheap Computer hardware in Iraq? on Answers On LUGs, Life, and Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1

    That's the way it was under Saddam. You're just getting old news. They haven't been back since to check to see if it's changed.

  7. Re:Establishing the market on Answers On LUGs, Life, and Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1

    I may be a latent leader (I'm not the previous poster) but I know for sure I wouldn't make a good beaurocratic queue victim. It doesn't have anything to do with a "slower pace of life" or "non-western culture." In fact, death by red tape was invented here.

  8. Re:if jobs then stay else brain-drain on Answers On LUGs, Life, and Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1

    The Indian workers may only be taking home $9000, but the American companies outsourcing are paying $40,000+ on average from what I've heard. Now, a $40,000 salary employee costs them around $60,000 in the US, so it's still a bargain. I'd move to South Dakota if I could keep $40,000. It's much preferable to a dump like Seattle. The only thing I'd miss here is snowboarding, but that isn't so great in the rain either.

  9. Re:Pentium I bug. on Trojan Horse Caused A Siberian Explosion · · Score: 1

    democracy in Chile? in Iran? Chileans love us because we buy grapes and apples out of season. Pinochet was no Peron. Guess which country is doing better these days? No comment is needed on your Iran shit.

  10. Re:Another day, another batch of applications on Joel Rants About Resumes · · Score: 1

    hey man, know any job openings?

  11. Re:This is the light at the end of the tunnel... on Eric Sink on Starting Your Own Software Company · · Score: 1

    Then start eleven businesses. That way, you have better than 50/50 odds of succeeding with one of them.

  12. Re:Myer's-Briggs Test on Eric Sink on Starting Your Own Software Company · · Score: 1

    Funny, ENTJ is only 2% of the world's population. All told, everyone is a unique individual and we all make up about 15% of the worlds population and have a celebrity who's "just like me"

  13. Re:Myer's-Briggs Test on Eric Sink on Starting Your Own Software Company · · Score: 1

    Oh, my mommy met a famous crackpot, so I'm qualified! The difference between modern pop-pyschology and Jung's work is Jung is a few years older and that Jung believed that the ghosts of your ancestors determined your personality. But I'm not even giving the credibility of Jung to this junk, just because the astrologer selling it claims her mother met someone famous way back when.

  14. Re:Myer's-Briggs Test on Eric Sink on Starting Your Own Software Company · · Score: 1

    Surprise, so am I! The questions are ambiguous, but we can all tell what they lead towards. And we all know that an extrovert is a good, friendly, successful person. I don't know the difference between "intuition" and "sensing" (do you?) but we all know which questions lead to a "good" rating in this category. And we all like to consider ourselves "intuitive" as long as it doesn't mean we aren't also "rational" or thinking. By separating these labels it avoid that particular connundrum. "Perceiving" and "feeling" are categories that we like to place women or inferiors into to explain their inferiority. So anyone with a positive self image will tend toward ENTJ. Those with poor self image will be measured away from it. It really is a binary test, only everyone who wants to comes out on the good side. Those who want be find themselves "different" can easily do so as well.

  15. Re:Myer's-Briggs Test on Eric Sink on Starting Your Own Software Company · · Score: 1

    My question is, are the tests based on what the answers are or what type of people answer the questions in what ways? If the former, most people will lie to try to skew the tests the way they perceive them. If the latter, then I'd be interested in knowing how the statistics are calibrated. But since the outcomes are carefully couched in "there is no good or bad, only different", I suspect its just crap slightly below the insight level of a cosmo quiz.

  16. Re:Modded Funny for too close to reality on Eric Sink on Starting Your Own Software Company · · Score: 1

    With the express purpose of demonstrating that Microsoft had "competition" in the Word Processor market. It was funded directly by Microsoft, and was always planned to fail. It's crap, by the way.

  17. Re:MSDN? on Eric Sink on Starting Your Own Software Company · · Score: 1

    Source Gear (and all his other efforts) are just hobbies burning through the truckloads of cash he got when Spyglass, his former employer, sold out to Microsoft and became Internet Explorer.

  18. Re:Wait a second... on Eric Sink on Starting Your Own Software Company · · Score: 1

    The advice is probably sound, but the reason it got published is because it makes good marketing copy for Microsoft.

  19. Re:The challenge of financing on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    How about a free pizza (with your choice of toppings) and $60. That's what you'd get working for an hour and buying the pizza.

  20. Re:The challenge of financing on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    Here's a quick tip: Develop a VB app or java equivalent. Even though your webapp is harder to build (especially advanced user functionality) and more versatile, scalable, and maintainable, as a webapp people nowadays think "Oh, it's just a webpage", but they'll pay more for what's percieved as a standalone app, even if it is just a click and paste VB gui using "web-services" to talk to a database.

  21. Re:The challenge of financing on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    actually, you probably weren't working for Sony, you were working for an outsourced call center, like Convergys or Sykes, and they got payed per call by Sony. So you were losing them money & customers.

  22. Re:The challenge of financing on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    Our system of government and society (read: those with the money already) are working hard to prevent people from becoming entrepeneurs. If you want capitalism, go somewhere else, or change your definition of capitalism. It worked for the capitalists^Wsocialists in America.

  23. Re:The challenge of financing on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    They are disappearing. But a sole proprietorship is more convenient, and there are not the tangles of beurocracy (which is set up to block everyone from incorporating) to deal with. They benefits are not that great for most people, and the fact is that taxes and legal forms are set up expressly to give business to accountants and lawyers, and only secondarily to benefit those doing them.

  24. Re:Noooooooo!!!! on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    But, if you own a corporation with lots of money and political connections, it *is* a magical shield from things like liability and malfeasance.

  25. Re:Unemployment = 1/2 income for 26 weeks. Not a l on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    Thank you congress! Because when I become unemployed, that extra six months or more of pay that would have gone to a leech like you can now be invested in someone like me who wants to work. I'd rather get 6 months pay in six months than spend a year getting the same amount on the dole.