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  1. Re:Who Else Can We Blame on Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Ripped audio has the rootkit as well!
    Sony has released the following fix.

    for FOO in `find . -name *mp3`; do id3info ${FOO} |grep -H Sony >>piratefiles.log; done
    for BLAH in `cat piratefiles.log` ; do rm -f ${BLAH}; done


    I'll be here all weekend!
    BBH

  2. Re:Additional supplement to the hydrogen? on Truckers Choose Hydrogen Power · · Score: 1

    Agree'd. This is nothing more than water injection.... without the problematic "hydro-locking" scenarios (which is the reason we don't have cars with water injection). Which leads me to a question... Why can't we just work out the bugs with water injection?

    BBH

  3. Not even admins have that kind of access on Carnegie Mellon Resists FBI Tapping Requirement · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't even have that kind of remote access to the boxes I administer (and I work in the wireless communications industry)! The best I have is SSLdump, and If I want to run TCPdump on a server (from home), I have to dump to a local disk, then tar zcf it, then scp/rcync back to my home PC (servers are gigE, and I'm 3Mbit cable).

    Why can't the universities say, "Sure, just tell us when you're going to buy us the equipment"?
     
    BBH

  4. Re:Buy One Laptop, Get Literacy for Free! on Preview Of The $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    Act now and we'll throw in food, shelter, a stable power supply

    Don't forget the anti-malaria pcmcia option. Doesn't malaria still kill 3 brazillian people a year? I don't know haw many a "brazilian" is, but it sounds like a big number.

    BBH

  5. Re:Why would it be a democracy? on GPL 3.0 Rewrite Drive Is No Democracy · · Score: 1

    Someone else posted the revelant sections, but let me add a personal note - I'm not a US citize

    But you are free to vote. Simply become a US citizen (which you are free to do), else go vote in your own country. Me thinks you want to eat your cake.

    BBH

  6. Re:Why would it be a democracy? on GPL 3.0 Rewrite Drive Is No Democracy · · Score: 1

    Thank you for beating me to it.

  7. Re:Why would it be a democracy? on GPL 3.0 Rewrite Drive Is No Democracy · · Score: 1

    For instance, the United States won't let felons vote

    Actually, some states do allow it. Not that it matters at a state level, as the constitution strictly disallows us to prevent them (taxpayers)from voting . It's that entire "no taxation without representation" thing. If felons aren't allowed to vote, then they shouldn't be forced to pay taxes either. Preventing anyone from voting is a disallowed under the constitution (if they pay taxes), including felons, kids under 18, women, "negros", homosexuals, etc...

    BBH

  8. Re:Why would it be a democracy? on GPL 3.0 Rewrite Drive Is No Democracy · · Score: 1

    Erm. "Communism and Democracy" are apples. "Socialism and Capitalism" are oranges. You can't compare socialism to democracy, nor can you compare Communism to Capatalism.... It just doesn't work that way. Democracies usually don't vote on the rules/laws, else the minorities would get no protection (and slavery wouldn't have been abolished). Things aren't democratic if there are restrictions as to whom may vote.

    BBH

  9. I place equal blame on software mfrs on The RIAA's Halloween Tricks · · Score: 1

    Yesterday, Nero 6.0 "OEM" edition told me I couldn't copy a copywritten CD. I found this strang for two reasons.

    First, because I own the copyright on the CD. I wrote, performed, mixed and mastered the audio tracks.

    Second, because I used Nero 5.5 to create the CD that I was copying.

    K3B (cdrecord) does not seem to have this problem.
    BBH

  10. Re:What Next? on SCO Tells Courts What IBM Did Wrong · · Score: 1

    What you miss in that is that *everyone* who was directly involved in the contract has said that it does not mean what SCOX says it means.

    Inconceivable!

    BBH

  11. Re:Constitutional protections.... on Students Banned from Blogging · · Score: 1

    There is no "school" right to free speech. There is no right to free speech on the job

    Actually, there is.... But with "public" schools and federal jobs. The school in TFA is a private school, and can tell all of the children to do whatever the they want. If the kids (their parents actually) disagree, they can take patronage elsewhere. That's the beauty of the private school system vs federalized schooling.

    BBH

    Oh, and I would recommend this site to the students
    How about the Student Press Law Center (http://www.splc.org?

  12. Re:Nice idea, poor pay on Google Summer of Code Results · · Score: 1

    At the risk of adding too much info...

    That $40Cn eighth is $60Us down here in Seattle. Being from the east cost, I can tell you that BC weed is "the best mother-f'ing shit" I have ever experienced. It only takes a pinner to get the highest that I've EVER been (except for that night in NYC where I thought I was interviewing David Bowie, but it turned out to be a walnut tree that "looked" like David Bowie).... Yeah.

    BBH

  13. Re:Well, Duh! on The H-1B Swindle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    vs. looking at years of experience or education vs. pay

    Why should an employer look at those two things when job performance should be the primary salary measurement? We just let a unix admin go who had 20+ years of "experience" and a college degree. That means 20+ years of screwing up servers in DC's accross the continental US. Nice guy, but I wouldn't let him touch a PC with a 10 foot pole.

    In contrast, I've been in the industry since 94. I have no diplomas (not even high school), but have "the mother-f'ing force" when it comes to working with huge app clusters and complicated enterprise applications.

    BBH

    To my educational credit, I was a professional cook before getting into computers....

  14. Re:Well, it's entirely possible he's crazy on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    I don't mean like crazy as an insult crazy, I mean crazy in a medical sense.

    Here in the states, a schizophrenic over age 40 is refered to as a "fundamentalist".

    Jokes aside, I would like to like to publicly forewarn all those that hold political office at the moment. My generation (30 year old libertarians) are going to be turning 40 soon. We're "really" pissed off with what you've done with the country. We're going to get rid of your social security. We're going to get rid of your medicare. We're going to get rid of the socialist institutions that your retirements depend on. Your pention, your tax funded security....gone. Enjoy your current positions while they last.

    BBH

  15. Re:Big Iron? Uhhh... on Big-Iron to Open Up for AMD · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, opterons are not yet reliable (refering to your "ultra-reliable" bit). I don't know if it's just us, but 5% of the opterons that we ordered give the following... (machine names have been disguised to protect the innocent, my job, and homosexual whales)

    [root@XXXXXXXXXXXXXX-oracle-1 root]# CPU 0: Machine Check Exception:
    0000000000000004
    Bank 4: f60d200159080

    Message from syslogd@XXXXXXXXXX-oracle-1 at Thu Oct 13 16:38:41 2005 ...
    XXXXXXXXXX-oracle-1 kernel: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000004
    813 at 000000005dfee510
    ernel panic:
    Message from syslogd@XXXXXXXXXX-oracle-1 at Thu Oct 13 16:38:41 2005 ...
    XXXXXXXXXX-oracle-1 kernel: Bank 4: f60d200159080813 at 000000005dfee510
    CPU context corrupt

    This occurs with both the HP and ASA machines, with the exception that this can be generated on HPs by having mismatched "processor card" PCB versions.

    Thank you for your time,
    BBH

  16. Re:if not ads, who should pay for content? on Why Do You Block Ads? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But I already "pay" for the internet. Comcast gets about $50 a month. I also Pay for my Cable TV.
     
    BBH

  17. Re:The UN has finally lost it on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    What's with all this "we" business? Unless the poster actually had a founding hand in setting up what became the Internet

    Actually, a number of us 'do' have a hand (past, present, and future) in setting up the internet. Ever use a web enabled phone? Yes? That's partially my fault. Ever use use a single sign-on for multiple sites? I have a friend you can blame for that (passport blows). The internet is not a "concept", it is a collection of tools and protocols mashed together in some ultimate cluster-fukesque abortion. Pretty amazing when you think of it.

    What the EU/UN wants contol of is DNS. Not the internet. If Internic were smart, they'd just move operations to Switzerland. Problem solved. If the EU complains, then they're just jealous that the DNS reg money is going into our pockets instead of theirs.

    BBH

  18. Have We? Yes, we have! on The People Vs. Common Sense · · Score: 1

    Have we made absolutely certain books and movies are not degrading the minds of our children and video games and all computerized representation of violent and sexual acts are the cause of an increase of depraved sociopaths??

    Actually, we have. There are certain "books" and "movies" that I can only seem to find at my local "Taboo Video" adult superstore.

    BBH

  19. My Recommendations on Ultimate Software Developer Setup? · · Score: 1

    I would recommend something similar to the following:

    1: Dell 9100. This will give you things to fool around with (get it with the cheapest dual core CPU so that you can test your apps for SMP problems), you can also try adding sse3 support to your apps, which the slower opterons don't support (the new >=252 ones do).
    2: A dell 24" flat panel for the IDE, and a second 20" flat pannel for the app. Run the app on the 20 inch, and walk through the code in the 24". It's awesome when the 24" is swiveled into portrait mode.
    3: Buy a $50 iMac G3 on ebay so you can test for endian bugs (they run gentoo just fine).

    Aside from that, A confortable key/mouse/chair will do you some good.

    BBH

  20. NERD FIGHT! on One Find, Two Astronomers · · Score: 3, Funny

    First, there was "They Live", then there was "Cripple Fight"... But I really want to see two astronomers go at it in a head-to-head battle royal!

    BBH

  21. Re:Is it an eeevil slogan? on Bill Gates Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    I agree, It's a perfectly cromulent word.

    BBH

  22. Re:Please someone contrast it to the Apple setup on Cinelerra 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I would recommend giving it a try on your existing setup. YellowDog, Gentoo, and some debian derivatives work fine on your dual proc PPC.

    BHH

  23. Re:Stop right there. on RIAA Hands out more Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    They don't want anyone distributing unlicensed copies of music. It's illegal.

    While I was going to comment on the parent post's use of the word "steal" when referring to copyright infringment, I will instead take the time to comment on your use of "unlicensed". Perhaps you meant "distributing copies of music without a license", as there is no problem with distributing "unlicensed music". My songs are "unlicensed", yet anyone is free to listen, distribute, modify them as they see fit, just as with many other recorded performances out there.

    BBH

  24. Re:Ungrounded Optimism? on The State of Linux Graphics · · Score: 1

    I would recommend hitting enlightenment.org, or better yet, downloading the elive 0.3 livecd release . Still beta, but a step above qt/gtk

    BBH

  25. Re:Amazon and Google don't contribute? on Jonathan Zdziarski Answers · · Score: 1

    Nope, not funny, but insightful, since the order was

    First: They argue that the open source community hasn't benefited from companies like Google and Amazon.

    Then: They just didn't take credit for their contributions

    In reality, we pretty much owe Oracle on RHEL to Amazon.

    BBH