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  1. Re:other companies? on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 1

    Remember the Blaster virus? That hurt a lot of ISPs because of the excessive amount of bandwidth consumed. This has the potential to do the same.

  2. Re:is selling linux legal? on What is the Best Way to Handle a GPL Violation? · · Score: 1

    With most of those sites, what you're paying for is the bandwidth/CDs, not the actual program.

  3. This may or may not work... on What is the Best Way to Handle a GPL Violation? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just find any of their e-mail addresses that you can, and submit them to any porn mailing lists that you can find. It may not work, but it's fun to do.

  4. Encryption on Matrix-Style Brain Interface Closer To Reality · · Score: 3, Funny
    How do they come up with the encryption keys?

    "Alright, now think of any number between 0 and 18446744073709551615."

    OR, if you're using 128-bit encryption:

    "...between 0 and 3.4028236692093846346337460743177x10^38"

  5. Hackers... on Matrix-Style Brain Interface Closer To Reality · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They better make it pretty secure. It would really suck to have someone hack your brain, especially since backing up your brain is a bit difficult right now.

  6. Re:Less TV == more social on Social Side-Effects Of Internet Use · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, that depends on whether you count Internet chat-rooms/IM services as social activities. If you do, then it does increase the time, otherwise, you're right.

  7. Re:Swipe Card on Biometrics in the Workplace · · Score: 1

    Where I work, we have swipe cards which we have to use to get into the building. They record who enters/exits the building and when. And we also afe a completely separate timecard program on our computers, for punching in and out.

  8. Better make sure... on Biometrics in the Workplace · · Score: 4, Interesting

    that people wash their hands before coming to work, because if everyone is putting their hand on the scanner, there could definitely be some health issues.

  9. If this is going to be used for the iPod... on Mini-iPod Mystery Drive Unveiled? · · Score: 1

    then why, in the marketing PDF, do they only mention WMA, and not AAC?

  10. Re:possibilities on Mini-iPod Mystery Drive Unveiled? · · Score: 1

    The could call it iRAID!

  11. Re:hmm... on Windows XP SP2 Beta Reviewed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then someone would release a virus which would shoot out your toast at 60mph, and make it shoot the boiling hot coffee all over. It would then be addressed in the next service pack, 6 months to 1 year later.

  12. Re:What about hidden forced dependencies? on Windows XP SP2 Beta Reviewed · · Score: 1
    wow, /.'d already -- cant get past p 3
    Dude, there are only 3 pages.

    What I'd like to know is, are there any forced lock-ins -- such as "you only get these nice security patches which you need to avoid worms if you also install our new version of DRM, which locks you out of things you could previously do".
    Microsoft would never do that to us! How dare you insult those nice people at Microsoft! Microsoft would never do anything like that, that'd knock out the competition. Oh... wait...
  13. The new Internet Connection Firewall... on Windows XP SP2 Beta Reviewed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I work in tech support for an ISP, and quite a few calls come in where the ICF is blocking DHCP, DNS, HTTP, or SMTP requests. Does this mean that we will stop having calls about this? I doubt it, because most of the users will just assume that if they hit the 'Close' button in the alert about the app, it will be allowed automatically. Also, I'm sure that most users won't be able to figure out the 'Configure' dialog box that is there.

  14. Re:Even worse than random punctuation: Random HTML on Security Predictions of 2004 · · Score: 1

    That's easy enough to counter. Just keep track of how many invalid HTML tags there have been so far (based on the W3C standard), and if there are %x, then just flag it as spam. Or, just cut out the invalid tags and their content.

  15. Not that bad... on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 2, Interesting
    LA County now requires that vendors working with the county remove all 'master/slave' references.
    They said vendors who are working with the county, not all vendors in the county.
  16. I doubt that professional gaming... on Documentary about Professional Gaming · · Score: 4, Interesting

    will become a spectator sport for strategy games. Most people, except for those who are quite into the game, don't have the attention span to watch people set up their bases etc. They just want the battles, in most cases. Most well-played strategy games can go on for well over an hour, and I just don't think that people are willing to wait around for the big battles. They'd rather just see the highlight reels. But for action games, I think that there is a potential for this to happen, because, right off the bat, you are able to start fighting, without having to build up defenses, which means that people get the action immediately. Also, you respawn as soon as you die, so the length of the action can be controlled.

  17. I think that... on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 1, Interesting

    some of the blame should fall on the homeowner for not having the security features available for his wireless network enabled. If everyone used the encryption features that come with their WLANs, then this kind of thing would happen much less often (if at all).

  18. Re:Just another example of the Slashdot monopoly.. on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Actually, they have been complying with HTML standards, just the old version 3.2. I say kudos to them for trying to keep /. complying with the new standards, to ensure that it will appear identically regardless of the browser or platform.

  19. What about the people... on US House, Senate Agree on Anti-Spam Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    whose computers are hacked by spammers, who proceed to use that person's e-mail address as a source of spam? Are they gonna make those people pay the $2 million?

  20. Re:Found it. on In Search of Stupidity · · Score: 1, Funny
  21. Has anyone on Mouse Gestures in Javascript · · Score: 1

    tried going to the demo page using a browser with mouse gestures enabled? If so, what happened?

  22. Re:Actually... on Mouse Gestures in Javascript · · Score: 1

    The difference between this and a web site itself implementing mouse gestures are:

    1) You are able to toggle the controls.
    2) You are able to customize the controls.
    3) They are standard across all web pages that you view.

  23. Oh yay! on Mouse Gestures in Javascript · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Another annoying feature that wannabe web designers can add! Oh well. At least I don't have to worry about it. *Makes sure Disable Javascript is checked*