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  1. Re:Simple solutions on Winamp Skin Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's too late for me to post this but there is a plug-in on the Winamp web site that is developped by a spyware company (can't remember the name): the plug-in shows you a girl dancing and of course it's sending a lot of packets throught the internet. The plug-in is available on Winamp's web site!

  2. Re:Simple cure.. on RIAA Sues More Music Lovers · · Score: 1

    A few seconds cut from a song is not a problem if it's free. I won't buy a CD again until these 2 conditions are met: lower the prices and remove all the protections that prevent me from listening to my music where I want.

  3. Re:Suing over Bit Torrent... on RIAA Sues More Music Lovers · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent is safer because the official client is a small program written in Python, and you can see with the source that nothing is put on the network unknowingly.

    As for the RIAA, the Azureus client has some kind of plug-in that prevents a list of IPs (those of RIAA spies) from getting the packets from you. It's not the most efficient privacy, but it's still an amusing idea.

  4. Re:Boycott? on RIAA Sues More Music Lovers · · Score: 1

    Don't waste your time with mp3 encoding, use streamripper during the night on your favorite Shoutcast servers. It's not legal, but it's efficient and you can suck more than 1Go of music every day.

  5. Re:Maybe because it's slow ? on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Java is not more secure than Ruby or Python. They all check the access to arrays, are object oriented, have exceptions support and a cool standard library. The only advantage for Java is that its standard library is bigger than the other languages.

  6. Re:Offshoring data? It's been done. on Information Preservation and Data Havens? · · Score: 0, Troll

    They've got three very small and rusty oil platforms, no computers and I doubt they have beds you could sleep in. Their computers (if they exist) must be located somewhere else, where any government can demand a legal access, so don't count on them to protect your data.

  7. Offtopic... on Information Preservation and Data Havens? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not american so I don't understand this: what kind of books are you supposed to buy? I'm in college and all the books I would ever need are available at the library (In fact, all my courses are done without books). I only bought two crypto books (Schneier and Zémor) because I told my teacher I wanted to have fun at home.

  8. Re:why? on How Google Could Overthrow AIM · · Score: 5, Informative

    If (and only if) it's based on Jabber and can communicate with every Jabber-compliant existing client, it will be easy to filter all the advertisements by dropping the unwanted XML tags.

  9. Re:Then you should approve nuking Paris...? on VOIP Progress To Be Hobbled By Wiretap Costs? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Encryption is no more limited in France. More funny, GnuPG is one of the officially allowed softwares anyone can use!

    May I add for t_allardyce that someone on Kuro5hin.org has been interrogated by some US agency (I don't remember which one) just by posting a message saying "it would be a good thing to kill the (US) president."

  10. Re:30 seconds? on A C Compiler For The HP49g+ · · Score: 1

    The TI-92 II takes half a second to compute 50!, less than 2 seconds for 100! but it has some kind of overflow for values greater than 500!

  11. Re:It's an interesting idea.... on Andre Lamothe Launches XGameStation · · Score: 1

    I don't think you can explain everything from scratch without being very basic, or retro if you prefer. OTOH are the games still usefull considering Andre downgraded his gaming system?

  12. Re:They changed it on Andre Lamothe Launches XGameStation · · Score: 1

    It was supposed to be 10 times more powerful than a SNES and the controllers were those of the PS2. I don't know what happened. At least, it's not vaporware anymore :)

  13. Re:"in a data store" on Microsoft Patents sudo · · Score: 1

    I only use sudo to run commands as root, but the file /etc/sudoers seems to allow any user to run commands as another user. sudo also has a -u switch to change the user who will execute the command.

  14. Re:Zombie farms on RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work · · Score: 1

    I know you're joking with POWer@home but does anyone know if BOINC has already been used by spammers or crackers to write tools?

  15. Re:Umm on RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work · · Score: 1

    Does that mean that legitimate mailing-lists servers will have to wait 2 seconds for each e-mails they send? I read a few of these lists and I'm sure there are other solutions to solve spam problems, like killing SMTP once and for all.

    If RPOW is trying to slow down spammers, it won't work as it has been already told thousands of times: Windows 0wned machines computing hashes like a cluster...

  16. Re:Phone Quality on Nokia 6820 Wireless Messaging Handset Reviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The public needs to read books, stop watching TV and practice sports. Companies tell the public what it needs: more expensive phones (and more TV watching all day long).

  17. Re:but, what if.. on LOAF - Distributed Social Networking Over Email · · Score: 1

    I'm your friend, you can send me everything you want on my mailbox: me@privacy.net, I'll reply as soon as possible.

  18. Re:Separating Linux users from Windows users on The Spyware Inferno · · Score: 1

    Windows users will make the tradeoff of malware to allow them to steal music

    Don't be so jealous about Windows' users, you can download the Bittorrent client written in Python. It's a command line tool that works on Linux too ;)

  19. Re:Should We Fear? on SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken · · Score: 1

    It means a lot to me as one of the crackers was my computer architecture teacher :p (William Jalby, I love you!!)

  20. Re:Strange really.... on Is MySQL Planning a Change of Tune? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Atomic commits seems to be called transactions in PostgreSQL. More info can be found in the tutorial.
    PostgreSQL also has support for Ruby (and Python) which is sufficient to write a lot of useful scripts.

  21. Re:it could be worse.... on It's Just the 'internet' Now? · · Score: 1

    I don't want to troll, but only dumbasses (read politicians) or computer illiterate people use translated words for concepts they know nothing about. There is the same trend with english people (mostly AOLers as I understood) saying intarweb or computer when they mean monitor. It's in no way a generalized behaviour.

    You must also count all the asian populations that can't read english and translate everything to their own character set.

  22. Re:No more /.? on It's Just the 'internet' Now? · · Score: 1

    With my AZERTY keyboard that would be ":;". Do you want Cowboy Neal to pay for 2 domain names?

  23. Re:easy workaround on TransGaming Tagging Downloads to Combat Piracy · · Score: 1

    From TFA: Bytes 0x10 through 0x23 in the tgz are the signature.

    H3r3 1z a Kr4ck 4 U:
    for each byte from 0x10 to 0x23: byte = 0x00
    Hope that helps ;)

  24. Re:Excuse me? on Shirky on Spectrum Ownership · · Score: 1

    It's called a teaser article. In one week, we'll have a more specific dupe (the trailer) and by clicking on the links you'll see the whole explaination. Just be patient ;)

  25. Re:Wiretaping etc... on Wiretapping the Web Easier Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Our country listens to mobile phone calls (you can tell when a light echo of your voice kicks in)

    I doubt you would hear anything if they were spying upon you. Your voice is already digitally compressed by the phone, they would just have to redirect your communication through a file. I don't think it's harder than that.