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  1. Re:Read it carefully... on AT&T Issues Formal 'Censorship' Apology · · Score: 1

    He was actually quoting from the new policy:

    AT&T respects freedom of expression and believes it is a foundation of our free society to express differing points of view. AT&T will not terminate, disconnect or suspend service because of the views you or we express on public policy matters, political issues or political campaigns.

    He's right that it only says they won't terminate your account for three reasons. If you do anything else, it seems, they may terminate your account.

  2. Re:Why such a low TTL? on Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov · · Score: 1

    Just in case somebody screws up and deletes it, I imagine. Like, for example, what just happened. Imagine if they had to wait a month for the fix to propagate? That'd be insane!

  3. Re:Why not just use the .ca TLD? on Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov · · Score: 1

    Up here, we use gc.ca, which, of course, stands for, "Government of Canada Canada". It seems that some country south of us declared the ".gov" TLD as their own.

  4. Re:And Google does it again! on Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google · · Score: 1

    I think Slashdot may have stripped out your payload. If you consider "%5B" to be a payload, then you're probably mistaken, considering that, even if that's displayed exactly, you'll only end up with a left square bracket ("["), which is hardly malicious.

  5. Re:at least... on Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you know that 83% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

  6. Re:Not any more on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 1

    FYI, he was defining a second, and you're defining a meter.

  7. Re:Warnings on Jatol.com Disappears, Stranding Customers · · Score: 1

    Works fine until somebody pulls the plug on that server. I think you need a "scp" following tar.

  8. Re:algorithmic argumentum ad verecundiam on Algorithm Rates Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Pages · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but according to the algorithm here, that page isn't trustworthy.

  9. Re:It's about time. on Low-Energy Neutrinos Detected In Real Time · · Score: 1

    Speaking of "It's about time", I was starting to get worried that nobody was going to make a Star Trek reference!

  10. Re:"Sucker!" on D2 Updates, Text Message Notifcation · · Score: 1

    I'll run D2 when it works without javascript precisely because I'm not a sucker!

    My thoughts exactly! I'm surprised nobody said it earlier.

  11. Re:In related news... on BitTorrent Closes Source Code · · Score: 1

    This?

    Killing time while I wait to post, dum dee dum dee dum......

  12. Re:A better idea on "Crowd Farm" to Collect Energy? · · Score: 1

    That one almost looks like a Russian Reversal in disguise!

  13. Re:Sounds like FOSSie tactics on Hungary Officials Raid Microsoft Office · · Score: 1
    Sounds like trolling to me. In fact, I'm sure of it. But I'm trying to kill time at work, so I'll bite.

    Since when does Linux prevent you from using FOSS software? Microsoft is absolutely free to release software for FOSS platforms, if they wanted to.

    Also, do you seriously think that Microsoft is totally honest and upfront?

  14. Re:Europe getting in on the action too on US and China Top List of Spam-Relaying Countries · · Score: 1

    Interesting theory but you missed the key factor: dialup people are on when they're using the Internet (maybe, an hour or two a day?) whereas broadband people are on as long as their computer is turned on (up to 24 hours a day). So broadband people just have more time to send spam once their computer is owned up.

  15. Re:Defending stupidity... on Holes Remain Open in Firefox Password Manager · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You do realize that a 4-character password is useless, right?

    Ideally, you should have 8 or more characters in every password (12 or more is good, 16 or more is great), they shouldn't be based on English words or names (or anything else familiar), they should contain non-English characters, and so on. Plus, you should have a unique one for every use and site. I don't know about you, but I visit at least 20 - 30 sites with some regularity. So should I really remember hundreds of randomesque characters?

    My point is, you have a choice between sacrificing security one way or the other.

  16. Re:The writing's been on the wall... on Checkers Solved, Unbeatable Database Created · · Score: 1
    True, but it'd be slow going.

    Player: Where can this pawn move?
    Ref: Here
    Player: What about this pawn?
    Ref: Here
    ....etc.

  17. Re:The writing's been on the wall... on Checkers Solved, Unbeatable Database Created · · Score: 1
    That's funny, because I was thinking about a similar variation to chess just the other day (inspired by this post): you only know the position of your own pieces, not the other player's. The only way you could really figure it out is when you actually move, you can only move so far. You could check where each of your pieces are allowed to move to to determine where their pieces are (but not what they are).

    The advantage that your idea has, however, is that it can be played on a tabletop, whereas mine requires a computer.

  18. Shatner? on World's Largest Telescope Up and Running · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder if they'll be able to use this to find William Shatner's career?

  19. Re:Giving up privacy = giving an advantage to othe on Privacy is a Biological Imperative? · · Score: 1

    However, in a chess game, knowing your opponent's positions and moves give you no unexpected advantage, because that's the normal way of doing it. There's nothing stopping business from being played that way too.

  20. Re:Coming soon: Google Airlines on Google to Acquire Postini · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe you mean "strap on the googles".

  21. Re:It's not just about the software... on National Archive File Format Time Bomb · · Score: 1
    Wouldn't it be awesome if you ended up with the only Syquest drive in existence, and the government wanted to recover the data? You could rule the world!

    Now pardon me while I go out and start destroying the rest of the Syquest drives. But when you're leader of the world, I call being vice president!

  22. Re:Idiots on National Archive File Format Time Bomb · · Score: 1

    There's one important distinction: OpenDocument is, well, open. If they have access to our documents in 100 years, they will likely have access to the specifications to the OpenDocument format (hopefully in plaintext and not in .odf..), and will be able to re-implement it to open the files.

  23. Re:Can someone explain this for me...? on Major Flaw Found In Security Products · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course, while that's generally good advice, it does very little to prevent CSRF. Instead of using an image, they could use an iframe or JavaScript code or anything else that loads a URL.

  24. Re:Rubbish. on More Than Half of Known Vista Bugs are Unpatched · · Score: 1

    And a good one, at that. Now let's just hope that this doesn't "catch on," I've tackled enough spaghetti code in my day, the last thing I need are spaghetti comments!

  25. Re:Why would you ever..... on More Than Half of Known Vista Bugs are Unpatched · · Score: 1

    You appear to be confusing "security vulnerabilities" with "bugs".