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  1. Re:It's sad really on MPAA Being Sued For Allegedly Hacking Torrentspy · · Score: 2, Funny

    In rights, it assumes a corporation has the same constitutional rights as a person.

    So after a corporation has been in business for 18 years, it can vote and join the army?

  2. Re:Beatles vs. Beethoven on Slashback: Lapses, Maps, Ludwig Van · · Score: 1

    They are probably referring to the Live 8 opening song, performed by Paul Mccartney and U2.

  3. Re:server locations? on BBC News Under The Bonnet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's wrong with it? The addresses are all major data centers / carrier hotels, so it's not really a surprise that they are located there. It's not like you can just walk into any of these and get access to the servers.

  4. Re:25? Already blocked. on FTC Recommends ISPs Disconnect Spam Zombies · · Score: 1
    we just switch them to port 3535

    why not use port 587, which is specifically intended for this purpose?

  5. The G in GPL doesn't stand for GNU on Why I Love The GPL · · Score: 1

    It's the General Public License, not GNU Public License.

  6. Re:Someone else check...not the airport? on Apple's First 2005 Mac OS X Security Update Is Out · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I suppose that if you were sniffing such a network (unencryted of course) you could easily get the hardware MAC address from an e-mail,

    It's a lot simpler than that. If you can already sniff the network in the first place, why go to all the trouble of getting the MAC address out of an email message-id when you can simply look at the ethernet header itself which contains the MAC address!?

  7. Re:I am wondering if this can be timed? on Apple 100,000,000 iTMS celebration · · Score: 1

    there are about 8 songs purchased per second (as shown in this graph), and the counter is updated only once every few minutes, so it's quite hard to predict it with any kind of useful accuracy.

  8. Re:Is that counter live? on Apple 100,000,000 iTMS celebration · · Score: 5, Informative

    the counter is updated every 5 minutes. i created a page showing a graph of the number of songs sold and the rate of sales.

  9. Re:Quantum Crypto Provably Flawed? on First Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 1

    To each party you pretend to be the other party and just relay the messages.

    the whole point of quantum cryptography is that a man-in-the-middle attack like that is fundamentally impossible.

  10. Re:Ass hats on ISPs Experiment With Broadband Download Capping · · Score: 1

    Is it really so bad that users of broadband like to utilize as much of the pipe as they are appropriated?

    the point is that the price for residential broadband (~ $35 a month) is already based on the assumption that you will only use a fraction of the bandwindth available. only now are they realizing that their business model was flawed to begin with if people actually use their connection.

  11. 30% of ipv4 space still unallocated on Asia Running Out Of IP Addresses · · Score: 5, Interesting
  12. sosumi on Apple to Launch Music Service? · · Score: 2, Funny

    will the first song they release be called sosumi?

  13. amazon.com itself on Amazon Becomes Domain Name Registrar · · Score: 1, Interesting
    interesting that amazon.com itself is still registered at network solutions.

    Domain Name: AMAZON.COM
    Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.

  14. Re:Corporate bankruptcy in a nutshell on KPNQwest Files for Bankruptcy · · Score: 2

    Chapter 11, however - this is what I presume they're using the European equivalent of -

    nope, they did that last week already. today they filed for bankruptcy.

  15. one possible solution on How to Work Around Broken Port-80 Routing? · · Score: 2

    find a friend who has a colocated server or dsl connection.

    then use that machine as a web proxy, or set up an ipsec tunnel to that machine and route your port 80 traffic through that tunnel.

  16. what do they mean with 802.3 *and* fixed ethernet? on Multihomed WLANs from Intel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    802.3 is fixed ethernet, see this page.

  17. gcc snapshot, not development kernel on Red Hat's Michael Tiemann On gcc, ReiserFS & More · · Score: 2

    Red Hat did not ship a development kernel, they shipped a gcc development snapshot.
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  18. Koeieuier on Interview With AES Author · · Score: 2

    I still think they should have called it herfstvrucht, angstschreeuw or koeieuier, like they propose here
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  19. I want integration, not convergence on Palm/Motorola to Develop Combo handheld/phone · · Score: 4

    Personally, I would prefer a separate PDA and phone, but they should be tightly integrated (using Bluetooth or similar). The possibilities are essentially the same as with a combined device (browse the web, caller ID, call from PDA, etc.), but to me having two separate devices with specific functions seems a lot more convenient.
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  20. Re:I am just waiting for... on Other Uses For The Linux RAM Disk? · · Score: 2
    ...I am just waiting for the inevitable suggestion that the ramdisk be used for "swap" :)

    which isn't such a bad idea if you use the slram patch on a computer where not all RAM is cached (e.g., some Pentium boards with more than 64M)


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  21. Re:Non Existant Pages on Google, History, Profitability · · Score: 2

    if I do a search for buying Saabs online, I will get hits that look like the page was just that, but in reality it is some sort of company that makes it look like a site has content like that, then when I click on it, it sends me to something unrelated... like a gambling site.

    Even then the cacheing function is useful, as it will show you the page exactly as the googlebot saw it, and so you can see why it's being indexed this way.


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  22. Re:Google the Revenue on Google, History, Profitability · · Score: 3
    the only real problem is that Google, also, continues to point to non-existent web pages.

    You can use Google's cache feature to look at pages that have disappeared or have changed since they were indexed.
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  23. Re:They have no right on Sony VP On Stopping Napster · · Score: 3

    they have absolutely no right to [...] make business contracts with my ISP, my ISP's ISP, phone companies, etc.

    Of course, they have every right to make such contracts. Just as you are free to choose a different ISP.


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  24. Re:Yes, poster was confused on @Home Stops Allowing VPNs · · Score: 3

    They can't possibly detect ip-masq.

    Unless you patch your kernel, Linux uses ports 61000 and up as the source port for masqueraded connections. A lot of traffic originating from that port range makes it at least suspicious that masquerading is used, but indeed they can never be 100% certain.


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  25. Street Performer Protocol on The Virtual Tip Jar · · Score: 3

    Perhaps something like Bruce Schneier's Street Performer Protocol would work for sites like this?
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