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  1. Re:Let's keep this in perspective... on LifeLock Spokesperson's Stolen ID Inspires Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    And how many of these identity theft attempts would have succeeded without him using the service? These aren't going to be your usual identity thieves, who would pick a far more low-profile target.

  2. Re:Let's keep this in perspective... on LifeLock Spokesperson's Stolen ID Inspires Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    This rock keeps tigers away

  3. Perl6 has *not* been released on perl6 and Parrot 0.5.2 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is not the release of Perl 6, this is merely another release on the branch that will one day become the perl6 release. The interesting change is that you can now build a proper binary version of perl.

  4. Re:I hope there's a wiki page on ESA, EA Caught Editing Their Own Wikipedia Entries · · Score: 2, Informative

    The bird is Prometheus, Sisyphus is the one rolling the boulder up the hill (and Tantalus was the one with the pool of water and the grapes).

  5. Re:Woo Hoo. on Doctor Who Series Four Is A Go · · Score: 1

    Series 29 actually. But what are a few series of exquisite t.v. between friends?

  6. That was the key question? on Gotuit Online Player Now Available for Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    By the looks of it, the key question was "why should we care?" or possibly "why don't they have any content?" (the word slashvertisement also came up, but not as a question). So this boils down to non-interesting site that requires flash 9 still requires flash 9 but now flash 9 for linux is out, an event which got its own article.

  7. Re:3D Imax? on New Stephen Hawking Movie in the Works · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Time.

  8. Re:Yeah, I Phrased That Badly on Wii Will Have an Updatable Linux OS · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected, thanks.

  9. Re:Yeah, I Phrased That Badly on Wii Will Have an Updatable Linux OS · · Score: 1

    Nope, you only have to distribute the source to those you distribute the binary to. Of course those people are free to redistribute the source to whoever they want, so in effect it'll reach everyone who wants it for anything that gets released to a non-tiny group of people, but there's no obligation to distribute the source to those you haven't distributed the binary to.

  10. Re:In defense of print statements on Pro Perl Debugging · · Score: 1

    Ehm, yes, that one. Yeah, you can do it with typeglobs or subs or whatever you want.

  11. Re:In defense of print statements on Pro Perl Debugging · · Score: 1

    Or you can use constant DEBUG=0; which is perhaps more straight-forward.

  12. Re:Opera beats out Gecko on What's New With IE, Firefox, Opera · · Score: 1

    It still loads the flash though, it just hides it from view. If I recall correctly, the click-to-play thingy for firefox doesn't load flash at all until you've clicked on the "click here to start flash" link. I think I'll stick with setting plugins disabled and manually enabling them if I want to view flash.

  13. Re:Latency over lightyears... on Vint Cerf on Internet Challenges · · Score: 1

    It depends on your ideas of the mechanism behind quantum entaglement whether or not the response is instant, the point is you can't detect any information from it. Pick up a popular science book on quantum mechanics, this has been covered many times. (Lindley's Where does the weirdness go is rather nice, and as it only covers the basics, being written ten years ago isn't a problem)

  14. Re:Latency over lightyears...FTL comms 'doable'. on Vint Cerf on Internet Challenges · · Score: 1

    Pushing the rod would merely cause a shockwave in it, which would travel at the speed of sound in whatever material the rod was made of.

  15. Re:Latency over lightyears... on Vint Cerf on Internet Challenges · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can't transfer information over entangled particles. Furthermore, faster than light information transfer violates relativity.

  16. Re:Time for (even) better security? on Security Holes Draw Linux Developers' Ire · · Score: 1

    It's not hot kernel patching, it's just cutting out the run through the BIOS boot by returning all hardware to a sane state and loading the new kernel just like the BIOS would. It's called kexec on Linux I believe. Whether or not this is rebooting is a matter of definitions.

  17. Re:Scholar search! on Google Keyhole, Google Scholar · · Score: 5, Informative
  18. Re:Handbook on Intro to Encryption · · Score: 1

    Hardly, AC is just a "these are the algorithms" book, HAC actually goes into the details of how and why things work. If you read one, read HAC thoguh by all means reading both isn't a waste of time.

  19. Re:Yes. on Perl 6 Grammars and Regular Expressions · · Score: 1

    It's not all that hard to convert an NFA to a DFA. Writing an NFA engine is easy. Designing and writing Perl is hard.

  20. Re:Yes. on Perl 6 Grammars and Regular Expressions · · Score: 1

    It's a kludged up NFA: Take for instance the regex /(.*)foo\1/; You can't match that with a pure NFA.

  21. Re:Xinerama on TransGaming Releases Cedega 4.1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just run it on a separate (non-xinerama) X server on a different virtual terminal, you get the added bonus of being able to switch easily between your desktop and your game without having to resort to the games windowed/full screen function.

  22. Re:Superceded on Navy ELF to Be Scrapped · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you have a 60Hz pulse, you're either a hummingbird or in desperate need of medical attention.

  23. Re:Got plenty of time? eDonkey may rock. on Kazaa Loses P2P Crown To Edonkey · · Score: 1
    You don't actually even need to run it setgid anything, use --pid-owner and some scripting that adapts your firewall rules when you launch mldonkey, or even easier, --cmd-owner (in combination with --uid-owner to prevent other users (if any) programs from matching).

    You'll probably want to run it as an entirely different user and chrooted just for security purposes though.

    Also, to answer the grandparent post's question some further, have a look at the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control howto.
    (this all assumes you're using linux ofcourse, but that should have been clear by now)

  24. Re:I blame the Google Toolbar for a lot of this on Searching For Trouble With Google · · Score: 3, Funny

    The rest of your security is still pretty bad though. By the looks of your prompt you just got a root shell by catting your robots.txt.

  25. Re:External Modems on Modem Success Stories With Linux? · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are ofcourse right. I don't know how that piece of information managed to drift into my brain and get stuck without any checking. Apologies for the disinformation.