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  1. Re:Extortion on Microsoft Officially Announces Anti-Virus Product · · Score: 1

    But what about non-vendor distributions, such as Ubuntu?

  2. Obligatory BBspot reference on Verizon Threatens Google's 'Free Lunch' · · Score: 1
  3. Re:How does this prevent spam? on AOL and Yahoo to Offer Filter Circumvention · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and what really annoys me about those eBay phishing attacks is that I don't even have an eBay account!

  4. Re:Backup on UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth? · · Score: 1

    Maybe do it in a console.

  5. Re:Backup on UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the person to whom you responded was talking about installing programs in Linux. Now in Windows it may be a pain, but whose fault is that?

  6. Re:Backup on UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth? · · Score: 1

    Indeed, some distributions include /home/user/bin in $PATH, although I don't know how to include libraries.

  7. Re:Backup on UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Install programs where? Should ordinary users be allowed to install programs in the system, as opposed to their own folder/directory? If so, why bother having a distinction between Administration and User in the first place?

  8. Re:Backup on UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth? · · Score: 1

    I install programs in Linux by logging in as root in an xterm. If you can spoof xterms on my machine, maybe I should do something else.

  9. Re:And don't forget... on Symantec's Genesis to Usher in a New Age of Trust? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be Brotherkeeper?

  10. Re:We already have equitable tiered service on Pay-to Play and the Tiered Internet · · Score: 1

    Well, this could let people know if their computers are owned by someone else!

  11. Re:Thankfully... on Pay-to Play and the Tiered Internet · · Score: 1

    Do you mean that Congress is in the pocket of The Baby Bells and telecoms?

  12. Re:Water Phase Diagram on Putting Star Wars to the MythBusters Test · · Score: 1

    How many planets do we know of that have enough water to form a core? Mars has some water, but would it have been enough to form a core?

  13. Re:Deathstar on Putting Star Wars to the MythBusters Test · · Score: 1

    Didn't BSD have an ad showing BSD destroying the AT&T Death Star logo? Wouldn't that mean that Death Star used an AT&T version of UNIX?

  14. Re:Damned if they do, Damned if they don't on No Anti-Virus in Vista · · Score: 1

    Disallow non-administrative uses from modifying *system* executable code on disk?

  15. Re:I think... on Mitnick on OSS · · Score: 1

    Linux runs on a wider variety of machines than Microsoft Windows does.

  16. An Austin Powers exchange on Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Austin notices that his wife (played by Elizabeth Hurley) is acting strangely, and realizes that she has been replaced with a fembot. The fembot deploys her breast-mounted machine guns.

    Austin: I never noticed those before
    Fembot: Why don't you try some foreplay

  17. Re:Logical on Toy Story 3 Scrapped · · Score: 1

    So you think that the later James Bond films suck?

  18. Re:Not Intel bashing at all. on Faulty Microsoft Driver Saps Intel Core Duo power · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? I wouldn't know as I've never made or attended such a presentation.

  19. Re:Ever hear of Terminal Server? on Installing Windows with Recent Updates? · · Score: 1

    If you're that upset by being negatively modded, then don't post on slashdot.

  20. Re:NYTimes Sensationalist Headline on Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him · · Score: 1

    So NASA is not part of the Bush administration? So does Mr.Acosta answer to John Kerry or Al Gore?

  21. Re:Tried to silence him hey on Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him · · Score: 1

    Preferences -> Comments -> Modify AC -6 would seem to do the trick quite well.

  22. Re:Security on Buy Vista or Else · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I was thinking of a cousin post by Cyric Z. (where he mentions deploying it in a company setting) instead of his grandfather post.

  23. Re:linux? OS X? on Buy Vista or Else · · Score: 1

    How can you check the status of your email without spinning the hard drive? Will that just be stored in RAM?

  24. Re:The problem is implementation rather than desig on Buy Vista or Else · · Score: 1

    Actually, SUSE 10.0 allows one to boot without the messages.

  25. Re:Security on Buy Vista or Else · · Score: 1

    Do you allow your employees to play World of Warcraft on company computers/time?