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  1. Re:so? on SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes · · Score: 1

    You're interfering with my VoIP when you play BF2 over the net.

    If it's important enough to shoot somebody, go down to the paintball range and stop being such a cheap ass.

  2. Re:Wait...they already do this. on SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes · · Score: 1

    IIRC, 187 is the port for SSL-enabled POP3.

  3. Re:We're so lame on Bill Gates Donates $258 Million to Fight Malaria · · Score: 1

    Well we're not *at* that stage yet, so why isn't using the knowledge that we have scientific? Or did you think that the techniques for making vaccines invented themselves?

  4. Re:Not that surprising. on Use of Student Plants to Pitch Products Rising · · Score: 1

    It wasn't Microsoft...someone was nice enough to speed up natural selection for the Microsoft users ;)

  5. Re:Likewise for Visio on Red Hat CEO Decries Open Source Pretenders · · Score: 1

    Per-processor just to run the server, but don't you need Client Access Licenses on top of that if anyone wants to use it?

  6. God's Reply on Start of Life Gene Discovered · · Score: 1

    mnemonic is dead.

  7. Re:and it only took a year on MIT Professor Fired over Fabricated Data · · Score: 1

    I'd hope that my employer would check that I was you know...still alive and not kidnapped or something before I got fired.

  8. Re:Likewise for Visio on Red Hat CEO Decries Open Source Pretenders · · Score: 1

    One MS license could probably serve 5 people if it was pooled like this...

    It could, if MS licenced per concurrent user, rather than for total users.

  9. Re:Their software on Microsoft Threatens To Withdraw Windows in S.Korea · · Score: 1

    Not if they choose to buy from China.

  10. Re:Someone explain to me... on Students Banned from Blogging · · Score: 1

    Umm...is it generally legal for your boss to fire you for exercising your free speech, in a manner not related to work?

  11. Re:Well it could be like my school on Students Banned from Blogging · · Score: 1

    I agree with you here, American schools do seem to have a lot of problems (drug testing? wtf?). My school however (public, in Adelaide) seems to have gotten worse with the new principal this year. Hopefully she'll get kicked out...everyone hates her, she just imposes new rules from above without any justification (eg. "No sandals with winter uniform." "Why?" "It's the rules." "Why is that a rule?" "The principal said so." "Why?" "I don't know, if it's a problem you can get your parents to complain, but it's not like it will make any difference" was a conversation I heard the other day).

    If only a school could be run like the rest of the world...the procedures do seem somewhat like what happens at a jail.

  12. Re:This Counts on Deep in the Core · · Score: 1

    The gravity from the stars pulling matter outwards would counteract this effect.

  13. Re: Finally... on iTunes Australia to Launch Next Week · · Score: 1

    IIRC, Sony didn't want to sign.

  14. Re:already taken care of on Cell Phones Learn to Recognize Their Owners' Faces · · Score: 1

    It'd be nice if I didn't have to wreck my night-vision to use my phone.

  15. Re:OpenBSD at the cutting edge on security on Heap Protection Mechanism · · Score: 1
    How about we forget about all this, and just modify the language to have a paranthesis-like structure? ;)


    The Prius is less polluting than ((more mainstream) 4WDs).


    As their focus is security, its understandable that they lead more incentives in these areas than (more mainstream) Linux distributions.

    as opposed to

    As their focus is security, its understandable that they lead more incentives in these areas than (more mainstream Linux distributions).
  16. Re:Free movies! on Universal to Offer its Movies Online · · Score: 1

    I just tracerouted prisonplanet.tv, and it appears to be going through Cogent. So I believe that would be correct.

  17. Re:No on Another Victim Countersues RIAA Under RICO Act · · Score: 1
    Think about it this way:
    1. I have a technical measure put in place in order to stop people from gaining access to my copyrighted material (my data).
    2. The RIAA breaks through that technical measure.
    3. ???
    4. DMCA violation...umm...I mean PROFIT!
  18. Re:"loser-pays" is not so good either. on Another Victim Countersues RIAA Under RICO Act · · Score: 1

    Putting it to the discretion of the judge would be preferable. At least assuming there can be an appeal process.

  19. Re:Why!? on NASA Takes Step Forward In Planet Finding · · Score: 1

    So you're suggesting that we forget about all astronomy until we have faster-than-light travel?

  20. Re:Other Way Around on P2P Users More Likely to Cheat, Shoplift · · Score: 1

    Have you ever *met* any teenagers? The only people that don't download music are those who have dialup and don't want to wait for it.

  21. Re:Qt and trolltech on KDE 4 Promises Large Changes · · Score: 1

    GPL isn't free enough for you?

  22. Re:Stability, ease of use and speed on KDE 4 Promises Large Changes · · Score: 1

    If you don't want the eyecandy, why are you using KDE anyway? Fluxbox, Enlightenment, WindowMaker, etc. are much faster and more functional (at least IMO...I love Fluxbox with a scroll wheel...try it and see ;)).

  23. Re:One-time pads save the day in two steps on FCC Giving Veto Power to FBI Over VoIP? · · Score: 1

    2) When asked for the key to the encrypted sensitive phone call, insist that you use one-time pads, the only unbreakable form of encryption. Give the XOR that you computed in step (1).

    Why give them anything? Just say you've used OTP and you don't have the key anymore!
  24. Re:I'd be curious to know . . . on SSH Claims Draw Open Source Ire · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, OpenSSH is actually a fork of their product (before it was closed).

  25. Re:SysInternals' on No Defense Against Windows Rootkits? · · Score: 1

    Knoppix STD sounds like what you want, although I think Knoppix would have chkrootkit on it.