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  1. Re:Dang, that was quick... on Car RFID Security System Cracked · · Score: 1

    Perhaps export limitations....

  2. Re:Gitmo on Teen Sentenced for Releasing Variant of Blaster Worm · · Score: 1

    Just find some drivers, burn to cd, and install from there if they are available for linux. Don't need them to come with the distro.

  3. Re:Gitmo on Teen Sentenced for Releasing Variant of Blaster Worm · · Score: 1

    Well, for me anyway, I find the Fedora install process a lot easier than Windows. Don't know about SuSE, but that's good too I hear.

    Server is a radio button, above "desktop", "workstation" and "custom". Auto partition is a button above "partition manually".

  4. Re:Gitmo on Teen Sentenced for Releasing Variant of Blaster Worm · · Score: 1

    I put Fedora on a computer last night. No problems at all...you can just do auto-partition, and choose the server install option. Gentoo is a bit more difficult, but it's not meant for that sort of user.

    Graphical config for everything, really, really easy to use.

    But I guess if you want something to be easy to use you need to make compromises on security, etc.

  5. Re:FORTRAN - The ugly but lovable little SOB on How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language · · Score: 1
    Last year at my high school I saw this on a whiteboard somewhere.
    IF expression THEN instruction

    IF expression THEN
    instructions
    END IF
    Made me want to be sick ;)
  6. Re:Where's my ginsu.exe? on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    Hmmm....interesting idea. I'm starting to learn how to use FUSE, that could be an interesting project.

  7. Re:Isn't this grounds for legal action? on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    It's effectively a Windows port of find with a GUI and fixed arguments, and that can run uninstallers (not something I'd want to do with P2P software).

    I probably should put something like that up there, but it was 4AM, and most of the page was done with AWK.

  8. Re:Gitmo on Teen Sentenced for Releasing Variant of Blaster Worm · · Score: 1

    More like the homeowner has payed infinitely more for a window that is easily breakable when a windows supplied for free is much, much harder to break.

    But yes, I get your point.

  9. Re:And for good reason! on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    Unless you use the framebuffer.

  10. Re:Hmm... on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 3, Interesting
  11. Re:Isn't this grounds for legal action? on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1
  12. Re:XXX on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    I meant for a disk image over burning to CD.

  13. Re:What's the point? on EFF Creates Endangered Gizmos List · · Score: 1

    No, they want to change the law so it's illegal to sell the normal chips, or so I assume.

  14. Re:Hmm... on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    Why fuck around with wine when I have a working VMWare snapshot?

    I'll give some screenshots later though.

  15. Re:She's absolutely right on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    Or Linux and giFT-Fastrack ;)

  16. Re:Isn't this grounds for legal action? on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't, and it says when you start it that it does not distinguish between legal and illegal files. Watch this thread, I'll link to some screenshots later.

  17. Re:Parents Should Be Able To Get This Information on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    My parents know about movie pirating and that it can be be done on the computer. However, I could also leave a new copy of a main stream movie on the desktop with little worry.

    Same with my parents. Their first reaction to seeing me downloading music was "How do I do it?"

    And one time I (accidentally) left a porn movie on the desktop. They didn't even notice, it's just scary ;)

  18. Re:I just reverse-engineered the product on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    Congratulations! You've duplicated a >600KB program in one line of code!

  19. Re:XXX on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    Your average teenager will do a much better job (I'm 15, plenty of experience lol).

    Most of my friends like to put it on a form of removable media, however, I like to use a reiserfs hard drive image, and later will switch to an encrypted one. Gives more capacity, better performance, and is much more convenient. Well for me, anyway.

    Many lessons to be learned in this area ;)

  20. Re:Sheeple. on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    I would! I have a huge number of MP3s lost somewhere in the filesystem, and I'm Too Fuckin Lazy(tm) to download Lithium again ;)

  21. Re:Hmm... on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    Now that you mention it, I will try it in VMWare (not under wine, that could find the actual files, and who knows what the scanner does)

  22. Re:What's the point? on EFF Creates Endangered Gizmos List · · Score: 1

    I don't seem to have any problems getting A-D/D-A chips, I just go to an electronics store, pay some money, and I have them...didn't know there were people trying to get them banned.

  23. Re:How a prison SHOULD be run on All Games Banned From MO Prisons · · Score: 1

    Your suggestion is to make prisons into a labour camp, where their lives involve building luxuries for the wardens for 4 cents an hour?

  24. Re:grounding != jail on All Games Banned From MO Prisons · · Score: 1

    The acts that adults get jailed for months or years for doing (drugs, assault, theft, destruction, murder, etc.)

    Because no kids have ever done them, right?

    I've known kids that have had the cops come over and fucking arrest people because of a fight. Things are insane as it is.

  25. Re:I agree on All Games Banned From MO Prisons · · Score: 1

    You do realise that things like copyright infringement are a felony right? You would kill someone for sharing music???