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  1. Re:I'm out of place. on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 1

    You've got a 6 digit UID, and no karma bonus.
    You can still change ;)

  2. Re:Buran in Sydney on Soviet Space Shuttle Found In Bahrain? · · Score: 1

    We parked at a casino and spent almost half an hour tracking down the tent where they were keeping it.

    Yes, this is OT, but you should have just gone on the ferry, where you can see it from a fair distance away. In Sydney, when you can, take a ferry. It's much easier than going by road.

    I was surprised that there were not many people there when I went, but quite a few people don't like to see these sorts of things I guess.

  3. Re:That IS dangerous... on Plutonium Shipment to France on the Way · · Score: 1

    No offense or anything, but you really need to try some coffee ;)

  4. Re:Whats the problem? on Plutonium Shipment to France on the Way · · Score: 1

    Or go around ;)

  5. Re:Don't need critical mass to make a bomb on Plutonium Shipment to France on the Way · · Score: 1

    Actually, it won't leave buildings there. Neutron bombs were made for battlefield use, to kill people in tanks and infantry carriers.

    A neutron bomb is the same as a thermonuclear, but the U-238 casing is left off, allowing neutrons to escape.

    Wikipedia article

  6. Re:Not to worried.... on Spam Over Internet Telephony (SPIT) to Come? · · Score: 1

    So, in order to be able to call me, your phone first contacts the provider, requests a certificate to connect to me, and the provider gives that to the phone, and then their phone uses that as credentials to get my phone to not ignore it.

    Why not have a whitelist based on a web of trust like gpg has? Or does it already exist? I don't use VoIP, so I'm not really sure.

  7. Re:Excellent... on Verisign Develops Token for Age Verification · · Score: 1

    The non-issue of 50 year old men prenting to be 14 year old boys (or girls) is probably not worth the investment!

    Well, they probably won't have a token, will they?

  8. Re:Maintenance on Windows Upgrade, FAA Error Cause LAX Shutdown · · Score: 1

    To bring down air-traffic control with this bug, one person needs to make a mistake once.

    To introduce the bug, many people have to make the same mistake many times - not just when it is written, but every time someone reads it.

    I certainly didn't indicate anything regarding punishment...merely responsibility

    Well, what do YOU think will happen to the techie? Management aren't exactly going to be rushing to his aid, are they?

  9. Re:you ass on Windows Upgrade, FAA Error Cause LAX Shutdown · · Score: 1

    you simply cannot organise big projects like this. you do risk analysis and if it's decided you can accept it with a constraint that you, say, boot it occasionally then you may be able to accept the system

    Most people would expect more from air-traffic control systems, though.

  10. Re:Maintenance on Windows Upgrade, FAA Error Cause LAX Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Human error will happen whether you like it or not, punishing people severely won't prevent the inevitable.

    If the software had been written properly, this human error wouldn't be a problem.

  11. Re:32 bit timer on Windows Upgrade, FAA Error Cause LAX Shutdown · · Score: 1
    How about I fix it now?
    #define MAX_TIME 0xFFFFFFFF

    unsigned long int start = GetTickCount();
    DoStuff();
    unsigned long int elapsed;
    unsigned long int finish = GetTickCount();
    if(start <= finish)
    {
    elapsed = finish - start;
    }
    else
    {
    elapsed = (MAX_TIME - start) + finish;
    }

    There, done. Wasn't that hard, was it?
  12. Re:Anyone want to clue them in to scheduled jobs? on Windows Upgrade, FAA Error Cause LAX Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Or, you could make the script hand over control to another server before the reboot. THAT might work nicely.

  13. Re:Simple. on Whois Record Falsification Closer To Illegality · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Big Deal :) on AOL Moves Beyond Single Passwords for Log-Ons · · Score: 1

    2) Annoying easily lost dongle on your keychain that says "RSA- STEAL ME" in big bold letters.

    IIRC, I think they have a credit-card sized version, and it is possible to have it integrated into a phone/PDA.

  15. Re:Payoff on Security Attacks Increasingly Motivated By Greed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, any investigation will probably be a lot faster and more thorough if there's money involved than if someone just gets root access and leaves.

    Most things people do are for money. Sex too, but if you can hack, you're already precluded from the latter ;)

  16. Re:I'm wondering... on Microsoft To Share Office Source Code · · Score: 1

    Like I said, breathe the right way.

    It is also dependant on your karma ;)

  17. Re:NAT !!! on Zombie Networks On The Rise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But, would the NAT box normally be told to forward port 445, etc?

    I didn't say that it was an alternative to a firewall for actual security, but it's better than nothing.

  18. Re:These buggers are getting more common on Zombie Networks On The Rise · · Score: 1
    Whats annoying is that some of these buggers can really mess up the system. Simple 'pop in cd / go to free online web scanner and clean up' no longer works in some cases... Symantec should concentrate more on making their crappy AV software work better and resist disabling by virii better and stop issuing more sensationalist press releases.

    And tell the users that they could just clean up by killing processes and changing
    HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
    HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\R un
    Why lose business?
    Yes, it's complicated, but not out of reach for all users. And IIRC, you can use msconfig to extract files from the install cd, although I have never done it (I've never done anything like that on a system which could boot).
  19. Re:NAT !!! on Zombie Networks On The Rise · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It can stop the ones that exploit Windows security holes, which are the fast-spreading ones.

    NAT can protect, because if it doesn't know where to send the buffer-overflow to, it just drops the packet.

  20. Re:NAT !!! on Zombie Networks On The Rise · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It won't protect them from viruses coming from the inside (people with laptops, some guy connecting through their unsecured wireless lan, etc, etc)

  21. Re:I'm wondering... on Microsoft To Share Office Source Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    To get the same binaries, they'd need to use the same compiler, all the same options, breath the right way, and hope that they get the right thing.

  22. Re:What's so "cool" about FireFox? on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 1

    If you're stuck on a 33k connection, it makes quite a bit of difference.

  23. Re:It's a conspiracy... ok not really, but sort of on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 1

    Buffer overflow in the graphics renderer.

  24. Re:Now how about fixing slashdot? on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the main frame pushed into the links on the left, and needs a reload to fix it.

  25. Re:What's so "cool" about FireFox? on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 1

    Firefox == 4.5MB
    Mozilla == 11MB

    These numbers are for the Windows versions - hardware problems keep me there.