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  1. Re:It makes sense ... on Yahoo Moving to PHP · · Score: 2
    There's no way you can back that statement up. Corporations generally have a few outward-facing web servers, and yes, these are most likely running apache, but the vast majority of Intranet web servers are still IIS. After that you'll see Lotus Domino and iPlanet, and then Apache.

    I find it even less possible that you will be able to back *that* statement up with any meaningful data. (No, your personal experience does not count)

  2. Re:It makes sense ... on Yahoo Moving to PHP · · Score: 2
    most commercial sites run on ASP,Perl,JSP+Servlets, or something proprietry like Vignette

    Using vignette is like being talked into buying this high-tech, over-engineered, colorful, well supported, beautiful in demos, easy to use and extremely expensive blaster gun to shoot yourself in the foot.
    Those responsible are then to embarressed to admit the mistake (and waste of money).

  3. Re:Scary on Saddam's Inbox Hacked · · Score: 2


    This is not wild propaganda. We are fighting against the Anybody But America (& allies) coalition. ..... The enemy's definition of peace is our destruction. Therefore, we have no choice but to make our definition of peace their destruction.

    That's it, you're joking ..

    Thanks for the (short) discussion, you realy should learn to troll better ..

  4. Re:what's my motivation on Intel Pushes Pentium 4 Past 3 GHz · · Score: 2

    How can Word appear any faster at 3GHz? I would think that after 1.5GHz, improvement in performance would be hard to notice.

    Two words: "Office XP"

  5. The real question on Superhero Smackdown · · Score: 2


    If I remember the correct form of the questionm from my childhood, it goes something like this:

    Q: Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Santa Clause, an honest lawyer and a cleaning lady are all in a fight. Who wins ?

    A: The cleaning lady, the others are just fictional characters.

  6. Re:Scary on Saddam's Inbox Hacked · · Score: 2


    I think you're joking, realy !!

    But since I see no smileys in your comment, I'l reply (and hope you're not a troll).

    How have you missed all of Bush's speeches, Blair's dossier of declassified intelligence, the numerous denunciations of Saddam by the U.N., and lots of other information coming out from nations around the world?

    First of all, the Blair UK report was a joke (Yes, I read it). It presented no evidence at all, only specualtions that "Sadam might be trying to increase the range of the "Hussein" missiles further than he is allowed to. (Yes the guy is allowed to have weapons and even short-range missiles).
    It also speculated, get this, that "Iraq could make a nuclear bomb within a few years if they got the nessecary materials (plutonium etc ..)

    Look, Saddam murders his own family members to prove his ruthlessness to potential dissendents.

    His "family members" had fled the country and committed treason, stolen classified state secrets and worked with the enemy. The USA has also killed it's own citisens for the same reasons. So it's not exactly a proof of anything.

    The rest of your comment is just plain propaganda.. For example you don't have a "proof of his intentions" because some people put blood on the election ballots ?

    I'l stop here, there realy is no logic in the rest of your comment and people might start to think I'm a Saddam supporter.

  7. Re:Scary on Saddam's Inbox Hacked · · Score: 2


    Hey guys, just to make the argument clearer could you please make a distinction between Saddam and his cronies and the people/country of Iraq.

    Good point, but the problem is also (as the first poster pointed out), that there is little or no evidence against Saddam. Heck, there is more evidence of use of illegal chemicals, against the Russians now after the hostage-massacre last weekend. And Will mr Bush go against the Russians ?

    It's also suspicious that the US has prevented the weapons inspectors from going to Iraq, and is shouting for a new UN mandate that allows it to attack Iraq.

    What is also strange is that on the time that has passed since the weapons inspectors were ready to go to Iraq (and the Iraqis ready to accept them). They could have gone to Iraq, be obstructed (if what the US says is true) and we would have a UN resolution calling for a attack of Iraq.

    It's clear that there is some second motive for the US to attack Iraq.

  8. Ocham's on Freenet 0.5 Released · · Score: 2
    Freenet's de facto purpose is to subvert the following:
    Article I, Section 8. Powers of Congress
    [paragraph 8] To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

    Things must have changed since I looked at the FreeNet project.

    I always understood the project as a tool to disclose information that the governament didn't want people to know. For example, in some (realy bad) countries, the governament lets the police search your apparement and almost every records there are about you, without you knowing it. And it's even illegal for people to tell you that the police has ever investigated you. Even 20 years after the fact.

    The same governaments have been known to assasinate foreign (elected) head of states and finance terrorism abroad.

    And I who thought that FreeNet was meant as a tool to disclose information about those governaments,, tsk tsk .. How naive of me ..

  9. The Solution to "Obvious" on San Diego Company Owns E-Commerce · · Score: 2


    Since more or less everybody agrees that obvious things shouldn't be patentable, I'we come up with a new model for the patent office.

    First of all, "Obvious" means a solution that a group or individual with education in the field can come up with in a reasonable amount of time.

    Here is the new method:
    Have patent appliers describe in detail What problem their new idea solves
    Post the problem description on a web page
    Let the world brainstorm for a year or so (How long is the standard process anyway ?) and post all the solutions they can come up with on the website.
    The patent applier gets a patent for those parts of his solution that haven't been decribed on the webpage and to which there is no prior art.

    Fair ?

  10. Re:Heh, nice censorship on U.S. Ranks 17th in Freedom of the Press · · Score: 2


    Reporters without Borders is censored at my work.

    And SlashDot is not ?? Yeah, I guess we can call that *nice* censorship ;-)

  11. Build in Fatal Design Flaw ? on Mitch Kapor's Outlook-Killer · · Score: 2


    "Have I mentioned it's going to run on Macintosh, Linux, and Windows and will not require a server"

    So what happends when I want to schedule a meeting with Anne, Bo and Chris, and Both Bo and Chris are on hollidays (due back tommorrow). I won't have access to their calenders will I ??

  12. Because ... on Microsoft Settlement Compliance Criticized · · Score: 2


    So how come we're not bombing Microsoft?

    They don't have Oil !

  13. No can do. on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 2
    We need a website that shows all the people that voted yes for the DMCA.

    It was a closed/secret vote..

  14. Difference on Windows vs Linux On Security · · Score: 3, Interesting


    I've *taken* MS curricula before and its not a whole lot better than the online documentation. A typical 30 hour (4 day) class has about 2 hours of stuff you'd be unlikely to sort out through the UI and docs.


    My thoughts exactly when I took the NT server/admin/whatever course. I realy felt like I had been had (or that the company I worked for had been had).

    Those awfully expensive Micro$oft courses do a la-la job of telling you what the software can do, but leave out entirely *how the software works*, which is exactly what serious admins need to know.

  15. Re:I got hacked too, honest on Still More on News Corp. Hacking Charges · · Score: 3, Funny
    I've no evidence, or anything, but that doesn't seem a problem.

    Your name isn's Goerge W. by any change ?

  16. Re:Interesting timing . on Still More on News Corp. Hacking Charges · · Score: 2
    Where does it say (yes this is an automated Italian->English translation) that Seca2 is hacked

    Scroll down a bit and you find links to download the smartcard programs.

    Also, have a look at This page (search for "seca")

  17. Interesting timing . on Still More on News Corp. Hacking Charges · · Score: 4, Insightful


    It was only yesterday (*not kidding*) that one of the bigger Vivendi owned satellite TV (Canalsat) upgraded it's encryption system to "Seca2".

    But I'm afraid the Seca2 system is DOA as it has already been cracked by Italian Crackers.

  18. Re:Then the Ford dealer asks on Security as a Profit Center? · · Score: 2


    They only seemed very reliable and very secure because they weren't exposed to a hostile network.

    Duh ?, Different environments => Different requirements for the same level of security.

  19. Funny ?? on E-Book Copy Protection, For What It's Worth · · Score: 2
    Because in a palladium world, ordinary people won't be allowed to take pictures, videotape weddings or record their own music

    Unfortunately, there is some truth in this. The copyright-holders will find a way to make digital-camera, scanner and ocr-software makers detect watermarks in the input and turn itself off. Even if you use an ardinary camera to take a "screenshot", every computer software will refuse to display/work with it.
    Welcome to Microsoft's "Palladium" future.

    Just laugh now, but your kid's won't after 20 years ..

  20. Not right on Law Enforcement by Machines · · Score: 2


    Nowadays, it seems as if more and more law enforcement is being done by machines. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be up to the job.

    I thought we had already gotten rid of that "computer's fault" argument. Well, the same goes for any other type of machine, it doesn't have a free will so it can't be held accountable.

    Machines do exactly what they are constructed to do, and they are wery good at it!

    It's the people who run those machines that are "not up to the job".

  21. Copyright vioation !! on Dialtones - A Telesymphony · · Score: 2


    I hope that this guys realiase what they just did.

    This is a flagrant violation of copyright.

  22. Re:'warfare' on Help wanted: CTO at Warner Music. · · Score: 2


    Not many companies would put 'warfare' in a job descriptions firstly because few are in a mindset that they at war

    I don't agree, the term "war" in modern economics, simply means "to be in the presence of opposing force". It is a widely used metaphore and there is even a French school that's called "The school of economical Warfare"

  23. Re:95 Kbs in *size*? on Nokia 7650 Modified to Record Video Clips · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Nope, that is the size. The standard for MMS multimedia messaging restricts the size of any message to 100kb

    The unit 'Kilo' in physics, meaning 1000, is written 'k'
    The unit 'Kilo', in CS, meaning 1024 is written 'K'
    Bytes is written 'B'
    bits is written 'b'
    Seconds is written as 's' or '/s' as in 'per second'

    Then, 95Kbs is logical to interpret as 95Kilobits per second, and that, my dear watson, is a unit for streaming capacity.

  24. Re:Same mantra applies to Linux and MS sysadmins: on New Linux Worm Found in the Wild · · Score: 2

    That 1) is *extremely* important. If you're running RedHat you can use "chkconfig --list" to see what network-based services are running (all services actually).

    For everything you don't know what is, don't hesitade to do a "chkconfig --del [service]". It's not realy deleted, just disabled.

    Also, do a "rpm -qa" and "rpm -e [package]" for everything you don't know/need. It's better to have to spend some time fixing a problem that ypu caused yourself than fixing something that was done by an intruder.

  25. Re:BBS outside the USA on The "Find Your Old BBS Buddies" Database · · Score: 2
    I find it amazing that Europeans can muster so much blind hatred (or is it jealosy?) for Americans.

    Funny how you can't even explain the cause of the problem to some people and they jump up, accusing you af hating them and whatever. Tell someone what the USA has been doing in securing dictators in power all over the world, and you are "anti-american", criticise the Israelis for indiscrimitate bombing of civilians and you are "anti-semetic"

    The hatred is not blind, far from it, Europeans are trying to "argue" with logic, about what is right/wrong. I doubt it should even be called 'hatred'.

    How is a terrorist act perpetrated by wealthy Saudi engineers and backed by a Saudi multi-millionaire whose stated purpose it is to establish an Islamic world order an act of "revenge" exactly?

    Are you suggesting that "wealthy Saudi engineers" or "Saudi multi-millionaires" or whatever, can't have a 'revenge' ?? I utterly fail to see where it matters what university degree they had or how much money they owned ??

    There are a *lot* of people, and I mean *LOT* of people, in this world, who hate the USA for what the US foreign policy has brough down on their country. (and the WTO/Worldbank/etc etc..., but that's slightly different story).

    What, are you equating the cold-blooded murder of thousands of innocents with misguided support for the Contras or something?

    Arghh, no please not another one !!!!
    *I* am not equating anything, *I* do not support the killing of *any* civilians (including americans), I am just trying to explain to you that the US foreign policy backfired badly. Putting royal families in power who torture their political opponents (Kuvait), for one, will bring you lots of rich enemies.

    you have any idea what sort of activities the British were engaged in while _they_ were in a similar position of power

    No, and I don't see the relevance ?? Is it supposed to justify something ??

    Nothing, NOTHING justifies the horror of September 11th,

    True, as goes with any other humanitarian tragedies around the world. Do you think the 11th Sept tragedy was somehow morally "special" ?

    and standing idly by is the last thing you want to do

    I consider it just as bad to exploit the tradegy to enforce your power uppon the world.