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  1. Who will they get to play Bill Gates? on Microsoft Gets Help From NSA for Vista Security · · Score: 1

    When they make, "The Good Virus Shepherd."

  2. WMA voided legally? on Internet Explorer 7 on Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, I guess that is the difference between knowingly voiding the check and stumbling upon the process that voids the WMA check. I wonder which one the lawyers will believe?

    To skip having to authenticate your copy of Windows at the Microsoft.com download site (since we're on Linux and don't have Windows...), make use of Google's nicely customised IE7 installer
  3. Stolen? on Memories of a Media Card · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The evidence suggests that people are not aware that their privacy is at risk. In addition, the fact that some of the cards contained undeleted images is a bit disconcerting. At a bare minimum media card owners should have deleted the viewable images.

    After reading the article, I wondered how many of these cards are actually stolen?

    And I don't mean Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee stolen either.

  4. Punch holes? on How Skype Punches Holes in Firewalls · · Score: 0

    NAT2NAT does not "punch" as much as it "snaps" together. But it must be a slow news day and we haven't had a daily regiment of FUD.

    Funny, and I'm the one with BAD KARMA.

  5. Change of plans! on ALSR in Vista Gets OEM Push · · Score: 0

    Thanks! So instead of reading up on all the memory address allocs for Vista, all I have to do is study NX because once I crack that I no longer care about separate applications. I could destroy the whole table or get it to "randomize" a specific app to allocate at a specific address.

    Of course this is only for the newest machines that will have the BIOS update. The older ones still use the old plans.

    The memory-space randomization technique will block the majority of buffer overflow tricks used in about two-thirds of all worm and virus attacks."
  6. Extrapoling this + DRM on Tech Companies Draw on 'Wisdom of the Crowds' · · Score: 0

    and in the future all of our choices will be similar to, "choose whatever you want, as long as it's vanilla."

  7. RE: How did we end up here? on Fedora Project to Help Revitalize RPM · · Score: 0
    Taken from their wiki:
    This is the part of the email in which Red Hat takes some accountability for the current situation:
    • Several years ago, the maintainer of RPM worked for Red Hat. When he left, he continued his own work on RPM, which he acknowledges is a fork. And that's fine -- we support anyone's right to fork, since forking is one of the paths to innovation in open source software.

      READ: We hates him! Yesss, we hates him now that he took our precious awaaaay!

    • Red Hat didn't commit the necessary resources to RPM following that departure.

      Like anything else, if we didn't get any complaints from our more important customers, we spent zero on it.

    • RPM, without a strong upstream, has languished as a result.

      We've been firing people lately and those left are too busy justifying their existence.

    • The community has (rightfully) been demanding that the situation be fixed, and this is the first step in that effort.

      Our really important and wealthy clients are starting to bug us and we can't hold them off anymore. Paul Nasrat was the poor schlub who was late to the meeting so he got this but we're still looking for the community to feed us because we still don't want to hire anyone.

  8. The Concept of Friends and Neighbors on A Close(r) Look At OLPC Human Interface Guidelines · · Score: 0
    While interesting to show a localized mesh, I cannot help but wonder if the insidious side of human nature could arise, such as the segregation of children due to their dual-tone color scheme for the XO character or even worse, using the wireless beacon mode to search for and hunt down different real human tribes.

    Can we produce enough OTHPC? [One Tinfoil Hat Per Child]

  9. I knew it! on Map of the Internet · · Score: 0

    The world is flat! /me waving from the 'o' of the word Various

  10. The last time I got "extreme flex time" on Best Buy Institutes Extreme Flex Time · · Score: 0

    other people called it, "MonkeyBoyThom gets fired."

  11. "finding caps nearly three decades of research.." on Tiny Particle With No Charge Discovered · · Score: 0
    To find...nothing!

    Hey, that's a great way to wrap up all that spending!

  12. Reader hater! on Unsuggester: Finding the Book You'll Never Want · · Score: 0

    Don't hate the book, hate the app!

  13. When Hell Freezes Over on Changing Climates for Microsoft and Google · · Score: 0

    How about that metaphor for the story - if we are to go along with the weather theme.

  14. Mad scientists were right! on Blood Protein Used to Split Water · · Score: 0

    They really do need the blood of virgins to power their infernal machines! And we just thought they were mad!

  15. Re:And so why do we care? on Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() · · Score: 0
    I was a little worried when Slashdot posted the Britney Spears beaver pictures, but they now have their credibility back as the home of "News for Nerds".
    But that is probably for most of the nerds here as close to seeing, much less having, a cooter of their very own.
  16. Yet another double negative? on Experts Say Ajax Not Inherently Insecure · · Score: 0

    This type of legalese is just plain irritating. And the phase is begging the question, so if a phobia were to walk by...would that make Ajax insecure? This is like the backhand complement, "You are not unattractive."

  17. I wonder when they'll find... on Ancient Astronomical Computer Decoded · · Score: 0

    Now listen up, you primitive screwheads. See this? This... is my boomstick! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You *got* that?

  18. And now a name change? on Novell Dumps the Hula Project · · Score: 0

    To Hula Whoops?

  19. And don't forget the hidden touches on Open Source Databases "50% Cheaper" · · Score: 0

    like must-have certifications for running, developing, and managing DBs.

  20. Come in and take that tit off your head. on London Police Equipped With 360-Degree Cams · · Score: 0

    Obligatory Monty Python quote

  21. While RedHat sits and waits on Ballmer Says Linux "Infringes Our Intellectual Property" · · Score: 0

    Linux has caught the attention of the big corporations and to them competition is something you destroy or co-opt. Let's face it, Linux in any distro is not the same as going to Best Buy and getting a preloaded Wintel machine for your parents. No matter what the argument is for Linux and against MS, there are still no preloaded Linux desktop machines at brand name stores. But that doesn't mean that Linux cannot do this soon, very soon.

    So MS is going after the competition in two ways - create FUD to prevent growth and acceptance, and now to rot within. But will this happen? And how does this affect RedHat? If MS is going through Novell to rot IP, RH believes it will either have more support thrown their way by default (because it is not an MS shop) but also they truly believe someone else will buy them before MS does (AKA IBM).

    So if everyone spends time on jockeying for position and how to place their product then how much innovation and work will continue? Is this what MS is hoping will happen, too?

  22. Boo-yah, John. on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 0

    First time responder, long time lurker. I always wondered why the voices in my head warned me against eating the 12 spice Mexican fiesta plate last week. (I ignored and ate; I got sick.) So if that is my future self telling me something that trivial, then I truly have a lame future self.

  23. Wait! on The Rise and Fall of Commodore · · Score: 0

    Did it run Linux! (okay, the voices in my head told me to type that.) True, I had the PET at school, I bought the Vic-20 and 64 with my own money, and finally had the 128 when others were getting the Amiga. I remember sending thermal printed papers to professors and have them bitch when they left them in sunlight. Don't forget...before there was even the idea of /. there was the magazine, Compute!

  24. Built in China, bought by Brazil and India on First of the OLPCs Built · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So are they going to outsource their IT and helpdesk support to that 3rd world country, the US?

  25. With nothing else to ask for on Worst Christmas Ever For Gadgets? · · Score: 1

    [hippie] Maybe my Christmas wish of ending world hunger could finally come true? [/hippie]