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  1. Re:Jurisdiction on British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright · · Score: 1

    So as I can find copyrighted content using google, so are they going to arrest the CEO of google? or the developers perhaps? Or me for finding it?

    eg some search terms something like:

    intitle:index-of+ mp3 + metallica

    would likely yield some results, note this is NOT a direct link to content, I've not just turned /, into a link site. But out of the About 298,000 results, i reckon at least a few would be genuine.

    I didn't check if i could actually download any of the resulting files as i'm not a pirate and for fear of being extradited to an apparently hostile country i've never been to with a 3rd world health care system and a REALLY fucked up legal system who think they are the world police, and its possible because apparently we in the UK have a 'special relationship' with you. Special as in SPECIAL NEEDS if you ask me.

  2. Re:So... on ICANN Likely Finally To Approve .xxx For Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    in firefox you can do this already, pretty much, try it: in your address bar, type 'slashdot' and now hit ctrl+enter tada , it wraps the word you typed in 'www.' and '.com' works for slashdot / bbc although sadly not ubuntuforums i guess you could add a host entry for that if it really bothers you

  3. Re:bitlbee on Facebook Now Supports Jabber/XMPP · · Score: 1

    I've since tried /whois u987654321 and it does return some info: 16:01 u987654321 (u987654321@chat.facebook.com) 16:01 ircname : Someones Name 16:01 server : myusername@chat.facebook.com. (jabber network) 16:01 End of WHOIS perhaps with a little irssi perl script i'll be able to make them appear properly in the nicklist too.

  4. bitlbee on Facebook Now Supports Jabber/XMPP · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hi,
      I managed to get bitlbee to log in ( i've written some php to log into facebook using curl for me from the server in question, and it spoofs the user agent. It was tricky but do-able )

    but the downside is, all the usernames show up as u987654321 or whatever so you still have no idea who is who anyway. :( boo, so still no real fb chat in bitlbee for now

  5. Re:What if Facebook forced encryption? on UK Gov't May Track All Facebook Traffic · · Score: 0

    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/44558 greasemonkey script to keep you on https

  6. Re:!$ in bash on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 0

    there is !^ available too which is the first argument of the last command, not often useful but sometimes.

  7. Re:Job control. on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 0

    ps -ef | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -t -n1 kill -9 '{}' ...hey where'd my system go?

  8. Re:cd - on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 0

    agreed !! and !$ both rock,

    on osx for example how often i do this...

    user@machost$ apachectl restart
    permission denied
    user@machost$ sudo !!
    sudo apachectl restart
    password:


    or as mentioned,
    mkdir /some/place
    cd !$

    solaris has some fun ones too:

    uadmin 2 0 sync the filesystems and drops system to ok prompt
    uadmin 2 1 sync the filesystems and reboots to multi-user mode
    uadmin 2 2 sync the filesystems and reboots interactively
    uadmin 2 3 sync the filesystems and reboots to single-user mode
    uadmin 2 6 sync the filesystems and powers off the system
    uadmin 1 0 do not sync filesystems and drops system to ok prompt
    uadmin 1 1 do not sync filesystems and reboots to multi-user mode
    uadmin 1 2 do not sync filesystems and reboots interactively
    uadmin 1 3 do not sync filesystems and reboots to single-user mode
    uadmin 1 6 do not sync filesystems and powers off the system

  9. Re:One has to ask on Computer Virus Aboard the ISS · · Score: 0

    maybe they run some old unix - or maybe something like NASA's own linux distro - flightlinux http://www.openflightlinux.org/ I don't know what they use it for tbh, but i heard about it at a lecture entitled 'linux in space' http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sc/2003-September/000609.html the Prof said that they use IPSEC and can ping sats too, i heard they ftp java applets onto them!

  10. Re:iphone, no flash? on Why Is Adobe Flash On Linux Still Broken? · · Score: 1

    It passes &fmt=18 to youtube which tells it to serve it up in mp4 instead of swf. I believe bbc iplayer serves up mp4's to iphones too. This worked in a browser for a while but it seems to have stopped lately, perhaps they're checking user agent now too, or have some platform/browser detecting javascript somewhere to know its an iphone.

  11. Re:Please tell me you're joking... on Getting Inked for Tux at OSCON · · Score: 0

    PRIMOS was the OS used by Optimus Prime, this can be confirmed by checking the original high level language Primos was written in - FORTRAN(sformers) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRIMOS

  12. OPIE and Ajaxterm on Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals? · · Score: 0

    Hi, I have scripts to update my ipods notes with the latest 100 passwords for OPIE (one password in everything) onetime passwords when i sync it, i then use ajaxterm on my server, log in with opie password which then becomes useless. I then launch a screen session - so i can resume should i need to... I can then just use mutt to check my gmail etc, irssi with the awesome bitlbee software for msn/gmail jabber/yahoo whatever other chat i require.... etc etc.. i make sure i don't log into anything else, i have ssh keys for hosts i may need to connect to so no password required and the untrusted terminal never sees that key anyway... i'm sure its not a perfect solution for everyone, but its certainly working for me ... but i like the command line :D

  13. Re:Simulation error on Giant Sheets Of Dark Matter Detected · · Score: 0

    Also kinda reminded me of that old joke... An engineer thinks his equations are an approximation of reality but a Physiscist thinks reality is an approximation of his equations (meanwhile, the mathematician doesn't care....).
    .... and the Arts Major asks "Would you like fries with that?"
  14. Re:A layman's view on Quantum Physics Parts Ways With Reality · · Score: 0

    Occam's Razor only lets you choose between two hypotheses which both adequately account for the data.

    and the quantum version lets both be right.
    - The new and improved Occam's Quantum Razor is that? how many blades are they up to now? 10 blades?
  15. Re:GameCube on Building a Linux XBOX Cluster · · Score: 0

    Yeah i've been thinking about setting this up since getting gentoox on my xbox, gamecube has no drive to install to, but what i was thinking was i could export and nfs share from xbox gentoox to gamecube and install the gamecube linux stuff on the nfs share. There is a version of the linux dol file for gamecube that has nfs support at boot so you can do this. would be interesting, a gamecube/xbox 2 distros sharing a hard drive and an x86 and a ppc cpu ! neat stuff

  16. Re:No Different In America on Bootlegged Music in Russia · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Au Contraire my friend, I've found its possible to come away from the movie theater knowing a lot more about her tongue, taste and smell.

    And since when did the credits rolling signify the end of a date anyway?

    maybe you usaians all have TV's so big that the cinema (theatre) is nothing special now but personally i still like seeing movies like Hero/Crouching Tiger/The Returner/.. on the big screen with surround sound rather than a 30" like i have at home.

    Hollywood however can keep its polished turds I don't want to watch that cheese mongering on any screen however big or small. no thanks. I don't even want it for free. The only incentive to download it is to keep up the global civil disobedience thats going on in regards to copyright law in the hopes that one day we'll have a fair system where creative arts are not held to ransom by accountants and are free to spread as they wish to and will anyway.

    In a democratic society how does one end up with laws that make the majority of the population criminals every day of their lives?

  17. NO ADVERTS ON BBC on BBC Wants Help With Dirac Codec · · Score: 0

    Please, while we're bigging-up Auntie Beeb for embracing and contriibuting to OSS,( and explaining about the TV License we pay in this country for it and how thats not the same as government funding) - lets also mention that that license fee has an extra and to me fabulous side effect -

    NO ADVERTS ! thats right folks, no commercials every 2 minutes ruining your attention span, not even in between shows, they'll tell you whats coming on later in the week or whatever in the gaps between but they won't be pushing hamburgers on your kids or whatever

  18. Re:Bulls$%^!!! on Microsoft Issues Ominous ASP.Net Security Warning · · Score: 0

    trapping for one known character is hardly likely to be a secure workaround, there are apparently variations on the no-brainer /path/to\file variation which this IndexOf catches already. its going to need more work this workaround surely. That said, this is a workaround just like all those that turn up on bugtraq for many os's every day, Workarounds are great when waiting for patches, still how did it ever get any kind of Secure Computing Certificates with this kinda of crap in? - I suppose they award themselves certificates all the time, they awarded all those moronic clueless msce's certificates after all. - i know some msce's with very large servings of clue, i've just met far more with none.

  19. Re:Wait one second... on Warp Pipe Group May Bring Online Gaming to DS · · Score: 0

    yeah warppipe lets you play all 3 LAN enabled gamecube games over the internet by fooling the gamecube into thinking your computer is another gamecube and forwarding traffic from computer to gamecube over the internet iirc you can achieve the same thing using ssh tunnels anyway but warppipe is a nice easy app to use and it does help find other willing gamers.

  20. Re:The cheapest solution and simplest... on Securing Pricelessness · · Score: 0

    I don't see how the Big Friendly Giant would help, hes not exactly scary, probably he would just befriend the robbers and go about his dream catching.

  21. Re:Doctors responding to patients from home on Caller ID Spoofing Firm Gets Death Threats · · Score: 0

    It seems to me, all these instances people are giving about doctors and home-workers and so on could be solved by simply adding a 'reply-to' packet header as well as sending the CLI, so when you then dial 1471 (in the uk) or whatever you do in the usa to get the last received call info you get the 'reply-to' header instead of the 'from' caller id info.

    i mean, they're going to fix it anyway so why not add an extra header at the same time, it could be offered by the telcos as just another service for £x per month yadda yadda, and it wouldn't require spoofing of any kind which to my mind almost constituets ID theft. What right have you to appear to be calling from a number you have no claim to and to which i very much doubt the current users concent has been attained.

  22. Re:Umm... on Point, Click, Root. · · Score: 0

    And how Phantasy Star Online lead to GameCube Linux via the Nintend0 Broadband adapter.

    http://www.gc-linux.org/

  23. Re:Wow, wait until he gets to jail... on Blaster Variant Creator Pleads Guilty · · Score: 0

    bumsex is not justice, hell its not even legal in most your states, if you want to sentence criminals to 4 years of bumrape or whatever then do that with the courts, its unjust to sentence people to jail time knowing they're going to be raped while they're in there. Its not a laughing matter. I'm so tired of the constant jokes about it, thats not what prison is supposed to be people and if thats what you want it to be then why not make it official?

    "For creating this virus I sentence you to 2 years of daily bumrape in a federal pound"

    all this unofficial punishment crap is really unjust.

  24. Re:Average user? on Computer Security for the Home and Small Office · · Score: 0

    Chapter Four is about using common tools, like Ethereal, Netstat, PGP, etc.

    Indeed the last thing I want is for more "average users" playing with ethereal, oh sure its not so dangerous now but once they've tried the soft drugs you know that leads onto the hard stuff!

    netstat sure, go for your life with netstat and PGP , ok generate your keys and get the email plugins installed if you will, spend some more cpu cycles for someone somewhere... but really, why ethereal?

    Are we really expecting average users to dissect their packets to stay secure?

  25. Re:First Post! on Why Consider Linux Kernel Patent Risks? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    obligatory simpsons quote... "ha ha!" - Nelson http://images.google.com/images?q=simpsons%20nelso n