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  1. They're telling the truth! on SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Either it's true because the planning stage is complete, or it's true because it's The SCO Group ANZ speaking and not The SCO Group head office. If SCO-ANZ sued anybody in Oz, they'd be toast on Day One. They may well be toast even if they don't sue anyone.

  2. See if you can make than an Ask Slashdot... on SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies · · Score: 1

    ...those fabulous editors have rejected all of my attempts to.

  3. Oh, well... on SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies · · Score: 1

    I guess that means we have to sue them. Before IBM are awarded a $3E9 judgement against them for barratry.

  4. Re:[OT] 2B1|!2B1 on Further Selections From the Mixed-Up SCO Files · · Score: 1
    Where does one go to hand in one's sheepskin apron?

    The grave.

    Ah, yes, with one's tongue dragged out through one's slit throat, hung upside down under a bridge by one's left foot, the right crossed backwards at the knee. It's all coming back to me now.

    What a marvellous future. )-:

  5. My ISP runs blocklists *and* filtering... on DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists · · Score: 1

    ...and it seems to be mostly effective for those accounts mailboxed there.

    My oldest email account isn't filtered at all and gets maybe 200 spam and 2 useful messages per day. Not a happy ratio.

  6. Speak for yourself... on DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists · · Score: 1

    ...every computer in this household is also its own mailserver. With PostFix it's easier to do that OOtB than to configure various things to use a single external mailserver.

  7. Penis pills on DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists · · Score: 1

    What else was on the ingredient list?

  8. Umm... the problem is *sending* email on DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists · · Score: 1

    A mailbox at pobox isn't going to help you there, you still have to send via your local (blacklisted) ISP.

  9. English rant on Mandrake 9.2 RC1 · · Score: 1

    I think Levi's being overly vulgar and offensive, but really you shouldn't use a phrase until you understand it. What is "begging the question?" It's certainly not a question begging to be asked. You would say "which invites the question: $QUESTION".

    Before you jump on your Grammar Nazi bandwagon: languages, like other protocols, are for communicating. If you bugger up the protocol, expect to get poor results out of the communication (QED - and if you don't understand what QED means, now would be a good time to look that up too). If you don't understand all of a protocol, stick to the bits you do understand. That's not anally retentive, that's common sense.

    Trying to make yourself sound posh by lacing your posts with semi-understood "in" phrases generally ends up with you looking like a bozo, even if nobody overtly calls you on your presumptions.

  10. Re:Some wild speculation on Further Selections From the Mixed-Up SCO Files · · Score: 1
    "increased volume of press releases" = "increased marketplace importance" as a business

    Judging by the number of masturbatory press releases they've pumped out over PR Newswire in recent months, SCOX would be the one.

  11. [OT] 2B1|!2B1 on Further Selections From the Mixed-Up SCO Files · · Score: 1
    2B1ASK1

    And to stop being one...? Where does one go to hand in one's sheepskin apron?
  12. One would be rolling in clover on Further Selections From the Mixed-Up SCO Files · · Score: 4, Interesting

    OK, Mr McBride, you have two choices. Either pay me extensive damages for distributing my copyrighted code without a licence, or start paying me a licence fee for it. USD$698 per CPU should do fine.

    If you're reading this and you're a kernel developer, a letter to The SCO Group along these lines, CC'ed to a good many media outlets, should be quite entertaining.

  13. Same story here! on Further Selections From the Mixed-Up SCO Files · · Score: 1

    The SCO Group ANZ can't even give me a price, even though it'll fairly obviously be around AUD$1100 for a server. I'm looking at spitting the legal dummy at them for keeping my customers in limbo.

  14. Yes, that's exactly what I said. on Why Virus Writers are Useful · · Score: 1
    immunity is exposed by infection. It isn't created out of thin air as needed

    Wrong. That's exactly the way our immune systems work in some ways. The body has innate immunity against certain germs i.e. the immunity exists before the germ even infects.

    Yes, that's exactly what I said. "Innate immunity" is the same as immunity "exposed by infection" in the same way that rocks are exposed as the tide goes out.

    BTW, we do have pre-emptive antivirus software.

    This is different to how the body deals with novel attackers; the body patterns a specialised defensive cell after the attacker (kind-of makes a negative of the attacker). Then defenders bred from that cell can then bind with and neutralise the attackers, in principle before they destroy anything valuable.

  15. It's a rough metaphor, but disjoint. on Why Virus Writers are Useful · · Score: 1

    The body, in your example, is replicating a design in order to battle infection. In analogy this would be like a computer being able to make RPCs to other computers to DDoS an attacker into obliviion (and you can imagine that being abused!).

    The body also has processes to pattern antibodies from the attacking organism. In analogy, this would be software which recognises an attack, reconfigures itself to render the attack ineffective, and broadcasts the reconfiguration data to other computers before they're attacked. And then DDoSes the attacker into oblivion.

    Patching is more like medical intervention. An intelligent agency outside the computer designs a remedy, which is then manufactured, distributed and applied, again at the instigation of various external agencies.

  16. I hope he billed by the hour. on Why Virus Writers are Useful · · Score: 1

    Think of the patches as digital protein rings.

  17. Absolutely true, but that requires a template... on Why Virus Writers are Useful · · Score: 1

    ...and the template represents existing information. The process which patterns antibodies doesn't invent anything new, it simply takes an attacker's design and uses that as a weapon. Kind of like shotgunning Mynx en passant and winding up with her blue Triple Damage thingy, ammunition and weapons.

  18. Re:He's kind-of wrong anyway on Why Virus Writers are Useful · · Score: 1
    Removing the susceptible parts of the population does build immunity in the population as a percentage.

    Absolutely true, but in nature it only happens at a fearsome cost to the species.

  19. What, from the inside? on Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? · · Score: 1
    I feel like I'm opening a sealed bomb shelter and trying to convince people the cold war is over...

    If you call what The SCO Group and Microsoft do "competing", then be sure that someone will stand you against a wall when the revolution comes - any revolution. Loonies are dangerous.

  20. Yah, most crims are basically lazy... on Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? · · Score: 1

    ...that's why they take the criminal route instead of working to earn what they want. Oddly enough, I've seen crims do more work to steal things than it would take to earn them, and that's not counting the risk. Maybe they're just nuts? (-:

  21. Whatever doesn't crash me... on Why Virus Writers are Useful · · Score: 1

    ...had better have a damn fine firewall. (-:

  22. He's kind-of wrong anyway on Why Virus Writers are Useful · · Score: 2, Funny
    Immunity is exposed by infection. It isn't created out of thin air as needed.

    An infection destroys the weaklings and the unlucky, leaving the robust and lucky still standing.

    If an infection destroys too many of the unlucky, or if the weaklings were the only ones carrying the genetics (or protein rings) required for defense against the next big infection, well... it's the Telephone Sanitisers and The "B" Ark all over again. Be a good lad and throw me my rubber duck, will you? (-:

  23. Er, yes, actually, too often I am. (-: on Life Extending Chemical Is Found In Certain Red Wine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bottom line: if you need to be intoxicated to have fun, you're doing it wrong.

  24. Err... rootkits are post-crack tools on Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? · · Score: 1

    In other words, they're what you install if your intrusion succeeds, so they don't tell you very much about the number of ways to crack stuff.

    They also suck, since many of them are built statically against old and broken libraries, which results in even the overt parts of them not working properly (and in some cases killing your system completely).

  25. Weeeell... on Designing A Corporate Game Room? · · Score: 1

    ...as long as it has lasers you should do all right. (-: