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  1. Re:I am hoping on Crowther's Original Adventure Source Code Found · · Score: 1, Informative

    someone has converted the code to compile with g77.
    An a href would be nice. Fixed that for you.
  2. That's just the company on SCO Loses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can we finally get the criminal case against Darl McBride and the rest of the execs rolling?
    Otherwise, they'll just move on to another company, to do mostly the same.

  3. Re:Let's blame Microsoft on ATI Driver Flaw Exposes Vista Kernel to Attackers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, Windows will accept only stuff signed by Microsoft itself, and they take a hefty chunk of change for the privilege. You cannot also choose to have a driver which Microsoft doesn't like signed -- so that state-of-the-art professional sound processing tools are a no-no if they somehow can be used to record "premium content". Or if, say, the driver's authors somehow competes with MS.

    VeriSign can sign only SSL certs and certain less-well-known types of keys for you.

  4. Re:Mars! on 8 Million Year Old Bacteria Thaws, Lives · · Score: 1

    Do you mean, there is life on Earth?

  5. Re:There are far easier ways to exploit people on DNS Rebinding Attacks, Multi-Pin Variant · · Score: 1

    If you read the original article, you will note that they generated exploit stats by utilizing an ad network. You don't need to visit a "bad" website, you just need a "bad" ad while visiting a normal website.
    That's a yet another reason to block known advertisers, with AdBlock personally or company-wide with stuff like dnscruft.
  6. Re:specifics? on Broadcasters Want Cash For Media Shared At Home · · Score: 1

    Oats for the horse aren't free, you know...

  7. Re:Blame the ISPs on Proposed IPv6 Cutover By 2011-01-01 · · Score: 1

    What's the problem with 6to4? The only downsides I can think of is encapsulation so you waste a bit more bandwidth compared to native connectivity.
    The ping increase is meaningful only for short-range connections as with 6to4 gates being usually in places on the network backbone there's typically not a lot of additional distance to go.

  8. Homeland Security on Federal Agents Raid Homes for Modchips · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From TFA:

    "Illicit devices like the ones targeted today are created with one purpose in mind, subverting copyright protections," Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for ICE, said in a release. "These crimes cost legitimate businesses billions of dollars annually and facilitate multiple other layers of criminality, such as smuggling, software piracy and money laundering."
    From Wikipedia:

    The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), commonly known in the US as Homeland Security, is a Cabinet department of the Federal Government of the United States with the responsibility of protecting the territory of the United States from terrorist attacks and responding to natural disasters.
    Shouldn't they be sued for wasting taxpayers money for doing things they are not authorized to do? And yeah, even though I'm a Polack I did pay a tribute^Wtax to the US treasury once, so it's my money too.

    But oh wait... comparing them to the Commissariat of Homeland Security (KGB), Bureau of Security (UB) or Securitate, I should be thankful they're not participating in mass murders... yet.

  9. Re:Other types of cloaking... on Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? · · Score: 1

    Why is it incriminating simply to have something in a format that investigators might not understand? What if I decide to keep all of my documents in Mandarin instead of English? Is that incriminating?
    Mandarin: no, Arabic: yes. Even if you have, say, inlaws there.
  10. Re:Oh, the irony.... on Change Google's Background Color To Save Energy? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, but only one of these schemes is The Right One.

    And judging from your heretical approach to this matter, I guess you may even use Emacs. Eew.

  11. Re:Where does that end? on TimeWarner DNS Hijacking · · Score: 1

    No, they'll simply redirect DNS traffic and handle it locally. At least I do so on the company network -- even in an IT company like ours it's too much work to educate people to use either one of our caching DNS servers or at least something close; before I started sneaky tactics like "THEM: oops, it doesn't work. ME: did you try using DHCP?" folks used to set some random DNS servers instead. Somehow, this was a voodoo solution that was popular in the town years ago.

    I still have this thingy on all firewalls nearby:

    for prot in tcp udp
            do
                    iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p $prot --dport 53 -j REDIRECT
            done

  12. Local network only on Mac Worm Author Gets Death Threats · · Score: 1

    Yeah... and, considering that the worm in question can spread only on the local network, we know it's a person close to the virus writer.

    Good chances for actually carrying out the threat, a small number of people to investigate... can be interesting. Grab some popcorn for me too?

  13. Re:I Bet It Sinks on Robot Aims To Walk On Water · · Score: 2, Funny

    God, root... What's the difference?

  14. Re:Even Bluetooth? on Japan to Tax All Unlicensed Wireless Devices? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since when double taxation was a problem for any kind of government?

  15. Impartial reviews on Microsoft's OOXML Formulas Could Be Dangerous · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shame on all those who praised and continue to praise the OOXML formula specification without actually reading it.
    To the contrary, they have all carefully read the checks they received.
  16. Re:Linux 3.0.0 on Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released · · Score: 2

    Here you go.

    It's going to be a microkernel using a special message-passing version of Visual Basic.

  17. Re:References? on Politically Incorrect Observations About Human Nature · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. A pedophile is still a pedophile, even if he created a major religion.

    If you dare to call those who mention this fact "trolls", I hereby call you a nazi censor. Sorry. You shouldn't have been trying to hide someone words if you don't like them. There is a difference between questioning a fact and attacking the person mentioning it (aka "ad hominem").

    I do agree with you about the Bible supporting rape, genocide, etc. Not incest in particular, but that's a detail compared to phrases like "if you come to a city, you have to deliver an ultimatum to the citizen: either surrender and be put into slavery, with their young wives and daughters being taken as spoils for you and old wives killed -- or, refuse and be murdered to the last man, woman and child. Except for the following tribes: A, B and C (which happen to be your closest neighbours), where you don't have a choice and need to slaughter them all.". That's Bible.

    But if you're Muslim, I have bad news for you: a 54 years old man who has sex with a 9 years old is a pedophile no matter who he is.

  18. Re:We need to find a truely safe country on Swedish Police to Block Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Except their pipe sucks ass.

  19. Re:Hmmmn on Microsoft to Release 6 Security Updates Next Week · · Score: 1

    One word: IPv4.

  20. Re:Hmmmn on Microsoft to Release 6 Security Updates Next Week · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This shows the importance of a good NAT firewall.
    You got that wrong. You meant "the importance of a good firewall". NAT is a bad, bad thing, at least in the usual meaning of that word -- while technically any kind of a box in the middle meddling with sender/receiver fields in a packet is network translation, the typical setup of X machines being shoehorned into 1 IP doesn't have a single benefit, just a lot of downsides.
  21. Re:Client vs. Server Applications on Windows Loses Ground With Developers · · Score: 1

    Lazarus is as close to Delphi-for-Linux as you'll get. It uses GTK 1.2 in Linux though. (2.x is still a bit unstable.)
    GTK 2.x: s/a bit unstable/totally unusable/. For basically any purpose, you need to stick with GTK 1.2, which isn't there anymore on most systems.

    And in general, Lazarus isn't there yet. It can do very simple things at most (with executables starting at 7MB), but for anything non-trivial, forget it. And its development seems to be totally stalled. A pity that, considering the amount of Delphi code in existence, it would be a great thing.

  22. Re:I'd like a means to deactivate the device on Recovering a Lost or Stolen Gadget · · Score: 1

    Or the fingers of a poor Mexican migrant who thought he had found a good deal at the flea market.
    People who buy known-stolen goods are the biggest reason theft is so rampant, just like there would be next to no spam if no one responded to it. Having a risk attached there would be a great thing for the society at large.
  23. Re:Hah. on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 2, Insightful
    O RLY?
    Now compare this with works of Picasso, or even worse, Andy Warhol? Or that woman who took an unmade bed and sold it for millions as "art"? (No, it's not her who's stupid here...) If you take most "art" of the last century, the critters are actually winning. I really wonder why taxpayers (ie, mine too) money is used to pay the scammers of "art schools" these days.

    For compassion, what would you say about that female dog who raised three tiger cubs?

  24. Re:Other ways of handling it... on BBC Threatened Over iPlayer Format · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What "open" DRM alternatives exist?
    None. The whole point of DRM is to be as closed as possible.
  25. Re:Today "pirated" content, tomorrow dissidence on Will AT&T Start Filtering Your Connection? · · Score: 1

    And in most countries ("most" by population) the fourth has happened too.

    China. Turkey. Iran. India.
    Germany. US.