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  1. Re:WTF? on Sony Rootkit may Lead to Regulation · · Score: 1

    The people who work can still end up in prison. Look at Enron. A corporation prevents the investors/owners from being responsible financially or legally if something goes haywire.

  2. What about.... on GIMP Not Enough for Linux Users? · · Score: 1

    Cinepaint?

    Who gives a shit about the interface? You can always change it, or find someone who already did.

  3. BAH! on Pluto is Much Colder Than Expected · · Score: 4, Funny

    My P4 would fix that in about 10 mins.

  4. What does this mean? on New, Modularized X Window Release Now Available for Download · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What does this mean for the end-user? Nothing.

    What does this mean for programmers? Stock-up on Prozac.

  5. FINALLY! on Security Focus Interviews Damien Miller · · Score: 2

    Thank you devs! I've been waiting forever for the ability to do VPN like that. /me builds shrine

  6. DAMMIT! on DNA of Woolly Mammoth Fully Sequenced · · Score: 1

    So where the hell are the clones!! MAKE WITH THE CLONES!!!!!! I want a mini-mammoth (oxymoron) ;)

  7. Re:Microsoft does it better.... on Sony Music CD's Contain Mac DRM Software Too · · Score: 1

    So he simply contacts his 20 closest friends, one of which hooks him up with that WinXP%209%20in%201.iso

  8. Re:Simple answer on How Long to Crack an 'Encrypted' HD? · · Score: 1

    Erm... not so much. The data could still be derived using some sort of magnetic sensor.

    Thermite'd do it.

  9. Re:Other Schools are doing this too on Students Banned from Blogging · · Score: 1

    Just send 5,000,000 e-mails to every address at the school at once. They won't have the network resources to find the blogs, assuming that all their servers are on the same box.

  10. Re:Free Speech on Students Banned from Blogging · · Score: 1

    I am that kid.

    It's silly to SSL-tunnel to the Tor server. That SSL connection gives people the ability to see the first hop in your chain. That's information that they can exploit. The best way to use Tor is to RUN YOUR OWN server. Your traffic then blends-in with everyone else's.

  11. Re:WHAT??? on Slashback: DRM, MPAA, ADSL · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but I think that if anyone showed up to examine your box, they'd use a Linux Live CD to view your drive in read-only mode to avoid messing with the file-access records (if there's evidence that they accessed the drive in a mode capable of writing, then you could say they planted it- something that EVERY prosecutor wants to avoid). THAT will see anything hidden from the Win32 API, so it's not even an issue.

  12. Re:Sony's Rootkit!? How about Boycot Sony! on Slashback: DRM, MPAA, ADSL · · Score: 1

    I haven't bought a CD in quite a while- nothing beats the convienience of a P2P network.

    Isn't TURNING OFF AUTORUN a decent solution as well?

  13. Days VS Months on Unreliable Linux Dumped from Crest Electronics · · Score: 1

    They said that the Linux box was running for weeks without a crash, but took two weeks to install SAP. The Windows box would be configured in about two hours, but how long would it run without fail. I've never had a Windows box that would run for more than a month without fail.

    Does the purchase price of Windows, plus the greater downtime (cumulative) make it inferior? All that has to be done is to write a script to reboot the machine every month or so and plan for this. Windows now reboots more often than the Linux box, resulting in more downtime.

  14. Re:OH MY GOSH! on Record Labels Release Software To Combat Piracy · · Score: 1

    Umm... wouldn't that just be the same as me deleting files on my own. What's the point of a file-delete utility that does nothing that I couldn't do just as easily?

  15. John Dvorak on John Dvorak Hypes Skype · · Score: 3, Insightful

    John Dvorak is famous for his fictitious lookout on technology.

    One of his recent articles predicts the fall of the video game industry in the near-future, which has only grown, and continues to grow.

    Skype has been around for a long time, and has been fairly popular. It was hyped when it came out a while back. This is not news. It has always had a smooth UI.

  16. I wonder.... on Report on Last Decade of Online Advertising · · Score: 1

    Can I add this article to Spam Vampire?

  17. This is nice... on Gene Therapy Ages Human Cancer Cells in Lab · · Score: 1

    This is cool... but according to what I learned in AP Biology, anyone who recieves this treatment will no longer be able to reproduce. I guess that's a lot better than having cancer.

    This is definately a very promising concept. It's absolutely bounds ahead of previous treatment concepts, and with refinement, it may prove very effective.

  18. Microsoft can do this... on Microsoft Drops Blaster Author's Fine · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not time for the tinfoil hats- yet. Microsoft isn't so close to the government that they can choose his sentence, but they could, if they wanted, ask the judge to reduce the sentence to certain terms that they think are fair.

    Remember though, IANAL

    I think it'd be great for this guy to get out in the sun and clean up graffiti! Maybe it'll build his character enough that he'll realize that making worms to smash Microsoft PCs isn't a cool thing to do- or is it?

  19. Re:Business Model? on Supreme Court Takes Hard Look at P2P · · Score: 1

    Yes. There is one that is entirely free. www.aresgalaxy.org

  20. Well... on Google Buys Urchin Web Analytics · · Score: 1

    This can only make services like Adwords better. YES! NO MORE PSAs!

  21. Re:What's Wrong? on Java Fallout: OO.o 2.0 and the FOSS Community · · Score: 1

    http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp The only ones not supported are BSD and PPC.

  22. What's Wrong? on Java Fallout: OO.o 2.0 and the FOSS Community · · Score: 1

    There were some early security flaws, that are now fixed. OK. It is bloatware. Fine, it's slow. Alright, it's a PITA to work with on other projects. Seriously, what's the problem with Java?

    Huge files and long load time should turn you off. Java does, in fact, allow for faster development. It also allows for even greater cross-compatability.

    So tell me, what's wrong with Java?

  23. Re:Only a million... on How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence · · Score: 1

    By the way, that's just for a MD5 hash of a password.

  24. Only a million... on How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence · · Score: 1

    1,000,000 keys/second is nothing special. I can get over 3,000,000 at home with my own cluster! Damn they're slow! Even at 1,000,000 cracks/sec, it'd still take over 3 decades to get anywhere interesting, assuming someone picked a strong key.

  25. What if... on How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence · · Score: 1

    Well, what if I keep my passwords private (hey, they're passwords) and I don't E-mail them or use them on the internet where they might be stored in the browser cache. What if I encrypt the place that the browser cache is stored so that it's not accessable without the password that you would find in it? What if I know they are coming for me and I take the aluminum discs from the HD and melt them with a blow torch...