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  1. Re:Backwards compatible? Er... yeah. on IPv6 Still Hotly Debated · · Score: 1

    Is this true? I was under the impression that the compatibility more or less ended at the socket API. Is the v4 address space actually mapped in to the v6 address space now so that hosts with v4 addresses are automatically capable of talking v6 if there is a v6 path?

    I'm not an expert but on the subject, but I think what they mean by backwards compatible is that a device can have both an IPv4 and IPv6 address at the same time. I can do this on my OS X box as we speak.

    However, this still entails you to purchase IPv6 addresses and have a IPv6 provider. You can tunnel IPv6 on your existing IPv4 ISP to a different IPv6 ISP but you'll need the right gear for it.

  2. Re:This is why I don't like the "self-help" approa on Trojan Using Sony DRM Rootkit Spotted · · Score: 1

    Socialism is not restricted to the left - socialism is a label for a set of common traits of political ideologies, not a single ideology.

    Nationalist Socialism was probaly the best economic structure ever developed. However the people who created it were probaly the worst people ever born.

  3. Re:This is why I don't like the "self-help" approa on Trojan Using Sony DRM Rootkit Spotted · · Score: 1

    *Cue some leftist to come tell me how socialism works, how no American understands Real Socialism(tm) and why Capitalism is absolutely identical in practice to Italian Fascism*

    Nah. Their trains ran on time and their corporations were loyal to the Italian people (or Il Duce) and not to the almighty dollar.

  4. Re:How does this solve anything? on Malaysia Gamers Face Night Curfew · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Like of like a Bladrunner-esque Speakeasy prohibition style bar.

    Knock three times and a delayed fourth and when they slide the eye hole open speak the password and show them your usb key.

  5. Re:A matter of trust... on IBM And Sony Form Linux Alliance · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps you are right. In the eyes of the law, a corporation is a single entity. I guess that people (myself included) also tend to think of it as a single entity.

    Corporations are not sentient beings.

    If they were, they'd be large 100 foot tall immortal beasts living off the blood of small children.

  6. Internet Security? on State Department Developing Cyber Toolkit · · Score: 1

    Quick question?

    Why wouldn't a secured OS, a good firewall, and a high level of encryption prevent this from being on a system?

    Or does this program somehow bypass all known limitations of software in general or requires someone on the other end to install it like a social engineered trojan?

  7. Re:How do we know this is manga? on American Newspapers to Begin Carrying Manga · · Score: 1

    Despite the fact that this is the most sensible reasoning I've seen so far for using "manga" instead of "comic", it seems a bit daft to make a product full of cultural references and market it exclusively to people outside that culture.

    Its a graphical novel, not a comic you insensitive clod!

  8. Re:Not news on American Newspapers to Begin Carrying Manga · · Score: 1

    Illustrated stories by Americans are called "comics."

    No. If an American makes a comic with chicks with eyes the size of saucers and mouths the size of lake Michigan, then it is "manga"!

  9. Re:Two questions on Using Gravity To Tow Asteroids · · Score: 1

    1. How much does an asteroid weigh?

    How much does anything weigh in zero gravity environments?

  10. Re:The mother of all asteroid deflection devices on Using Gravity To Tow Asteroids · · Score: 1

    I wonder if a huge nuke would be cheaper and easier to construct and launch?

    Most likley, but you might end up making the world's largest shotgun out of a asteriod made of iron.

  11. Re:pirating & civil disobedience on Dealing with Digital Music and Vendor Lock-In? · · Score: 1

    Otherwise you're not a crusader, you're just another whiny punk who wants everything for free immediately. Considering you could do what I do, there's an obvious alternative to pirating to avoid DRM.

    Civil disobedience doesn't entail that you are caught or even confess to your crimes, but you do not resist arrest or directly attack the persons or organization behind the laws.

    I mean, Henry David Thoreau didn't pay taxes and he did serve jail time for it, but he didn't show up at the tax office and say "Hey I don't pay my taxes!".

  12. Re:WMA won't be useless. on Dealing with Digital Music and Vendor Lock-In? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When it does "work," people are tearing their hair out at it....

    I would agree. There is something with the player that most movies don't like. The files are choppy and for some reason don't play as well as they do on a comparable PC. However Quicktime files and other files that I run through the VLC player work fine.

  13. Re:Flashbang Re:Can't blind on purpose on Set PHASRs On Stun · · Score: 1

    Continuing your thought one has to ask what weapon can't conceivably be used for maiming rather than killing? I know of no such weapon only which has such a "boolean value"-like use, not even weapons of mass destruction.

    Perhaps the Neutron bomb comes close because of their projected short term lethality and long term complications of radiation posioning leading to a painful death.

    But I suppose you could be severly maimed until you die...

  14. Personal Responsibility on Microsoft Discusses Anti-Spyware Plans · · Score: 1

    While you're right that you can't get software to install silently under OS X, it would be trivial to trojan a download, and even to this day, a great many (most?) Mac users will gleefully enter their root password when prompted by any random installer.

    Yes it is trivial, but so is writing your password on sticky notes on your monitor. If you are given the choice of installing the software with a notification of the OS and prompted for a password then it is clearly the fault of the user for typing it in. Hence personal responsibility.

    When people visit a website, put in a cd, turn on AIM, or open an email from what appears to be a friend or any other average every day activity and silently get their system rooted, then it is the OS's fault.

    One of these we can control through education. The other we have to control through removal programs.

  15. Re:Crazy question on Microsoft Discusses Anti-Spyware Plans · · Score: 1

    Oh and I forgot...

    Spyware doesn't necessarily need to modify system files to spy on users. The information in your home directory is the most valuable.

    Right, but most people don't keep items in their homedirectory worth spying on. Most spyware programs don't search your system for xls files or docs for credit card number because it would provide nothing but useless information for the phisers to sort through, but it is when they highjack the browser and then OS to keylog to get your personal banking information when they tag you going to a pre-defined list of banking sites.

    Secondly, more people are concerned with malware which doesn't spy but takes up system resources and makes their browser go to porn/casino sites and make pop up appear when thy normally don't.

    Often times, Joe six pack doesn't really have anything important in home directory and wiping the home directory to remove spyware is less painful for him than formatting and reinstalling the OS.

  16. Re:Crazy question on Microsoft Discusses Anti-Spyware Plans · · Score: 1

    Sure, but most Windows users don't even know they have spyware. That problem needs to be solved first.

    Well, if Windows was not able to get spyware then Windows users would not have any spyware to know about.

  17. Re:M.M.O.R.P.G. = B.A.D.? on Game Worlds and The Law Collide · · Score: 1

    Depressing, isn't it? You could probably put something about how as children they spent all their time rolling 2d6's and that instead of adjusting to the outside world blah blah blah, but that's just more bullshit for Tack Jhompson.

    Well, if the Technological Singularity goes as planned in 2012 there won't be an "outside world". Wait... Did I just type that out loud.

  18. Re:WOW. on History's Worst Software Bugs · · Score: 1

    Remember what MS did to the Q-Dos author? ;)

  19. Re:Birds... on Vertical Axis Wind Turbine With Push and Pull · · Score: 1

    If you google for Altamont Pass, you will find reports of what is apparently the most deadly wind farm for raptors in the U.S., and kills about 800-1300 birds of prey a year.

    Frist Question: How many birds are killed by fossil fuel related issues or at least severely impacted health wise due to carbon monoxide, oil spills, and various other related pollutants?

    Second Question: How many bird habbitats are destroyed in order to obtain fossil fuels?

    (Personally, this is a number I don't, but it should be asked when comparing technologies.)

  20. Re:WOW. on History's Worst Software Bugs · · Score: 1

    Since MS wasn't on the list, I'm sure we are going to see allot of flames!

    Well, what OS do you think they put on the Soviet Pipeline? ;)

  21. Smart thing to do on The Return of Storied Adventures? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If your game's selling point is the story rather than the engine, you don't have to make a new game engine each time you want to make a release.

    Just hopefully a good plot.

  22. Re:"switched" or "also bought"? on 1 Million Windows to Mac Converts So Far in 2005 · · Score: 1

    Macs not as their exclusive computer, but possibly in addition or in complement to their PCs?

    In 2003, I originally bought my Mac to do video editing.

    Later I ended up doing more surfing on the Mac because safari introduced me to tabbed browsing and I didn't have futz with popup blockers or anti-virus so I moved my email.

    Eventually the PCs got sold off on ebay and I do all my work on OS X now. I still play with the PCs though with games and installed Ubuntu just because I could, but I don't do any work with the PCs because it feels better on the Mac.

  23. One Word on How Bad Will The 360 Shortage Be? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ebay

    The thought crossed my mind about getting pre-orders under the names a bunch of friends with several EB, Gamestop, Walmarts to try to buy as many Xbox360 and then sell them on ebay at exploitive prices.

    However, I never put that much effort in life towards money because of moral implactions, being lazy, and the fact I don't like to use Ebay.

    Also my reasoning that this could be all hype and I could end up with a bank breaking debt worth of overpriced hardware that no one wants.

  24. Re:The market provides! on Sony Rootkit Phones Home · · Score: 1

    It is entirely right that they should do so by taking advantage of ignorance to encourage people to do things that are entirely not in their best interest.

    False advertising is illegal because it is tantamount to theft.

  25. Re:Ohh, good game idea.. on Philips amBX: For Ambient Gaming · · Score: 1

    but I wouldn't recommend it. The force-feedback is a bit ... vigourous. As is the police armed response

    Have you tried GTA: Detroit? The level designer must have turned the police off.