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  1. Re:Could be good, probably will be bad on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does the average user know how to boot from a CD?

    Sure you just go into your bios and set your...I said your bios...You reboot and hit the...reboot...you know that thing Windows makes you do everyday...
    Um, that would be a no.

  2. Re:Language on Scientists Discover What You Are Thinking · · Score: 1

    You would rather have Kerry running things? His thoughts were pure excrement.

    Seriously though, Bush may have his bad points, but Kerry would have ruined this country. Everyone is so quick to bash Bush's record without thinking about what Kerry would have done in each situation.

    Now that I've defended Bush on slashdot I better hide.

  3. Re:Language on Scientists Discover What You Are Thinking · · Score: 1

    The bablefish excretes pure thought waves. What could be better than that?

  4. Re:Urm.... on Ultimate RPG Gaming Table · · Score: 1

    Too late I already used this system. Due to work, and other scheduling conflicts including the wife and kids I DMed over the internet. We used Netmeeting for voice chat and file transfers of scanned maps. The IM feature was good for DM notes. The desktop sharing tool allowed me to see the dice program we used so no one could lie about a Nat 20. I had copies of all character sheets and monster data right on my screen.

    That has all the fun of PnP gaming. None of the driving 30 minutes to a friend's house. No arguing over whose turn it was to bring the chips and who will make a trip to go get them since that person forgot. The only bad part: "The Dragon roars up behind...What honey? Hold on guys I have to change a diaper." But that would happen if we played at my house anyways.

  5. Re:ChoicePoint =! CheckPoint on Consumers Data Stolen from LexisNexis · · Score: 5, Informative

    Checkpoint was protecting Choicepoint's systems, I guess the management did a bad choice going with a weak firewall protection like checkpoint after all, now they pay the price. Rumors are going on in our company that we're going to move away from Checkpoint for the same reasons.

    ChoicePoint was not hacked. It was purely social engineering. The criminals were granted access because ChoicePoint didn't bother checking if the real estate license (or the name on it) they were shown was real. At least in this case it wouldn't have mattered if they had no firewall.

  6. Re:Oxford? on Major Update For OED Science Fiction Project · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't see any links to this Jesse character on the OED site. Is this April 1st? Non-profit? OED? The company that sells dictionaries? Curiouser and curiouser.

    The homepage of Jesseword has his full name along with a link to the OED staff page http://oed.com/about/staff.html to verify the sites authenticity. Doesn't look like any kind of joke. Conspiracy theories should be better thought out and researched.

  7. Re:Whoa, massive blackhole... on Simulation Explains Supermassive Black Holes · · Score: 1

    The X-rays are also produced as a part of the large burst of energy I mentioned.

  8. Re:Whoa, massive blackhole... on Simulation Explains Supermassive Black Holes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    i always have wondering since nothing can escape then why is it emitting something out of it? Just a thought.

    The blackholes don't actually emit anything. The accretion disk is what does the emitting. Imagine water going down a drain. Most of the matter approaching a blackhole is not on a direct collision course but rather the blackhole sucks it close where it spirals downward. The spiraling excites the atoms creating huge bursts of energy, sometimes enough to blast nearby matter out of the gravitational field.

  9. Re:Thy don't understand tech, they use metaphors on Precedent for Warrantless Net Monitoring Set · · Score: 1

    Except that that's not going to happen here. I very seriously doubt they're going to _stop_ packets, inspect them, and if they're OK send them on their way -- it would pretty much kill TCP streams.

    Except for that fact that this is exactly the way Intrusion Prevention Systems work already. Sniffers don't just sniff anymore. They stop, inspect and send them on or stop them just as fast as your firewall passes stuff on. It won't slow things down enough to kill TCP in any stretch of the imagination.

  10. Re:Yay on EA Starts Gamedev Program · · Score: 1

    YAY! First Post!

    Doesn't matter if your topic had a good point. You started it out with a first post comment. That was enough to earn off topic in many a mods book.