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  1. Re:yea and my toaster on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    can the cia train squirrels? i have one trying to claw its way into my house. i need to know if it is getting paid by the cia or the electric company. sssshh. here he comes.

  2. i dont' mean to be combative but why is it scary? on Book Review: BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing · · Score: 4, Interesting

    don't most unix admins keep eyes open on ports, connections, user information, etc...? not scared yet.
    taking advantage of visibility tools and keeping up with what tools are available should be a skill owned by every administrator.

    it examines tools to probe known issues of unpatched daemons with known exploits. sorry, i'm still not scared.
    if an administrator does not keep a system up to date throw them out the door, run over them twice, THEN tell them they are fired.

    that being said, i'll agree, the book is very good. it details modern tools and how to use them. some of the tools let the administrator get ahead of potential 0 day exploits and weed out poorly written code. it gets my vote for the top 10 must read books for network/system administrators and at least top 5 for security engineers.

  3. office integration to lock in new users on Microsoft Buying Skype for $8.5B · · Score: 2

    microsoft hopes that integrating a popular voip plugin with office will add more users to the group that say things like, "we need to have an exchange server?".

  4. complete and total bullshit on The Psychology of Steam Wallet & Microsoft Points · · Score: 1

    having to sign up for online accounts so you can "register" the game before playing it, bullshit. having to convert currency into proprietary nonrefundable "points" to lock someone in, bullshit. the game distribution/investment industry makes billions of dollars a year. they do not need to squeeze every last penny out of every last customer to profit. fuck them. they are complete and total piles of shit. needless to say, i USED to buy games. the only time i'll put a game cd/dvd into my computer is if someone has and idea on how to crack it. it goes on the machine, gets cracked, uploaded, and removed. that being said, i HAVE been known to buy copies of games that have been released to the foss community as a thank you. maybe they will learn. sony, stream, microcrap, @tari, will never see a dime from my wallet.

  5. unpublished chat that started it all on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    anonymous_dude0: I need to get on psn or i'll loose my standing in the ladder.
    anonymous_dude1: Oh Shit! sorry dude0. I've already pwnd it. The beotchez were wide open.
    anonymous_dude0: @$^@^_dude1! you'll die for this!

  6. Re:Spiders on The Dirtiest Jobs in IT · · Score: 1

    should have told her, "no teeth".

  7. is it time to tell the government what to do on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    people need to tell their reps that it was a mistake to allow media companies into the isp market. they should be broken apart. no more sony+anyisp or warnerbrothers+anyisp. imho, the best time to call your congress_dumbass is the year before the election and once a month until the polls close.

  8. Re:instant computing on AMD To Support Coreboot On All Upcoming Processors · · Score: 1

    not originally.

    Although [flash memory is] technically a type of EEPROM, the term "EEPROM" is generally used to refer specifically to non-flash EEPROM which is erasable in small blocks, typically bytes. Because erase cycles are slow, the large block sizes used in flash memory erasing give it a significant speed advantage over old-style EEPROM when writing large amounts of data.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory

  9. why? on Kepler May Uncover Numerous Ring Worlds · · Score: 1

    the predators probably already know what planets the aliens are on. we shouldn't get involved.

  10. Re:instant computing on AMD To Support Coreboot On All Upcoming Processors · · Score: 1

    oh your right. i forgot about eeproms emulated using flash which i guess is what they all are now. back in the day eeproms could only be flashed between 10 and 100 times.

  11. Re:instant computing on AMD To Support Coreboot On All Upcoming Processors · · Score: 1

    EEPROM can be reflashed

    Only a limited number of times. :(

  12. Re:sad isn't it ? on Evolution Battle Brews In Texas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why cant they just do this in Texas

    Because in Texas religious belief is part of the "social government" and economy. People that go to church are not just "church goers", they are members of a church with all of its hierarchy included in their socioeconomic lives. The church member's status in the church is related to the respect and job opportunities they are given by other members. People not of the church have no predetermined respect for them. In order to gather respect, and underlings, people have to be made into members. This is perpetuated like a pyramid scheme. That isn't to say there isn't a benefit to this. Once a person becomes a member they are granted certain opportunities, job, job status (manager vs. grunt), etc... depending on where they fall in the hierarchy of the church. For example, a Deacon in a church is not likely to be working fast food. Children taught things like evolution, free thinking, black/gray/white vs. black/white are not as easily made into members.

  13. Re:USB on A $25 PC On a USB Stick · · Score: 1

    that would be very cool! i was thinking more of a multimedia function for it. ie. plug it into one of the hdmi ports on my tv. set it up with a static ip address, or dhcp reservation. once configured i'd put the usb wireless nic on it and it would be physically invisible and accessible from any one of my other machines. streaming audio/video to an mplayer instance on it would be trivial.

  14. Re:Neat idea but... on A $25 PC On a USB Stick · · Score: 1

    or better, a usb nic bridged onto the board. it might make it a little think but...

  15. Re:USB on A $25 PC On a USB Stick · · Score: 1

    i don't see anything that looks like network chips on the board. it would be nice though wouldn't it?

  16. Re:Could be worse. on Ubisoft Launches Movie Studio To Make Movies of Its Games · · Score: 1

    eyeball-injected DRM solution

    I'd wait until the second patch is out before seeing it if they are going to put you through all of that.

  17. Re:New Ubisoft theater requirements on Ubisoft Launches Movie Studio To Make Movies of Its Games · · Score: 1

    Will that be before signing up for an online account or after the online registration? I'm assuming it can't be done until you've purchased your popcorn, soda, and candy.

  18. Re:kind of like the police on The Internet's New Alternate Reality · · Score: 1

    communicate with God by talking in to a hairdryer

    everybody knows you talk into the hairdryer not in to the hairdryer when your speaking to god. your probably not from texas or something.

  19. Re:cross platform virus scanner for linux and mac on Tasmanian Dept. of Education Wants Anti-Virus for Linux, OS X · · Score: 1

    echo `echo "$(date) Your computer is safe."` >> /etc/bash.bashrc

  20. Re:Unfortunately on Idle: Fairytale Character Map Raises Ire In Russia and Ukraine · · Score: 1

    i'm sorry but dirty whorish peasant women and lazy drunkard men are the property rights of irland. please disclose the location of the particularly whorish women or desist and retract your comment immediately. -- Really Intrusive Asshole Association

  21. very informative. on Developing Android Apps Visually, In 3 parts · · Score: 1

    i looked it up. cobol does indeed use english works.

  22. Re:All sorts of uses on New Tool Hides Data In Plain Sight On HDDs · · Score: 1

    in addition to MacTenchi's comment.. out of order fragments will get dropped by any good router or ips so you can't go that way and duplicate fragments are discarded by every decent firewall. now udp packets echo'd from client to random client until they need to be re-assembled is another story. the greater the ratio of client to packets you have the greater the difficulty for someone to re assemble it.

  23. Re:This is important? on Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly · · Score: 1

    huh? it was a story about a boy who gave people rides on his totally awesome horsey. oh. and it had puppets like star wars. oh. and it even had an ASTRO NAUGHT!

  24. Re:This is important? on Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly · · Score: 1

    Oh Come On! All the shows mentioned above are complete rip off's of scooby doo, which btw IS the greatest show of all time.

  25. i'm getting robbed! on A Car You Can Drive With Your Thoughts · · Score: 1

    wtf. why don't i get to wear a helmet like that one?