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  1. Re:Yay ignorance. on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    is an airport bathroom "behind closed doors"? i guess in a way.

    http://www.badmouth.net/top-five-republican-gay-sex-scandals/

  2. Re:Yay ignorance. on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    it would give the government the ability to create a law forcing all pornographic material to have the .xxx domain. with the ambiguity of what is or isn't porn the slippery slope would begin there and end in your bedroom. imho NOBODY wants to know what you do in the bedroom!

  3. is this a guilt post? on Google Street View Logs Wi-Fi Networks, MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    "scanning private WLAN networks, and recording users' unique MAC (Media Access Control) addresses, as the car trundles along"

    there is no shortage of war drivers on Slashdot. timothy, you trying to put the guilt on somebody?

  4. Re:Dear Lufthansa on 4G iPhone Misplacer Invited To Germany For Beer · · Score: 1

    Oh please. He is posting to Slashdot. The odds of him having talked to a girl are 1 in 1+5E. Her being a girlfriend, as opposed to a 1-900 number, increases the odds by a factor of 40.

  5. Re:Frank cyber-walked his cyber-beat. on Fatal System Error · · Score: 1

    I'm riveted! How does it end!

  6. Re:Oh great. on F.E.A.R. 3 Announced For This Fall · · Score: 0, Troll

    and the dodgy pc port will require a steam account that the password, for some unknown reason, doesn't work any longer.

  7. Re:Given two programmers on Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not? · · Score: 1

    You are correct. I would never "says that".

  8. Re:The new meme "Terry Childs approach" on How To Avoid a Botnet Infection? · · Score: 1

    prohibiting access isn't the answer. you need human intervention for most update processes. the only completely secure machine is one that is completely powered off.

  9. Re:health insurance is like auto insurance now on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    You are correct. The new law is a mandate to purchase something from the public sector. It, in one fell swoop, indentured all citizens of the U.S to health insurance companies and privatized tax collection with 100% of the taxes going to the business doing the collecting. All this in the name of "national health care".

  10. Re:The slime mold had it easy... on Slime Mold Could Lead To Better Tech · · Score: 1

    you lost me at natural. are you saying slime is a good solution to have on a drawing board? i would think it would make everything sticky.

  11. All US public schools should have fiber on Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband" · · Score: 1

    I think the state government, jointly subsidized by the fed, should provide fiber to all public schools as a part of the national infrastructure. The school districts should then be allowed to sell bandwidth to providers or directly to the surrounding neighborhoods from those points. The amount of taxes for home owners, paid to school districts, should then be removed or drastically cut. The government gets to have the infrastructure needed for national security. Schools get the tools needed for modern education. Neighborhoods get the tools needed to keep the public informed. The list of benefits goes on.

  12. Re:games? on AMD Radeon HD 5970 Dual-GPU Card Sweeps Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    For those of us that skip a performance generation, the answer is hell yes. Not only does it allow us to play the games you've been enjoying in "pretty view" but will give us other support we've been missing.

    # 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support
    # Integrated HD audio controller
    # Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
    # Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats

  13. but it is the insurance companies they care about on Genentech Puts Words In the Mouths of Congress Members · · Score: 1

    Insurance companies increase profits by investing the money they receive from customers by investing it in the stock market and keeping payouts low by employing civil lawyers. It has been my experience that attorneys know their skills are recognized when an insurance company employs their services. Does it stand to reason that because Insurance companies invest so much money in the stock market and attorneys that they have gained too much control over the country? For instance, if attorneys are co-joined by income from insurance companies to the point of bias and attorneys are comprised of people with political desires (the majority of people elected to a public office are attorneys) isn't it likely they are biased towards the interests of insurance companies above all else? I believe I'm correct because the priorities of people in those offices, of late, have been the health of the market through tax payer bail outs and the redirection of the national health care debate towards a mandatory insurance law. It looks to me like these lawyers are just using whatever information supports their goals as opposed to supporting the drug companies agenda.

  14. What happened to the "default block" policy? on The First Windows 7 Zero-Day Exploit · · Score: 1

    any IT staff worth their pay packet should already have port 139 blocked at the firewall, and probably port 445. too.

    I've always believed that a policy of blocking all traffic except what you explicitly trust is the best policy. Isn't that the policy held most security engineers? When did it change? Anyway. Explicitly trusting UDP 137-139 and TCP 445 traffic to a DMZ is as far as I can go. IMHO 25, 53, 123, 80, 443, 7070, 1935, 554, and 1194 are the only important ones to allow without explicit source/destinations these days. I'm talking about traffic originating from the internal network of course. Inbound traffic should always be restricted to specific destinations or has that changed too?

  15. Re:What were the rootkits? on Scientists Unveil Lightweight Rootkit Protection · · Score: 1

    How does an application, not part of the kernel, boot before the kernel? I guess if it is build into the BIOS. But, that wouldn't be a Linux rootkit would it?

  16. Re:What were the rootkits? on Scientists Unveil Lightweight Rootkit Protection · · Score: 1

    I guess the eyes ARE the first to go. Thanks.

  17. build your own from darwin on OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support · · Score: 1

    Why not just create your own replacement "OS/X" like OS and GUI?

    Darwin currently includes support for both 32-bit and 64-bit variants of the PowerPC and Intel x86 processors used in the Mac and Apple TV as well as the 32-bit ARM processor used in the iPhone and iPod Touch. An open-source port of the XNU kernel exists which supports Darwin on Intel and AMD x86 platforms not officially supported by Apple.[7]

    XNU is Open Source. http://code.google.com/p/xnu-dev/

    If you want full compatibility you will need Open Source ports of Carbon, Cocoa APIs, the Quartz Compositor, and the Aqua user interface. Isn't Cocoa just Objective C? I'm not a big fan of the Apple desktop but I think it could be replicated. IMHO X is sufficient.

    If you don't want to go through all of that work why not just use Linux?

  18. What were the rootkits? on Scientists Unveil Lightweight Rootkit Protection · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd like to know the 9 rootkits used. I know Ubuntu 8.04 is a generation behind the current stable version but I don't think there were any rootkits capable of installing. I'm assuming the people doing the test didn't install the kernel source on the box. It isn't installed by default and AFAIK you have to be able to build the kit using the kernel source. Anyone know of a rootkit that can be installed without creating modules from the kernel source? Maybe I'm just way out of the loop on owning a Linux box.

  19. Re:OK, wait. That's all it costs!??! on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 1

    Movie site? Museum of baby boomer mentality?

  20. early 1970s abandoned the mines?!? on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 1

    That is why I hate early 1970s!

  21. Re:That'll learn 'em. on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    I believe that the municipalities should put in the backbone connecting all the housing and business infrastructures of an area with their choice of networking, then lease that to the telcos and ISPs, that way, anyone who wants entry into the market just has to provide the infrastructure up to the municipal peering locations.

    I believe municipalities should put in a backbone connecting all schools with all other schools. A majority of your tax dollars are supposed to be allowing children to get the best education possible. If the internet is the information highway wtf are our kids in the slow lane.

    Schools are in neighborhoods. Branching from schools to the neighborhood would be a nobrainer.

  22. Re:iWork vs. MS Works on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 1

    It can both read & save as MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint for the respective equivalent applications, which is something MS Works apparently can't do.

    Not to mention versions of MS Office can not read & save MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint documents created by other versions of MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint documents without upgrading the machine after you purchase it. If both were ported to Linux I'd buy iWork.

  23. Re:On the Horizon? Really on Carbon Nanotube Solar Cells On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    The last working test is sitting in an eastern window. Get it? East... Window... Horizon...

    Sorry.

  24. save the ink on French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models · · Score: 1

    I thought France was trying to be more eco friendly. They should require unmodified images to say unmodified. The public is perfectly capable of knowing that all images are modified. However, the rare unmodified images are difficult to spot.

  25. supply and demand on iPhone Straining AT&T Network · · Score: 1

    I thought making supply short for a high demand product was a good business tactic. If I were AT&T I would bitch about needing to increase supply too. But then, I've never been good about screwing over customers for a living.