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  1. For the eager. on IE7 Released and Available for Download · · Score: 0

    In other news Bill Gates took a dump in the port-a-potty. Please feel free to run out and get a lump.

    Flame +50

  2. Re:silly on Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost? · · Score: 1

    For a closed (e.g. corporate) network this should be standard procedure
    So true and so sadly not the way things are.

    but for an ISP, it wouldn't work
    A lot of people believe this. Managed personal firewalls/services are becoming more popular and less expensive. Once upon a time that might have been true but it doesn't have to be and soon will not

  3. Re:If you're gonna go to all that trouble . . . on Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost? · · Score: 1

    That is the way to do it. You can set up a box with iCop or Endian firewall to do what your wanting. If your looking for something heavy duty check out, shameless plug, http://www.deepnines.com/ We sit in line with no ip or mac and do DPI, AV, and traffic management all on one box with no need to make changes to your network. But, if your dealing with a T1 and you don't mind replacing your firewall I highly recommend Endian firewall.

  4. Re:silly on Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost? · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of people that create bot nets, albeit small ones in comparison, simply to warez and p2p. It seems inevitable, though, that some dick spammer comes along and then 10 of its buddies and 10 of its buddies... until you can't even trade a .jpg. The point is, people that build bot nets usually use posted code that everyone looking to get over knows about. Just because someone knows how to use the front end tool to pre-made code doesn't mean they can shut down nets. And yes, I know your thinking "I mean the guys that wrote the code". Just because someone can root a box doesn't mean they are in some way privy to the social network surrounding bot nets.

    If you want to stop bot nets you can do it the hard way. Change the people that use bot nets into people that don't use bot nets. Or, you can do it the easy way. Educate people on how they can block bot net traffic even if one of their machines are compromised.

  5. Re:silly on Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost? · · Score: 1

    And what is the source?

    I don't know for sure what the parent was thinking is the source but IMHO it is the gateway. If ISP's and System Administrators would install IPS or at least ACL's on the firewall that restrict outgoing traffic to known ports the inside machines would be safer and spam would be cut down to a trickle. Sure some bots will use 80 or 443 or 25 etc... but with a good IPS (snort--cough--snort) you can catch them.

    So:
    1) firewalling/resticting outbound traffic.
    2) IPS embedded on firewall or some place IN LINE. That out of line stuff does not work.

    The anything goes because I don't want to hear users cry mentality has to die. Administrators PLEASE! Tell the users and your boss to live with security or eat spam and worms. IOW If they don't like it let them hire a n00b and get a real job.

  6. Re:About 60% of visitors have javascript enabled on Creating Web Pages With Ajax · · Score: 1

    This sounds like the flash only argument of days old. Check the browser for compatibility. If flash isn't on send them to plan b. The parent makes the most important point. Tons of people don't trust public websites with js on them anymore.

  7. completely pointless software on Boot Linux, BSD, and OS X from Vista · · Score: 1

    If someone installs fistho over their windows partition on a duel boot system they simply have to use a linux install CD to boot into linux and set grub or lilo back up. I don't remember any windows install not destroying the MBR. I don't remember anyone expecting it to do anything less.

    Boot in rescue mode and mount the linux partition
    fdisk -l
    mount -t partition_type /dev/linux_partition /mnt/sysimage
    chroot /mnt/sysimage
    live distro's

    For grub
    grub-install /dev/first_disk (first_disk = hda or sda. check the fdisk -l output if you don't know)
    For lilo /sbin/lilo

  8. EV! on IBM's Counterclaim 10 Outlines 5 Ways SCO's Wrong · · Score: 1

    Is there a running apology letter to EV1 for misinterpreting their involvement in all of this? It sucks that they will not be able to recoup the $800K in blackmail. It would be worse if everyone forgot they were victims.

  9. bumber on French Scientists Link Higher BMI with Lower IQ · · Score: 1

    The 3 major food groups - caffeine, nicotine, and ibuprofen - are the foundation of my life. I LIKE to lay around eating donuts, drinking coffee, and playing games damn it! Ignorance is bliss! I've always been prepared for when my doctor makes me go on a diet to loose weight; but, I figured the damage would be limited to the exercise. If my IQ soars to 50 all is lost!

  10. They should have fought it. on Email Servers Will Choke, Says Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    The domain is issued by an american, still, organization. If they would have showed up in court. Hoped that the judge was competent enough to understand that nothing gets blocked by spamhaus unless an email administrator has set up rbl checks via spamhaus.

    Oh well. Should have. Could have. Water under the bridge. It is time to make spamhaus a redundant system. Anyone care to estimate the amount of bandwidth needed to mirror the service?

  11. Re:OSS - Theory vs. Reality on Hackers Find Use for Google Code Search · · Score: 1

    Customer satisfaction is a big part of being a software vendor

    I, and hundreds of others, have contacted ATI about their software, drivers, not working properly on Linux. The OSS drivers march quickly towards fixing the problem with no information from ATI. However, ATI is slow and seemingly uninterested in fixing the problems we tell them about.

  12. some are not very informed on 20 Tech Ideas VCs Want to Fund · · Score: 1

    Trip Planning 2.0
    What he wants now: ....software that taps into the growing number of travel-industry databases....
    What he'll invest: $5 million to create a working prototype within two years

    I know of several free tools that will tap into pretty much anyone's database. :D

  13. authoritative ignorance on Mod Chippers Ordered to Pay $9 Million in Fines · · Score: 1

    WTF wants to dig through a stack of cartridges/CD's to play a game? Mod chips were as much for convenience as they were for "Possible" circumvention. This is a perfect example of the wrong people making judgements.

  14. Re:Oh crap! on Google Unveils Code Search · · Score: 1

    Arn't you one of Cmdr Taco's students?

  15. I want the maximum jail time on Calif. AG Files Felony Charges In HP Probe · · Score: 1

    White collar criminals need to have the law effect them like it does the rest of us. These type of people get 2 years of vacation for stealing more money than Dick n Bushwaker avoid paying in taxes. While Jose, Ronald, and Latefa spend most of their lives in and out of jail for selling drugs and sex to Dicks and Bushwakers.

  16. Re:Soon to be released... on Why Software Sucks · · Score: 1

    His next book, "Why Books About Software Suck."

    Because you should always have more than one roll in the outhouse.

  17. Citadel on A Hybrid Between Chat and Message Boards? · · Score: 1

    Citadel might be overkill for what your are wanting. http://www.citadel.org/

  18. good trainers would be on Google To Predict Accuracy of Political Statements · · Score: 1

    Take the following theives/liars. Put them in prison for 20 years. Record everything they say. Run it through a bayesian filter. The results would be 20 years of fewer lies.

    Richard Shelby, Jeff Sessions, Ted Stevens, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain, Mel Martinez, Jon Kyl, Wayne Allard, Johnny Isakson, Saxby Chambliss, Larry Craig, Mike Crapo, Richard Lugar, Chuck Grassley, Sam Brownback, Pat Roberts, Mitch McConnell, Jim Bunning, David Vitter, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Norm Coleman, Thad Cochran, Trent Lott, Kit Bond, James Talent, Conrad Burns, Chuck Hagel, John Ensign, Judd Gregg, John E. Sununu, Pete Domenici, Elizabeth Dole, Richard Burr, Mike DeWine, George Voinovich, James Inhofe, Tom Coburn, Gordon Smith, Arlen Specter, Rick Santorum, Lincoln Chafee, Lindsey Graham, Jim DeMint, John Thune, Bill Frist, Lamar Alexander, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John Cornyn, Orrin Hatch, Robert Bennett, John Warner, George Allen, Craig Thomas, Michael Enzi, Jo Bonner, Terry Everett, Mike D. Rogers, Robert Aderholt, Spencer Bachus, Don Young, Rick Renzi, Trent Franks, John Shadegg, J.D. Hayworth, Jeff Flake, Jim Kolbe, John Boozman, Wally Herger, Dan Lungren, John Doolittle, Richard Pombo, George Radanovich, Devin Nunes, Bill Thomas, Elton Gallegly, Howard McKeon, David Dreier, Edward R. Royce, Jerry Lewis, Gary Miller, Ken Calvert, Mary Bono, Dana Rohrabacher, John Campbell, Chris Cox, Darrell Issa, Brian Bilbray, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Duncan Hunter, Marilyn Musgrave, Thomas G. Tancredo, Bob Beauprez, Rob Simmons, Christopher Shays, Nancy Johnson, Michael N. Castle, Jeff Miller, Ander Crenshaw, Ginny Brown-Waite, Cliff Stearns, John Mica, Ric Keller, Michael Bilirakis, Bill Young, Adam Putnam, Katherine Harris, Connie Mack IV, Dave Weldon, Mark Foley, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Clay Shaw, Tom Feeney, Mario Diaz-Balart, Jack Kingston, Tom Price, John Linder, Lynn Westmoreland, Charlie Norwood, Nathan Deal, Phil Gingrey, C. L. Otter, Michael K. Simpson, Henry Hyde, Mark Steven Kirk, Jerry Weller, Judy Biggert, Dennis Hastert, Timothy V. Johnson, Donald Manzullo, Ray LaHood, John Shimkus, Chris Chocola, Mark Souder, Steve Buyer, Dan Burton, Mike Pence, John Hostettler, Mike Sodrel, Jim Nussle, Jim Leach, Tom Latham, Steve King, Jerry Moran, Jim Ryun, Todd Tiahrt, Ed Whitfield, Ron Lewis, Anne Northup, Geoff Davis, Harold Rogers, Bobby Jinda, Jim McCrery, Rodney Alexander, Richard H. Baker, Charles Boustany, Wayne Gilchrest, Roscoe Bartlett, Peter Hoekstra, Vern Ehlers, David Lee Camp, Fred Upton, Joe Schwar, Mike J. Rogers, Joe Knollenberg, Candice S. Miller, Thaddeus McCotter, Gil Gutknecht, John Kline, Jim Ramstad, Mark Kennedy, Roger Wicker, Chip Pickering, Todd Akin, Sam Graves, Roy Blunt, Jo Ann Emerson, Kenny Hulshof, Denny Rehberg, Jeff Fortenberry, Lee Terry, Tom Osborne, Jim Gibbons, Jon Porter, Jeb Bradley, Charlie Bass, Frank LoBiondo, H. James Saxton, Chris Smith, Scott Garrett, Mike Ferguson, Rodney Frelinghuysen, Heather Wilson, Steve Pearce, Peter T. King, Vito Fossella, Sue W. Kelly, John E. Sweeney, John M. McHugh, Sherwood Boehlert, James T. Walsh, Thomas M. Reynolds, Randy Kuhl, Walter B. Jones, Virginia Foxx, Howard Coble, Robin Hayes, Sue Wilkins Myrick, Patrick McHenry, Charles H. Taylor, Steve Chabot, Jean Schmidt, Rob Portman, Michael R. Turner, Michael G. Oxley, Paul E. Gillmor, David L. Hobson, John A. Boehner, Patrick J. Tiberi, Steven C. LaTourette, Deborah D. Pryce, Ralph S. Regula, Robert W. Ney, John Sullivan, Frank Lucas, Tom Cole, Ernest Istook, Greg Walden, Phil English, Melissa Hart, John E. Peterson, Jim Gerlach, Curt Weldon, Mike Fitzpatrick, Bill Shuster, Don Sherwood, Charles Dent, Joseph R. Pitts, Tim Murphy, Todd Russell Platts, Henry E. Brown, Jr., Joe Wilson, Gresham Barrett, Bob Inglis, Bill Jenkins, John Duncan, Zach Wamp, Marsha Blackburn, Louie Gohmert, Ted Poe, Sam Johnson, Ralph Hall, Jeb Hensarling, Joe Barton, John Culberson, Kevin Brady, Michael McCaul, Mike Conaway, Kay Granger, Mac Thornberry, Ron Paul, Randy Neugebauer, Lamar S. Smith, Tom DeLay, Henry Bon

  19. Re:Not the way you described it. on Is Backyard Wind Power Worth It? · · Score: 1

    You probably already saw this but...

    2644/304.35=8 The taxes are not part of the usage :p

  20. The "no worries club" on The Next X Prize · · Score: 1

    Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul G. Allen and former junk-bond king Michael Milken

    All of them are people that wouldn't be effected by insurance companies refusing to insure them because of potential future health problems.

  21. Re:Is it also worth the drama? on Is Backyard Wind Power Worth It? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've always thought of ownership being something you no longer have to pay for. Giving money to a home-owner's association sounds to me like paying someone rent to live in a house you own.

  22. Re:Is it also worth the drama? on Is Backyard Wind Power Worth It? · · Score: 0, Troll

    When I think of windmills I think of the old pink panty joke.

    Helmut and Susy were playing in a windmill. There was no wind that day so Helmut suggested they slide down one of the blades into a pile of straw below. Susy worried and asked if Helmut thought she would get here pink panties durty. "No. No.", Helmut assured. So, they carefully climbed onto the blade and started to slide. Sadly after it was too late, there was a sudden gust of wind. Susy was violently tossed from the windmill into a wallow for the pigs. "I got my pink panties dirty!", Susy wailed. "To hell with your pink panties! My balls got caught on a nail!", Helmut replied.

  23. Re:Interesting. on Quad Core Battle, Intel Yorkfield vs AMD Altair · · Score: 1

    Note to self. Self, Intel's release specifications are for what will eventually be on the later and high end version of the product. See also the note to self titled: "Things you want but will most likely not be available in the product until you have purchased something else".

    I stand corrected.

  24. Re:Interesting. on Quad Core Battle, Intel Yorkfield vs AMD Altair · · Score: 1

    Just how fast and low power would their chips be if they where 65nm

    That is where I was going with my post so I'll just add this. If Intel can retool to .45 before AMD gets to .65 then I can't forsee any kind of battle. AMD has the edge on everything else, IMHO. Unfortunately, the die size is what allows for the best performance/heat and that is what is important to customers these days.

    As far as the cache expectations go, I don't think Intel will go that high. Your right. They will need it to keep instructions flowing. Intel was supposed to have 4M cache on the core 2 duo and it is only 2. So all things considered, I expect 4.

  25. Re:How cool is that? Intercontinental catapults on Magnetic Ring Could Launch Satellites, Weapons · · Score: 1

    We could fling Dick and Bushwaker but I think only monkeys throw their shit around.