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  1. Re:Old News on RFID Personal Firewall · · Score: 1

    Leave it to Microsoft to ruin a perfectly good joke.

  2. Re:Rouge anti-spyware on Anti-Spyware Law Snags Anti-Spyware Vendor · · Score: 1

    I was cyan after I red this, but now I'm a green with him.

  3. Re:Great quote on Federal Panel [not NIST] Rejects Paper Trail For E-Voting · · Score: 1

    That would be a very curt schilling.

  4. Re:Old News on RFID Personal Firewall · · Score: 1

    Their next paper will be on CSS viruses and steps that can be taken to protect you from them.

  5. Re:I'm confused on Virtual Reality Creates False Memories · · Score: 1

    That article doesn't actually exist. You just imagined it.

  6. Re:Not quite... on Insuring Contributed Code is Legal? · · Score: 1

    Feel free to use "insure" in a contract with someone. When it doesn't happen, you will find out if you are financially liable. That should give you the answer better than a random page on the internet.

  7. Re:open source is an acquired taste. on Getting Companies to Contribute to Open Source? · · Score: 2, Informative
    My company took the opposite view when it started work on open source. Giving back patches saves money because
    • we were able to start from working code that did most of what we wanted
    • we don't have to repatch each new release
    • we don't have to worry that someone else implements the same change in a different way
    • we get hundreds of free testers
  8. Re:OT complaint about “ID”. on The Case for OpenID · · Score: 1

    No. That's what karma is for.

  9. Re:No way! on The Case for OpenID · · Score: 1

    sed -e 's/+mysite/+microsoft/'

  10. Re:No way! on The Case for OpenID · · Score: 1

    What's to prevent you from setting up multiple IDs? You can still be "brad@livejournal" and "sexysue@hotbabes.com" if you want. You just need to have accounts at multiple OpenID servers.

  11. Re:Did Google hire the guy? on The Vanishing Click-Fraud Case · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. He sounds like a real bozo. Here's an online conversation where he uses the name CountScubula and explains what he is doing. I suspect Google strung him along until they figured out what he had, then modified their anti-cfraud software to detect it, then dropped him.

  12. Re:Old paper ballots were fine. on NIST Condemns Paperless Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    The reason for e-voting is simple. It avoids the cost of having to design and print paper ballots. It saves money, period. Any suggestion that it is to improve or simplify the election process ignores how government works.

  13. Re:Security through obscurity is no security at al on Fighting Claims That Open Source Is Insecure? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Better questions would be:

    Where are the articles about companies losing data due to defects in OSS?

    Now where are the articles about IE (for example)?

    Once they compare them, they will see the light.

  14. Re:It's all about settings on Birmingham To Buy More, Not Less Open Source · · Score: 1

    man gconf-editor

    NOTES
                  This tool allows you to directly edit your configuration database.
                  This is not the recommended way of setting desktop preferences.
                  Use this tool at your own risk.

  15. Re:from 30-0 to 27-33? on MPAA Kills California Anti-Pretexting Bill · · Score: 1

    I need some money to go rescue a lost child. I plan on robbing you to get it since its for the greater good. I may need your car also.

    By the way, if there were a child missing and police could show that phone records would help, any judge would OK getting the records. Missing child cases that PIs work generally are custody battles, not kidnappings by strangers. And it might be the spouse that doesn't have custody rights who hires the PI to track down the rightful spouse.

  16. Re:from 30-0 to 27-33? on MPAA Kills California Anti-Pretexting Bill · · Score: 1

    Verizon lost a class action suit on this. I think my piece of the settlement was a free ear bud, the lawyers got millions. I still would have to pay someone to crack the phone and enable its USB port, but now Verizon can't threaten me if I do.

  17. Re:So just use it as a credit card? on Possible Serious Security Flaw In ATMs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you pay your balance off every month, you are also getting an interest-free loan for up to about 45 days.

  18. Re:Intercepting Transmission on Possible Serious Security Flaw In ATMs · · Score: 1

    OMFG. They are sending all of the information on phone lines without encryption. What is this, the 1970s bulletin board era? These are the people we trust to build voting machines because of their security expertise?

  19. Re:Bill DID say he was leaving microsoft... on Get on the 'Gates for President' Bandwagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    But Bill Gates wasn't in Predator.

  20. Re:I hope the Gnome folks read this bit ... on Birmingham To Buy More, Not Less Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    They are smart, I think I spent 6 months before abandoning Gnome for KDE. The last straw was when they broke the menu system.

  21. Re:Recent Ads on History Proves That Videogame Ads Are Awful · · Score: 1

    Ummmm, yeah. I'll just need you to come in on Saturday and work on that.

    And I'll need that stapler, too.

  22. Re:It's even worse on MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist Named As MA Tech Advisor · · Score: 1

    So who are they supposed to put on the committee? Only Linux zealots? Only people who have never used computers? Choosing ONE out of EIGHT people who have in-depth knowledge of the world's most popular office suite, even if they are partisan, seems fairly responsible to me. Patrick didn't make him chairman. Presumably there is debate, voting and minority opinions expressed. Does anyone have any kind of backup for the claim "Patrick loves MicroSoft"?

  23. Re:Here's what I don't understand... on 4th Circuit Court Sides With a Spammer · · Score: 1

    I did read the article. Although cruise.com was in the From line and was not the actual source of the message, the cruise.com domain does in fact belong to Omega Travel, so where is the falsity or deception?

    whois cruise.com

    Registrant:
    Omega World Travel
          3102 Omega Office Park
          Fairfax, VA 22031
          US

  24. Re:We wouldn't be having this problem if... on Community Comments To Security Absurdity Article · · Score: 1

    "Sunbelt's testing has confirmed that Outlook 2003 is vulnerable -- in its most-patched SP2 version at least -- but that earlier editions of the e-mailer, including Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002, are not at risk. Sunbelt has yet to test Outlook 2003 SP1."

    Well, as of September 22nd it was vulnerable. I'm sure everyone updates their machines the instant that new patches come out, though.

  25. Re:Proposed Carbon Neutrality on Is a Carbon Tax a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    Slightly OT, but I've been looking into storing rainwater to use for flushing toilets and washing clothes. Payoff looks pretty good due to the high water and sewer rates in my area. I'm not sure about the legality of dumping unmetered water into the sewer system, though.

    I doubt that regenerative exercise equipment would ever pay off the resources needed to build it. Based on garage sales I've been to, I don't think that the majority of exercise equipment ever gets used.