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  1. Re:I wonder... on Researcher Resigns Over New Cisco Router Flaw · · Score: 2, Informative

    Great. The problem is a flaw in BGP that affects every router that implements it. It allows certain messages to cause a DOS attack on certain IP addresses. Tell me how long it will take to fix. By the way, if you're wrong on the time estimate, everyone is going to jump all over you. And if the time period is too long, everyone is going to jump all over you. Also, you can't make everyone upgrade at the same time, so your solution has to be backwards and forwards compatible. Well? I'm waiting.

  2. Re:Collaborative Effort Game on Fun and Informative Way to Introduce Open Source? · · Score: 1

    No. Just someone who orks cows.

  3. Re:Uncanny Valley... on Japanese Develop 'Female' Android · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I once saw two street performers who did an excellent job of pretending to be robots. I felt this overwhelming repulsion and had to walk away. I didn't know it had a name before now, but it is not limited to robots imitating humans. The converse can also fall into the Uncanny Valley. Interestingly, I am not repulsed at all by artificial limbs (some of my best friends ...).

  4. Re:I wonder... on Researcher Resigns Over New Cisco Router Flaw · · Score: 1

    "We will have a fix in X weeks."

    Because its so easy to estimate the time that it will take to fix a fundamental architectural flaw.

    Cisco implied that the problem is not a software bug in IOS, but: "ways to expand exploitations of existing security vulnerabilities impacting routers." (Whatever that means)

  5. Re:How about making server side only apps? on Migrating IE Web Apps to Mozilla · · Score: 1

    That is a real dinosaur. Most of those COBOL, zOS, DB2 database driven websites have switched to Linux/Apache front ends by now. Of course, the mainframe is still there.

  6. Re:I've been through this. on How Should One Respond to a Network Break In? · · Score: 1

    Two things to add:

    Don't allow accounts with names like "sam" - make it "sam_sosa" or at least "ssosa" so that dictionary attacks won't find it easily.

    Don't allow remote root login. Require user login, then su.

  7. Re:Read my last journal entry... on Migrating IE Web Apps to Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Shows that half the work in migrating apps is political rather than technical. Sorry that you work for an a**hole. When I've been in that situation, I follow a simple rule. Tell them the right way once. They don't follow your advice and it blows up. Don't tell them "I told you so". After a few times they start listening to you.

  8. Re:Common knowledge. on Challenging Music Downloading Myths · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would you shop at a grocery store that sells food you don't like? Would you buy a peach if you were also required to buy a sack of dried beans, a muffin and a tin of Ovaltine?

  9. Re:Not Compatible with Linux on The State of Solid State Storage · · Score: 1

    On Linux, put the memory in your motherboard and put your system on a UPS. This gives all the advantages and none of the disadvantages.

    mount -t ramfs ramfs1 /mnt/ramfs

  10. Re:this wont kill Linux on UEFI Formed to Replace BIOS · · Score: 1

    What is likely is that the PC splits: you will need an EFI motherboard to boot Windows, which will have DRM to reduce pirate copies of MS software. MS doesn't need sinister motives when they have an obvious one. If you install a flash BIOS, you can have non-DRM Linux. Content providers will do what they do now, which is only support Windows. Dual boot of new MS Operating Systems will be difficult.

  11. Re:Sceptical... on UEFI Formed to Replace BIOS · · Score: 1

    You missed the biggest reason: every mobo with a BIOS means a royalty paid to Phoenix.

  12. Re:Cue CmdrTaco's OpenBoot Troll on UEFI Formed to Replace BIOS · · Score: 1

    Do you have any idea how much time standards committees suck up? Who's going to support an OS developer sitting in meetings for a year? You chipping in?

  13. Re:First the food pyramid on Revamping The Periodic Table? · · Score: 1

    Really? I thought he was dead.

  14. First the food pyramid on Revamping The Periodic Table? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now the periodic table. Is nothing that I learned in school sacred?

  15. Re:problem building dbacl on Can a Bayesian Spam Filter Play Chess? · · Score: 2, Informative

    yywrap is the ouput of the parser generator (lex or yacc or something). Its either not being generated or missing from the link command. Look through the output of configure and make to be sure you didn't get an unnoticed error, like "Can't find yacc".

  16. Re:the flaw in his teaching: on Can a Bayesian Spam Filter Play Chess? · · Score: 1

    So you are suggesting that it base its next move on the moves that come later in the game? Or did you not understand what "Bayesian" means?

  17. Re:No, it can't (well) on Can a Bayesian Spam Filter Play Chess? · · Score: 1

    One of the early AIs got good at checkers in this way. It was given a lot of patterns and based on playing many games created weights for moves based on what patterns it recognized. I believe it could beat the best human players. Chess would have a much larger number of patterns, because of the different types of pieces and moves, but in principal, I think you are right.

  18. Re:JRunner on Software QA and Load Testing Solutions? · · Score: 1

    So what does the poster need that jmeter doesn't do? Here's the thing: ITS OPEN SOURCE. Maybe an additional needed capability could be added and returned to the OS community.

    People (and I won't say just Windows users, mind you) have a tendency to look at OS software and say: This doesn't do what I need, so I'll just buy the commercial product. It might be cheaper to write the extensions to jmeter.

  19. Re:Because Big Business is Bad on Meet Web Hypochondriacs · · Score: 4, Funny

    MOD parent up! I read this somewhere else on the web, too!!!

  20. Re:Nor accessible on Multiple-Target Hyperlinks for the Masses · · Score: 1

    US has the ADA which is a subsidy program for the concrete ramp industry. I've never heard of it being used for website access (yet).

  21. Re:You forget 2600 DeCSS on Australian Man Found Guilty for Hyperlinking · · Score: 1

    Reversed by DVDCCA v. Bunner in Nov 2001. (deCSS ruled free speech).

  22. Re:From a personal observation on Setting up a Small Office Network? · · Score: 1

    No ruined cable. You could always cut the bad section and add two N connectors and a barrel adapter. Then use a TDR to make sure the splice looked OK. Network back up in an hour at most.

  23. Re:In other news.... on Australian Man Found Guilty for Hyperlinking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are lost in a maze of twisty little analogies, all alike.

    What it is NOT like is the Ticketmaster decision in the US which ruled that a link is not copyright infringement. I don't think this ruling could stand in the US.

  24. Re:PhotoVoltaic Roof Shingles on How to Build a 17-ft Wind Turbine · · Score: 1

    saltpeter = potassium nitrate
    salt = sodium chloride

    What energy savings? It sounds like you are making salt, not generating energy.

  25. Re:Usuability standards on Check Boxes and Radio Buttons Conquered by DHTML · · Score: 1

    That's why I do my whole site in 10-point courier in green on a black background. No images, javascript or CSS. It looks just the way it did on a CRT terminal in 1975, as God intended.