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  1. Re:Danger with Old PCs on Is Your Computer a Fire Hazard Waiting to Happen? · · Score: 2

    It also kills roaches like there's no tomorrow. Something about it ripping apart a protective wax layer on them.

    I had the misfortune of working in a place with a severe roach problem. One squirt of WD40 in their holes, and no more problem for a couple weeks.

  2. Re:Okay. on Power Plants On Rails for California · · Score: 2

    And then torque off your children's children's children, who could have actually used that stuff. Bottle it, store it, and some bright boy will find a good use for it later.

  3. Re:Legitimate products through spam on Anti-Spammers Wage E-War · · Score: 2

    Spam, a definition.

    UNSOLICITED - they never asked you to send
    COMMERCIAL - this is to do with a business
    EMAIL - duh

    NOWHERE does the definition of spam include "faked from address", "doesn't unsubscribe you when asked", or "not truthful".

    UCE. Three criteria, your operation checks off on each one. You spammed. Suck it up.

  4. Re:WEP is useless anyway on U.S. Government Certified Wireless Security Products? · · Score: 2

    Exactly. There was a SSH timing attack last year or so, based off of average typing patterns, where they could pull your password, or what it likely was, by timing the packets as they flew by.

  5. Re:Why government certified? on U.S. Government Certified Wireless Security Products? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why?

    Simple. The government has several large groups of people paid very well to be professionally paranoid, and to whom cost isn't a real concern - only the actual validity of the security.

    Therefore, if THEY say that it's secure, you've got a pretty good chance of it being good enough. Much better than trusting that Vendor XYZ's pretty shiny brochure says "secure!" five times, and no negative reviews show up online.

    Trust the experts. In this case, many of the experts happen to work for the government. If they worked in the private sector (and some do, but not most, and they're almost all biased), I'd look to them to certify things.

  6. Infiltration on Spelunking in Las Vegas · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately, the site seems to be having problems, but infiltration.org is a 'zine that covers these kinds of urban expeditions. Some great stuff there, when it's working (and google seems to have spidered it yesterday).

  7. Re:Laptop? on Flip-Pad Voyager: Dual-screen Laptop · · Score: 2

    6 kilos is not heavy.

    30 kilos is getting there.

    60 kilo rucksacks, now you're talking.

    Whats next, a two minute walk is a huge distance?

  8. Re:Laptop? on Flip-Pad Voyager: Dual-screen Laptop · · Score: 2

    Pfft. I remember when anything under 20kg was light.

    You're just spoiled. Compare it to the actual weight of a real desktop and monitor (hint, at least quadruple that) and stop yer whinging. :)

    If you're so weak that 6kg is a problem... get out from behind your desk and get some exercise! Sheesh.

  9. Re:Ignore them. on Analyzing Palladium · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sigh. Posting to undo a screwed up mod. I didn't select troll, damnit.

  10. Re:Do I assume this is set at no? on OpenSSH Vulnerability Disclosed, Version 3.4 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Generally, the defaults are displayed in the config file, as commented out instructions. In other words, the default is yes.

  11. And the sliding scales of justice say... on WorldCom CFO Accused of $3.6 Billion Fraud · · Score: 4, Insightful

    one slap on the wrist, and a fine of whatever pocket change you happen to have on you.

  12. Re:Change in the infastructure on Greenbacks No More · · Score: 2

    So in other words, about twenty bucks a machine, or probably less than a days take per machine.

    Big freaking deal. The flipside can be argued, that there will be e benefit to the economy because all these new acceptors will be made and purcahsed.

  13. Re:Fake. on The Boy and his Breeder Reactor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sigh... others have shown ample evidence that this is legit. We need a "-1 wrong" moderation. I thought about giving you an Overrated, or a Flamebait, or a Troll, but none are right.

  14. Re:There is nothing wrong with RPMs. Only packager on Is RPM Doomed? · · Score: 2

    It definately covers how to do this in Maximum RPM, which is on rpm.org.

    http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/

  15. Re:Network won't be down long. on EBone/KPNQwest Network Shutting Down · · Score: 2

    Not if they aren't saddled with debt payments that the previous company had.

  16. Re:I am surprised! on Used Books: An Actual Internet Success Story · · Score: 2

    I love my books, and that's why they're trashed.

    Books are to be read, not preserved. The authors words live in the reading - not in the uncreased, unmarked cover, or in the pristine white pages.

    I just can't understand you, I tried as I was composing this. It seems to me you don't want the writing - you just want the physical object... a literary trophy hunter, if you will.

    I'll continue reading, wearing out, and replacing my favorite works, and by doing so, supporting my favored authors. Lois McMaster Bujold already has my payment twice over for Memory, and thrice over for the Vor Game, and she deserves every damn penny. (Yes, I know Baen gets most of it)

  17. Re:Bad perspective on Sicilian Suspension Bridge to Go Ahead · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, I looked on the site - that's not a BBC job, it's from the strettodimessina site, and while one looks cockeyed, another (from the same end) looks square. And the implication is these are computer renders - not a photoshop job. Wierd.

    The view from the end of the bridge

  18. Re:Bad perspective on Sicilian Suspension Bridge to Go Ahead · · Score: 2

    Heck, it could be some whacked-out crazy new design, where the towers on each end aren't perpendicular to the roadway. *shrug*

    It did look odd to me when I first saw it though, and this explains what it was.

  19. Re:Release early, release often on FAA Pushes Air Traffic Control Systems Into Service · · Score: 2

    (four months later)

    Dear Sir/Ma'am,

    We at the FAA are very sorry for the loss of your husband/wife/child aboard AA/United/whoever flight number 987. The software glitch that caused their death has been identified as a previously occuring error, and a patch has been available for four months, but due to sysadmin laziness, was not installed, despite being easily available from our locked supply cabinet (which we have lost the keys for) at the bottom of a missing stairwell in the third subbasement of FAA headquarters.

  20. Re:uh oh on Pardon, Is This Your File? · · Score: 2

    It's probably even better than that.

    Hypothetical shareware program's terms: try free for 15 days, don't like it, delete it. Like it, pay $15.

    I download, I try, I don't like, I delete.

    I now have downloaded commercial software that I have not paid for. Never mind that I did so 100% within the bounds of it's license.

  21. Re:In other news... on Australian Spammer Sues Back · · Score: 1

    If you're looking for that, may have better luck spelling the city properly... it's Surrey with an E. :)

  22. Re:HP has always made the money on the refill on HP Must Defend Half-Empty "Economy" Ink Cartridges · · Score: 2

    (It's a troll, but what the heck)

    No, never saw the need to keep dating after I got married.

  23. HP has always made the money on the refill on HP Must Defend Half-Empty "Economy" Ink Cartridges · · Score: 2

    Back in the day of the Laserjet II, we had a joke around my job that HP was just a toner company, with very fancy toner delivery packaging - printers.

    It's just a heck of a lot more noticable now, you're paying $60 and $40 instead of $3000 and $200 (plus $ungodly when you need to replace the other parts). With the inkjet, you get a new head every time, and that's the part that gums up and goes bad.

    Perhaps somebody has some price-per-page figures, that I'd like to see. I suspect that even with the exorbitant replacement cost of the heads, it should still come out really cheap per page.

  24. Re:Fairly innocuous on An Offer Tivo Owners Can't Refuse · · Score: 2

    Easier to just use one of the hard-drive boosting guides that are out there (IIRC, I don't have a PVR).

  25. Fairly innocuous on An Offer Tivo Owners Can't Refuse · · Score: 4, Redundant

    Really, it appears that the Tivo unit goes out of its way to NOT cause a problem. As the summary post stated, it doesn't use your own storage space, it doesn't pre-empt your own desired recordings, and it asks to change the channel if you are currently watching something.

    The last one seems to be the only annoyance, if you were in the can, you may come back to find it on a new channel, but I think Tivo did a decent job of trying to make this a painless "grab" of promo items which aren't even forced on you - just automatically made available to you. The only way it really could be made any more painless is multiple channel tuners, so it could grab the show off the 'backup' no matter what you're doing in the first place.