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  1. Re:AT&T Southeast way behind the curve on Patch DNS Servers Faster · · Score: 1

    "Patching for these servers are scheduled to begin next week."

    Or immediately after att.com starts resolving to the IP of goatse.cx ?

  2. Re:Have you ever been in the army? on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    And again, if you look at human history, it used to be even worse.

    So did pretty much every damn thing. Just sayin'.

  3. 'river' of tiny, white calcite crystals? on Spelunkers Explore Crystalline Cave In New Mexico · · Score: 1

    I'm no geologist, but as I understand it, a river is traditionally liquid.

  4. Re:Obligatory "does it matter?" on Debian Maintainer Hints At September Release for Lenny · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Debian 'unstable' is still more stable than Windows. Don't mod this funny, I'm entirely serious.

    PS. You wimps who don't like living on the edge can always use 'testing'.

  5. Re:Little people who look strange to us... on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 1

    No he didn't. Just gnore me, it's been a long week.

  6. Re:Little people who look strange to us... on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 1

    He said SMART people.

  7. Re:I favor pantents. on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    I hate patents for one very good reason: reading patent applications is about as boring as you can get without taking a degree in economics.

    No software patents means I won't have to read another patent again EVER. And that's good.

  8. Re:About damn time! on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    They also have more patents than anyone else if I recall correctly.

  9. Re:Do I understand this correctly? on SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. Their 'back door' sounds like my out-of-band control network.

  10. Re:Here we go... on Attack Code Published For DNS Vulnerability · · Score: 4, Funny
    Can someone please send me the HOSTS file for the Internet?

    kthxbye

  11. Re:The idealistic young become the cynical old. on Linux's Security Through Obscurity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7451/poster68251050mx9.jpg

    What did the poor openBSD devs do to deserve this?

  12. Re:Kiwis are out of touch on Hack a Million Systems and Earn a Job · · Score: 1

    a power supply bordering on third world standards

    No, you haven't - I used to work there and the only power outages we had were caused by transformers blowing up, not by problems further upstream.

    I grant you, too many Maori in prison, and Telecom sucks. But telcos suck everywhere :(

  13. Re:What happened to ethics when hiring? on Hack a Million Systems and Earn a Job · · Score: 1
    Yes, I'd much rather he was locked up at the taxpayer's expense and he wastes his skills completely languishing in jail.

    Kiwi's have a bit more sense than a lot of people when it comes to justice - retribution is necessary, but so is rehabilitation.

  14. Re:More stupid armchair engineering on Send the ISS To the Moon · · Score: 1
    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_threat_from_cosmic_rays and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind . You do not want to spend much time outside the magnetosphere.

    Oh, by the way, Stephen Hawking is an "armchair physicist" in that sense.

  15. Re:Doesn't make sense on Estimating the Time-To-Own of an Unpatched Windows PC · · Score: 1

    *giggle* Reminds me of the time I hosed my laptop so thoroughly I only had 'ed' to recover /etc/fstab. Had to browse the ed man page with one laptop while working on the other.

  16. Re:Unfortunately, what else is new? on Paul Vixie Responds To DNS Hole Skeptics · · Score: 3, Funny

    You broke my sarcasm meter.

  17. Re:i've read a number of story summaries in my tim on Kaspersky To Demo Attack Code For Intel Chips · · Score: 1

    I'm OK - I run ARM Linux :)

  18. Re:Doesn't make sense on Estimating the Time-To-Own of an Unpatched Windows PC · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Exactly. It used to be a real problem, and at my uni in 2003 or so, I'd insist everyone built their servers and patched them offline. Some didn't listen to me and got owned during install.

    These days, you turn on the firewall on XP SP2 or 2003 and don't have the problem. (As the OP said, just don't browse the web while you're doing a server install.)

    cheers,

  19. Re:Capitalisim at its best... on Pickens Plans On Wind Power · · Score: 1

    Screw the hippie crap with wind, solar, etc., we are outta time. Build nuke plants.

    All very well for base load, but those things take a bit of time to spin up and down. What are you going to do when the superbowl comes on telly? Things like hydro come in pretty useful for burst demand.

  20. Re:Golden ratio? on Linux Alternatives To Apple's Aperture · · Score: 1

    Particularly when it's a transcendental number, and thus unachievable on any image which has, like a whole number of pixels. Dur!

  21. Re:some others are more recent on Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill · · Score: 1
    *snigger* http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/09/italy.usa

    About the only true thing the Bush administration has said and they issue a grovelling apology.

  22. Re:Sinisterness on Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released · · Score: 1

    Having checked again, I'm guessing dnsmasq is OK because it doesn't do recursion?

  23. Re:Sinisterness on Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released · · Score: 1

    Looks like dnsmasq doesn't randomise source port either - just wondering if you checked that as well? (Sorry, have read CERT advisory, couldn't see it mentioned.)

  24. Re:Nothing to do with Government on EBay Abandons Plans For PayPal Monopoly · · Score: 1
    What about if Telecom NZ forces you to buy Telecom NZ phones to plug into your infrastructure, buy connectivity from Telecom NZ instead of third party ISPs? Would the government have a right to get involved then?

    It's called abusing a monopoly - leveraging your existing dominance in one market to force another product on a different market. It's illegal pretty much everywhere.

  25. Re:No Solar Projects Approved on Freeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted · · Score: 1

    Can't we turn Florida into a crater the size of Florida?