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  1. Re:Better Article.... on America's War on the Web · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not all government websites are painfully insecure. Some branches of the government do take security quite seriously and are quite proactive and have very effective security policies. With that said, its very possible to be both proactive with regards to defense security measures and still formulate offensive actions at the same time. Also there is nothing wrong with planning for hypothetical offensive actions against hypothetical threats.

  2. Re:RFC 3675 is naive to say the least. on Plans For .xxx Domain For p0rn Scrapped · · Score: 1

    There is NO AMBIGUITY in porn websites. If they were ambiguous enough to be "misclassified" they wouldn't sell. And I doubt people would pay $4.99 a month for a subscription to "bikini models" sites. Well, those aren't representative of internet traffic anyway.


    It all depends on the community in question. Lets say you are a Muslim living in Saudi Arabia. A "bikini model" site would be considered pornographic to somebody from there. Sure while in the US or Europe we might yawn at that, not everybody would. The domain namesapce isn't the place to do content tagging/filtering. What is considered pornographic varies from place to place and person to person. There is more to the world than the end of your nose.
  3. Re:On e-mail too – that is PayPal on Phishing Site Using Valid SSL Certificates · · Score: 1

    One of the easiest ways to deal with any Paypal phishing schemes is the fact that real paypal emails will always have your first and last name in them. The body of the email will usually start with something like Dear Firstname Lastname. Generally that is information phishers don't get right.

  4. Re:Poor Man RAID Array on Home Network Data Storage Device · · Score: 1

    The cp command handles symlinks just fine, it depends on which behavior you want. Do you want just a copy of the data pointing to the symlink? Then do cp -l as that will copy the data the link points to and not the link itself. There are other options that will deal with non-files in the cp command as well. As for tar its not as great as you like to think it is, perhaps you should have a look at the man page for cpio someday. It sounds like you might not be as clueful as you like to think you are.

  5. Re:Set-top box? on Sorting Through the Analog to Digital TV Mess · · Score: 1

    Digital Terrestrial = digital television signals broadcast over the air.

  6. Re:How do you live with yourself? on Ask Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner · · Score: 1

    Depends if he meant pants in the British English sense of pants. In such case, you realize most women wear pants with their skirts?

  7. Re:Statist Musical Chairs on Senator Wants to Keep U.N. Away From the Internet · · Score: 1

    But we as a country don't have any right to be telling China that they can't block out freedoms. Yes, we try to all the time, because they're violating basic human rights, but this doesn't mean that we have any right to demand, and force change upon them.


    Why the hell should we not attempt to hold other nations accountable for their human rights record. Surely enough nations attempt to hold the US accountable for its record, with say, capital punishment. Besides, China built the so-called Great Firewall of China. They don't need to control root servers for that. BTW, are you one of those people who think that certain groups of people aren't ready for democracy and liberty?


    t's the same thing. No, we're not going in with soldiers and dictating our will upon China, Iran, and other countries with censorship. Rather, we're going in with our culture, and our technology, and doing the same thing. One country forcing another sovereign country to do something against its own will, is wrong.


    So having several nations in the form of the UN forcing a sovereign nation like the US to do something against its own will is wrong as well? Besides, nobody is forcing China, Iran, etc, etc to have their IP networks interconnected with ours.

  8. Re:The UN has finally lost it on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    The SPR is capable of supplying roughly 60 days worth of import protection. And you apparently didn't look to hard at the SPR website. See SPR Facts.

  9. Re:What is a weapon on U.S. Deploys Orbital Communications Jammer · · Score: 1

    Denying soldiers breathable air would however is a very effective weapon. There are many ways to accomplish this(though most have likely been banned by various chemical weapons treaties)

  10. Re:Even more annoying... on Comments are More Important than Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    1994 is calling and it wants its Sparc IPX back.

  11. Re:Ham Radio Not Outmoded on Ham Operator Sets New Miles-Per-Watt World Record · · Score: 1

    Yes its been done many, many times. There is an entire class A allocated for this purpose as well, 44/8. There is also a domain ampr.org used for ham radio stuff.

  12. Re:Burt Rutan: 4 Days. NASA: 2 Years on Space Shuttle to re-launch in May · · Score: 2, Informative
    What does it tell you about the state of NASA when it takes Burt Rutan 4 days to get his ship back into orbit, while it takes NASA two years? Granted, the Shuttles goes into a much higher orbit, and carries a lot more payload, but the difference is still ridiculous.


    Rutan's ship didn't go into orbit, it simply went into space and just barely at that.

  13. Re:Trupe? How about Tripe? on Understanding 64-bit PowerPC architecture · · Score: 1

    I think the entirely different meaning was intentional.

  14. Re:But wait: on Accelerating IPv6 Adoption With Proxy Servers · · Score: 1

    I think 6bone.net was the first to really use AAAA records, though I could be quite wrong..

    (And I think I know you from somewhere)

  15. Re:How about on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    How nice a link to a dead sourceforge project.

  16. Re:Unfuglify on Cray CTO Says Cray Computers Are Great · · Score: 2, Informative

    Viola, un-fuglied version.

    Not to nitpick but a Viola is a string instrument in the violin family, the word you want is voilà.
  17. Re:Nail clipping on Are You Annoying? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps go clip then in the restroom?

  18. Re:Need more linux stores on Groklaw Debunks SCO's ELF Heist · · Score: 1

    We need more whitebox shops in towns all over to start selling linux or installing it. Put up a big sign "windows viruses eliminated forever!"


    Or you could get a very pretty looking box with the same features by buying a Mac *ducks*
  19. Re:Condescension on Egyptian Linux Advocates' Replies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seeing that large portions of Egypt are in fact covered by sand, this isn't quite an unreasonable question. Mind you the majority of the people in Egypt live in the Nile valley or along the Mmediterranean coastline, but still, there is certainly a lot of sand in Egypt.

    And yes we may all be the same physically in terms of our internal organs, but there is more to being a human than just what color our squishy fleshy insides look like. There *are* differences between people and cultures. Stereotypes an myopia are broken down by cultural exchanges, and this was in fact one way of that happening.

  20. Re:Easy fix. on Comcast Plans Cable Boxes with Integrated Wi-Fi and Snooping · · Score: 1

    Yeah and there is a federal law on the books that allows customers to maintain their own internal wiring for cable service and attach whatever devices they see fit as long as the devices are not used for theft of service. So seeing that the federal law overrides state laws, this is a mute point. And since you didn't point out what states nor the names of the law I'll just assume you are trolling, even though yes I took the flame bait.

  21. Re:That's hardly a privacy issue on Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail · · Score: 1

    So arguing that black box data is a fifth amendment violation, you could make the same argument that matching bullets from a murder victim to a gun would be as well? Improper operation of a car can turn it into a deadly weapon, same as a gun. So then are we to throw out matching bullets to guns as well?

  22. Re:Read the fine print on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    The net gain of energy would be the energy put into the system from the Sun. A lot of people are forgetting the fact that the second law of thermodynamics applies to closed systems, thus no perpetual motion machines. So if you were to look at the earth itself as a closed system then yes there would be no net gain. But the Sun is adding energy into this system, thus while on the law of thermodynamics scale there would be a net energy loss in the Earth/Sun system, because of the energy expended by the Sun.

    But in this case, we're using corn as a capture device for solar energy, and then modifying that energy.

  23. Re:eh on XFree86 Alters License · · Score: 1

    gnu bc has a -q option that'll shut off the banner..just setup an alias to call bc with the -q option :P

  24. Re:FCC? on Broadcom Accuses Atheros Of WiFi Pollution · · Score: 1

    Well you are wrong about 802.11a clobbering an 802.11b system. 802.11a is in the 5GHz range not 2.4Ghz.

  25. Re:Has always worked for me ... on Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software? · · Score: 1

    /dev/random provides more entropy, however, it will block once your entropy pool has been exhausted, and will sit until its refilled. /dev/urandom on the other hand, will never block on you, at the expense of the output not being anywhere near as random.