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  1. Query string on Searching for Botnet Command & Controls · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just filter traffic looking for the string "Sarah Connor".

  2. Journalism on A Bit of Bittorrent Bother · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "If you ask the security services and the police why they monitor the internet, [pedophiles and terrorists] are the bogeymen they claim to be chasing.

    In a four minute piece, we're sort of obliged to take that at face value"


    No. As a journalist, you're obliged to think critically.

  3. Oh, goodie! on MS Connects Office and Back-Office Apps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Microsoft + connected applications = new wave of scripting exploits

  4. Priorities on Doctorow on DRM and Activism · · Score: 1

    Cory's only interested in the latest episode of The IT Crowd.

  5. Back to basics on The Future of the Blog · · Score: 1

    The future of blogging?

    Blogs with multiple pages, rich databases of content, media, software...

    I call it a "website circa 1997". It'll be revolutionary!

  6. Re:What about cell phones? on University Bans wi-fi as Health Concern · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Problem is, at the distances for cell phones, YOU'RE the one doing all the absorption.

  7. Re:"Just eyecandy" on Fedora's OpenGL Composite Desktop · · Score: 4, Funny

    Work's work. If you could dictate the asthetics of your work environment, I bet you'd have quite a different set of coworkers.

  8. On target on Microsoft Keeps Eye on Open-Source Prize · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft views open source through the lens of "coopetition from commercial and open-source strategies at the same time," Hilf said.

    Did he mean to say "through the lens of a high-powered rifle's croshairs"?

  9. Re:Yet another ill informed opinion about PDF on Unipage - A PDF Alternative? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not to mention, do you really want scripting support in a portable document format? Isn't the whole point that you're able to view the same document, on screen and printed out, across a wide range of platforms, and they'll all look identical? Dynamic content is throwing a wrench in those works.

  10. To clarify, on China Approves Facial Recognition for Surveillance · · Score: 1

    "other public places" == "China"

  11. Step by step on Houston Police Chief Wants Cameras in Homes · · Score: 1

    First come the mandatory cameras, then come the oversized potted palms.

  12. My Hero Champion on ATI Claims HDCP Then Covers Its Tracks · · Score: 1

    ATI isn't out to deceive us; oh, no! They're being a counterculture badass, fighting for our right to use unencumbered video transport systems.

    Joe User: Can this card output HDCP? I wouldn't want to accidentally expose my system to any high-bandwidth video signals unless they're nice and locked-down.

    ATI: Surrrre it can. We completely support content restrictions in the name of protecting copyright... *WINK*

    Joe User: Oh. Thanks. Um, I can still watch Terminator on it, right?

    ATI: Of course, in glorious, freedom-loving standard def.... You're WELCOME!

  13. Re:Stand up to Encoding? on Using Watermarks to Combat Piracy · · Score: 3, Funny

    "How well will this stand up to a lower bitrate/encoding setting?"

    About as well as my ears do, I'm guessing.

  14. Re:I doubt it.... on Microsoft to Replace Blackberry? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sadly, "Blackberry" has become the new "iPod".

    "Hey, is that your new wireless email device with mini-qwerty keypad?"
    "Hey, is that your new Blackberry?"

    So no, Windows Mobile Smart Phones won't takeover until the day people stop calling every portable audio player an iPod and every PVR a TiVo.

  15. Re:What's the big deal? on Essential PHP Security · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling people read the first few words of my post, saw that it looked whiny, and completely missed the joke (therefore labeling it "offtopic", which baffles me). Sad. It wasn't that bad a joke.

  16. What's the big deal? on Essential PHP Security · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Honestly, I don't see what the big fuss is about. No one's going to take the time to l33t h4xn0r into my webs...

    This post is defaced!
    NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm Generation

  17. Where have I heard this before? on IBM to use Cell in Blade Servers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That could prove more challenging than usual because Cell's architecture is so different. IBM hopes this summer's release of the Cell-based servers kick-starts work by third-party programmers.'"

    Deja vu?

  18. Last time I checked on Coming Soon, Super Vision · · Score: 1

    Pixel = pix[sic]ture element

    That is, although a pixel can be a phosphor, LED, or dot of paint, it's a tiny component that makes up an image. What we're talking about here is an array of fine-controllable lens elements. While a lens may manipulate the perception of an image, it does not constitute a piece of it. Seems a little silly to be naming the company over an utterly misused term.

    Lexels, anyone?

  19. No mammals? on Shark 6th Sense Related to Human Evolution? · · Score: 5, Informative

    As they evolved, mammals, reptiles, birds and most fish lost the ability. Today, only sharks and a few other marine species, such as sturgeons and lampreys, can sense electricity.

    The platypus begs to differ...

  20. In a word on Motorola's Linux Phones Frustrate Developers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The big question is, what does Motorola gain by obstructing willing developers from bringing software to their platform?

    Control.

  21. Re:The reality is... on CableCARD In-Depth · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The DIY market IS the market recording, ripping, and sharing. Are the torrents that are available 10-15 minutes after a show finishes airing the work of someone with their TiVo hooked up via coax to a 27" TV, or the guy with a DVB card in his PC, hacking a satellite stream, and dumping shows directly to his networked RAID?

  22. The smaller they are, the harder they fall on 7.5 Micron Thick RFID Tag · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shouldn't a smaller chip mean that even less radiative power is needed to overload and inactivate the tag? So... good news?

  23. Re:Backup on UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow. This snippet of an article really misses the point. If nothing else, it's just mean. It finds this "flaw" which exists not as part of the OS's security systems, but in user behavior. It waves its arms in the air, trying to make it seem like a big deal, and offers no insight into any sollution. Responsible computing has responsible users as a requisite. You have to give users SOMETHING to call their own. If they don't respect this space, backing it up or storing off-site copies of important files, they don't deserve to have it. I don't mean to be snippy, but how much hand-holding is the OS supposed to do? Would the author prefer a computer that was more TV than anything else, showing a lot of output but not taking any input from a user that could conceivably "gum up the works"?

  24. Value of online play on Sony Takes Aim at Xbox Live · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Frankly, I don't see online play as a major selling point. Sure, there are always hardcore gamers who will pay monthly fees year after year for the chance to play against gamers they've never met, but how does this add any value to the average gamer's purchase?

    Your average Playstation gamer has GTA, a couple sports/wrestling games, and plays with a few buddies huddled around the TV. They have no interest in challenging anonymous strangers, nor to continue paying usage fees for a console they've already shelled out a mint for.

  25. But the problem is... on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 5, Insightful

    lawfully != ethically