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  1. Re:As in... on Bruce Schneier Weighs in on IT Lock-in Strategies · · Score: 1

    I believe that phone numbers were assigned much like IP addresses are, in blocks. The routing would obviously be significantly easier if the numbers are sold in blocks.

  2. Re:Better login into wikipedia host asap on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Please bear with me the reason for this will become clear only with all the evidence before you.

    "People of the Book living in non-Islamic nations are not considered dhimmis." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_Book)

    As such the Jews living in Israel are not dhimmi, they are not a protected people.

    If the Jews were to surrender control of Israel they would become dhimmi and would be protected under Sharia law.

    If the Jews continue to fight then they will remain the enemy of Islam.

    The very idea behind dhimmi is to create a second class, people who pay taxes and cannot vote. The idea that you can cede control of your government and yet retain all of your freedoms is clearly impossible.

    It is in this way that Islam is identical to

    They feed (tax) on the host (dhimmi) until they die (convert).

    This is caused by the interesting mix of religion with law. The law becomes absolute and inflexible; I hope it breaks sooner rather than later.

  3. List of Comments on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Interesting
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    # 25: Dec 4, 2007, Syed jalal Akbar, India tell the infedels and kafirs not to publish,host or carry images of our prophets...if so be prepared to face the wrath of god...and cosequences

    # 24: Dec 4, 2007, Sajid Qureshi, India please do not test our patience.

    # 15: Dec 4, 2007, Vaseem Muhammad, India To undo the wrong, please remove the images of our beloved Prophet Muhammad(Peace be Upon Him) as it hurts our religious feelings and its blasphemous.

    # 98: Dec 9, 2007, Pir Ghulam jeelani, Germany I request all my muslim brothers to come out of the deep slumber and prevent such intolerant abuses to our religion.

    # 116: Dec 10, 2007, Nazia Qidwai, Pakistan Values of every religion have to be respected. It is not new to anyone that the picture of THE HOLY PROPHET MOHAMMAD (P.B.U.H.) cannot be made, whatsoever.NOTHING can mimic him, in looks or voice. It comes as a liability on Wikipedia to instaneously remove this pic. Is that a threat?

    # 140: Dec 10, 2007, Shima Fadzil, Malaysia only 1952 more to go. HUH?

    # 185: Dec 11, 2007, Abdul Hameed Mangrio, France We approx.1500000000 Muslims of the world take strong exception to pics of our Holy Prophet(pbuh)and and Wikipedia should remove them immediately Funny I only see 60K signatures so um %0.004 of Muslims care as strongly as you?

    # 152: Dec 11, 2007, Ahmad hafiz Hussin, Malaysia Wikepedia crews, u near urself to HELL!

    # 203: Dec 11, 2007, Ahmad Firdaus, Malaysia please respect my prophet. this is warning from one of the billion.. trillion.. super duper trillion muslim in the world. i hope ALLAH will give hidayah to owner of wikipedia.. amin.

    # 108759: Feb 7, 2008, Mark Globocnik, Germany Please remove all Muslims from Europe. Start with their ugly and hairy women. I beg you. It offends us.

    Feb 7, 2008, Osama Bin Laden, New York Islam is a religion of peace. If you do not remove the images of Muhammad from Wikipedia we will kill you all! Millions of innocent lives will perish because of your choice. We will kill everyone because it is forbidden to show an image of the greatg Muhammad. The only other choice is that everyone dies. EVERYONE. We are peaceful. All praise Allah.

    # 108791: Feb 7, 2008, Bernard Kutz, France Please expel all Muslims from Europe and North America, and in return we will remove the pictures of some bearded guy from the Wikipedia's entry on Muhammad. I cant read this crap anymore. My eyes are burning.
  4. Re:Information sharing is optional on Facebook Sharing Too Much Personal Data With Application Developers · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah and if you un-check that box ZERO of the applications will work.

  5. Re:Lopsided... on Mac Hack Contest Redux · · Score: 1

    This is from 2006 and is a fairly basic security flaw. http://milw0rm.com/exploits/1545 Mac OS X simply has not been a valuable enough target in the past to be attacked in a meaningful way.

  6. Re:The final excuse. on TrueCrypt 5.0 Released, Now Encrypts Entire Drive · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All I have to say is this.

  7. Re:Encouraging news on Experts Claim HIV Patients Made Non-Infectious · · Score: 1

    Either you have a medical degree or you have not been to a doctor since you were 10 years old.

    Lots of people drop out of med school because it's hard.

  8. Re:Fewest Users = Fewest Flaws on Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws · · Score: 1

    The two cannot be compared.

    Bugs in Linux are often found by people actively looking for bugs that then report them.

    Bugs in Windows are often reported by that automated "ZOMG YOU CRASHED SEND YOUR WHOLE MEMORY CONTENTS TO MICROSOFT?!" crap.

    It is irrelevant that Linux does not have many users but it is relevant to Windows.

  9. DMCA on Apple Crippled Its DTrace Port · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Is it possibly they included this so as not to provide a tool capable of circumventing DRM?

  10. Open Source DRM is Oxymoronic on Open Source DRM Solutions? · · Score: 1

    There is a reason that DReaM hasn't had a release since January 2007.

  11. Re:Wii Remote anyone? on Use Your Cellphone as a 3D Mouse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Touch screens are horribly unsuitable for use by the public at large.

    Simply put they break.

    This system puts the device in the users hand and reduces physical interaction significantly, which reduces cost.

  12. Re:Headline/summary is slightly misleading on National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50 · · Score: 1

    They will just put economic pressure on the states that refuse Real ID.

    The drinking age was pushed to 21 nationally when M.A.D.D. got a federal bill passed that limited federal money for interstate highway programs.

    On a side note the relative lack of interstate highways is why New York was the last state to change the legal drinking age int he United States and still to this day does not ban the consumption of alcohol by anybody under the age of 21, but possessing it is illegal so I guess that's really just a technicality.

  13. Re:Sales FUD on 95 Of Every 100 Windows PCs Miss Security Updates · · Score: 1

    Except this software is free for non commercial user.

  14. A Few Thousand Page PDF on White House Gets Green by Putting Federal Budget Online · · Score: 1

    A three THOUSAND page pdf?

    that is 3,000.

    THREE THOUSAND

    Nobody is going to read it.

  15. Re:manned exploration is the boondoggle on Mars Rover, Spirit, Turns 4 · · Score: 1

    On Apollo 17, two astronauts on a manned rover went 12.5 miles, in a single drive, in a single day.

    When they came back to Earth, they brought 243 pounds of rock and soil from the lunar surface along with them.

    Spirit and Opportunity are a phenomenal achievement, and the men and women who created them should be justifiably proud of all they've accomplished. But it's sobering to realize that much of what the rovers have done in the past four years could be accomplished by humans in a few hours.

    The obvious difference here is that those astronauts only had to go to the moon, getting astronauts to mars, much less getting them back, would be nearly impossible with 100x the budget for Spirit and Opportunity.

    It takes nearly 100x the budget to do get people to ISS

  16. Re:I don't get it on McAfee Worried Over "Ambiguous" Open Source Licenses · · Score: 1

    If you mess with kernel support functions you have to use the GPL because the Linux kernel is GPL'd. That is what the GP's post is about.

    If you copy code from the Linux kernel, then you have to use the GPL. Incidentally, this applies even if you don't copy verbatim - if you copy the structure and then change variable and function names, you still have to use GPL.


    But if you have a piece of code which you wrote in its entirety, and which is only linked against the Linux kernel when on Linux, then it only has to be GPL'd when actually linked to the Linux kernel. The version you ship on Windows or Mac OS X can be licensed any way you like.

    McAfee's problem is that they will include linux kernel structures in their code in order to replace them in memory. This is really only necessary on windows where the necessary APIs dont exist but hey old dogs new trick.


    Could they write a kernel module that interacts with there main code using networking to avoid releasing all their code under the GPL?


  17. Re:Bullshit.. on What Did You Change Your Mind About in 2007? · · Score: 1

    My point is not that there are no poor people, on the contrary I am saying that there are many more people in the poor class than those who are below the poverty line.

    My point is that the difference between the rich and the poor is to great that the middle class is not in the middle. They are truly the well off poor.

    I do not mean to belittle the struggles that poor people go though. I merely am pointing out that the difference between the middle class and the poor is substantially smaller than the difference between the middle class and the rich.

  18. Re:And of course.. theyre also willing to accept.. on What Did You Change Your Mind About in 2007? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The real problem is that there isn't a real middle class; there are the rich, the poor, and the well off poor. To say that the well off poor are the "middle" class is grossly overstating the amount of money they have.

  19. Re:Whoa on How To Lose Your Job, Thanks To The Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real problem isn't that you post the pictures of yourself, it is that one of your "friends" posted them.

  20. Re:America in 2108... on The City of the Future · · Score: 1

    That graph is ridiculous, after every American war spending and enlistment returned to normal levels, except after WWII. Scary.

  21. Re:holy shit! on Intelligent Software Agents - Are We Ready? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh and I don't think companies would feel comfortable sending their customer data and credit card transactions off to be processed somewhere else and just hope nobody records the data Credit card transactions are processed by credit card processing companies, exactly what you say won't happen is already standard practice.
  22. Re:Constitutional Rights? on Report Says 36.4% of World's Computers Infringe on IP · · Score: 1

    Actually many Universities consider downloading above a certain speed download abuse, they don't care what you are downloading at all.

  23. Re:Command and Control Server on Inside a Modern Malware Distribution System · · Score: 1

    Fast Flux is just a very fast round robin. The purchase of domain names is still necessary. Anyways why would they let someone have thousands of A name records and change them every few seconds?

  24. Re:It always amuses me on Report Says 36.4% of World's Computers Infringe on IP · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's the upside. The down side is that everything gets pushed through every link which means more than 3TB/day. True

    A modern design would be a cached pull system. Say you request part afba76a7b687af6b87fa6b87a6fbaf67 (hash sum), it goes to the local central, which checks local store (basicly a LRU disk cache), if not requests it from regional central, who'll again request it from the national central, who'll keep requesting it up the chain. If none of the caching servers can help, ultimately you connect to the torrent and get it from one of the seeds. Your ISP can cache it on the way out too, so you seed once and the backbone doesn't need to pull it from your seed line more than once. So basically the way DNS works? (minus the torrent part, root DNS knows all)

    If the cache expires, it can be reseeded again as long as there's peers like with regular torrents. Why would the cache expire if the information is stored based on a hash? It cant exactly be updated now can it?

    Technically, this is not really difficult it's legally the problem is. With many switching to encrypted torrents this kind of acceleration just isn't possible. The problem here is that the business model is broken.


    The ISPs could save massive amounts of money on content distribution if only they could cache it all closer to the enduser. They cannot do this now because the distribution is illegal. DRM was supposed to solve this problem by making it so that anybody could download anything but only those with the correct permissions could use the content. DRM however is flawed in that it just cannot work, smart people who want the content will always prevail. Attack is vastly simpler than defense (a good offense is always better than a good defense).



    The solution is to have the sales of music go through a third party distributor (iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Rhapsody, whatever) and have the ISP distribute the actual content. The key here is that the ISPs would have to allow any third party to sell their content through the distribution network to maintain their status as common carriers. Record labels get paid, independent artists and small record labels have the same access to a massively scalable distribution network as the big guys and best of all the load on the network goes down substantially.




  25. Sent them Sensitive Data?! on Should Apple Give Back Replaced Disks? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why did he send them sensitive data?!

    WHY?