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  1. red herrings? on Students vs. Hackers · · Score: 1

    I see that flooding was disallowed, but how about red-herring attacks to get caught in packet sniffers used by the good guys, for the purpose of distraction from the real attack?

  2. Levy should be repealed on Germany Accepts Strict Piracy Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unless there is also a levy that compensates shopkeepers for stolen goods, the levy on CD writers and media should now be immediately revoked.

  3. XIII and Starforce and my dead DVD drive on Galactic Civilizations II Breaks DRM Mold · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A while back, in 2003, I downloaded the XIII demo. It was quite an interesting game concept but I didn't buy the game. Around the same time, my DVD reader/CD writer combo drive from Benq quit working--windows would only recognize it in PIO mode, and it made a lot of coasters. I didn't make the connection--instead, I reinstalled windows xp, and bought a new drive. That seemed to fix the problem. I just realized yesterday that the demo probably came with Starforce (most demos also come with it to prevent cracking the demo exe to aid in cracking the game) and hosed my writer just by being installed. Even after I uninstalled the demo, the drive still wouldn't work. The drive is still sitting on a shelf, and I bet it still works if I install it.

    There are probably at least thousands of people who got screwed like me.

  4. Re:My personal opinion... on Cubicles a Giant Mistake · · Score: 1

    There seem to be three most common cubicle walls, 4 foot (i.e. no privacy at all), 5.5 feet (you have to make an effort to look over the wall), and 6 foot cubicles. The best are the 6 foot walls.

  5. Re:I'm sure someone else has mentioned this: on AMD Subpoenas Skype · · Score: 1

    If that was the case, Skype would have contacted AMD about solving the compatibility problems.

  6. Re:Why not post the university in the summary? on University Bans wi-fi as Health Concern · · Score: 1

    They do have a reputable engineering school, and I doubt this came from them.

  7. Re:I don't get it. on Beware the iPod 'slurping' Employee · · Score: 0

    How good do you think the read-access logging is on Windows 2003 servers? For a big organization, can they really monitor things that well? Someone who thought it through could set it up so the files were copied slowly to avoid detection.

  8. a "program" isn't needed on Beware the iPod 'slurping' Employee · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Despite what the article says, a special program isn't needed. All that is needed is for someone to mount the ipod as a disk drive and run a batch file. It could be as simple as one line calling xcopy for each file type (pdf, doc, etc.) running a loop from A to Z for the drives.

  9. Microsoft Word auto-correct on Literacy Limps Into the Kill Zone · · Score: 1

    This has definitely not helped my speeling. If I type a word wrong in Word, it corrects it, and thus I get sloppy. Too bad slashdot does not have such a feature, but at least mis-spelled words do not get corrected to the wrong thing and lead to embracing situations.

  10. Designs search engines? on Olympic Medalist was Spyware King · · Score: 1

    You mean like those false result pages with a lot of advertising that google is always trying to smack down?

    Pop-up blockers? You mean pop-up protection, FROM THEIR POPUPS.

  11. Re:who cares? on Olympic Medalist was Spyware King · · Score: 1

    I hate to admit it but I am a bit jealous. Yes the guy made a horrible career move, but how many people can say their a millionaire, have a Lamborghini, and a gold medal at age 21? That to me is incredible success, and it pisses me off.

    Let's just hope he wastes the next 10 years or so doing a lot of blow, and at the end had to sell the Lambo for more, and is facing jail for scumware. Oh, and Bubba in prison has a good supply of blow for relaxing certain body parts.

  12. Athletic assistance from Government? on Olympic Medalist was Spyware King · · Score: 1

    I know they don't have to be jobless, but I'd like to know if he was supplementing his ill-gotten spam and spyware gains with government handouts too. In Canada, an olympic athlete can get a substantial amount of money from the government for living costs and training every year, I wonder if Australia has such a program, and if he did take advantage, I wonder if he would have told them about his business.

  13. tractor pulls on Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests · · Score: 1

    When we see the first F-350 series truck tractor pull with a carbon-fiber nanotube produced cable, your posting might be a valid one to make. But for now, theoretical materials or materials that are too expensive to conduct such trials on are not going to cut it.

  14. keyloggers on UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about making governments install a keylogger before they seize the computer? Hardware or software, it would go in the old tradition of installing a telephone tap. It's not that hard either. Did the government demand that paper notebook makers supply a backdoor so they could decipher drug accounts written in code?

  15. Re:Fame a Factor? on Tennis Pro Swaps Racket for Railgun · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If that was on the Quake map DM6, that was a fairly easy maneuver in the health pack room. There were people who whored that room all map long.

  16. how about a warning for the other drivers on New Honda Accord Drives Itself · · Score: 1

    Like a special color of marker light reserved for cars that have auto-drive on? You know, so you could give it wide bearth while giving the laptop-using driver the finger?

  17. not quite on Loss of Applied IQ Among UK Youth? · · Score: 1

    Loss of scientific and technical reasoning eh... so folks are saying "I don't care, I just want it to WORK!"

    Not quite, I think here it's more like, "I don't care or wanna work, I just wanna pimp sum hos and cap some 5-0."

  18. prank macro on 20 Years of Computer Viruses · · Score: 1

    That was what Microsoft called the first Word macro virus.

  19. creating a nuisance on Felony For Refreshing a Web Page? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In meat-space, there are laws that let people be charged with misdemeanors like "Creating a nuisance." You might get charged with this if you got 20 people to go into a department store and hold relay races in the isles. Isn't this guy's behavior more in line with this, than "computer crime?"

  20. Re:What on earth? on Grokster Launches Fear Campaign · · Score: 1

    That porn ad. also tries to forge a security certificate for localhost.localdomain, no doubt to try to get around image blocking.

  21. Re:mad cow disease on Utilizing Bio-fuel Beyond Experimental Use · · Score: 1

    I would also suspect that a certain temperature somewhere in the middle would optimize prion replication.

  22. Re:WTF? on Utilizing Bio-fuel Beyond Experimental Use · · Score: 1

    I have karma points out the wazoo, I was completely maxed out back when they used to show your score. I sure didn't get them from being insightful, although I got marked that way a lot. It ensures everything I post pretty much starts at +2.

  23. mad cow disease on Utilizing Bio-fuel Beyond Experimental Use · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now mad cow disease can be spread by cars too!

    Seriously, I hope the rendering process is complete enough to destroy any prions, because anyone who has been behind a diesel truck knows that the engine certainly does not combust cleanly.

  24. I was born in Canada... on Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..when do I get my entitlement?

  25. spam protection on Cray Supercomputers to be Based on AMD Opterons · · Score: 1

    This is obviously for spam protection...