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  1. Re:Before anyone starts drawing wild conclusions on 38% of Downloaders Paid For Radiohead Album · · Score: 1

    The non payers might have bought the cd at the later date, and even if they did not and those people who downloaded the music then go see radio head somewhere in concert then no loss was encountered. Its more customers.

  2. Re:AV companies appropriate? on Highly Targeted Phishing From Salesforce.com Leak · · Score: 1

    I think the article poster is saying that perhaps salesforce.com should pony up and pay the a/v firms to fix the problem being that it affects very few people.

  3. Thats why i dont trust journalists/media owners on A Look At Free Reviewer Swag · · Score: 1

    Journalists They would seem to rate a product based upon the giveaways. If the product supplier didn't like the review they got then threaten to not to advertise.

    5/5 amazing

  4. Re:Technically they are blocking on Comcast Admits Delaying, Not Blocking, P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    I don't do much bit torrenting to start with but bt is one sick puppy when i used it the other month. I had stalls, odd disconnects and had to look again at my known working bt settings again. I'm not a comcast subscriber but if we all had to change our webserver / jabber / email configs every week to keep 'clueless phone company' happy there would be some fuss. If they can do this to bt why not our webserver configs etc ? and soon .

  5. Im waiting for the holodeck directors version on Blade Runner, The Final Cut · · Score: 1

    How many times is this dead horse going to flogged ? it cruel. Read the book, and dont buy this 'final director cut'

    I waiting for the holodeck version thats way way better.

  6. Re:Hotmail is unreliable anyway on Admins Accuse Microsoft of Hotmail Cap · · Score: 1

    Yahoo are not much better, we where doing some domain keys signing and yahoo where not checking those for a while considering it was there baby go figure.

    It took a day to get a test message to yahoo to one user.

    We dont run mail list but hotmail, and yahoo are not really in very good shape. Theres better free email out there.

  7. Re:Confirmed on Cracked Linux Boxes Used to Wield Windows Botnets · · Score: 1

    You met Jesus wow ! Better stick with windows my cowardly friend.

  8. Re:Confirmed on Cracked Linux Boxes Used to Wield Windows Botnets · · Score: 1

    We had a hacked box, using one users personal /home/'xyz'/public_html (not a system account) which they seemed to have accessed via ssh (check those logs) being that everything else is blocked

    The attacker never gained 'root' and i got there eastern european location from the last login. I was quite impressed by there efforts.

    The users password was fixed and the box later replaced for a better distro.

  9. Re:Alternatives... (an xp users tale) on Internet Explorer Drops WGA Requirement · · Score: 1

    I have a friend called Lloyd who has an xp box bought pre wga times with the pc.

    To my knowledge he apparently has got ABSOLUTELY no updates from Microsoft since wga was turned on by them as he does not has the wga things. So what does this have to do with ie ?

    Does Lloyd care about wga no, has he noticed the lack of care from Microsoft who think that he is a pirate because he has not bothered to wga his xp box ? No.

    So why should he bother about ie 7. For the record i dont do wga (or use windows) and i will not install it and the machine in question has a copy of firefox on it.

    Hopefully somebody will hack his unpatched before wga box and then i can lead him a cd of linux (no im not recommending vista). The Moral (from slashdot perspective) i think is that if your treat your customers as thieves then why should he bother with ie7.

  10. I never use the first few pages of a 'search' on Spam Sites Infesting Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    Its my way of penalising seo'ers. Its worth thinking about

  11. Re:Thank you, Daniel on Daniel Lyons of Forbes Admits Being Snowed by SCO · · Score: 1

    Indeed but writing english should not be the only reason your employed.

    Hacks today take the the easy route - heres a three paragrapgh press release, aha problem solved. - the other side ? there isnt one.

    English is the cure to all the problems, its a shame that the 'complex' technical stuff eluded him. Forbes was spouting a line recently that the Judge on the case (Kimbal?) was not qualified and a jury was needed.

    btw: Forbes 'legal expert' also needs help.

  12. Bad for image porn spammers on Comcast Slightly Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy · · Score: 1

    Sorry but thats only 250,000 porn spams this month (based on the image number) If i was a comcast spammer i ask wheres my 12750000 other spam allowance messages gone.

    btw: humour

  13. Re:To those that buy online on a public computer.. on Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes · · Score: 1

    Time to dust that copy of nphProxy (runs on a webserver in cgi-bin) in another country.

    Should make it an illegal store.

    I occassionally test functions at internet cafes when the need arises, and while i don't purchase. im rather happy the administrator has set up a nph proxy for things i'd rather not get keystroked for or leave a confusing trail. - while not perfect, it makes a trace a bit more confusing.

  14. Editors with Karma and the forth estate culling. on Algorithm Rates Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Pages · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia (Jim Wales) once employed and expert who claimed to have a string of degrees but did not - the editor would say i have a degree in this and the victim would agree that the editor knew better.

    But the expert got found out

    Wikipedia and the algorithm needs to take account of persons (or organisations) who link to it get better seo - I state that 'the times of india' being good here for trashing content and putting in there own links to there site when in the 'news'.

    The wiki item in question is now useless and tells you less than before the criminal was famous. Logs, examples and other pertinent information was trashed by these media staff.

    Ideally one would re-edit the item, but why should i, and why should the seo for 'the times of india' be deemed better than my edit which was far more indepth.

    Wiki is not perfect, but news organisations serve adds. When Jim Wales promotes the times of india i do hope he get paid something by them.

    This is not sour grapes - but editors, idiots, and seo ops might make there own link farm ghetto - 'the times of india',the bbc, cnn etc. Journalists can write (say english) it does not mean they know much about the topic they discuss in english.

    While the tool has good intentions my use of the wiki as a source has stopped and no i do not purchase the 'times of india' either.

    The senario i discuss happens with the newly famous. That is when the profession seo'ers at the 'the times of india' rush in and mass delete.

    Not my problem, but i do hope Jim gets paid by the 'times of india'.

  15. Enron,Mr UFO hacker, and Gambling directors on Yahoo! Asks That Chinese Rights Suit Be Dismissed · · Score: 1

    Depending on where you are America decides where you get tried. and while the english ufo hunter was dumb he will no doubt be making an appointment to meet a judge

    In Dallas three english banking staff are up for fraud in Enron shares, and a director of a gambling firm in England who ws passing through us for a connecting flight got collared by the fbi being an evil fraudster for offering gambling services.

    Unless you avoid us immigration, or do a Micheal Jackson and live in do the arab states its quite likely that an foreign national will end up in an American court.

    Getting an American fraudster say John Delorean - in an english court for fraud (DeLorean cars) was not possible and i doubt that it is today, the other way round is possible

    Thats a perception and hold true for England

  16. Re:buying rights != making movies; uneven quality on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 1

    As a european - i never knew that it was a series of books, theres that old film, and thats it from a european angle.

    Internationally is sounds a hard sell

  17. Re:I never ever got the point of Cisco certs on Network Warrior · · Score: 1

    Cisco Certifications are no different than Microsoft or any other vendor-specific certifications. And quite frankly, you're an ass for suggesting anyone with a Cisco cert is a moron.

    It probably attracts most morons. Some aren't

    But, there's always going to be the elitist asses who dismiss all certification programs outright. I guess when you fail the test two or three times, you might become embittered.

    I have it certs - I never ever took a cisco test so that does not apply - why because Cisco is just a brand, and generally speaking the myth and folklore of ccna's means you don't come across well. My point is that a Cisco only for networking skews the osi layer thing. Yes there other makers out there but generic is better.

    I find networking easy and when required (not often) tasked to look after the vpn - quite why i have to be cisco'd is a logic loop I fail comprehend, then again apparently 'im embittered'.

    Hey ho Lemmings and the cliff - wee!!

  18. I never ever got the point of Cisco certs on Network Warrior · · Score: 1

    Networking can do any thing within reason (but that reason might be dumb), I refuse to buy the logic that Cisco or a Cisco certified moron is the only way to 'tube'.

    Cisco is just a brand. To prove this visit a large bookseller and look at the rows (or web pages) of Cisco education books that do the seven osi layers.

    Cisco will lose it one day - and a new company will take over, those who know will laugh at all the cisco fools for once upon a time 'nobody got fired for buying ibm' too.

  19. Re:How? on 3 Ton Meteorite Stolen · · Score: 1

    Vodka my friend.

    I lost a toothbrush at the weekend and i didnt notice it.

  20. Re:Reconsidering my Enterprise Order on MySQL Ends Enterprise Server Source Tarballs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ewald Geschwende do a good book on postgress (on o'reliys safari too if i remember) I use postgres for our internal apps.

    Perhaps when wordpress moves to postgres will get noticed, I consider mysql a childrens db, postgres is good enough without getting into bigbucks Oracle territory.

    Choice is good - mysql for mysql's sake is a lame argument.

  21. and the Wifi is killing us too on HP to Researchers, 'Our Printers Are Safe' · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the wifi makes you cough by telling your brain

    Tinfoil hat time (joke)

  22. Lets hope the nbc tech team can handle 'security' on Dateline NBC Mole Outed At DefCon · · Score: 1

    I don't she will be doing tv for a while, lets just hope nbc can handle the problems that mismanged stunts bring.

    revenge is dish best served cold

  23. needs green monsters, in directors cut on Music Piracy Documentary Released As Torrent · · Score: 1

    Disney did Pirates, the film does not contain green characters like shrek and so failed the multiplex cinema test.

    await the directors cut

  24. 'Reasonableness' test on Web Contracts Can't Be Changed Without Notice · · Score: 1

    We have standard company terms (on website and documents), we don't discourage a court to decide and being reasonable we like to set out a procedure that can avoid court action.

    We might use weasel words, but court is expensive.

  25. An european observation about tivo on The Trouble With TiVo · · Score: 1

    Yes Tivo sounds good - somebody i know owns one in europe but I dont see them in consumer places (retail shops) in europe. Conclusion Tivo does not care about the european market ylou probably can buy them but its 'niche'. British Telecom, Rupert Murdoch and Sony do care about it and being found in the big chains.

    In England there is a freeview digital system - there are not many times when you need multiple tuners for watching,recording etc. Conclusion european tv companies also dont like dvr's

    I dont watch much tv anyhow, so vcr still seems ok.

    Main conclusion - tivo is too North America focused. Yes dvr sounds good but if i did do dvr i'd probably myth tv it and not do tivo