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  1. dont register the domain name in america tip on US No Longer the World's Internet Hub · · Score: 1

    well best not register cubaorangebikinforfree. domain on an American business say godaddy et all.

    Being serious for a second i can recommend 'bad men' it is a book about the people with the free holidays.

  2. ssl secure from verisign/others ? on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 1

    ssl secure ?, how ?

    If i self sign ssl firefox will claim that the site is really really evil and get the dreaded are you sure routine, ie users might get a warning too that this is not the best ssl that somebody sells and ie can use i read.

    Why is ssl from verisign/others 'AUTOMATICALLY SAFE' im quite sure verisign and others would be happy to give up the secure information to the governments for interception if push came to shove and they where denied the right to sell in x country.

  3. Re:How many sites can you reach? on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 1

    We had AAAA records for our domain - our dns provider wiped them no reason was given - a job i have avoided since.

    As to ipv6 well most consumer kit does not support ipv6 (unless you flash your linksys specific model) and no we dont have linksys routers.

    While some might say there ready for ipv6, and the software is there the routers joe average uses (not Cisco) is yet to get there.

    joe average can adjust there ipv4 router easily for a new isp. If my isp said i needed an ipv6 router then we would need to purchase routers capable of v6.

    ipv6 means hassle - and the big isp's know that and stick with what they know.

  4. Re:Waiting for $50 players on New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    I can write to my dvd disks, cant do that with blueray, dvd will be here longtime. If i do watch tv (thats dr who, or a video) then i watch on a 14" inch tv

    My parents (not geeks) recently bought a dvd player. They have a better (but non hd) tv.

    Until blueray has +rw no thanks

  5. Steve Balmer throwing chairs ? on New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 · · Score: 1

    I think chair throwing should become a sport.

    I think we'd all love to see the man in action.

  6. Re:All together now: on Why Microsoft Cozied up to Open Source at OSCON · · Score: 1

    Microsoft extinguished a wga license on one of the bosses Vista laptops today it was only eight months old. Don't ask me why but i had an enraged boss to deal with why his computer would not work.

    I have 'ossed' the model - is this what Microsoft want me to do ?

  7. imax the same as normal theatre ? on Delivering 8K VFX Shots For the Dark Knight · · Score: 1

    so theres no point in seeing an imax version of this film if i read the summary correct.

  8. a reputation war is good on How to Fight Name Scraping Scammers? · · Score: 1

    for instance - "site x is used by the cia to torture rabbits"

    people search for site x and see that they torture rabbits then the brand name has a problem.

    Reputation works both ways after all. It would be hard for them to sue you since they invented your profile and you cannot get in touch with them.

  9. ipv6 and brand names. on Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router · · Score: 1

    Nor it seems can any other consumer router vendor. Sure they all grok ipv4 but not ipv6 - they all need to spend money on the software something netgear seem to have woken up on ?

    I was given a 'spare' netgear wifi router by a friend when they changed isp's and did not think much of it even though it was a month old. I have a very old netgear 814 consumer router (no wifi) which is my backup router.

    I sold my friends wifi netgear device (not via ebay), and kept my old netgear 814 router as the backup.

    If the consumer router makers dont do something about ipv6 i think we will all be seeing new companies move into there market.

    I current use Chinese oem stuff (branded but unknown to most) for home networking and its pretty good. Linksys is my next router choice for home networking, not netgear.

  10. Re:"Java never mattered"? on Does an Open Java Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Java was for a time a cultists language. Then those Java cultists got bored and moved to whatever next was on the 'hot things' list. The write once - exec anywhere is baloney - Microsoft decided to screw sun with there own jvm. and even now (ON A DEBIAN MACHINE) not ubuntu half the things on ./ freshmeat in java wont work without the sun java stuff and whatever the Sun marketing team our calling the jvm this week. Please remember sun fans and others thinking im trolling that the jvm from is not part of Debian. Yes some of the java tech is cool but its runtime implementation means it was flawed.

  11. Daisy Daisy,give me your answer do! I'm half crazy on Whatever Happened To AI? · · Score: 1

    All for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, But you'll look sweet on the seat Of a bicycle built for two ! Now do we blame Stanley or Author C Clark ?

  12. Re:about time Sun on IcedTea's OpenJDK Passes Java Test Compatibility Kit · · Score: 1

    That is a channel/repo we don't have setup, i assume you have the Non-free channel your pulling down the .deb from.

  13. about time Sun on IcedTea's OpenJDK Passes Java Test Compatibility Kit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dear Sun employees as a /. reader and Debian box user i am occasionally interested in the Freshmeat apps on the right hand side. When it says downloading jar i know it usually won't work. Yes I am lazy and wont download stuff from your website, untar it, click agree and hope that all the other working Java bits still work and i have got a handle on what ever your Sun marketing experts have named the jdk this week. It is a shame that the run everywhere on everything has been such a long time coming.

  14. Re:Worth switching from Fedora? on OpenSUSE 11.0 Released · · Score: 1

    You can clear your yum directories (been a while since we ran fc distro). I'd stick with fedora and if the bleeding edge gets too much think about moving to debian.

  15. Re:Old News on Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The English Navy where also 'rumored' to know the position of the boat (back in 1985) with all that submarine detection stuff in the atlantic perhaps its was question of knowing what to do with the data. The Royal Navy didnt find it physically but according to one newspaper hack they where spot on when it was found.

  16. Theft of pong, and space invaders from Atari on Atari Founder Proclaims the End of Gaming Piracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is apparently still a major problem. You learn something everyday

  17. Not just canada. on Patriot Act Dampening Cloud Computing? · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7231186.stm Has this issue. Trustworthy and patriotic - something loses in that war.

  18. A too well kept secret and nothing to see. on Bletchley Park Facing Financial Ruin · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Milton Keynes is an ugly town, and since people have heard of Turing why bother visiting Milton Keynes. If you read up on ww2 radar, quite a lot of the development of those was done in Rural Wales (safe from bombers) I see no point in visiting Bletchley Park (thats Milton Keynes) to visit a shed.

  19. Re:Defense in Depth on Just How Effective is System Hardening? · · Score: 1

    OK there is one sendmail milter i might like to 'work', but since i run a more modern postfix server in chroot its not a major issue.

    By all means go neurotic, - yes sure we have all traced our ethernet cards and know what good and evil gets passed to it. Security should mean ok, not stop apache doing its stuff (modsec), or selinux blocking imap because its doings something normal.

    I (foolishly?) consider selinux a desktop service. Sorry im not a bible basher

  20. but 'apt-get install msn' fails on Microsoft IM Blocking YouTube Links · · Score: 1

    what am i doing wrong ? - humour

  21. Re:What the hell was wrong with DOOM3? on id Software Announces Doom 4 · · Score: 1

    Never played it, but doom3 goes for $ 20 secondhand. I bought Doom2 online and it zipped to four 1.4mb floppy disks. Doubt you could do that with Doom 3. Doom three is something i might buy, but knowing what version to buy put me off as there is 2nd life add on pack or something.

  22. Re:Heist! on Peter Gabriel's Web Server Stolen · · Score: 1

    Its not new, London was known for crooks stealing computers ram/processors. - and i dont mean just your laptop, thats all the the computers in the office building. Its a variation on that. I can tell a tale about such a client. But im quite sure they would not want it known.

  23. Re:Vista on Does Ballmer Need To Go? · · Score: 1

    The only reason people have Vista is because like us they bought hp computers and it came with the computer 'forced'. Don't worry they now have got Linux on it. If you dont buy the right ammount of memory then you will hate Vista. All in all Vista is bad news i doubt that many who got 'burnt' by the not enough memory scam will be returning to the big vendors like dell,hp etc soon. One might accuse the vista as being like Mafia insurance for Microsoft. If i was HP i would be worried about the damage Vista was doing to 'HP and first impressions' from clients. As far as i can gather no refund of the windows tax is possible from HP. The /. crowd know better, but many consumers don't.

  24. Re:American business/citizens to get in trouble? on Cuba Lifts Ban on Home Computers · · Score: 1

    So the law does not apply to Americans, only europeans who register 'cuban' like domain names. Interesting.

  25. American business/citizens to get in trouble? on Cuba Lifts Ban on Home Computers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I imagine that there will be copies of Microsoft windows on pc's, and the dvd's will have a fee paid to hollywood licensing body at the mpiaa. Will Steve Balmer find himself in American prison for selling to Cuba ? Since no doubt some of this money comes from outside Cuba, are not the citizens of America helping propping up Fidel and his cronies. Will the bank records be used to hunt down these people. The US Treasury should be vigilant and like it did with the cuban inspired domain names enforce the laws to stop trade with Cuba (and covered here on Slashdot). Theres also the patent aspects, somebody in Cuba must be in breach of some us pto patents.