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  1. Re:It basically bypasses all of the Windows securi on Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Hell i want one, no more uac prompts in Vista. This would be a benefit too all sa's if they had one.

  2. Exiting client Inertia is IBM's problem on IBM's Inexpensive Notes/Domino Push Against MS · · Score: 1

    If you talk with your average notes user and the it people there are some common things you hear a lot of about domino. 1. a fear of upgrading, the phb's dont like that. 2. a fear of changing the templates that scares the phb's too, and affects point one. 3. Sometimes companies with the big ibm software contract visit conferences just to find out what Notes is, after all they have paid of the use of it. If anything ever gets done is speculation. Domino is a gentle step towards open source, theres a lot of 'you cannot do that politics' when you come to email systems. I will not disagree that notes ui sucks, but it begins to replace the mantra that 'unless it says microsoft' then it is a trusted desktop application.

  3. where is Aural css ? on Do the Blind Deserve More Effort on the Web? · · Score: 1

    Theres a lot of disabled special interests. Beware any of you lot who think you can please them. Pleasing them means closed captioning, and more importantly paying each disabled consultant expert each time. CSS might solve the problem, that seems to have gone nwowhere.

  4. Re:People! Not everything is terrorism! on Iron Man's New Villain — an Open Source Terrorist · · Score: 1

    You forget that I too shall also be a 'terrorist' by not going to view this film (thats got to be an mpaa crime somewhere). After all whats the difference between a basement and a cinema anyhow ? I'd wish they would make super chair thrower into a film what a role model he is

  5. Re:Am I missing something? on ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns · · Score: 1

    Beats me 'brand name' ? A european registrar is safer in regard to things european's can do, and american's cannot. The opportunity to holiday in Cuba is one recent example where some european got there domains taken out by the us govt recently.

    My eu registar has a rule that a domain cannot be transfered in the first month after purchase which im cool with and has none of the restrictions Comrade Parsons of godaddy has that im aware of.

  6. Chip and Pin design failure in the pos terminals on UK Banking Law Blames Customers For Insecure OS · · Score: 1

    In England where cnp is 'working', what that means that fraud has mostly moved abroad once the fraudsters have your details.

    Generally i think Cambridge university has the scoop which is that the chip and pin pos terminals don't encrypt data in the terminal and send it plaintext so it can easily intercepted for making new cards, as they have the pin number well before signing the data to the 'bank'.

    So the thieves have been hacking the chip and pin terminals, threatening retail staff (petrol stations and clothing outlets) and then cleaning peoples accounts out.

    Cnp works stopping idiots, but the thieves too have worked on cnp terminals and the game moves on. cnp terminals can be bought on ebay for hacking.

    The banks and there trade body have yet to respond to the academics it has been several months but are 'aware of the flaws'

  7. Humourous call on UK Banking Law Blames Customers For Insecure OS · · Score: 5, Funny

    client rings up the bank, 'i have been stolen from',
    bank rep asks: whats your operating system:
    client says: mac osx
    rep says: im sorry sir that means your liable for the losses
    client asks: why
    rep says: you dont run norton antivirus, only norton antivirus protected computers are safe. Thank you for banking with us, can i help you with anything else?

  8. Re:Talk Talk: bit torrent throttlers on UK ISP Says No To Music Industry Pressure · · Score: 1

    It depends how they sell that 'bottom end' I'm quite sure a serpent tongued salesman would claim it had no restrictions other than say a quota which they would describe as 'huge'.

  9. Talk Talk: bit torrent throttlers on UK ISP Says No To Music Industry Pressure · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you read the customers of talk talk tales of woe site http://talktalkhell.wordpress.com/ you will note that wow players (uses b/t) are penalised since they use b/t and are so deemed bit bandwidth eaters and bad for his business. Dunstones attempts at running an isp mean that most consider his first enterprise talk talk a failure, his next venture was to buy aol in the uk.

  10. Re:Novell on Novell Rises to Second Highest Linux Contributor · · Score: 1

    Yes I was once a happy suse client (when it was german) but our days of paying Novell have past. While not everybody in Novell is evil, i'd rather not support a company that does the evil deal with Microsoft.

    All our servers are now Debian. Most clients - Ubunto/Debian.

  11. 'Internet friendly' and ms do not mix. on Microsoft's Vista Blogger Quits · · Score: 1

    You just know that Steve wants to throw a chair. Btw never read him.

  12. Just a brand name on Creative Goes After Driver Modder · · Score: 1

    When pc's didnt come with soundcards (remember that) I looked at soundcards, and trust me i didnt end up with a creative product. That pc eventualy died and I happly moved to on board sound from the motherboard and i have never looked back.

    Reading through this /. article i now understand why i was never a client of creative. There are 'hifi' nerds - you know the type who fall for gold connections in wires. Funny shapes of plastic that 'improve' the sound in a room. Maybe my hearing is basic but while its nice to sell some hifi nerd a $1000 cable can anybody really tell the difference ?

  13. Re:if you only read mandarin on China Unblocks the BBC (In English) · · Score: 1

    May i suggest a book The writing on the wall: China and the west in the 21st century, by Will Hutton

  14. Re:holy cats! the world is changing! on Seagate May Sue if Solid State Disks Get Popular · · Score: 1

    Seagate will also make the patent on the first star trek like teleporter (this entails data transfer). What a forward looking company they are. Lets hope Khans group of supermen do nasty things to Seagates ceo.

  15. Re:Troll article on Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold · · Score: 1

    Real bofh's run Debian*.



    * humour

  16. Re:WordPerfect rocked on Novell's 2004 Case Against Microsoft Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    Wordperfect was good, it worked on a lot of platforms, then got multiple owner syndrome.

    We used wordperfect until recently but after giving the company several chances including buying the wordperfect for linux box and when that crashed, tried a windows release (demo, not novell but wordperfect office) that crashed windows with an alarming regularity it meant one thing - open office.

    Document migration was not that bad (a lot of work) use gnumeric for spreadsheets (hint hint) and things where done.

    I have to question Novells longevity since there deal with Microsoft and I am sure Steve will be having words with Ron about this case.

    Competition is good, but i think wordperfect's days are over.

  17. Re:Umm.... on The Joy of the Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    Zonk so thats where my guinea pig went (he went missing one day), can i have him back.

  18. Re:For sending too much email? on Spam King Pleads Guilty in Seattle · · Score: 1

    There are websites that detail the charges against Robert Soloway and what he did.

    I see this a victory against the 'email marketers' who send you spam opt in, opt out, three barrel opt out or whatever the dma are calling it this week. Soloway was a pain for isps worldwide, email, and the infrastucture of the internet.

    How Soloway worked: Soloway 'gets' your email address, you change it, soloway 'gets' it again, but now uses both, result = one bounce and continued spam and now multiply that several million times. The detail on Soloway is out there.

    Yes our email servers can handle the 'no user at this address' but why should we (or yours have to) have to handle this request x many which was never asked for.

    OK so the US can-span act is useless, thats what happens when you buy the power to water down laws. So fraud seems a good way to take down Soloway.

  19. I look forward to Bob Parsons explaining this on GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com · · Score: 1

    In his blog, Personally, using an american registrar sounds like trouble, eNom did it to cuba*.names. Can you trust an American domain registrar for your business ?

  20. enom is spammers registrar central on Wikileaks Calls For Global Boycott Against eNom · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    With Godaddy supplying Robert Soloway (rokso spammer) with gb of disk space they too are not trustworthy. If you look at Enom then it appears as if all spammers use them in some form.

    One thing is sure Enom voted republican, perhaps they also contribute to the republican party as well?, on that basis all foreigners (all non us citizens) should avoid enom.

  21. No on De Icaza Regrets Novell/Microsoft Pact · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh dear - permit me to laugh at Miguel for having the last laugh on him and his 'company'.

    Yes Gnome is ok, the ooxml feature in the pipe line well thats a mistake but you got to keep Ron (thats his ceo) sweet don't you

    Google is open source. If google had to pay microsoft licensing ms would not sell them to Google. So I submit that Novell isn't relevant and if we take his word that the patent fud has not improved that much Novells prospects then the problem lies in the boardroom at Novell.

    Miguel please do look forward to becoming a microsoft employee.

  22. Binary is better on When Should We Ditch Our Platform? · · Score: 4, Funny

    we train monkeys to shout 1's and 0's at computers. The Monkeys are happy.

  23. chair throwing insurance for the Moores on Moore's Law Is Microsoft's Latest Enemy · · Score: 1

    Im sorry sir but as your name is Moore, and we have been advised that you are ineligible for personal injury insurance and anything to do with chairs. Have a nice day.

  24. Re:Use a european registrar on Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist' · · Score: 1

    Yes they might, but that might raise a few eyebrows. A european registrar needs some international legal footwork. But it makes things harder and its not the case of phoning an american up and accusing them of being a terrorist to get your job done.

  25. Use a european registrar on Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No issues then, any european who trades with an american firm is asking for problems.