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  1. Re:You know, what is more shocking on The Science of Password Selection · · Score: 1

    This is why I use some obscure answer that has nothing to do with the question, such as a part of the female anatomy. Favorite color? Tits.

  2. I laugh at stupidity. on WA Election To Try Online Voting · · Score: 1

    AHAHAHAHAHAAA! This will fail. Low turn outs are good when you wan't to win elections legit. High turnouts are great if you wan't to stuff the ballet box, ie dead people, old people in retirement homes, kids that just turned 18. Oh! The list goes on.

  3. Late Article? on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Aren't ya a bit late on reporting this?

  4. No BBlobs? on BSD Coder Denies Adding FBI Backdoor · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't we be able to search the code for said backdoor? And correct me if I'm wrong, but BSD can't have binary blobs in it's code.

  5. Re:AV companies scare their customers on Web-Users Fall For Fake Anti-Virus Scams · · Score: 1

    Tan("Where I work, 4 man IT shop w/ 50+ users, we have Norton SAV installed on ever PC. Server pushes updates. User's never see the update screen. Now that's the enterprise version, clean, not to clunky. Now just take the same software for a single home user. What do you get? crap... What happened to the good old days of a non-colorful gui? I never had installed an antivirus up until M$ update popped up an optional update with SE's. It does a decent job. I had to exclude some of my tools from its "bad hacking tools" list. I won't touch another XP machine again");

  6. Re:Assume IE 6 earns them 1 million dollars a day. on UK Government Rejects Calls To Upgrade From IE6 · · Score: 1

    It's rather simple. The "programmers" of the IE6 only web applications, didn't know how to write WC3 compatible HTML. Now that there are more applications, that need to be rewritten for IE8, than they can handle. It's kind of like this; Where I work it took 1 year of one programmer's time to convert 2 web application to work correctly with IE7 and IE8 and Firefox and Safari. Multiply that by how many web applications the UK has and you can quickly see how daunting the task is. What should have been done and what needs to be done are two different things. When I write any HTML I have my PHP change the HTML depending on what browser is viewing it. The short: Stupid programmers...

  7. Limitations of a NSL on FBI May Get Easier Access To Internet Activity · · Score: 1

    "How are NSLs different from subpoenas? Are NSLs subject to limitations?" "..." "NSLs, however, are subject to two significant limitations. First, they are only available for authorized national security investigations (international terrorism or foreign intelligence/counterintelligence investigations), not general criminal investigations or domestic terrorism investigations. Second, unlike administrative subpoenas and grand jury subpoenas, NSLs can only be used to seek certain transactional information permitted under the five NSL provisions, and NSLs cannot be used to acquire the content of any communications."

  8. FB Disks? on Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? · · Score: 2, Funny

    So I can get a Facebook Official diskette/CD?

  9. Re:Android permissions on Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole · · Score: 1

    I 3 you for showing my the light of Autostarts

  10. Found off... on Black Market May Develop For IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    the coast of , in a sunken ship. Get your gold IP for just 10 payments of 29.95!!!1!!!!!one!!!!111

  11. Lean meat and healthier cows on Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this mean that the cows would become a bit more health and in turn be more health for us to eat? Who really cares about energy when we are dieing from a bad hamburger...

  12. Re:Dear FSF on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward" · · Score: 1
  13. Re:It still has quite a bit of "suckiness" on Unlocking Android · · Score: 3, Informative

    "If you buy an unlocked android phone, you can not run applications *you paid for* because of DRM." This is a false statement unless your referring to a non Dev phone I have IM+ paid for and I am using it with out a fuss on my Dev phone. ~Spyinwind

  14. Prior Art on Breast Cancer Gene Lawsuit Argues Patents Invalid · · Score: 1

    I think Nature has prior art...

  15. Re:magnetic on Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesive Set For Space · · Score: 1

    if 2/2 = 1 and 1/1 = 1 then shouldn't 0/0 = 1, right?

  16. Re:Or maybe go after the root of the problem. on FTC Announces Crackdown on Do Not Call Violators · · Score: 1

    If thous features ever appeared on any cell phone service providers' phones. I would definitely buy the phone in a heart beat.

    My sure way of getting off there list >:D

    Telemarketer: I am from the [insert company]... blah blah blah...

    Me: um... you do realize that this is a business phone number, and that it is illegal to call me?

    Telemarketer: Oh, sorry (hangup)

    even thou IANAL, I've gotten less and less phone calls.

    ~Spy

  17. Re:Ummmm... to run a little web server. on Verizon Offers 20/20 Symmetrical FiOS Service · · Score: 1

    You do realise that you can get past all the port blocking by just paying an extra $5/month... I think it is called Buisness class DSL. If only ATT offered a litle bit faster up stream speed here I would switch in a heart beat. Sigh... 1.5 Mbps down and 75 kbps up I find it weird that the DSL modems cost around $4,000 (if you fail to return it to them) compaired to Comcast, I mean RoadRunner, no wait its Timewarner...

  18. Why not... on Spam War Takes Out Blog Services · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just pull the plug on the web server... or
    redirct the domain name to 127.0.0.1(taking up to 24-48 hours to update) as one of the other posters posted...

    Why I ask is because where I work we had a similar problem and sence I maintain our web server we had no choice but to unpluge the network cable. Waited 5 minutes and pluged it back in and vwala! no more DOS.
    My best guess was that as soon as the DOS'er saw that our site was "down" they/it thought that there task was completed.

    It is almost( but not quite the same) as if some one took a ethernet cable and created a loop on the same pair of switchs. (i.e. two switches are connected to each other. Then some random idiot looks at them and plugs in a spare cable in to both, creating a network loop.)

  19. Re:Some companies can't. on Will Novell's Desktop Linux Catch On? · · Score: 1
    I just did a little google search, (ie, "linux terminal server client")

    I think this might help start in the right direction. http://www.rdesktop.org/

    rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000/2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.