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  1. Re:Sound Great on Futurama May Strike Back (on DVD) · · Score: 1

    I was quite disappointed when I got the first DVD set for South Park and they were still beeping out swear words. I guess it was always intentional.

  2. Re:ZDNet are running a Giant MS ad on the page top on MS Invites Security Questions · · Score: 1

    So? every once in a while I have seen a MS ad on Slashdot? Course that isn't when I am running Firefox with adblock

  3. Re:Consider immigration to the north... on Canadian Music Swappers Win Court Battle · · Score: 1

    The first time I heard about rumblings of Marijuana legalization was during Trudeau's leadership. I guess it was so close to actually happening that coincidently (or maybe not) Nancy Reagan came out with her Just Say No campaign.

  4. Re:Consider immigration to the north... on Canadian Music Swappers Win Court Battle · · Score: 1

    People forget that the southern part of Ontario is more south than the northern border of California

  5. Re:Consider immigration to the north... on Canadian Music Swappers Win Court Battle · · Score: 1

    No they still have one snow plow and last winter they needed at least another one right after a big snowstorm.

  6. Re:Consider immigration to the north... on Canadian Music Swappers Win Court Battle · · Score: 1

    ok that was funny. Mod up!

  7. Re:Its far from over though ... on Canadian Music Swappers Win Court Battle · · Score: 1

    My question is when are they going to throw Chretien behind bars. It is obvious that Martin knew about the whole scandal but was powerless to do anything about it as his boss was running it. When Chretien was in power no project could take a dump without his approval. Treasury went from controlling the purse strings to rubberstamping anything Jean wanted. If you had a project in any arm of the government he had to approve it.

  8. Re:Lets Roll! on Canadian Music Swappers Win Court Battle · · Score: 1

    I am Canuckian and I say Zee. Consider me old school Sesame Street, not this sissified PC (Politically Canadian) crap they have here now. :)

    I spent 5 years in California and I don't know how often people asked me where I was from because of how I said about. Something like abba-ow-ut more drawn out than down south.

    My wife was raised in Sarnia which is across from Detroit and it is funny how many people in Ottawa think she is 'merkin

  9. Re:Lets Roll! on Canadian Music Swappers Win Court Battle · · Score: 1

    Yeah plus we (Canada (actually England but I digress)) lost a good portion of Maine in 1812.

  10. Re:Go see it in theaters on 'Sith' Already Found Online · · Score: 1

    Dammit you should have had spoiler in your title!!

  11. Re:bandwidth on Windows Cheaper to Patch Than Open Source? · · Score: 1

    With Windows you need to download once to your SUS server from Microsoft and then approve the patch after some testing. At this point your properly configured workstations will download the patch and install depending on how you have it set up it may force a reboot or allow the person to delay installation.

    You can even create slave SUS servers to offload from a main one and control the patches from a centralized server

  12. Re:Unauthorized access? on Government Use of WiFi Not Secure · · Score: 1

    Interesting.. According to void11 documentation you need a proxim chipset. My Orinoco Gold Classic (forgot the classic in last post) has a Hermes.
    However if it works it works.
    Just wish it was part of gentoo emerge system :)

  13. Re:Unauthorized access? on Government Use of WiFi Not Secure · · Score: 1

    Only one problem with void11. It only works with Prism chipsets. I have Hermes based Orinoco so it probably won't work for me.

  14. Re:only for previews. on Give Your DVD Player The Finger · · Score: 1

    I can't cite it but there was a case about a year ago where a Oscar nominated rip had been linked to one of the cast from Goodfellas through watermarking.

  15. Re:Unauthorized access? on Government Use of WiFi Not Secure · · Score: 1

    The thing I noticed about majority of the WAPs in my range was they were smart enough to change the SSID but never set up any encryption and never turned off SSID Beaconing. All but one of the encrypted had changed their SSID but had left beaconing on as well.

    Still can't figure out why I was seeing so little "interesting" packets.

  16. Re:Unauthorized access? on Government Use of WiFi Not Secure · · Score: 1

    That is true. I think (huge guess here) there is a corallation between the network cards that can change their MAC address and ones that have builtin capability of going into Monitor Mode which is where the card can sniff all network activity not just data sent to it.

  17. Re:Unauthorized access? on Government Use of WiFi Not Secure · · Score: 1

    Tools like Kismet will log any Mac addresses it sees and even better will group them with the specific Wireless network it is associated with. Once you have a whole bunch of packets i.e 1.5-3 million packets you can import the dump into Airsnort and should theoretically be able to crack the WEP key.

    I live in an apartment building and am amazed at the number of improperly setup WAPs. But what intrigues me more is that running Airsnort against any of the existing encrypted WAPs I get very little information. For example I ran against one specific guy over 3 days and received about 1.5 million packets but I only got 1 "Interesting" packet.
    I heard rumours that after the whole WEP fiasco of it being easy to break the manufacturers have fixed WEP so it isn't as predictable. Is this true?

  18. Re:bugger me on UK Ministry of Defense Broken by Spoof Video · · Score: 1

    Remember this is the military. Nothing happens unless approved higher up. You just don't go doing things once they are established without approval and going through all the paperwork

  19. Re:Don't forget Live on Xbox 360 Gets Backwards Compatible, Final Fantasy · · Score: 1

    Ah Thanks. That clarifies it.

  20. Re:I have an idea... on The Rise of the Internetwork · · Score: 1

    The thing I hated about Wings and the Military Channel is essentially there was less than 5 hours of actual shows in a 12 hour period. They would show the same 3 shows over again. What is the point of a PVR then?

  21. Re: "medium" size meals on The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Carl's Jr I find is very similar to Burger King. Their big thing is you order the food and then go sit down and they will bring it to you. You may be right about sizing though as the price was similar to what we pay in Canada for a Medium combo (~$4) but in American coinage. I would have been expecting cheaper.

    Off topic but one thing I noticed when I was in Colorado was that premium alcohol was no cheaper and in some cases more expensive than what I get in Ontario. Most of the time the prices were exactly the same as in Canada i.e $70CDN and $70 US.

    I didn't look at beer prices as I was looking for good prices on Scotch but none to be found :(. Although I made up for it when I went to Alberta and saved $60 on a bottle of Oban and Dalwhinnie.

  22. Re:Don't forget Live on Xbox 360 Gets Backwards Compatible, Final Fantasy · · Score: 1

    Ok. I haven't been following that much but do you have a link where it says Live is free? Or is that the hardware comes with it but you need to pay the subscription still? Unless it is 0 dollars, I wouldn't call it free.

  23. Re:Connectix? on Xbox 360 Gets Backwards Compatible, Final Fantasy · · Score: 1

    I doubt they would jetison x86 but it could be the first step towards Windows on a Mac. (god forbid)

  24. Re:Connectix? on Xbox 360 Gets Backwards Compatible, Final Fantasy · · Score: 1

    Right and the Grandparent to me was saying that they bought Connectix not for XBox 360 but to compete with VMWare. There is a blossoming industry that VMWare is starting to leverage where companies are looking to put their smaller used servers (i.e running a simple Database) onto VMWare images using VMWare GSX or ESX running on a big box.

    Chances are though IMHO it was a mix of both

  25. Re:In-N-Out Burger!!!!! on The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I went to a Carl's Jr when I was in Colorado Springs and ordered a medium meal. I am from Ottawa Canada and what they called a Medium we would have had as a large meal with Extra Large Coke. It amazed me of the size of meals there.