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Comment No reliable way to pinpoint the attacker (Score 1) 282

So.... a compromised rack of servers in Michigan will get you a nice missle strike?  No thanks. IPs can be spoofed, connection logs tampered with and tracks covered up.  It sounds like another "Gee we didn't check our data close enough" scenarios waiting to happen.

It would take the likes of a forensic expert who is a cross between Columbo, Chuck Norris and Bruce Schneier in order to have any credibility to base an act of war on and that person would not be working at SAIC, NSA or the Pentagon.  That person is the one who pwned you.

What you end up with is the mess that Iran is in right now.  They want to be plenty pissed at Israel and the US, so it's very easy for someone to put whatever they want in their server logs and point a finger. You want to go to war with that info?

Comment He won't be back; M$ has jumped the shark. (Score 1) 337

WIth Linux and Unix variants (Apple, Android, Ubuntu) spreading out into the desktop space Microsoft's #1 main market share tool is gone. Lock-in.

Tool #2 is to buy-up the competition and kill it (Skype for Asterisk) thereby eliminating the possibility of any alternatives disrupting the Microsoft market space. This doesn't work so well with Open Source software. But that hasn't stopped M$ from trying.

Tool #3 is to FUD,FUD,FUD the bejeezes out of the competition until a false sense of reality is created/believed. This works well with FOSS and is the tack M$ has taken with regards to FOSS but they have not succesfully killed it off yet.

Microsoft has been an empire built on what ought to be illegal business tactics and it's *FINALLY* folding in on itself. Gates will not be back, at least publicly. He won't want to be at the helm when the place finally goes under in the next 5 years.

Comment Monsanto started out the same way (Score 1) 1229

Let's do some research to develop an resistent strain of . It will be a boon for food crop. .....20 years later farmers are getting sued* by Monsanto because the bees decided to pollenate non-Monsanto crops with Monsanto pollen.

Maybe the people trashing the field were protecting their future food supply from a corrupt legal system.

[*] - http://foodchronicles.blogspot.com/2007/01/monsanto-problem.html

Comment just use /etc/hosts (Score 1) 129

Cool thing is, you can refer to everything on the internet with your own naming convention.

for foo in `seq 0 255`; do
   for bar in `seq 0 255`; do
      for bin in `seq 0 255`; do
         for baz in `seq 0 255`; do
            echo "$foo.$bar.$bin.$baz    www${RANDOM}";  >> /etc/hosts
          done
        done
     done
  done

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