on the IPS argument, here's a funny quote

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

From /. on this thread:
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/11/007242

Since We started using IPS...

(Score:5, Funny)
by SmurfButcher Bob (313810) on Monday October 10, @09:02PM (#13760928)
(Last Journal: Saturday April 09, @11:59PM)

... I've lost 20 pounds, my acne has cleared up, my wife moved back in 
and doesn't want a divorce anymore, my dog somehow got un-hit by a car 
and is alive again, my son stopped using drugs, my daughter isn't 
pregnant anymore, my truck magically fixed itself and runs again, my 
boss called and gave me my job back, my dialup connection allows me to 
surf up to 5x faster than before, I'm not dumb enough to click on emails 
from banks anymore, I'm suddenly brilliant enough to realize that I've 
never had an EBay account, and I'm suddenly brilliant enough to realize 
that Paypal doesn't NEED to verify what my password is.

Yep, this IPS is amazing. It is only rivaled by the greatness of the 
Virus Scanner that runs on my PocketPC, which detects every known PktPC 
virus ever created. I'm still trying to figure out how they do that with 
a signiture database that is 0 bytes in length, but...
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