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  1. Re:Who's going to work there? on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 2

    Yea my impression was, "We need a lot of space for computers to brute force break your encryption, and a million square feet gives us room to expand."

  2. Re:Who's going to work there? on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 1

    You don't need to actually be at a data center to take advantage of the computational power.

  3. Re:Notice how the "crypto guys" are the "old guys" on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 2

    Mostly mathematicians. Where I went to college, after finishing undergrad you either went on to grad school, or you went and worked for the NSA. One of my friends who went to grad school to study abstract mathematics (as well as some encryption) said you could always tell the NSA people from the academics because they had no name tags on.

  4. Re:In other news... on Berkeley HTML5 Timeline Tool Can Show a Day, Or the Lifetime of the Universe · · Score: 1

    Ah... the comment I came here to read.

  5. Re:HotS on Can $60 Games Survive? · · Score: 1

    I suspect this whole exchange is why the industry is moving to the free to play, but pay to win model--which ultimately makes for bad games.

  6. Re:Eventually... on Single-Ion Clock 100 Times More Accurate Than Atomic Clock · · Score: 1

    Or the other one: "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

  7. Re:Do it like most here on Slashdot on How To Contribute To Open Source Without Being a Programming Rock Star · · Score: 1

    Do it like most here on Slashdot

    In your mom's basement, with your hand...

    Sorry couldn't resist.

  8. NP Hard Games on Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard · · Score: 1

    Isn't an NP hard game effectively any game you can't save, reload, and try again?

  9. Well, now I know what a mailinator is. on How Mailinator Compresses Its Email Stream By 90% · · Score: 1

    That service is pretty cool. Never realized there was something out there like that.

  10. Re:Senator Kay Hutchinson, representing Texas on Congress Warns NASA About Shortchanging SLS/Orion For Commercial Crew · · Score: 1

    Its ok #hecantreadwordsthatstartwithahash.

  11. Re:Now do the same thing for primary schools.. on MIT's Online Education Prototype Opens For Enrollment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Better yet, YOU should make it free. It's easy to demand things from other people, but very difficult to share what you know.

  12. Re:I Must Be Missing Something Here on Thanks to DRM, Some Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week · · Score: 1

    If you can't switch servers with the hour it takes for DNS to refresh being the longest timed item of a migration, you may want to eat those words and go learn something. Really you should be able to do it in the couple minutes it takes to switch the IPs...

  13. Re:If I may be the first to say... on Google Asks Court Not To Enjoin ReDigi · · Score: 1

    I am 100% in agreement with having supporting documents. One reason I like /. is that other people who are more into it can pick apart the underlying documents while I can read an editorial and know that the facts have been checked.

  14. Re:If I may be the first to say... on Google Asks Court Not To Enjoin ReDigi · · Score: 1

    Personally, this sounds awesome. I just wish there was more of an actual editorial written up about it, as I am not that interested in slogging through the legalese.

  15. Re:Wrong Legislation, You Want ACTA on Ask Slashdot: How To Inform a Non-Techie About Proposed Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    Copyrights of information transferable by the internet are not enforceable anymore. Period. Unless you disconnect everyone from the internet.

    Interestingly enough, this is what SOPA/PIPA was trying to do by shutting down DNS.

  16. Re:Will Oracle Now Drop Java? on Oracle v. Google Trial On Indefinite Hold · · Score: 2

    Doubtful. PeopleSoft runs on a backend of Java Application Servers like tomcat or BEA (which they also own), and PeopleSoft is extrodinarily profitable.

  17. Re:It would be good to have optional GUI on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 1

    Yea my bad. I mean a logical network separation. Having someone able to IP/Port scan, regardless of how locked down it is is always bad.

  18. Re:It would be good to have optional GUI on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 1

    Having physical network separation (which is also usually handled by a firewall--in addition to the NAT) is good for security. It's not good to expose your internal network topology to the general public as that gives a testable resource to hackers.

  19. Vendor Fragmentation, not OS Fragmentation on Eric Schmidt Doesn't Think Android Is Fragmented · · Score: 1

    What blows my mind about this is that Vendors are fragmented. Motorola has on the market, running being supported by more then one development team. If they had one development team that kept features synchronized (or disabled when lacking horsepower) they wouldn't have to re-invent the UI or whatever app for each new version of the phone. Google is conveniently enough doing the hard work of making a working OS, and the phone vendors just need to come along for the ride. Yet the phone vendors seem like they keep spinning their wheels trying to keep themselves busy, as opposed to innovating their flavor of hardware experience to really stand out as a polished product, with an identity.

  20. Re:Larger Pages on Average Web Page Approaches 1MB · · Score: 0

    Funny, but true.

  21. Re:without some damn 2 year contract on Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? · · Score: 1

    I have an iPhone - wait for it - without a contract.

    I have been reading up on this and have been contemplating doing this to my phone when my contract is up. This is a sample article similar to the ones I have read:

    http://modmyi.com/forums/t/754109-iphone-gophone.html

    Does this work well? Did you run into any issues?

  22. Re:No on Tesla Motors Announces Prices For Their Upcoming Models · · Score: 1

    The Tesla has a standard batter that can be swapped out. There are a couple swapping stations in california already (or maybe its a couple companies). Tesla is also putting in recharging stations between LA and San Fransisco... not much for us on the east coast at the moment but its a start.

  23. Re:No on Tesla Motors Announces Prices For Their Upcoming Models · · Score: 1

    beyond they start to make a car that is on par with a gasoline car fro the "everyman".

    No enjoyment. Seriously.

  24. Re:Jesus on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    But would you kill him, dissect him, and clone him?

    Yes, if I had the technology.

  25. Re:...But he said Please! on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    What I find the most hilarious, is that their secret facility appears to be a basketball court/high school gym (see the markings on the floor):

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098250