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  1. Re:Not needed any more on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 1

    I would also point out that the British had a lot of success against the French sticking to the longbow which they had been using for years before the crossbow came along. Yes the cross bow had more range and did more damage per a shot, but in the time it takes to reload the long bow men could have run the distance and the next reload they would have got several shots off. Also the shortbow (basically shortened version of the longbow could be used from horseback).

  2. Re:Great, but... on Faster Algorithm for Sphere Packing Discovered · · Score: 1

    Assuming all cylinders have the same diameter it is called hexagonal packing.

  3. Re:It's change for the sake of change on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 1

    yes, what we really want is a different UI, but all the same functionality.

  4. Work together? on Ask Slashdot: Image Recognition For Race Timing? · · Score: 1

    I would couple the beams with RFID tag (tag identifies the car, while the beams do all the timing). I would also suggest maybe getting together with another club and sharing the gear or a local university (with this one could probably get them to help make up a good system). As long as you choose separate race days. I'd also imagine quick setup and dismantle is needed?

  5. Re:Hindsight on UN Bigwig: The Web Should Have Been Patented and Licensed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry but the IETF does a much better job of documenting than any patent office ever did. See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1866 - HTML 2.0 documented in all it's glory.

  6. Re:Maybe Plum Consulting should become an ISP? on ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' · · Score: 2

    I wish BT would just replace my crappy last mile already, as it maxes at 3.5Gbps at the moment cause it's crappy 70's copper that should have been replaced a decade ago.

  7. Re:Maybe Plum Consulting should become an ISP? on ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as guaranteed bandwidth on a packet switched network. It only costs the infrastructure and it to be bought and installed to increase bandwidth, just put in a bigger pipe and voila. The problem is the complaining ones built the original networks on the cheap or justso many years ago thatit should have been upgraded/replaced years ago, and the price is going up and up of the amount they have to replace by the day cause they haven't been keeping up. Oh, and I would love to have a 100Mbps line even for a minute here, but unless I pay for them to dig up the fucking road I'm stuck with a maximum of 3.5Mbit/s down cause that's the shitty quality of the copper.

  8. Re:70% on fully updated installs. on How Windows Gets Infected With Malware · · Score: 1

    Unless it's a privilege escalation exploit.

  9. Re:Now it needs some 'simulation' on 3D Helicopter View Added To Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Or a bit of Wagner's Ring Cycle.

  10. Re:Nothing from Hams? on Patent Troll Says Anyone Using Wi-Fi Infringes · · Score: 2

    no, one ham radio covers digital packet based transmissions, a lot of the stuff in wifi was first used in various ham operations. Plus the part of the 2.45GHz band is a ham radio primary band, that means, if you and a ham operator want to use the same frequency the ham operator has the priority and you have to shift. Not that the ham operator would have any trouble with allowed power usage 10W at the lowest and 1kW at the highest, compared to your wifi cards paltry 250mW for a high powered card. The ham operator could overpower the spectrum, most wouldn't and they shouldn't in terms of etiquette, but legally they could.

  11. Re:Nothing from Hams? on Patent Troll Says Anyone Using Wi-Fi Infringes · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that the ~half of the wifi band is primary ham operating band, wifi is secondary access.

  12. Secrecy != Obscurity on Security By Obscurity — a New Theory · · Score: 1

    In information security, secrecy does not equal obscurity.

    Obscurity is if I give out access cards for the doors of my building, but all the magic of the card is a single magnet, and just changing the magnetic field at the reader will unlock the door.

    Another example of obscurity: I give out access cards but encode them all to the same code and just tell people this one is only for these particular non restricted zones (this is more like DRM systems).

  13. Re:What. on Bethesda's 'Scrolls' Lawsuit Going Ahead · · Score: 1

    They have applied for it back in march, along with Minecraft, it's been opposed by Zenimax media and they are now in the appeals process. Zenimax can't even wait for that decision.

  14. Re:Copyright infringement on Bethesda's 'Scrolls' Lawsuit Going Ahead · · Score: 1

    The did, scrolls was registered to Mojang in both the US and the EU when they also registered Minecraft a few years ago. Now a trademark only applies if you are trying to trade a similar service/product under the same name. This case is on the boundary of trademark law at best, I also believe it's the Swedish courts they are doing it in.

  15. Re:amusing side note... on Bethesda's 'Scrolls' Lawsuit Going Ahead · · Score: 1

    Actually, the Minecraft forums discussed Skyrim quite a bit, as does notch himself on his twitter feed, being himself a fan of The Elder Scrolls series.

  16. Re:CS is part of IT on Ask Slashdot: CS Grads Taking IT Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Including the UK jobcenter in their categorization system. I think the UK census uses the same category naming.

  17. Re:TLS 1.1 or 1.2? on Google Prepares Fix To Stop SSL/TLS Attacks · · Score: 1

    the reason 1.1 and 1.2 protocols are more secure is cause they break the backwards capability of the protocol, one can nolonger downgrade to SSL3 or earlier. This means that 'till all servers run 1.0 or higher the browsers can't switch of SSL 3.0 and switch on TLS 1.1 and 1.2.

  18. Re:Fileserver on Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet) · · Score: 1

    Sadly that's only part of the UK. Even in built up areas the best I can get is 3-3.5 Mbps down, via any last mile available to me :(.

  19. Re:Could Not Disagree More on Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet) · · Score: 1

    If your LAN isn't a switched network, and so would saturate connections between all machines if a single one is throwing the same bandwidth down the uplink, I feel real sorry for you, oh right, I forgot, that's only a problem today on wifi networks where they are all operating in the same area on the same frequency. Not on wired networks where a switch can full handle ARP routing down hundreds of dedicated cables no problem if needed.

  20. Re:Could Not Disagree More on Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet) · · Score: 2

    Yes, as are needed for off site backups, or for pushing it across that VPN. Yes, most laptop chipsets will not reach the full 1Gbit, but that's only a matter of time before that changes. When 100Mbit came out, chipsets tended not to be able to fully operate at those speeds, now we can max it out on pretty much any device.

  21. Re:Should read: on UK Joins Laser Nuclear Fusion Project · · Score: 1

    Considering the UK also funds ITER through the EU. As does the US. Just how many parallel projects do we have to fund out of the taxpayers money?

  22. Re:Should read: on UK Joins Laser Nuclear Fusion Project · · Score: 1

    In fact, most thermonuclear weapons used by NATO powers are variable yield, this means they pump the amount of tritium and deuterium they want for a given yield into tanks on the weapon from tanks in the launch silo just before launch. Not keep it on the weapon itself.

  23. Re:Lserver attack on Moxie Marlinspike's Solution To the SSL CA Problem · · Score: 1

    No, the ISP just needs a cert generated for that server which has valid root cert in browser. This is trivial for an ISP as they control everything on the connection, including the verification email the CA sends to the domain to validate it.

  24. Re:Lserver attack on Moxie Marlinspike's Solution To the SSL CA Problem · · Score: 1

    Actually, my servers actually have multiple paths, mostly through various VPN tunneling mechanisms.

  25. Re:Notaries... on Moxie Marlinspike's Solution To the SSL CA Problem · · Score: 1

    Convergence uses a pinned self signed cert for each notary, so only if someone man in the middle the method used to get the cert initially.This is out of band, and could be sent via other means.