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  1. Obligatory Achewood. on Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Fourth Branch? on Obama Moves To Link Pentagon With NASA · · Score: 1

    I'd do some more research on that, soldier.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps

    "Administratively, the Marine Corps is a component of the Department of the Navy,[3][4] but it acts operationally as a separate branch of the military, often working closely with US Naval forces for training, transportation, and logistic purposes."

  3. Wow. Article actually references the 'Hax'. on Key Step In Programmed Cell Death Discovered · · Score: 1

    "A research team elsewhere recently reported that Kostmann's syndrome, a potentially fatal inherited deficiency of granulocytes in children, caused by excessive apoptosis of granulocytes, results from a deficiency in one of the three proteins, called Hax1."

    So, basically, this disease occurs because one doesn't have "teh Hax(1)".

  4. Isn't it 'ECMA'? on Promise of OOXML Oversight By ISO Falls Through · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...not EMCA?

  5. Re:E d i t o r s on Echeria Coli Co-Opted To Make Gasoline · · Score: 1

    Escherichia coli.

    At least if you're going to correct someone, correct them [b][i]correctly[/b][/i].

  6. Welp. on Too Human's Absence From E3, Silicon Knights Suit · · Score: 1

    This was one of the more unique games coming out for the 360. Guess I'll be waiting a while longer before getting one.

  7. Re:Too late on Is Paying Hackers Good for Business? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's a simple solution to this. Stop writing sloppy, insecure, poorly-managed code, and actually MAKE a product that works as advertised and is fairly secure. Hackers go after the low-hanging fruit. This is nothing more than a product of the 'get it out the door as quick as possible, damn the consequences' software industry mentality.

  8. Re:What about 64 and 128 bit? on WEP Broken Even Worse · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because there's a 24-bit IV, or initialization vector, that is not strictly considered part of the keyspace.

  9. 20gB PS3. on Ask Sony's Phil Harrison About PS3 and Games · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why is Best Buy discontinuing sales of the 20gB PS3?

  10. Who's going to play Hackworth? on Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age" To Be Miniseries · · Score: 1

    I can't help but wonder what the casting is going to be like.

    Chow-Yun Fat should play Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw.

  11. Re:Uplink on IEEE Sets Sights on 100G Ethernet · · Score: 1

    There are full-rack chassis capable of terminating 1200+ 1gbps links, and can support multiple 10gbps uplinks. Specifically, the Foundry NetIron MLX-32. I will be blunt - if you've got 50 24-port switches in a patch room, I can geniunely state that your network planning skills are atrocious. There *are* better solutions out there. You may not LIKE the cost, but to be honest, unless you're ready to build your own switch, it's always a toss-up between cost and features. If you can't spend to get the features, you shuoldn't expect them.

  12. Re:Uplink on IEEE Sets Sights on 100G Ethernet · · Score: 1

    You're arguing a ridiculous point - that there should never be oversubscription in a network, anywhere.

  13. Re:Uplink on IEEE Sets Sights on 100G Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Yes, in which case, if you want pure gigabit performance, YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IT.

    Can you legitimately justify to me, or anyone else, that an SMB network needs 1gbps access-layer switches, with 10gbps uplinks to distro/core layer switches? If that's the case, then I'll show you a network that needs to be running on something like Cisco, Extreme, or Foundry, and NOT your 'lowpriced SMB switches'.

    You can't build a sports car out of turds and baling wire. Well, you could, but you shouldn't expect much from it.

  14. Re:Uplink on IEEE Sets Sights on 100G Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Oversubscription models have not ever crossed your mind, have they?

    1:2.4 oversubscription isn't bad at all. Do you really think that a 24pt 100mbps switch needs 10 GIGABIT uplinks in order to work well? If so, I'm sure that Extreme or Force10 would love to sell you some hardware.

  15. Hah, this is silly. on How the Nintendo Amusement Park Works · · Score: 1

    Step 1: Get sued by Nintendo for egregious copyright violation.
    Step 2: ???
    Step 3: Pay civil fines.

  16. Re:Details on Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits · · Score: 1

    True. Semantic reasoning was never my strong point.

  17. Re:Details on Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits · · Score: 1
    Sorry that's a non sequitur. There are series which are (a) infinitely long and (b) non-repetitive but which nevertheless do not contain any possible (finite) sequence of digits, just consider the series 1 0 11 0 111 0 1111 0 11111 - look no repetition Ma but the subsequence '1337' (for example) does not appear anywhere.


    He didn't say that any series that is infinitely long and non-repetitive will have any possible finite series of digits, he said that Pi would. You're debating a different mathematical point.
  18. Re:Junk... on Raising Your Gamerscore By PowerLeveling · · Score: 1

    Or, at the very least, change your password. A small modicum of security-aware thought goes a very long way.

  19. Regulations? on Free SSL VPN Solutions? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you're in a regulated environment, odds are that you're making enough money that spending a little money on some professional consulting time (or perhaps the software itself) for this problem is a far better solution than Asking Slashdot(tm).

    Having said that, there are plenty of roll-your-own SSL VPN solutions out there - many of which are open source. I'd recommend starting with Google.

  20. Web browser? on Wii Opera Browser is Free Until Next Year · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't this be a 'Wiib Browser'?

  21. Here's a phrase you'll never again see on MSNBC. on Breakthrough Gives 3-D Vision of Dawn of Life · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article...

    "The results are truly orgasmic," Donoghue said.

    The whole embryo thing makes that funny on so many levels.

  22. Haha. on Philips Patents Technology to Force Ad Viewing · · Score: 1

    This is just like AT&T telling Google and other content providers, 'Pay us because we're carrying the information. Nevermind that you're paying us for access, and the customer is paying us for access, if you want your content delivered on time, you HAVE to pay us.'

    As I recall, I pay for cable television already. If you want me to PAY to watch advertising on a channel that I am already ostensibly 'paying for', you're fricking high on solder fumes. Change your model a bit and maybe you can figure out a method that doesn't require me to pay for content with both unwarranted use of my time (oh boy, insert reality TV joke here) and actual monetary instruments.

  23. Re:Let me guess: on Ports for Porn - Using Firewalls to Block Porn · · Score: 0

    Sorry, no. Already in use by TFTP.

    What kind of NERD ARE YOU?

  24. I'd have to say... on WoW Helping or Hurting the Industry? · · Score: 1

    ...from my own experience, it would be a gold standard against which other games would be measured, for better or for worse.

  25. Re:Why not.. on Google Urged to Drop Images · · Score: 1
    And I quote, directly from the aforementioned article...
    While Google Earth "censors" the White House with blocks of colour over the roof and the nearby Treasury Department and Executive Office buildings, anyone with a computer and web connection can use the free program to see aerial shots of sensitive Australian sites such as the Lucas Heights reactor, the secret US spy base at Pine Gap, outside Alice Springs, and Parliament House in Canberra.

    Furthermore, within the selfsame article...
    DigitalGlobe, the US company which sold the Lucas Heights photos to Google, said it did not censor any of its images.
    "Although we are very sensitive to the concerns voiced, we are not required to seek permission to image areas around the world," spokesman Chuck Herring said.

    That certainly sounds to me like Google censored the images of the White House themselves, and not the company that provided the images.