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  1. Old News on America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses · · Score: 1

    Maybe no one listened last time - but this is not the first time this has been announced. http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

  2. Re:Define "crash". on MIT's New File System Won't Lose Data During Crashes · · Score: 1

    rtfa - this is clearly a discussion about software and/or power failure, not hardware.

  3. Re:"If you install x on both computers...." on Air-Gapped Computer Hacked (Again) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ""Hacking" has SOME meaning ya dummies" Yes - and the meaning of the term "hacking" has little to do with criminal activity or the breaching of a computer network. That meaning, is quite new.

  4. Re:Automated Testing on D-Link Apologizes For Router Security · · Score: 1

    yeah, which work great, for *known* vulnerabilities.

  5. Re:Automated Testing on D-Link Apologizes For Router Security · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Automated Testing really only works for making sure things work the way they're supposed to work. There really is no such thing as automated Penetration Testing.

  6. Re:Meh on GoDaddy Accounts Vulnerable To Social Engineering (and Photoshop) · · Score: 1

    We use ENOM - who have proven to be a good balance between value and not-being-incompetent-@*@#&#s.

  7. Re:Supercomputer Cluster? on GCHQ Builds a Raspberry Pi Super Computer Cluster · · Score: 1

    And thats how words loose their meaning. I don't mean to poopoo the educational aspect of learning to program for a cluster. I don't at all, just don't label it something it is clearly not.

  8. Supercomputer Cluster? on GCHQ Builds a Raspberry Pi Super Computer Cluster · · Score: 1

    Cluster? maybe. Super? hardly.

  9. Re:Security is a process ... on Security-Focused BlackPhone Was Vulnerable To Simple Text Message Bug · · Score: 2

    "SANs are immune to hacking" Oh man. That is rich. Can I interest you in a very fine Bridge? only slightly used.

  10. Re:Cam-tastic on DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US · · Score: 1

    uh, we don't fight opium production. If anything we support it. Haven't you seen the statistics on Afghanistan?

  11. Re:Wow .... on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 1

    I read the article, and still can't figure out what they are really doing or how they are really gonna use it ...

    The article says quite clearly: The scientific problem they're solving has to do with recovering proteins from test tubes in the lab.

  12. Re:Nope on UHD Spec Stomps on Current Blu-ray Spec, But Will Consumers Notice? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Congratulations - you have made the exact same argument that was made against HD in the first place. Guess what: people will upgrade, because people who aren't you, can notice a difference in the living-room.

  13. Re:Hasn't this been known? on Thunderbolt Rootkit Vector · · Score: 1

    Thats just because no one has bothered to make a malicious 40Gb NIC. There's nothing inherently secure about a PCIe card using DMA.

  14. Re:ROM on Thunderbolt Rootkit Vector · · Score: 2

    SPI Flash - is an eeprom.

  15. Re:ROM on Thunderbolt Rootkit Vector · · Score: 1

    PROM or EPROM actually.

  16. uh - by design? on Thunderbolt Rootkit Vector · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It shouldn't surprise anybody that a malicious PCI-E card can access a system.

  17. Just Figuring this out? on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    I've been using one of my three monitors in portrait mode for decades. It was more important when you couldn't fit a full page of text in landscape orientation. It's also quite helpful to conserve desk real-estate.

  18. Re:Oregon... on Wave Power Fails To Live Up To Promise · · Score: 1

    The more reasonable approach - which is actually used in a lot of places - is to pump water uphill. The real problem is when there is no shortage of water, and the reservoirs are full. This is precisely their argument when not honoring wind contracts.

  19. Oregon... on Wave Power Fails To Live Up To Promise · · Score: 5, Informative

    Part of the problem might be that they can't sell the power. The wind farms we currently have are already producing more power than the bonneville power administration is willing to purchase - even though they are under contract to do so.

  20. Re:So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're not a utility - they damn well can terminate service for any reason.

  21. Line of Sight on That Toy Is Now a Drone · · Score: 2

    Line of sight between the operator and the model - has always been a legal requirement of operating R/C aircraft.

  22. Re:THIS JUST IN on Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? · · Score: 1

    Did i though? http://www.engadget.com/2014/0... Its nothing but a really bloody accurate accelerometer.

  23. Re:THIS JUST IN on Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? · · Score: 0

    The Gyro Compass was patented in 1911.

  24. THIS JUST IN on Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? · · Score: 0

    British Navy Invents Dead-reckoning.

  25. Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong? on Measles Virus Puts Woman's Cancer Into Remission · · Score: 1

    Exactly.