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  1. Re:Cooperation wins big time. on Paper: Evolution Favors Cooperation Over Selfishness · · Score: 1

    Ants and bees are poor examples, being clones, not genetically diverse individuals.

    Very interesting point! I didn't think of that.

    I still believe in cooperation although ;-)

  2. Reverse engineering on Ask Slashdot: IT Staff Handovers -- How To Take Over From an Outgoing Sys Admin? · · Score: 1

    Overview the available documentation, talk with the guy if he is available. A lot of times I ended up reverse-engineering everything although so be ready for that possibility.

  3. Cooperation wins big time. on Paper: Evolution Favors Cooperation Over Selfishness · · Score: 2

    Cooperation wins big time. Look at ants and bees. Only use selfishness with subject unwilling to cooperate and still, I have a hard time doing it sometimes...

  4. Re:qualcomm is right on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    Sure, but question 2 was secondary. Technically, I am more interested in an answer to question 1.

    Thanks.

  5. Yandex on 1,700 Websites In Russia Go Dark In SOPA-Style Protest · · Score: 0

    I would have been happier if Yandex stopped scanning my site for a while but no luck... ...
    199.21.99.91 - - [02/Aug/2013:14:35:29 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 202 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)" ...

  6. Re:calligra? on KDE Releases Calligra 2.7 · · Score: 1

    Whoosh Whoosh? ;-)

  7. Re:qualcomm is right on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    1) Not trolling here. Are you sure music production takes advantage of 8 cores? Can you please explain a bit?

    2) Also, do you do music production on your smart phone?:
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4046121&cid=44458907

    You can still answer question 1 if the answer to question 2 is no.

    Thanks in advance.

  8. Re:qualcomm is right on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 3

    Many high-end scientific computing applications will already take and use as many cores as you give it. Definitely a niche market though.

    It took me a while to figure out that we were talking about the smart phones and tablets market here. 8 cores work fine for servers, especially if you run VMs on them.

    I guess people running scientific applications on their smart phones and tablets are as much a niche market than people running servers on them although I have seen it done.

    Heck, while at it, 8 cores is dumb for desktop too, for average users who just browse the Internet and send emails. Even for gamers, I am not sure how many games can take advantage of 8 cores. Anybody cares to comment about the gaming aspect?

  9. Re:calligra? on KDE Releases Calligra 2.7 · · Score: 1

    I just checked in my KDE menu and it is indeed called Calligra. Note that I use LibreOffice although...

  10. I thought Google defined the data-center. on Ken Brill, the Man Who Defined the Data Center, Dies · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Let's all Google together. on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    Using tor so we go on red or orange threat level? We know who you are AC...

  12. Re:Victory for virus writers on Computer Scientists Develop 'Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles' To Encrypt Software · · Score: 1

    It is likely, though, that this machine is able to produce vastly different results from minuscle changes in code

    I guess it could produce different results with no change in the code but then again, virus writers already have similar tools at their disposal to avoid detection.

  13. Re:Victory for virus writers on Computer Scientists Develop 'Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles' To Encrypt Software · · Score: 1

    Heh. No fucking shit. It would be a malware writer's holy grail; software that has no identifiable signature.

    I don't think anti-virus software needs to understand, reverse-engineer or decipher a virus program in order to identify its signature. That's not how it works. That's why there is false positives with programs that do not do what the anti-virus software thinks it does.

  14. Cause the game detects it runs in a VM?

    http://communities.vmware.com/thread/273480?start=0&tstart=0

  15. Re:150 lashes? on Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    If the guy giving the lashes kills him, that guy gets beheaded. It is in the constitution over there. It is their version of the First Amendment.

  16. Re:quick key repetition on More Encryption Is Not the Solution · · Score: 2

    mod parent up.

    Just accept the cert the first time you visit the site. Just like logging in for the first time through SSH. Just check the cert/key fingerprint with an alternative manner. Just generate your own cert/keys. It indeed sounds more secure now. Do not forget, technology and information always end up leaking eventually and some criminals may end up with it faster than we think.

  17. Early Surface Sales Pitiful on Early Surface Sales Pitiful · · Score: 1

    "Early Surface Sales Pitiful"

    Maybe they should go underground. Am I missing something?

  18. Re:Completely useless... on Google Starts Upgrading Its SSL Certificates To 2048-bit Keys · · Score: 1

    Well, I wouldn't use fake certs, it seems like a nice way to leave traces and evidences. There must be a better way but this is just my MHO.

  19. Re:Completely useless... on Google Starts Upgrading Its SSL Certificates To 2048-bit Keys · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the symmetric may change several times in a course of an TLS session. It is called renegotiation. It was made to make things more secure than a single symmetric key but funnily enough, it got exploited...

    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5746

    http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2009/11/understanding_the_tls_renegoti.html

    http://www.openssl.org/docs/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_options.html#SECURE_RENEGOTIATION

    http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5746

  20. Re:Completely useless... on Google Starts Upgrading Its SSL Certificates To 2048-bit Keys · · Score: 1

    Verisign or any other signing authority don't have Google private key nor anybody else private key for that matter.

  21. Re:Phew on Ubuntuforums.org Hacked · · Score: 1

    Me too I use:
    passSlashdot
    passUbuntu
    passGmail
    etc.

  22. Re:But wait... on New Moon Found Orbiting Neptune · · Score: 1

    Hehe ;-) you would be surprised on how good I am to call things.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1y_U4s6jfs

  23. Re:Meh.... on New Moon Found Orbiting Neptune · · Score: 0

    At least it has a dark side. I wonder how many moons have a dark side in the solar system. Meaning, rotation period around its planet equals rotation period on itself.

  24. Re:But wait... on New Moon Found Orbiting Neptune · · Score: 1

    So you are saying it is a no-go? Damn it, I had a lot of fun last time I was at the assembly in Prague. Since I am solar system specialist, for sure I would have had budget from my employer to go to Honolulu in 2015 but I guess you just ruined everything...

    http://www.iau.org/public/themes/pluto/
    http://www.iau.org/science/meetings/future/general_assemblies/1024/
    http://astronomy2015.org/

  25. But wait... on New Moon Found Orbiting Neptune · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since Pluto is not a planet anymore, we shouldn't be allowed to call a 20 km wide rock a moon. Let's have a big convention to decide how we should call it.