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  1. NoSQL ? on SQL and NoSQL are Two Sides of the Same Coin · · Score: 1

    *reads up*

    Ah. This is the story of how every now and then the kids rediscover DBMs, that's it.

  2. Re:plain-text OS? on France Outlaws Hashed Passwords · · Score: 1

    That's not remotely similar to secure; that is secure. Or at least as-secure-as. I see SHA being broken before RSA.

  3. Re:The will to be free on Bashing MS 'Like Kicking a Puppy,' Says Jim Zemlin · · Score: 1

    It's an open source thing: see also 'Xdialog'. A perfect tool. Finished. No bugs. But you can't have that in open source land! Gotsta have a tool that's only just under development and has bugs. Otherwise it's not open source enough. Or something. Too finished is icky - please use 'zenity' from now on. At least it has bugs and can't do what you want it to do, but no, we're not shipping with xdialog anymore. That's olden.

  4. Re:USE BIND VARIABLES on MySql.com Hacked With Sql Injection · · Score: 1

    You must *love* using a database client to peer directly into your tables. Nothing but base64 gibberish in there. Do you actually store numbers, calculate with them, compare them ?

  5. Re:Sensational! on Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels · · Score: 1

    As there are no real (trustable) sources in terms of the Japanese nuclear catastrophe it wouldn't suprise me if there is a complete melt down of No. 3 and no public information available on the real scale of the disaster (e.g. plutonium 235, its byproducts and other radioactive material and spreading across continents and oceans).

    Isn't there a US warship nearby that performs independent measurements ?

  6. Re:GPL is the problem on Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Yeah. It's a(n almost) closed system. Much like MS, Apple are, and Java used to be. But unlike MS and Apple, it's easy and free to get into, to use and to extend. How much more do you want ?

  7. Re:Table. on My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Tablet · · Score: 1

    You write ? Lots ? Professionally ? On an iPad ? I don't believe that.

  8. Re:Do away with authentication on Why Doesn't Every Website Use HTTPS? · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand my question. If the issue is expensive certs and user-hassle (clicking away that authentication popup), can we not make a 'slightly lower level' level of security ? Currently, security encompasses authentication and encryption. The encryption goes automatic, the authentication does not. And even if it does, the way with which you can just get certs makes the whole things a bit laughable - what does a domain name of an unknown site tell you anyway ? And known sites have other ways to determine you are you and they are they (assuming they're doing anything important). So why not allow for a subset of the protocol, that only does an exchange to determine session-key for the encryption and be done with it ?

  9. Do away with authentication on Why Doesn't Every Website Use HTTPS? · · Score: 1

    It seems that the biggest beef is expensive certs. Can we not do without host-authentication ? Encryption as such doesn't require it. You send me a public key, I send you one, we agree on a session key, done. Doesn't matter if the host isn't who he says he is - let's say that there are other (more personally bound) ways to ascertain that - or maybe given the context it really doesn't matter. Only protection from eavesdropping.

  10. Re:Software Related on 2011 MacBook Pros Confirmed To Crash Under Load · · Score: 1

    Some people use their computers seriously. GPG encrypts my whole disk - something Apple does only crappily itself (why Apple, why ?). It's a third party app, but if it wanted to, it could do more than crash my machine. Much more.

  11. Re:Sounds like an iPhone 4 and Macbook Air on IPad 2 Teardown Shows Tablet's Guts · · Score: 0, Troll

    The service manual probably says: Throw away. Replace.

  12. Re:How Slashdot perceives things on Microsoft Adds Selective ActiveX Filtering to IE9 · · Score: 1

    But you can never prove that code is not going to smash the stack. Or the context that I'll be in, when that happens.

  13. Re:Movie "Sunshine" on First Probe To Orbit Mercury May Help Us Learn How Planets Form · · Score: 1

    You could still be saved by others though, after those fifteen seconds. In space, the question is for how long.

  14. Re:You can't free someone who doesn't want to be f on Saudi Students In US Seek Segregation By Gender On Facebook · · Score: 1

    The difference is in the 'used to' and the fact that currently, the Catholic church, or Catholic followers, do not kill those who wish to leave it. Sometimes questions of degree matter, you know - you can't be 'a bit dead'.

  15. Re:Texas Budget Deficit on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    Isn't the delivery address good enough ?

  16. Re:Hmm.. on Oxford University Tests Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Those people would have otherwise died a week later from something else. Generally, people who die from flu are old and/or weak. But you knew this, didn't you ?

  17. Re:What scientists... on New Mexico Bill To Protect Anti-Science Education · · Score: 1

    Some people love teaching. Some people know that teaching well is a hard-won skill in itself.

  18. This is better on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    But it's also slower. And somehow, the cleanliness of the design wouldn't suggest that. I think you're putting a wee bit too much overhead in your html.

  19. Re:Joke Time on Terrorists Bomb Moscow Airport · · Score: 1

    He probably bought it. There was some trading in low slashdot ids for a while some time ago.

  20. Re:Gone are the days of sanity... on America Losing Its Edge In Innovation · · Score: 1

    The sixties did that, with their neo-Rousseauism. And psychiatry, in a sense, when they allowed for mission-creep and defined the 'NERD' personality.

  21. Re:Good ridance on How Long Before Apps Overtake Physical Video Game Content Sales? · · Score: 1

    My wife and kids and the CD player in the car are the problem. I love them over CDs though.

  22. Magnetic field on The Moon Has a Fluid Outer Core · · Score: 1

    But then, if the moon really is formed out of stuff from earth (which contains a lot of iron ore), and it *does* have a liquid core (making that iron spin) - then why does it not have a proper magnetic field ? Is its rotation too slow ?

  23. Re:pegged connection == latency, who'd of thunk it on Bufferbloat — the Submarine That's Sinking the Net · · Score: 1

    It's not about *you* buffering - it's about the machine in the middle buffering. When that machine buffers instead of drops, your TCP connection will never become aware that it has to play nice and lower its transmission window.

  24. Re:Hmmmmm on Why Published Research Findings Are Often False · · Score: 1

    He meant psychology.

  25. Re:Abomination on Detailing the Security Risks In PDF Standard · · Score: 1

    No, the higher level is going to be an archive file with multiple PDFs and a manifest giving you the details of what is for whom. But then, you purposely misunderstand, I suspect.