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  1. Re:Thanks for posting... on What a Botnet Looks Like · · Score: 1

    all of the domains and IP addresses. Can I get them in text format please? I want to add the domains to my hosts file and the IP addresses to my firewall's blacklist.

    Had a brain cramp a moment ago.

  2. Thanks for posting... on What a Botnet Looks Like · · Score: 3, Funny

    all of the IP addresses. Can I get that in a text format? I want to add them to my hosts file.

  3. I give it 5 minutes... on A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything) · · Score: 1

    before all of that crap is stolen!

  4. Re:Bigger Worry: A backdoor is worse than a CD. on Spore, Mass Effect DRM Phone Home For Single-Player Gaming · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In the EA thread the support person tried to address that by saying that if they went out of business they would first product a patch to remove the DRM. They will likely be too busy shredding documents or stealing office supplies to do that.
  5. will be hacked shortly on Spore, Mass Effect DRM Phone Home For Single-Player Gaming · · Score: 1

    once the EA server is reverse engineered its just some virtual machine magic from there to make the game work.

  6. How long before... on Hacking Canon Point-and-Shoot Cameras · · Score: 1, Troll

    they cripple the cameras like Linksys did with the WRT54G?

  7. The most important question on Hacking Canon Point-and-Shoot Cameras · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's the cheapest camera on the list?

  8. Re:I predict that.. on Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References · · Score: 1

    the PSRC proposal is an ill-conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes the civil liberties of people who are not children, and promises to keep the courts busy for years dealing with the interpretational and enforcemental problems inherent in the proposal's design.

  9. Re:I said it before... on Peter Gabriel's Web Server Stolen · · Score: 1

    What's the bandwidth of one of those?

    Please answer in terms of car loads of encyclopedias or 747s full of CD-ROMs.

  10. Re:I predict that.. on Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References · · Score: 1

    That's not funny! Hans Riser killed his wife because the source code told him to do it. We have censor the source code to prevent these acts of violence from happening again!

  11. I said it before... on Peter Gabriel's Web Server Stolen · · Score: 3, Funny

    with these new containerized data centers you don't have to worry about hackers (crackers, whatever); you have to worry about somebody with one of these.

  12. productivity vs. burnout on Prototyping 50 Games in One Semester · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This article basically says that shorter development cycles produce a better product because of diminishing returns. What it doesn't state is whether this development cycle increases or decreases the burnout rate for developers.

    I think it would be a nice follow up to do an extended study of this kind of development cycle in a corporate environment and examine the turnover rate for developers. Will they be intrigued by working on something new every week, or will they get tired of the quick turnaround and quit?

  13. I predict that.. on Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tipper Gore and the Parents Software Resource Center are going to petition congress to ban open source software because the source code is explicit. The end result will be a warning label on all open source software available on the internet.

    end sarcasm

  14. Re:Having worked in manufacturing... on Melting Microchip Defects May Extend Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    Yes, once again the summary was misleading.

  15. Re:Having worked in manufacturing... on Melting Microchip Defects May Extend Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    See the "Seven Deadly Diseases" section of the link I posted above.

    4. Excuses, such as "Our problems are different."

    Getting the laws of physics under control is part of any manufacturing process.

  16. Having worked in manufacturing... on Melting Microchip Defects May Extend Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    I can tell you that reworking products takes three times as long, and therefore costs three times as much money, as doing it right the first time. This is because you have to build the defective product the first time, detect the defect, and repair the defect. The time and money spent on this research is better spent on getting the original manufacturing process under better control.

    Don't blame me. Deming said it first.

  17. I already don't... on Gaze Gaming Tech Promises Faster Eye-Controlled Interaction · · Score: 1

    blink enough when I play games. This could only make things worse

  18. Re:Murdoch! on MacGyver Film In the Works? · · Score: 1

    They need to bring back Murdoch as well and have it end in a fiery death sequence where Murdoch is shot 11 times, burned, drowned, run over by a semi, yet still lives on to battle Mac in a sequel! Not to be a spoiler but they never killed Murdoch in the fiery death sequence. It was actually some other guy wearing a mask to make him look like Murdoch.
  19. Re:Interesting on Dan Rutter Suggests Tossing Some Wi-Fi At the Neighbors · · Score: 1

    According to the the user guide it uses 0.5A at 12V DC. That comes to 6 Watts by my calculations. Of course you would have to oversize your solar panel by greater than a factor of 2. I would go with something like this ICP Global Technology P/N 99M 25012 12V 1.2A trickle charger. It's a measly $179.99.

  20. Re:If I read this right... on Antineutrino Device Tackles Nuclear Proliferation · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, for baseload plants like large nuclear power stations you can't just change the power output as you like because the type of turbines used do not spin up and down very easily. I don't think they use just one turbine for the whole plant. They could run the reactor at 50% and just use, for example, two out of three turbines.

    Special load-leveling plants ( typically natural gas or hydroelectric ) are used for this purpose, so if somebody is running a large baseload nuclear plant at 50% power it would almost certainly attract suspicion. But my point is, it won't raise suspicion that they are running the plant at 50% power because the detector couldn't tell if it was.
    The rest of your response sounds valid. I don't know the details of producing plutonium. However, I don't think the detector would know the difference between turning the plant on and off several times in one month and running it at 50%. It uses some pretty thin statistics to make it's decision.
  21. Re:My partial solar solution in my grid tied house on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 4, Informative

    A company called Solatube makes pre-made solar powered attic fans

  22. Re:My partial solar solution in my grid tied house on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    Good comment:
    I would add that with heating and cooling you could always get two units. If your renewable power can't take up all of the load the grid powered one can help out. i.e. set your grid powered air conditioner thermostat a few degrees higher than your renewable one.

  23. Re:Love the snark... not on Early Contenders for the Automotive X-Prize · · Score: 1

    mod parent up

  24. If I read this right... on Antineutrino Device Tackles Nuclear Proliferation · · Score: 1

    Then this machine can only detect whether the reactor is operating above 80% power or above. So, if you operate at 50% power it cannot tell if the reactor is off or not.

  25. Don't worry about hackers... on Video Demo of Microsoft's "Containerized" Data Storage · · Score: 1

    worry about someone with one of these.