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  1. Re:Well on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 1

    There is a quote somewhere about it (which I forget), but I can't help but think that of all the wonderful things we've done with oil over the years, it seems like such a waste to burn most of it.

  2. Re:Been there before on UK Controllers Say Air Traffic System 'Not Safe' · · Score: 1

    !War. War was never declared by congress.

    You are currently involved in an invasion.

  3. Re:Arrested for What? on Teenagers Jailed For Criminal Version of Facebook · · Score: 1

    The dummy (host) volume will be reported to the OS as "30 CDs worth" used, the rest free. You can read and write to that free space all you wish. What is required is the key for the hidden volume in order to protect it from being overwritten when you write to the host volume.

    In either case, the defence would state that prosecution is speculating, and has no forensic evidence that there is a hidden volume at all. If he did have that evidence, the point would be moot and excluded from cross examination; It would simply stated as fact in the evidence pack given to the jury.

  4. Re:Egg on their face on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    Rubbish. The President is the position of a spokesperson, a figurehead, and a puppet. He makes "decisions" based upon the information he is fed by his aides and their staff, who.... Oh! Are exactly the same people who were present during President Bush's administration.

    Gee, you don't suppose... Maybe... They're telling him the same stuff they told Bush, do ya? That'd sure be one hell of a coincidink!

  5. Re:No sympathy here, sorry on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    Worked at Nuremberg.

  6. Re:That's it, I quit humanity on Blade Runner Sequels and Prequels Happening · · Score: 1

    You, sir, get a +6.

  7. Re:We could ... on Terror Arrest Used As Fodder To Fund Real ID Act · · Score: 1

    I don't know if my sarcasm filter is off today, but that's a really terrible idea. The Reichstag building being attacked by an arsonist was a turning point in bring the National Socialist German Worker's Party into power. Civil liberties were suspended, communists were arrested en masse, and the "Ihre papiere, bitte" state was born.

  8. Re:Not a decline, but a reflection of the new norm on The Decline and Fall of System Administration · · Score: 1

    Devices that important should have redundancy.

  9. Re:Sad but smart on The Decline and Fall of System Administration · · Score: 1

    So come downtime you chkdsk / fsck the drive, mark the sectors as bad / replace the drive, and Bob's your mother's brother's daughter's lover.

    The question here is: Do you spend the time diagnosing the fault, or do you re-image to a known working state? If the software isn't bad, the hardware must be. Two hours of tinkering might give you the same answer, but 30 minutes of rebuild definitely does.

  10. Blah blah blah on The Decline and Fall of System Administration · · Score: 1

    Yet another story about how the old way was better.

    What's better is whatever keeps your employer's company making money for the most time. If re-imaging the server every weekend gives them 100% uptime during the week, do it. If you can inject patches into the app during runtime, more bully to you, but I can't, so I'm going with "re-image to working state and roll forward." If that costs my employer less than you cost your employer, I know who's all of a sudden more employable!

    Might want to shave off those neckbeards, folks.

  11. Re:Amazon lost on If App Store's Trademark Is Generic, So Is Windows' · · Score: 1

    Copyright != Trademark

  12. Re:Can this be real? on Man Pays $200,000 To Save Fake Online Girlfriend · · Score: 1

    Monetarily.

    If you care more about your money than your girlfriend, you should probably break up with her. She's not the one for you.

  13. Re:So much for build quality... on New MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals 'Shoddy Assembly' · · Score: 1

    I think you mean the Nipple mouse

  14. Re:So much for build quality... on New MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals 'Shoddy Assembly' · · Score: 1

    And cars! *Cough*Prius*/Cough*

  15. Re:permissions on Infected Androids Run Up Big Texting Bills · · Score: 1

    This is something that Google needs to work on. They really need to add a feature that requires you to authorize things like that when they come up.

    Isn't that how UAC started out?

  16. Re:Proof.. on No P = NP Proof After All · · Score: 1

    So, it has been proved that it is not possible to prove something we may or may not be able to prove?

    No. It's been proven that this one proof is not a complete proof. There may be other proofs which will be proven to be proofs.

  17. Re:Let me ask a "stupid" question on No P = NP Proof After All · · Score: 1

    I'm going to break a cardinal rule of slashdot here...

    Are you a mathematician?

  18. Re:And bolster my theory on Two Planets Found Sharing One Orbit · · Score: 1

    Whereski iski theski pubski?

  19. Re:"Unauthorised" software on Sony's Official Statement Regarding PS3 Hacking · · Score: 1

    Hey there! Not 24 hours later, PSN hacked story on Ars Tech.

  20. Re:Good? on How Watchmen Killed 'R'-rated Fantasy Movies · · Score: 1

    It's called meta-moderating, and I do it as often as possible.

  21. Re:It was OK on How Watchmen Killed 'R'-rated Fantasy Movies · · Score: 1

    He's naked because he doesn't care about human sensibilities. He's completely detached from humanity. No other character is in that situation.

    Go read the graphic novel.

  22. Re:How about on Confidential Data Not Safe On Solid State Disks · · Score: 1

    Point out to me a hardware encrypted USB key which hasn't been cracked yet, either by outright lying to the customer (AES128 the key, XOR the drive), or by idiot coding errors (the FIPS-140-2 certified Stealth MXP USB key vulnerable to rainbow table attack at release due to the word "PwdHashes" just prior to the actual SHA-1 hashes identified what to give to the crack program).

    Seriously, please do. I need some for work.

  23. Re:"Unauthorised" software on Sony's Official Statement Regarding PS3 Hacking · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain that, while PSN is an advertised feature when purchasing the PS3, that your continued access to that network is inextricably linked to you accepting that you must used an unmodified PS3 console to do it, and it would have been made clear to you before you first connected to the PS3 network for the first time. The fact that you own your console is moot; You can modify the hardware in your possession to your hearts content! What you can't do, however, is connect that modified hardware to Sony's computers, which other PS3 owners rely on working flawlessly and reliably and as intended, and trust to be kept that way from people who would seek to exploit the system.

    Here comes a car analogy! You are more than free to add a 30' spoiler to the rear of your car, if you wish. Just don't expect to drive it on any road, despite paying any tax or toll. No, accessing PSN with a modded console isn't illegal, but it is the rules, and you had the option of handing the console back for a refund if you didn't like those terms.

    I don't own a PS3, but I agree with this policy.

  24. Re:I'd better not be able to... on 10% of IT Pros Can Access Previous Jobs' Accounts · · Score: 2

    I disabled my own account too. Locked my own mailbox, logged on as Domain Admin, moved any documents or files which may be required by a successor out of my user area, disabled my user account, and handed the "key to the city" to the next guy, who promptly changed the Domain Admin credentials.

    It enabled a clean break, and ensured I'd be disturbed as little as possible by the next guy asking what's what.

  25. Re:Oh gimme a break! on Valve Beats Google, Apple For Profits Per Employee · · Score: 1

    No, Windows is Windows. 2000, xp, Vista, 7, they're kernel revisions. 5, 5.1, 6, 6.1 respectively. All Windows 7 is Kernel 6.1.

    Linux is not Linux. Linux us any of a multitude of kernel versions with their own idiosyncrasies, package formats, UIs, all manner of other changes between distributions and versions of those distributions.

    I'm not saying that gaming on Linux is impossible; Been there, done that, got the makefile. What I'm saying is that it won't be the Ubuntu / Debian / Mandriva / OpenSuse / Arch / Fedora forums which get hammered for support, it'll be Steam and Valve, and they'll have to provide that support because they sold the product. It's much more complex than supplying an install script.