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  1. Re:shouldn't be legal on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 1

    1) steal code
    2) realize code is copyrighted and useless
    3) ????
    4) no profit

    erm how can valve loose money because somebody stole their code?

  2. Re:why bother with a liveCD? on Debian Lenny Installer RC1 Arrives · · Score: 1

    What your are calling features are WHY ubuntu is more popular than debian. Your average user doesn't know about LVM, raid arrays, encrypted partitions, etc, these options are there for the alternative installer though.

    Now dont get me wrong i have nothing against debian showing these options but criticizing ubuntu for meeting its goal of being easy tp use is a bit unfair, it would be like criticizing Gentoo for compiling too much.

  3. Re:why bother with a liveCD? on Debian Lenny Installer RC1 Arrives · · Score: 1

    I prefer the text based installer for ubuntu, its much more powerful, never crashes and boots up faster.

  4. Re:obligatory... on Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's no mod choice!

  5. Re:Amazing on Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's · · Score: 2, Insightful

    planets != habitable != life != intelligent life

    Hell there is no reason to assume that intelligence is even the natural outcome of evolution, it didn't work during the era of the dinosaurs. When you take into account so many unknown factors, the existence of planets that we already knew would exist hardly makes it likely that we are not alone in the AU (we are ofcourse not alone in the universe, but what does it matter if we can never make contact with them). How many species are there in the AU well Drake came up with an equation for this i believe the answer was something like 31 +/- 3,000,000.

  6. Re:Navy's response. on US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use · · Score: 1

    so all the shallow water is concentrated around Californian beaches? Surely there are regions of US cost that have little/no wildlife that could be used instead!

  7. Re:Navy's response. on US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use · · Score: 1

    modded troll by a trolling mod! I personally agree with the above post (atleast partially) but to be modded troll is ridiculous!

  8. Re:Navy's response. on US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use · · Score: 1

    Id put in a request to ban the F22s doing it over my house. Chances are they can go play elsewhere.

  9. Re: How Long Should Open Source Project Support Us on How Long Should an Open Source Project Support Users? · · Score: 1

    You also have the remember that the kde team were pushing kde4 as usable by average users, when its still not. Nobody expected kde4.1 to be a usable release, until the KDE team started saying so, then they complained because end users didn't find it usable!

    Personally im waiting for kde4.2 before i use the thing, most likely 4.3 before i leave trusting 3.5 behind

  10. Re:Imperialism Gone Mad on 40 Years Ago, the US Lost a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    It would be very difficult for anyone else to recover classified pieces if we couldn't find them

    That really reassures me because, there is no way a madman/terrorist/rouge leader, who has no nuclear warheads, would be more determined than the US ,that has plenty, to find it.

  11. Re:The troll, the legend on Netbooks Take a Bite Out of Windows Profits · · Score: 1

    No flash and no windows compatibility. But i personally see those as features

  12. Re:The troll, the legend on Netbooks Take a Bite Out of Windows Profits · · Score: 1

    learn to read: my comment was a reply to

    MSFT is pricing their goods WAY too freaking high! $99 for XP Home? $199 for XP Pro? Is there ANYBODY else who charges THAT much for software THAT old? The MSRP retail hasn't changed since it came out in '01! And then they total crazy BS of Vista,with its,what? Six different versions? And the cheapest one is STILL $100? Totally freaking crazy.

    If your too retarded to read then you are the one who looks like an idiot trolling on slashdot.

    I said nothing about the effect of home market share on corporate/server use, getting users familiar with only their products is they key to their stronghold, its why they allow piracy to run rampant and why they cut deals with poor countries to virtually give their stuff away. But that is all irrelevant, and unless you were desperate to troll Microsoft you would have seen that too, my point was that the price of putting windows on a netbook IS $10-$20 (for an OEM) not $100-$200!

  13. Re:Duh. on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1

    from the "false equivalence" that brought you:
    the evolution debate
    and
    the gay rights debate

    now offering mccain and obama the same amount of tv time.

    all i have to say is, what about nader?

  14. Re:MSFT goes SaaS? on Netbooks Take a Bite Out of Windows Profits · · Score: 1

    They already do better than this OEMs pay something like $50 or less for a license, they make their money on corporate sales.

  15. Re:Why make it more complicated than it really is? on Netbooks Take a Bite Out of Windows Profits · · Score: 1

    Because twitter and his sockpuppets fancied a troll and its Saturday so there wasn't much else to stick up!

  16. Re:The troll, the legend on Netbooks Take a Bite Out of Windows Profits · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But Microsoft don't make much money on home sales or oem sales (its something like $10-$20) they make their money on corporate sales, which are unaffected by the netbook trend. So this article IS just twitter bullshit.

    And this isn't the 1st time timothy has been caught.

  17. Re:A crack on The Real Story On WPA's Flaw · · Score: 2, Informative

    that will teach me to get board of TFA (hey too much maths and its the weekend),
    stopping qos isn't enough, as the attacker can simply replace you in the network for the duration of the attack

    Even if the network does not support the IEEE 802.11e QoS features, the attack still
    seems to be possible. Here, the attacker needs to prevent the client from receiving the
    data packet he chooses for the chopchop attack, and must disconnect the client from
    the access point for the time of the attack, so that the TSC counter is not increased
    by the packet or following packets. After the attacker has successfully executed the
    chopchop attack, he can send a single data packet to the client. However, we did not
    implement this attack mode.

    the countermeasure the attackers suggest is rekeying every 2 minutes

    5.1 Countermeasures
    To prevent this attack, we suggest using a very short rekeying time, for example 120
    seconds or less. In 120 seconds, the attacker can only decrypt parts of the ICV value
    at the end of a packet. Alternatively disabling the sending of MIC failure report
    frame frames on the clients would also prevent the attack. The best solution would
    be disabling TKIP and using a CCMP only network.

  18. Re:Not a flaw in i, but in e, and not much of one. on The Real Story On WPA's Flaw · · Score: 1

    Apart from VOIP, what really uses QOS anyway?

  19. Re:A crack on The Real Story On WPA's Flaw · · Score: 1

    So one (little-used) protocol out of two (or more) possible protocols

    That would be great but
    1) older hardware will only support tkip
    2) windows xp has problems with WPA2 so tkip is more widely used.

  20. Re:A crack on The Real Story On WPA's Flaw · · Score: 1

    Turn off QOS, that breaks this attack. For a long term fix use AES (WPA2), using WPA when WPA2 is an option is foolish as TKIP was designed to be a temporary solution for hardware that didnt support AES.

    Changing the rekey interval to 3 mins should also cripple this attack.

    What uses QOS anyway?

  21. Re:GPUs ?? I want *CPUs* !!! on Toshiba Launches Laptop With Three GPUs · · Score: 1

    The chip will still be powered up unless you have 4 seperate chips, and the powersavings marginal.

  22. Re:bois not linux or vm friendly on Toshiba Launches Laptop With Three GPUs · · Score: 1

    I thought that Linux didn't use bios, hence why coreboot shaves 3 seconds off your bootup time. I suppose for laptops the acpi features are used (which generally arnt supported in linux very well) but no sound?

    *note all this "knowedge" comes from tring to figure out how to do a bios update without windows and getting distracted for several hours

  23. Re:the future of gaming is almost here on "Minority Report"-Like Control For PC · · Score: 1

    he said play halo, they are already week minded geeks.

  24. Re:WPA2 is NOT broken on Researchers Crack WPA Wi-Fi Encryption · · Score: 1

    but for the most part you have uncapped internet in the US so unless joe is a dick that hogs your bandwidth who cares.

  25. Re:'Story' tag on Researchers Crack WPA Wi-Fi Encryption · · Score: 1

    because if you want to just use firehouse, you can filter by story for stuff that made the frontpage or !story to remove anything you've seen on frontpage