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  1. Re:Which way is this impressive? on World's Smallest IPv6 Stack By Cisco, Atmel, SICS · · Score: 1

    http://mikehibbett.dyndns.org/

    Visitor 301 - that seems kinda small, maybe it was just rebooted?

  2. Re:Obama on Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Imagine not paying for the exam. The responsibility then falls on the victim who may be poor or broke and say 'I can't afford that so I guess there will be no evidence of rape' or the victim may be a minor raped by a family member/guardian - why would the rapist want to pay for evidence against himself?

  3. Re:Levels of abstraction on Working Calculator Created in LittleBigPlanet · · Score: 1

    There is no way to store all the data on the state of the universe (position of all particles, charges, etc.) without using a storage device AT LEAST as massive as the entire universe. You cannot store more bits of data than you have particles. Its simply not possible.

    Umm, just use WinZip with compression turned to high.

  4. Re:Simple solution on Now Google's CAPTCHA Is Broken · · Score: 1

    And if we did this then there's be no more problems with running out of IPv4 addresses.

  5. Re:My test: on Now Google's CAPTCHA Is Broken · · Score: 1

    TJ Maxx doesn't seem to care. The regular customer has no clue what happened, TJ Maxx pays a fine for their crap security and goes about their merry business.

  6. I think the point is... on Schneier On Scareware Vendor Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    That these programs claim to fix something for you but actually don't or even worse are Trojan Horses themselves. And yes, I know that some people think that Windows is a Trojan Horse, phlyambaeit away.

  7. Re:In the U.S., expect it on behalf of the MPAA/RI on Thai Government To Close 400 Anti-government Sites · · Score: 2, Funny

    Funny? I wasn't trying to be funny...

  8. Re:In the U.S., expect it on behalf of the MPAA/RI on Thai Government To Close 400 Anti-government Sites · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's only a matter of time before typing in piratebay.org into your browser leads you to a page that says "This page is blocked for copyright violations" or something similar.

    It won't say "This page is blocked..." it will say "Your IP address has been recorded and the FBI has been notified that you are attempting illegal activities."

  9. What's the point? on Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive · · Score: 1

    The point of this project is not the preservation of part of the bible, it's a Rosetta stone for the future, a way to decrypt what's otherwise undecryptable. If the language is unknown by any living persons and there is nothing like this around then it's as if the message is written in an unbreakable code. The Code Talkers of WWII used this concept to great success. Many of the codes of this era were broken but not this one because they were speaking Navajo. Imagine finding this item and having a library of books that were in an unknown language - you could then find the language and translate the books to a known language and therefore gain the knowledge contained in the books. As they say in the article - if we had one of these from the past it would be one of the most valuable artifacts in existance.

  10. Re:MAFIAA at work in your local library. on Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet? · · Score: 1

    You heard wrong, my local library orders books through the same distributors that the big book store chains buy from.

  11. Re:Says it'll also have solar power on Wave Powered Boat to Sail From Hawaii to Japan · · Score: 1

    The only reason he would need Internet on this long voyage is for porn. Gotta have something to do.

  12. maybe... on Why Old SQL Worms Won't Die · · Score: 1

    I can imagine a legacy system never getting patched because everyone is afraid that it won't boot up properly or they need it up 100% of the time.

    I can imagine a blank password due to struggling with ignorant users and bad application coding.

  13. What would you have to do? on IPv4 Address Crunch In 2 Years, IPv6 Not Ready · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At my company we have two main Cisco routers. One is about 7 years old and the other about 3 years old. The older one used to be able to handle full BGP routes but as the routing table grew and Cisco IOS bloat happened it's 128MB of RAM could no longer hold all that. I've had to trim it to connected routes and I can't update the IOS as all the current ones use too much RAM and wouldn't even work with what I've got it doing. So forget doing IPv6 on that one.

    The other router isn't doing BGP and could probably handle IPv6. The problem then becomes all the machines on our network. Lots of legacy systems. If they can't handle IPv6 then we either have to replace them or have an IPv4/IPv6 gateway - another machine probably since I don't think the newer router could handle this.

    The next issue then becomes our upstream providers. Neither of them are Tier-1 providers and neither offer IPv6 addresses yet.

    Then there's the issue of network admins knowing how to use IPv6 addresses. I've been doing a bit of reading about them but until I start actually working with the systems it won't really sink in. I know my colleagues here haven't been attempting to learn anything about this and it will probably fall to me to educate them on this.

    I'm not looking forward to any of this...

  14. Re:He might not, but here's my work on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 1

    5 watts per second Um, wouldn't that be 18000 watts per hour?
  15. Fun facts about the e-meter on Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/E-Meter/ Including how to make your own!

  16. fun on U of MI Produces Strongest Laser Ever · · Score: 1

    anyone up for a game of laser tag?