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  1. Challange to find actual backdoor has been issued. on FBI Alleged To Have Backdoored OpenBSD's IPSEC Stack · · Score: 2
  2. Re:You get what you pay for. on Retargeting Ads Stalk You For Weeks After You Shop · · Score: 1

    Going back to VHS doesn't help, every time I watch a VHS movie or TV show, I'm accosted by a FBI advert. How do they know I like to pirate movies!? It's just creepy.

  3. Penny Arcade Reference on ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds · · Score: 1
  4. A shame... on Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict · · Score: 1

    It really is a shame that dell had to direct new users towards the windows side, when in actuality labeling Ubuntu as perfect for 'new users' is more accurate. Since they are exactly the people that should be trying Ubuntu. They aren't used to windows already, and likely haven't developed any prejudices towards one piece of software or another, so OpenOffice and CrossoverOffice are just as good as Microsoft Office.

  5. Re:who lived with who on Girl Seeks Help On Facebook During Assault · · Score: 1

    I read the article, hence the quote from the article. Why would the mother pick up the daughter from their own house, and not simply call the cops, or boot the guy out. If it was the mother's house I would assume, she would just call the cops to come get the guy. This is also why I stated that it implies TO ME. It was a simple question, that I was curious about the wording in the article.

  6. Re:who lived with who on Girl Seeks Help On Facebook During Assault · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? I was merely asking why the girl would need to be 'picked up by her mom' if she was at her own house. The wording implies she was not at her house, it has no bearing on the guy raping her, or the fact that this is an atrocious act. I was asking whether there were some details that were not being disclosed. Simple, not that hard to grasp.

  7. Re:wait, this is slashdot on Girl Seeks Help On Facebook During Assault · · Score: 2

    In my mind pedophiles deserve lifetime prison sentences with no possibility of a parole. This guy deserves a couple decades in jail for sure, but it's really not pedophilia.

    Are you implying rape of a minor doesn't deserve life in prison without parole, or even rape in itself. In my book they are both equal, and very much deserve the same punishment.

  8. Re:who lived with who on Girl Seeks Help On Facebook During Assault · · Score: 1
    I was actually more interested in why it was worded that particular way. To me

    tell her to come pick her up.

    implies she was at another persons house and not her own.

  9. who lived with who on Girl Seeks Help On Facebook During Assault · · Score: 1
    This is screwed up regardless and cutting some parts off with a dull knife is def. in order, but

    She begged her friend to contact her mother and tell her to come pick her up.

    who was living with who? There seems to be more here than is being reported.

  10. counterfeiters on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just give the job to the counterfeiters, they'll have it out in a couple of months.

  11. Re:I'll happily work for the military on DARPA Issues Call For Computer Science Devotees · · Score: 1

    I refuse to work for the military or Microsoft until they offer more money than I get as a crack-dealing gigolo hitman.

    In all fairness that is 3 jobs...

  12. Re:Right on White House Tackling the Economics of Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    Why would this be modded off topic? It's a valid point, I certainly want someone who can write a coherent document in their specialty, protecting critical sensitive data. Not these idiots who seem like they are just picking buzz words and filling in the gaps madlibs-esque.

  13. Re:frist psotgres on First MySQL 5.5 Beta Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe it's just me, but I find 'Psotgres' to be far lacking compared to mysql. Ease of use also counts for something when working with the masses...and yes I am making fun of your inability to spell the very product you're trying to troll with. Fun times.

  14. Re:Trees on Global Deforestation Demoed In Google Earth · · Score: 1

    Damn White men, always putting trees where they don't belong. Honestly, planting trees, what's wrong with you!

  15. Re:why are they so scared about xray monitors? on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    Having actually left a pocket knife in my carry on, I was quite surprised that they did in fact find it. It was buried at the bottom of the bag, under a bunch of electronics. I was always under the impression that the x-rays were just eye-candy, however this last experience has actually made me wonder about the usefulness of them, as they no longer seem inept/useless to me. Just my thoughts, -Rob

  16. Re:It still doesn't solve everything on Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table · · Score: 1

    It may not be a cure all but it seems a step in the right direction. While this in fact is probably in response to the court rulings, and current legal trouble; It seems that this probably has more to do with them being worried about the service being completely taken down, or blacklisted, than with them being worried about whether it's legal or not. From what I've read of the articles mentioned, one of the main upsides to this is the inability to reliably block it. I could be reading this incorrectly, however it still moves more towards a reliable network with less points of failure IMHO

  17. Re:Site seems to break on Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay · · Score: 1

    Actually, once you have the initial 'Microsoft Download Manager' installed, you can download it with firefox all you want. The only thing the activex controllers are used for is to install the microsoft application to manage the download.

    So if you downloaded the first iso, say the 32bit one, and wanted to download the 64bit iso as well, as long as you have the Download Manager installed, you can do so with Firefox or any browser of your choice, because all it's going to do is refer the aspx page your accessing to the Download manager.

    -Rob

  18. Re:A New Buzz-phrase is Borne Unto the World on Towards a World Wide Grid? · · Score: 1

    Now you've done it, you've gone and made me sad, touchè good sir, touchè

  19. Re:A New Buzz-phrase is Borne Unto the World on Towards a World Wide Grid? · · Score: 1

    It seems I should learn how to use Slashdot's tagging system, failed by my own laziness...


    Free advertising away!

    This random troll/advertisment brought to you by the Dangerologists makers of Lemonandkarl.com

    /randombuzzword Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net is the wave of the future

  20. Re:A New Buzz-phrase is Borne Unto the World on Towards a World Wide Grid? · · Score: 1

    One would think and yet my devious plan to attract to visitors to brilliance has failed.

    Now if only there was some way to force people to visit our brilliance, maybe I should talk to Microsoft, or various ISP's...they seem to know how to force interaction with public consent :-)

    -Rob

  21. Re:A New Buzz-phrase is Borne Unto the World on Towards a World Wide Grid? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since it seems pretty clear the whole point of TFA was to draw attention to this project, kind of like free advertising I figure I'll just jump on the bandwagon.

    This random troll/advertisment brought to you by the Dangerologists makers of Lemonandkarl.com

    /randombuzzword Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net is the wave of the future

  22. Re:It's a Smart Strategy on Google Exec Hints At Future Open Platform · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As much as I would love to see google's code become open source, I have a feeling that's not what they were talking about. At the moment, their apps are what are making them a substantial amount of money, if all of a sudden gmail became open source what would that do to their business.

    I have a feeling this is more Ala Apple, where they are interested in creating some semblance of openness by allowing some interaction from outside developers.

    -Rob

  23. Hardware compatibility and updating. on IPv4 Address Crunch In 2 Years, IPv6 Not Ready · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The shift will also depend on hardware vendors making sure that their hardware is completely ipv6 compatible. Even with quite a few vendors saying that their stuff is compatible, I know of a quite a few major bugs still lurking with those same vendors. Not many large companies are going to switch to IPv6 until they need to upgrade hardware, if their existing hardware is only IPv4 compatible.

  24. Modular fix with insmod and patch on Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit · · Score: 1

    There is a quick and dirty fix via a module. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432251#c10 The actual patch is listed here: http://home.powertech.no/oystein/ptpatch2008/ -Rob