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  1. Re:Pfft Sandforce on New Intel 520 Series SSD Taps SandForce Controller · · Score: 1

    Which is entirely useless for someone who doesn't trust closed-source encryption schemes.

  2. Re:Can we make a genuinely destructible password? on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    Sure. Put a keyfile on a flash drive. Smash the flash chip with a hammer if the NSA shows up.

  3. Re:What if the content is no longer retrievable on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    They image the disk.

  4. Re:No, Siri won't run on the iPhone 4 because... on A5 Mystery Solved (Why Siri Won't Run On iPhone 4) · · Score: 1

    No different than buying a computer that comes with Windows.

  5. Pfft Sandforce on New Intel 520 Series SSD Taps SandForce Controller · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Sandforce controllers use compression to increase speeds and reduce write amplifications. Thus, they choke on encrypted (incompressible) data. They also have a horrible record of reliability. No thanks.

  6. Re:I have to agree on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    I'm not talking about the parallels with religious types. Jews do not help their cause by deliberately inflaming nationalist types by owning banks.

  7. Re:I have to agree on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    However, homosexuality was hated on for nothing other than what it was and that was what ultimately led Turing to take his own life. Atheism, by contrast (and imho), is reviled not because a lack of faith is seen as inherently wrong by modern religious types, but because a disproportionate amount of outspoken Atheists are inflammatory jerk-offs with some misguided superiority complex (see Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, et al).

    Ba-dum tsssssssssss!

    (in case anyone else was still waiting.)

  8. Re:Really? on Job Seeking Hacker Gets 30 Months In Prison · · Score: 2

    No. But if my house was burgled and I then decided to replace all of my windows with Lexan, it would not be reasonable to claim the cost of the replacement (other than the single window broken in the burglary) as damages.

  9. Re:Yea on Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive? · · Score: 1

    Seeing as I can read an order of magnitude faster than most people speak, brevity isn't nearly as important.

  10. Re:WTF is a Rogue Site? on RIAA Wants To Scrap Anti-Piracy OPEN Act · · Score: 1

    You have the right idea, but you don't go far enough. "IP" itself is newspeak.

  11. Re:Is this an improvement? on Firefox 10 Released · · Score: 1

    Don't use an in-browser PDF viewer.

  12. Re:It should be throttled. on CRTC Says Rogers Violating Federal Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    If there is some other type of traffic that has a bigger dependence on real-timeliness than VOIP (I doubt it)

    SSH.

  13. Re:It should be throttled. on CRTC Says Rogers Violating Federal Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Where by 'equal', you mean 'equally shitty'.

  14. Re:I'm not changing to IPv6 on a specific date... on June 6 Is World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time For Keeps · · Score: 1

    What we need is a functional market so that addresses can be allocated to the uses that can justify their cost.

    You do realize that would completely fuck up the routing tables? When IPv4 was standardized, 32 bit addresses were chosen because the address space was huge compared to the number of hosts the protocol was expected to support. Turns out we ended up with a lot more hosts.

  15. Re:I'm not changing to IPv6 on a specific date... on June 6 Is World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time For Keeps · · Score: 1

    >Score:3, Insightful
    >Doesn't know what a stateful firewall is

  16. Re:You are ignorant. on Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music · · Score: 1

    There is no requirement for censorship to involve a government at all. Why do you believe it to be so? Are you some kind of hard core libertarian who believes that only governments can do evil?

  17. Re:Not Surprise for MegaUpload on Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music · · Score: 2

    The difference is that there are no circumstances under which a private company can legally possess/distribute child pornography. It is impossible for Megaupload to know that all the people who uploaded the same file did so illegally. Some could be licensed by the copyright holder, or covered by fair use (personal backups), or uploaded by the copyright holder itself.

  18. Re:This is good news on Coming Soon: An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver · · Score: 1

    Until there's a reliable implementation of 'ssh --wayland' Wayland is a non-starter.

  19. Re:U.S. law is the new international law on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    I believe you want 'overrated'.

  20. Re:Ban the use of faucets! on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 0

    You seem to believe that a person who downloads The Beatles' discography has deprived The Beatles of something.
    Piracy is *exactly* like the bottled water analogy. By drinking water from the tap, you have (to a very rough approximation) reduced the demand for bottled water by the amount you drank. You have not, however, deprived the bottled water company of any water.

  21. Re:More shit for the tip (dump). on June 6 Is World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time For Keeps · · Score: 1

    A whole lot less futzing around with port forwards and ssh tunnels.

  22. Re:My preview of ReFS on Microsoft Announces ReFS, a New Filesystem For Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    Better than

    [D0NK3Y T1T5]!!! - Avatar.the.Last.Airbender.XviD.avi

  23. Re:They're just goddamned TV shows. on US Government Seeks Extradition of UK Student For File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    ^ this
    I have no modpoints at the moment.

  24. Re:1/12 bit per atom? Not impressed. on IBM Shrinks Bit Size To 12 Atoms · · Score: 1

    256?

    IIRC, that's enough to actually apply to some crypto schemes currently in use.

  25. Re:FFS... on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 1

    The fact that Intel is also licensing a third-party GPU (and talking about their future migration to the SGX543, also third-party) rather than using their own GPU is not particularly reassuring.

    Considering it's Intel... that's very reassuring.