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  1. Re:Truecrypt? on Two-Thirds of Lost USB Drives Carry Malware · · Score: 1

    Truecrypt containers have an encrypted header in a particular chunk of the file. Truecrypt attempts to decrypt the data at this location with the given key. If it succeeds, then we know the file is a Truecrypt container. There is also another location that potentially holds an encrypted header describing a hidden volume.

  2. Re:The boy who cried wolf on Researchers Say Carrier IQ Isn't Logging Data, Texts · · Score: 1

    Holding data and sending it later when the transmission would not seem out of place is trivial. It is possible to discover spyware through packet-sniffing, but quite impossible to certify that spyware does not exist on a system. (This is why people who do anything but reformat and restore from backup in case of security breaches or virus infections are idiots.)

  3. Re:seriously on Researchers Say Carrier IQ Isn't Logging Data, Texts · · Score: 2

    Because there are no legitimate uses of this software. And no, data mining is not legitimate.

  4. Re:Why is CarrierIQ an issue? on Researchers Say Carrier IQ Isn't Logging Data, Texts · · Score: 1

    How do they handle DNS caches?

  5. Re:Telco power connectors on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    It is not at all comparable to the indicator LEDs. The LEDs only have 15mA or so flowing in them. A series diode would have to pass the entire supply current of the device. Assuming the modems are running on 12V, a series diode would make the modem consume 5% more power than it otherwise would. 'Only 5%' you say, but that's every modem in the US you're talking about. No, I think a connector that only fits one way is good enough.

  6. Re:It's a mix of tech superiority & marketing on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 1

    God bless you, sir.

  7. Re:Free market for the win on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 2

    If firefox isn't using the memory, it'll get swapped out anyway.

  8. Re:Edison reaching out from beyond the grave on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    Diode drops are bad, 'mmkay?

  9. Re:Telco power connectors on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    A series diode would substantially reduce efficiency.

  10. Re:why 380v? on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    The problem is not PWM, but PWM at low frequency.

  11. Re:Edison reaching out from beyond the grave on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You have a fundamental misunderstanding either of power conversion, or of prudent safety practices. You should change your username.

  12. Re:Edison reaching out from beyond the grave on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    No.

    1. Only very stupid engineers design power connectors that can fit both ways.
    2. Doubling the voltage in rectification relies on the AC polarity reversal. Also, modern power supplies use a boost converter input stage (which corrects power factor) rather than an optional voltage doubler.

  13. Re:I've noticed this too on Europe's Largest IT Company To Ban Internal Email · · Score: 1

    You might want... to make sure your... neighbors haven't reported you to the ellipsis protection... service.

  14. Re:I think the generally accepted solution on Good Disk Library Solutions? · · Score: 1

    No.
    Disc = the flat round thing
    Disk = the data storage device

    I.e., one "puts the disc in the drive" or "runs out of disk space".

  15. Re:TDMA works with water pipes on Internet Water Army On the March · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia says the speed of sound in water is about 1500 m/s, so be prepared to deal with some latency.

  16. Re:TDMA works with water pipes on Internet Water Army On the March · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, you'd definitely have to drain the water. Water attenuates RF like the dickens. It's usually slightly conductive, and the Van der Walls bonds give it a large permittivity at low frequency, and a large imaginary (lossy) permittivity at high frequency. To communicate with submarines, they have to use extremely low frequency signals in the hundreds of Hertz. At one point, Britain had a plan to turn an entire island into an antenna.

    Another way to observe the effect is to put a cup of water in a microwave oven.

  17. Re:Anti-Trust on MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly? · · Score: 1

    No. You just have to make it culturally unsettling for the users to go outside the package manager. Windows users think nothing of dowloading shady shareware to mount disk images. OSX users are accustomed to paying $20 for shady shareware to uncrappify their mouse acceleration curve. Debian users, on the other hand, feel their skin crawl when Tex Live or Truecrypt ask them to

    sudo ./install.sh

  18. Re:Movies on Whither the Portable Optical Drive? · · Score: 1

    That is... highly nonstandard.

  19. Re:And in the US on In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration · · Score: 1

    Hell IE had already became a joke, like "IE is the thing you use to download a browser" rimshot.

    What IE6 did to web standards is no laughing matter. Neither is the economic cost of malware infections caused by IE exploits.

    I am beginning to believe that you are a paid Microsoft shill. No sane man could possibly write such copious drivel unless they were paid to do so. You have posted over four thousand words to Slashdot in the last 24 hours. Four. Thousand. Words. That's a bloody term paper.

    At least I have to give them credit for not being complete corporate whores like here in the USA.

    Our politicians are such whores I bet all it would take is a million or so each and the promise to hire one of their relatives to a lobbying group.

    True. However, entirely in accordance with the political views of 99% of Slashdot. These statements introduce no new ideas, least of all anything controversial. One might even suspect that you are trying to ingratiate yourself with the userbase.

  20. Re:We have X! on 2-Year Study Shows Mac Users Downloading More Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    It's great.

    So you enjoy single-tasking on 2560x1440? You must be a masochist.

    I use SteerMouse.

    A company renowned for UI design can't even get mouse input right and your solution is $20 fly-by-night shareware?

    Fonts are looking fine. What would I want to configure?

    DPI. Hinting. Subpixel rendering, or not. Subpixel order when using subpixel rendering.

  21. Re:Movies on Whither the Portable Optical Drive? · · Score: 1

    >.avi

    You should join the rest of us in the 21st century. h.264 is much more efficient, and your phone probably has a hardware decoder.

  22. Re:Movies on Whither the Portable Optical Drive? · · Score: 1

    That's a pain in the ass. It's a few hours of googling up the proper tools and scripting and disk jockeying. No thanks. Just download it from the Pirate Bay.

  23. Re:Well.. on Whither the Portable Optical Drive? · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck would you waste space on and SSD for a 'recovery partition'? Dammit Apple.

  24. Re:Well.. on Whither the Portable Optical Drive? · · Score: 1

    msi installers for the win.

  25. Re:I use an optical drive to install the OS on Whither the Portable Optical Drive? · · Score: 1

    1. Grab ethernet cable.

    2. Take Mac to physics building.

    3. Plug in to 1 Gb/s internet2 pipe.

    4. ???

    5. Profit!