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  1. Re:"Billions and billions" on How Things Will Change Under IPv6 · · Score: 2, Informative

    half of them will not be directly hooked into the interweb. Many of those are intended to be that way, since you want your layers of security, and that's why we have however many thousands of addresses in the range 10.0.0.[0-256];

    Repeat after me for the 34253456345324th time: NAT is not a security measure. NAT is not a security measure. NAT is not..

  2. Re:The reason not to upgrade is... on Ignore Vista Until 2008 · · Score: 1

    MS is enforcing driver signing. More devices will require more strictly signed drivers. Supposedly, if it isn't signed, it won't install. The idea is to fForce manufacturers to write better code.

    Of course, the downside is that hobby coders that write, e.g. a driver to circumvent certain CD copy protections on the driver level (think Daemon Tools) won't want/get their driver signed.

    There's always two uses for a technology. One is by a company trying to protect you from a malicious third party, the other is a good third party trying to help you against malicious companies.

  3. Re:Before you answer on How Long to Crack an 'Encrypted' HD? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dunno if it was meant to be funny, but AES is a symmetric cipher with a maximum of 256 bits.

  4. Re:*phew* on Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit? · · Score: 1

    i trust the pirate groups more than i trust the companies.

    That's the most insightful comment I've read in this whole discussion.

  5. Re:I hope they're backing up data! on Fire Destroys Southampton Fibre-Optics Center · · Score: 1

    And such a thing can burn down in one go?

  6. Re:Space Surgery? on Robots Might Allow For Space Surgery · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm sure a robot on Mars controlled by a surgeon on Earth is going to work. The signal delay is really just minimal.

  7. Re:Call me old fashioned... on Open Source AJAX Webmail · · Score: 2, Funny

    You misspelled Mutt.

    HTH. HAND.

  8. Re:The RIAA is irrelevant. on Record Labels Unveil Greed 2.0 · · Score: 1

    You want criticism? Here you go:

    1) Get rid of that background picture. The text is unreadable. Or at least brighten it up so it acts more like a watermark than a full picture.

    2) Regarding "Past Gigs": http://bancomicsans.com/home.html
          I like this part:

          "The design of the typeface is, in itself, its voice." "Comic Sans as a voice conveys silliness, childish naivete, irreverence, and is far too casual for such a purpose. It is analogous to showing up for a black tie event in a clown costume."

    That's about the two most glaring fuckups that would drive me away without looking again. Seriously dude, what were you thinking? Did you actually try to _read_ the text on your own page?

  9. Re:no suprise on Record Labels Unveil Greed 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Amen.

  10. Re:go back to school emily on FreeBSD Project Launches New Website · · Score: 1

    If you use Firefox, see View -> Text Size or View -> Page Style. There is always the possiblity to use multiple style sheets where the page doesn't have to do anything to switch them, the user does this in his browser.

    If you use 1600x1200, the width is fixed to about 800 pixels. Well done. Perhaps they should've hired one that isn't stuck in 15" 800x600 stone age.

    The most hilarious thing is this bug: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-www/200 5-October/002938.html

    I think the site is one half-assed wank.

  11. Re:go back to school emily on FreeBSD Project Launches New Website · · Score: 1

    A "stylesheet" that needs cookies and Javascript? Ugh.

  12. Re:Finally a group that "gets it" on MySQL To Be Ikea Of The Database Market · · Score: 1

    K.I.S.S. is what MySQL has always been about

    K.I.S.S. implies - at least in my book - correctness, something MySQL has never been about until maybe recently.

  13. Re:Do you know how fire works? on Tech Geezers vs. Young Bloods · · Score: 1

    Them damn spelling nazis!

    (I actually think this is a valid expression)

  14. Re:Obligatory Simpson Quote... on Tech Geezers vs. Young Bloods · · Score: 1

    Since Netcraft runs FreeBSD, they will. *run*

  15. Re:Better than post-it notes on Too Many Passwords · · Score: 1

    I do it in a similar way, just non-reversable. For each site/service/forum/etc I make up a user name and a domain name. In the normal case, the user name actually is the login and the domain is the site where to enter it.

    Now I have one password that's both strong, easy to remember and not stored anywhere except my head. (For the curious: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html)

    I enter this master password on a non-connected machine and a little script basically hashes the string "${USER}:${DOMAIN}:${ITERATION}:${MASTERPASS}" into a binary hash. This binary hash gets run through a base64 encode, all non-alphanumeric characters are stripped (this is the lowest common denominator since some sites only allow letters and numbers), and the first 16 characters from the left are output as the resulting password. $ITERATION normally is 1. If I want to change a single password I don't have to change the master password, just increase the iteration.

    In case I forget _where_ I actually signed up, all user names, domains and iterations are stored in a text file. This actually happens with dozens of forums, vendor sites that require logins for support files, etc. etc.

  16. In other news on Happy 7th Birthday Google! · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google has been renamed to Googte!

  17. I think on FBI Agents Put New Focus on Deviant Porn · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that by deviant they mean this. The FBI agent with the nick BritneySpears14 must have been truly shocked.

  18. MOD PARENT DOWN on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 1

    In this discussion, when viewing at threshold 1, on page 2 there's still the first post that you'd see on page 1.

    Somehow it has to do with the overall length of the discussion. I just had tried with some other discussion which made it look like it was fixed, but it isn't.

  19. Re:Could we also... on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow. Apparently, it _is_ fixed! Whether that's a side effect of the transition or intentional, I don't know.

    Who knows, maybe some day Slashdot even gets proper editors and no more dupes!

  20. Re:Getting with the Times New Roman on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 1

    Apparently, not everyone.

  21. Could we also... on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...get the following fixed? When you browse with a threshold that doesn't show all comments, the page numbers to click are completely broken. Sometimes, when I click on the 3rd or 4th page, I _still_ see the first post according to my threshold.

    There is actually no way to view all comments in order. I usually resort to clicking a page way later, like the 6th or 7th until I see a comment other than the first. But then I don't know if I missed any.

    The pages seem to count all comments regardless of score. The proper way is to count the posts _after_ the threshold is applied.

    This has been bugging me _for ages_!

  22. Re:Hmmm... on eBay To Buy Skype For $2.6 Billion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seriously, what good is a closed software-only "telephony" application when VoIP is the latest craze? With SIP, I can use an adapter to connect any common phone. With Asterisk I have a complete PBX that I can program to do anything, from call routing to voicemail to menus to different behaviour based on callerid and whatnot.

    Sitting in front of a PC and being able to talk to someone is so 1999.

  23. Most secure? on Securing Mac OS X Tiger · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Mac OS X is one of the most secure default installations of any OS."

    I thought OpenBSD has prior art here.

  24. Re:The pheads server melt, now they use torrents.. on TB-303 Give-Aways from Propellerheads and d-lusion · · Score: 1

    That one seed is probably Propellerhead themselves. I am seeing over 80 seeds and nearly 700 peers but no connection to _any_ of them except for Propellerhead's seed. Something is messed up.

    PS: I am connectable and all. Downloading other torrents works just fine.

  25. Re:WRONG! mod perant down. on TB-303 Give-Aways from Propellerheads and d-lusion · · Score: 0

    Right, I was wrong.