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  1. Re:Too dangerous to keep digitally now? on Kids With Operators Manual Alert Bank Officials: "We Hacked Your ATM" · · Score: 1

    No. Security through obscurity is worthless.
    Keeping the default administrator password default is the problem.

  2. Re:Saw the old man 10 years ago on 'Godfather of Ecstasy,' Chemist Sasha Shulgin Dies Aged 88 · · Score: 2

    He didn't actually discover MDMA. He discovered the psychoactive properties of it.
    He probably looked at its molecular structure and "had a feeling" it would be psychoactive.

  3. Re:I am using Windows 8 on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    Is "Classic Shell" like "Classic Coke"?
    Or is that more like Norton Desktop for Windows?


    http://toastytech.com/guis/ndwfolder.png

  4. Re:Do we need it? on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    I bet you have a good discussion on "their".
    DownMod Parent SPAM

  5. Re:flame away, but... on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 2, Informative

    You know. You are actually right. Interface aside the rest of the "shit behind the scenes", seems pretty good.

    With an SSD in a new laptop it boots in about 3-4 seconds.

  6. Start Menu Classic on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    Coca-Cola paved the way. Redmond 'Nailed It'!!!

  7. Re:Wait... on As Crypto Mining Grows, Data Centers Begin Accepting Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Following your logic.. If something "crashes" it is "junk".
    Gold, Securities, Commodities.. ALL JUNK.
    Noted. Thank you for the insight!

  8. What a punishment on Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Poor racist bastard. We showed him!

  9. Re:Zounds?! on Linux Sucks (Video) · · Score: 1

    case of the Mondays?

  10. Re:Zounds?! on Linux Sucks (Video) · · Score: 1

    your object isn't even a pointer to an array

  11. Re:More or less than bitcoin? on EVE Online's Space Economy Currently Worth $18 Million · · Score: 1

    Not wasting a mod point on you... a. WTF does BTC have to do with this FUD? b, Do you not know how to figure out how much Bitco(i)n is in "circulation"

  12. Re:36% less pain on Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research · · Score: 1

    Where the $*#& did this comment thread get derailed? Where did my mod points go?

  13. Re:Should Be Illegal on Verizon's Plan To Snoop On Its Customers · · Score: 1

    Devils Advocate stance... They will counter with. We don't include any of that data in your calculated data use for billing / data cap purposes.

  14. Re:Abusrd on New White House Petition For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Gamers don't need much bandwidth, they need quick RTT and low (read: no) packet loss. That would be another ideal class of service for a "fast lane".

  15. Re:Habits ... on Seven Habits of Highly Effective Unix Admins · · Score: 1

    +1 Funny, Insightful

  16. Ho Humm on Yes, You Too Can Be an Evil Network Overlord With OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Is this news? It is certainly nerdy.

  17. Re:"And I laugh at how you are supposed to see..." on Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype? · · Score: 1

    wow, best buy had a magic version of Avatar that was recorded in RGBY !! Neato, i would LOVE to see how they got a brdvd to play that.

    ^ ID10T ^

  18. Aborted BIOS update Non-Intel MB - Need Floppy on The End of the 3.5-inch Floppy Continues · · Score: 1

    I needed a floppy on Friday. I actually have a box of them, but I didn't have a drive anymore.
    Long story short I was updating the BIOS on an old Shuttle XPC
    (Last ditch effort to get it to run reliably before throwing it out the window).
    After a failed flash, the machine was effectively "bricked" until such a time I could get an actual floppy drive installed to to a recovery boot.
    It seems the only way for this old hardware to recover from a botched BIOS update was to boot from a real floppy.
    I tried countless USB sticks formatted as floppies and even an actual USB floppy drive all to no avail.
    The Shuttle XPC in question is now in the dumpster.

  19. Re:Sorry kids on "Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    My felony record says I'd straighten your ass out for thinking you'd even stand a chance of being a RLTG versus the ITG you're currently portraying, and you'd only bend over and take it. Especially with a name like ClownPenis! What, you gotta inflate your junk first?

    Dear felon, Unless you are also rwven, WTF are you doing even responding to me? I clearly "QUOTED" the comment I was replying to. That comment didn't belong to you. You are attacking my junk unprovoked.

  20. Re:Sorry kids on "Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "full capabilities of an hdtv?" I have a 24" monitor on my desk in the next room with higher resolution than my 1080P in the living room. The "full capabilities" of HDTVs were outdated years before they hit store shelves.

    That said, you can surf the web right on the PS3 w/out linux at all.

    You can play emulated games on the PS3 as well, or you can just use your desktop or laptop computer. They sell them on PSN all the time. ;-)

    That said, You're a tool smarty pants. Are you devils advocate, dickhead, MS FanBoi or a combination? You are s snippy snide "little shit" who I would punch in the face IRL.

  21. Re:Misleading on China's Great Firewall Infects Other Countries · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's more than that. According to the post at https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2010-March/005266.html someone is actively spoofing DNS replies to DNS request packets bound for entire class A and B net ranges.

    The only way someone is going to "actively spoofing DNS replies" is via a sophisticated MITM attack. The problem here, is that some idiot forgot to keep his "root.hints" file current on his DHCP published name server. A "firewall" has always been understood as a bastion host and/or a packet filter. Breaking DNS doesn't break routing. The inverse may not be true, but routing doesn't depend on DNS.

  22. Misleading on China's Great Firewall Infects Other Countries · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Misconfiguration of resolv.conf does not put China's firewall in your way. Add yourself to the tool belt.

  23. Re:Understanding QoS on the Internet on Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VoIP? · · Score: 3, Informative

    ....

    3) Most routers mark packets outbound, and little emphasis is placed on inbound marking. This is because by the time the packet gets to you, unless YOUR router is saturated the packet will get through with low latency.

    "outbound" depends on your perspective. "YOUR router is saturated" (If your router is saturated, I would recommend drying if out.) Usually the links that routers are connected to become saturated. Marking the pakets on the way in may or may not happen, but the net result would be the the same. (Unless your WAN (outbound) connection was faster than your LAN (inbound)).

    Further,

    VoIP is UDP based, and is highly sensitive to latency. The Internet is a place where latency is highly unpredictable and the more network hops (the further geographically) your packets have to travel, the higher the end to end latency will be; as such, VoIP is likely to remain a low quality voice transport for a while. Contrastly, your analogue telephone line, when you make a call from US to China, actually reserves an entire set of *dedicated* DS1 (64Kbits/sec) analogue pipes from one end to the other. In other words, there is zero sharing; hence the guarantee and high quality.

    Actually you get less than 64Bbit/second dedicated if your telco is in the US. Google "Robbed Bit Signaling"

    VoIP is UDP based, and is highly sensitive to latency. Bad generalization there. RTP is UDP, but not all VoIP protocals use RTP. I assume you understand that while SIP is a VoIP standard, the standard for VoIP isn't SIP.

    Perhaps one day, when all the major Telcos and ISPs have more pipe than they know what to do with, long distance VoIP will come close in quality to analogue phones... until then it's a complete crap shoot. You might get amazing quality to some locations on some days, at certain times 99/100 times, and to other locations 80/100 times the VoIP call is utterly useless.

    The setup and codecs I use actually exceed carrier quality "G711" codecs. If you aren't an expert, don't try to sell yourself as one.

    In resume, you can tweak your home router all you want. It might help slightly since your router would become a saturated network point due to you using bitorrent simultaneously; however, the other 8+ hops to get to "China" are completely out of your control.

    Like I said before. The "router" isn't getting saturated. Why are you pushing this fallacy? Who is calling China via VoIP? Why would you even mention china? My IP phones register with an asterisk server in texas. I can handle the 20 milliseconds, and so can sensitive UDP packets.

    My recommendation is that if you have a say 1Mbit Up/Down pipe for broadband internet; that before you make your VoIP call, that you throttle your bittorent software (in the software itself) to use only 850Kbits up/down. VoIP protocols can suck up anywhere between 8Kbit/sec (highly compressed) to 110 Kbits/sec (uncompressed). So by leaving 150Kbits for VoIP, there's a good chance the VoIP and torrents can co-exist peacefully.

    Cheers, ADeptus