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  1. Well done guys! on Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy") Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It took a while, but all the effort was worth it.

  2. HOW DO I MOD THIS -1 SPAM? on Putting Biotech Threats In Context · · Score: 0

    It bounces to a Burmese site filled with crapware

  3. Re:have you never seen this? on Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam · · Score: 1

    To be clear - some of those people "jumping under cars" were just pedestrians crossing on a zebra crossing (where pedestrians have right of way) and the cars tried to drive through them. This is also not unusual in ex-soviet countries.

  4. ...and what? on New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes · · Score: 0

    The problem with MD5 isn't the speed of creating hashes, it's that collisions are now trivial to find. This is one of the reasons that repeatedly hashing passwords is a fscking stupid idea - somewhere along your "hash over and over 10,000 times" if you find a collision you'll end up with the same chain as someone else from that point. This is why the big boys use chain rainbow tables ;)

  5. 1Gb/s in Ukraine for $18/month with 75 TV channels on Chattanooga's Municipal Network Doubles Down On Fiber Speeds · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...though real-world benchmarks give me ~800Mb/s both ways. It's also native IPv6, so I don't need my tunnel anymore. Internet is dirt cheap here, you can get 30MB/s for about $3/month with TV and phone.

  6. Re:the bazaar strikes again on US-CERT Discloses Security Flaw In 64-Bit Intel Chips · · Score: 1

    Easy victory for Debian as they didn't have to do 4 weeks of regression testing, documentation, etc before it could be classed as "fixed". Perhaps the manager didn't have the option of rolling a hack out to customers, then marking all the bugs raised against it as "works for me".

  7. Re:A records on Startup Applies For 307 GTLDs · · Score: 1

    Back in the late 90's I created a .turnip TLD in the DNS server of the ISP I was working at, and then gave "rob.is.a" the same IP as slashdot...

  8. Re:A records on Startup Applies For 307 GTLDs · · Score: 1

    All they have to do is add an A record to the GTLD and then when you type tickets into the bar at the top it will send you to a site rather than search via google.

  9. Re:Troubling signal, why? on Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price · · Score: 2

    Actually, in Ukraine savings accounts pay 25% APR, and 15% on USD and EUR accounts.

  10. Re:Facts! Don't talk to me about facts! on The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent a Box Office Record · · Score: 2

    I'm group d) : I download cam rips so I can put the audio track onto an MP3 player. In the country where I live there's a legal requirement to DUB foreign films, so I can't see it in English. I go to the cinema and stick the MP3 player in 1 ear. No lost sale. The audio quality's not great though :( I once suggested a system for cinemas where people could use headphones similar to a silent disco, where you could select a language on the side and listen to a different audio track. It never went anywhere though :(

  11. It's obvious: on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    Good SciFi / Fantasy is filmed outside the US - Game of Thrones and Dr. Who in the UK, and LotR in NZ.

  12. Re:Cyano-Acrylate on DoD Networks Completely Compromised, Experts Say · · Score: 4, Funny

    OMG - you work for Apple?

  13. Re:Crowd-funding on Double Fine Adventure Crosses $2.5 Million In Kickstarter Funding · · Score: 1

    First point first - ALL movies, TV shows, books, songs and video games (made commercially) ARE funded in advance - usually by publishers. The change is from the single publisher/financier model to the self-published crowd-financed model. Having the cash before producing things hasn't changed. I can also tell you than in the game industry (and there isn't a significant difference for the others) you have to do some good, small, sometimes free works first before the publisher will touch you. Second, why would you think people will jump from a flash game to AAA? There are many small games on kickstarter looking to get $1000 and hit it, then next time create a bigger game for $2000. These guys already delivered several AAA games, and were looking for 400k, not millions of dollars. Copyright is automatic and has nothing to do with how a project is funded.

  14. Re:Two words: on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It doesn't have to encrypt the saved files, just the save/export function.

  15. Re:You can't eliminate them on Obama Pushes For Cheaper Pennies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm European and in NYC for the first time this week. It's astounding how many people expect a tip for what is mediocre or poor service (or at least would be back home) because of the "social contract". If people expect me to pay a tip no matter what, it would be easier to just pay them properly, charge a little more, and pay tips to people who actually deserve them.

  16. Re:Only open source can be secure on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. As soon as you decrypt anything to use/view it on a compromised system then that data is compromised, as is any other data using the same key. Anyone with secrets worth protecting shouldn't be storing them on a phone or accessing them from an insecure device.

  17. Re:Mac mini or apple Tv on Ask Slashdot: Best Kit For a Home Media Server? · · Score: 2

    PCI SATA cards are a really, REALLY bad idea if you have any care about IO performance, and especially if those drives are part of a RAID. Use PCIe SATA cards.

  18. Re:So it's time to drill? on Life Possible On 'Large Regions' of Mars · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember someone using laser engraving to produce colours...

  19. Re:It is Yule Tide... on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 1

    I like it - it just rolls off the tongue...

  20. Re:Technical Debt on Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least · · Score: 2

    It's simple - you add up the cost of outages (revenue and reputation), ops overhead (support staff and time lost using clunky UI's) and correcting mistakes caused by errors in the code, then you compare it against the cost of resolving the technical debt. If you're constantly getting told it's not possible then there are either good financial reasons for it, or the project manager needs to start writing business cases which don't suck.

  21. Re:That's right, Apple has a monopoly on smart on How To Avoid Infringing On Apple's Patents · · Score: 1

    Design Patents are absolutely about how things look.

  22. Re:For the curious on Domain Theft-for-Ransom Hits css-tricks.com and Others · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bakulina 12 is an address in Kharkiv, in Ukraine. Anyone can pick a random city or country, but picking a specific street in north Kharkiv is less likely. Start there.

  23. Re:Web of trust versus online consensus on Ask Hacker and Security Gadfly Moxie Marlinspike · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Aggregate I/O performance on HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line · · Score: 1

    Not where I work, they don't. I/O on VM's (ESX, etc) is generally woeful, and it's significantly faster to pass through a FC card and access LUN's on a DMX or VMax than to use local storage. Hadoop uses local storage for a completely different reason.

  25. Re:Cookies cannot "unlawfully intercept" anything on Facebook Sued For Violating Wiretap Laws · · Score: 1

    How is this even slightly different to the banner adverts we've had since the 90's? Remember doubleclick? How is a Like button different to a Digg button, or SU, or even a Slashdot button? It's not.
    If I got to a website that has adverts or articles I EXPECT it to have tracking for either advertising or social buttons (as well as it's own metrics). Clean your browser and see how many cookies are set by slashdot, or CNET (shudder) or MSN.
    You know, I don't mind cookies - and here's why: They're going to show me adverts ANYWAY - I might as well let them show me something appropriate.