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  1. Re:EE Majors still worth anything? on India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Major in what you would like to do--not what you think other people would like you to do. You'll have plenty of chances to explore different areas once you enter a university.

  2. Re:Apple's in the news now... on FBI Agent Talks Crime, Macs · · Score: 1
    I don't quite understand how people are good at mining data off of *nix but not off of a Mac though


    Know of any other UNIX-like operating system that uses HFS+?
  3. Re:Novak again? on Electronic Burglary in the Senate · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    So, Novak leaks the name of a CIA operator for political gain to hide the fact that Bush lied about Iraq trying to buy uranium for nuclear weapons. Then he blows the cover of a CIA front operation to further his story.

    Yeah that's right, Novak leaked the information to himself and then published it. No, Karl Rove leaked the name of a CIA operative to Novak, and Novak publishes the information. Certainly Novak is at fault for perpetuating the Bush admin's blatant attempts at base political gain, but it's a certain member in the Bush administration who committed a federal felony.
  4. Kung Foo Fighting on What Was the Very First MP3 You Downloaded? · · Score: 1

    My first downloaded MP3, and off of Hotline!

  5. Re:Encryption ain't it all tapped out to be... on Feds Want to Tap VoIP · · Score: 1
    There is no such thing as a true "random number generator". The only exception is in quantum mechanics, which is impossible to use at the moment


    Well, not quite.
  6. Re:Encryption ain't it all tapped out to be... on Feds Want to Tap VoIP · · Score: 1

    Trolling? That troll's post sounds more knowledgeable than the few that you've made. Why don't you respond to the rest of his points? Do you truly understand them? And if you want to show me up, explain yourself clearly and attempt to intelligently contradict what he's saying. Dismissive name-calling is for people who are unable to make convincing arguments.

  7. Re:Encryption ain't it all tapped out to be... on Feds Want to Tap VoIP · · Score: 1

    Yes, and that's why people design encryption algorithms that don't have these flaws. Thousands of cryptographers around the world have analyzed PGP's source code, and the symmetric block cipher used to protect the messages themselves (IDEA) has been around for over a decade without any major cryptanalytic attacks being discovered. Do you honestly believe that the NSA will magically be able to find some horrifically glaring bug (because that's what it would be called if it existed) that will enable them to decrypt a message in someone's lifetime? The government is not some supernatural force. They can't read your thoughts. They're just regular people like anyone else.

  8. Re:Encryption ain't it all tapped out to be... on Feds Want to Tap VoIP · · Score: 1

    I don't think you really understand how encryption works. The algorithms are publicly available so that they can be peer-reviewed. The secret is protecting your key--not the program that was used. Really secure encryption software is open source.

  9. Official government documents... on Feds Want to Tap VoIP · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the past few weeks Cryptome has featured a link to an FBI document detailing the means by which such surveillance might take place. This is all just additional evidence that those wanting real security must implement (or at least verify) it themselves.

  10. Re:Worst lesson ever. on US Treasury to Post Previously Private Email Addresses Online · · Score: 1
    The lesson here is organize.

    Moderate this man up.
  11. Re:The core is already... on An Answer To "What is Mac OS X?" · · Score: 4, Informative

    Really? The GPL you say? Sorry, but no. Parts of Darwin are GPL'd, but Apple's own code is released under the Apple Public Source License.

  12. Re:If these cool gadgets are in a museum NOW... on New CIA Tech Museum: Spy Scat and Robo-Fish · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The article mentions that the museum "is accessible only to CIA employees, and guests admitted to those closed quarters".

  13. Why ask slashdot? on Recommendations For A Good Laptop Bag? · · Score: 1

    Jason O'Grady wastes all his time posting new links for PowerBook-sized notebook bags. Of course, I personally would recommend anything that Spire sells.

  14. Re:Pocket-Sized?? on Rumors of Mini iPods · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn right. I need an iPod so freakin' small that it can get lodged in my ear canal!

  15. Re:speed on 90nm 3GHz PPC 970FX by Summer · · Score: 5, Funny
    Does anyone even care about the leetness of their speed with Apple stuff?

    Yeah, I'm willing to bet that the people who make 80 million dollar movies with them do. Your friends who encode Simpsons episodes into DivX don't count, sorry.
  16. Re:Fixed In Time on Time's Up: 2^30 Seconds Since 1970 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you'll be able to count the number of seconds in about 30 universe-lifetimes before overflowing.

  17. Re:Seed nodes? on MUTE: Simple, Private File Sharing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh fine, rape my cable connection. My address is 24.208.214.50, port 4900.

  18. Seed nodes? on MUTE: Simple, Private File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Can anyone provide a few IP addresses so I can actually test this thing out? The two main "seed" nodes appear to be slashdotted.

  19. Re:crypt() not necessarily the crypt algorithm on The Death Throes of crypt() · · Score: 1
    I wonder how many MD5 hashes they can generate

    Not to take away Eraser's fire, but if you were to generate enough hashes to fill the "key" space (2^128) of the MD5 algorithm and store them on disk in the manner described by this paper, you would need 4,503,599,627,370,496 (2^52) yottabytes. A yottabyte is 1,099,511,627,776 (2^40) terabytes.
  20. Translation: on Intel Researchers See Moore's Law Becoming Obsolete · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Intel is becoming obsolete. Intel's steadfast opposition to changing their (unbelievably ancient) chip architecture and/or changing their manufacturing processes radically enough to actually innovate is no reason to declare the imminent failure of their competitors.

  21. Reminds me of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom on Lost Disney Rides Recreated in CGI · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If they can do a good enough job recreating the rides, their Whuffie's going through the roof!

  22. SOCIALISTS!! on Utah Cities To Provide High-Speed Net Access · · Score: 1

    A public works project? What kind of socialist crap is that? High speed internet access should be for the rich and privileged only!

  23. Re:Its also the CHEAPEST on Big Mac Officially Ranks 3rd · · Score: 1

    They used to, anyway, back when they were still being manufactured in Cupertino by Apple themselves. Now that Apple doesn't make all their own components the average life span of a modern Mac is nothing compared to what you found in the 80's. Though I suppose one could say the same thing to some extent of VCRs and televisions, too.

  24. Who cares about insecurely deleted files? on Mac OS X Update 10.3.1 Available · · Score: 1
    Just run
    cat /dev/urandom > /ahugefile
    until it fills up all available disk space on the directory on which your home directory used to reside. And of course you can run it three or four more times for good measure. Your swap files, however, are still written to disk in plain text, so it won't matter a week or two later, anyway.
  25. Re:iTunes != iPod (once again) on iTunes Music Store - 'Coolest Invention of 2003' · · Score: 1
    Wow, a time traveler! Tell me, what's it like in 2007?

    Tell me, what's it like living in a cave?