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  1. Re:Wow on Tenth Annual AusCERT Conference Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    Yeah, funny show. I'm more talking about being called a bunch of crims discarded from the England elite. Think Ashes.

  2. Australian CERT on Tenth Annual AusCERT Conference Kicks Off · · Score: 2

    Do they do anything useful? I've contacted these guys multiple times about large-scale break-ins on systems holding plenty of personal information, but no response.

  3. Re:Wow on Tenth Annual AusCERT Conference Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of stuff you can suggest about Australia's heritage that gets under Aussie skin.

  4. Re:the love of cloud on Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind · · Score: 1

    I guess 'goofing around' is both subjective and relative to the importance placed on it by an individual.

    Having an offsite/online backup is valuable, and depending on your solution, every client can itself be a node in your offsite/online backup.

    Trade-offs - for sure - but its all about importance to the individual and their circumstances.

  5. Re:the love of cloud on Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind · · Score: 1

    In terms of data transfer, it will cost a small amount more. Offset by the fact that all your home network would be synced via LAN.

    In terms of initial setup time it would cost you a lot more. In terms of maintenance it would cost you slightly more.

    In terms of privacy, the savings are priceless.

    See what I did there? =D

  6. Re:the love of cloud on Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind · · Score: 1

    Dump dropbox dude. Build your own 'cloud'. You have internet access at home?

  7. Re:In my corporate environment.... on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    Who said he had to broadcast it on the port he was given? Everyone allows DNS queries. The access shouldn't be there in the first place.

  8. Re:Battery on Quad-Core Mobile Chips Wasted On Mobiles? · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you're suggesting that four cores with three turned off with 'save you battery life'. That's like my wife telling me how much money she's saving our family by never missing a sale.

  9. Re:Source Code on Facebook Opens Their Data Center Infrastructure · · Score: 2

    mmm, I must admit to developing in PHP.

    Building purely event-driven systems using the language is more and more appearing to be lipstick on a pig. I'm can't invest a tonne of energy like facebook into severely beating the language into some semblance of efficiency.

    Ugh, I guess I should motivate myself to become more proficient in Python or Java.

  10. Re:Source Code on Facebook Opens Their Data Center Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    PHP?

    Why for?

  11. Re:Fastest slashdot story ever! on 7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Japan; Tsunami Alert Issued · · Score: 1

    too soon.

  12. DOA? on OpenSUSE 11.4 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What's openSUSE's future look like? Since Novell is slowly dying, are we going to see openSUSE fade from being the #2 / #3 distro?

  13. Re:Sigh on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 1

    Sorry, maybe its clearer to say "The only 733ts worth being aware of are my wife's."

  14. Re:Sigh on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only 733ts I'm aware of are my wife's.

  15. Re:Rather symbolic isn't it? on PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a good question to consider is, are western governments really being democratic? What is Wikileaks role in this?

    It might be healthy to consider what the "democracy" of today is compared to what it was meant to be.

    Some simplistic hints:
    - Open and accountable
    - Power to the people not power to the government

  16. Re:Java Community approval on The Details of Oracle's JDK 7 and 8 'Plan B' · · Score: 1

    My thoughts too.

    Is now a bad time to be considering learning Java at UNI?

  17. Re:No wonder the US robots won on US Robots Win Big Down Under · · Score: 1

    Pfft. What robot fantasy-world are you from?

    All the robots I've ever seen are fully into vibrant cities with a great night life. Why, I'm friends with a robot in my local botburb last night who had gotten completely off his tree analysing 5mm plastic washers. Completely filled his residential memory - and swap space. You should have seen the things coming from stdout!!! Segfaulted and when he rebooted the next day and had cleared the memory dump said, "B357 \|/33K3|\|D 3\/4|2". Go figure.

    Anyway, my point is, every robot I know is fully into the party life. Getting info is what they're all about.

  18. Re:open vs closed on Woz Says Android Will Dominate · · Score: 1

    I'm building my own OS. Linux is good 'n all - but its architecture and design is a bit dated. OSs like Plan9 and Singularity are where its all at.

    But assembly is best. =D

    A jolly basic kernel sitting in 3Kb of RAM is where I'm at - far to go yet though. But I can print to stdout. =D

  19. Re:teh snappy!!!! on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    abstraction? slooow.

  20. Re:teh snappy!!!! on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    Userland scheduling - to be more specific.

  21. Re:The problem with this on Australian Researchers Devise Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Surely it can be both correct and incorrect at the same time? =)

  22. Re:Not just useless, but actually toxic. on LSE Breaks World Record In Trade Speed With Linux · · Score: 1

    Aaah, right. It all makes sense now. There was a network outage so they decided to dump Windows and .NET. Yeah, network outages - dump Windows.

    Drinking the marketing spin kool-aid?

  23. Re:Fiber on Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls · · Score: 1

    I imagine they're laying new fiber since the summary says they're going to "break ground early next year".

  24. Re:Uh on Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They certainly don't see that there's a legal avenue to attain their goals and punish people who classify information illegally.

    I think you're being naive.

  25. Re:Uh on Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When that motivation is blind power, you've got to ask the questions.