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  1. Re:News for nerds. on How Do You Handle Your Keys? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd rather read about other people's processes than anything else. If you find key management as trite then perhaps you don't understand what being a nerd entails.

  2. Re:Be Careful What You Wish For on FTC Could Gain Enforcement Power Over Internet · · Score: 1

    I'll worry about forced crypto labels right after we manage upgrading to v6, which has only taken 20 years so far.

  3. after reading that review on jQuery Cookbook · · Score: 1

    I guess I understand that we can't all be writers.

  4. Re:None, I have given up bash scripting on Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts · · Score: 1

    Dealing with in bash is definitely one of the things that makes it pretty gross.

    A space is the default field separator. You can change this by setting the IFS variable. Let's say you want to manipulate a directory of mp3 files with spaces in the name:

    IFS=$'\n' && for each in *;do convert $each;done

    Yay, it tokenizes on file names instead of words in the file, and it does what you meant.

  5. Re:Didn't see that one coming. on 3rd Grader Accused of Hacking Schools' Computer System · · Score: 1

    That's because the weight of ripping on a 9 year old is still greater than the default entitlement to fly off the handle over any negative event. If he was 18 he should be in jail, 16 suspended, 12 juvenile school.. 9 is still too young to be a dbag towards the kid.. pretty close though

  6. Re:this is common on ClamAV Forced Upgrade Breaks Email Servers · · Score: 1

    I can accept that; how can we fix the 99% of us running broken due to apathy?

  7. this is common on ClamAV Forced Upgrade Breaks Email Servers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is what we get when we're all our own "netadmins". I'm one of them. I don't follow security lists. I don't upgrade my products. Why not? Because I'm not really a netadmin. I just have a little server that runs until it breaks. I think that's the difference between a netadmin and a fake netadmin -- a fake netadmin like me reacts. A real netadmin is proactive.

    Which honestly, as pathetic as it sounds on the surface, works fairly well when your data and uptime don't matter. Because it's not pathetic because I have better things to do with my time than "run the family webserver".

  8. Re:Can't buy the OS for $200? on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It might be prudent to ask if you're being paid for three days of work to install a single windows machine.

  9. Re:where you at on iPad Review · · Score: 1

    You're clever, you figured out you can pollute the domain of one restriction to create another. Woo!

  10. Re:Bandwidth: A Real Estate Analogy on Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down" · · Score: 1

    What do you expect? Your rent is a small fraction of the cost of running the house. You're not the king!

  11. Re:where you at on iPad Review · · Score: 1

    its an invasion of privacy, but it's not illegal.

  12. where you at on iPad Review · · Score: 3, Informative

    This seems like an oversight: if you don't have a location sensor, don't ask! Even the built-in Map app asked me for information that it could not possibly have.

    google wardrives everyone's wifi while they update streetview; your unique 48 bit mac address uniquely identifies your location if you are on a recorded wifi hotspot.

  13. Re:Thank you Facebook on Facebook Goes After Greasemonkey Script Developer · · Score: 1

    FB can't possibly keep backups of every state of your profile

    It's called a database. And yeah, it's really easy.

  14. Re:Filtering NEVER works on A Sad Day For the New Zealand Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That idea sucks. Why couldnt all the homosexuals in the USA get extradited to Iraq so their heads can get chopped off?

  15. osx advanced networking is cumbersome/incomplete on Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible? · · Score: 1

    After trying to convert my linux v4 nat firewall with bucket traffic shaping, I wanted to see how readily I could convert it to os x. I realized, after about 50% success, that if it's not part of the GUI, apple is basically not endorsing it. This was on their server version, mind you. I haven't tried anything with the client, which was less feature complete but more stable.

    Anyways, there's plenty of other ways of solving it. And I tried it 9 or 10 months ago, so if someone can prove me wrong then they should deserve some appreciation around here.

  16. not for you on Ubuntu Desktop In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    The same people wondering why they need this might be the same that complain about a 10 gig nic being useless.

  17. Fake whois info on Detecting Anonymously Registered Domains · · Score: 1

    I'm not a spammer, so why should I be honest and publish my true whois info? Whenever I do, cold-callers bug me at 11pm for security systems, credit cards, and worse; if I leave for more than 5 days my mailbox gets so full of junk mail they stop delivering until I go downtown for it. And since I am not abusing anyone, no one has a concern about how to call me, except those that want to spam me -- am I truly the scum of the earth for hiding? Or why should I pay for a po box and answering voicemail for the same spammers? If I do something that needs to get me put offline, the police can get a warrant through the registrar like every other real issue. Or they can take my site down until I call, or whatever. Don't make me force feed my home info for spammers. The other 0.01% of the time there's still a way to get the info, it's just a hassle, a hassle for which someone is gonna get paid. Leave it alone already. I got lucky with midnight phone calls and phonebook sized junkmails -- what happens when your psycho forum members get mad and publish your contact info? Oh yeah, and those privacy services just transfer ownership to your registrar. You lost your legal right when you bought that.

  18. weird mirror universe on What Has Your Phone Survived? · · Score: 4, Funny

    slashdot is mirroring the crazy awesome friday night conversation i'm having at the bar with all my male friends *right now*! and there's no girls here either!

  19. Re:What a whiny load of crap. on Independent Programmers' No-Win Scenario · · Score: 1

    Step 9: Pray step 5 worked out cause you gonna get an audit

  20. What if Manhattan were on Phobos? on Extreme Close-Up of Mars's Moon Phobos · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia says Manhattan is 21km, and that Phobos is 11km average radius.

    Is this what Manhattan would look like on Phobos?

    I dunno. I think the math is about right, but I've been really wrong before.

  21. Re:Sharpie in the pooper! on Mining EXIF Data From Camera Phones · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't know about that, I have Verizon Wireless.

  22. Re:One state down, 49 more to go.... on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    NH would never pass this.

  23. It's for the greater good, people on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as a "slippery slope" for you to fall down; this is to protect ourselves from egregious content. Surely as descent humans we can agree that, at times, you have to make a judgment call that affects other people. Finally, everything in this comment is 9000 times sarcastic.

  24. bleach is great but focus on antibiotics on Spray-On Liquid Glass · · Score: 0

    we pour a gallon of that crud down the sink to kill 16 germs. not that a strong base like bleach is great for mother earth either.

  25. whirling down the drain on With New SDK, VoIP Over 3G Apps Now Working On iPhone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's like blowing a drain out at the bottom of a swamp with TNT.