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  1. Re:Oblig. Square One TV's MATHNET reference... on Golden Ratio Discovered In a Quantum World · · Score: 1

    The mod who gave you the Redundant mod ought to be ashamed.

    I've skimmed the Golden Ratio article and it's blaringly obvious that the Fibonacci sequence is closely related. (Long sequence of mathematical equations that I really don't understand.)

  2. Re:The real answer... on At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    I don't know any of this. I'm surrendering my geek certificate (asymmetric) now.

    You can access it by obtaining access through my 3 layers of NAT routing (Class /8, /16 and /24 private ranges on OpenWRT, Tomato and dd-wrt) to my DOS based BBS, then ride on the serial connection (E-7-1.5) to the PGP door... Peace of cake to all the Slashdotters out there!

  3. Re:Warrants on New Zealand Cyber Spies Win New Powers · · Score: 1

    Would you like some extraterrestrial land titles with that?

  4. Re:No shit. Duh. on Novelist Blames Piracy On Open Source Culture · · Score: 1

    From whose ship did you rob them from, you pirate?

    (Images of Johnny Depp floating in my head.)

  5. Re:I'm really impressed on 5th Underhanded C Contest Now Open · · Score: 1

    That's why I wrote a second comment with the actual information, dude!

  6. Re:Immoral is what it is on What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    Rest In Peace, to the victim.

    But, you guys were not talking about Back to the Future?

  7. Re:Unix epoch? on Raise a Glass — Time(2) Turns 40 Tonight · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, no, middle management does all the work. Such a decision is usually done by top management.

  8. Re:You damn well should on Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, copying the entire contact list to test the program (both functionality and heavy-loads)

    How can I forget? Clearly I have a long way to go. Thanks for your input.

  9. Re:Virus Scanning on Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? · · Score: 1

    What is the end-solution that was chosen in this case?

    • Set a password on the AV
    • Lock the AV down by applying policies
    • Tell the user "just endure - and do not disable the AV again", or
    • Tell the user to copy the files during lunch?

    And to the rest of Slashdot: She's mine - I asked first!

  10. Re:Diebold? on The Twelve Most Tarnished Brands In Tech · · Score: 1

    AOnce a well respected manufacturer of safes, vaults, and eventually ATM machines, they now are known for creating voting machines that can't count, and in some cases have shown evidence of maliciousness in subverting the democratic process.

    I remember reading the Diebold article (which I agree can never be trusted), that:

    I still feel sorry for Stephen Heller, who I believe did the right thing, and got punished for it.

  11. Virus Scanning on Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? · · Score: 1

    ... one moron who used the privilege to turn off her virus scanning.

    A woman! How old is she, and can I marry her?

    Jokes aside, is there a reason why she turn off her virus scanning? For example, rushing a project, or the hard disk getting slower, or the antivirus somehow screwing up her work, or something.

  12. Re:You damn well should on Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? · · Score: 1

    I was hoping that some education would be enough for this developer. After all, he's a person who gets work done quickly instead of wasting time. Maybe I'm too naive?

  13. Re:The list on Ten Gadgets That Defined the Decade · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And in the meantime, the USB flash drive was completely missed out. (credit: denzacar)

    Am I too poor to buy the above items, or is this list a mismatch to most of our experiences?

  14. Re:Put the gadgets in the summary! on Ten Gadgets That Defined the Decade · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or does Wall-E look like Johnny 5? Ohh, the eyes ...

  15. Re:Will hopefully find lots of dark asteroids on NASA WISE Telescope Starts Taking Pics · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, no, it's UK politics. "God" refers to the secret service (equivalent) protecting the Queen. As widely known from the anthem, "God Saves the Queen" ...

    (Looks up) Weird, the dark clouds have rolled in so suddenly - it was all clear skies just now.

  16. Re:Write up of last entry on 5th Underhanded C Contest Now Open · · Score: 1

    I've got just five words to all the successful contestants:

    YOU GUYS ARE TEH WINZ !!!!

  17. Re:The Really Important Question on Russia Plans To Divert Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Can we get the hot ones like Jessica Alba, Megan Fox, and so forth? Maybe have a crew of 50% females wearing skin-tight, ultra-mini-skirt uniforms? (I don't mind Syreen-style uniforms either!)

    I'm drooling already!!

  18. Re:I'm really impressed on 5th Underhanded C Contest Now Open · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's some points I'd like to highlight, from the 2008 Winners.

    • Linus Akesson: The BYTESPERPIXEL macro "gives the false impression that the code intelligently supports higher bit widths" but actually "causes the 8-bit case to leak information into the file" (by exploiting a buffer overflow). ... (thus allowing wiped image data to be reconstructed.)
    • Avinash Baliga: The ExpectTrue macro overwrites the image mask (by exploiting a buffer overflow), allowing two bits to survive the wiping, (thus allowing wiped image data to be reconstructed). Furthermore, the evil behavior is concealed in an innocent-looking error checking macro.
    • John Meacham: (Winner) The code is "extremely simple, innocent, obvious" ... and devious. "Low-intensity pixels are replaced with a ‘0, and high-intensity pixels replaced with a ‘00 or a ‘000" ... (thus allowing wiped image data to be reconstructed.)

    All I can say is, Wow.

  19. I'm really impressed on 5th Underhanded C Contest Now Open · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've read the entire blog, and I must say, I'm impressed. Very impressed. Very, very impressed.

    The person who writes the criteria knows what he's/she's writing about.

    And the winners who submit the results are really, really good.

  20. Re:Factors of 10 on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 1

    Do explain.

    Back your explanations with web-accessible citations, please.

    And no editing of Wikipedia entries to match your explanations.

  21. Re:Emacs is in Bazaar on GNU Emacs Switches From CVS To Bazaar · · Score: 1

    COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE ??

    In *my* day, we have to flick switches and watch light bulbs at a console with 256 bits of memory, and we were grateful for the opportunity to do that!

  22. Re:This is exactly why I have an iPhone on Consumerist Says AT&T Site Won't Sell iPhone In NYC, Citing Network · · Score: 1

    Google has ... much better expectations and relations with those companies it's trying to make inroads with.

    Somehow I thought it's the opposite.

    Apple played nice with the "big four" in establishing its iTunes Music Store, initially with DRM. In the end, the "big four" relented and allowed music to be released without DRM..

    Google, on the other hand, proved to be a market disruptor, pushing ahead with its book scanning project, and links to news articles, all of which ruffled the feathers of the publishers and news organizations.

    So you're saying Google has better relations with other companies than Apple? I guess I wrong this time.

  23. Re:I work, literally, right in Times Square... on Consumerist Says AT&T Site Won't Sell iPhone In NYC, Citing Network · · Score: 1

    Do you guys want to meet up?

    Or are there too many Slashdot readers in NYC?

  24. Re:mission control on Critics Call For NASA TV To "Liven Up" · · Score: 1

    I would not have minded.

    On an unrelated note, I wish music players have a "pause between songs" feature. I'd love to have 2 minutes silence between every song.

  25. Re:Could you tell speed and error correction by ea on A Brief History of Modems · · Score: 1

    if you had recordings of the handshake -- that would bring back memories (not all good).

    Why, did you have crushes on girls in BBSes?

    I remember seeing the girl's username online and feeling tingles of love running up and down my spine.

    And the V.8 handshake always mean I have a chance of seeing them online, and chatting with them.