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  1. Open it up yet? on BitTorrent Unveils Sync 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Will it be open source yet? Because this is pretty nice: http://syncthing.net/

  2. Re:A highly relevant comment from the previous pos on Ubisoft Points Finger At AMD For Assassin's Creed Unity Poor Performance · · Score: 2

    There is no public mantle API, only select publishers have access to it. So I assume that you won't see anyone but AMD make it work on their cards until that happens.

  3. Re:Come on over to I2P on Tor Project Mulls How Feds Took Down Hidden Websites · · Score: 1

    So, Java is not portable now? I thought that was the point?

  4. Re:awkward fenced swimming pool on Tor Project Mulls How Feds Took Down Hidden Websites · · Score: 1

    "i'm saying that anything that exists that can be transmitted and decoded can also be accessed by a third party"
    That's not entirely true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

  5. I think Brooks had it with on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 4, Funny

    Star Sars Episode VII: The Search for More Money.

  6. Re:Sauerbraten on Quake Meets Minecraft in FPS Construction Kit Gunscape · · Score: 1

    That was my thought when I saw this. 2001 called, they want their concept back.

  7. Re:Incredible on BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer · · Score: 1

    This is the more accurate analogy to ARP poisoning. Its possible the bit-torrent user had their client configured to only use a few connections, but this is indiscriminate.

  8. Be careful on BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure that running this would be illegal on a public network. If you get prosecuted, "automatic ARP poisoning" is not a safe sounding term to tell the jury.

  9. Re:IP-Based Banning on a Dynamic Network? on BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The fun part is when you spoof the MAC of the ARP cache poisoner.

  10. Thats not good. on jQuery.com Compromised To Serve Malware · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This is going to be a large one. Many small to medium websites use their cdn for hosting JQuery rather than pulling it down and hosting it themselves. Kinda feel a little better about hosting it myself now.

  11. Re:One of those strange rules of war. on How Governments Are Getting Around the UN's Ban On Blinding Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    A laser bright enough that the reflections cause permanent or temporary blindness shown on a building in a frequency that humans cant detect could be pretty dangerous. Loss of sight for large civilian segments would be useful for the military, but would cause much collateral damage as everyone driving crashes into each other.

  12. Get rid of them. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes? · · Score: 1

    Try to understand the impermanence of data and let them go. You are just going to torrent the blue ray rips next time you want to watch them anyways.

  13. Re:it's over: the media (in the US) have moved on. on Treasure Map: NSA, GCHQ Work On Real-Time "Google Earth" Internet Observation · · Score: 1

    I believe that that -sV flag covers that.

    http://nmap.org/book/man-versi...

  14. I am guessing they will make a sequel on Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My guess is that 2.5 billions is more than Minecraft and was worth. So why would Microsoft buy it?
    They said they wont make changes to Minecraft, so how will they make money?

    Announcing Minecraft 2, high definition, exclusively for XBone. In game mod store, where you can sell your texture packs for 99c and you get to keep 33% of the profit! That's how you push consoles to kids who grew up on the Minecraft while still raking in money.

  15. Probably a few sites were hacked on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: 5, Informative

    With a gmail account anything after a plus is ignored. You can then use username+serviceName@gmail.com to denote what service you are on. It looks like some people did this, and seems like these credentials are stolen from a few different sites. Here are the most popular after plus endings from the 5 mill:

    xtube : 176
    daz : 133
    1 : 125
    filedropper : 88
    daz3d : 66
    eharmony : 64
    friendster : 63
    savage : 62
    2 : 60
    spam : 57
    bioware : 54
    savage2 : 52
    bryce : 51
    hon : 40
    freebiejeebies : 32
    3 : 28
    eh : 27
    4 : 25
    policeauctions : 19
    bravenet : 18
    filesavr : 18

  16. Re:100+F or 38+C typical annual high on The Data Dome: A Server Farm In a Geodesic Dome · · Score: 1

    You then need an identical data center in South America, and switch which one you use every half year. The cloud.

  17. Re:Troll on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Just like C then? on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 1

    What does that give me that Java's futures doesn't?

  19. Re:Just like C then? on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 1

    We desperately need a language for OS work that is protected more than C is.

    http://www.rust-lang.org/

  20. Re:Oh noes! on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 1

    You can program java in vi. Its still just text files. That memory is mostly used for things like autocomplete and refactoring support.

  21. Whats to stop them on 40% Of People On Terror Watch List Have No Terrorist Ties · · Score: 1

    So if they know that 40% don't have terrorist ties, perhaps they should clean up their list?

  22. Re:Simple on "BadUSB" Exploit Makes Devices Turn "Evil" · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Click OK to connect mouse"

    It leave a bit of a chicken and egg problem for normal users of systems without a keyboard built in.

  23. Re:StarCitizen? on Crytek USA Collapses, Sells Game IP To Other Developers · · Score: 1

    The main German studio "Crytek" is still working. They are closing subsidiary studios, so I don't think it will immediately cause any problems.

  24. Its a name on Countries Don't Own Their Internet Domains, ICANN Says · · Score: 2

    Its a name, specifically for a country. You can't sue someone and take away their name. What if I sued the US government and then got awarded their name, and they had to change theirs to something else? That's ridiculous.

  25. Good progress, still needs more work on Senate Bill Would Ban Most Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While the changes are good, I do not think they go far enough.

    Allowing full monitoring from someone two hops away from a suspect still can involve a lot of people. What if a suspect were to call Time Warner, then I was to call the same number later that day? It could potentially be a very large number. Also what qualifies as being a suspect? It may be that there are a half million suspects, and a majority of the earth's population is two hops away.

    It also doesn't remove the First Amendment violations on the National Security Letters.