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  1. stupid non network guy question on Fast TCP To Increase Speed Of File Transfers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why not just number all packets between two hosts and if the recipient doesn't recieve a packet it requests that particular packet to be resent? I see problems with man in the middle attacks but is there any other reason?

    just wondering

  2. My Idea on why this won't work on TiVo For Radio? · · Score: 1

    time shifting is a pretty tricky thing. for the brain to understand. The idea is that you can make something seemless by matching where something started from where it finished. My belief is that the visual cortex can identify the similarity of two pictures a lot faster then the mind can pick this up with sound. without the visual matching users are going to have a hell of a time doing a 30 second skip and picking up where they left off.

    The thing also for me ( a personal preferance) is that all the shows I would get a season pass for are all online already (this american life and Rewind)

    On the other hand this will be great for when NPR does their stupid 12 month long telefunding campaign.

    ah well cook geeky toy.. Here comes Freevo with another module to add

  3. Re:Did you look in your shoes? on Search for the Missing Universe · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are you sure? Check to see if there are any coins in your couch.. I actually paid for a steak dinner for a girl I was dating after she suggested I clean out the couch (She had the audacity to try to find a missing remote under the couch) with around $45 I found in there.

    Yeah okay okay I did find a $20 and a $5 in there so only $20 in real coins

    You might be a lot more funded then you think you are

  4. Re:Q: What's the difference between Hitler and Bus on Congress to Make PATRIOT Act Permanent · · Score: 1

    hehe according GWB he undoubtedly is

  5. my little war poem on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    Mindless zombies run around
    Pretending to ignore those on the ground
    Atrocities of war cascade down
    And frolic where once great men abound

    Implacable future we might face
    As much as wish were erased
    Those in power might wish to deface
    What might have been just in case?

    Do not confuse news and truth
    For those of us who do not sleuth
    Be wary of what you might hear
    People are always out to smear

    Silence will not forever loom
    As much as unrighteous would assume
    The truth shall not be always be entombed
    In the end it will be exhumed

  6. Re:Easy: VPN on BusinessWeek on Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    One thing about recording VPN traffic on the internet is that it is a bit more difficult to do in terms of keeping a continues trace without a compromised router and keeping it compromised for a significant time. Wireless on the other hand is much easier just to put a wireless relay next to your competition and just tcpdump forever and then some day when it becomes economically feasible find out what was going on.

  7. Re:hilarious... on Microsoft to End DLL Confusion · · Score: 1
    call me old-fashioned, but i like to read the article first. ;-)


    hmm never heard of that before, must be some new age thing...
  8. Re:hey! on Assessing Asteroid Threat · · Score: 1

    thank you oh thank you so much...
    to funny

  9. Re:not asmiable in court. on House and Senate Reject E-mail Surveillance · · Score: 1

    This is why they would like to be able to kick people out of being american citizens if they think you might be involved with terrorism and then declare you an enemy combatant.... sounds evil doesn't it ...

  10. Pete and Repeat..... on Corporate Espionage Leads To Faulty Motherboards · · Score: 1

    Pete and repeat went up the hill...
    A paying slashdot customer took a gun and went after the editors... which do you think came down?

    DISCLAIMER I don't think that violence is the answer to anything and I do not advocate the use of force to lower oil prices save our selves from possible violence down the road or to reduce the number of duplicates on slashdot

  11. Sure Why not!! on Card Makers Say UK Citizens Want Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with having ireffutible proof to showing who I am. I do however have a problem with the enevitable tracking of my movements and the security of information that could be changed to allow someone else to be me...

    so I guess no this actually sucks a lot...

  12. Re:A 19 year old??? on Martin Schulze Steps Down As SPI Vice President · · Score: 2

    I wonder how much politics goes on in being a kernel maintainer.... people grow more experianced with time but it is amazing what honesty and fresh ideas can be brought into the mix with younger blood. true he might not be ready to be a C.E.O. but this is a board position, someone who gets their opinions out and contributes to the greater good. Don't always believe that experiance is the answer to all things

  13. Re:PVR's? on Digeo To Ship Full-Featured Linux-based PVR · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just adding "Linux" to the title doesn't make it newsworthy

    Umm... Yes it does

  14. Re:Irresponsible? on Fake Your Own .Mac Server · · Score: 2

    I actually run SUS at my work and it is very nice... but its a privacy concern for me at home.. I don't need to have microsoft know what I have at home or that I have two of my 4 computers using the same XP prof code even if they are legit and part of another corporate license and so forth... anyways thanks for the answer, SUS is a great product...

  15. Re:Irresponsible? on Fake Your Own .Mac Server · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think there is a difference here. This isn't stealing software, Someone already paid for Mac OSX and the apple hardware, this is replicating a service locally. You aren't getting a service for free ala directv card hacking, you are using your own server to provide the service instead of the companies, much like replacing windows update with your own -less broken version ( does anyone not block those ip/dns addresses?)

  16. Re:Hello? on Weak Elliptic Curve Cryptography Brute-Forced · · Score: 2

    its mine ...

    I think its integral from 0 to a for that equation solve for what value does a need to be for the integral to = 2^58 .. I dunno its late and I really can't rethink this right now... anyone else want to have a go? :p

  17. Re:Hello? on Weak Elliptic Curve Cryptography Brute-Forced · · Score: 2

    it makes sense now.... just lost of his steps ( unused math mind deteriorates quickly with management....)
    Got an answer to the calc question?

  18. Re:Hello? on Weak Elliptic Curve Cryptography Brute-Forced · · Score: 2

    ahh okay .. makes sense now.. brain must not be fireing on all synapses..
    you are basically saying that every 18 months the equivilent of one bit of difficulty is removed so you have the 54*18 and then have the extra four years of figureing out the current 109 key alright ...
    anyway I was basing my system on the distributed computing method assumiong an even upgradepattern with nill participant growth

    thanks for the clarification.. would still love to know the asnwer to the calc problem

  19. can anyone help me figure this one out? on Weak Elliptic Curve Cryptography Brute-Forced · · Score: 2

    I haven't done calc in such a long time ...
    assuming the key is 54 bits longer and therefor 2^54 times harder to brutforce. How long would it take to solve if you started now and included moore's law?

    even with moores law... if computing capacity doubles every 1.5 years.... then the equation for it would be something like 0,x integral (4 years * 2 ^ 54)/ (x/1.5)^2
    where x= time taken to brut force this based on current standard
    I think

    anyone know if that is right and if so is has anyone taken calc in the last 10 years to help me figure that one out? :)

    sorry for the terrible notation but it has been a while

  20. Re:Hello? on Weak Elliptic Curve Cryptography Brute-Forced · · Score: 2

    err not to say the first guy was right but 2^54 !=54......
    and if thats not what you meant then could you reexplain it?

    even with moores law... if computing capacity doubles every 1.5 years.... then the equation for it would be something like 0,x integral (4 years * 2 ^ 54)/ (x/1.5)^2
    where x= time taken to brut force this based on current standard
    I think anyone know if that is right and if so is has anyone taken calc in the last 10 years to help me figure that one out? :)

    sorry for the terrible notation but it has been a while

  21. Re:From now on, we'll all travel in TUBES! on Pipeline Mass Transit? · · Score: 2

    hmmm well don't feel to bad. Up here in Seattle we envy the BART system... we have 45 proposals for 95 transit and masss transit systems on the ballot this year it seems and frankly I am ready to move ot San Fran

  22. it ROCKS on Logitech Bluetooth Cordless Presenter Review · · Score: 4, Informative

    I bought one, not with my own dime and have been beta testing it for quite a while and I have to say this is one smooth device... it works great in every test Ive thrown at it and it does work much further then 30 ft. I don't know if it is worth $200 but everyone has a different idea of what something is worth to them. to my company it is worth 200 in the hassle of what earlier presenters have cost us.

  23. Big Q on ICANN Ditches Public Participation · · Score: 2

    Is there anything that anyone can throw that has their offical opinions and their reasons why this is happening? All I hear is bad things about ICANN and while it could be true I would like to see another biased source so I can have atleast 2 slants on the same problem.

  24. Does this sound like skin to anyone else? on Nanotech Paints For Military · · Score: 3, Interesting

    other then the whole camo-stealth thing doesn't it sound like skin? self healing with micro fissures (cuts and bruises anyone) sounds very bio to me. do we need to feed it something other then petroleum products now?

  25. Re:as a SysAdmin all I can say is Thank God! on The Days of SysAdmin Numbered? · · Score: 2

    How many staff did your non profit have? I have 100 pcs 20 databases (access,db2,foxpro,sql oracle,notes,unameititshere) a but load of servers multiple locations and so on and everything is done in house... I couldn't do that and run facilities at the same time.