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  1. "boxen" on Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime · · Score: 1

    Please never use that term again.

  2. Re:OSS helps to verify and improve cryptography on Jacob Appelbaum on How OSS Improves Cryptography · · Score: 2

    And, incidentally, close that side channel.

    The crypto algorithms are fairly straight forward (of you have an undergraduate degree in math). There is nothing secret there, however various intelligence agencies around the world no doubt DO have secret processes not (yet) publicly known. Most crypto is broken by either technology catching up to make a head on attack feasible, or through side channels like bugs, or compiler idiosyncrasies.

    Peer reviewed source code (along with any dependency version control and build system) hinders attackers far more than having the source code helps them.

  3. I covered my dorm room with Pink Floyd... on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and Phish tapestries.

    No reason you can't put up foam and cover it with... Pink Floyd and Phish tapestries.

  4. Quit while you still can on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    Your Facebook profile will soon be the largest regret of your life.

  5. Re:I'm not one for reddit, I must say on Ask Slashdot: How Many Time Standards Are There? · · Score: 1

    Why not create a news for nerds website based in your shithovel then?

  6. Re:Electricty has made daylight savings obsolete on Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving? · · Score: 1

    Many people leave their lights/TV/you name it on 24/7 regardless of how off their clock is.

  7. Re:NO. on Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving? · · Score: 1

    Oh my God... it will take effort (*gasp*) to replace those things! Not that! Let's just keep them around... forever! (The room exudes a collective sigh of relief before inserting their heads back up their asses.)

  8. Re:Morning sunlight is a waste on Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving? · · Score: 1

    Of course, the worlds schedule revolves around yours.

  9. Yahoo competitors produce all the online tools on Former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos Talks About Managing Remote Workers (Video) · · Score: 1

    I can see why Yahoo would not want their workers collaborating using, say, a Google hangout, or Microsoft Skype.

  10. Drone strike Jane on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    Not a bad idea actually.

  11. Re:America is screwed on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    Fool.

  12. Re:When talking to a prosecutor in the US. on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    If they can build a case, then they WILL build a case.

    You are NOT going to talk your way out of it.

  13. Re:When talking to a prosecutor in the US. on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    "Prosecutor"

    "Grand Jury"

    Hmm, they don't even rhyme. You can always take the 5th Amendment. Also, IIRC if you are a defendant you do not have to take the stand under any circumstance.

  14. When talking to a prosecutor in the US. on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Say absolutely nothing. Every single work spoken to them will come from your lawyers mouth.

  15. Re:Sigh on Not Quite a T-1000, But On the Right Track · · Score: 1

    You know where the landmines are? All of them? The US military would love to pay you millions for your technique.

  16. Re:No longer a need for H-1B on UC Davis Study Concludes H-1B Workers Neither Best Nor Brightest · · Score: 1

    Who said economic collapse? Reading my OP I certainly don't see that claim. I simply said thousands of experienced homegrown techies are going to be on the job market.

    Time to go home Manmeet, your services are no longer needed.

    Oh, and by they way... we took yer jerb!

  17. No longer a need for H-1B on UC Davis Study Concludes H-1B Workers Neither Best Nor Brightest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now that thousands of DOD/NASA/NOAA/FAA/ect technical contractors are going to be looking for work.

  18. Re:Contrarily to most of the wailers here... on Canon Shows the Most Sensitive Camera Sensor In the World · · Score: 1

    NASA managers developed the TRL concept to cushion the statement "we're not finished yet." It is by far the most useless metric in industry, which is probably why DOD adopted it.

  19. I thought the lossy part of MPEG... on Canon Shows the Most Sensitive Camera Sensor In the World · · Score: 2

    ...eliminates much of the information that humans cannot see.

    (Which is why the big view screen on Star Trek probably does not use an MPEG codec... Klingons would think humans were weirdly colored blocky beings).

  20. Re:No surprise then that the uncivalised hate them on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 1

    Let's see:

    Vietnam, Korea, WW2, WW1, Iran-Iraq War, Persian Gulf War, Second Persian Gulf War, Falkland Islands War.. all not definitely NOT religious wars.

    Afghanistan could be argued as a religious war, but you;d have to argue the point. Most wars Israel were involved with were over territory, with religious hatred coloring the issue.

    Now... what wars are you referring to?

  21. Re:No surprise then that the uncivalised hate them on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 1

    My dog eats cat litter. If the dog licks the utensil, throw it away.

  22. Re:No surprise then that the uncivalised hate them on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude, I know a whole pack (pun) of patchouli using vegans who smell worse than Bigfoot's dick.

  23. Re:Do the math on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 1

    Can you convert that to dog power?

  24. Re:My cat understands pointing gestures.. So what? on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 1

    I have two dogs and two cats. I like cats, and they do seem to have a degree of cognizance as to what the humans are doing... but there is absolutely no comparison to their degree of "connectedness" they have with my family compared to the dogs.

    The dogs are far more in tune with the humans than the cats. Certainly the cats react to us, no doubt about it - anyone that refutes that doesn't own cats. But the dogs far outstrip them when it comes to recognizing and even empathizing with human mannerisms.

    The fact that my dogs are both fairly large, and are terrified of the cats, notwithstanding. In that case the dos seem to be very strongly trying to pack bond with the cats, but the cats are having none of that shit.

    Plus the degree of benefit that dogs and humans derive from each other is fairly balanced - in the case of cats they seem to benefit from the relationship far more than humans, cats eating mice notwithstanding.

  25. Re:Oh dear on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 1

    >>and have sufficiently obvious gestures to be interpreted by people.

    But how many of them interpret human gestures as dogs do? While there are a few cats that have been trained, they are the exceptions, and it is debatable if this is training as opposed to conditioning. Open a can of tuna - here comes the cat. Open a can of beans - here comes the cat. Call out "dinner time!" no cat... but the dog sure as hell comes running.

    I simply mention that I am getting tired to my wife the dogs get up and go to their bed in our bedroom. Or I ask my kids if "mom is home yet" the dogs run to the window to look for her. To the dog I say "hey" and point downstairs - dog goes down there or goes to get whatever I just pointed at. On its own if the dog has to crap it runs to the back door and rings a bell we hung there with his nose.

    No other animals interact with humans at even close to this level.