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  1. Gameboy on Reviving a Commodore 64 Computer Using a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I liked the life size Gameboy better:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  2. Re:for a library... on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 1

    Of course these companies should do that. I wouldn't be surprised if many will do so.

    What I meant was, more people could be on the mailinglist and look at the code as it develops. You only have to look and say: this looks a bit off.

    I'm not saying you should be a formal reviewer that signs off on changes like the Linux kernel developers do.

  3. Re:for a library... on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 2

    Great, the OpenSSL project needs more people working on it (even if only reviewers).

    You are volunteering I see ?

  4. Re:on purpose or not, couldn't happen if... on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 1

    Euh, sure, maybe operating systems in HTML is a good idea. But the problem is, all the major browsers are written in C++.

    PS Mozilla is writing a new engine Servo in the new Rust programming language.

  5. Re:Cool if you have a nuke. on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 2

    I'm sure you have heared of Moore's Law ?

    Did you know solar panels are on a similar course ?:

    https://www.google.com/search?...

  6. Re:Meh on "Nearly Unbreakable" Encryption Scheme Inspired By Human Biology · · Score: 1

    Here is what I remember:

    - things like cataract for retina scanners
    - wear/tear and less grease for fingerprints
    - facial recognition had problems with parts of the face sagging
    - also applies to ears

    And these aging processes are ongoing they keep changing things, you can't scan one year and have it still work 2 years later. So really annoying for passports. ;-)

  7. Re:Meh on "Nearly Unbreakable" Encryption Scheme Inspired By Human Biology · · Score: 1

    It is somewhere part of a possible German talk which should be on http://media.ccc.de/ about biometrics and statistics from countries who create passports with biometrics.

    If you can understand German, I'm willing to look for it, I might have eventually remember which one it is.

  8. Re:Do you need a database? on Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? · · Score: 1

    There are a whole lot of things PostgreSQL was less user friendly, but they take their time and keep improving it in a consistent way. It has many, many features.

    Personally I really like PostgreSQL. It scales really well.

    And if there is anything missing, there might be things some people want.

    But I think you'll find it will be added in the next 3 releases. 9.4 is now in development:
    - upsert/merge in 9.4
    - basis of logical replication in 9.4 (has been available in out of tree tools for many years), upcoming versions will built on that.

    I'm not sure what people still need if those are done other than multi-master. And this is where logical replication can really help. We don't know if the developers will implement it of course. These things take effort and time.

  9. Re:Use PostgreSQL on Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? · · Score: 2

    Also if you want a key/value store, there is also http://symas.com/mdb/ from a company of some of the OpenLDAP developers.

    Which really seems to be have the fastest read performance of them all.

  10. Re:Use PostgreSQL on Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, that is what I would wanted to point out too.

    Also in PostgreSQL 9.4 it has jsonb which is, in certain tests less than a year ago, faster than MongoDB.

  11. Re:Meh on "Nearly Unbreakable" Encryption Scheme Inspired By Human Biology · · Score: 1

    It it also age discrimination. At the age of 65, all biometrics go moosh, blurry, they start to get useless.

    So if you _require_ biometrics, you have age discrimination.

  12. Re:Meh on "Nearly Unbreakable" Encryption Scheme Inspired By Human Biology · · Score: 1

    I like your username analogy.

  13. Re:Why doesn't the DNS distribute public keys? on OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks · · Score: 1

    Android 2.x is still out there for about one year. Judging by how the marketshare is dropping.

    And IE on XP is now finally dying out. I hope. Although if you draw a line to 0. It's still 3.75 years before it gets there.

    So I predict SNI is 3 years off ?

  14. Re:Gee, that's worse than no encryption isn't it? on OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "known for 2 years"

    No, no, this has been the code part of the stable release of OpenSSL for 2 years. The bug has only been known by non-blackhats for up to a few weeks.

    If anyone else like a blackhats or NSA or whoever knew about the bug before hand, we don't know.

  15. Re:Anyone... on "Nearly Unbreakable" Encryption Scheme Inspired By Human Biology · · Score: 1

    That makes me feel really safe.

    LoL, not.

  16. Re:Meh on "Nearly Unbreakable" Encryption Scheme Inspired By Human Biology · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the crypto key is tied to your body.

    If so, it's just as stupid as biometrics.

    After that information is stolen, you can't easily change it anymore. Because he's it's your body.

  17. Re:Why Ubuntu?! on Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen · · Score: 1

    Ethernet is autoneg. since Gigabit, this turned out to be 100 Mbit.

  18. Re:Why from one pit of snakes to another? on London Council Dumping Windows For Chromebooks To Save £400,000 · · Score: 1

    They are using Citrix.

  19. Re:Don't get too excited on London Council Dumping Windows For Chromebooks To Save £400,000 · · Score: 1

    No, just Android devices sold by most vendors.

    Microsoft does not have a deal with Google.

  20. Re:All that is left on London Council Dumping Windows For Chromebooks To Save £400,000 · · Score: 1

    "Even if they pissed off the retail customers, MS has one spot that they are virtually impossible to dislodge from, and that is the enterprise. For example, Exchange. There are other solutions (Zimba or Google Apps), but for scalability and management, there is no other messaging system that can handle the sheer amount of users that Exchange handles on a daily basis.

    Same with Active Directory. LDAP is used in some small firms, but AD has scalability on its side."

    And non of these things need a Windows desktop machine.

    The Windows desktop could very well be domed. The only Windows desktop you'll see in the future is through RDP or Citrix, whatever. where it can most easily be managed.

  21. Re:Translation on London Council Dumping Windows For Chromebooks To Save £400,000 · · Score: 1

    You folks keep forgetting: there are no desktop machines to manage. Which translates to savings.

  22. Re:Wait... wha? on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    "how a government's usage of a word might differ from their religious usage of the same word."

    Bing, bing, bing, we have a winner.

  23. Re:Tip from a programmer on FTC Settles With Sites Over SSL Lies · · Score: 1

    "Unvalidated encryption is good enough to stop the NSA and 99% of eavesdrop attackers who will be stopped by Validated encryption."

    If you think you still life in a world with only passive attackers, then you would be wrong.

    You'd think Firesheep has demonstrated that more than enough now.

  24. Re:Fun fact on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    Being involves in courtcases for 9 years doesn't sounds great either.

    This is probably the reason why this is the only version that made it so far.

    She had 3 choices:
    - give up, don't go to the educational institute she was studying at before
    - courtcases
    - do something to side-step the list, like changing her name

    She went with the second option which means she didn't like the first option. And a honest person would try the second before thinking about the third.

    What would you do ?

  25. Re:Separation of Concerns on Toward Better Programming · · Score: 1

    OK, thanks.