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  1. Re:Just Run Your Own XMPP Server on Google Begins Blocking Third-Party Jabber Invites · · Score: 2

    And what if you wish to speak with someone who uses Google's XMPP service?

  2. Re:Just wait... on Google Begins Blocking Third-Party Jabber Invites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's the significant difference? Isn't refusing jabber messages from non-google account just as bad, and bad for the same reasons, as refusing email from non-google accounts?

  3. Re:I don't like boost on Comparing the C++ Standard and Boost · · Score: 2

    q) Add a proper rotate-left and rotate-right bit shifts

    See the answer to exponent operations. Simply put, not all CPUs have this.

    Do you know why not? This seems like such a simple operation.

  4. Re:Someone should do this coal power on Windfarm Sickness Spreads By Word of Mouth · · Score: 1

    Me? I want my salt to be as refined and inorganic as possible. Na and Cl in equal proportions, nothing more.

    Different ions have different flavors. Sea salt tastes better than kosher salt.

  5. Re:Jitsi on Russian FSB Can Reportedly Tap Skype Calls · · Score: 1

    If it's anything remotely important, a little tech support is a small price to pay for security.

  6. Re:Console margins can't be good on Nvidia Walked Away From PS4 Hardware Negotiations · · Score: 1

    The AMD GPU is like a corgi. You might take it out for a walk, but it has to run to keep up.

  7. Re:so, an end to surveillance cameras? on Video Inpainting Software Deletes People From HD Video Footage · · Score: 2

    It's already well established that eye witness testimony is highly unreliable and it's still treated as the most important evidence in any criminal case.

  8. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... on Backdoor Found In TP-Link Routers · · Score: 1

    Only if you assume businesses make rational decisions. In reality, they are as driven by fear as the people that comprise them.

  9. Re:Jitsi on Russian FSB Can Reportedly Tap Skype Calls · · Score: 1

    There are two people in every conversation. If one uses Jitsi and one uses Skype, why should they settle on the insecure option?

  10. Jitsi on Russian FSB Can Reportedly Tap Skype Calls · · Score: 1

    Jitsi provides ZRTP encrypted voice chat. It's free, open source, and cross platform. Why use Skype?

  11. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... on Backdoor Found In TP-Link Routers · · Score: 1

    Open Source is not to friendly to Broadcom chipsets keeping their software interfaces secret to prevent clone vendors from leveraging the effort Broadcom put into writing the drivers for its chips by just making chips that could work with the Broadcom drivers.

    Any vendor, Broadcom or competitor, that wants free drivers can just publish specs and the community will build the drivers. There's no competetive disadvantage if everyone gets free drivers.

  12. Re:So what did it do all that time? on Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime · · Score: 1

    If you want to guarantee a system keeps operating and maintains data integrity when a single computer fails, you need at least another three computers that are still running with no failures. There is a mathematical proof for this.

    So you need at least 4 computers to make fail-over work reliably.

    Knowing how difficult fail over can be, it is no surprise that sometimes it is decided to not bother with it and instead hire an operator, who you assume can make everything be ok as long as you have backups plus spare hardware ready to put in production.

    I only count three computers. The failed server, the spare hardware, and the operator. Couldn't you theoretically automate what the operator does, and break the 4 computer requirement for failover?

  13. Re:Not a huge surprise... on Hacker Skips SimCity Full-Time Network Requirement · · Score: 1

    This is why you never buy a game based on reviews. Wait until it's been out for 6 months to a year, and buy it based on word of mouth.

  14. Re:Arcfour on Cryptographers Break Commonly Used RC4 Cipher · · Score: 1

    I think you'd be surprised at what CPUs I run SSH on.

  15. Re:Arcfour on Cryptographers Break Commonly Used RC4 Cipher · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Irrelevant. As long as I only send one copy of the compressed data, it should be safe. A better objection is that it probably would take more CPU to compress the data before sending it over RC4 than it would to just switch to AES with no compression.

  16. Re:Arcfour on Cryptographers Break Commonly Used RC4 Cipher · · Score: 2

    Then I'd enable compression.

  17. Arcfour on Cryptographers Break Commonly Used RC4 Cipher · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the cipher known as 'arcfour' in SSH. I use it regularly when speed is more important than security, which is frequently. I'm not sending a billion of the same files anywhere, so I will continue to use it.

  18. Re:I volunteer as an IT guy. on Ask Slashdot: How To Donate Older Computers to Charity? · · Score: 1

    Why is it obvious that your network is Microsoft based? Why is a charity spending money on Microsoft licenses?

  19. Re:2006? on Ask Slashdot: How To Donate Older Computers to Charity? · · Score: 1

    Isn't Africa where all those "recycled" computers end up anyway?

  20. Re:2006? on Ask Slashdot: How To Donate Older Computers to Charity? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there's one in my house with XP, Adobe Flash, and maybe an nVidia 6800? Stutters constantly. I suppose it might have more to do with flash not liking the video driver, than the hardware itself not being fast enough. But it's got the most current versions of the drivers available, so considered as a system it's crap.

  21. Re:2006? on Ask Slashdot: How To Donate Older Computers to Charity? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    An IBM 5150 is perfectly usable given the correct software configuration. Usable for what, is the question. A 3ghz P4 isn't even fast enough to play flash video smoothly these days.

  22. 2006? on Ask Slashdot: How To Donate Older Computers to Charity? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are they P4 or Core processors? If they are P4, just recycle them.

  23. Re:Not the first time I've had to switch RSS on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    The only way you can be sure that software will be around forever is if you have the source and are able to compile it yourself.

  24. Re:There and back again on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    2009 might as well have been 2004, if you were running Debian Stable.

  25. Re:This summarizes current state of US legal syste on Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On · · Score: 1

    Dotcom committed crimes.

    So did the New Zealand Government Communications Security Bureau.