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  1. Why is this garbage any where near Slashdot? on Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    IP address spoofing to take over satellites! It's easy! Windows 95! *facepalm*

  2. Linux, yes - but not RedHat Linux. on Red Hat CEO: Linux Is Now The 'Default Choice' For The Cloud (bizjournals.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean they offer cloud installs of RHEL, but few will be clicking that button.

  3. Limit access on Ask Slashdot: Preventing Snowden-Style Security Breaches? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have separation between levels of security and have fewer & fewer admins working on them as you go up the chain. Use the old established and trusted guys at the top. Don't have thousands of people (particularly contractors) crawling all over the most sensitive data. Seems obvious really. Look at the amount of data *Private* Bradley Manning got his hands on. It's like NSA & Govt just leave the barn doors open and hope the fear of prosecution will prevent the bad thing from happening.

  4. Flying bullshit mountain on Geeks On a Plane Proposed To Solve Global Tech Skills Crisis · · Score: 2

    They'll land with $15m VC funding, specs on which beanbags they want and a tech spec that reads "node.js + cloud".

  5. The original article is here on Fedora 15 Changes Network Device Naming Scheme · · Score: 1

    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mIvkJYLNHM0J:domsch.com/blog/%3Fp%3D455+matt+domsch+ethernet&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

    His blog seems be down with all the floods of people telling him to lay off the crack pipe.

  6. Because udev just happens to other people? on Fedora 15 Changes Network Device Naming Scheme · · Score: 1

    I mean it's not like network cards have unique identifiers or anything... sigh.

  7. Re:wait a second.. on Google Didn't Ship Relicensed Java Code After All · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The tone of the ZDnet piece is way too readily dismissive. Deleting something and marking it as useless etc won't make a blind bit of difference in court. "Just unit tests" doesn't either.

  8. Re:Does it have 64-bit addressing? on ARM Unveils Next-Gen Processor, Claims 5x Speedup · · Score: 1

    Acorn's then current machine had 128K base.

  9. Re:where do you get your facts? on ARM Designer Steve Furber On Energy-Efficient Computing · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Your credibility as a reference was lost when you fail to expand the ARM chip acronym correctly.

    Hah! Fail, Mr AC Troll.

  10. Re:What about the yeast? on Tactical Nuclear Penguin, the World's Strongest Beer · · Score: 1

    It's ice distilled from a good regular beer.

    Process is outlined in this quite entertaining video : http://vimeo.com/7812379

  11. Logo usage on SGI Lives On, In Name At Least · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like this: http://www.rackable.com/sgi/sgi_logo_guidelines6.pdf ...extremely specific usage and typesetting guidelines for the new logo which are then comprehensively broken by the last page of the same document :)

  12. pah on Last.fm Shoots Down Rumors Over U2 Album Leak · · Score: 0, Troll

    "leak" is the right term, escaping like a trickle of urine down bono's juddery stack heeled old geezer leg.

  13. Re:doesn't sound too secure yet on Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web · · Score: 5, Informative

    x86 code runs natively on 90% of the processors out there. Java or .NET bytecode runs natively on about 0% of them (Sun did have a Java chip once but it is long dead). So it is hardly any worse than the alternatives. There are many x86 emulators and some of them have reasonable performance.

    ARM Jazelle (in quite a number of the ARM revisions deployed all over the place) includes DBX for direct bytecode execution of Java. That includes the iphone and loads of other stuff.

  14. Oh dear. on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 5, Funny

    "say() is a new built-in, only available when use feature 'say' is in effect, that is similar to print(), but that implicitly appends a newline to the printed string".

    *sigh* Nice to see they're still adding to the elegance of the language :(

    I wonder if threading actually works in production yet?

  15. So they've got stacks of developers on An Inside Look At eBay's Technology · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...and loads of money. Yet last time I looked the site went offline every Friday "for maintenance". Please, ebay, teach us your highly innovative processes!

  16. Maddogmobile on MySpace for the Sandlot Set · · Score: 1

    Mad Dog Mobile is aimed at the same age range and uses full time moderation of both chat and content to keep things "safe", compared to other sites though capabilities are restricted to err on the side of safety.

  17. $1.5bn on YouTube Won't Sell For Less Than $1.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    and the buyer should keep another $1.5bn to settle the lawsuits.

    They're clearly idiots. They have a market position but little in the way of real IP as far as I can tell. 0.5bn for myspace was only on account of a particularly high grade shipment of psychedelics turning up at news international... If anyone's that dumb again, well, it's business darwinism.

  18. a vending machine on Motorola Unveils Phone Vending Machines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is news? given that there are already plenty of ipod vending machines etc in similar locations why is this worthy of any sort of attention? now if there was a hack to get free product from them.... then i'd be interested.

  19. Re:Answer is easy. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The article says the study accounts for the higher occurence of obesity in the US. However the comment :

    "No doubt many other people are going to write in talking about "fat americans" being the problem - and its true that nutrition in America is a serious problem, but the comparison is to England, [bbc.co.uk] so not the cause of the differences." ...discounts that this is a factor and implies that England has equivalent obesity rates to the US, which is entirely wrong.

    I'd suggest you read TFC, TFA and then comment.

  20. Re:Answer is easy. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 2, Informative

    Um, obesity may be on the increase in the UK, but it's no way near at the levels in the UK. Having lived in both countries I can attest to the fact the bloater ratio is way higher in the US.

  21. This reeks on Pentium Computers Vulnerable to Attack? · · Score: 1

    of falsehood, and to execute such a thing you'd be at a low enough level to wreak havoc anyway.

  22. Re:redhat schmedhat on Red Hat Listed Among 50 Top Tech Companies · · Score: 1

    This is precisely the experience I had - though admittedly Sun's support is more expensive. One Sun Support Engineer even called me back after going through the tech manual of some non-Sun SAN hardware I was having issues with! That's service!

  23. Re:Good stuff -- on Red Hat Listed Among 50 Top Tech Companies · · Score: 1

    Proven skill a demonstrable ability get you a job, not certifications.

  24. redhat schmedhat on Red Hat Listed Among 50 Top Tech Companies · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sure they grow their income, but by that's flogging training, support and having an underpaid skeletal staff and not actually doing that much?

    Ever *used* RH support in a corporate environment? If your query is beyond RTFM it's a constant battle to get anywhere. Plus their QA is terrible given they're competing on the corporate level - we've had hanging kernels (on pretty stock hardware) and endless dodgy packages we've had to replace.

    There's this endless love in on messageboards because they're FOSS promoters and actually comply to the GPL, but when it comes to working with them if you're corporate and you don't have a sizeable contract with them (ie. govt or multinational) their product in terms of service is no where near close to what you'd expect from other vendors in the market.

  25. I gave them money on 3Com to Buy Security Flaws? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    buying one of their shitty OfficeConnect WLAN/ADSL routers. It has several annoying features including regular hangs and connection drops on both the WLAN and WAN side. Do they fix their broken software despite knowing of the problems? No. They despatch sage advice such as "turn the firewall off and it might stop crashing".

    I would never trust them for any sort of corp. networking gear having seen the total balls-up they can make at the consumer end.