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  1. Re:OpenID isn't the solution on NYT Password Security Discussion Overlooks Universal Logins · · Score: 1

    wrong. password managers would be susceptible to the same problems - sniffers, etc, and they are less comfortable if you're using multiple computers.

    You can customize your own OpenID server for keeping sessions on trusted IP addresses, but requiring some rotating logic only known to you when visiting from guest computers.

  2. Re:Sounds fair on New Copyright Lawsuits Go After Porn On Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, with millions of two-hour movies and average watch time of 10 minutes it's enough to fulfill anybodies lifetime needs of porn.

  3. Re:What a silly question. on Should Developers Have Access To Production? · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't be correct comparison. Good developer would correspond to experienced surgeon who have just done surgery on you and is coming by often to see if you have some complications. In case of complications he always keeps scalpel available and fixes whatever is necessary.

    In my project I'm the only dev with access to production, and having it really helps resolving some issues instantaneously, as it would otherwise take significant amounts of time to replicate issue on development machines. Having an experienced person available to fix problems when they occur saves my employer a lot of money, as each minute of downtime is pretty expensive. Essentially the dev must have good knowledge of System Administration.

  4. Re:Location on UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message · · Score: 1

    Yeah, let's detect and suspect all the amateurs listening to it :D

  5. Re:Ubuntu this and Ubuntu that on Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 1

    Daughter Ubuntu comes to Debian and kisses him on cheek "Happy birthday dad". Then she looks around and sees Fedora and Slackware.
    - Is Gentoo not coming?
    - No, he's still making.

  6. Ha on 400 Turns of Civilization V · · Score: 1

    If I first-post slashdot, can I get copy? Pleeese?

  7. Re:Get what they deserve on Police Investigating Virtual Furniture Theft · · Score: 1

    Banks are required to have lot of security measures, and they are responsible, have their own security stuff, not like virtual worlds.

  8. Re:Legislative Development with CVS, SVN, Hg, or G on Recrafting Government As an Open Platform · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Everything sounds great until "older versions" :)

    Well, you could keep them in different country(state) but single country is usually the machine laws are running on.. On the other hand, something like UN could actually be the central repository developing, etc..

  9. Re:git for law. LawML. on Recrafting Government As an Open Platform · · Score: 1

    I think that was exactly the idea behind wik, so that laws are explained correctly, perhaps even in some advanced markup language that can automatically search for referenced items and display them in simple readable form. For example each term in law can have mouse-over definition including definition of terms used in first definition.

    In country where I live all current laws are acessible on public website, however browsing them takes some time, because you often have to search another referenced paragraph or term.

  10. Re:agreed on Recrafting Government As an Open Platform · · Score: 1

    That's already total democracy (or e-government), where everyone can participate in law-making, not just chosen ones.

    And non-reputable citizen can also have some good comments or proposals

  11. agreed on Recrafting Government As an Open Platform · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also history and diff mechanism with comments (as in reviewboard).

    So I can know that Senator A commented exactly that point with such note upon discussion. Actually they could use reviewboard as tool for creating laws.

  12. Re:So... on A Playable PAC-MAN On Google Doodle · · Score: 1

    Have you looked at the source?

    While it's technically created from javascript, it's still flash.

    Could have been HTML5 <audio>

    g.prepareSound=function(){
        g.soundAvailable=e;
        g.soundReady=e;g.detectFlash();
        if(!g.hasFlash||!g.isFlashVersion("9.0.0.0")){
            g.soundReady=a;g.checkIfEverythingIsReady()
        } else {
            g.flashIframe=document.createElement("iframe");
            g.flashIframe.name="pm-sound";
            g.flashIframe.style.position="absolute";
            g.flashIframe.style.top="-150px";
            g.flashIframe.style.border=0;
            g.flashIframe.style.width="100px";
            g.flashIframe.style.height="100px";
            google.dom.append(g.flashIframe);
            g.flashIframeDoc=g.flashIframe.contentDocument;
            if(g.flashIframeDoc==undefined||g.flashIframeDoc==null) g.flashIframeDoc=g.flashIframe.contentWindow.document;
            g.flashIframeDoc.open();
            g.flashIframeDoc.write('<html><head></head><body><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="0" height="0" id="pacman-sound-player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="movie" value="logos/swf/pacman10-hp-sound.swf"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <object id="pacman-sound-player-2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="logos/swf/pacman10-hp--sound.swf" width="0" height="0"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> </object></object></body></html>
    ');
            g.flashIframeDoc.close();
            window.setTimeout(g.flashNotReady,3E3)
        }
    };

  13. Re:Multiplayer Google Doodle on A Playable PAC-MAN On Google Doodle · · Score: 1

    Hah, I was playing it, as it started while i was just enjoying it's look (i thought it's just animation). Then boss came over and told me that I HAVE TO PLAY, IT'S A GAME..

    Minutes later, digging up code i found google.pacman.insertCoin() and discovered multiplayer..

    Anyway - amazing piece of work, nearly pure javascript (except sounds) and usage of sprites.. I couldn't resist downloading it all and running a local copy :)

  14. Re:So... on A Playable PAC-MAN On Google Doodle · · Score: 1

    It's flash making sounds.. you SHOULD HAVE IT DISABLED!

  15. Re:Multiplayer Google Doodle on A Playable PAC-MAN On Google Doodle · · Score: 1

    Weird, but I discovered "Insert Coin" button only later, first I discovered javascript:google.pacman.insertCoin(); :D

  16. Re:When in Rome, do as the Romans do... on German User Fined For Having an Open Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Internet is a right, as is anonymity. I like to provide free internet to everyone, even if they chose to remain anonymous.

    What next? Fine for having your router hacked and used as proxy?

  17. Re:This will get no play because it is nuclear.. on Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke · · Score: 1

    That would be a waste of perfectly good C-4. As C-4 is only 1.34 times more explosive as TNT it would be cheaper to stuck it with TNT or just sand (why haven't anybody thought of that).

  18. Copyright and Employment laws on Can Employer Usurp Copyright On GPL-Derived Work? · · Score: 1

    You should actually read your local copyright law, because it can depend.

    Out here, in Latvia the copyright always belongs to author (developer), unless specifically stated in employment contract.

    So, the company can use the code you written for them, they are granted rights do distribute, etc, but you're still the copyright owner - and you can release it as GPL or whatever you wish.

  19. I wonder on Liquid Blade Brings Immersion Cooling To Blade Servers · · Score: 1

    Water is dielectric by itself.. Electric conduction is because of all the mixed salts in it. Perhaps they are just selling distilled water? :)

    Anyway, you would have to change the liquid from time to time, because some dust or anything might get into it and dissolve, thus making it conductive..

  20. Re:We have it. It's called the World Wide Web. on A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook · · Score: 1

    I see a possible BBSpot news article here:

    GMail locks down it's SMTP gateways. Because most of people are on GMail anyway, the rest of incoming messages are just spam. It's like facebook - you can send message to your friends, or anybody who's on gmail, but you shouldn't send it to yahoo. And so on.. :)

  21. Re:We have it. It's called the World Wide Web. on A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook · · Score: 1

    You probably don't understand how OpenID works. And that's the problem about it (that most of people don't understand)

    If You're not technically skilled, you can just use OpenID provider whom you trust most.
    Or You can set up your own OpenID, so that You own control the identity.

    However, if returning to topic - another problem for non-skilled would be creating your own webpage - choosing a hosting, setting it up, adjusting, linking all your friends, and finally getting notifications of what your friends are actually doing. Hard, but still possible..

  22. Re:I think on Visually Demonstrating Chrome's Rendering Speed · · Score: 1

    Too bad I can't watch any of those commercials natively in Chrome, because of f'n H.264 which isn't supported natively on Linux + neither Chrome nor Firefox

  23. Re:Translation on Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which has been already broken in OCR farms

  24. Re:Horribly misleading on New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I wanted to add.. And how about transporting a car from one end of France to another by train? So you got two different pictures with your car at the two different locations within 3 hours and 1000 km range..

    Or you could make a party with your friends.. print out some random car number plate-likes on the paper, and have bunch of friends waving them near the different cameras nearly simultenously.. let's see how the system can detect FTL :)

  25. Re:Nothing unusual on Iceland Volcano's Ash Grounds European Air Travel · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about Poland, and why it has plane going to Belorussia right now.

    Today (now it's actually deep night - that's why there are so few planes) it was quite empty. However Germany still had lot of planes over it.