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  1. brackup on Secure File Storage Over Non-Trusted FTP? · · Score: 1

    I think brackup supports your particular use-case. It was originally designed for backing up to S3.

  2. Re:Another way to open drivers on Could Graphics Drivers be Included on the Card? · · Score: 1

    Where's the source code?

  3. Re:Original paper? on Improving Noise Analysis with the Sound of Silence · · Score: 1

    Actually, there's no cutoff. They transform the standard sonogram using phase-derived data into what you see. It effectively concentrates information, lowering the entropy and clearly enhancing feature recognition. If you want to know more, read the paper (not the article -- the article is garbage).

  4. Re:And the alternative is ... ? on World of Queuecraft · · Score: 2, Informative

    You assume the problem is the server. It's not. It's the client. A world with too many people, or even just one zone with too many people in it, is sufficient to cause the client to fail.

  5. Re:webcalendar on How To (Really) Share A Simple Calendar? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That looks a lot like the bug that 1.0.1 was supposed to fix...

  6. Re:Please Peter Molyneux, No Gestures on Black And White 2 Preview · · Score: 1

    I believe the article mentions that the keyboard will be used for shortcuts.

  7. Off by one error on Leap Second This Year · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh, joy. Everyone'll be off a second on the damn New Year's count... again!

  8. Scheme vs Perl on PerlNomic - An Experiment in Cooperative Coding · · Score: 3, Informative

    There was a Scheme Nomic around a while back. For people who want to know more about Nomics, go search google a bit, then going Agora Nomic. We need new people. :)

  9. Re:SLA on Redundant Credit Card Processing Solution? · · Score: 1

    So they had contracts with two different companies for web hosting service?

  10. Re:Me? on Redundant Credit Card Processing Solution? · · Score: 1

    That's not what I meant. I meant redundant web hosts as in having your site hosted at more than one compant.

  11. SLA on Redundant Credit Card Processing Solution? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't think that kind of thing should be your problem. It's like web hosting. Who has redundant web hosts? I don't. My provider's job is to provide a level of service.

    Do you have a service level agreement? If not, you might want to look into negotiating one.

  12. Easily defeated in Firefox on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 1

    Tools -> Page Info -> Media. Look for the Background and save it. :)

  13. Re:Not unpickable on Optical Lock Foils Thieves · · Score: 1

    As for the scanner being bulky equipment, it is not hard to envision it shrinking very quickly if this technology becomes widespread.

    I'm suspecting that the key design is such that the 6 input fibers are each placed in one of many (60?) input positions, and similarly for the output fibers. I doubt you'll just be able to do a "flooding" attack or even a "try them until you get another input" attack. However, a lockpick could use a scanner that detects the input and output fibers by the modified reflectivity, and then uses a 6-way optical switch framework to scan the 6!=720 combinations extremely quickly.

    I can see ways to prevent this, but they increase the engineering complexity substantially. We are talking about car locks here. There's a limit to the cost factor.

  14. Not a linker on Why Doesn't .NET Include a Linker? · · Score: 1

    He doesn't want a linker, he wants something to eliminate the need for a VM, some kind of CIL compiler.

  15. Re:Preventing "out of sunshine" legistlation on FBI Can Inspect Bank Records w/o Court Orders · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't "out of sunshine". It's laws that are so huge and unwieldy that it's possible to hide things in them.

  16. Re:Mmm... on Stealth Inflation · · Score: 1

    What federal law would that be? I've had lots of merchants impose a minimum on me...

  17. Problems with this on frottle: Defeating the Wireless Hidden Node Problem · · Score: 2, Informative

    1. Isn't this what RTS/CTS is for?

    2. What 802.11 really needs is <b>power scaling.</b> It's the big difference between cellular networks and wifi. Like the article says, the person with the highest S/N gets to talk.

  18. 3 months on Half-Life Vulnerabilities Exposed, Patched · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm appalled that it apparently took a public release to get them to patch the servers. It would have been trivial for Valve to slide this into a patch and release it to everyone.

    What possible rationale do they have for not fixing it in <b>3 months</b>?

  19. Interesting on Help My Game - RISK · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So for equal battles, break-even is at 5 vs. 5, whereas one extra army always gets you 50%.

    But there's no link to the actual paper. Anyone?

  20. Wow on The 25 Dumbest Moments in Gaming · · Score: 2, Funny

    If those are 25-21, I'm afraid to think about what might be coming up...

  21. VERY useful on New debian-mentors Public .deb Repository Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is a nice way of hosting packages when someone doesn't have the space to put up their own apt-repository. If it's searchable, that's a bonus.

    It remains to be seen exactly what kinds of packages will end up here. At least it still requires a DD sponsor, so hopefully poorly-packaged/broken packages will not end up here...

  22. Top 2% on Lowest Raw Score Ever on the SAT · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is 1250 really a top 2%? There's something really disturbing about that...

    (That's only about 2.5\sigma from the mean...)

  23. Interesting on When N2H2 Mistakenly Calls Your Website 'Porn'? · · Score: 1

    That's a really good question, but you'll have to ask a lawyer.

    Make sure to report back when you do!

  24. Not April Fool's on From Turkey Guts to Fuel Oil · · Score: 1

    For those who are concerned that this is a joke, check the date on the article. It's not new.

  25. nfsn on Non-Red Hat Linux Hosting? · · Score: 2, Informative

    www.nearlyfreespeech.net is always a good choice -- but I'm not sure whether or not they run Red Hat.