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  1. Re:MSIE on Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? · · Score: 1

    its showing you: hey, IE is not hanging.

  2. Re:Can't Go Backwards on Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? · · Score: 2

    they should become longer instead of moving backwards.

  3. Re:Reality vs idealism on W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML · · Score: 1

    yeah, it would have flaws. But assume its there, then it could be used with opensource software as controller. No need for closed source to provide restricted access.

  4. Re:Reality vs idealism on W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML · · Score: 1

    of course, you can try to rip the display signal short before the tft-panel. But this is much harder to rip than just saving a movie file. you will also need to re-encode it and have some quality loss. It will certainly make ripping much harder.

  5. Re:Reality vs idealism on W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML · · Score: 1

    no, its not decoded in the monitor, but by some trusted piece of software, which is certified just to decode and forward, and not to save it to the disk.
    And there are ways to protect against replay-attacks.

  6. Re:Reality vs idealism on W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML · · Score: 1

    thats like saying "gpg cannot be opensource, because you need to hide your key".

  7. Re:Reality vs idealism on W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML · · Score: 1, Insightful

    no, it can be another way. just think of a trusted media path (using trusted computing and a TPM). Then the TPM chip can negotiate a shared secret between your monitor and the site serving the video. then the whole software can be opensource, just as it can with SSL, and it will always see only the encrypted data. In this way, trusted computing is good for opensource, because there is no need for security by closed source (obscurity) anymore.
    The only problem ... every company can use this to sell a minimum only, like pay-per-view business models instead of pay-per-download models. But the problem here is the business model, not the tech.

  8. Re:Step 1 - NEVER close an old email account on Is It Possible To Erase Yourself From the Internet? · · Score: 1

    nope. of course you could say "hey, the guy blocking cookies is here again", but as soon as there a two of them, its hard to distinguish them. if you allow cookies, you get a different fingerprint than everyone else, if the site gives you an id. the more people block tracking, the bigger the anonmous mass gets.

  9. Re:This problem is easily solved on Is It Possible To Erase Yourself From the Internet? · · Score: 1

    these people are not your problem.
    Of course, one post can link the names. But it does it on a content-layer, not on a semantic layer. So it will only link them, for people reading the post, not for data mining companies like facebook, because they cannot parse the post in the right way, yet.

  10. Re:This problem is easily solved on Is It Possible To Erase Yourself From the Internet? · · Score: 2

    you need just one VM, which has a fingerprint, which is shared with many other VM users. think of the tails live-system for example. I think it has a fingerprint, which is unique to one version of tails, and shared between many users of this version.

  11. Re:It's the New You on Is It Possible To Erase Yourself From the Internet? · · Score: 1

    > "Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
    for example they are so stupid, they mix up average and median.

  12. Re:It's the New You on Is It Possible To Erase Yourself From the Internet? · · Score: 1

    they would have had trouble, if you would have never given them your realname.

  13. Re:It's the New You on Is It Possible To Erase Yourself From the Internet? · · Score: 1

    But one link between them is easier to erase, and harder to find while its still there. So chances are good, nobody will find the link, if its only a single link.

    On the other hand ... if you comment some blog and it demands an e-mail address, just make some up, its never verified. I think for comments and such stuff, accounts/email-addresses should always be optional, only for the case you want some reply from the author or notification about further comments.

  14. Re:The Question is, how is something produced on When 1 GB Is Really 0.9313 Gigabytes · · Score: 1

    yeah, but the number of clusters is not a power of two, anymore. I think mostly, because when it were possible, the vendors wanted to sell 10 GB instead of 8 or something like this. And when your current tech allows 100 GB on one platter, you may end up using 5 of them (500GB) and not a much bigger drive with 8. So the powers of two find a end, where the previous is too little and the next one is still too high.

  15. The Question is, how is something produced on When 1 GB Is Really 0.9313 Gigabytes · · Score: 1

    RAM: if they make a bigger module, they usually just double the number of chips on the module -> 2^x. Another reason here is, that you have a nice address, which ends with all zeros (or fills the complete addressfield), when your maximum address is a power of two.
    Harddrives: they are produced independend from such considerations, you have like 100 GB, 500GB, 3 TB ... all of them do not fit in a nice 2^x scheme anyway. Thats the reason, they are produced in GB and not in GiB units.

  16. Re:Forget about them on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle SPF For Spam Filtering? · · Score: 1

    nope, you fail hard.
      How do you detect a bad configured SPF? You are getting a mail, from a server listed as "cannot send mail". Now this can happen, when you have perfectly setup SPF and a spammer just spams from his own host ignoring that you're using SPF. Now the target system bounces the spam to your system, saying "hey, spammer-system cannot send mail for you".
    You set up SPF, because you WANTED that the spammer-system cannot send mail for you. But you certainly did not want other systems to bounce the rejected mails to you.

  17. Re:You can't have your cake ... on Valve Sued In Germany Over Game Ownership · · Score: 1

    > Revenue *is* affected by piracy
    yes.

    But its debunked, that piracy is the reason for high prices. Even with little to no piracy, the price level stays the same.

  18. Re:You can't have your cake ... on Valve Sued In Germany Over Game Ownership · · Score: 1

    if you assume, that people do not respect copyright, you do not need to consider the people trading legal copies ... because THEY respect your copyright.
    So on your price thoughts, you would need to say "prices are high because of pirated copies", which was debunked many times before.

  19. Re:Forget about them on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle SPF For Spam Filtering? · · Score: 1

    yeah, and the problem is, there are servers, which send NDR because of SPF.
    And even when you are a server in the chain, which accepted the message, you SHOULD NOT send a NDR, because SPF is saying "hey, the sender-info is wrong". So a NDR is pointless, in ANY case, even when you accepted the message for delivery.

  20. Re:For End User, Open-source = Free on Ask Slashdot: Can Closed Source Software Transition To the GPL Successfully? · · Score: 1

    do you know xchat? the windows version is costly, because maintaining the installer was too much work to do it for free.
    But everyone just uses the inofficial binaries (silverex, the last time i checked).

  21. Re:Forget about them on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle SPF For Spam Filtering? · · Score: 1

    No, because you send the NDR to a adress, which was detected by SPF as NOT being the source of the message. So you reach the wrong person. So instead you should just send nothing, if you filter based on SPF, because the whole point in spf is, when you filter it, you do it because you do not know the source (and the pretended source-adress is wrong)

  22. Re:For End User, Open-source = Free on Ask Slashdot: Can Closed Source Software Transition To the GPL Successfully? · · Score: 1

    then somebody else will provide free binaries.

  23. Re:SPF is worthless, unfortunately on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle SPF For Spam Filtering? · · Score: 1

    > spamhaus
    do not use them. they are making money with unblocking. so potential clients are not reachable, just because spamhaus blocked them and they do not even know it (or do not see the point in paying for the spamhaus blackmailing)

  24. Re:don't reject based solely on SPF on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle SPF For Spam Filtering? · · Score: 1

    you say it: best practice.
    This means, there are other practices (for a reason). They might not be the best, but in some cases they are needed. strict SPF filtering breaks them.

  25. Re:Forget about them on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle SPF For Spam Filtering? · · Score: 2

    you are destroying the sense of SPF.

    consider someone spams you from a faked domain (the thing spf should prevent). Then you send backscatter-spam to the real domain.

    fail.