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  1. Re:Hello, IT on NASA Loses Contact With Space Station Over Software Update · · Score: 1, Funny

    One does not simply turn a space station "off and on again".

  2. Re:Oxford on Oxford Temporarily Blocks Google Docs To Fight Phishing · · Score: 1

    s/non/none/

  3. Re:Oxford on Oxford Temporarily Blocks Google Docs To Fight Phishing · · Score: 1

    Would you uses a bank that did not take security seriously?

    Yes, because NON of them have adequate security for their customers. They protect their own servers with billions of dollars of protection, then let you pay by waving a card in the air or *shudder* sending a text message.

  4. Re:Low Hanging Fruit on SSH Password Gropers Are Now Trying High Ports · · Score: 1

    Most firewalls DROP by default so most scripts are designed to only try connecting a couple times. If you REJECT, they'll think that the port is *normally* open and try other things (such as hitting you again later).

  5. Log Analyzer on Ask Slashdot: What Does the FOSS Community Currently Need? · · Score: 2

    There are a lot of utilities that convert log files (from Apache for instance) to databases and perform data mining on them but there are still a lot of services that do not yet have these tools. This would make for an interresting database project as you could do a lot of really complex queries and have it create human readable reports.

  6. Re:Camera encourages arson? on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive SOHO Crime Deterrence and Monitoring? · · Score: 1

    I can't imaging a thief thinking any store in this day and age won't have a camera on somewhere.

  7. Re:Database of database usage in FOSS projects? on Ask Slashdot: What Does the FOSS Community Currently Need? · · Score: 2

    Xzibit, is that you?

  8. Re:so what should i do? on Webmail and Online Banks Targeted By Phishing Proxies · · Score: 1

    If your bank even ALLOWS you to log in without https, change banks NOW.

  9. Re:Why HTTP? on Webmail and Online Banks Targeted By Phishing Proxies · · Score: 1

    If it's tailored to bank-credential stealing, taking screenshots on each mouse click isn't exactly out of the question.

  10. Re:Why HTTP? on Webmail and Online Banks Targeted By Phishing Proxies · · Score: 1

    If you've got root, would you bother with HTTP interception at the network level?

  11. Re:Stop being stupid on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive SOHO Crime Deterrence and Monitoring? · · Score: 1

    Little hint about cameras. Keep the ceiling ones for large coverage, but keep a few about 4 feet off the ground facing the entrance to catch good face shots of people coming in. Should be fairly easy to hide inside a display or counter. I remember hearing about a bunch of thugs that destroyed the window display of a camera shop. Turned out the owner always left 2 or 3 of the display cameras recording (wired to a remote recorder) at night and got REALLY good shots of their faces!

  12. Re:Performance on NetBSD To Support Kernel Development In Lua Scripting · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pfff, writing Linux kernels in Javascript is so last century. Nowadays we RUN kernels in Javascript!

  13. Re:Low Hanging Fruit on SSH Password Gropers Are Now Trying High Ports · · Score: 3, Informative

    REJECT tells them you've detected them, the not-so-dumb ones will use this against you.

  14. Re:Population US 315,341,617 vs Canada 34,880 on The IIPA Copyright Demands For Canada and Spain · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Apparently last time Canada was on the list, it was at the backroom REQUEST of Canadian officials so they would have a "reason" to push anti-privacy- um, uh, I mean anti-"piracy" laws. I highly doubt our country's leaders will try to explain why we are on there this time.

  15. Re:Finally on Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    2013 called and emacs users still want a text editor.

  16. Re:Hacking on Dutch MP Fined For Ethical Hacking · · Score: 2

    He was able to access multiple patients' records using one patient's username & password. That should NOT be allowed by the system in any way.

  17. Re:1000 miles due south on Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured · · Score: 1

    Which scans in a horizontal area, detecting meteors requires something than scans a *volume*.

  18. Re:27" FTW on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite Monitor For Programming? · · Score: 1

    Ah, that explains why my laptop (IPS) looks just as good in portrait (well, 95%, but barely noticeable).

  19. Re:Angle Your Hands ... and ... on Ask Slashdot: Keyboard Layout To Reduce Right Pinky/Ring Finger Usage? · · Score: 1

    It may be anacdotal, but even typing plain english (reports, homework, etc), I've found my fingers get MUCH less tired. On querty I had to take breaks every half hour or my fingers would completely seize up. On Colemak I can type for 8 hours straight and still have 80% dexterity in my fingers.

  20. Re:Almost? on Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if that's a joke or you missed Galileo's memo.

  21. Re:1000 miles due south on Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured · · Score: 1

    Radar doesn't work 1000 miles away.

  22. Re:Bloody hell.... on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    Or for half the price you can get one that runs on a much more camping-friendly fuel and puts out twice as much power.

  23. And had the GP specified "parallel hybrid" you would have had a point.

  24. Re:Scale matters on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    Ultracaps can't handle nearly that much power. You would be better off just using continually-recharged lithium batteries.

  25. Re:Not really. on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    Hybrids actually don't get very good gas milleage for 2 reasons. 1) The batteries die quicker because you're also hauling an internal compustion engine around (plus fuel and accessories to make it work. 2) Once the batteries die (or you reach a certain speed), the internal combustion engine is less efficent than a normal car because it's also hauling an electric motor and batteries around.

    People think a hybrid gives you the best of both worlds, but it actually gives you the worst of both worlds.