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  1. Cosmic ray bit flip chance increase? on Single-Chip DIMM To Replace Big Sticks of RAM · · Score: 1

    Doesn't higher memory density result in a greater chance for cosmic radiation to flip bits?

    With greater power savings and more memory per module, adding ECC to the mix shouldn't be too painful.

  2. AnonymousCoward.XXX ? Don't count on it. on .XXX Domain Registrations Begins · · Score: 1

    These are the current requirements for getting a working .xxx domain in either Sunrise or Landrush. (No mention of open registration once landrush is over, but the requirements will probably be the same.

    Sponsored Community Validation Process:

          1. Person/company submits an application for a name in Sunrise A or Landrush with their registrar of choice — they pay their registrar directly for that.
          2. ICM sends the person/company an introduction email that includes a validation link — to the Registrant Contact email address provided with their application.
          3. The person/company clicks on the validation link in the ICM email and is directed to the ICM Membership Application.
          4. The person/company fills out the ICM Membership Application — free of charge. (Takes about 5 minutes to complete — only have to do this one time per email account, not per domain.)
          5. As a part of ICM's Membership Application, the person has to provide the following:
                      1. Address
                      2. Phone Number
          6. As a part of ICM's Membership Application, the person has to attest to the following:
                      1. Provide correct birth date information
                      2. Agree to ICM's Registry-Registrant Agreement
                      3. Attest to being a member of the Sponsored Community
          7. ICM will call the phone number provided during the Membership Application.
          8. In that phone call, ICM will provide the person with a PIN # (real time) and the applicant will input the PIN# in the designated area in the Membership Application process.
          9. Once the person completes the Membership Application, ICM provides the registrar a Membership Token thus allowing all of the .xxx domain names associated with that email account to resolve.

  3. Re:dumb. on .XXX Domain Registrations Begins · · Score: 1

    There already is a .kids.us sub-domain of the .US TLD. The managing company does content enforcement.

  4. DNSSEC bad idea for total cert trust on Another CA Issues False Certificates To Iran · · Score: 1

    Each ccTLD operator is not necessarily limited to just the domains under that ccTLD. If China maintains a root server, and they have the private keys for the root, they can then sign their own .com keys, and then sign domains under .com. (And even if they only have the .cn private keys, and SSL trust was solely implemented in DNSSEC, now you can't trust your SSL connection to any .cn domain!)

    Using DNSSEC for publishing certs and extra identity information is a cool idea, but it's not a good idea to replace all other trust mechanisms. Granted, the current CA model is broken, but there are good ideas out there for distributed models where we don't have to trust governments.

    Marlinspike makes some good points here.

  5. Canada, eh? on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 1

    But my rail-freight-delivered Russian caviar will have to pass through CANADA to get from Alaska to the mainland!

    Seems like a customs nightmare to get from China > Russia > Canada > US, but taking a train from New York to London, the long way, would be a fun trip.

  6. Re:Science vs Religion: Contradictions? on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    All of our scientific discoveries show us a little more of how God created this world.

    You might get people to buy into that if the premise of a god is the "benevolent bystander" such that s/he/they created the physical laws of our universe like program code, pressed "run", and watched the big bang, etc. unfold. But once a god can start interacting with these physical laws and making one-time exceptions (miracles) based on telecommunication (prayer), then they're no longer "bystanders".

    How do scientific discoveries and new understandings of our universe aid in creation myth? Shouldn't we be able to test for the existence or at least divine intervention of a god or gods?

  7. Re:I don't condone this on DHS Tries To Hide Mobile Scanner Details · · Score: 4, Informative

    This looks like it scans cars, containers, and even buildings if they chose:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iABPKd0vFxQ

  8. Many have moved to Rift on World of Warcraft Finally Loses Subscribers · · Score: 1

    I don't have time to play MMOGs, but people I know who play WoW and the like have recently moved to playing Rift as their new fantasy MMO of choice.

  9. Re:Mobile Browser Redirects on Browser Wars Redux: This Time It's the Apps · · Score: 1

    Isn't that a pain to keep switching the User Agent though? Some sites /are/ well designed for mobile, and I enjoy that on the mobile browser. I suppose some sort of menu setting or quick-action extension (see mobile firefox for android, etc) could work. But like the GP pointed out, by the time you've changed user agents, the deep link broke and presumably you have to go find it and click it again.

  10. Re:VPN? on IBM To Unveil Secure Open Wireless At Black Hat · · Score: 2

    But what if the Man in the Middle hosts the VPN and simply forwards your traffic to the VPN on the wifi router?

  11. Re:Facts on Amazon App Store 'Rotten To the Core,' Says Dev · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are a handful of Terms of Service that are tracked by the EFF project TOSBack.

    Unfortunately, only two Amazon policies are being tracked.

  12. Re:Android is Windows 95 hell all over again on Android Trojan Records Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    Oh, I agree that's a problem -- which is why I would love the ability for the user to decide which permissions to grant. The app requests them, and the user grants/denies them on a fine-grained basis.

    However, Angry Birds on Android (all 3 versions) do not request access to the contact list. At least the ones I downloaded from the market. They all want internet access though, and the standard version wants GPS location.

  13. Re:Android is Windows 95 hell all over again on Android Trojan Records Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    Check out the excellent Droidwall app. It requires root of course to run iptables, but shouldn't we all have root on our phones?

    To the GP, I agree android should support finer grained permissions (and each version of the OS has more perms) in addition to selecting which permissions the user wants to grant the app! (Not just "OK" to allow all the permissions the app asks for, but the user could pick and choose which perms to give it; obviously not granting some perms would cripple some apps..) Without that ability, Droidwall at least blocks internet connectivity for all apps in whitelist mode.

    And you will both learn when running Droidwall that each app runs as its own user on the phone. Hence it gives you the requested GUI to allow each app access to the net (over 3G and/or wifi).

  14. Re:It CAN be dodged on Researchers Expose Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged · · Score: 1

    But most noscript users allow the "same domain" as the site they are visiting, so the page is usable (navigation, ajax, etc). If i.js and j.js are hosted on the same domain you are visiting (not 3rd party hosted) then noscript may not help you. Even those users that are super-strict about allowing scripts will often temporarily-allow a subdomain for the purpose of using the site. A few temp-allows between some major sites will thus lead to you being tracked across those sites.

  15. Re:usb security on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Data On Android? · · Score: 1

    How does remote wipe help you after someone has found your phone and already accessed the internal memory? A simple fabric Faraday cage would be sufficient to still use USB access while the phone is running.

  16. Re:Google is evil. RMS was right. on OK Go Goes HTML5 · · Score: 1

    It fails for me with: Chromium 12.0.742.112. It "loads" something to 100%, then goes back to 00% and idles there.

    Very annoying you can't at least try it in other html5 capable browsers though. User agent branching fail.

  17. Re:Huh? on Blockbuster Trying To Woo Disgruntled Netflix Customers · · Score: 1

    Most of the "desirable" content on Amazon streaming is still pay-per-show. Prime lets you stream only the "lowest" end of the catalog for free. On the Amazon Prime about page, they link to steaming movies and TV shows. On those first pages, only Monty Python is available for free. Netflix's streaming-only plan is only $17 dollars more per year than Amazon Prime, but Netflix's catalog dwarfs Amazon's.

    That said, it would be great if Amazon could offer itself as a viable competitor to Netflix. Like other's have mentioned, it seems more in the Studio's hands than anyone else's...

  18. Re:Wait a minute... on Mozilla Announces Enterprise User Working Group · · Score: 1

    They got a backlash of user feedback.

    Here's hoping they change back to a sane versioning scheme so add-ons won't have to be upgraded so often.

  19. Re:They will probably celebrate with a new version on NoScript Awarded $10,000 · · Score: 1

    I like watching changelogs, to see what holes were patched. With NoScript, the right pane shows the changes -- new attack vectors are blocked all the time. (At this point they are mostly minor, but still crazy that default browser security with respect to local and remote script invocation is nearly non-existent.)

  20. Re:Mesh networking? on Ford Demonstrates Networked Cars · · Score: 1

    That would be an insane amount of hops and ultra-high latency to pass packets from your car down a few streets/miles to a node on a landline somewhere.

    Would be sweeter to use this network to "chat" with cars around you. Like "D-bag in the red truck, get off my ass!" or "milf in yellow sports car!", or even the intended action of real-time and local traffic information. (E.g. congestion ahead for next 2 miles, then clears after that (near exit 14))

  21. Re:They should promote him on Man With 10 Million Air Miles Gets Plane Named After Him · · Score: 1

    At this point, I'm sure he is already a regular member and does not need to be honorifically admitted.

  22. What's next for the FPGA supercomputer? on JPMorgan Rolls Out FPGA Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Reprogram this risk analysis computer into a Bitcoin miner and finish the remainder of the 26M BTC?

  23. Re:When will they add per-tab processes? on Firefox 8 20% Faster Than Firefox 5 · · Score: 1

    Totally, multiple logins in the same browser are all about cookies. You can launch separate FF profiles (which are separate processes) from the command line; that allows two or more "windows" with separate logins to the same sites. Try: firefox -ProfileManager

    I believe there are also add-ons that help with this in a single window+process, but I doubt they have been updated to these future versions. (There is an about:config option to aid in the add-on version checking. See the previous /. story on FF version numbering for many solutions.)

  24. Re:Impossible really means nobody knows how on Microsoft: No Botnet Is Indestructible · · Score: 1

    I'm glad you're willing to give up your domain name, since it was hosted on an 0wned server that was a Command & Control server for the botnet, and through some legal work, your domain was forfeited to Microsoft so they could attempt to disable the botnet.

    (The botnet operator decided to use your domain name (among many,many others) for botnet clients to connect to and receive their instructions. The court order you implicitly agreed with in your statement above allowed your domain to be seized.)

  25. Re:Try Subsonic on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Scrub Pirated Music From My Collection? · · Score: 1

    I use local and remote command line on my android phone. But when you're out on a run and wish to quickly find that rockin' beat, subsonic is the best option. The lucene index is fast for searching, and the streaming + caching is sweet. Also, full bluetooth controls are invaluable during exercise.