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  1. Re:Made the mistake. on UK Controllers Say Air Traffic System 'Not Safe' · · Score: 1

    That is the case primarily because the system seems to have lagging displays and other indications of really shitty design.

  2. Re:Al Jazeera live from Libya on Libya SIGINT Jamming Satellites, Towers · · Score: 2

    In the days of print images, every image was "manipulated" in as far as color and contrast go. Color filters were used to print the negative, papers of appropriate contrast were selected. In the modern age, the question becomes, "Did the photographer feel he could better select the colors than the camera's algorithm could?" Color and contrast should be adjusted for most images, including journalistic ones.

    Your understanding of color as a person, and the reality of color seen by a machine are two very different things. That's why a person needs to adjust.

  3. Re:Yaaawn on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    A typical duplexer uses two frequencies in the same band that are usually close to each other. This is definitely an advance on that idea.

  4. Re:No access controls? on How Facebook Ships Code · · Score: 1

    Permissions are distinctly different from logs. Both are "controls" in the audit sense of the word, but this is not a case of access control.

  5. My girlfriend agrees on Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit · · Score: 1

    I strung a hammock between two chimneys and one of the chimneys collapsed on top of her.

  6. Anything can be the inspiration for stupidity on Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Violent video games claim another victim. Maybe now they'll put that NC-17 rating on that I've been saying for years Frogger needs. Jack Thompson will be vindicated, and Rockstar games will pay for their GTA series.

    Maybe when this is all over, we can achieve our ultimate goal of putting a warning label on Tetris.

  7. Re:Can't get there from here on Why Teach Programming With BASIC? · · Score: 1

    Multi-threading is still the same rule, and can be seen as a sequential series of singular threads that have stop / pause points. That's what happens on a single processor anyway.

  8. Re:most of the PAY warez sites seems to seen scams on RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police · · Score: 1

    Well, if you can pay the up-front costs of moving some large amounts cash around for me, I'll give you a cut of that cash and tell you more.

  9. Re:most of the PAY warez sites seems to seen scams on RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I say that people engaged in prostitution are more likely to have STDs, am I a knowledgeable person, or would you convict me of engaging a prostitute? Perhaps I must also be a fool because I know things about 419 scams? Surely I'm a terrorist for seeing weaknesses in the TSA programs.

  10. Re:Going nowhere on Kodak's Patent Spat Threatens Photo Web Sites · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anonymous Coward demonstrates prior art. Victory is ours.

  11. So... on WikiLeaks App Removed From Apple Store · · Score: 1

    How long until Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner, Verizon, etc. "stop carrying Wikileaks information" over their infrastructure?

  12. Re:Yea America! on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1
  13. Re:The Russians used a pencil on Rear-View Cameras On Cars Could Become Mandatory In the US · · Score: 1

    Also, graphite used as a neutron moderator was a substantial contributing factor to the Chernobyl incident. The graphite burning spread a lot of radiation.

  14. Re:Logistic issues I see: on Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet · · Score: 1

    You sir, would never have built a subway system.

  15. Oh, bullshit... on Internet Routing, Looming Disaster? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anybody who touches BGP needs to understand route filtering.

      * Would I trust everything I see from Sprint? Yes.
      * Would I trust anything except what I expect from the local ISP I route to? No.
      * Would I expect Sprint to execute the same filtering as above? Yes.

    BGP nodes should always have filters on their connections that describe what is allowed to be accepted. Every failure I can think of... and I'm sure most notable ones that have happened... have been caused by failure to properly filter incoming routes.

  16. Re:Whoa, whoa, WHOA.... on Level 3 Shaken Down By Comcast Over Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    http://www.comcast.com/peering/

    "Applicant must maintain a traffic scale between its network and Comcast that enables a general balance of inbound versus outbound traffic."

  17. Whoa, whoa, WHOA.... on Level 3 Shaken Down By Comcast Over Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    This isn't about Netflix, this is about a peering agreement. L3 has effectively said, "We anticipate we will move a lot more traffic in the near future across our peering links." L3's press release makes NO mention of Netflix. It seems as likely that L3 is posturing as that Comcast is posturing. Comcast isn't (in anything public) threatening to restrict L3 traffic. Losing that peering connection means it would be routed to Comcast through one of L3's other links... which they would also pay for. Cogent and Sprint, for example, had a huge peering spat. Of course, that did result in a partitioned Internet, but that could have been dealt with by alternate peering that I bet L3 has.

    L3, in another world, would charge Comcast if they transmitted more traffic away from Comcast than to Comcast.

    This ignore the fact that I think Comcast is a scum company, but that's another story...

  18. Re:We have a way to address this (at least, mostly on Chinese DNS Tampering a Real Threat To Outsiders · · Score: 2, Informative

    Root servers point to top-level domains. com, net, org, cn, us, uk... these would all have their own keys. China would only have access to one of those. As pointed out by others, the roots are pre-signed and just passed around for mirroring.

    This doesn't prevent China from doing various nuisance activities such as replying with unresolvable, bogus unsigned answers, or bogus answers with wrong signers. That said, you'd at least have some level of verification available that a DNSSEC signed answer is appropriate, and you could ignore anything but.

  19. We have a way to address this (at least, mostly) on Chinese DNS Tampering a Real Threat To Outsiders · · Score: 3, Insightful

    DNSSEC. Get on it.

  20. Re:In every train station? LOL on Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems · · Score: 1

    We here at the TSA would like to extend an employment offer for you. This would be a supervisory and decision-making position at our headquarters.

  21. Re:Paywalled on Cellphone Carriers Try To Control Signal Boosters · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh, that's BRILLIANT! Click on the first link, and you'll notice that r becomes 2. Open another browser on your computer and paste the new URL in... r becomes 3. By the time we've seen it on Slashdot, this url was hot-potatoed along four times from the first viewer.

  22. Re:Wow. on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Contracts can be verbal; contracts can be written and unsigned (when's the last time you signed an update from your credit card or cell phone company?). Legal theory often relates to offer, acceptance, and exchange of consideration. A syllabus in a course you pay tuition for fits this. I can't speak to case law, but you can probably get to trial on that.

  23. Re:Compiling the kernel on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    LFS is rather impractical for almost everything, but when it comes to learning.... nothing better.

  24. Re:Compiling the kernel on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    You know, back in the pre-Gentoo days I discovered Linux From Scratch. I compiled EVERY bit (literally) of executable code from tarballs. KDE took 24 hours on my 400Mhz box.

  25. Re:Oops, slashdotted! on Hidden Debug Mode Found In AMD Processors · · Score: 1

    No kidding? Running debug mode doesn't speed things up?

    I'm so patenting this secret to making Java speedy... then I'll own Oracle!