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  1. Re:Price controls cause shortages on Foxconn International Removed From Hang Seng Index · · Score: 1

    No more iPads.

    You'll just have to do with the pads that Hengan is going to be making.

  2. Susan sontag on What Makes a Photograph Memorable? · · Score: 2

    Said that one thing that makes a photo interesting is a pic of something common in one location, that is shown in another location where that thing is not common. There is no way an algorithm could describe that.

  3. Re:What are we detecting? on Mac OS Update Detects, Kills MacDefender Scareware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The summary mentions:

    the rudimentary antivirus detection engine

    Wouldn't we be better off detecting the viruses, not the antivirus?

    No .. its customary to look for signs of an infection even if you can't see the infection itself. So that by detecting anti-virii (and spelling nazis be damned) you prove that the system has come into contact in the past with a genuine virus. Unfortunately as time goes on you find the that more and more systems develop anti-virii until the entire population has developed them, thus leading you to posit that the original virus was very very wide spread. However by now, due to the universality of the anti-virii, all systems are now safe from the original virus. Which is all well and good until something to do with an unclean telephone occurs. Hmm does that make Apple one of the telephone santizers????

  4. Re:MAME on Bringing Old Arcade Machines Into the Internet Age · · Score: 2

    This is still an ugly hack, but still a lot cooler than doing it in software.

    What they did wasn't a hack, it was an elegant way to utlize the exisiting bus based infrastructure. Plug in the new bus master and read your data off without changing the game. Plus the technique is probably adaptable to any number of games from the same era.

  5. If this comes on my next TV on The Next Phase of Intelligent TVs Will Observe You · · Score: 1

    My next TV accessory will be some Duct Tape.

  6. Ahh .. the elephant in the room of free speech on RMS Cancels Lectures In Israel · · Score: 1

    Someone has to pay for the beer.

    I'll give props to RMS in this case.

  7. Re:Asterisk Kills Microsoft For Skype on Microsoft Kills Skype For Asterisk · · Score: 1

    Would be much more fun!

    No no no no NOOOO

    You wasted a perfectly good joke there .. you should have said something like

    Asterix Kills Microsoft For Skype

  8. Call it the Sy-lon space plane on Skylon Spaceplane Design Passes Key Review · · Score: 1

    And get funding from the Sy-Fy channel!

  9. Re:The Wiggles?? on Dark Energy Confirmed By Australian WiggleZ Sky Scan · · Score: 1

    I guess the Wiggles are really taking their child education program seriously. You spelt Wiggles wrong, btw.

    I wish I could find the reference, but I remember a few years ago of an astronomer(?) calling some celstial objects B1 and B2 after Bananas in Pyjamas. So the Wiggles are justplaying catchup.

  10. Hmm .. Disney copyrights the name on Disney Seeks Trademark On 'Seal Team 6' · · Score: 1

    But remind me again .. who are the people with the clandenstine hit teams that can go anywhere in the world and visit not-nice-things on anyone?

  11. Re:Might as well get this over with. on Volunteer 'Cyber Scouts' Censor Web In Thailand · · Score: 1

    Bhumibol Adulyadej likes horse cocks.

    there we go. now slashdot will be nice and invisible from Thailand.

    That reminds me of a scene in Black Adder .. "This sausage tastes like a horses willy"

  12. Re:This brings up the question on US-CERT Warns of Serious Hole In ActiveX Control From Iconics · · Score: 1

    When he says "I safely gathered" I presume him to actually mean:

    Yet his whole system is predicated on the two networks not meeting. From which I took him to mean an air gap

  13. Re:This brings up the question on US-CERT Warns of Serious Hole In ActiveX Control From Iconics · · Score: 1

    Not on my watch he wouldn't, at least not directly. He would be given a data dump that *I* safely gathered for him. The 2 networks would never cross paths.

    Control systems would never see the light of day, so to speak.

    And the first time you missed delivering production data to some manager at 3AM because you weren't around to manually process the data "safely", you'd be called to the carpet in front of your manager and asked to explain why you were wasting company resources and what you planned to do about it.

  14. Re:This brings up the question on US-CERT Warns of Serious Hole In ActiveX Control From Iconics · · Score: 1

    Why are they running windows in the first place and not a more appropriate embedded OS?

    Because the PHB has said they wanted Windows based products.

    FTFY

    And your version is different from mine, how?

  15. Re:This brings up the question on US-CERT Warns of Serious Hole In ActiveX Control From Iconics · · Score: 1

    Why are they running windows in the first place and not a more appropriate embedded OS?

    Because the market has said they wanted Windows based products. All of the stuff I am currently working on is targetted at Server 2003 platforms, with thin client viewers, but potentially with XP based terminals (Win 7 is slowly creeping in).

    Can you suggest an embedded platform that handles server class functionality and performance? If so, feel free to develop your market segment.

  16. Re:ActiveX ? I heard you were dead. on US-CERT Warns of Serious Hole In ActiveX Control From Iconics · · Score: 2

    Isn't this something you'd have to be using IE to catch?

    Nope .. a lot of HMI software that runs on windows allows you to embed ActiveX controls. These systems don't runin IE, but do utilise ActiveX technology. The Genesis32 mentioned in TFA seems to be that sort of product (not that I have used it)

  17. wireless networks in critical infrastructure on Making Wireless, Not Ethernet, the Heart of the Network · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One of the advantages of a wired network is that the data only leaves the premises at well defined locations that you control. With wireless networks it floats over the aether in all directions. And before you can say "encryption will protect me", think about how easy it would be to build a transmitter running on the same frequencies as the wireless network and sit that just outside the company and pointed inwards - instant denial of service attack with zero traceability.

  18. Git off my lawn on Hewlett Packard's Cult Calculator Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    HP made great calcs before the 12C. I had a 32E, my oldest brother had a 45, and my other brother had a 21. Now git before I break out one of my slide rules (straight or circular)

  19. Re:Wow, what a great idea. on Predator Outdoes Kinect At Object Recognition · · Score: 1

    While possible, it would be more complex then that. It would also have to account for wind, distance, speed, windows etc.

    That depends on the size of the gun you use!

  20. Re:Yeah. Try giving that to your girl. on World's Smallest Wedding Rings Made of DNA · · Score: 1

    Geek or no. She wants a goddamn diamond!

    And if you are realy geeky then make the diamond from yourself.

  21. Re:On whose nickel? on Census Tech Makeover Includes Innovation "Oasis" · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And their job can be done on an iPhone.

    This just in from Fox news "Government to buy iPhone 9's for every worker. 'Will Democrats stop at nothing to waste your tax dollars?' says [Nameless Republican shill]"

  22. Re:My SPDY sense is tingling on Google Cuts Chrome Page Load Times In Half w/ SPDY · · Score: 1

    :-)

    You know you can medications for that now?

  23. Re:Why not ? on Judge In Oracle-Google Case Given Crash Course in Java · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't you also have special judges for traffic related incidents?

    I got a speeding ticket a few years ago. I read up on all the relevant laws and knew that while I couldn't get off, I could get the fine reduced and also not get points if the judge allowed me to do a driver ed course (online even!). I also knew that what I was asking for was quite reasonable and done all the time. So I went to court and discovered that the normal traffic judge was out for the day and there was another judge in his place. As I was early for my case, I sat there and listened to all the people ahead of me asking for the same thing that I had planned for. Yet each time the stand-in judge kept saying "I can't do that". I felt like jumping up and yelling at the judge "damn well you can - you're the judge".

    The state I am in also says that there is no justification for speeding of any sort, yet this judge let off a guy who said he was speeding to get away from a truck - even though the cop who booked him said that he did not see any such truck

    So the answer to your question is that (from my 1 point datum) that not only don't you have special judges, judges don't have to know the law of what they are judging

  24. I'm confused on Arizona Governor Proposes Flab Tax · · Score: 1

    Isn't it the socialist commie demon-crats that are supposed to be telling us how to live our lives, and not the party of individual free choice and smaller government??!?!?!

  25. Re:tl;dr on US Government Domain Seizures Failing Miserably · · Score: 1

    Government interprets freedom fighters as terrorists and shoots into them.

    Except when they are supporting them.