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  1. Re:I was about to say about the same thing on The Internet's Broken. Who's Going To Invent a New One? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I kinda like my idea better. I think having the port in the key, will cut down on extra connections. The port could be delivered during discovery, but I would hate to get that mangled by evildoers running a service on the same machine somehow.

    But I am probably not undertanding your idea. Anyway, well done.

  2. I was about to say about the same thing on The Internet's Broken. Who's Going To Invent a New One? · · Score: 1

    The DNS/IP thing is a nightmare. The system should be based on discovery, and not a distributed list like it is.

    I was going to go with some kind of md5hash deal, but your idea is much better. And I think ports should become
    part of the address. So that you can run thousands of services on the same machine. Instead of the virtual hosts
    thing they do with websites.

  3. You are going to need on What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze? · · Score: 1

    a bigger boat.

  4. Send a tone on Canadian Teen Arrested For Calling In 30+ Swattings, Bomb Threats · · Score: 1

    There should be some way they can detect a spoofed callerID at the least. Some way of sending a tone
    to that phone number or even Calling that phone number expecting a busy signal.

    Granted some phones have multple lines and whatnot, but that should be something that can be
    tech'd out.

  5. Given all the spy satelites pointed at hotspots, on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    is it really possible that the plane landed anywhere but the ocean?

  6. Lock in that price Austin on The Mere Promise of Google Fiber Sends Rivals Scrambling · · Score: 1

    Lock in the total price to the customer. Watch for extra fees, services, and gotchas. And make that lock-in 15 years.

  7. That would be the only thing I would use it for on After a Long wait, GNU Screen Gets Refreshed · · Score: 1

    Multiple terminals w/o networking available. Though, I might be tempted to get second usb/serial connector going instead.

  8. A pure electric car with a small charger on DARPA Develops Stealth Motorcycle For US Special Forces · · Score: 1

    seems like the way to go. The car will have limited (single hop) range, but could recharge itself while parked. Since the engine is small and running just to drive a generator, it can be very light and efficient. Not big enough to push a car, but big enough to charge the batteries over several hours.

  9. I was going to say the Stevens Book on Ask Slashdot: Books for a Comp Sci Graduate Student? · · Score: 1

    But the original version is 70 bucks! From 1990 no less:

    http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Net...

    While the 3rd Edition is cheaper:

    http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Net...

  10. I always appreciate a logical and well reasoned on How Much Data Plan Bandwidth Is Wasted By DRM? · · Score: 1

    reply. It so elevates the level of discourse. Don't you agree?

  11. Amazon has Unbox on How Much Data Plan Bandwidth Is Wasted By DRM? · · Score: 2

    You can download TV episodes and movies to your computer or Kindle with amazon Unbox and walk away untethered and watch them. It still uses DRM to lock the content to the device, but you only have to download it once.

  12. So lets take the whole address space back on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: -1, Troll

    Lets leave IPv6 for those people who want to communicate Internationally. We will simply take back the entire address space and have the complete 32bits for the US.
    That should leave more than enough addresses here for most anything and force the IPv6 transition onto only those people/services that need to go across borders.

  13. Thanks! on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    You brightened my day.

  14. Is all that still there after you suspend/resume on Next-Gen Thunderbolt: Twice as Fast, But a Different Connector · · Score: 1

    Because my brand new ethernet connector is gone until I reboot.

  15. Nah, aliens would be the opportunity of a lifetime on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 1

    The government would gorge itself on military contracts, studies, and all manner of contracts. They would build entire schools to study the critters even if they didn't have a single cell to study.
    UFOs are the perfect enemy: They never attack (except when a little more fear is necessary) , your average human is terrified of them. Hunting rifles won't work against flying saucers. We would be totally dependent on the government to protect us from the grey devils.

    I can feel my taxes going up just thinking about it.

  16. Were they insured? on Declassified Papers Hint US Uranium May Have Ended Up In Israeli Arms · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, how do you report that to your insurance agent anyway?

  17. If you are using your CC to buy gas, on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 1

    then the pilot never touches the money and you are a friend/passenger.

  18. But there is probably a computer behind that routr on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 1

    And that computer can use any service you care to setup.

  19. xubuntu seems patched on Not Just Apple: GnuTLS Bug Means Security Flaw For Major Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    libgnutls26:amd64 2.12.23-1ubuntu4.2

    zless /usr/share/doc/libgnutls26/changelog.Debian.gz

    gnutls26 (2.12.23-1ubuntu4.2) saucy-security; urgency=medium

        * SECURITY UPDATE: certificate validation bypass
            - debian/patches/CVE-2014-0092.patch: correct return codes in
                lib/x509/verify.c.
            - CVE-2014-0092

      -- Marc Deslauriers Mon, 03 Mar 2014 14:14:00 -0500

  20. Wow, that made it seem 10 times worse, thanks! on Not Just Apple: GnuTLS Bug Means Security Flaw For Major Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    Yes its used, but only sometimes. Only for that mail stuff, and hey maybe only if someone else is handling authentication because we know thats broken. And we need the stuff there for legal reasons and we need it there as an alternative. Just in case we need to use it, even though we know its broken.

    So tell me, why cant we have the parts we know are insecure issue a log each time they are run?

  21. If GNUTls is unneeded, then create a NO-OP library on Not Just Apple: GnuTLS Bug Means Security Flaw For Major Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    Create a library with that name that does nothing, or logs errors for any entry points. Why is something being shipped that is insecure. I understand that the builds have to be changed. But the library could be replaced with a skeleton right now, can't it?
    And maybe we would see that its not quite as in-active as people think.

  22. Dual boot Linux and OSX on Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer · · Score: 0

    99.99 % spent in xubuntu

  23. The xfinity app does not seem to be available on Amazon's Fire TV: Is It Worth Game Developers' Time? · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know if its planned? The kindle fire has it, so I am confused why their desktop fire would not have it. Xbox wants 60 bucks for another year of Gold and the only reason I still use it is the xbox xfinity app.

  24. Actually, it would probably be funnier if they had on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 2

    realized it was electric. What sound effect would they use instead? Starship Enterprise sounds or something? It would probably rise to cult classic status.

    Actually, that would be fun. Slashdot should have a competition to decide what an electric car on television should sound like.

  25. No, my definition is based on how the word is on Spinoffs From Spyland: How Some NSA Technology Is Making Its Way Into Industry · · Score: 1

    being used by the press to describe how intelligence was mishandled in the run-up to the Iraq war. In that context, it was being used interchangeably with the phrase "cherry picking" to describe gaming the system to get the desired result.