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  1. Re:When can we expect a ban? on What The CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works (ap.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The CIA is supposed to spy on foreign subjects. How will the US manage to ban encryption for foreigners?
    Banning the export of encryption already has been tried, and we see how effective that was.

  2. Court document on groklaw.net on 13-Year-Old Linux Dispute Returns As SCO Files New Appeal (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 2
  3. Re:Really? on An Interview With Hacking Team's CEO · · Score: 1

    Company != Agency

  4. sudoedit? visudo! on Book Review: Sudo Mastery: User Access Control For Real People · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Using sudoedit to edit the suders file is interesting, but wrong. Please don't do that. Use visudo instead, as it does check for valid syntax.

    Also, what has "The Plateau Effect: Getting from Stuck to Success" to do with sudo?

  5. I'm currently at a camp site on Camping Helps Set Circadian Clocks Straight · · Score: 1

    I'm posting this from the camp site of OHM 2013, and I cannot confirm the results of this study...

  6. Support contract on Texas Company's Antique Computers Are For Production, Not Display · · Score: 1

    How much is the IBM support contract for this?

  7. Still not working... on Worldwide IPv6 Adoption: Where Do We Stand Today? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    bartjan@ix:~$ ping6 slashdot.org
    unknown host
    bartjan@ix:~$

    Maybe about time to update this story from 2003??

  8. Re:Obligatory on FunnyJunk Sues the Oatmeal Over TM and "Incitement To Cyber-Vandalism" · · Score: 1

    That is not metric, they are imperial values...

  9. Re:Unfortunate Reality of Being a Linux User on NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop · · Score: 1

    So, you're not only paying for an OS you'll never use, but also for a drive you'll never use?

  10. Re:STDs on Best DNS Naming Scheme For Small/Medium Businesses? · · Score: 1

    We toyed with using that theme for the next group of servers. Hepatitis would do great for a cluster ;)

    No doubt management would veto it...

  11. Theme based schemes do scale beyond 60 hosts... on Best DNS Naming Scheme For Small/Medium Businesses? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Where I currently work, we manage 550+ AIX (and a few Linux) systems. I'm told there are also about 800 or so Windows images. They all have theme based names. Most AIX systems do have biological names, but a few are named after lakes and chemical elements. Windows I'm told uses car names.

    Similar servers do get related names. For example, all chemical elements are Siebel systems, Oracle runs on snakes and TSM on nuts (main site) and monkeys (the backup site). IMHO, this works well, as it makes it easier to remember what server(s) demand your attention, and harder to confuse systems with too similar looking names.

  12. Re:Firefox on Any "Pretty" Code Out There? · · Score: 1

    That depends on your kernel. There are kernels out there that use randomized pids.
    I'm using the grsecurity patch on my Linux servers, and that gives me the option to have randomized pids, and other nice things.

  13. Re:VLAN on Can You Purchase Switch Hardware Without an OS? · · Score: 1

    You can put more than 1 port into the trunk. This way, switch and link are not the bottle neck. PCI is.

  14. VLAN on Can You Purchase Switch Hardware Without an OS? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why not use any managable switch, configure each port into its own vlan, hook up the Linux box to a trunk port and use Linux's vlan support, like anyone else does?

  15. Re:You do not know that. on Man's Vote for Himself Missing In E-Vote Count · · Score: 1

    a sum total of 36 votes cast

    Nope, 36 votes counted. Who knows how many were cast.

    Even if this didn't change the outcome of a race, it's still important, as people generally vote because they expect their vote to be counted. For the individual voter it's very important to know if their vote wasn't counted because of some random error, or if it's related to whatever they voted for. This is the reason why paper ballots (or any real alternative) and recounts matter. Not (only) to change the outcome of the process, but to increase the public's trust in the fairness of the process.

  16. Just a multimeter is not enough, for AC power. on Power Consumption and the Modern Geek · · Score: 1

    How do you calculate the phase between the Voltage and Current?

  17. Hotlinked images always were a liability on Are Hotlinked Images Now a Liability? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hotlinks always were a liability, or at least have been from the moment the goatse domain was registered...

  18. Shockwave? on Linux For Supervillains · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Isn't it ironic that there is no such thing as a shockwave player for Linux?

  19. Re:while tenuous on FedEx Cracks Down on Box Furniture, Citing DMCA · · Score: 2, Informative

    The way it originally was is that .com meant computer, .net network and .org organization. I have no idea who started this silly idea of using .com for commercial entities.

  20. PCI-X on How Many Desktop PCs Can One Server Replace? · · Score: 3, Informative
    This is a server, and it does not have any PCI Express slots. Those shiny ATI cards won't fit. I believe Matrox has some cards that support quad head on PCI.

    Why do you need an USB card? The server already comes with 2 USB ports, and an USB bus supports up to 127 devices.

  21. Root servers? on Faster Updates for DNS Root Servers Arrive · · Score: 4, Informative

    These faster updates are not for the root servers, but for the .com/.net gTLD servers.

  22. Re:aah, yahoo is /.'d! on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Both Yahoo and Google (and possibly a lot of other sites, including www.microsoft.com) are down right now.
    They all use Akamai (akadns.net) for their DNS, and that's what's down.

  23. Re:1:15 million? Feh on Worlds Largest Scale Model Solar System? · · Score: 1

    "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!"

  24. Re:That's kind of cool... on New Euro Coin Released With MultiView Effect · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is a collectors' coin, not intended for circulation (although it's legal cash).

  25. Re:Headphones on Electric Shavers Rot Your Brain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I doubt it as anything to do with battery powered devices. I'm using a cordless electric shaver, and although I haven't measured it myself, I see no reason for it to emit a 60Hz (or 50Hz, in my part of the world) electric field. Mains powered shavers do, and I believe that's what this article is about.