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  1. Re:Raas!? on Quantum Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    SSL handshake requires a pseudo-random nonce[...]

    FTFY

  2. Re:There's no such thing as random on Quantum Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    Is it true randomness, or have we just failed to recognize the pattern yet?

  3. Re:"Remember when USB first came out? " on Expect Hundreds of Thunderbolt Devices, Says Intel · · Score: 1

    Yeah, FireWire ports are decently common-ish. FireWire devices? Not so much. And that's really a shame.

    "not so much"? They're ultra-rare. I've worked in IT for years, and have never seen a firewire device, ever. Not even a cable!

  4. Re:Spoiler alert? on Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Your comment did reference ME3's ending as well.

  5. Re:Run your own on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Trustworthy VPN Service? · · Score: 1

    Nope, you can use any program if you use tsocks.
    man tsocks :)

  6. Re:For this you want a professional product on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    I don't need to check *every* package myself, but I expect that most of them were checked by someone at some point.
    I can be 100% sure, there were no external audits of most black-box software.

  7. Re:ERROR on US Unhappy With Australians Storing Data On Australian Shores · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you have root access, you surely *can*.
    If you have root access and don't know how, I would avoid hiring your company's services at any cost!

  8. 2TB = 2000GB on Portugal Is Considering a "Terabyte Tax" · · Score: 1

    According to SI, 2TB = 2000GB. And that's what disk manufacturers used, and have always used.
    2TiB = 2048GiB, but that's a different thing, and disk manufacturers don't care about that.

  9. Re:For this you want a professional product on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    That is quite true. In 2012, I'd expect USA to be using web-based interfaces for these sort of things.

  10. Re:For this you want a professional product on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    Free software doesn't mean unpaid developers; lots of FLOSS developers get payed (and not badly) for their work.
    What's your obsession with paying for black-box software which nor you, nor a fellow programmer can audit, fix, or modify?

  11. Re:For this you want a professional product on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    Why would specialists have to work for free? There are plenty of companies (and non-profits) that pays specielists to do their work, and still release open-source products.

  12. Re:It's already backwards... on ICANN's Brand-Named Internet Suffix Application Deadline Looms · · Score: 1

    "/somepage.html" isn't part of the domain.

    Emails (and before then, logins) are "user@subdomain.domain.country". Pretty logical.

    URLs, are, technically protocol://user:password@domain:port/resource
    Up to "port", it all made sense. Not sure why that's how everything ended up though, but the problems are not the domains, they existed before HTTP.

  13. Re:Evolution on ICANN's Brand-Named Internet Suffix Application Deadline Looms · · Score: 1

    The logical evolution is that in the future, people won't even write pepsi, and still get to the website.

  14. Re:Too late on ICANN's Brand-Named Internet Suffix Application Deadline Looms · · Score: 1

    This stands quite true in Argentina. .com.ar is for anyone, any they're VERY used. .edu.ar requires you to be an officially recognized educational entity and you need to do some paperwork and stuff to get it. .org.ar almost the same as above. .net.ar only for legally recognized ISPs. ".net.ar" suck! And I've yet to come across one.

  15. Re:Thanks for breaking many email address validato on ICANN's Brand-Named Internet Suffix Application Deadline Looms · · Score: 1

    Actually me@ (me@209.202.254.14) is perfectly valid as well. So are some other really odd and little seen combinations. There's also me@my-ipv6.

  16. Re:If you need to be heard by pedestrians on Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound · · Score: 1

    Why the hell is this downvoted?
    It's the perfect solution: really. That's what the horn is for, and it really does work even with blind people.

  17. Re:I hate this idea on Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself!

  18. Re:any sound in the world.... on Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound · · Score: 1

    The cars can honk when they see someone about to cross. Or slow down. It's not like they'd be going 70 in the middle of a city/town/village/wharever.

  19. Re:Spoiler alert? on Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Really? It's a spoiler?
      - Everyone I know GUESSES that ending before the game came out.
      - The internet is full of spoiler due to the fans complaining about the crappy endings (there was even a /. article recently).
      - The game came about over a month ago. Get over it.

  20. Re:"Remember when USB first came out? " on Expect Hundreds of Thunderbolt Devices, Says Intel · · Score: 1

    Firefire isn't uncommon.
    My PC has a firewire port, and so have the last couple of PCs I had.
    I never used it though. To be honest, I only once met someone who had, some time ago, used firewire.

  21. Re:Normally C but... on Ask Slashdot: Best Book For 11-Year-Old Who Wants To Teach Himself To Program? · · Score: 1

    I started with C when I was 12. I wouldn't recomend it, at all.
    It was actually 12 years later that I *really* got around to learning C.

  22. Since you commented "ruby" as a reply to "python", I'm amused that noone voted is as flaimbait.

  23. Re:Seems commercial... on ICANN's Brand-Named Internet Suffix Application Deadline Looms · · Score: 1

    This would no longer work with custom TLDs, as you'd have a chance of colission.

  24. Re:.localhost on ICANN's Brand-Named Internet Suffix Application Deadline Looms · · Score: 1

    ".localdomain" isn't really standard either, though I have seen it in some places as well. Mainly, /etc/hosts - I've never seen it in use anywhere.
    ".here" is pretty clean in that it refers to you current location (room? building?), which I don't really understand the scopt of "localdomain". Is it just this PC? Or the entire subnet?
    ".local" is standard-ish, and means the entire subnet, use in zeroconf/avahi/bonjour.

  25. Re:No on ICANN's Brand-Named Internet Suffix Application Deadline Looms · · Score: 1

    I see little point in using the already-fading-away "www" if you have a brand name TLD though.
    However, domains such as "disgruntledpenguins.android" might not sound like an internet domain AT ALL.