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  1. Re:huh, bug deal? on Modded UX490 UMPC Shows Off Years of Community Development · · Score: 1

    maybe there is something awesome about this i'm not getting? it's commodity hardware thats been tweaked a bit, nothing that should take "years"

    Obviously it took years (and how many wrecked machines?) to get the BGA CPU unsoldered and resoldered.

    (But, seriously, the good news is the 128Gb PATA SSD, I've been waiting for that baby for my VAIO TX3).

  2. Re:Alternative materials? on CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage · · Score: 1

    You cannot run a reactor for enriched-uranium with plutonium. And plutonium is also a very limited source.

    Uh, yes you can. And we do. Look up what MOX is.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOX_fuel

    In France, EDF aims to have all its 900 MWe series of reactors running with at least one-third MOX.

  3. Re:Not worried, fixed already on SSL Renegotiation Attack Becomes Real · · Score: 1

    Well, the obvious search http://www.google.com/search?q=debian+openssl+%220.9.8l%22 comes up with

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555829

    Which ends:

    Subject: Bug#555829: fixed in openssl 0.9.8k-6
    Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:48:39 +0000

    Source: openssl
    Source-Version: 0.9.8k-6

    We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
    openssl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

    [...]

    Closes: 555829
    Changes:
      openssl (0.9.8k-6) unstable; urgency=low
      .
          * Disable SSL/TLS renegotiation (CVE-2009-3555) (Closes: #555829)

    No fix yet for Lenny as far as I can see, but if you're really worried you could install the sid version.

  4. Re:The cloud attack isn't new on The "Hail Mary Cloud" Is Growing · · Score: 1

    I changed SSH to a nonstandard port and reduced attempts by 95%.

    Sounds like made up numbers. You claim that one in 20 ssh login attempts was coming in on a non ssh port? Which port was it exactly?

  5. Re:why ssh on phones? on The "Hail Mary Cloud" Is Growing · · Score: 1

    Because today's phone is tomorrow's remote terminal.

    You'd better believe I sometimes wish I could log into my personal server remotely from my phone to check the logs or something.

    Tomorrow? I log in to my servers from my phone around 5-6 times a day.

    You don't have putty on your phone? Why not?

  6. Re:Fascinatingly Bizarre Logic of economists on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    I am not advocating socialism or anything like that. The best system is probably a mixture of elements of a free market and a controlled economy.

    But that is socialism.

  7. Re:icing on the cake: on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 1

    Now now, we don't know that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990.

    But he hasn't denied it.

  8. Re:Insightful on Iraq Swears By Dowsing Rod Bomb Detector · · Score: 1

    Nasty virus, but it didn't kill me.

    Drat. Oh, well, better luck next time.

  9. Re:No. on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, now you know how we feel when somebody bring up Australia! on the one hand you gave us Mad Max,

    ITYM Mad Max 2. Mad Max (1) was shit.

  10. Re:No. on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    He used the GPL. Who created that? He also used tools from the Gnu project. And the basis of Linux? Something called Minix???

    Hmm, wonder where those people came from....

    NEW YORK CITY!

    Well, it may be no good for Salsa, but it seems acceptable for software freedom.

    GPL - RMS, Cambridge, MA.
    Minix - A Tannenbaum, FU Amsterdam.

    New York? (Ok, AST is not so far from Haarlem, but,,,)

  11. Re:What on Plowing Carbon Into the Fields · · Score: 1

    Well, that's blown their bandwidth limit.

    Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
    The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
    Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.bioagtive.com Port 80

  12. Re:The space race isn't over... on Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, forgot to add... and now we've got a President espousing an ideology more in common with Lenin than Regan,

    At this point everyone can stop reading, you have demonstrated your total disconnect from reality.

  13. Re:Surprised? on The US's Reverse Brain Drain · · Score: 1

    Dude, in any economy, the money trickles down to the poor.

    Exactlty the opposite of the truth. All money comes from the "poor", the rich drill down to suck it out of our pockets.

  14. Re:Nokia actually stole IPR from a little company on Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone · · Score: 1

    Uh, Nokia just won the case against IDCC.

    Apple had licensed the patents from IDCC, that's why Nokia want the money.

    http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/10/17/itc.finds.nokia.not.violating.3g.patents/

  15. Re:Which nation? on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Yes. Sorry. (Default assumption - if it's a paper, Murdoch owns it :-( ).

  16. Re:Which nation? on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Since the linked article is in the New York Times, the context ought to be clear enough.

    Oh, you mean slashdot is an Australian website. That's ok then.

    Whoops, I forgot, he changed his nationality. Slashdot must be a NewsCorpian website. (What you thought Murdoch became a Yank? No, America became Murdochian).

  17. Re:Do not want on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Are you aware that getting the seasonal flu vaccine increased your chances of getting H1N1?

    No, I'm not. I am aware that one study seems to imply that.

    For fuck's sake, slashdot morons know fucking nothing about science.

    Nothing.

    Fuck.

  18. Re:Do not want on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be a good reason to let their immune system deal with it?

    AAARGH! that's what a vaccine does, it lets your immune system deal with it! The only way to have a "stronger immune system" is to be healthy, not get the flu. Being ill fucks your immune system up.

  19. Re:complete strawman on A Step Closer To Cheap Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    I did find a claim where EDF promised to build 4 nuclear plants in the UK without any taxpayer money (which sounded like it's unusual)

    It's unusual in the UK, who's first generation plants (Magnox) were designed to provide plutonium for the armed forces and who's second generation plants (AGR) were over-engineered to near uselessness and who only got one fourth generation plant (Sizewell B PWR) built due to NIMBY.

    and another article where they said they'd never build nuclear plants in the UK unless they'd be subsidized.

    Actually EDF didn't ask for subsidies, what they said was:

    Mr de Rivaz [EDF UK CEO] suggested that the best way to support the nuclear industry would be to make sure penalties paid by rival fossil fuel power generators under the European Union's emissions trading scheme were kept high enough to make nuclear investment attractive.

    [...]

    EDF is also concerned that the additional incentives for renewables will lead to so much wind capacity being built that nuclear power stations will have to be shut down at times of high wind power output, jeopardising the economics of new reactors.

    They're worried that the carbon credits are being priced too low (as others are, including Greanpeace) and that wind is getting too high a subsidy.

    Source http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1369ae48-4972-11de-9e19-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss&nclick_check=1, interestingly mis-interpreted by the Greanpeace article at http://weblog.greenpeace.org/nuclear-reaction/2009/06/edf_and_nuclear_subsidies_how.html

  20. Re:complete strawman on A Step Closer To Cheap Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    If it's not the construction and operation of the plant itself that's subsidized, it's various secondary costs (storing the waste, safety and security, etc) that's covered by the government.

    The French nuclear plants were paid for by long term loans raised by the EDF, no government money.

    The plants are operated by the EDF, paid for by the money they bill me for my electricity, (EUR 0,114/kWh in the day, EUR 0,0734/kWh at night).

    In France the waste isn't stored, it's reprocessed, the plutonium is reused, sold back to the EDF for more money than the reprocessing and storage of the remains costs.

    Safety is of course a government responsibility, paid for by the taxes that the EDF pays the government.

    Security is also a government responsibility, also paid for by the taxes that the EDF pays the government.

    Where's the subsidy?

  21. Re:This is the Sound of on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 1

    ITYM "fuck's just a fucking word, for fucks sake get fucking over it you fucking fuck".

  22. Re:complete strawman on A Step Closer To Cheap Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    Ages ago I heard that Netherland imported nuclear-generated electricity from France, and it was subsidized by both governments in order to be competitive.

    Got a citation for that, 'cos it sounds like shit. EDF doesn't get subsidies from the French government, EDF pays money to the French government.

  23. Re:Fusion!? on A Step Closer To Cheap Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    Ah CANDU, a machine for turning unenriched uranium into easily chemically separated plutonium. What a nice anti-proliferation measure that is.

    India made all the plutonium for it's bombs in CANDU derived reactors.

    Iran already has a heavy water reactor at Arak, which some people suspect is to be used for plutonium production.

    "If it's Canadian it must be nice'.

  24. Re:From what I've discovered... on Are Software Developers Naturally Weird? · · Score: 1

    I'm going to refer you to the Dunning-Krueger effect,
    [...]
    And for my whole life I've fairly consistently outperformed ~90-95% of the general populace around me

    Hehehehehhe.....

  25. Re:Management on The Sidekick Failure and Cloud Culpability · · Score: 1

    The important thing is that you take it seriously. That means contracts with your data storage provider with exactly what backup and restoration services they're promising and penalties for failing to meet those promises.

    Which do you want, your data, or whatever crumbs the penalty will get you? In the real world penalties are only useful for CYA. "But boss, they will pay us $100 for every day our $1000/min server isn't up!"

    Never put your eggs in one basket. Never. If you want to use a cloud, use two.