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  1. Re:Redirect to HTTPS on China's 'Great Cannon' -- a Cyber-weapon to Accompany the Great Firewall · · Score: 1

    And how do you tell apart DDoS traffic from regular traffic? Furthermore, the DDoS traffic is already there, it has alread used its share of your bandwidth, congesting the link for 'regular traffic'

  2. Re:Redirect to HTTPS on China's 'Great Cannon' -- a Cyber-weapon to Accompany the Great Firewall · · Score: 1

    There's only so much the receiving end of a DDoS can do. And by 'only so much', I mean 'nothing'.

  3. Re:Impressive... and improbable. on 1+ Year Running Arch Linux On a Lenovo Yoga 2 Chronicled · · Score: 1

    I prefer proper documentation over the "fun" of googling for fixed to be tried out randomly.

  4. Re:We don't know on NASA's Chief Scientist Predicts Evidence For Life Beyond Earth By 2025 · · Score: 1

    Came here to say this.

  5. Re:So what are people using anyway? on TrueCrypt Alternatives Step Up Post-Cryptanalysis · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but it stops the hard drive firmware attacks that look for a magic word.

    What?

  6. Re:Tabs vs Spaces on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 1

    It's PEBCAK, actually.
    Tabs for indentation are a good thing, because people have different tastes wrt. indentation width (I use tabstop 8 and reading stuff indented with 4 or even 2 spaces is a PITA).
    The problem is, people are doing it wrong, and insert tabs after non-tab characters. And will use tabs for line-continuation indentation, which leads to a messy look when viewed at something else than the tabstop the original author used. And then it ends in tears.

    Wrong:
    <TAB>int foo =<TAB>42;

    Wrong:
    <TAB><TAB>foobar(so, many, arguments, here,
    <TAB><TAB><TAB><TAB>the, line, must,
    <TAB><TAB><TAB><TAB>be, continued);

    Correct (period represents space):
    <TAB><TAB>foobar(so, many, arguments, here,
    <TAB><TAB>....the, line, must,
    <TAB><TAB>....be, continued);

    Doing it as shown in the last example, adjusting the tabstop will provide a convenient way to adjust the indentation to personal preference without causing a mess.

  7. Re:And yet, no one understands Git. on 10 Years of Git: An Interview With Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    mutt called, they want their slogan back

  8. Re:No Thanks on Hyundai To Release "Semi-Autonomous" Car This Year · · Score: 2

    You do realize that mere days ago someone used the autopilot to crash an Airbus into a mountain, while also overriding the cockpit door locks? How is that not the "Boeing [idea] of automation?"

  9. Re:Involve your staff in technology decisions on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Good Work Environment For Developers and IT? · · Score: 1

    The absolute worst thing that can happen is when some clueless manager gets a powerpoint sales pitch, then comes in and says "we're doing everything in HTML now!"

    FTFY...

  10. Re:Doubtful on Laptop Destroyed Over Snowden Leaks Is Now an Art Exhibit · · Score: 1

    huh? first make a copy of the data that is to be destroyed, then destroy the copy and call it a day?
    What you decribe is standard procedure in the data recovery business, not in the exact opposite.

  11. Re:Open? on Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' · · Score: 1

    And how long before Poettering notices and ports systemd to Windows?

    He probably anticipated it years ago and already has a release-grade(*) windows port of systemd sitting around in his repo.

    (*) i.e. kinda sorta works on his platform, for his use case, with pre-sanitized input, unless bad luck.

  12. Re:Prior Art Exists (tm) on Amazon Moves "Buy Now" Into the Physical World, With the Dash Button · · Score: 1

    ...and by analogy I mean proposed scenario :).

  13. Re:Prior Art Exists (tm) on Amazon Moves "Buy Now" Into the Physical World, With the Dash Button · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying this is a good idea, but your analogy is stupid, and not at all the reason for why exactly this might be a bad idea.

  14. Re: Rebel scum on Tatooine Youth Suspected In Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    meta woooosh

  15. Re:What Would be a Trivial Amount? on Measuring How Much "Standby Mode" Electricity For Game Consoles Will Cost You · · Score: 1

    Or even better, use one of those USB switchable power strips!

  16. Re:*sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 2

    Having been expelled before 8th grade is not something to brag with, son.

  17. Re:Ummmm ... duh? on Modern Cockpits: Harder To Invade But Easier To Lock Up · · Score: 1

    Your plan doesn't work unless everyone of the crew is cooperating, which is exactly not what has happened here, sherlock.

  18. Re:It's the universe trying to stop us innit... on Short Circuit In LHC Could Delay Restart By Weeks · · Score: 1

    In order to meaningfully emulate the RTC, the host still needs a real RTC, much like in order to emulate a CPU, the host needs a real CPU. Whether or not the host is warping the timesource for the emulated RTC or just uses the real one as its backend, i don't see how that's relevant to insulation

  19. Re:Ketchup was never a problem ... on Scientists Create Permanently Slick Surface So Ketchup Won't Stay In Bottle · · Score: 3, Informative

    1. Verify bottle is closed
    2. Hold bottle at the bottom
    3. Make a sudden, whipping movement with your arm, alternatively windmill it around.
    4. ???
    5. Physics! It works, bitches!
    (6. Hold horizontally when opening)

  20. Re:How is this new? on Scientists Create Permanently Slick Surface So Ketchup Won't Stay In Bottle · · Score: 1

    Yes, this. And violently shake before opening.

  21. Re:It's the universe trying to stop us innit... on Short Circuit In LHC Could Delay Restart By Weeks · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I wasn't assuming that the VM would go out of its way to pretend to be something different.

  22. Re:How many minutes until this is mandatory? on Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding · · Score: 1

    (remember, a 40mph crash has 4 times more energy involved than a 30mph crash).

    Eh, what?

  23. Re:This is a great excuse on GNU Nano Gets New Stable Release · · Score: 2

    I suppose that's why you only manage 50-or-so servers

  24. Re:It's the universe trying to stop us innit... on Short Circuit In LHC Could Delay Restart By Weeks · · Score: 1

    The universe does not need to stop us, because from the inside of it you can never prove you have the faintest idea of the way it is implemented, even if you got to model and understand every single particle and every single interaction. Does an insulated VM run on intel or on powerpc or on a commodore 64 with a hell of a RAM expansion? no way to know from the inside of it.

    Pretty sure that with a bit of timing measurement, you could tell apart a C64 from recent Intel. Identifying other, more subtle details of the host might be more difficult, but not impossible.

    You're right in that there's no way to actually prove anything about it.

  25. Re:Just great... on Short Circuit In LHC Could Delay Restart By Weeks · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not sure. What Anomalous Materials are actually involved here, and are they delivered On A Rail for Residue Processing? I mean if not, that would be fairly Questionable, Ethics-wise.

    My, look at the time. BRB fixing the Lambda Core.