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  1. Re:Dear Mrs Morissette on Canada's Conference Board Found Plagiarizing Copyright Report · · Score: 1

    Yah know, it really isn't all that clear if she was writing the song earnestly or ironically.

    She is cynical enough to have tried to be a pop star before doing whatever you would call the stuff that led to her public rise in the U.S., so who knows.

  2. Re:17000 tons of steel gone to waste on USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg To Be Sunk For a Reef · · Score: 1

    This reply of yours is far more trollish than my post.

  3. pffffft on Documenting a Network? · · Score: 1

    More like 5 digit.

  4. Re:Dangerous is worse than stupid. on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1

    Sure. Though, at the moment, it does imply a particular level of consumption, and the "middle classing" of China is drawing far more resources than the population growth of America (and probably America and (Western) Europe combined; Eastern Europe is undergoing a similar expansion in consumption).

  5. Re:Starting a war on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 1

    Most of them? Not wholesale, but they give themselves regular tongue-baths.

  6. Re:17000 tons of steel gone to waste on USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg To Be Sunk For a Reef · · Score: 1

    So why didn't you buy it and recycle it?

    I imagine the labor and other costs involved in cutting it up and bringing it somewhere useful would quickly overwhelm any financial return on the activity, so that it was disposed of in a cheap manner that is considered environmentally benign isn't that surprising.

  7. Re:Great Shareware on Epic's Sweeney On the PC Shareware Revolution · · Score: 1

    Google leads you straight to the horse:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=Carl+Ericson's+'Race'
    http://www.cs.unc.edu/~eriksonc/Game/Race.html

    No idea if that is the full version or whatever.

  8. Re:Sugar cane not corn on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1

    You should at least call them sweat factories. There is a whole city that makes socks:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/24/business/worldbusiness/24china.html?pagewanted=print&position=

  9. Re:drugs on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    The screwed up people were your alcoholics.

    The link goes to a post I made where I make statements that are contrary to my perception of your perception of my attitude.

  10. Re:The "energy loss" is a red herring. on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1

    People concerned with corn ethanol are worried that the liquid ethanol that comes out of the process contains less energy than the liquid petroleum that goes into the process. It probably does contain more, but that concern isn't a red herring, if it contains less, it is stupid to do it.

  11. Re:Dangerous is worse than stupid. on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Aspiration to and the living of Western styles of life are a much bigger problem than over population. America uses much more energy than the 5% of global consumption that would be more reasonable if you want to make population the biggest problem.

    That doesn't make population growth a non problem.

  12. Re:Intelligent Design on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 1

    Because to some extent, at least in common discourse, 'natural' means 'without human influence'.

  13. Re:Dogism on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 1

    Maybe he lives with a chimp and it will all work out in the end.

  14. Re:Dogism on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is the tequila for the chimp?

  15. Re:quick slashdot reader test: on Calculating Password Policy Strength Vs. Cracking · · Score: 1

    I get 2034f6e32958647fdff75d265b455ebf when I do that command using "secretpassword" (I did this in Python, a cmd shell and on my webhost, so either I am not reading the exact string correctly or that isn't it). My hash crack would have found that one straightaway:

    http://gdataonline.com/qkhash.php?mode=txt&hash=2034f6e32958647fdff75d265b455ebf

  16. Re:Biologists already use his criteria. on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 1

    Mirsky's columns are generally tongue in cheek. I don't presume to speak for him, but I imagine it is as much lie as it is send up of the importance that creationists and so forth place on speciation.

  17. Re:And not entirely correct on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 1

    Species are human labels. They aren't particularly relevant in nature (but we do choose them in such a way that they include large groups of organisms capable of breeding with each other, but not with other groups, so they are a very useful when examining biological systems).

  18. Re:So what we're saying is... on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    People that don't want to believe in evolution are hopeless anyway. What this does is move the discussion away from the details of biological classification towards facts that are more interesting when discussing evolution.

    The fact that we are rather different creatures from mice is notable, but a discussion of evolution doesn't depend on the factors we choose to use to make the distinction, it works just as well to consider organisms and populations that are or are not capable of reproducing without ascribing any further meaning to that fact.

  19. Re:HP Printers and Windows are a No Go on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My Mom's HP all-in-one printer installs a service that does some sort of polling looking for the printer. Another bit of the software starts this service every few seconds and then the service shuts itself down. This activity completely obliterates the System Event log in a few hours. Adding to the stupid, when the printer is connected to the computer, this service uses huge amounts of resources.

    Oh, and when they first shipped this service, it was configured with a blank DACL (this is a severe local privilege escalation hole); the patch, rather than setting some sane defaults, sets up an ACL that denies all access, preventing even an administrator account from stopping or editing the service. Fixing this requires either editing a binary registry entry or establishing a 'local system' shell ('at 11:41 /interactive cmd' as an administrator, where 11:41 is the future) and then editing the entry (separating local system from administrator mostly protects administrators from themselves).

    I suppose the fact that a blank DACL is very different from a default DACL is a bad thing, and the fact that world deny works is a pain in the ass (and is not overridden by subsequent entries), but it is also pretty clear that whoever wrote that service was a moron.

  20. Re:What is more frustrating... on Wine Project Frustration and Forking · · Score: 1

    People running Wine, from a cultural perspective, are less likely to be purchasing software than people running Windows. So the, maybe, 5% of people who use Wine instead of Windows don't represent a particularly lucrative market, especially for niche applications and whatnot.

  21. Re:Look deeper on Wine Project Frustration and Forking · · Score: 1

    So set up a logging bot and an archive. Or do they work to prevent that?

  22. Re:I don't know what they were thinking... on Adeona Warns of Instability; OpenDHT Mothballed · · Score: 1

    Adeona was an academic project. That makes using an academic project a little less surprising.

  23. Re:The focus should be on the account. on Calculating Password Policy Strength Vs. Cracking · · Score: 1

    If anything anywhere near that simple works, you don't have any security anyway, password strength doesn't matter a whole lot.

  24. Re:quick slashdot reader test: on Calculating Password Policy Strength Vs. Cracking · · Score: 1

    Sure. But those tables focus on short character strings (like, 8 or 10 characters), so they aren't terribly useful against 20 or 30 characters (or even 12).

  25. Re:quick slashdot reader test: on Calculating Password Policy Strength Vs. Cracking · · Score: 1

    It passes the google test. By example, 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 does not. Nor does 5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69.

    This table doesn't know it:

    http://gdataonline.com/seekhash.php

    Neither does this one:

    http://md5.rednoize.com/

    And nor do several others. So it seems it is reasonably long or otherwise strong.