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  1. Re:Hashes not enough either on Australian Tax Office Stores Passwords In Clear Text · · Score: 2

    Wrong on many accounts. I have a browser plugin and website that doe password hashing in the client (via javascipt) your password is not transmitted, the hash is computed locally.

    These are still vulnerable to dictionary attacks because the dictionary can be quickly hashed. That's why the hashes int he website and plugin above is variable. You can set your hash for any number. We default at 20, which does slow the attacker down. However the attacker won't know where to stop and they are only looking at hash after hash, and having to try each one. This should also slow them down as well. never mind they have a whole dictionary to go through. The techniques combine to make a formidable computational combination. But isn't perfect. Since only your hash is sent, your password remains unknown and safe.

  2. What global warming? on NOAA Report: World Labor Capacity Dropping Because of Increased Temperatures · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Even IPCC head Pachauri admits no warming for 17 years. So what warming are they talking about? 17 years is not a small amount of time. It's 0 change for 1/5 of a century. Given that it's also the most recent fifth, I don't know how they can forecast anything. The OP report says over the "last 60 years", what they mean is 60 years ago for 43 years, ignoring the most recent 17. I don't know how anyone can have any confidence in that trend line when it stops 2/3 through the period.

  3. Texture uploads are KILLER on Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? · · Score: 1

    I've been looking into this to make Qt's QML web-friendly. There are utilities to convert exiting 3D apps to JS/WebGL. However every single one fails at texture upload. All the textures are needed before hand to have any part of the UI. It simply cannot be done over the pipes we have today in a reasonable time. Maybe if we could use some download agent to get the textures local and keep them there we could overcome this, but there is still a significant first time start-up delay. Aint nobody got time for that!

  4. A friend of mine and I ended up in the same class on Ask Slashdot: Is the Bar Being Lowered At Universities? · · Score: 1

    And I proofed his report for my English class. It was atrocious. full of endless grammatical errors, punctuation etc. I had to retake the class, because let's face it English grades are subjective. But guess whose paper was selected for reading and who passed it? Proving my point that any writing class is largely complete bullshit, I repeated the course with a different teacher with the same assignments. Accordingly I re-submitted the same papers (only dates changed) and passed with a very good grade.

    As a scientific person I can't ever see how someone can award grades subjectively in creative subjects. Like, who could fail art school? I think for the most part it is just busy work. And if your instructor thinks you put in an adequate amount of work, you get passed.

  5. Re:What about hybrid? on Home Server Or VPS? One Family's Math · · Score: 1

    I didn't mention, because I thought it was obvious. That RAM CPU and storage then are then yours to control at vastly lower prices.

  6. What about hybrid? on Home Server Or VPS? One Family's Math · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do you really want all that traffic coming directly to you? The author points out home IPs can chance. Why get rid of the VPS storage and RAM and get one with cheap or unlimited bandwidth, then use a VPN to make your home server appear as if it is directly connected to the internet? This fixes the IP changing problem and does not give away your home address.

  7. Re:I doubt they will pull it off on CES: Jono Bacon Talks Up Ubuntu for Phones (Video) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nokia pulled the plug on meego before the product even hit the market. The N9 was not released in any WP7 capable market. It was guarenteed to tank on business reasons due to the MS agreement, not due to lack of Nokia trying to make a new platform but failing.

  8. Re:I see them in a strong 6th place... on CES: Jono Bacon Talks Up Ubuntu for Phones (Video) · · Score: 3, Informative

    While BB10 can use Android BB10 is also using QML, the same as this phone.
    QML is overall better doe mobile development, while Qt people work on bringing QML to iOS and android. Soon one runtime will run on them all, including Ubuntu Phone

  9. Re:I'm not going to apt-get it. on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 1

    Sure after I comment out everything between { and } in int main(int arc, car*argv[])

  10. I'm not going to apt-get it. on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 2

    Not even if it is open source.

  11. Re:What number system does God use? on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    So for real numbers, I can see this being true, but what about imaginary numbers?

    Since god is imaginary, shouldn't his number base is imaginary too?

  12. Fiverr and other micro-project sites on Ask Slashdot: Programming / IT Jobs For Older, Retrained Workers? · · Score: 1

    I know you don't want part-time work, but you admit your skills are out-of-date. But I think you'd be great at Python coding. It's easy for a BASIC programmer to pick up (any programmer really) but it feels "QBASIC" to me.

    I would also recommend you foray yourself into Linux administration based on your DOS skills.

    Once you've updated your skills to that (or even beforehand) I'd list yourself on Fiverr.com or elance.com and start picking up jobs. You can bid on jobs at your level of expertise and set your own schedule.

    Once you have a proven track record with those sites, you'll have verifiable skills that you can use for a full-time job.

  13. What number system does God use? on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    As humans, we express wonder at certain arrangements of digits, 666, 3.14[3/14] (Pi day) 12/21/2012, etc. However all of these are base-10, the same as the number of fingers we have. (Though some tribes did use fingers as base-2 digits) Computers are base2, with hexadecimal being a convenient short hand. If divinity is universal, surely God has a universal number base. I would assume e. What do you think God uses, if he uses math at all?

  14. Re:Postgresql on Fedora 19 Nixing MySQL in Favor of MariaDB · · Score: 1

    The goal is to educate people that there is a Real FREE and Open database out there. Postgres is on par with oracle in terms of features.
    MySQL has never been free, though there was a open source exemption.

    What happened was PHP hit the web and people needed a database MySQL was "free-ish" and easy to install, so people started using it. PostgreSQL was, well, the installation file had a TOC. It was overkill for a lot of the hobby sites. MySQL continued to grow with the help of their "open source exclusion" in the the license. That exclusion is now gone - commercial sites should be buying licenses.

    Meanwhile MySQL was fast, but sub-par. They eventually added all the ACID features, and when they did the speed went away and you got something that performed like how PostgreSQL had been performing all along. Not to mention that PostgreSQL is more standards compliant.

    I could go on but you get the point, though I suspect you don't care. The people who keep mentioning PostgreSQL do care, and they know that it is is flat out better than MySQL, and truly open and free.

  15. The only way to win is not to play on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    War Games got it right.

  16. The coming QML Revolution on RIM's BB10 Campaign Requires Some Serious Work · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Currently, Flash is the only cross-platform app building method. But BB10 uses Qt5 and QML. The Ubuntu Phone supports it as well. Development on Android is ongoing and and iOS on on the horizon. WindowsRT can be done as well. This isn't yet a huge deal for consumers and it never will be. But for developers, a QML app will open them up to maintaining one platform for all the phone platforms. Which means the platforms become mostly irrelevant to consumers since the exact same app will be on all. You might like the particular way that you have notifications, or widgets on your home screen, but that will be the deciding factor, unless there are artificial limitations (Apple). The hardware is all equivalent now. The apps will be equivalent. Only the OS and policies will shape the buying choice. I for one will not buy an Apple product until they allow the Swype keyboard. So I think it's now about what it's NOT got...

  17. CORRECTION - "NX" on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Remote Application Access? · · Score: 2

    http://www.nomachine.com/
    I'm sorry, my mind pulled the server, not the client side of the question.

    The NoMachine server/client is amazingly fast.

  18. NanoX on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Remote Application Access? · · Score: 1

    NanoX makes X usable even over slow links. There is a free version. It is quite a joy to use and is superior to RDP/VNC implementations.

  19. I hate it when my .DOC mutates into a .PSD on Researchers Achieve Storage Density of 2.2 Petabytes Per Gram of DNA · · Score: 0

    Where's the de-mutation program for that?

  20. Re:Apparently one Aaron Swartz was not enough. on US Government Announces National Day of Civic Hacking · · Score: 3, Informative

    Roads are predominantly state projects. And though you might claim the feds help fund them, it's only because the feds confiscate via the income tax then give it back for compliance with federal initiatives.

  21. Apparently one Aaron Swartz was not enough. on US Government Announces National Day of Civic Hacking · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Be careful out there. This isn't a true call to hacking, it is a call for free labor.

  22. Re:Just do it all in C++ on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 1

    The ABI incompatibility issue was solved using a technique where by a public-facing class and a private class. The public-facing class is the interface for the linkers and is known to the engineers to not change often. What you do in the private class no one cares about. And you can always add functions to the public-facing class, that won't break ABI, but you cannot delete or modify the function signatures of any existing function.

    So the compiler need not address it, the engineering practice does.

  23. Re:Just do it all in C++ on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 1

    Only C works on more platforms. And if there's a platform that does not have a C++ compiler, I doubt it is relevant today.

  24. Just do it all in C++ on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Before I get modded troll, I'd like to point out that there is a really awesome C++ toolkit for web development and it will blow your mind. It's called Wt and it makes your applications fully OOP and a joy to develop in. One really awesome feature is that it is Boosted and another awesome feature is smart with regard to data. It will use where apropriate (usually you use the AJAX version of a control or mark a function for export to javascript) AJAX rather than statically filling your page. The result are some really easy to code fast websites.

  25. Re:Quality of years, not quantity on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    I thoguht you were a doctor, Dr Square
    Without googling, since you are too lazy to google as well, it is (don't quote me) "A proton pump inhibitor" which basically down-mods the acid production of the stomach thereby reducing acid reflux symptoms. It allows you to continue cramming crap foods in your pie hole with less discomfort.