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  1. Re:Random number generator on Toward An FSF-Endorsable Embedded Processor · · Score: 1

    you could have a radio active sample that emits partials randomly, use that as the base for your random number generator. the features i would like to see in this chip though is virtualization acceleration similar to what the better x86 and x86_64 chips now have. Maybe throw in hardware decoding of open media formats like ogg to.

  2. Re:good luck with enforcing that on Orphaned Works and the Requirement To Preserve Metadata · · Score: 1

    my audio library would beg to differ

  3. good luck with enforcing that on Orphaned Works and the Requirement To Preserve Metadata · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How can you ban people from deleting the meta data. Are you going to ban hex edditors or text edditors? What about file systems that don't support metadata like fat? Or what about when people don't like your naming/notation conventions will that be banned to? A while back I had a itunes giftcard that I wanted to redeem so I had to install itunes. It went through "cataloging my music library" instead it indescriminatly deleted meta data and other files and renaming and disorganizing many. How will they deal with faulty programs like that will they be liable for removal of metadata?

  4. Re:But... on Some Apple iMacs "Assembled In America" · · Score: 1

    But whatever, keep sucking up to the rich and maybe they'll actually let you kiss their ring one day.

    Wouldn't it be faster to cut off the finger and keep the ring?

    I mean, if they're going to be sociopaths to us...

    Just who is the sociopath here? You seem to be the one proposing cutting of others peoples extremities.

  5. Re:Sorry, but... on McAfee Was Not Captured · · Score: 1

    geek != meth-head
    just because its chemistry does not make it nerdy

  6. Re:Question on Interviews: Ask What You Will of Eugene Kaspersky · · Score: 1

    if there was do you think he would honestly answer your question?

  7. Re:Ken Thompson's Hack on Interviews: Ask What You Will of Eugene Kaspersky · · Score: 1

    well you could in the case of a open source compiler read the source or if you don't have the expertise in that are hire a(team of) code analyst / auditors / programers. you could also compare the binaries of two different standard complaint compilers that have compiled the same code on the same hardware. you also write you own compiler and boot strap you own system from source ala gentoo/linux from scratch

  8. Re:WHAT NT DID IN THE 90S SLUSHTOP DOES TODAY !! on Splashtop's Cliff Miller Talks About Their New Linux App (Video) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeeehaaaaaw !! Linux is making some sort of a showing - in a race run 20 years ago !!

    no not quite linux has been able to do this for years already with several different protocals. its more like:

    Yeeehaaaaaw !! We wrote our app that for Linux to do something that you could already do on linux for years and pretending that this is wonderful and new so you will buy our proprietary version that will spam you with adds while you work and we promise not to spy on what your doing really!!

  9. Re:U.S.A. on The Countries Most Vulnerable To an Internet Shutdown · · Score: 1

    really iran hasn't seen any rioting in after having done so? they were the last ones weren't they? or are they still in the process of building their firewall?

  10. Re:Holy shit on Inside the Raspberry Pi Factory · · Score: 1

    yes but people end up using JavaScript to much to do things that html and css can do.

  11. Your secure OS on Interviews: Ask What You Will of Eugene Kaspersky · · Score: 2

    You plan on making a secure OS for for industrial/infrastructure systems do you plan on basing it on preexisting open kernals, BSD, Linux, Haiku, Mach. Will it be a Unix/Posix like? will it be a monolithic or micro kernal? or are you think of more of hypervisor that host and monitor the guest os for the scada systems?

  12. Re:Sorry, but... on McAfee Was Not Captured · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because he is the geek equivalent to Charlie Sheen;
    batshit crazy, totally fried on drugs, paranoid, goes of on ranting tirades, has no concept of reality, funny as hell to watch from a distance, and explains why the anti-virus we all hate is so crappy and validates our belief that he is brain-dead that we long ago derived from said anti-virus

  13. I Wonder? on Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1% · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if win8 will ever pass the xp market share

  14. Re:Making No Sense on Matthew Garrett Makes Available Secure Bootloader For Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    easy answer ms tried screwing with the linux guys. they however just saw some programmers name on this application and signed it. MS is run by chair throwing anticompetitive dicks. if you start from that base assumption it all make perfect since.

  15. Re:I disagree. Vehemently, in fact. on FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn · · Score: 1

    or simply requiring some basic training in computers, think how much different life would be if people actually had clue how to use their white metal box as something more than foot stool/ solitare deck

  16. Re:Not yet... on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    popular belief does not make something true

  17. Re:But, think of the strippers! on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    bet your wait staff at you countries restaurant love it when your there don't tip and are never tempted to spit on your food

  18. Re:And they suck on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    i though Eisenhower was on the 50 cent piece.

  19. Re:Abandon $50 and $100 bills! on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    several chains of dollar stores would beg to differ on that point. they are a great place to pick up cheap head phones if you forgot your normal ones or if they broke. also cheap place to get some cola or dishes for collage students apartment.

  20. Re:No on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    vast yes, significant no

  21. Re:Not yet... on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    to may people head would pop. i think it would be amusing to no longer have billionaires but giganaires and government spending measured teradollars

  22. Re:Not again on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    saving 0.004% of 3.796 trillion( the total enacted expenditures for 2012) means a savings of $151,850,000 if wolfram alpha is to be believed i would be more than happy if they would do this for that "little" of a savings. if people bitched tell them they can have the dollar bill back once they caugh up even half of the price difference. bitching about it would stop rather quickly then

  23. Re:Not again on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    i like the rfid chip idea, maybe make a dollar coin also contain a bitcoin :-P

  24. Re:E-Z Re:Not again on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    I don't have that much experience with toll roads here in WA we only have one toll bridge i believe, so i may be wrong but is it possible that it would not be worth the bother to get any easypass but often enough to keep a few coins in the ash tray?

    as for making the money heavy and bulky by the time you have enough dollar coins for that to approach being an issue you could just exchange them for a larger denomination bill. As for encouraging people to switch over to credit/debit card why would they not want that? it would make all of you transactions easier to fallow and give them more people in between to collect taxes from and they could cut cost of cash production as less of it would be used therefor less needed and less made so less money spent. where is the down side for the government?

  25. Re:Not yet... on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    um no, then you would only make the rich poorer (and only for a short while, they did not get rich for being stupid (unless they got rich on reality TV shows the n they got rich for being very stupid)) and not of changed the value of the currency significantly. oh and those rich you are so happy to take money away from are the ones that employ all of our asses. you go trying to take their money and the will pack up their shit and leave with most of their money that will screw the economy even more.
      the rich buy stuff and build the factories that in turn employ people and make stuff more stuff.
      lets look at William Randolf Hurst for example the arch type for the evil capitalist commonly attacked for the building of his massive Hurst Castle which cost over 10 million dollars in 1920-40 money at that. but what was the economic influence on the economy of the area? that would be a an influx of billion of dollars (in modern money) paid to hundred of contractors construction workers and more that they would not of had if Hurst had not built is privet castle and instead bought a preexisting home.
      If not for the rich we would have no jobs and no money.