Slashdot Mirror


User: Hawke666

Hawke666's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
294
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 294

  1. Re:PGP Is the easy part. Key mgmt is hard on Yahoo To Add PGP Encryption For Email · · Score: 1

    But it really should remove the key from the database. There’s no reason to retain anything more than the revocation signature itself.

  2. Re:Intentions on ASCAP Petitions FCC To Deny Pandora's Purchase of Radio Station · · Score: 1

    Problem is that “a certain period” is currently “their entire life, and beyond” — to the point where they literally *cannot* benefit from it because they are dead.

  3. Re:Valve has a winner on Valve Officially Launches TV-Friendly Steam Big Picture Mode · · Score: 1

    You know you can set it to only show installed games, right? It's the dropdown next to "search" in the upper left.

  4. Re:Possible High "Parental Factor" on Details of Initial "Disc to Digital" Program Emerge · · Score: 1

    And at $400/hr you’d make that in less than three hours of work!

  5. Re:Yes, typewriter on Good Disk Library Solutions? · · Score: 1

    You don’t need to use matching drives for RAID. Capacity just needs to be greater than or equal to the original. And with drive capacity continually increasing, it’s not hard to do that.

  6. Re:Pay to call, not to recieve. on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Ack, slashdot fails. “6 cents per call”, etc.

  7. Re:Pay to call, not to recieve. on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Umm, no. Landlines do pay on a per-call basis. My landline billing is or was last I checked, something like “6 per call for the first hundred calls, 5 for calls 101–500, 4 for calls 501–1000, 7 per call after that. Long distance additional (and per-minute)” Even at best it’s “unlimited flat-rate service only for local calls” so you better hope the callee’s phone number happens to be local or you’ll be paying that per-minute fee (or using long-distance minutes if it’s billed at a flat rate) So yeah.

  8. Re:Pay to call, not to recieve. on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Not really. In your scenario above, and with “caller pays” billing, it simply means that (B) pays for the call instead of (A). This is true regardless of whether A and B are landlines or cell phones, assuming “caller pays”.

  9. Re:Pay to call, not to recieve. on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    How does that make it free? It just changes which end pays for the call. Of course, one end may have a better plan that allows free calling in some circumstances, but them’s the breaks.

  10. Re:Debt collectors and banks? on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    There are software DTMF generators, which should do the job assuming the GP can get the output over to the mic of the telephone in question somehow. A quick Google search turns up several results.

  11. Re:Not a complete solution on Politics: Paul-Barney Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Federally · · Score: 1

    Salvia Divinorum != Cannabis Sativa. Also != saliva.

  12. Re:Corporate Mottos 2011 on Facebook Admits Hiring PR Firm To Smear Google · · Score: 1

    In what world is this? They’re dark purple or grey. Sometimes the optical drives are black, or some of the trim, but that’s about it.

  13. Re:Yes on Alabama Nuclear Reactor Gets 'F' Grade · · Score: 1

    You know, there are non-nuclear power plants.

  14. Re:Hey! on Google Censors "Piracy Terms" From Instant Search · · Score: 1

    Only people who don’t know how to pronounce “warez”. (Hint: It’s pronounced just like “wares”)

  15. Re:People stopped using Telnet? on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back · · Score: 1

    Netcat is not the same as netstat. However, netcat does have the disadvantage of not being nearly so ubiquitous.

  16. Re:Musicbrainz has a Similar Problem on Torrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing · · Score: 1

    Actually, Musicbrainz is quite open to this sort of thing. One of the suggestions I was given when trying to add a soundtrack which was included in a game's install (The Sims) was to put up a torrent and reference that, marking it as a bootleg. (I eventually convinced the naysayers that it was "official enough" as distributed by the game manufacturer)

    Even more traditional albums released online are easy to get added (see: Santastic, The Kleptones, Wax Audio)

  17. Re:I used iTunes many years ago and it was horribl on Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Hold Me, I'm Scared on Freetype Lands In... Microsoft Office? · · Score: 1

    mmm...pie...

  19. Re:conservatives on Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers? · · Score: 1

    J’ai une très grande toilette?

  20. Re:conservatives on Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers? · · Score: 1

    I know you know, but nelsonal was wondering.

  21. Re:conservatives on Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers? · · Score: 1

    It’s not about the pronunciation, it’s about the spelling (close to “Fox”) and meaning (“false”)

  22. Re:conspiracy theory on 1978 Cryptosystem Resists Quantum Attack · · Score: 1

    "MESSAE BLOCK"?

  23. Re:dota on Valve Trademarks 'DOTA' · · Score: 1

    You mean like they did with Alien Swarm? Oh wait...

    Nah, they’ll just release a (probably Source-based) standalone DoTA game, for free. Free games drive Steam accounts, which drive large numbers of purchases when other games are on sale.

  24. Re:Let us chat awhile. on Wikileaks Founder Advised To Avoid American Gov't · · Score: 1

    It is sad because that time is in the past rather than the present.

  25. Re:Ah Ubuntu the Windows of Linux on Firefox Search In Ubuntu 10.04 Changed To Google · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the plural be Linuces?