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  1. Re:Maybe not cheese, maybe a tool? on Ancient Chinese Mummies Discovered In Cheesy Afterlife · · Score: 1

    Rather interesting comment sir. Whilst I was starting reading your answer, I was thinking about if it were possible to be milk that were too long with the kefir, however your ideia is much more interesting.

  2. Re:rennet on Ancient Chinese Mummies Discovered In Cheesy Afterlife · · Score: 1

    The comment I made on the top of the thread was not innocent. It is one of the "best" preserved secrets in the industry and people are actually socked by it. I only found it out when I went vegan. As a side anecdote , I once asked my sister if she knew how cheese was made, and she told me milk and cream...sure...ignorance is a bliss. Thing is, it turns it out standard cheese is neither vegetarian nor hallal

  3. rennet on Ancient Chinese Mummies Discovered In Cheesy Afterlife · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just a quick note, rennet was/is not made of one enzyme in the intestine of bovines, but of one in the stomach. The article got it wrong. It is rather interesting they were using kefir for cheese making...ovo-lacto vegetarian cheese lol

  4. Re: lipstick and suction cups on Apple Drops Snow Leopard Security Updates, Doesn't Tell Anyone · · Score: 1

    Replying to invisible AC...The above poster is not dramatising learning, he just dont buy in all the hype of the lastest of the new, and has priorities and a life. And then there are cultures where they also stick to things while they work, and dont waste all their budget to have the latest shiny toys the Joneses have.

  5. Re:Worst way to do it... on Yes, You Too Can Be an Evil Network Overlord With OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    I prefer to use netflow if the equipment supports it. Port mirroring is all fine and dandy with low volumes of traffic, however for higher volumes you dont have much of a choice. Netflow tracks the transactions for you, whilst with mirroring with will have to deal with fragmentation and maintaining tables of TCP flows. And with mirroring you will received much more data. Netflow used to be a CPU hog on the router side, nowadays the load is barely notable, and they will send off summaries of the flows/transactions. The protocols is quite simple to use, at least up until v7. v9 upwards is unnecessarily complicated imo.

  6. Re:Dumb alignment joke incoming on Yes, You Too Can Be an Evil Network Overlord With OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    and iOS is for Elves...

  7. Re:Additional Cuban troops arrived too on Internet Shutdown Adds To Venezuela's Woes · · Score: 1

    They are quiet until they are sure of the outcome. They dont want to broadcast a possible revolution live.

  8. Re:School me up - how does this happen? on Dear Asus Router User: All Your Cloud Are Belong To Us · · Score: 1

    You dont know what you are talking about sir, at all. And I am telling you that after running the Internet side of a Internet Cable company during 5 years. Custom firmwares, specific revisions of hardware, support of security protocols, authorisation/provisioning of clients/service based on MAC address, and often in ADSL routers deviations to the standard protocol...It is not the same as buying a fridge or a home wireless router at al.

  9. Re:The US Navy has lots of windows boxen on Iran's Hacking of US Navy 'Extensive,' Repairs Took $10M and 4 Months · · Score: 1

    You dont need to consult for them, it is public knowledge they are so incompetent and deranged to run nuclear power submarines with windows boxen.

  10. Re:School me up - how does this happen? on Dear Asus Router User: All Your Cloud Are Belong To Us · · Score: 1

    Good luck connecting/activating the service with a non-approved ISP equipment...It is not the same as connecting a TV or a switch in your local network.

  11. Re:School me up - how does this happen? on Dear Asus Router User: All Your Cloud Are Belong To Us · · Score: 1

    yes, most of us have a modem router solution. I also have it too. Are you stuck with it? Not necessarily... If you are fortunate like myself, you can disable the routing/wifi functions, configure it in bridge mode, and connect to it proper hardware.

  12. Re:Courtesy shouldn't be law on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    I dont have the slightest idea why you deem acceptable people talking in theatres. It is quite annoying, and in fact, you can hear the call from several rows afar. Very rude.

  13. Re:This is not new / potential scam on How To Hack Subway Fares Using Fare Arbitrage · · Score: 1

    sorry, tolls, not tools.

  14. This is not new / potential scam on How To Hack Subway Fares Using Fare Arbitrage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Decades ago, the employees of our national highways that collect tools used this very same scheme of swapping tickets to defraud their own employer in millions. The scheme went that if you were paying not by credit card, but in cash, and coming say, from a city 300km away, they would swap your ticket with a city 10km away, and would pocket the diference. Colleagues on another posts in nearby cities would swap tickets already pre-validated for that effect. From the little we could heard about it at the time, this scheme went on for almost a year, until they got more greedy and careless and got caught.

  15. Re:I deciphered it last month. on Voynich Manuscript May Have Originated In the New World · · Score: 2

    About moderating down a comment of mine about the portuguese discovering north america, brasil and australia long before the official dates: "Gasper Corte Real made trips to the north west in 1500 and 1501, visiting Greenland, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. He disappeared on the last voyage, and his elder brother Miguel set out with an expedition to find him in the following year, but he also disappeared. King Manuel sent out a further expedition to find the two brothers, but without success, and at this point abandoned exploration of the north west. Newfoundland was long considered a Portuguese possession but the Corte Real brothers were forgotten by historians until an archaeologist discovered an inscription on a boulder on the shore of the Taunton River near Cape Cod. The letters seem to read Miguel Corte Real, and it has even been possible to imagine the date: 1511, which would indicate that Corte Real must have survived for at least ten years among the indians." "15th- and early-16th-century manuscripts indicate Portugal had already known about Brazil. Why would the Portuguese know about Brazil but keep it secret? The answer lies in the Portuguese and Spanish race to find India at the end of the 15th century. While the Portuguese concentrated on searching for India by sailing the Atlantic around South Africa, the Spaniards and Christopher Columbus chose to look in the Caribbean. To understand why Portugal reached Brazil and hid it, one must delve into a secret Portuguese plan to keep Spain from beating Portugal to India." " second Portuguese author also described sailing to Brazil before its official discovery. In 1514 the Portuguese mariner Estevam Fróis was sailing along the northern coast of South America when Spaniards captured him. They accused the Portuguese mariner of sailing in Spanish territory, or on the western side of the boundary established by the Treaty of Tordesillas. The Spaniards imprisoned Fróis in Hispaniola. Writing from his prison cell, Fróis claimed that he had been sailing along the Brazilian coast for twenty years. [24] His chronology placed Fróis in Brazil in 1494, the very year when King João II was negotiating the Treaty of Tordesillas with the Spanish monarchs, some six years before the Portuguese officially discovered Brazil" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

  16. Re:I deciphered it last month. on Voynich Manuscript May Have Originated In the New World · · Score: 0

    There are records of Portuguese, vikings and even chinese reaching the new world. North America and Brasil (and even Australia) were discovered by Portuguese much earlier on than the official dates. There are rather obscure theories of the Portuguese themselves having in their power old Chinese maps. It was just due to the Tordesillas treaty and lack of man power that the Portuguese had no interest in revealing it to the world at large. Speaking about the Tordesillas treaty, where Portugal and Spain divided the world In half, it was no coincidence when officially the Brasil was not discovered yet that Portugal insisted in moving the coordinates to get Brasil. However they underestimated the sheer size of the new continent, and the rest is history.

  17. Re: Call a Lawyer on Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service · · Score: 1

    What unauthorised charges? I always give anyone who ask me for VISA virtual cards with a a reasonable ceiling. heck, when an hotel asked me for a visa number just to be sure I showed up, and "we wont use it sir", I gave them a 5 Euro virtual VISA. The first thing the idiots told me when I showed up IN TIME was "we werent able to charge your VISA..."

  18. Expand in what you know on Ask Slashdot: It's 2014 -- Which New Technologies Should I Learn? · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of companies/ISP running horrid programs written in Java or whatever not. Learn the APIs for communications and Internet protocols.

  19. Re:Interview ending question on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    Hmmm Gibraltar. I dont even wonder where "Dubain" came from. And the so called IT manager had to bring a very rookie indian tech to ask me more stupid questions like "what is TCP/IP", which were completely inappropriate questions for the level of expertise needed for that post.

  20. Re:Interview ending question on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    I answered that one in a very stupid interview with an "IT" manager in a position for Dubain asking me a string of stupid and possibly some illegal questions, as if I were migrating single or with company ... I really dont care where I am in 5 years, have you looked at my CV? I already have done much of what I want.

  21. Re:Here's some more stupid interview questions on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    Despite them having my CV, it is always more a less a mandatory question to ask you to describe in your own words your paste experience. It allows you to stress the most important experiences to the job in question, and to show them your reasoning process and how much articulate you are.

  22. Re:Stupid questions may be a deliberate part ... on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    I dont doubt they are valuable. They are there to show me I dont want to work with them, otherwise I might have to deal with dimwits on a regular basis, and I might not consider it adequate.

  23. Re:What is the difference between a duck? on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    Those questions are very EASY to answer. I am not interested in dealing with you. Good luck and good afternoon.

  24. Re:Be Careful on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    orn... what? lol

  25. Re:Proof the religion is the true evil. on In Greece, 10 Months In Prison For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    Politics, football and religion are all the same...