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  1. Re:Seems really odd on Server CE Database Development with .NET · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well if all the information is in RAM then think of how fast transaction time will be with no disk reads, then realize the power of SQL server on a PDA.

  2. Re:DRM on Apple Announces 25 Million Song Downloads · · Score: 1

    iTMS doesn't carry the type of artists that I like to listen to. Do a search on iTMS for "Dirt Bomb" "Z-Ro" or "Devin the Dude" then search for them on Kazaa.

    Shee-at, man, search for Paul van Dyk on iTMS. One song. ONE. And it's a remix of some other group's stuff. European slashdotters know who I'm talking about, and I would like to hope that some Americans do too.

  3. Re:Now... on Paid to Play Video Games · · Score: 0, Informative

    Send your resume to Playboy, I hear they're hiring for the position of "Hef".

  4. Re:we have this here. don't we? on Paid to Play Video Games · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes you need skill. Look at fatal1ty, he makes a living off of Quake 3 (maybe a new game now?) and is a spokesman for Id. Whatever he plays, all the kids buy, or download from Kazaa.

    www.fatal1ty.com

  5. Re:The next best thing on Paid to Play Video Games · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, me too! (Don't tell MY PHB, he'll mod me down)

  6. Re:FEMA is an unconstitutional entity on FEMA Opposes Broadband Over Powerlines · · Score: 4, Funny

    Broadband over power cables interferes with FEMA's mind control satellite.

    You're now entering aluminum foil hat territory.

  7. Re:And then what? on In Search of the Digital Uberdevice · · Score: 5, Funny

    tickle-me-uberdevice.

  8. give it a rest on In Search of the Digital Uberdevice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Will they knock it off already?

    A cell phone is a cell phone.
    A PDA is a PDA.
    A laptop is a laptop.
    A music player is a music player.

    Only large, bulky, overpriced devices come out of attempts to breed any of the above.

  9. Re:Well lets see... on Radio Credit Cards Move Closer · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hey, guess who doesn't understand how a credit card works?

    Credit card fraud costs the creditors more money than it costs the consumers. Remember, when you buy something on credit, it's not your money you're spending. It only costs you money when the monthly bill comes. If they are going to make a system for exchanging credit for goods, you better damn well believe it's gonna be as secure as possible.

  10. don't trust it on GNOME Foundation Board Election Results · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't trust these results. They used Diebold machines.

  11. Re:Paper receipts on E-Voting: a Flawed Solution in Search of a Problem · · Score: 1

    What we need is a real solution, a "Final Solution" to the Florida problem.

  12. cute, but on PC Mag - Mac OS X Insecure · · Score: 1

    Cute, but my Mac wasn't turned into a mindless DDOS drone but a few months ago.

    My Mac never has never told anyone ILOVEYOU.

    My Mac has never been Hacked by Chinese!

  13. Re:Ping on SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again · · Score: 1

    I wonder what percentage of the machines used in the attack are Linux boxes. Their supposedly own IP turned against them.

    heh...owned.

  14. Re:Come on guys... on SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, would, but we can't e-mail them documents anymore.

    Looks like Rock, Paper, Scissors is the only remaining viable solution.

  15. bad image on SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...Because this really makes the Linux community look like upstanding citizens.

    Well, this IS America, where a small group of undesirables can spoil it for everyone.

  16. Linux is teh Gay on Linux Power Tools · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux is for Lusers where as BSD and it's variants like MAC OS X are vastly Superios. You are teh suck.

  17. Re:How did on U.S. Agencies Earn "D" For Computer Security · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like any organization, they've outlined a strategic plan to assess the situation and assigned a mission-critical task force to consolidate committees and subcommittees on bleeding-edge decision making processes. They've empowered the new paradigm, they're looking down the road, and keeping their feet out of the mud.

    Yeah, they're right on top of it.

  18. Re:Here's the score and grade breakdown on U.S. Agencies Earn "D" For Computer Security · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well that's before the curve. We're probably looking at a B- if the professor isn't a dick.

  19. Re:Not so good.. on Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    here lies the true power in stenagraphy.

    Steganography has no power. Your example is akin to having a bunch of encrypted files on a site, but only one that contains the secret information, the others being just garbage.

    Steganography is arbitrary.

  20. Re:Is this limited to FreeBSD only? on Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm probably gonna get modded down for this, but:

    Please, please, please, avoid steganography and use standard cryptography if you want to protect data. Steganography's security lies in the idea that if you conceal the method with which data is obscured, you conceal the data. This is a very bad way to assume security. In any data protection scheme, you should always assume your enemy has the algorithm used to obscure the data, but that only you have the secret (key).

    I do realize that steganographic techniques now will encrypt data then insert the encrypted bytes into the image, but if it is so easy to extract the steganographically encoded information, what's the point of encoding it in the first place? Differential steganalysis seems to be an easy enough method of finding steganographically encoded data, so recovering the information encoded into an image or whathaveyou is somewhat of a trivial problem, and if there is a trivial step in your data protection scheme, it should just be removed, because it's pointless.

    Kerkhoff must be rolling in his grave.

  21. Re:The factors were on RSA-576 Factored · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your first factor is composite, slick.

    This is a /. revolution, instead of spelling nazis, we now have composite number nazis.

  22. Re:Hmmm. Complexity vs. Cash on RSA-576 Factored · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, the computational complexity of the General Number Field Sieve is:

    O(exp(c*log(n)^(1/3)*log(log(n))^(2/3)))
    where the value of c is reflected by the specific flavor of the NFS you're using, but in each case c>1

    I don't know the complexity of RC5, but I can imagine it's not exponential like the NFS.

  23. Re:Umm..k? on RSA-576 Factored · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not sure if this is a troll, but I may as well offer a simple explanation.

    The RSA public-key cryptosystem takes advantage of the theory that factoring composite numbers is a computationally difficult problem. I'm not going to get into specifics, but the depth of the problem is in that the composite number acts more or less as a public key, and encoded within that composite number (as one of the factors) is the private key.

    Being able to factor an RSA number is big news because it says that an RSA encoded message with a number of that size (576) can be defeated. Whether or not this is economical to defeat (i.e. time and resources put into the factoring effort) is really the key to this exercise, but one can now assume that a properly funded entity (most likely government) has the ability to defeat RSA-576.

    Hope this helps.

  24. Re:Small tip on Linux-powered Mobile Cocktail Mixer · · Score: 4, Funny

    The real question is, does the software recognize sloppy hand-mashing-on-keyboard as a request for a drink? Does it know that if you roll your palm down on the right side of the keyboard that you want another martini?

  25. Re:Aerospace Engineer on President Bush To Call For Return To Moon? · · Score: 1

    As a Slashdot Troll, let me be the first to say Natalie pr0tman and hot grits.