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On: A New Vulnerability In RSA Cryptography

From the Abstract:

SBPA attacks empower an unprivileged process to successfully attack other processes running in parallel on the same processor

So it requires a spy proccess to be running on the same processor as the server....

--jeffk++

Re:Why can't they still sell PCs without OS?

On: Leopard Vs. Vista

You know, the first thing I do with a brand new dell is wipe the drive and all their 3rd party software which is so horrible and install my own fresh (legal) copy of Win XP-Pro.

So, same difference to me...

jeffk

Re:Hype

On: Intel Takes Quad Core To the Desktop

What is funny to me is that the list of reasons for this chip: "Engineering, CAD, high-end workstations" is the exact same list that Motorola had as target users for the 8 Mhz 68000, back then used in the Mentor Graphics Workstations, and which now is labelled a Micro-controller for embedded applications.
All that matters to me are the issues:

• Cost per gigaflop
• watts per gigaflop
• availability
• memory bus speed and width

And I will decide the applications that I will use it for!
--jeffk++

Re:"linking" should be considered very carefully

On: UK Woman Charged As Terrorist For Computer Files

Where is the proof that she put the files on her computer? What if her friend was usiing her computer for this purpose?

--jeffk++

Re:Its' Not a Patent Deal.

On: Novell Gets $348 Million From Microsoft

If it is structured so that the Novell's or Microsoft's customers can't be sued by Microsoft or Novell, this means that I ought to buy the MicrosoftNovellLinux package instead of the Red Hat one...
--jeffk++

Re:It's related, all right.

On: Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit

Oh come on... The 'Taliban Afghanistan collapsed like a rotten piece of fruit' ?

When did that happen? Do you think this happened after the majority of American troops were told to give up and move to Iraq?

How about all the Canadian Troops dying there now?

If the people really wanted a war, they would have the government support the dismantling of the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan instead of dismantling oil-rich countries.

--jeffk++

Re:HTTP/1.1 Design

On: Optimizing Page Load Times

The wonderful thing about the RFC language "SHOULD" and "SHOULD NOT" is that it really is only a suggestion that do not need to be followed. It makes it wonderful to test all possible combinations of "should" and "should not" options in the protocol with both clients and servers, probably the biggest source of bugs and problems.

rfc2119 defines the terms:

3. SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

--jeffk++

Re:Lack of ethics

On: How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election

Does it say that in the original hebrew?

--jeffk++

Re:Lack of ethics

On: How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election

I guess you are right... I never really understood how "Thou Shalt Not Kill" means "Thou Shalt Kill"...
... because they know what God thinks.
--jeffk++

Re:Lack of ethics

On: How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election

genocide in the Sudan is unlikely to affect the majority of the voter

Neither does same-sex marriage...

And if they say it does, because of an insanse fear of some violent God's retribution towards humanity, wouldn't that same violent God (from "Thou Shalt Not Kill" Fame) be more upset at genocide?

--jeffk++

Re:The list

On: The 20 Worst Games Ever

Entertain? It was non-informative and insulting - All it contained beyond the list was 'this game sucks, the gameplay sucks and the graphics suck' without backing it up with anything besides the most rudimentary details.

With this new slashdot moderation system, how do I mark this entire article as "-1, dumb"??

--jeffk++

Re:The only thing without frontiers is

On: EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers

Read the Bill. You are incorrect.

--jeffk++

Re:cutscenes

On: Games Already Filling Blu-Ray Discs

Prerended cutscenes are so 90s. I though the PS3 was powerful enough to give us high quality in game rendered cut scenes.

Chalk it up to lazy programmers and tight shipping schedules. Many game design companies will not take advantage of the full capabilities of the PS3 when it is cheaper and acceptable to just pre-render especially when you have all the data storage available on BR - and the pre-render can be used on any architecture console or computer.

--jeffk++

It is about time!

On: Linux Kernel Goes Real-Time

It sure is a about time! But what about Xenomai?

--jeffk++

Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

On: Web Censorship on the University Campus?

The irony if that happens is that they would be blocking their competitors websites!

Read about the non-filtering proxy filter on internetfilter.com at peacefire's blog:

• http://www.peacefire.org/blog/?p=4

--jeffk++

Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

On: Web Censorship on the University Campus?

BTW You can use the anti-internet filtering proxy provided free by my "Internet Filter" at:

https://proxy.internetfilter.com/access.cgi

--jeffk++

Re:Bout time

On: School Official Sues Over MySpace Page

...And kids who do not like their parents because of them being 'too strict' can get their parents into trouble by proxy! Great!

--jeffk++

Re:Give me a printout!

On: Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

But you wouldn't KEEP the receipt. The receipt goes into the ballot box. Read the grandparent msg!

--jeffk++

Re:Not a scientific theory.

On: Is String Theory Really a Scientific Theory?

Exactly! So if the current set of people are not able to conceive of a way to test something, does that mean that it is not possible for it to be correct?

Or does that just mean that they are not smart enough to either prove or disprove the conjecture?

--jeffk++

Re:Not a scientific theory.

On: Is String Theory Really a Scientific Theory?

Can you prove that it cannot ever be tested? Or is that just an assumption?

--jeffk++

Re:What a pathetic little asshole

On: Controversy Erupts Over Craigslist Prank

how do we know that he did not just make up all these emails based on real peoples names and addresses? what he has is not proof.

--jeffk++

Re:The GPL is Viral, deflection not withstanding..

On: Misconceptions About the GPL

Microsoft Office, like Internet Explorer, is just a collection of ActiveX libraries, usable by your code, and used by third party apps.

But you can't redistribute the ActiveX/COM controls - unlike the grandparent's statement that the microsoft libraries can be redistributed suggests.

--jeffk++

Re:The GPL is Viral, deflection not withstanding..

On: Misconceptions About the GPL

How can I re-distribute microsoft office with my source code for free or within my $10.00 commercial project? The license is no different in that respect from a dual licensed GPL/Commerical project like QT.

--jeffk++

Re:You described the goals of the LGPL, not the GP

On: Misconceptions About the GPL

You are always "free" to contact the authors of a GPL project and pay for a dual license that allows you to do what you require. Trolltech's QT is the perfect example of this! I do this with my own projects as well.

--jeffk++

Re:Rules of thumb are dumb

On: How Much Virtual Memory is Enough?

On Linux sometimes there are surprises. On a system with 2 gigs of ram, 2 gigs of swap, I found locatedb causing huge flushes of runnable binaries into swap or whatever causing a massive system slowdown - Even though the system was normally not under any real load and no big memory allocations ever. So I shut off swap completely, and the system was consistently fast and never crashed! of course, 2 gigs was enough for what I needed. if it wasn't ... kaboom!

--jeffk++