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  1. Re:Anticipation... on First Clip from Firefly Movie to be Shown at Comic-Con · · Score: 1

    It's still not funny.

  2. Re:Neat, Now if only on Cheap Cell-Phone Detector · · Score: 1

    These kids are rich

    I haven't RTFA, but unless the have patented this thing, I doubt they are going to profit from it.

    Come on, you can detect cellphone activity with *ANY* loudspeaker. It cannot be hard for any electronics company to design such a device from scratch and start producing them in bulk within two months.

  3. Re:Poetic... on IT's Musical Habits · · Score: 1

    Guys don't listen to Britney.

    Well, she was born to make me happy, so the least I can do is *pretend* to listen.

  4. Re:15" near-TV quality screen on Toshiba Unveils Laptop With Instant-On TV & DVR · · Score: 4, Informative

    Think viewing angle and refreshrate/fade

  5. Re:Don't be gay - resist pornography! on Wearable Customizable Displays · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But what if some deity you've never heard of turns out to be The Real Thing, and has a particularly nasty kind of punishment in store for those that worshipped this JHWH idol of yours?

    Existence of an afterlife does not imply it's the afterlife you've envisioned.

  6. Re:Sweet Zombie Jesus on Evaman Worm Attacks Email Servers · · Score: 1

    What's more, I'm pretty sure it's not a worn, but a worm. Sheesh, didn't the submitter get ANYTHING right?

  7. Re:FP on 'Satan' Missile Now Launches Satellites · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, smiting is soooo 500BC

  8. Re:Tic Tac Toe on In These Games, the Points Are All Political · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually, I think that would take a lowly 80386 about 30 seconds or so to play.

    Hey, as long as the computer player doesn't decide it would be a better strategy to wage thermonuclear war against my country instead, I don't care either way.

  9. Re:Thank you on Drilling Under the Sea · · Score: -1, Troll

    One of the most inspiring phrases from the time Holland struggled with the sea is: 'Luctor et Emergo' (Ik worstel en kom boven / I struggle and emerge)

    Which sounds good, but wouldn't it have been smarter to just stay out of the pool?

    The Dutch are just Germany-rejects, kicked into the swamp 2000 years ago.

  10. Re:So Fark cliches are invading Slashdot now? on Mutation Creates SuperKid · · Score: 1

    Luckily, it will be too late for Völler to benefit from this.

  11. Re:Slovenia as a developing country?!! on More On The Open Sourcing Of Iraq · · Score: 1

    Slovenia was never part of the Soviet Union, it was part of Yugoslavia.

    Only been there a couple times 15 years ago, so I can't tell you what the current state of affairs is there.

  12. Re:If you can stand waiting... on How To Avoid Viruses At Windows Install Time? · · Score: 1

    In the first case, you have complete control over BOTH files, so you're not aiming for a particular hash to match, just two files that might exploit a certain weakness of the algorithm.

    In the second case, one file (and hash) is fixed (posted on the website of the producer), and the trick is create another file that has the same hash. This is of course complicated by the fact that the new files needs other properties too for an attack to be successful, like being able to install a backdoor while still looking and behaving like the original file.

    Consider an imaginary hashing algorithm that is cryptographically secure, except that any file that starts with "x" generates the same hash.

    With this algorithm, case 1 would be trivial: just create two different files starting with a "x"

    Case 2 could still be extremely difficult, because most files will not start with "x", and their hash cannot be replicated with another file.

  13. Re:If you can stand waiting... on How To Avoid Viruses At Windows Install Time? · · Score: 3, Informative

    MD5 is weak in the sense that it is possible to create two files with identical hash. It's NOT possible (at the moment) to create another file that has the same hash as an existing one.

    So, for this purpose, MD5 is adequate.

    You're right about SHA being better though.

  14. Re:NOT A TROLL!!! on Mozilla 1.7 Released · · Score: 1

    The main thing that caused me to leave the Postbank was the fact that they had *visiting hours* for their internet banking site. No banking allowed between 23:00 and 6:00 CET

    Haven't looked back once.

  15. Re:Awesome! on Mozilla 1.7 Released · · Score: 1

    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217527 seems to be the bug, (argh, bugzilla doesn't allow referals from /.)
    Although it's marked as fixed, both Firefox 0.9 and Mozilla 1.7 still get the testcase wrong (on WinXP SP1)

  16. Re:Agreed... on Mozilla 1.7 Released · · Score: 1

    I think I read somewhere it has something to do with the speed and manner in which the html loads. So, when only part of a table is loaded, it resizes it to fit the content, and then when the rest of the table is loaded, longer lines will seem to overflow. Or something to that effect.

    That would explain the difference in behaviour when you have something that influences the loading of pages.

  17. Re:Awesome! on Mozilla 1.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Not on my machine, it doesn't. Firefox still does that sometimes (although I rarely need more than one reload). That bug has been there for a long time.

    (and of course, now that I preview this comment, everything shifts about a screen's width to the right)

  18. Re:Spatial for shallow, Browser for deep. on Why Users Blame Spatial Nautilus · · Score: 1

    This is, of course, left as an excercise for the reader.

  19. Re:soo... on McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do you know it's meat?

  20. Re:Conflicting stories on Russia, China World's Biggest Spammers · · Score: 1

    73% of all statistics are made up.

  21. Re:You like /.? I Like /.? Funny we should meet he on Do You Really Want to Meet People on the Web? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, because your real name is Malakai, and mine is ComaVN

  22. Re:He seems a dangerous driver (serious) on LA to Oregon at Mach 9 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, stupid of him to get injured in a densely populated area during rush hour. Bad planning :P

  23. Re:Analog Hole, but nice try on Recording Industry Hopes To Hinder CD Burning · · Score: 1

    You mean the store you wanted to buy several thousands of dollars worth of equipment from AGREED that it wasn't their equipment that failed? And that it was someone else's fault?

    It boggles the mind.

  24. Re:They just don't get it.... on Recording Industry Hopes To Hinder CD Burning · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a serious proposal to "plug the analog hole" by drm'ing all DA/AD convertors?

  25. Re:He seems a dangerous driver (serious) on LA to Oregon at Mach 9 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thank you for making the road a more dangerous place.

    What, it hurts your ego to be passed by someone?