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  1. Re:In related news on NVIDIA Releases Source To CUDA Compiler · · Score: 2

    Ah, you're married, aren't you.

  2. Re:Math is hard on New Study Concludes Math Gender Gap Is Cultural, Not Biological · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The phrase you are looking for is â feedback loopâ.

  3. KDE and the Kiosk Tool on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 1

    Install the KDE Desktop (Kubuntu) then use the Kiosk Admin Tool.

  4. Re:Download.com?? Really?? on Download.com Bundling Adware With Free Software · · Score: 1

    Not in this case. The warning would simply be "these planes are going to be hijacked on this day". Don't include "and they're going to fly them into buildings". They would simply assume what everyone on the planes assumed, that the hijackers want to either be flown somewhere or want to use the plane and passengers as leverage in bargaining. The same thing plane hijackings had been used for for the prior couple of decades.

    That is why they hijackers succeeded. Their real weapon was surprise and unpredictability, not box cutters.

  5. Re:First strike? on Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone · · Score: 1

    Primary? Probably not. A useful method of confirmation, quite possibly.

  6. Re:First strike? on Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone · · Score: 1

    Really? Because we did this ALL THE TIME with the U.S.S.R. up until at least the mid-1980s. Maybe someone didn't get your memo.

  7. Re:Capitalism on Fed Gave Banks Eye-Popping Emergency Loans, Without Telling Congress · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Full on communism, with no central authority and a self-governing collective was the last stage of things according to Karl Marx's Manifesto. In the mean time, a strong, central-authoritarian government was needed to push the people in the desired direction. A central bank was very much a part of his plan.

    The idea is to get control of the money supply in the hands of the strong central authority so it could be distributed "appropriately".

  8. Re:opportunity on San Francisco Team Wins DARPA's De-Shredding Contest · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not really. There are already tons of better shredders, and they don't cost a whole lot. I bought one that cuts pieces into little diamond-shaped bits about 1/3 of the size of the shreds shown in the DARPA challenge. It cost me about $125 at an office supply store.

    The one that is at my office, for non-classified documents, cuts into little squares about 2mm x 2mm. The one for the Confidential documents does a better job that that. Most of the stuff looks like powder instead of shreds.

    Anyway, this isn't about spy vs spy stuff. It is for basic corporate and citizen espionage. How simple is it to piece together stuff you grab from drug dealers and other criminals who bought a shredder at an office supply store?

  9. Re:First thing first on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 5, Informative

    An anonymous tip to US-CERT might not be a bad idea. But, yes, he is in over his head and opening himself up for nasty reprisals when the company looks for someone to blame.

  10. Re:Asking people to pay for what they use?!? OMG! on Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And before someone says, "I'm paying for X megabits/second, I should get that!", please understand that your feed connects you to the next upstream concentration point (switch, router, whatever). Beyond that, it's all shared bandwidth, and oversubscribed. That's one of the chief benefits of a packet-switched network -- you don't need to dedicate a circuit to each subscriber. Asking for dedicated connectivity the whole way[1] is asking for a return to the days of leased lines, where you paid thousands of dollars a month for 1.54 Mbit/sec.

    Then stop telling me that is what you're providing. If somewhere upstream can't handle the rate and limits it, that is one thing. But I don't give a rat's ass about your oversubscription issues. If Comcast tells me "20 Mbps", then under no circumstances but the rarest should COMCAST ever throttle me. The upstream provider can rate limit as they need to.

    Honestly, I don't mind paying for what I use. What I mind is getting LIED TO about it under the guise of "advertising".

  11. Re:If cellphone companies are doing it, why not us on Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way · · Score: 1

    Uh, we already do this?

    If I drive more miles, I pay for more gas. Ditto with food. I don't know of one grocery store with an "all you can eat" plan. If I want more food, I pay for more food.

  12. Re:You know why Apple's winning? It's not about sp on NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Outruns Apple's A5 In First Benchmarks · · Score: 2

    Or single-tap the Android application switcher icon, so you can get back to any other running app, exactly in the state you left it.

    I have a Transformer and love it. The optional keyboard with full-size SD slot, USB ports and extra battery is a real plus.

  13. Re:Others disagree w/ U, 75:1++... apk on Duqu Attackers Managed to Wipe C&C Servers · · Score: 1

    I understand you have provided useful and informative posts. I was responding to YOUR assertion that the "Penguinistas" get up in arms about your posts. If they are a small minority, then why complain?

    Why didn't you respond to my point that you were comparing well secured Windows systems to out-of-the-box Linux systems?

    Posting links of compromised Linux systems doesn't "prove" anything. I can match every one with ten on compromised Windows systems. However, in neither case can it be demonstrated that they were properly secured.

    You also didn't address my question of why you've been banned in the PC PitStop Forum, nor why I considered Linux superior for security -- because of the modularity that Windows simply does not have.

    As for Android, a phone is a different environment. That would be like me pointing out that lack of reports of hacked supercomputers running Linux. Total security! Right? No -- an environment you can't compare to standard desktops and servers.

  14. Re:Thank you & more inside... apk on Duqu Attackers Managed to Wipe C&C Servers · · Score: 2

    People don't like your posts for several reasons.

    1. You compare Apples to Oranges. Specifically a fully-hardened Windows system to an out-of-the-box Linux distro.

    2. You're overly sensitive to little criticisms. This is easily seen by the thread you linked to on the PC Pitstop forum. (Side question -- why are you banned from there?)

    3. Your childish references to things like "open sores" ranks you right down there with the people who call it "M$". Grow up.

    4. You seem to confuse the OpenBSD crowd and their "secure by default / no remote hole in XX years / we are unhackable" attitude with Linux supporters. Though, admittedly, there are fanboys and fanatics in every camp.

    5. Some of your indirect links are questionable. For example, from the PC Pitstop forum article you lauded this link on IPSec. http://www.analogx.com/contents/articles/ipsec.htm

    I'm unsure how to respond to that other than to say WTF? That has as much to do with IPSec as your post does with ice skating. It is talking about configuring a host firewall and never mentions anything about, well, IPSec!

    Finally, one of the main security benefits a Linux system has over Windows is the ability to REMOVE any component that isn't needed. Not just disable, but actually remove it totally.

    Custom Linux kernels can be built to support only the hardware on a specific machine. Entire classes of devices, from the printing subsystem to networking can be removed totally. You can't do that with Windows.

  15. Re:Two centuries of job destruction on Tower To Be Built By Flying Robots · · Score: 1

    If it decided to just kill off all humans, that would sufficiently deal with your scenario.

  16. Re:Cost benefit ratio on Tower To Be Built By Flying Robots · · Score: 1

    Then this should be a spectacular success.

  17. Re:That's not a bug, it's a feature on Study Hints That Wi-Fi Near Testes Could Decrease Male Fertility · · Score: 1

    Thanks for explaining the difference. I hadn't thought through the subtleties.

  18. Re:That's not a bug, it's a feature on Study Hints That Wi-Fi Near Testes Could Decrease Male Fertility · · Score: 2

    Nor, it seems, did you RTFS.

    Quote, with relevant portion highlighted:

    The scientists blamed the damage on non-thermal electromagnetic radiation generated by the Wi-Fi.

  19. All of 'em on Amazon Releases Kindle Source Code · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not just the source to the recent Kindle Fire, but code for all of them back to the original. Nice move.

    I wonder if they held any bits back?

  20. Re:Peh. on Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication · · Score: 2

    Ummm...no. Not in this case.

    In 1918 we didn't have the jet set crowd, but what we had was WW1. Massive amounts of people from all over the world going all over the world, getting sick, then coming home.

    One of the reasons the war ended was too many people dying -- from the flu.

    Then pack all those sick soldiers on troop transport ships for a month while they sail home to spread the illness.

  21. Re:Portfolio & Certification on How Does a Self-Taught Computer Geek Get Hired? · · Score: 1

    Well, that too. In fact, that is what I told both my sons. Both have done web design work and expressed a desire to maybe get a job doing it. I pointed out it is commodity work that I can get done by someone overseas for one-tenth of what they want to charge. They'll end up starving.

    Both have since switched goals.

  22. Portfolio & Certification on How Does a Self-Taught Computer Geek Get Hired? · · Score: 5, Informative

    What you're looking for is a portfolio. They're common in any artistic arena such as photography, web design, hair styling and fashion.

    You need to SHOW people what you have done, using examples relevant to what the potential employer would be interested in.

    Also, just to make the HR people happy, get some certifications.

  23. Re:Read a comment by a US naval commander on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand the atheist perspective. Just because there is noBODY and no PLAN doesn't mean there is noTHING or no LOGIC behind events.

    There is always cause and effect and logical consequence. If you think there isn't, then it is just your lack of understanding or a weakness in your powers of perception. Both of which can be addressed.

  24. Re:Except England has Sharia courts on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The courts themselves aren't secret. Rabbinical Courts exist in the U.K. as well as other places around the world.

    A more apt term would be "private" as opposed to "secret".

    To the best of my knowledge, both Rabbinical and Sharia Courts operate in secular nations under the rule of Binding Arbitration as opposed to being criminal courts.

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