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  1. Re:not yet available to all people on Offline Gmail Launched · · Score: 1

    Nope, it is just you they aren't giving it to. There was a discussion about "that Danathar guy" and after 5 minutes it degenerated into a flame fest and was finally Godwined out. Sorry. Maybe next time.

  2. Re:Doesn't sound very American on How the US Lost Its China Complaint On IP · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, the Iraqi Information Minister needed to get a job SOMEWHERE!

  3. Re:So why do I want plugins in my complier? on Plug-In Architecture On the Way For GCC · · Score: 1

    Hey, some of us like our co-eds proprietary. A little too open and you could end up with a nasty virus!

  4. Re:Really? on Athletes' Brains Reveal Concussion Damage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, not really. I mean a quick look at ex-boxers, like Muhammad Ali, would tell you otherwise. The phrase "punch drunk" has been in the English language for some time now.

  5. AMD Geode on CoreBoot (LinuxBIOS) Can Boot Windows 7 Beta · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Looking at the CoreBoot site, it seems there best support is for the AMD Geode chips. It is ironic that this Slashdot article is one after the article saying AMD has no successor planned for the Geode line and it may fade away.

  6. Re:Editors: Can we remove the first troll comment on Testing the KDE 4.2 Release Candidate, On Windows · · Score: 2, Informative

    The post incites racial hatred. They would be arrested in any public place for saying such things...

    Not in the U.S. it won't. Unless the speech incites to riot, is slanderous or poses a direct physical danger (i.e. -- shouting "fire" in a crowded theater, causing a stampede), it is perfectly legal in the U.S. in a public place. Actually, there would be more repercussion in private in the U.S., as speech like that will get you fired or evicted and banned from a private location rather quickly. The U.S. is rather zealous about the right to free speech.

  7. Re:Bundling everything... on EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows · · Score: 1

    GIMP? I'm not explaining that one.

    I hate to break it to you, but there are a certain number of people who have chicken-related issues. Having the heads of said chickens being bitten off in a circus-like atmosphere is very therapeutic. Well, not if you're the chicken but that is another story. Uhhh...wait. That's "geek", not "gimp". Sorry.

    The Gimp is either part of the core accessibility framework, or it is designed to assist with the various Intel-family processors that are math crippled. I don't see what is so hard to understand about that.

  8. Re:Deleted my account. on Monster.com Data Stolen, Won't Email Users · · Score: 1

    Then move over to Dice and CareerBuilder. I'd assume those were the next targets for anyone to try the same password. Followed shortly by LinkedIn, Plaxo and Facebook.

  9. Re:Deleted my account. on Monster.com Data Stolen, Won't Email Users · · Score: 5, Informative

    Log in, delete your resumes and cover letters, change your password to some random crap. Then, go to the preferences home page and there is a "cancel my account" option. Leave them a nice note explaining how the deserve to go out of business and where or where could they find a security person with a clue about hashed password storage.

  10. Re:Well. on Microsoft 'Vista Capable' Settlement Cost Could Be Over $8 Billion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, you're wrong.

    The original meaning of the "Vista Capable" sticker was that the hardware could be UPGRADED to handle every feature of Vista. "Vista Ready" meant that it could handle it (Aero & WDDM) as is, without upgrades.

    Much of the hardware labeled "Vista Capable" could NOT be upgraded to handle WDDM and Aero. Specifically, Intel 915 and 915GM chipsets were not WDDM capable and WOULD NEVER BE. Intel wanted Microsoft to delay the program until they got their next chipset out, about 5 months. That one would be WDDM capable. Microsoft, instead, just lowered the specs for the program and told Intel it was basically "just a sticker on the box". HP was absolutely furious with this tactic, since their stuff was all ready.

    In short, the marketing department flat out lied to people. Microsoft SHOULD be on the hook for providing those people with "Vista Capable" hardware with the proper upgrades that they promised would happen. In the case of Intel 915GM laptops, that means a new laptop since you can't upgrade the chipset.

    A slap on the wrist won't give MS or anyone else pause before pulling this sort of stunt again. They need a good kick in the groin and enough pain to make them understand that profiting from outright fraud will not be tolerated.

  11. Re:What is all this about? on Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome · · Score: 1

    The KDE people understand that .10 comes after .9, so it isn't an automatic bump to the major number. I'm running 3.5.10 right now and quite happy with it.

  12. Re:c-derived languages? on Survey Says C Dominated New '08 Open-Source Projects · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where it belonged, behind Lisp!

  13. Re:Can I get a Duh? on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1

    From what I understood, they were monitoring everything due to the nature of the routers that were connected, but were only storing things that either matched keywords or were an explicit target. Explicit targets were sent via dedicated channel to the law-enforcement agency. Keyword hits were buffered for a certain time for review in a round-robin style database. They either became targets or were discarded. No, no one was storing 7 Tb a day that I was aware of. I'm fairly certain I would have been able to hear the hum of all the drives from anywhere in the building. :-)

  14. Re:Can I get a Duh? on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 5, Interesting

    After working for 18 months on a CALEA project for a major telecom, and prior to that with an early Narus install, I say you're woefully underinformed.

    Narus Key Features

            * Total network view across the world's largest IP networks that includes both deep traffic inspection and full correlation of Layer 2 and Layer 7 information across all links and elements
            * Industry-leading packet processing performance that supports network speeds up to OC-192/10G off the wire and uses a distributed architecture to scale so it can process multi-petabytes of data
            * Carrier-class scalability and reliability with over 2.7 petabytes of IP traffic processed at a single customer, driving 100 billion packet records per day (greater than 7 terabytes) to upstream security applications
            * Full traffic correlation across every link and element on the network
            * Entropy-based security algorithms, provide unprecedented early detection of sophisticated anomalies such as low volume and polymorphic worms
            * Next generation traffic analysis with advanced algorithms for real-time security, intercept and traffic classification and mitigation

  15. Re:Nuclear Dump on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know. I remember when I lived in Cocoa Beach, FL and the Cassini space probe was being launched. It is powered by plutonium dioxide and there were lots of protests. They had to make sure the wind was blowing out to the Atlantic before they would launch, just in case it exploded and powdered plutonium rained down and people breathed it. Chunks weren't a concern, but breathing in the powdered stuff was considered a painful kiss of death.

  16. BattDisk on RAM Disk Puts New Spin On the SSD · · Score: 1

    Ah, Amiga old buddy, I miss you.

    This sound's like DKB's Battdisk. Next to a Video Toaster and SuperGen, the Amiga 2000s best friend. It took a machine from the slowest booting system in the age to the fastest.

  17. Re:Nuclear Dump on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 4, Informative

    Tell it to the downwinders. In 1945 alone Hanford released over 500,000 curies of radioactive iodine into the air. Three Mile Island, by comparison, released about 20 curies by accident and everyone freaked out.

  18. Re:Too Many Filetypes / Too Much Incompatability on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3? · · Score: 1

    Heh. My resume exported from OO.o 2.4.1 to .doc with all sorts of issues. Mostly text in a table didn't flow to the next page.

    If I created it in Word 2007, saved as a 2000/2003/XP version of .doc, then edited in OO.o it was fine after that.

    I created some basic documents in OO.o 2.4.1 on request for a potential employer, then saved them as PDF. I could open them using KPDF and Acroread 8 in Linux, but they couldn't open them in Acroread 9 on WinXP. I had to re-export as .rtf files for them to work. I now have a virtual machine with XP SP3 and Office 2003 on it just to double-check things before they go.

    I wonder if the Kubuntu folks are going to bring OO.o 3.0 or 3.1 over to Kubuntu 8.04. I'm not upgrading until KDE 4.2 is released, at least.

  19. Re:Easier on Solution Against Cold Boot Attack In the Making · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Memory wipe on case intrusion event.

    Back to you.

  20. Re:Plato on The Universe As Hologram · · Score: 1

    All matter was composed of the elements of nature (earth, wind, fire, water)...

    Semantics. Please point out any matter that isn't solid (earth), gas (air), plasma (fire) or liquid (water).

  21. Re:Brute-force password guessing not a problem on GPUs Used To Crack WiFi Passwords Faster · · Score: 1

    Ummmm... you missed my comment about random didn't you. The length output by the command is random. Run it 10 times and see what you get.

    Oh, and change the "/dev/urandom" to "/dev/random" for true randomness.

  22. Re:Brute-force password guessing not a problem on GPUs Used To Crack WiFi Passwords Faster · · Score: 1

    Who are you really and what type of stunt are you trying to pull here!

    chill@E520:~$ dd if=/dev/random bs=200 count=1 | tr -cd 'A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*()_+'; echo

    0+1 records in
    0+1 records out
    8 bytes (8 B) copied, 5.73129 s, 0.0 kB/s
    P

    chill@E520:~$
    chill@E520:~$ dd if=/dev/random bs=200 count=1 | tr -cd 'A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*()_+'; echo
    0+1 records in
    0+1 records out
    8 bytes (8 B) copied, 4.90066 s, 0.0 kB/s
    Qd

    A password of "P"?! Or a password of "Qd"?!!

    [Okay, for those that don't get the humor. The dd command generates 200 binary bytes of random data and the tr command strips out the valid password characters. Since the source is random, there will be a random number of valid characters in the stream. In those two examples, all that was generated as valid was "P" and "Qd". Earlier runs for me generated 50+ character valid passwords. WPA's limit is 63 character password length, so I suggest multiple runs and paste a couple together to get all 63 characters.]

  23. Re:And then what? on Trying To Find White House Missing E-mails · · Score: 1

    Crucify him.

    Clinton's crime was lying to Congress.

    He could have nailed all the interns he wanted, and that was between him and Hillary. But perjuring himself before Congress was an impeachable offense.

  24. Re:And then what? on Trying To Find White House Missing E-mails · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Don't you mean "respect the law"?

    I have no idea if they could even remotely find evidence that President Bush was directly responsible for the intentional destruction of evidence, but I seriously doubt it. But the law trumps the office. That is one reason we have a PRESIDENT, not KING.

  25. Re:What the hell is a federal court... on Trying To Find White House Missing E-mails · · Score: 5, Funny

    That gives the phrase "judicial probe" a whole new meaning!