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  1. Re:Doesn't know much about the system on FAA Denies Vulnerabilities In New Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    They cost 1500 eur for low-power ones.

  2. Re:So easy on Intellectual Ventures Tied To 1,300 Shell Companies · · Score: 1

    love your post... thanks

  3. Re:The answer, and solution, are both simple. on Ask Slashdot: What's Holding Up Single Sign-On? · · Score: 1

    So I ask myself: Why is this not in the html spec?

  4. Re:So from here on out ... on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    You don't mind paying for your army but you do mind paying for your fellow citizens (including your family, friends, coworkers, ...)?

  5. Different ones on Is Oracle Really Offering 100+ Cloud Applications? · · Score: 1

    I guess we expect different applications instead of variations of applications when Or acle makes a call like that.

  6. Re:Nazi policies make cracking EASIER on LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online · · Score: 1

    and:
    no sequences (abcdef...)
    no repeating (aaaaa..., ababab... )

  7. Can you control your brain on The Link Between Genius and Insanity · · Score: 2

    Maybe the question is whether you can control your brain (or not). You want it to think outside the box but can you stop it outside reality?

  8. Re:First, dont ask in slashdot. on Ask Slashdot: Tips For Designing a Modern Web Application? · · Score: 1

    Step 1: Describe something you want done
    Step 2: Say that you can profit from building the site
    Step 3: Publish to slashdot and someone will make it

  9. Re:XKCD on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    I guess I should finish my sentences...

    ...may be the same of previous passwords.

  10. Re:It isn't that passwords are a dead end. on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    One can do the same with public/private key pairs. Just, instead of a password, give them a specific public key. Refresh that at will. The only thing necessary, as one should not want to keep keypairs around, is a good HW implementation which integrates with browsers.

  11. Re:XKCD on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    How else can you mandate a password policy that requires that no more than 3 characters may be the same...

  12. Re:GPS reliance on North Korea Jamming GPS Signals In South Korea · · Score: 1

    And they use lasers these days (in their INS).

  13. Re:Good sign for their economy on North Korea Jamming GPS Signals In South Korea · · Score: 1

    Interesting to hear that they do not have phased array GPS receivers...

  14. Re:CRTs? on Power-Saving Web Pages: Real Or Myth? · · Score: 1

    I'll give you dead pixels, on CRT as wel btw. As for the strain: I can watch 12 hrs with LCD and about 8 with CRT (Iiyama vision master 510, 85 Hz). It may be dust related (dust parts on the monitor get propelled at anything in front of them because of the static charge).

  15. Re:Just a recorder... on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: 1

    At least one of the problems is that people, including myself, are less social when driving a car. A black box can help people remember that antisocial behaviour is not forgotten (especially when an accident happens). I would however legislate a mandatory warning sticker, clearly visible for the driver.

  16. Re:CRTs? on Power-Saving Web Pages: Real Or Myth? · · Score: 1

    The only thing I've seen failing on an LCD is the power button. Second, it is much less strain on my eyes, directly measurable in hours / day.

  17. Re:What does this help? on FBI Seizes Server Providing Anonymous Remailer Service · · Score: 1

    You also have double fibers?

  18. Software is the problem on Multicore Chips As 'Mini-Internets' · · Score: 1

    The problem is not the hardware but the software. The hardware has been parallel for ages, even locally (GPU, GPU-memory, CPU, memory, HDD, DMA - memory processor, ...).

    Software is a different problem across networked/parallel arena. If you really think about an SMS it is not much more than 'hello world'. You type it and you see text (no other function, other than transport which isn't really a function, has been done) and testing it should be easy. This is not even about parallelism but about communication.

    The best way to create software for networking is to not re-write it for all these new parallel architectures/internet (which means you compile it for compartimented execution). This is however, pretty hard to do (I don't know about such an implementation). The alternative is that everybody needs to put all the same glue in its software over and over (RMI, OpenMP, ...). We are doing #2.

    By the way I think there is a big difference between networking, which has a premise that things fail, and local transport of data/code which is specced on its workings. Fundamentally different (price).

  19. Re:The battle now begins. on Teacher's Aide Fired For Refusing To Hand Over Facebook Password · · Score: 2

    Block its IP addresses.

  20. Re:Freakin' awesome! on Wind Map of US Will Blow You Away · · Score: 1

    maybe not exactly what your are looking for (e.g. a limited area): http://map.weatherme.eu/ What do you think?

  21. Re:Next step: Google Maps on Wind Map of US Will Blow You Away · · Score: 1

    There is open data, I download it every day. Rasp operators use it for soaring forecasts: http://www.drjack.info/RASP/index.html. Rasp is a pot of glue: It downloads data, data is processed by WRF and visualized by NCL.

    The slight problem is that I need a fast dedicated core i7 machine for it (work in CUDA is in progress). It takes about an hour to do a forecast.

    Last problem: there is NO good installation and configuration method (all knowledge is shared though via a forum / wiki). You get there in the end, after a while and some extra.

  22. Re:Training and Visualization on Wind Map of US Will Blow You Away · · Score: 1

    Not that they are the first to figure this out: http://ccom.unh.edu/vislab/projects/2d_flow_vis.html

  23. Re:InfoWorld at it again on Getting the Most Out of SSH · · Score: 1

    and you can, for the sake of being able to rename your keyfile, replace the word ssh_my_server with ${0}. .

  24. Re:Slowing down. on Baumgartner Completes 13.5-Mile Free-Fall Jump, Aims For Record · · Score: 1

    The air will be sucked out of your lungs if you open your mouth. I'm not sure what will happen if you don't (maybe a diver knows more?).

  25. Re:How many bits? on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 3, Funny

    That would be 640kB