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  1. Re:TRWTF: EOL'd desktop OS connected to Internet on Infinite Browser Universe Manyland Hits 8 Million Placed Blocks · · Score: 1

    (Un)fortunately the transport layer for the internet is extremely inefficient at transporting smell. If it were made from air, it might be a bit better, but its fiber.

  2. Re:compilers, have you heard of them? on Infinite Browser Universe Manyland Hits 8 Million Placed Blocks · · Score: 1

    actually browser vendors have. they use stuff called like "LLVM" to do "JIT". If you browse the site with IE 6 though, YMMV. There were javascript performance wars, and nowadays browsers are pretty advanced.

  3. Re:Infinite universe with 8 million blocks? on Infinite Browser Universe Manyland Hits 8 Million Placed Blocks · · Score: 3, Funny

    60^-1 plutos per cubic light year aint much. More than 8 million blocks yes, but our universe is pretty empty too.
    http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=...
    http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...

    If you've ever been stuck between two superclusters you know what I mean.

  4. Re:Seems incorrect on NVIDIA Presents Plans To Support Mir and Wayland On Linux · · Score: 1

    Would be great if all OS vendors agreed upon /ONE/ damn driver API. It doesn't need to be binary-compatible. just share the headers.

  5. Re:NSA are most egregious downloaders on FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading · · Score: 1

    And they lie about it.

  6. Is this a troll about systemd or is this real news on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 4, Informative

    srsly?

  7. Re:Screenshots on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    There are 0 kinds of people: Those who understand F_2 and those who don't.

  8. Do they support tor? on CloudFlare Announces Free SSL Support For All Customers · · Score: 2

    SSL is already a great step, but they should also try to find ways to work over tor:

    https://blog.torproject.org/bl...

  9. Re:When will they act as nodes? on Tor Executive Director Hints At Firefox Integration · · Score: 1

    Even with the current tor TBB software you don't run a node by default. And, it would be even bad for the tor network to have tons of lots of low-bandwidth nodes.

    To put it short in a GNU manner: Tor Is Not Bittorrent.

  10. Yes, I know about that, even more: See http://news.slashdot.org/comme...

    Still the comment is Insightful for me as it adds information TFA missed. (Maybe informative is better).

    And a bit a troll as it compares them with thugs.

    But +1 overall.

  11. Re:Police?? on Piracy Police Chief Calls For State Interference To Stop Internet "Anarchy" · · Score: 4, Informative

    That tiny part has financed most of englands colonisation efforts. It has helped building a world empire. However, nowadays its weird to see such a relic in a country that calls itself democratic. Having a queen who stays out of politics isn't a big deal. An institution where companies can vote based on the number of their employees, thats in the press and uses titles like "police" is however. I don't object to companies to publish their opinions, but they shouldn't use titles that sound like they were part of the state. This clearly shows their position towards democracy.

    I know other companies fuck democracy, too, but to some extent that can't be avoided as the line between "legitimate participation in public discussion" and "lobby government" is thin. Companies should just clearly state its them.

  12. Re:Police?? on Piracy Police Chief Calls For State Interference To Stop Internet "Anarchy" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where is the (+1; Insightful Troll) mod?

  13. In space on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    no one can hear you explode.

  14. Re:locks, doors, ... on Security Collapse In the HTTPS Market · · Score: 1

    And, thanks to the internet, threats can travel with light speed.

  15. Re:Technical flaws are beside the point on Security Collapse In the HTTPS Market · · Score: 1

    NSA and resourceful criminals can use 0days, and CA system helps against small criminals. Current protection meets the need, it seems. Not that I think its broken.

  16. Problems with TLS and PKI on Security Collapse In the HTTPS Market · · Score: 4, Insightful

    goto_fail is just a bug like every else. Its a major bug, yes, but its "only" a bug. There are more systemic issues.

    PKI is broken. Diginotar was just one indident we know of. CAs can secretly give everybody any cert they want. We need a system where the CAs need have to publish their certs, and which itself can't forge. Certificate transparency only centralises this "tree of trust". We still need to give the tree a ground to stand on. This can be achieved by gossip protocols. With all these measures, we don't need CAs anymore. CA is a multi-million dollar industry, they won't like being obsolete.

    Third point: Microsoft. They haven't added usable perfect forward secrecy until april 2014.

    Fourth point: the users. They don't care, or other things are more important to them (stability, etc): Most of them don't update their browsers regularly. I don't critizise clicking away security warnings.

  17. OpenID on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure? · · Score: 2

    They log on on one site, and use that login to log in to all other sites.

  18. is evince sandboxed now? on GNOME 3.14 Released · · Score: 1

    Does it at least attempt /a bit/ to protect me from the dangers of the internet?

    http://www.mupuf.org/blog/2014...

  19. Re:They're not astronauts, they're ballast. on Trouble In Branson-Land, As Would-Be Space Tourists Get Antsy Over Delays · · Score: 1

    OK, I see. Google has different versions of the "define" functionality running. The version with "a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft" doesn't rely on wikipedia.

  20. Re:They're not astronauts, they're ballast. on Trouble In Branson-Land, As Would-Be Space Tourists Get Antsy Over Delays · · Score: 2

    Webdefinitions are one of the things I hate on google: People think it is google, while in fact it is Wikipedia. Instead of proper attribution (naming the author, the license, and so on), they just add a link to the site, and call it "web definition". And people who don't read the link think the information comes from google.

  21. Re:It costs power on Why the iPhone 6 Has the Same Base Memory As the iPhone 5 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, don't store the stuff locally because that needs power and then stream the content over the air instead, because that doesn't need power.

  22. Memory doesn't cost that much. on Why the iPhone 6 Has the Same Base Memory As the iPhone 5 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its only to drive people to use cloud services and buy the expensive model for more capacity. Apple would be stupid to satisfy its users.

  23. Re:Why register amazonsucks.buy if its exclusive? on Amazon Purchases .buy TLD For $4.6 Million · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Finally! on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    Except that of course. But when you refuse to install the CDM, you will only be stopped from using DRM'ed content. All other stuff nondrm-ed {games, videos, etc} will be accessible without plugins.

  25. First on Dropbox and Google Want To Make Open Source Security Tools Easy To Use · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dropbox should open-source its desktop client to prove it does what it is supposed to.