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  1. Re:links to NIST on BLAKE2 Claims Faster Hashing Than SHA-3, SHA-2 and MD5 · · Score: 1

    Why would an optimized (optimized for run time speed? optimized for low memory footprint while running? optimized to minimize the likeliness of hash collisions) version of the same BLAKE entrant be more useful?

    BLAKE2 is an improved version of the SHA-3 finalist BLAKE. Like BLAKE or SHA-3, BLAKE2 offers the highest security, yet is fast as MD5 on 64-bit platforms and requires at least 33% less RAM than SHA-2 or SHA-3 on low-end systems. I can find applications in cloud storage, software distribution, host-based intrusion detection, digital forensics, revision control and embedded systems https://blake2.net/blake2_20121223.pdf

  2. My extensive experince on Don't Super-Size My Smartphone! · · Score: 1

    I have used my Nokia N900 for over two years. I have used my Galaxy Note for over 9 months. I hope my next phone will have a bigger screen, hardware keyboard, and a linux based OS. Get your Iphone if that's what YOU want, but please, let ME and the rest of us who prefer mobile phoning computers have them, they are great. I would jump any time to a N900 with a 6" screen. That's the beauty of choice.

  3. Re:Tip of the day on Flesh-eating Bacteria Inspires Highly Selective Instant Adhesive · · Score: 2

    OMG, I can't tell I haven't been warned.
    Please don't!

  4. HTTP Authentification is what most people use on Is Algeria Deleting Facebook Accounts? · · Score: 1

    There is absolute no technical challenge in hacking those accounts.

  5. OMGYASWROTH on A Kinect Princess Leia Hologram In Realtime · · Score: 2

    Oh My God, Yet Another Star Wars Release over the Horizon. Hide those news from Lucas immediately!

  6. Re:It's Hindsight on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1
    I know exactly what the word means, and you were using it in a perfectly clear fashion.

    Whom you do not seem to know is Iñigo Montoya. Inconceivable!

    Vizzini.

  7. Re:It's Hindsight on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1

    the GNU toolchain is not invulnerable .

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    I.M.

  8. Re:Israeli Scientists on Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, you were pointing the facts correctly. I was addressing the AC parent, which was not only leaning towards hate speech, but also got a worrisome +4.

  9. Re:Israeli Scientists on Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't remember that stories about Italian/Japanese/German/British/French/Canadian scientists were ever questioned for mentioning the country of origin. Is the fact these scientists are Israeli disturbing you?

  10. Fail? on Why Open Source Phones Still Fail · · Score: 1

    The release of the N900 had to be delayed one month due to overwhelming preordering. It is a tremendous success in spite of its very expensive price!

  11. Darl McBride's new job? on Apple, Others Hit With Lawsuit On Ethernet Patents · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe he was not terminated, but instead became himself an Ethernet terminator.

  12. Re:/tmp and /var/tmp on OpenSolaris vs. Linux, For Linux Users · · Score: 1

    Linux has tmpfs which is much better than a ramdisk and uses virtual memory assigned dynamically. From wikipedia tmpfs is supported by the Linux kernel from version 2.4 and up.[3] tmpfs (previously known as shmfs) distinguishes itself from the Linux ramdisk device by allocating memory dynamically and by allowing less-used pages to be moved onto swap space. ramfs, in contrast, does not make use of swap (which can be an advantage or disadvantage). In addition, MFS and some older versions of ramfs did not grow and shrink dynamically and instead used a fixed amount of memory at all times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPFS

  13. Re:Obligation to Company on Can I Be Fired For Refusing To File a Patent? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Consequently, when you tell your boss you won't do what you are being told, despite the fact that ethically you may have a point, you don't actually have a leg to stand on.

    If may boss tells me to start cleaning the toilettes be sure I can reject that standing on two legs. This is not black and white.

  14. Pictures, drawings and specs on EU and Russia Show Off New Lunar Spacecraft Design · · Score: 1
  15. Re:So-called geeks! on Successful Cold Fusion Experiment? · · Score: 1
    Can you show that anyone who funded it was lied to about the difficulty of bringing it to market?

    Cold Fusion is not a scam per se, however there have been several pro scammers in this field.

    Richter was for instance one of those, which costed Dictator Perón a big fortune until the project was finally cancelled.

  16. Watch it peak at google trends on XKCD Inadvertently Causes Googlebomb · · Score: 1
  17. Amatorial? on Italy's First Steps in Censoring the Internet · · Score: 1

    "We have no interest in touching amatorial or personal sites"

    Italians! That is the only thing they have in mind.

  18. Re:Not "the" but one of many "a"s on Patent Lawsuits Galore · · Score: 1

    IANAL but... errr forget it!

  19. Kitchen and Baseball on The Father of Molecular Gastronomy Whips Up a New Formula · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This's in the kitchen but Who's on first and What's on second?

  20. Unfortunatelly on MIT Finds Cure For Fear · · Score: 1

    mice died short afterwards.
    They were not killed by the injected enzyme, but by a shocked cat that could not believe all those mice were standing in front of its nose.

  21. Not about money on Uri Geller Accused of Bending Copyright Law · · Score: 2, Informative

    He is using copyright as an excuse, he is not interested in distributing the video himself. He was just caught cheating in front of the camera and wants to clean all evidence.

  22. Stuff that matters? on Shuttleworth Says No Patent Deals With Microsoft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So now we have a site for nerds, that quotes an unknown blogger quoting Shuttleworth.

    Great, I will link to the slashdot article in my blog. Maybe I get slashdotted and we get a dupe.

    Cant't we go straight to the source?

  23. Idiots on RIAA Seeks Royalties From Radio · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This will be the last nail in their coffins. I do not need to explain why, it is abvious for any person with a little sence.
    Of course, RIAA has bacome senceless long ago and its own worse enemy.

    Like the old fable of the scorpion and the frog.

    A scorpion asks a frog for help crossing a river. Intimidated by the scorpion's prominent stinger, the frog demurs.
    ``Don't be scared,'' the scorpion says. ``If something happens to you, I'll drown.'' Moved by this logic, the frog puts the scorpion on his back and wades into the river. Half way across, the scorpion stings the frog.

    The dying frog croaks, ``How could you -- you know that you'll drown?''
    ``It's my nature,'' gasps the sinking scorpion.

    Sting the radios, RIAA, and sink alone. They will start promoting indie labels.

  24. Re:The REAL question... on Mathematica 6 Launched · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yes, but it is time bombed, it can process it only 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 times.

  25. OMG on Alternatives To SF.net's CompileFarm? · · Score: 0

    The anonymous coward also posted the email address in the title.
    Now also my previous post should be deleted. Funny and sad.