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  1. I saw the movie on After the Belfast Project Fiasco, Time For Another Look At Time Capsule Crypto? · · Score: 2

    "Promise me, Red. If you ever get out... find that spot. At the base of that wall, you'll find a rock that has no earthly business in a Maine hayfield. Piece of black, volcanic glass. There's something buried under it I want you to have."

    Security by burying things under rocks seems as good a technique as any, in geological time.

  2. Not new information on New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path · · Score: 1

    The intermediate pings have always been considered along with the final pings to determine the arcs. The information at the end of the article - that a southern flight would be found on Indonesian primary radar returns - seems to contradict the large search effort being carried out currently on the southern corridor. It's also entirely possible that the flight wasn't picked up on Indonesian radar - even though it did fly south - if the Indonesian radar capability was not operating as it was expected to.

  3. It will be somewhat ironic on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 0

    If Science and Religion turn out to be talking about the same thing in different ways c.f. "In my Father's House, there are many mansions..."

  4. Re:Public DNS considered harmful on How One Man Fought His ISP's Bad Behavior and Won · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I commented on the reddit thread in the same vein as you and got downvoted. So I did some research. Several contributors to that thread suggest that Google DNS has solved the CDN problem by adding and original IP field that the CDN can use to geolocate the subscriber. This is due to Google implementing edns-client-subnet EDNS0 extensions as of late-2011.

  5. Re:Prey! on Jade Rabbit Spotted By American Eagle (LRO) · · Score: 2

    I just can't help reading the name "Jade Rabbit" and wondering why the Chinese thought it would be a good name for a probe

    Oh, wait...

  6. Horses for Courses on How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? · · Score: 1

    Does the professor teach his students by giving verbal and written instruction or does he do it in the form of interpretive dance?

    The challenge of Computer Science is managing, modelling and directing complexity. GUIs do that in one way; command line interfaces do that in another. You teach students how to deal with complexity and their ability to do that - the maximal level of complexity that they can manage - determines their potential as a Computer Scientist (programming being a subset thereof)

  7. Re:He REALLY pissed off governments.... on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 2

    The UK stormed the Libyan embassy way back in the 1980s to capture a gunman who had shot a British police officer. This is a totally different situation and will be very interesting to see who the diplomatic world reacts.

  8. Venus who? on Quest To Measure the Venus Transit "Aureole Effect" · · Score: 1

    Who is this chick Venus and why is she driving a Transit?

  9. Has anyone else noticed,...? on Murdoch Faces Allegations of Sabotage · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...the close resemblance between Rupert Murdoch and Emperor Palpatine...?

  10. Re:The ocean frontier - not on Remembering Sealab · · Score: 1

    Your point would be wonderfully made, if not for the fact that Earth is at the bottom of the gravity well and the Moon is near the top. If there was crude oil on the moon (or any other useful energy-bearing ore), all that would be needed would be to get it to free-return trajectory, which is a whole lot less than raising it to LEO from Earth.

  11. Not in US custody on Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music · · Score: 5, Informative

    Employees are not yet in US custody. They are currently being held by New Zealand authorities (in court as I type this) pending extradition hearings. The extradition is not automatic and is being contested.

  12. Obligatory on Verizon Tech Charged In $4.5M Equipment Scam · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for that darn Cisco Kid"

  13. Re:This is being whitewashed from the white house on LightSquared Disrupts 75% of GPS Connections In Government Test · · Score: 2

    That's acute pun.

  14. No difference on P2P Traffic Drops 10% After New NZ Law · · Score: 2

    I have not noticed any difference in total international traffic at the ISP which I run between now and before the new law came into force. I do notice more VPN and seedbox traffic on residential connections and less UDP torrent traffic.

    I am also yet to see a copyright infringement notice properly formatted with the requirements of the new legislation. I have bot even received an automated form letter from a rights owner, as used to be the case on a regular basis.

    No rightsowner, or agent thereof has been in contact, nor RIANZ or NZFACT to discuss the relationship between the rightsowners and the designated IPAPs.

  15. Pretty Quiet on NZ Illegal Downloading Crackdown Law In Effect · · Score: 1

    As a so-called IPAP, I have so far received a Grand Total of Zero infringement notices for my netblocks.

  16. Re:Solved this before on Ask Slashdot: Overcoming Convention Hall Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    So you mean that you demo'ed wireless gear by turning it into wired gear?

  17. Compact on eBay Deploys 100TB of SSDs, Cuts Rackspace By Half · · Score: 2

    So the entire eBay VM operation could fit into 6 racks? 200 physical servers @ 1RU each = 5 racks 10x 10TB 2U SSDs = half a rack 5x 2U switches = quarter rack

  18. This is easy to take down on Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    All that law enforcement needs to do is to purchase payload delivery on the botnet and include commands to delete Windows from each offending PC. Alternatively, they just need to place copyrighted material on each host and send in the MPAA and RIAA with infringement notices. That should get the job done.

  19. Only 15 minutes on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 1

    ...and then Vatican City will be consumed by light.

  20. Too late on Ask Slashdot: Is SHA-512 the Way To Go? · · Score: 1

    If you are asking on here at that level of naivete, you are probably already compromised.

  21. Revenue Stream on 23,000 File Sharers Targeted In Latest Lawsuit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The movie grossed $103 million at the US box office

    Assuming a movie ticket price of $20, this means that 5.3 million people saw the movie in theatres. These guys are suing 23222 people, or about 230 times fewer

    At $150K per defendant, the potential works out to $3.48billion or roughly 33 times the US gross (and $700million more than the highest grossing movie ever - Avatar

    My business pitch to the movie studios would be: "Straight to torrent then litigate - that's where the money is..."

  22. Re:The best minds on The Stanford Class That Built Apps and Made Fortunes · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I was lazy and posted before looking up or citing the source

    The point is that when the social media revolution is over, the knowledge that we gained ill be limited to how to optimize large-scale Web servers and database clusters, which we kinda knew to do before the social media revolution took off

  23. The best minds on The Stanford Class That Built Apps and Made Fortunes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The best minds of our generation are occupied finding the best ways to leverage advertising revenue.

  24. Should hope so on Rocket Blasts Off With Missile-Warning Satellite · · Score: 2

    An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

    The Atlas 5 has never been man-rated. But it could be done.

  25. Re:So everyone else pays a tax... on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    You can be dickish in the rest of the world too. Just there it is 20cm rather than 8 inches.