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  1. We'll see this happen again. on Inventor of C Dennis Ritchie Honored With Second Death (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the thing about C. There's always another pointer referencing the original variable... or constant, as the case may be.

  2. Re:Proud? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately, I think it's a nervous and fearful laughter that they hope will somehow make them feel a little safer. As for nobody trying to leave, people renouncing their US citizenship is up 800% since 2008.

  3. Re: simple answer.. don't on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    Most companies I work with don't even have fax anymore. Not sure how it is in other areas though.

  4. S/MIME on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    Most IT departments don't know the first thing about email encryption, but if you âdoâ get one, it's more likely to be S/MIME rather than PGP. The former is built-in to most email systems and the latter requires them to deploy additional software, which they won't want to do.

  5. Re:A constitutional amendment on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 1

    The other problem is that the rights enshrined in the US Constitution are usually seen as applying only to US citizens and not people in general.

  6. Re:No. on Canadian Police Want New Internet Surveillance Tools · · Score: 1

    Most services already have an option (if not a default) to use encrypted communication. If privacy is further restricted, advocates will encourage hard drive (or at least personal folder) encryption to be used by default.

    The next logical step would be to make use of cryptography illegal, but then it reaches the point where the majority of the population is breaking the law routinely. When the law has turned the majority of the population into criminals, it becomes unenforceable and completely toothless.

    It's an escalation in the balance of power between the legislature and its electorate. While democracy prevails, the electorate will always win.

  7. Why assume that a QR code has to contain a URL? on QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks · · Score: 1

    Although most QR codes âdoâ contain URLs, this isn't the only possible use. If the QR code contains a hash of the bill's serial number that is generated by a sufficiently complex process (private key, anyone?) then it's just a matter of verifying the hash against the serial number for verification.

  8. Re:Eh? on US Judge Rules Against German Microsoft Injunction · · Score: 1

    It's an interesting way to sidestep the German decision. I wonder if Motorola can similarly sidestep the issue if their German subsidiary enforces the injunction while the US parent stands by and does nothing in violation of the order?

  9. Some accents just don't fit the expected pattern. on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    I'm just trying to imagine a Science Fiction or Fantasy cast using a Newfoundland accent and it's just not clicking in for some reason. "What're ye at wit dat sword, me son?" Nope.

  10. Re:Now these guys have some balls on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    Iran may be up there on the oil production globally, but they're not even in the top 10 for US imports... so I don't imagine that's much of a factor in a decision to go to war.

  11. Hmph. on OK Go Goes HTML5 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Okay, so the message when visiting with Safari says "We're sorry, but this content was designed with the browser Google Chrome in mind. As a result, it may not work properly in your current browser. We recommend using Google Chrome." So I think, "Well, Chrome essentially cribbed their HTML5 engine from Safari, so I should be good. I'll give it a try." Unfortunately, there's no way to get past the message. Perhaps they should rephrase "It may not work in your current browser" to "We won't let you view this with anything but Chrome." Ah well. It will take more than an interactive movie video to make me install Chrome. *close*

  12. Re:ISP on If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6, Think Again · · Score: 1

    Being a member of the regional NIC isn't that big a deal. Much of the time we've only been using provider blocks because the NIC's policy won't let us get provider-independent space without significant justification, or because the provider just won't permit provider-independent blocks to be advertised through them. The former goes away with IPv6, and the latter can be solved by switching to a provider that is more sensible about customer requirements. Redundant Internet connections are going to need portable space, just like they did in IPv4 before the NAT hack was added to the protocol. Per my previous paragraph, getting that isn't going to be tough. This is the IAB's recommended approach, per the RFC 5092. Without NAT, local applications can read the IP address directly from the NIC, should they need it. Remote applications can just use DNS. As for DNS records, DHCPv6 in combination with IPv6 auto-configuration handles DNS updates dynamically. I have yet to see a need for port remapping where more than a single global IP address is in play. The smallest block allocated under IPv6 is a /64, which means that you can assign an IPv6 address for every service that you want to make available and then move the global IP of that service from machine to machine as needed. It's a different paradigm. IPv6 has been around in test for a decade. NAT was never needed in IPv4 until people started worrying about IP address depletion. It will likely never be needed with IPv6.

  13. Re:started early :( on Internet Groups To Stream Live IPv4/6 Announcement · · Score: 1

    From my perspective, they started late. I tuned in at 9:30am EST to be greeted by background music and no video. I left it on while I went to do other work and heard voices start up around 10:00am. All-in-all, it was informative, but more for the average joe than for the networking types.

  14. Could work both ways there... on Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School · · Score: 1

    Well, the parents could always turn this around on the superintendent's precedent and claim that the school board is contributing to the delinquency of minors by providing the material to make weapons in the classroom. It's all pretty silly when we start making rules around what people *might* do with something rather than what they *do* with something.

  15. The sad thing is... on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    As TSA procedures become more and more involved and outrage (whether justified or not) becomes the norm, it's only a matter of time before any potential mass-murdering maniacs decide that the best target is the huge crowd that has built up *before* the screening process.

  16. Re:2012, the year of IPv6 support? on NRO Warns They Are On Final IPv4 Address Blocks · · Score: 1

    Sure, ISPs *can* start using various techniques to preserve what IPv4 address space they have for their clients, but that's only half of the puzzle. When the IPv4 addresses are gone, new sites and services will be coming on-line with IPv6 only. Once that starts happening, ISPs are going to be getting increasing complaints from their customers asking "Why can't I reach this site/service?" The question of whether there is full Internet access or only legacy Internet access will become a key factor for choosing an ISP. This may not be the case immediately, but it will become so fairly quickly.

  17. Two spaces, but if you insist... on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    ... I can live with one, as long as it's an em space.

  18. Re:I suggest the Free Software Foundation on Bounty For Booting XP on the Intel iMac · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a big difference between removing things and not bothering to put them in in the first place.

    Apple isn't doing anything to prevent anyone from running Windows on their systems, but they're not spending money to help anyone either. Why should they? Spending money to add legacy functions that aren't necessary for anything but Windows just doesn't make sense for them.

    They switched to Intel, not WinTel.

  19. Re:Does it mean we can pirate legally on Canada to Raise Tariffs on Recordable Media · · Score: 1

    If standard hard drives (like the WD 60GB) were covered by the proposed levy, you'd be right on the money... but they're not.

  20. Re:Does it mean we can pirate legally on Canada to Raise Tariffs on Recordable Media · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the Copyright Board has made it quite clear that the pool of tariff revenue will be distributed only to "persons who own rights in sound recordings of musical works" and not to other content creators. A couple of interesting thoughts though:

    1. Are organizations such as the labels and the RIAA considered "persons" for purposes of this? While I'm against such sweeping actions, it would be something of a salve to know that it's going directly to the artists.

    2. Some of these levies (flash memory, microdrives, &c) are only significant when they ship with the device in question. If the manufacturers consider unbundling the flash cards and the like, selling them separately, the tariff goes down to CA$.008/MB which works out to a whopping CA$8.19/GB.