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  1. Is this thing battery powered? on New Smart Gun Company Hopes To Begin Production This Summer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd prefer a fool-proof gun over a smart gun.

  2. Re:Wow on Sophisticated Apache Backdoor In the Wild · · Score: 5, Informative

    httpd isn't a config file; it's the apache executable. Tripwire or other such utilities would catch it.

  3. ummm... duh on Canada Revenue Agency To Tax BitCoin Transactions · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can't speak for Canada's tax laws but that's entirely consistent with US tax law. Capitol gains are taxable. Bartering is taxable. The only news is that by specifically naming bitcoin they're further legitimizing it.

  4. Re:How do admins keep salts secure? on LivingSocial Hacked: 50 Million Users Exposed · · Score: 5, Informative

    every user gets a random salt. If you know the salt, you can generate a rainbow table for it. But, again, every user has a different salt so you need to generate a rainbow table for every user.

    Generating a one-time rainbow table that cracks every password ever is easier than generating a rainbow table per password.

  5. Re:Stackoverflow on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Assess the Status of an Open Source Project? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stackoverflow is moderated completely unlike Slashdot, so the best answers will usually bubble to the top.

  6. Re:collectables have a limit. on 2014: Planetary Resources To Launch Their First Satellites · · Score: 2
    There was a time that table salt - NaCL - was a valuable commodity worth it's weight in gold. Personally, my demand for salt exceeds my demand for gold. Anyhow, today salt is a commodity. Hell, the Bloombergs of the world think there's too much of it.

    Food for thought. Take with a grain of salt.

  7. Re:Beside the point. on Was Google's Motorola Mobility Acquisition a Mistake? · · Score: 1

    Google is a member of MPEG-LA. As part of that, they agreed to put their patents in the MPEG-LA pool. When Google bought Motorola, those patents went in the pool.

  8. Re:Idiots on Was Google's Motorola Mobility Acquisition a Mistake? · · Score: 2

    Do you mean the layoffs, more layoffs, and $250 million a quarter in losses?

  9. Re:The oracle in the woodpile on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Oracle now owns ZFS. They could relicense it if they wanted to. BTRFS was started before the Sun acquisition but it seems strange* to develop BTRFS as a GPL file system with ZFS-like features while ZFS is mature and reliable today.

    * Yes, they're a large corporation and right hand doesn't know what left hand does... but isn't this more like the index finger not knowing what the middle finger is doing?

  10. The oracle in the woodpile on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 2

    I think we need to talk about the oracle in the woodpile - ie, Oracle. BTRFS is an Oracle project. What happens when it goes the way of MySQL? Will Monty Wideanus appear on a white steed to save us?

  11. Re:And it was through this on DMCA Safe Harbor May Not Apply To Old Copyrighted Works · · Score: 1

    States used to have their own copyright laws. The 1976 copyright act nullified them going forward but they may still apply for older works.

  12. Re:Patent Trolls? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 2

    It's a honeypot to trap people that can't tell the difference between copyrights and patents.

  13. Amazon? on Netflix: 'Arrested Development' Won't Crash Our Service · · Score: 1

    Amazon has been beefing up their video services lately (see the pilots they released yesterday) and will be releasing a set-top box for amazon video. It's well known that they fuck over 3rd party sellers (monitoring what's popular and then selling it themselves). If I was Netflix, I would find somebody else to do business with.

  14. Re:Google Fiber on Unanimous: Provo Utah Council Approves Google Fiber · · Score: 2, Funny

    Case in point: one of the Boston marathon bombers was upset because his wife wouldn't fist his asshole. The other was upset he couldn't get a girl to shit on his face.

  15. Re:And it begins on Noodle Robots Replacing Workers In Chinese Restaurants · · Score: 1

    Cheap is relative. There will always be "cheap" labor, if only due to division of labor and specialization.

    Do you think orange growers in Alaska complain about the "cheap" oranges from Florida?

  16. Re:Strategy on Motorola Loses ITC Case Against Apple for Proximity Sensor Patents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's a brilliant strategy -- spend 12 billion on a has-been phone manufacturer and then lose all the patent lawsuits you file.

  17. Re:Tech can be obvious on Motorola Loses ITC Case Against Apple for Proximity Sensor Patents · · Score: 1

    what part of "part of" do you not understand?

  18. Re:Whatever! PowerPC been doing 64-bit on 64-bit x86 Computing Reaches 10th Anniversary · · Score: 5, Funny

    MIPS and Alpha ask power pc to get off their lawn.

  19. Good news: on Futurama Cancelled (Again) · · Score: 1

    Rumor has it the Cleveland Show was canceled.

  20. Re:Still fiddly if you RTFA on Ars Reviewer is Happily Bored With Dell's Linux Ultrabook · · Score: 0

    yes, he wants a touch hole, not a touch pad.

  21. Re:BSD on LLVM Clang Compiler Now C++11 Feature Complete · · Score: 2

    You can freely distribute clang. You can contribute back to clang. It's probably easier to contribute back since the code isn't a monolithic mess.

    It makes no difference to me as a user whether my compiler is GPL or BSD licensed. But those license decisions affect the compiler architecture which affects the compiler. Clang/LLVM are modular for technical reasons. They don't care if you "steal" a component. GCC is monolithic for political reasons. RMS is afraid you'll use it without giving back. What if you want to use a real C++ parser and auto completer in your text editor? Clang is fine with that. GCC was designed to prevent you from doing that. What if you want to generate javascript from your C++ parse tree? Clang is fine with that. GCC was designed to prevent you from doing that.

  22. If it's like the Swartz case, she'll settle if he pleads guilty to littering (the backpack, blood, and body parts) with 6 months of jail time.

  23. Re:The FBI refuses to help catch my stalker... apk on FBI Releases Boston Bombing Suspect Images/Videos · · Score: 1

    It is an easy fix that should be done immediately. Unfortunately, they posted the job on dice.com... Poster child for the danger of dogfooding.

  24. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast on FBI Releases Boston Bombing Suspect Images/Videos · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Same guy as the Craft International guy? on FBI Releases Boston Bombing Suspect Images/Videos · · Score: 1

    It's a bridgestone golf hat.