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  1. Re:How about this? on What I Did During My Summer Vacation: Burning Man Edition · · Score: 1

    Have you actually been there?

    I haven't, but sure as heck is on my bucket list. I attend Roskilde Festival every year, which is kinda the same, except there is a shit load of trash when it's over, but it's about love and having fun - experience things outside your normal comfort zone (chemical toilets, sleeping in a stinky noisy environment, living without your normal convinience things). Trust me, it's good for you, you learn there is an alternative way to view the world, even though you might not share it or totally disagree with the LSD loving hipster crowd, you still should listen to their point of view and then repectfully disagree instead of being and uptight twat (respectfully...)

  2. Re:Why is EC more secure than RSA? on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 1

    Heh,point taken, numbers that big are pretty hard to compare to anything.

    Was just trying to point out that doing any form of searching in 2^128 combinations is rather impractical :D

  3. Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol on Microsoft Botches More Patches In Latest Automatic Update · · Score: 2

    Really?

    What about that little update to the openSSL that caused Debian deriviants to only have 32.000 possible keys (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2508864)? NSA has their grubby little fingers in everything, who cares that it's open source, if it's unreadable?

    PHK has a nice post about this also:
    http://www.version2.dk/blog/nsas-gennembrud-eller-noget-53787
    It's in Danish, but scroll down a bit for an example of openSSL source code, having it in binary would only make it slightly less readable...

  4. Re:Why is EC more secure than RSA? on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 1

    Do you even begin to comprehend how big a number 2^128 is?

    If you are capable of doing 2^32 operations per second, you are still looking at 2^96 seconds, double the computer power and you are looking at 2^95 seconds, double that again and you are at 2^94, so if you are using a cluster with 2^20 computers (about a million), you are still looking at 2^76 seconds, which is some 2,3*10^15 years (again give or take, we are talking geological time frames here). As long as you are only doubling stuff, it doesn't matter if your are looking for a solution in 2^128.

  5. Re:Got your feelings hurt? on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 4, Informative

    How about reading his responses?

    Taken out of context, those are death threats, in context however, it's just (misguided?) ventilation. He just ventilates and says that it's a pile of poo and he really wish they would stop doing that, he then goes on, in an uncanny (for him) reasonable response on how, they should handle pull requests in the future.

    Grepping our own source tree for fuck, crap, shit, die, stupid will return quite a lot of ventilation and quite often directed at the sales department. Veteran programmers are grumpy old bastards, live with it or get off our lawn.

  6. Got your feelings hurt? on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The TFA makes it look like Linus went on full rampage mode and tore a insightful request down by being mean.

    Actually reading his responses, Linus is pretty level headed and just says no, you can't have this.

    Guess submitter got his feelings hurt?

  7. Re:One data point? on Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter? · · Score: -1

    Random graphs from random blogs proves your point how?

    So on day 45, it might be more, but what about the last 320 days? What are the sources?

    Second one shows an "anomaly" of 1 million sq km, but what is this anomaly? Out of context it could show anything...

  8. Re:visualizations to put these numbers in context on Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter? · · Score: 1

    Nah, it's no big deal, the grown up polar bears are dying faster than they can breed, so no cubs to worry about.

  9. Re:OUCH on Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn · · Score: 5, Informative

    At first I thought, fuck man, that sucks, but then I read that one of his tricks was to fly the helicopter close to his head.

    This was a pure Darwin Award moment, plain and simple, stupid trick ended with someone getting hurt. It's up there with torn groin videos from bad landings...

  10. Re:How 'bout "no"? on Can Closed Public Schools Become Makerspaces? (Video) · · Score: 1

    It's more likely a new building is cheaper than trying to bring an old building up to code.

  11. Re:Where is the innovation? on Apple Now Relaying All FaceTime Calls Due To Lost Patent Dispute · · Score: 0

    While I believe in general, software patents are bullshit, your claim that making direct connections are easy is bullshit.

    Punching holes in NAT is a fucking nightmare, I remember the first time I read about how to do it and it was not a fucking obvious thing to do, it might be today, because papers have been written and the art has gone from black magic to "ah, yeah sure, thats actually neat", but sure as heck wasn't obvious how to get direct connections between to natted clients.

  12. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 2

    Speaking of bullshit, it's very hard to take you serious when you spew it yourself about Chernobyl. People did not go into panic mode and there was lots of measurements published, in fact the reason why the USSR admitted the accident was because Sweden (first) and then Denmark started picking up unusual high radiation readings. Granted, if you lived in the eastern block, you would probably have been spoon fed bullshit, but the scale of the catastrophe was quite clear to the western world.

  13. Re: Sounds good to me on U.S. Gov't Still Fighting the Man Behind Buckyballs; Guess Who's Winning? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are 216 in my set, they have all been accounted for and are sitting neatly in a 6*6*6 structure, there have been pets, infants, children and drunken people near them, but none have been lost, swallowed or used for lewt sexual acts.

    It's all about being responsible and removing the stuff that isn't toys when individual who might think they are toys are around.

  14. Re:"Brilliant"? Hardly on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    No.

  15. Re:No they're not... on Measles Outbreak Tied To Texas Megachurch · · Score: 1

    Probably the most intelligent and insightful answer I have seen on slashdot the last year or two.

  16. Re:As usual. on Measles Outbreak Tied To Texas Megachurch · · Score: 1

    "I love that vision of just blasting through the gates, backwards, in a flaming Swedish supercar! "Yes! I'm here! Where are the women?""
      - Jeremy Clarkson

    I've been vaccinated, reason why I haven't fullfilled the other option is I've been lucky so far in live; but still childless, so I'm still a contender for an award.

  17. Re:Do the CCs work? on Instagram "Likes" Worth More Than Stolen Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Thanks to US for not pushing chip n pin, It's fairly easy to clone a card, including, sniffing the pin.

  18. Re:Marginal on Talking On the Phone While Driving Not So Dangerous After All · · Score: 1

    Well he might "explain" that, but that doesn't make it true. There are plenty of crash tests videos on youtube with old versions and new versions of cars from the last decade, where the new car completely obliterates the old one...

  19. Re:Marginal on Talking On the Phone While Driving Not So Dangerous After All · · Score: 1

    Yes, because death is the only possible outcome of a crash.... And obviously improved safety has done nothing...

  20. Re:Al? on AI Is Funny - a Generative Joke Model · · Score: 2

    What kind of monster mixes whiskey and coke???

  21. Re:Tips for Tor on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 1

    Just a little gotcha with Tails - they have for some reason decided to enable Javascript; one does wonder if they have done so to help FBI?

  22. Re:2005 Energy Act on Duke Energy Scraps Plans For Florida Nuclear Plant, Forced To Delay Others · · Score: 1

    Why would you ever let private companies run your critical infrastructure?

  23. Well don't know the tax code in the US, but if you are receiving it as payment for the ride, it usually has to be declared to the tax man.

  24. Re:What. on SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is actually not an American only thing.

    Generally, you must have a license to be a taxi driver, ride sharing like that is akin (and probably in the eyes of the government equal to) operating a taxi service, thus, if you are not licensed to do so, you are breaking the law.

  25. Re:Somewhat scary on Ad Networks Lay Path To Million-Strong Browser Botnet · · Score: 2

    Thats the reason why I use adblock, I only block the adnetworks, not the local site served stuff.

    If site operators want me to view ads, then they bloody well can vet them and host them themselves.