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  1. Re:Open the Competition to All Western Companies on NASA Holds Competition to Develop Space Vehicles · · Score: 1

    +1 Free Market
    +1 Correct

  2. In case of slashdot, break mirror on Linux 2.6.17 Released · · Score: 4, Funny
  3. Re:Developers and SQL on The Art of SQL · · Score: 1

    From ease-of-use point of view, a mat view can have triggers or, in PostgreSQL case, rules that would take care about updating to all six tables. DBA is happy because data is consistent. Developer is happy since he can operate on one table and the speed issue is solved by addressing by PKEY that is auto-indexed anyway. C'mon, this isn't an assembly demo contest, speed sacrifice is acceptable as long as the data is safe.

  4. Announcing countdown til cracka on Movies Delivered Via Television Signal · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that it will be a matter of few months before someone finds a way to extract common keys for the movies ( I assume they will be transmitted encrypted), Then, all one needs to watch the aired stuff will be a PC and an aerial.

  5. Re:it depends... on Cross-Platform Company Storage Architecture? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't forget that there is ATA-over-ethernet You can buy the 10 disk arrays make them RAID5 and offer as SAN solutions to linux machines with ease, without expensive fiber switches.

  6. Re:I was a Lotes Admin on IBM to Adopt ODF for Lotus Notes · · Score: 1

    Security? For one, if the person who rolled out the LN install would care to plan or think, such an issue would be non-existant. The idea is that, you create a cert and have a local copy for escrow purposes, say somewhere safe. When new users logs on, he changes his password and simultaneously his cert password. Problem solved with a bonus: You have a working escrow and no default password. Please, LN is trivial to fuck up by incompetent people, same goes for anything else. As a side note, LN had nice built-in encryption where you could sign and encrypt any document you please. Not to mention signed logs and so on. Whoever built LN clearly knew something about security. As for the email gateway, well, I agree there. Puting LN without some sort of proxy isn't a wise thing. But then, most people employ spam appliances, so this shouldn't be much of a problem. Overall, i've yet to see a better groupware.

  7. Re:This was bound to happen. on Wal-mart's Wikipedia War · · Score: 1

    The author confuses Neutral Point of View with zero criticism. For example, although coal based heating in London provided it with much needed heat and jobs at coal mines, a lot of people caughed their lungs out. NPOV isn't being silent on ciriticsm, it is reflecting both sides of the medal, setting measurable methods of comparisant.

  8. Wheelchair is better on Robotic Legs Instead of Wheelchairs · · Score: 1

    I remember a quote for N.T. Stephenson's snowcrash, where Ng, the cyber-genius character, said something along the lines of: "i've tried a lot of prosthetic libs, they were good, I could walk almost like i used to, but wheelchair is still faster and easier to handle." And my two cents are: I welcome the development in this area, but I think that future will be in biomech - artificially grown flesh limbs with some mechanical parts.

  9. Re:Damn the speed on First 802.11n Products Breaking Out · · Score: 1

    There is always the question of power. You can have good signal quality on a military radar, but it also glows green in the night. All radiocomms are already thought out for some while now; The advances are algorithmic - you get better signal Signal-to-Noise ratio by more creative usage of bandwidth and frequency. But for signal penetration there are only two solutions: lower the frequency - longer waves penetrate better, or pump up the juice. I, for one, don't welcome my new green brain frying router overlords.

  10. Re:Are they a victim of their own success? on On World of Warcraft's Network Issues · · Score: 1

    For 90 million a month a company has enough funds to hire Scott McNealy personally to install a patch or two. Heck, it could probably buy or hire as a consultants some of non directly competing MMORPG companies that know how to solve such problems (EVE Online, for example, has a continuous world, no shards and has very little downtime). But then again, Microsoft has even greater resources and they ar e not in the market of getting talented people from outside to fix outstanding issues fast. That said, I think that it really is a management issue and someone too proud to admit that they don't know how to solve this problemset.

  11. Home of the Underdogs on Abandoned Games · · Score: 1

    I feel obliged to post a link to Home of the Underdogs (see also the wikipedia article
    I've had a lot of nice time playing games that I got from there.

  12. Re:If only.. on Mafia Boss Using Crook Crypto Captured · · Score: 1

    Speaking of card-deck based stuff. Everybody has read this: Solitaire Cipher as described by Schenier and used by Stephenson in Cryptonomicon. Much safer :)

  13. Re:The Halo Effect on iTunes Use Surges Past QuickTime, RealPlayer · · Score: 1

    It should have been "ipod halo effect" vs. "slashdot efect" Fight!

  14. Reading anything on tomshardware.... on The Story of Tron · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Slightly OT, but i'd like to read TFA, but I ran out of patience clicking "next" and "next" and then watching as some overlay pops every time i accidentally move my mouse over underlined words. Sheesh. No wonder nobody reads TFA

  15. Re:Spore video on Spore Is EA's New Ace · · Score: 1

    All you have to do is register with Name: Viagra, Surname: Cialis, Company: Free and it will send spamassasin score to that of mt. everest

  16. Re:The important thing is the profile. on Windows Gets Independent Security Certification · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about you install key-logger and wait for the fireworks? Any kind of physical security that can be trusted upon is hard to obtain. The IBM 4758 PCI Cryptographic Coprocessor is used in environments where it is important to prevent tampering. It has been said many times before, that the only way to have a "secure" environment is to guard all access points with armed marines. This, naturally, is not feasible and physical security will always be an easy point of attack. Thus, the grand-parents post is valid.

  17. Indian space programme on Indian Tycoon Sets Balloon Flight Record · · Score: 0, Troll

    So this is how India is going to fly to space: 1) Launch a tycoon into high altitude 2) He can't get down, send US/European spaceships with Indian astronauts on them to the rescue!

  18. Re:Man up, nancy. on Don't Network Administrators Require Privacy? · · Score: 1

    Who the hell needs security anyway, right? I mean we patch our servers and exploits are not there. Our company just makes money, we don't have any bad competition who could *gosh* make a physical attack? And besides, those pesky sysadmins always bitch about something, they just SPEND the money our sales department earns and what do we get in return? I don't know why company doesn't outsouce the whole bunch to Punjab or Dehli. Ye, like I said, noone will come into our office and try to steal information.

    I don't think word security exists until first incident.

    P.S. Human beings like and need privacy. They are not Borg.
  19. Re:Skeptical.... on Alternative to Tokamak Fusion Reactor · · Score: 1

    Latin. quod erat demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated). Please, don't confuse the people

  20. Ad free slashdot on Ajax Is the Buzz of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Maybe there can be ad-free slashdot? You know , not where there are no banners or Marketplace Links text ads, but where the outright ads as stories are absent or at least put into 'Commercial Journalism' section? Getting on my tits.

  21. Re:First4Internet on More on Sony's "DRM Rootkit" · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suggest you put blank keys together with some epoxytde in their locks, break of the keys and slap DRM sticker :)

  22. Re:It's happened.... on Internet Partitioning - Cogent vs Level 3? · · Score: 1

    There is a valid reason why a cheap PC isn't used as a serious router - it is just a PC with all its architecural limitations. If you need multihome on your site and can afford the costs, you can just aswell buy a dedicated ASIC router.

  23. Sid, You rock! on Ask Sid Meier · · Score: 1

    Why, oh why did you make such great games that caused me lost sleep, red eyes and loud arguments with friend what to build next?

  24. Re:Great! on GMail Sign-Ups Via Mobile · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Search better than Thunderbird or Outlook? Much better! It's as if you were searching the web with google! I disagree! I want my wildcard searches. Not everybody remembers in which tense the keyword sought for is specified in mail.

  25. Re:I prefer clockspeed's taiclock on Expert Network Time Protocol · · Score: 1

    time.nist.gov is windows xp second choice for timeserver. Tell to keep away from nist to the windows horde