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  1. Re:The feds' approach to fuel efficiency is all wr on Why Fuel Efficiency Advances Haven't Translated To Better Gas Mileage · · Score: 1

    There are many reasons that the CAFE regulations are suboptimal but yours is not one of them. CAFE calculates the harmonic mean, ie the inverse, so it effectively is calculating the mean if every car was driven the same distance, not used the same amount of fuel, so just like thinking in the European manner unlike our MPG. Real reasons that CAFE is suboptimal is that there is still a domestic and other average (for cars), the car vs truck limits, the fleet penalty is very low, the arbitrary E85 benefit, the new 'footprint' requirements that will be the new loophole to allowing manufactures continue selling large fuel efficient but very profitable vehicles, and so on (there is more).

  2. Re:At this stage, why have a hash function at all? on Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update · · Score: 1

    It would work, one script would then check to see if the keys were one of year, month, or day. Another script would verify that it only got zip, city, or state. Those keys that it cared about, it could put those values into a hash table if it wanted, or not if it just used them right then and there. The problem is that framework like plone or rack or tomcat or whatever it is that calls your script doesn't know what are the variables that you will need. It puts them all in a hash. Oh sure that use an array to pass them all is linear, but the current attack is quadratic. First you add the first, you get an empty bucket list. Now you add the second, have to look at the first one... Now you add n, first look through the previous n - 1. See?

  3. Re:They didn't infect Kippo on Duqu Attackers Managed to Wipe C&C Servers · · Score: 2

    Kippo will not work for anyone but the kiddies. Did you change the default root passwords even? Those two are a real tip-off to a honeypot. Also there are hardly any commands, ifconfig never changes, and in this case /etc/issue says Debian and these people were after CentOS. If you had been hacked, you would have had the vulnerable sshd and no Kippo logs would have been the least of your worries.

  4. Re:Open Source an MMO? on LEGO Universe To Shut Down · · Score: 1

    HA! Sorry I replied to the wrong person, it was the "Prince of Persia" sets.

  5. Re:Open Source an MMO? on LEGO Universe To Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Sorry it was "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time." After my sons got the set with ostriches they pleaded with me to watch the film. The movie and video game released at the same time were not age appropriate for them and that set made them want to watch the film very badly which I guess was the point for the deal.

  6. Re:Open Source an MMO? on LEGO Universe To Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Cool Lego protected it's brand so much they never released a line of sets based on a movie based on a game that was completely inappropriate for children 7-10 years old.

  7. Re:Shares refusal? on Cringely's Lost Jobs Interview: Coming To a Theater Near You · · Score: 1

    Yes it's the same guy, but I've only ever heard him tell that story.

  8. Re:you need to do some homework first on Ask Slashdot: When and How To Deal With GPL Violations? · · Score: 1

    Is this what you wanted? http://www.vsipl.org/vsipl++-2005Jun29.tgz.tar It was the second google result. Good luck.

  9. you need to do some homework first on Ask Slashdot: When and How To Deal With GPL Violations? · · Score: 1

    It is no way certain that there is any GPL violation here. Don't bother until you find one. I mean don't yo feel bad everything you hear about some site getting take down notices for reasons that prove unfounded? I wouldn't want to be like that. So really you need to find evidence in the binary that source code submitted by someone outside of MG and CS was used to build the closed version. If you find that, then you need to contact that person and learn whether or not they have the rights to that (could have been work for hire with a contract or they could have done a transfer of ownership as part of the patch submission process for example) and even if they care at all about it. Why might they not even care? Well MG could just say, "oops, thanks, here we have removed the offending source from our build, here is the new closed version that complies." And really unless you want to be a jerk, that should be good enough. You yourself wrote that you don't want to be that jerk because you do not wish to give ammo to decision makers to avoid going open source or GPL even in the future. So is all the work you and others will need to do worth that potential outcome? That's up to you. Just find an archive of the GPLed version and go from there for the future is what I personally recommend.

  10. Re:Get ready for the "experts" and lawyers. on 3D Printed Bone Models Cut Cost of Surgery Operations · · Score: 2

    Might actually be OsiriX themselves, they charge $600 per seat, $600 every year for support and updates. The free version is not supposed to be used clinically.

  11. Re:Just some back-of-the-envelope numbers... on HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line · · Score: 1

    And cabling.

  12. Re:32 bit servers in 2011? on HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line · · Score: 1

    Though you can then have more than 4GB of RAM in a system and each process has a 32bit VA space. This works for process that do not need to mmap gigantic things, only the OS moves the 'views' around for the processes and you can run more io bound processes without paging.

  13. Re:it's begining of the end for x86 (hopefully) on HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line · · Score: 1

    sparc and mips are not compatible at all. They are big endian (mips can be little endian sometimes) load/store RISC processors with 32 GPRs (though sparc has register windows) and that's about it in terms of similarity.

  14. Re:First of its kind? The OP should be shot on India To Build A Thorium Reactor · · Score: 1

    An alternative approach is to use an accelerator to add neutrons, but yes using the uranium as you say is what the plan is here.

  15. Re:Pascal v/s C on Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than · · Score: 1

    * was used because in the line printers and terminals of the day ^ was not universal. Often it was an up arrow for example instead like on all the hardware that used 6847s for the character generator and then sometimes it just was not there at all. * on the other hand was often there and if not there was a character that was a round or diamond bullet. All the trigraphs stuff in C stems from decisions to limit the cases where they would need to be used because of limited character sets.

  16. Re:FPGA artifacts on FTL Neutrinos Explained... Maybe · · Score: 1

    That author misunderstands FPGAs. I have one here with two 16-bit 8kilasample registers. We're working on adapting it for a larger FPGA since this bitty one is getting hard to buy now. They're not like cpus, no caches and what not.In fact the OPERA team used a heat gun and saw only 2ns over an extreme range of temperatures that would not happen during the experiment.

  17. Re:Should they not have linked on Looking Beyond Detroit For Engine Innovation · · Score: 1

    Not so simple, you need to find such engine with the valves in the block.

  18. Re:Protection is already available on To Stop BEAST, Mozilla Developer Proposes Blocking Java Framework · · Score: 1

    noscript won't really do it because it's a MITM attack. If you whitelist a site then an attacker can inject an evil jar file (currently js used for this) that steals session cookies. Something that would work would be if the cookie monster extension would be modified such that no cookies would be passed along any connection from an applet, or maybe even better any plugin. Or you could limit it so only certain sites cookies to certain other sites as well? Maybe it already does this?

  19. Re:Less radical solution = better on To Stop BEAST, Mozilla Developer Proposes Blocking Java Framework · · Score: 1

    This is a MITM attack, they inject the jar on a site that you have whitelisted, and now they have your session cookies for paypal or what not.

  20. Re:Won't help on To Stop BEAST, Mozilla Developer Proposes Blocking Java Framework · · Score: 1

    SOP (same origin policy), the paypal.com cookies will not be sent to evill.com.

  21. Re:warning? on To Stop BEAST, Mozilla Developer Proposes Blocking Java Framework · · Score: 1

    It's a MITM attack, you will expect java on some site sooner or later, one that you would allow, they send an extra jar that steals the cookies at that point.

  22. $30 off for advertizing on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 1

    All the prices I have seen are taking into account the lower priced versions with the on screen advertizing. Is that new to the kindle?

  23. Re:Solutions without TLS v1.1 and v1.2 on Google Prepares Fix To Stop SSL/TLS Attacks · · Score: 1

    Somebody please mod this up.

  24. Re:Javascript on Hackers Break Browser SSL/TLS Encryption · · Score: 1

    That makes much more sense, I would expect to see the 'some of the data is not encrypted warning' with what increment1 proposed.

  25. Re:Foolang on Client-side Web REPL For 15+ Languages · · Score: 1

    Nope, you get a foobaz instead.