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  1. Re:how long they spent on each site... on Ask Slashdot: Low-Cost Tools To Track Employees' Web Use? · · Score: 1

    And what in fact does that do to to help the submitter's employer in the face of the new law? I think it is more indicative of the submitter's approach to users more than anything.

  2. Re:Objects are shit on Windows Server 8 Is A Radical Departure From Previous Releases · · Score: 1

    $ man dd

  3. Re:Way past time... on Rogue SSL Certs Issued For CIA, MI6, Mossad · · Score: 1

    They are in the list so that you cannot allow them to do anything. Look at the properties, all the check boxes will be untitcked, try to enable any one and then go back to that dialog, they will still be unticked. Also visit an https address that uses a diginotor cert and try to allow it, it will not let you.

  4. partly same approach as nginx on "Apache Killer" Web Server Hole Plugged · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201108.mbox/%3C85111090-501E-4C80-AA8F-DD11B94FDF7C@apache.org%3E

    * SECURITY: CVE-2011-3192 (cve.mitre.org)
      core: Fix handling of byte-range requests to use less memory, to avoid
      denial of service. If the sum of all ranges in a request is larger than
      the original file, ignore the ranges and send the complete file.
      PR 51714.

    I remember reading how people had all sorts of ideas like sorting the ranges, ignoring gaps of less than 80 bytes, noticing that it went afoul of the standard. Around the same time nginx also did a release with the approach of sending back the entire file if the sum of the ranges was more. That was so simple, and it's okay according to RFC 2616 a server MAY ignore the range header, so it's clever too! Glad all the memory handling was fixed-up too though.

  5. Re:This is Oracle we are talking about.... on Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apache did, in fact they reported the trouble five days before the deadline. This was a show stopper, Oracle did not treat it as such, Oracle has a habit of this. What they should have done (keeping in mind how they treat bugs) is released on schedule but with the option disabled. But no this would have been too much of a performance regression, again Oracle has made crazy decisions in the past where they value perceived performance in some benchmark above all other sane reasoning. But really they could have in this case, then around the second or third update have this fixed and it would have been another great release all about improved performance. That would look pretty dang good in comparison to the current situation. It is just that there is clearly some disease that has spread at Oracle, and they can't think things through clearly enough when there is a deadline or benchmark involved.

  6. Re:Not so obvious on What Do I Do About My Ex-Employer Stealing My Free Code? · · Score: 1

    Do you know him personally? If not please don't knock him. I've only given my opinion (good and bad) online of people I had worked with and very rarely negative (because of the respect in a work relationship) for really egregious examples.

  7. 48 hours on Wal-Mart Jumps Into Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    Thank goodness, finally there is an online rental that is not 24hours only. With real lief my wife and I never get to finish a movie in one night anymore, 48 hours is in the right direction. But only some of the movies are priced this way on vudu. None of the films have captions/subtitles on vudu either, that's a real bonus for us. We watch the movies pretty quietly that we do to not wake the kids. Netflix is starting to have subtitles on more of it's streaming content, it's been great!

  8. Re:I'm not disgruntled on Blockbuster Trying To Woo Disgruntled Netflix Customers · · Score: 1

    My DSL company has a deal with ESPN and I get ESPN3 online, which is much of the stuff that is on ESPN and ESPN2 on cable/satellite. It has had a good selection of hockey and soccer at least for me. It's live and has replays whenever you want as well. Also news is online as well at the TV web sites, maybe an hour later or so the clips are up. But really what's the point of TV news and it's sensationalism when you can just read news online sooner? What other live events do you miss? CSPAN stuff is online (like USA federal government goings ons), NASATV as well, even boith local cable access channels stream online and have archived clips online here. Maybe it's worse in Canada, sorry. I do also have an antenna on my roof.

  9. Re:When pigs fly... on Will Apple's Lion Roar For Business? · · Score: 2

    That's case (i) for non-commercial use, see case (ii) regarding commercial use (bottom of first page in English).

    http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macosx107.pdf

    The gist of it is that in a commercial environment you need one copy for each employee, then that copy is good for each computer he is the sole user on. For a shared machine, you need a copy for each computer.

  10. Re:Failed attempt. on Do Two-Screen Laptops Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    Xvnc or Xephyr. Run one of those then under Xorg on each open them fullscreen but on the right laptop have it offset to the right half and only view mode. The easiest way to get the mouse to move over would be to fake a higher resolution in the xorg.conf but disable the view moving around following the mouse. You can be clever even and run the left screen right on display :0 too.

  11. Re:For those too lazy to read more than the summar on Chinese Officials Need a Better Photoshopper · · Score: 1

    When they replace one individual with another, which they did the fellow that's not facing the camera, it's not an honest mistake or bad chopping skills anymore.

  12. Re:Scaled down photos on Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics · · Score: 1

    When I UL there is a radio button, I choose the option labeled something like "as sharp as me cutlas' (I use Pirate English for my language, it's surprisingly funny) and then they are not recompressed. I checked with jpegtran -copy NONE -progressive and then cmp. I do run the pictures through a little imagemagick convert script first that autorotates the images and scales them to no larger than 1024x1024 before uploading. FB works fine to easily let family and friends see vacation photos.

  13. Re:...really? on Personal Electronics May Indeed Disrupt Avionics · · Score: 1

    Finally the correct answer. Part of the spec for this connector (a Burndy BTW) and cable was to be dragged behind a Jeep for a certain distance at some speed like 30MPH and to still work. That's the main reason it looks the way it does.

  14. Re:Ambivalent on Robots Retrieve Your Books At U. Chicago's $81 Million Library · · Score: 1

    "Wandering the stacks and reading random books is fun."

    Having sex in the reg stacks was fun even before it was a meme, in fact when that word meant something only to the linguistic concentrators. Now robot stack sex on the other hand sounds like the name of some genetic algorithm on the other hand, not much fun at all really.

  15. new big game on Firmware Troubles For Old Xbox 360s, Possibly PS3s As Well · · Score: 2

    As others have noted, LA Noire overheating is also happening on xbox 360. Notice that in both cases it's older consoles? What's the game that a high percentage of people are playing now? So the big new game is what people happen to be playing on their dusty old hardware which is overheating. Same thing will happen next year with the big game and the older consoles around then. Anyway, it's the simplest explanation at this point.

  16. Re:PowerShell on Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine · · Score: 1

    PowerShell is MPW with added complexity to the objects and data passed around.

  17. Re:What is copied? on Academic Publishers Ask The Impossible In GSU Copyright Suit · · Score: 1

    Whoa that's actually not good what you and your profs have been doing. I saw a lot of that happening in humanities courses, it bothered me. Rather I just bought books from students that had already taken the courses or checked them out from libraries. I was able to afford it that way. In my case where these proposals would cause trouble there were some graduate courses in cs and math I took where the books were long out of print. For example in two courses we used a book where there were two copies available in all of Chicago. A professor had one copy another was in a university math library. Simply we copied and shared. It was actually neat, often we would meet in a library or cafeteria and work together from one book, it was actually a great way to learn. Because it was so much better to learn that way, I ended-up not copying much. But that worked since those classed had 6 and 8 students. Others were too big with too few books, more copying was involved there. The publishers would need to set-up some sort of org that universities could get the rights to copy these old books, something like this just is not in place at the moment.

  18. Re:Vital Stats on Boot Linux In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    Not the floating point error: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug

  19. Re:Not just linux users on Microsoft Buying Skype for $8.5B · · Score: 1

    Came to say that too. Also PSP users may be first in line for trouble considering Sony and MS compete with PS3 and xbox360. Also you will likely see skype on kinect way before PS3 now.

  20. Re:The Slashdot system seems to work pretty well on Ask Slashdot: Going Beyond Comment Threads? · · Score: 1

    It used to be better though. The lower scored comments at the head of a thread would appear after the higher scored ones. Now the order does not change as you scroll down the page. The ones that were posted sooner appear nearer to the top. I used to moderate by reading a bit, then changing the order to most recent first. Then new ideas I would moderate appropriately. This also helped to see comments that had been modded down unfairly, I could still see them and mod them back up.

  21. Re:Found it. on Apple Delays Release of LGPL WebKit Code · · Score: 2

    Apple also updated this:

    http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/ios-43/

    On Friday it was still missing. I think the press hurried them along.

  22. how to check usage? on On Monday, AT&T Customers Enter Era of Broadband Caps · · Score: 1

    I have DSL from AT&T. How can I check to see how much I have used in a month? What happens as I approach the limit? What happens when I cross it? Could someone please provide me with helpful links, thanks.

  23. safari tracking on Steve Jobs: 'We Don't Track Anyone' · · Score: 1

    The last /. story on this said that safari was tracking. It stated 10.6 and Safari on Windows. Was that an error, really only a misinterpretation of iOS as Safari by some journalist? Or not? Can someone please point me to how Safari tracks location? What location data it logs? And if so where it stores/sends that data? Thanks.

  24. I have safari installed on Apple: "We must Have Comprehensive Location Data" · · Score: 1

    Could someone point me to an article that explains how it tracks location? Also where it sends/stores that info? Thanks

  25. Re:and where's heisenberg? on Speed Tickets Challenged Based On Timestamped Photos · · Score: 1

    If it was the filesystem timestamp maybe, but it isn't. Know why? FAT timestamps are only increment every 2 seconds. This was the EXIF timestamp, should be when the shutter closed give or take tens of ms.