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  1. Re:Still in violation on North Korea Agrees To Suspend Nuclear Activities · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Next time they want something, the inspectors are kicked out and more nuke and missile tests.

    Essentially, we bribed them with food to keep quiet through an election year. Nice.

  2. Re:Yep, right on Those Sleeping Pills May Be Killing You · · Score: 1

    Did you consider: Even if this study is flawed, it might do something about the approach of providing benzos to people who have trouble sleeping. Maybe the actual reason why they aren't sleeping will be investigated. It's probably something completely treatable: overstress, uncontrolled diabetes, nutritional deficiencies, abuse of some other substance like caffeine, etc.

  3. Re:Not surprised on US Prosecutors Have a Sealed Indictment On Assange, Say Leaked Files · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I actually agree. It may be that the Swedish women are doing him a favor here. In fact, I wouldn't doubt that this is all attention seeking behavior from Assange when he knows full well that the Swedish connection might be his only lifeline. It's unlikely that he'd be in any danger in Swedish jail, but he'd be in quite a bit of danger anywhere else. Hiding out in Stockholm for 10 years might be the one thing that could result in him having any future besides a pine box.

    The insurance file is a joke. It's already been cracked, assuredly.

  4. Who was the idiot who just let this happen? on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, why was it considered ok to dump antibiotics into animal feed? It seems like total idiocy from this angle, regardless of the short term benefits.

  5. Re:US physics decline parallels the space program on The Recycling of the Tevatron · · Score: 1

    Me personally? Sure. The majority of the US? No, not really.

  6. Re:US physics decline parallels the space program on The Recycling of the Tevatron · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're just leading from behind.

  7. Re:dongle on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    Until you prove that, it would be unwise to do differently.

  8. Re:dongle on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    It's not that easy to circumvent if implemented properly. If it's just a ROM on the parallel port, sure, it's a breeze, but there are implementations today that are far from that.

  9. Re:dongle on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So just write the software so that it operates in "free user" mode until it finds a dongle. That would get him out of the business of maintaining two versions of the software and destroy most of the desire to crack the software. Besides which, if the dongle calls are interspersed across multiple libraries, it'll be too much of a pain in the butt to remove them all every time he updates the software.

    For extra points, build in the ability to remote disable the code based upon particular dongle numbers, have the software phone home with its particular dongle id, and when you see a remotely multiplying dongle spread across the world, just disable that dongle number and reissue a replacement to the legitimate owner.

    If you're going to run a software business you need to run it like a business. This isn't hardcore antipiracy. He's just making it easy for casual pirates to play with the software without broaching the reason why people will pay $10k for it.

  10. Re:dongle on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    Properly implemented, they still work.

  11. dongle on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 2

    Why aren't you using one already?

  12. Re:how to cure diabetes on Pharmacy On-a-chip Dispenses Drugs Automatically · · Score: 1

    Why the parent post isn't moderated into oblivion, I have no idea. It's stupid and offensive.

    The cause of diabetes is not eating too much. Get that through your head. Any random person will not automatically become diabetic by eating like a pig. Period.

    Then, consider that part of the reason people eat badly is the endocrine system misfiring and causing them to be hungry when they shouldn't be. But that's their fault according to you. Asshole.

    You'll have to let me know about some condition you or someone in your family suffers from so I can make a similarly uninformed and offensive post about it.

  13. Re:Next up : Toilet scanners on Sony Outlets Control Electricity Through Authentication · · Score: 1

    I don't think insurrection was as grim as you let on, except inasmuch as vassal/lord relationships assured that there was a fire department which would correct any local rebellion in the interest of restoring the 'correct' kind of leadership.

  14. Re:Next up : Toilet scanners on Sony Outlets Control Electricity Through Authentication · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The medieval lord performed a service to the serf - protecting him against bandits and other lords. The church performed a service for the serf: they tended to his soul and also kept records and such. The bottom line, though, was that getting enough to eat was a struggle. The lord and church were fully conscious that there were more serfs than they. While their guards were better armed, it was a matter of degree rather than a huge difference. A sword might be a better arm than a farm implement, but both can kill you. 100 men armed with farm implements are going to fare rather well against 10 who have good arms. Therefore, things were kept reasonable by fear of insurrection.

    The technocrats and corporate overlords of today need to rediscover this fear.

  15. Re:$6.36 per Watt on US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 2

    Well, your $3/watt and falling solar is useful on average 12 hours a day. Also, in the latitudes that North America is in, the actual power delivered is going to be considerably less than 1 watt for each theoretical max output watt. Seems to me that if you want to use solar to replace these nuclear plants, you'll have to double the size of the solar install to 4.4GW.

    Then, you'll have to find a way to store half of the daily output of the install. I would think that 2.2GW * 12h worth of batteries would pretty much break the bank. Never mind the losses associated with charging/discharging chemical batteries. Even the water pumping scheme discussed in the past would have some losses associated with it - evaporation, less than 100% efficiency of the electricity used to pump water.

    Note we haven't even considered the latitude issue. It's not worth considering. We already know solar will be much more expensive.

  16. Re:Job Requirements? on FBI File Notes Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field · · Score: 2

    Rove worked for the elder Bush as well. His 1978 and 1980 campaigns were primarily Rove's work. Rove was engaged in Texas to shepherd Bush's son and keep him out of trouble after the elder Bush went to Washington as the Vice-President.

  17. Re:This on Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic" · · Score: 1

    I never felt much need to procreate.

    Yes, I have three. (22, 17 and 14)

    No, it wasn't by choice.

    Yes, I got fixed at earliest opportunity. Urologists have all kinds of liability-induced rules about this.

    Yes, with an option to go back, I would have either avoided sex in those instances or used more effective birth control.

    No, it has not brought me any more fulfillment.

    Yes, I choose to warn others against what I believe to be a mistake. Let me serve as your bad example.

  18. Re:Dooooooomed. on ReactOS 0.3.14 Released With Improved Networking Stack · · Score: 1

    It won't be a waste of time. I have heard that said too many times about too many things to believe it for a moment. I heard it about Wine in the 90s.

  19. Re:This on Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic" · · Score: 2

    Who wants kids? They're an investment in nothing nowadays. Agricultural societies could justify having families. You had children to assure a possibility of retirement and also to increase your prosperity in your middle years. Now kids are just a drain.

    The depressed birth rates in industrialized nations should tell you all you need to know.

  20. This on Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic" · · Score: 1

    After thinking a lot about it, the only reason a man should marry after 30 is to not be alone when you die. Truthfully, it is the only reason to marry. But everyone seems to have the need to make that mistaken first marriage. After the divorce is over, one must truly 'man up' and look at real priorities. Why would you want to be an enabler and emotional sponge for some woman? If you avoid that, you keep the vast majority of your earnings and you get more sex on the open market.

    You can execute on the marriage plan when you have 2 years to live, if you like. The women won't know the difference.

  21. Re:Dooooooomed. on ReactOS 0.3.14 Released With Improved Networking Stack · · Score: 2

    There will be a repository beyond the reach of Microsoft's software patents.

  22. Re:I worked at Morton Thiokol on Robert Boisjoly Dies At 73, the Engineer Who Tried To Stop the Challenger Launch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Probably because he would have been instantly fired. Keeping your kids fed and housed is probably more important than seven strangers. Cold, yes, but also true.

  23. Re:Key management? on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 1

    It sucks donkey balls, is what it does. Essentially, they never update their keys. COMSEC isn't much fun for civilian law enforcement. They don't really get it.

  24. Re:He's right on No More SSL Revocation Checking For Chrome · · Score: 1

    It's not possible that Opera uses OCSP and CRLs "properly". The simple reason why is that many certificates have no OCSP or CRL specified.

    Can't use what's not there.

    You should probably examine your security posture if you think you are adequately covered by Opera's handling of certificate revocation.

  25. He's right on No More SSL Revocation Checking For Chrome · · Score: 4, Informative

    CRLs and OCSP are functionally useless. For PKI to work, certificate revocation must work also. Some kind of reliable system has to be constructed. Chrome is doing what they need to do to make this happen by abandoning the useless, outdated technologies of the past.

    Before someone asserts otherwise, explain DigiNotar. While you are at it, explain all the rest of the CA compromises over the last two years. Then explain why each browser essentially had to distribute a patch to fix the problem rather than relying on OCSP and CRLs. If they are functional, that wouldn't have been necessary.