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  1. Re:Uh-oh, they're catching up! Someone tell Apple! on Apple To Face Challenge At WWDC · · Score: 1

    ',.pyf is the Dvorak equivalent. Though "aoeui" might work better.

  2. Re:translation on Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings · · Score: 1

    It would do no such thing. These are conspiracy theorists, they'll believe anything to make what they think true. Clearly the people who took the new photos were secret government agents/threatened by the government into releasing fake photos/ALSO on a soundstage... etc, etc. Even if you took them all up there to see it for themselves they'd think you just planted the evidence a few days before, that the first landings never happened & that they were therefore the first.

  3. Re:Communication on The Perils of Pop Philosophy · · Score: 1

    Fine, explain what the Riemann Zeta function is, why it's important, & how to compute its zeroes. Do this without using more fundamental mathematical concepts, just layman's terms (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division allowed, nothing beyond elementary school math (they've forgotten it.)) If your argument is correct, then any failure would simply be poor communication, not a lack of understanding of more fundamental concepts on the part of the lay-audience.

  4. Re:easy. on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 1

    I use Xmonad. Give Swap to an empty desktop, let them try to figure out what to do. No taskbar, nothing but the background. No corners, etc, etc. Just a fast, efficent tiling window manager.

  5. Re:Security through Obscurity on Phony TCP Retransmissions Can Hide Secret Messages · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except that adding 1 retransmission per 1000 packets for the stego increases the error rate by 100%. To have only a 5% increase you want to send stego packets at a rate of 1 per 20,000.

  6. Re:Emacs on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is one, it's called Viper.

  7. No. on Is The Best Game One You Were Never Intended To Play? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nethack. The Devs Think of Everything. The best game is the one you didn't think you were intended to play, but were. Or at least can.

  8. Re:When? on Wine Project Frustration and Forking · · Score: 2, Informative

    But without the ability to sort by columns. And no moodbar. And crashes with large playlists > a few thousand songs. etc, etc.

  9. Re:One word. on What Made Those Old, 2D Platformers So Great? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nethack has turns, and you can use the command reference if you forget. You don't have to memorize everything. Realtime games with just as many commands are much harder to play.

  10. Re:I don't get it on Last.fm User Data Was Sent To RIAA By CBS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The question is not what does it prove, the question is does a Judge know all that? Now the RIAA can use Last.fm data to subpoena users, convince a judge to give them a warrant to find the IPs of these "John Does", then sue you. You have no defense against that stage, and afterwards your computer is evidence and can be seized & searched.

  11. Re:At least it is not windows temp on Safari 4's Messy Trail · · Score: 1

    Except, of course, for the Content.IE5 directory, which is hidden & not cleared. You can navigate to it with the command prompt or address bar, but it won't show up in Explorer.

  12. Re:The essense of Judo on Soccerbots Learn How To Fall Gracefully · · Score: 2, Informative

    As a martial artist experienced in Hap Ki Do, I'd like to point out that even in a break fall you roll. Just slapping the ground won't prevent injury, and just rolling well likely have you roll over. Slapping the ground stops the roll, in addition to taking the impact & spreading it. You tuck your head to keep it from hitting at all, not slap the ground to reduce that impact.
    The roll decreases the rate at which the impact energy enters your body, the slap distributes the energy & helps prevent harm caused by rolling onto your neck.

  13. Re:I was on Sun To Build World's Biggest App Store Around Java · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was too, but I had to wait for this java slashdot browsing app to load.

  14. Re:bogus answers on Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And yet your PIN is still just 4 numbers. Everywhere.

  15. Re:Not bad if used with email on Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed · · Score: 1

    It's normally a link you have to click to confirm your desire to change your password. What it does help prevent is DoS attacks, since generating and sending a few million of those password recovery e-mails per secord can bring a server down.

  16. Re:Don't use them on Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed · · Score: 1

    There's a better way. Write the actual answer + some secret salt. Take the MD5 sum (or other hash you can generate). Use that.

  17. Re:We have SEVEN senses on Hacking Our Five Senses and Building New Ones · · Score: 1

    But there's also triple-point (solid/liquid/gas at the same time) and supercritical (liquid/gas at the same time). Not as distinct as the other 4, but still important.

  18. Re:I want to see all MMORPG on one server on On the Feasibility of Single-Server MMOs · · Score: 1

    Why crash when you can just start a nice orbital bombardment?

  19. Re:They asked for it on Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle · · Score: 1

    Some certifications can be revoked for this. So most IT people will suddenly lose their basic job qualifications, & can thus be fired.

  20. Re:Whiskey and its age on Nuclear Testing Helps Identify Fake Vintage Whiskey · · Score: 1

    A 10 year old whisky sitting in a bottle for 50 years will not be any "smoother" or such than a 10 year old whisky that is freshly bottled. It's 60 years old, but won't absorb anything more from the oak barrel it isn't in, and should thus taste effectively the same as if it were still 10 years old.

  21. Re:I can think of a few on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 1

    That depends upon the site. If you got nice big channels installed cable runs are easy. If your building has bad properties for wireless propagation you'll need lots more access points, and the cable runs to them. Also, wired switches are cheaper than wireless APs. Thus, in some cases, it may be cheaper to go wired. Especially for Desktop machines.

  22. Re:Sun was never worth 200B on Employee (Almost) Chronicles Sun's Top Ten Failures · · Score: 1

    This comes from how stock prices are calculated. The stock is valued at the price of the last trade. If one person buys 1 share of stock at $1 higher than the previous trade, and there are a billion shares, then the company's value just jumped by $1,000,000,000. But that value jump is only real if everyone keeps buying/selling at that price. It's a system of imaginary money that massively magnifies small fluctuations.

  23. Re:Patterns? on Forensics Tool Finds Headerless Encrypted Files · · Score: 1

    Compress -> Encrypt IS used instead of Encrypt -> Compress, but not for that reason. Encrypted data is effectively random, and thus very, very hard to compress. Compressed data is just as easy to encrypt as uncompressed. So to save space you MUST compress before encrypting.

  24. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? on Hundreds of Black Holes Roam Loose In Milky Way · · Score: 1

    As a Jew, I'd have modded that funny. It's a very Jewish-style joke.

  25. Re:English Language Article. on Judge In Pirate Bay Trial Biased · · Score: 1

    They give money to people who make laws. They'll never get banned.