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  1. Re:Sure on Write Bits Directly Onto a Hard Drive Platter? · · Score: 1

    It may be easier to just reprogram the controler.

  2. Re:Slashdot trolled on Write Bits Directly Onto a Hard Drive Platter? · · Score: 1

    - Submiter wants to improve/defeat shred.

    Also, needing to replace the entire control board doesn't make it impossible, just harder. That may even be the answer he is looking for.

  3. Re:Slashdot trolled on Write Bits Directly Onto a Hard Drive Platter? · · Score: 1

    Not quite so. Piezzo actuators are quite cheap (compared to other precision mechanical devices, you could by some for some personal project if you want, not pocket change, but quite accessible for somebody not living on India's median salary). Also their hysteresis is the smalest and most easily calculated of the lot of mechanical actuators (some shapes don't even display measurable hysteresis, but then, you are out of the cheap domain). It is only that any histeresis is a problem on atomic scale positioning devices.

  4. Re:VLEC - Very large egg cartons on How Telescopes Deal With Earthquakes In Chile · · Score: 1

    It is easy to understand. Yet, it doesn't stop to be amusing seeing television news make a week long fuss about some house 3000km away that got scratches because of a tremor. I'd expect news to ignore 5.0 quakes at Peru. I'd also expect them to ignore local ones.

  5. Re:VLEC - Very large egg cartons on How Telescopes Deal With Earthquakes In Chile · · Score: 1

    When there is something* bigger than 4.4 at any point of Brazil, all the press freaks about it for at least a week, nationwide.

    *Normaly due to some mining or construction problem.

  6. Re:Down already on Cryptome in Hot Water Again · · Score: 1

    Well, if that is what is written ou your Constitution, then the enforceable part of the law couldn't say anything different, to the penalty of being invalid...

    Isn't that what a constitution is for?

  7. Re:Down already on Cryptome in Hot Water Again · · Score: 1

    Copyright is for creating a carrot, so that people will follow it and write.

  8. Re:One step toward active botnet fighting? on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    You can stop users from installing shiny pointers by giving uninfected shiny pointers to them before the fact. But of course, that will only change the vectors.

  9. Re:One step toward active botnet fighting? on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    It is not vigilantism if a court orders you to do it.

  10. Microsoft is evil on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    They crunch the competition with illegal acts, they bribe governments to steal people's money, they also bribe governemnts to bring bad legislation, that makes everybody less secure, and have a nice plot to destroy freedom of expression once and for all (it has no chance of working on practice, but they have it).

    They are evil. They are just lessen evil than people that murder for their benefit (altought, destroying freedom of expression may be more evil, you may discount non-working plans if you like).

  11. Re:Great big targets on Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video · · Score: 1

    My home computer already automaticaly dischards any packet with the Evil Flag set. Really, when will google come along?!

  12. Re:Stupidity of leadership... on US Unable To Win a Cyber War · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I knew we should have installed a factory reset button on the internet."

    If nothing else, that would make the transition to IPv6 much easier...

  13. Re:Not the only project to work this way. on MySQL's Influence On the GPL · · Score: 1

    "Not that myself or my organization was opposed to licensing legally. However when you have a small, no fee, in house product being distributed within your organization and they are looking for 100$ US or more per instance for licensing fees, it rather makes it a hard pill to swallow."

    If it was inhouse, you could have used the AGPL version without any problem.

  14. Re:FIFY on MySQL's Influence On the GPL · · Score: 1

    The capitalized keywords are a coding convention. Lots of people use it, and sometimes it is really useful. Now, the capitalized column and table names are normal on Oracle environment, they make a lot of Oracle's glitches go away (and by putting them inside quotes, you can have code that works anywhere).

  15. Your sig... on Real-Time, Movie-Quality CGI For Games · · Score: 1

    ... does not seem to fit the maximum lenght requirement. Please report to Commander Taco.

  16. About the sig on Lost Nazi Uranium Found In a Dutch Scrapyard · · Score: 1

    What happened January 21st?

  17. Where do I get a list of countries? on ACTA Internet Chapter Leaked — Bad For Everyone · · Score: 1

    Is there any lis of countries on their site? How do I know if Brazil is a party?

  18. Re:Fonts are too small on Enlightenment Returns To Bring Ubuntu To ARM · · Score: 1

    "Umm, what settings would those be ??"

    From the great great parent, it is changing font size. That shouldn't be too hard to fix anyway, if the devs are paying atention.

  19. Re:Thats why theres lucene on Microsoft Phasing Out FAST Search For Linux, Unix · · Score: 1

    Nowadays there are gread free indexers. I don't know what fit your exact needs (you'll have to research), but you can use them assured that no vendor will slap you again.

  20. Re:Uh, yeah... on Microsoft Phasing Out FAST Search For Linux, Unix · · Score: 1

    For those there are GTK, PHP, Ruby, Perl...

    Anyway, writing cross-plataform software only starts to get hard* when you are working on kernels or one of your plataforms is Windows. I really don't understand why so many comments feeding that troll.

    Annoying, yes, there are a few bugs that will show up on bad C code, for example, but not hard.

  21. Re:Step 1 - decap the chip without killing it on Hardware TPM Hacked · · Score: 1

    You probably won't feed it into an electron beam probe, since you want to read the contents of flash memory. You'll probably need some (very hight impedance) contact probe.

  22. Re:When will they learn on Hardware TPM Hacked · · Score: 1

    Not quite so. It is intented to do 3 things: 1) establish root trust for boot, so the OS knows it wans't compromissed by a rootkit or the user; 2) provide cryptographic operations, so encrypting every bus that the user can acess becomes viable; and 3) allow remote atestation of the software stack, so that partnes of TCG can protect their data against the user.

    The TPM was created for DRM, and the TCG was created for agreeing on a way to make DRM viable. The fact that you can use it to provide a bit of security for yourself is merely accidental, and yes, I've read quite a lot of TCG docs.

    If it was about security for you, they'd make all the keys available for you, to see and modify.

  23. Re:Simply, no software required. on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 1

    You may want to multiply by i in order to get a completely imaginary estimate. Adding i will lead to an estimate that has a real part, and we know that can't be the case.

  24. Re:Simply, no software required. on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 1

    I've some times made that question, and the answer to your question would be "yes". If I want to know how easy is it, is because I want to know if it is viable/rational to implement.

  25. Re:similar story with Fedora and hard drives on Microsoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Batteries · · Score: 1

    Any meaning MS put on that message would be reason for a lawsuit, so MS creates a message with no meaning.

    Next on PR 101, how to use jargon for hiding misfeatures on your products.