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  1. Re:This is very confusing on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    looks real to me

  2. And it's ever changing on Every Man Is an Island (of Bacteria) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I heard a piece about this on NPR about a month ago.  What I found very interesting was that the bacteria help you to digest foods, so one person's personal bacteria may allow her to receive more energy from say a piece of pizza than another person with different bacteria.  Also very interesting was that by traveling and eating food from different regions you can pick up different bacteria and possibly gain even more energy from the foods you eat.

  3. stupidity on Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a Georgia resident, my opinion on this is that if they're still dangerous we should keep them in jail.  This half-assed stuff just weakens civil liberties for law abiding citizens.

  4. Re:Truecrypt on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 1

    http://ciphersaber.gurus.com/

  5. Re:Mathamatically speaking.... on Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers · · Score: 1

    Frequency counts:
    A: 2    _: 4    C: 1    B: 1
    D: 1    F: 2    I: 1    H: 2
    K: 1    J: 2    M: 1    L: 1
    Q: 2    P: 2    S: 1    R: 2
    U: 2    T: 3    W: 1    Y: 4
    X: 2

  6. Re:Well, obvious stuff: on Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers · · Score: 1

    In the middle section we're missing 2 possible hex values 1 and A (10). Below the symbols marked with hex digits there's a new symbol that looks like 's', I would posit that it probably represents one of the missing values. It is followed by the symbols for F (15) and C (12) which unlike the other symbols in the section are not marked with their hex values.

  7. Re:is bluescreenofdeath.ms available? on Microsoft Using .MS TLD · · Score: 1

    grep 'ms$' /usr/share/dict/words|sed s/..$/.ms/

  8. Blocking EM eh... on Paint Provides Network Protection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hope no one ever wants to use a cell phone in your house.

  9. Re:Visio on Enemy At The Water Cooler · · Score: 1

    Nope, but I just made one for Dia: dia-dragon.tar.gz

  10. Re:Punchscan.org on NIST Condemns Paperless Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    You can verify which bubble you marked, but there is no way to prove what was written by each bubble. If the bubbles aren't listed in the same order on every ballot, you can't prove who you voted for just that your vote was counted as cast.

  11. Re:kinda cool on Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag · · Score: 1

    First, I'd use iperf since it is designed for this kind of testing. Additionally, I'd adjust my TCP buffer limits by appending the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf:
    # increase Linux TCP buffer limits
    net.core.rmem_max = 314572800
    net.core.wmem_max = 314572800
    net.core.rmem_default = 65536
    net.core.wmem_default = 65536

    # increase Linux autotuning TCP buffer limits
    # min, default, and max number of bytes to use
    net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 314572800
    net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 314572800
    # number of pages, not bytes
    net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 195584 196096 314572800


    Then run 'sysctl -p' to read in the changes. (sysctl and sysctl.conf may not be available on some distros, in this case you'd have to echo the values into the correct places in proc; google is your friend).

  12. Re:65000 passwords in 8 minutes? on NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not that I beleive the guy or anything, but this actually seems possible. He's just checking for a blank password, so all he has to do is set up an array of ips to check and start forking off processes to check them, just do 135 in parrallel and you can scan them all within a second.

  13. Re:ESRB's job is not to be a censor? on The ESRB Gets An 'F' · · Score: 1

    Clearly they're indEScRiBable and perhaps immEaSuRaBle by this means.

  14. Re:Some food for thought on Microsoft To Offer Virus Defense · · Score: 2, Informative

    Look at the number of vulnerablities for IIS(247) vs. the number for Apache(290). Now consider Apache has about 70% and IIS has about 21% of the webserver market. By your theory Apache should have a lot more vulnerabilities because it's "under the microscope more" (and you can look for them directly in the code, rather than just by blackbox testing). So based on evidence instead of conjecture, dominance in the market has little to do with how many vulnerablities are found in your code.

  15. First Person Shooters on Dvorak Trashes Modern Gaming Industry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think of first person shooters as sort of the "silent movies" of video games. We are at the stage of developing the technology to create truely deep games. The FPS is an excellent platform for testing out new technology (see the newest Unreal engine for reference). Once the FPS proves a technology feasible it can be adopted into games of larger scale; and once we reach a plateau in the realism that can be delivered by games, developers will have to innovate gameplay around that realism.

  16. Re:I dunno about both. on Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet · · Score: 1

    To quote Walter Sobchak, "Oh please, dear? For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint."

  17. Perhaps they should consider... on 95% of IT Projects Not Delivered On Time · · Score: 1

    Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law".

  18. Re:So that means... on D&D Blamed For Stabbing Deaths · · Score: 1
  19. Re:question about debian on How to Install Debian on Mac mini · · Score: 1

    apt-get will get you a precompiled binary and all of its dependencies, or you can use apt-build to build them from source.

  20. Re:Distro ISOs? on Sought for MGM v. Grokster: Non-Infringing P2P Use · · Score: 1
  21. when? on GPL Revision Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    "... for the first time in a while."

    Is that a metric while or an imperial while?

    The last version was written in June of 1991, making this the first update in almost 15 years.

  22. Re:you forgot on The GIMP Gets Ready for 2.2 · · Score: 1
  23. Circumvention on UK Group Wants Mandatory Flash For Phone Cams · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What's to keep me from putting electrical tape over the flash?

  24. Tell Everyone on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 1

    Everyone please submit this as a news tip to CNN, here I want to see this make it into the mainstream media. The average person on the street needs to know about this!

  25. Re:His E-mail Address on Interview with a Spampire · · Score: 1

    you meant bkittridge@cfl.rr.com, right?