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  1. Re:The authorized keys file can specify a program on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 1

    That's brilliant! Specifying "login" seems to work quite well. Although I don't think it'll work for doing file transfers.

  2. Re:Key AND Password on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's no way for a server admin to require a passworded key for login.

  3. Key AND Password on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So what I've never understood is why it's not possible (as far as I know) for a server to require BOTH a key AND a password. Sure, I can put a password on my key, but that isn't the same at all. Is this possible yet?

  4. "Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God." - Martin Luther

    Using a phrase like "trust in science" illustrates that pretty well.

  5. Huh? on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is "science" a thing to be "trusted in"? What does that even mean? Sounds an awful lot like the headline should read "liberals' use of science as a religion has increased dramatically since mid-1970s".

  6. Re:Hardware Acceleration on Mozilla To Support H.264 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's critical, even with multi-core, if for no other reason than battery life.

  7. Yeah, but on Berkeley HTML5 Timeline Tool Can Show a Day, Or the Lifetime of the Universe · · Score: 5, Insightful
  8. Using a breathalyzer to measure somebody's ability to drive a car is fraught with assumptions, which means, horrifyingly, what's now illegal is the indicators rather than the behavior.

    The DUI Exception to the Constitution

  9. Re:Using this technique on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 2

    Well, maybe. Isn't the prohibition against eating animals with cloven hoofs? Or something like that? This would never have had hooves.

  10. Re:But will they make me breakfast on Nano-Scale Terahertz Antenna May Make Tricorders Real · · Score: 1

    What the hell is up with the bold text throughout your comment?

  11. 10% Ethanol on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does that mean that we'll go back to having gasoline actually be real, 100% honest-to-God gasoline too?

  12. Re:Wrong on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 5, Informative

    Okay. I think you'll find I was perfectly true to the meaning:

    The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.

  13. Re:Wrong on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    It's from the "necrophelia" link of the OP.

  14. Wrong on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stallman said:

    prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia ... should be legal as long as no one is coerced.

  15. Re:Business as usual on No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 · · Score: 4, Informative

    DHCP can be used to hand out a static IP.

  16. Re:Firefox crash on Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater · · Score: 1

    I'm running iceweasel 9.0.1 on Squeeze, tried it in safe mode too, and it segfaults upon loading any Vanity Fair page.

  17. Firefox crash on Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does anybody else's Firefox crash, hard, as in the window just disappears, whenever you load a page on vanityfair.com?

  18. Re:EULAs on Sony Sued Over PSN 'No Suing' Provision · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No EULA is required to use free software. DISTRIBUTING software is a different matter. It's an important difference.

  19. Left one out on Google Working On Siri Competitor Majel · · Score: 5, Informative

    She was also the first officer of the Enterprise in the first pilot episode.

  20. Charity Navigator on Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity? · · Score: 5, Informative
  21. Re:Sounds cool on Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones · · Score: 2

    Tethered data IS data from the handset.

    I'm not saying it isn't unreasonable to charge; I'm saying it's unreasonable to call it unlimited.

  22. Re:Sounds cool on Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones · · Score: 1

    Unless you want to send that data to your laptop. Then it suddenly isn't unlimited. First "unlimited" becomes meaningless and now so has "truly unlimited"!

  23. Re:Something To Think About on Google Researchers Propose Plan To Fix CA System · · Score: 4, Informative

    But that's exactly wrong. With DNSSEC (well, hopefully) becoming more popular, it WILL actually be possible to rely on DNS to store things like key fingerprints.

  24. Quote Investigator to the rescue! on Does Open Source Software Cost Jobs? · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/

    At one of our dinners, Milton recalled traveling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a worksite where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of modern tractors and earth movers, the workers had shovels. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained: "You don’t understand. This is a jobs program." To which Milton replied: "Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it’s jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels."

  25. Dividends? on Microsoft Shareholders Unhappy After Annual Meeting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Doesn't MSFT pay dividends? You can't just look at the chart of the stock price. The fair way to construct such a chart would be a graph of an investor's money assuming he reinvested the dividends.