Slashdot Mirror


User: mboverload

mboverload's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,096
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,096

  1. Re:Dangerous game on Born with Couch Potato Genes? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who says everything isn't to blame on genetics?

  2. Re:Chicken and Egg. on Is SETI a Security Risk? · · Score: 1

    Actually, he has been watching the new retarded show on CBS named "Threshold".

    It is about an alien signal that can duplicate itself on any electronic device (so far MP3 players, cell phones, ATM machines, computers, etc), spread from that device, insert a 3rd helix of alien DNA into the human genome, and make children and adults super-human.

    No, I'm not kidding.

  3. Way on BlackBox Voting Tests California Diebold Machines · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The only way to make any election truely free, all procedures, protocols, and source code HAVE to be provided.

    There is no other way. Period. So what if we look at their source? What are we going to do, take a library to use in some high school election? Any objection to a release of source code is utter lawyer bullshit.

  4. Re:Your phone number on Google's New Click-to-Call Service · · Score: 1

    Google most likely acts as a middle man.

    They call you AND the advertiser, then connect together when both callers are ready. I also agree with above posters, Asterisk is most likely being used here. Other programs/systems like it cost INSANE amounts of money. In-house then releasing it to the community is probably alot cheaper. FOSS that really works!

  5. Re:I didn't even know there was one on Microsoft Windows XP N Flops · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...So don't use it if you don't like it.

    Wow, delete the fucking icon. Stop being a karma whore.

  6. Re:It is open on Microsoft Windows XP N Flops · · Score: 1

    This has NOTHING to do Windows. Instead of the programs you were using requesting the default browser, they just assumed you used IE and opened it.

  7. Re:Why? on MD5 Collision Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    Although I was thinking of a hash of a hash, that works as well and fits into my question.

  8. Re:SHA1 on MD5 Collision Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    It was a JOKE people!

  9. Why? on MD5 Collision Source Code Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why not just use 2 different algorithms? Yes, it's possible. Or hell, use 3. Can some one tell me why not this isn't a standard practice? Even if one has a weakness, you still have the other to back it up

    I use HMAC-SHA-256 with PasswordMaker.

    https://passwordmaker.org/passwordmaker.html

  10. Re:What? on Jobs Offers Free Mac OS X For $100 Laptops · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, OSX runs VERY well on an old 333MHz iMac with 64 megs of ram. I won't take the latest version, mind you, but it works well. No lag in the dock or anything.

  11. Re:Sensationalist Journalism? on A Flu Pandemic? · · Score: 1

    AIDS allows rare diseases to occur that simply _DO_NOT_ occur with a proper immune system

  12. Re:Sensationalist Journalism? on A Flu Pandemic? · · Score: 1

    Could you expand on your post? I'm not trying to discredit you, I'm just very interested.

  13. Re:Sensationalist Journalism? on A Flu Pandemic? · · Score: 1

    Ok, you got me there.

    By the weakening of the immune system form AIDS, diseases can easily take over the body and kill it.

  14. Re:Sensationalist Journalism? on A Flu Pandemic? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    WHAT ABOUT AIDS?

    Unless you are one of the VERY rare prostitues in Africa that are immune to AIDS, it has a ~100% fatality rate. Plus it kills millions a year RIGHT NOW.

  15. Re:Me too on IPv6 Still Hotly Debated · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot. Not sending your SSID has nothing to do with security.

  16. Re:Me too on IPv6 Still Hotly Debated · · Score: 1, Funny

    You realize IPv6 has more IP's then there are atoms in the universe, right?

  17. Re:Me too on IPv6 Still Hotly Debated · · Score: 2, Informative
    > Why 128 bits instead of, say, 64?

    Exactly what I'm asking. From wikipedia:

    The primary change from IPv4 to IPv6 is the length of network addresses, with IPv6 addresses being 128 bits long (as defined by RFC 2373 and RFC 2374). This corresponds to 32 hexadecimal digits, which are normally used when writing IPv6 addresses. Each hexadecimal digit can take 16 values (see combinatorics), resulting in a total of 1632 (340 undecillion) addresses. IPv6 addresses are usually composed of two logical parts: a 64-bit network prefix, and a 64-bit host-addressing part, which is often automatically generated from the interface MAC address. It is often argued that 128-bit addresses are overkill, and that the Internet will never need that many. However, it should be noted that the rationale for the 128-bit address space is not primarily to make sure that addresses never run out, but rather to ensure that routing can be handled smoothly by keeping the address space unfragmented. This is seen as an improvement over IPv4, where a great number of discrete netblocks are often assigned to one organization.

    I still think it's complete overkill

  18. Re:Motives for telling? on State Department Developing Cyber Toolkit · · Score: 1

    I was wondering this myself and I think you are correct. Besides, it will probably just be netstat made purty.

  19. Apple video SUCKS on Slashback: OpenDocument, Intelligent Design, More DRM · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple video uses QVGA, which is Quater VGA. It means exactly what you think it does, you can put 4 tiles of QVGA into one VGA image. That's 320x240 pixels. 320x240 VERY compressed pixels. VGA is the same resolution as NTSC. Yes, it's crappier than network television quality, if that's possible.

    Go to TorrentSpy.com and download a 350 meg episode of Prison Break. With just DSL you can download faster than you can watch. Or go for a 700 meg version, which is insane quality.

    These are just words, and words can not describe the bullshit that Apple is selling.

  20. Re:So let me get this straight... on No More Lunar Land for Sale · · Score: 1

    Is that site for real? It's a huge prank, right?

  21. Great idea on MIT Wireless Campus Tracking Users · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they should use it to track articles they've already posted? :-)

  22. Re:Might Even Be Illegal? on Don't Network Administrators Require Privacy? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Windows Key + L

    That locks Windows workstations.

  23. Re:Grow up on A Monroe Doctrine for the Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful
    > Seriously can everyone just grow the fuck up, otherwise this will end badly. The US needs to hand over some control of the root servers and Europe needs to trust the US a little more - this shared responsibility can only be a good thing for international relationships.

    That might have been a good post. If you actually gave a reason for any of it.

  24. Re:even as a european... on A Monroe Doctrine for the Internet · · Score: 1

    > Which is exactly the reason why the root DNS servers should not be run by an American government

    Good, because they're not.

  25. Re:Don't let your head explode on Microsoft Calls for National Privacy Law · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a nudist you insensitive clod!