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  1. Re:Marital/Money problems??? on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1

    Conveniently you could read either the kernel or the actual comment and get your answer. RDRAND is XOR's with the random data and does not contribute to the entropy pool.

  2. Re:Good News / Bad News on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 5, Informative

    Top Gear had a pre-scripted show, where they decided in the end that the Tesla would run out of power, so they had a shot of their people pushing the car, even though it still had plenty of power in its batteries. Top Gear claimed it was OK doing this, because they were showing something that could happen, even though it didn't.

  3. Re:How important is this? on RDP Proof-of-Concept Exploit Triggers Blue Screen of Death · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The idea is that a specially crafted payload could root the box instead of crashing the system. Right now the payload only crashes the system because the researches didn't spend the time making it worse.

  4. Re:Senator Kay Hutchinson, representing Texas on Congress Warns NASA About Shortchanging SLS/Orion For Commercial Crew · · Score: 2

    Is it still not pork if we don't need the military base, but we want it in $SENATOR's home state so there is more cash in the area?

  5. Re:I am. on Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High · · Score: 1

    I am also still alive, I've been licensed for a year and 4 months, and at only 32 years old, I expect to be around for quite a while longer.

  6. Re:Was this article all a mistake? on Was .NET All a Mistake? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thank god. VB 6 is horrid. I am still trying to rehabilitate people who spent to many years programming in it.

  7. Re:Was this article all a mistake? on Was .NET All a Mistake? · · Score: 1

    That's the cool thing, I don't have to be careful, there is this large company called Microsoft that does that for me. For the record, my code is currently running on every flavor of windows from XP to Win7, (OK no XP 64 bit, but everything else) and it works just fine, I have never had an incompatibility. Now I do have a couple of apps that also run under Linux, and mono has a few rough edges, but it gets better all the time.

  8. Re:How are you screwed? on Microsoft Kills Skype For Asterisk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    which is a life time in terms of technology

    A lifetime in terms of computer technology. In terms of phone technology, where you might install a phone system and not really touch it for 10 years... 2 years is very short.

  9. Re:Dear God on Microsoft Kills Skype For Asterisk · · Score: 4, Informative

    not affecting the majority does not imply not screwing the userbase

    Yes it does.

    Customers are not only the majority slice.

    No, but the customer base is. Hence the term base, as in the most substantial part; not the fringe elements or corner cases.

    Actually the userbase is all of the users.

      http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/user+base

  10. Re:Time for a serious effort on renewables on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The NIMBYs are going "I told you so" around Tokyo right about now.

    Only because they are idiots. So far no one has died from radiation, and it looks like no one will. Instead we have 11000 confirmed dead and another 17000 missing from the disaster, but because people are idiots they only talk about the damn reactors. We are going to have more deaths this summer from rolling blackouts in a heat wave, then will happen because of these reactors.

  11. Re:New from Gawker Games: Grand Theft iPhone! on Police Seize Computers From Gizmodo Editor · · Score: 1

    How is the LOST iPhone stolen goods? It was lost. The guy who found it reported it to Apple, and they didn't know what to do with it. He then sold it to Gizmodo. The phone wasn't stolen, it wasn't taken at gunpoint from the engineer, it was FOUND on the floor! Now do I agree that selling it was the right thing to do? No, not really. But it's not stolen.

    Um read the parent...

    property laws that go back to the 1800s that say if you find something worth more than $400 and use it for your own purposes you can be charged with Grand Theft

    He found it, did not turn it over to the appropriate place then sold it. He stole it.

  12. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    And that is why we insure groups of people and not individual people. Yes he may have a $1000 a month health issue, but I generally never go above my deductible. The idea with the bill is to force everyone to buy insurance so that us cheap people balance out the expensive people.

    Also, that way we can't just skip getting insurance until something goes wrong with us, so we have to pay into the system during our healthy years.

  13. Re:Karl Popper would disapprove... on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 3, Informative

    Good news, it said right in the keynote they will have a battery replacement program. It can be replaced, just not by you.

  14. Re:People misunderstanding the question... on Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze · · Score: 1

    Except in this case $IT_DEPT is being stupid because $USER does not need full disk encryption for NON-HUMAN data on computers that do not leave the facility. If someone has broken into your research lab to steal a hard drive you have other problems. Also, why would you install full disk crypto on servers?

  15. Re:Apple do the same.. on Playstation 3 Video DRM Only Allows One Download · · Score: 1

    However, I can use my backup to play my iTunes stuff on any number of computers (well 5 at a time) so if my main computer dies, I can deauthorize it and move my recordings to a new one a listen to it... not so with my PS3.

  16. Re:Apple do the same.. on Playstation 3 Video DRM Only Allows One Download · · Score: 1

    Ah, but in the apple case you can also copy the data files to back them up. That way you don't lose a generation, or have to worry about storing the uncompressed audio.

  17. Re:Good choice on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The ability of a VP to become President has to be considered. 9 VP's took over for the president. Out of 43 presidents, that is 20%.

  18. Re:Well-rounded? on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is nothing wrong with a comparative theology class, teaching the different religions of the world so that our students know what to expect.

    However, ID has no place being taught in schools. It is not science, it has no evidence, it has no grounds to take away time that my children could be using to learn something that is actually real.

    I suppose the ID "debate" could be used in a debate / oral arguments class as an example of various logical fallacies.

  19. Re:Cameras at every toll booth on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    You of course are a perfect person who would never miss anything. I am mostly worried about those other drivers who have poor judgment and would speed in other places.

    Though I would like to point out that if it is a clear sunny day with not a car in sight for miles feel free to speed since there would be no police officers in sight for miles either so you won't get in trouble.

    However, if there is a cop somewhere that you did not see, there could be something else that you did not see either.

  20. Re:Portal Physics 101 on Examining Portal's Teleportation Code · · Score: 1

    Isn't momentum conserved from the frame of reference of the person traveling through the portal? From a fixed frame you are right, I head into a portal going one way, and come out going another... but from the frame of reference of the person entering the portal you keep moving the same way the entire time.

  21. Re:Cameras at every toll booth on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    So drunk driving is OK then? Speeding? There are somethings you have to do in order to insure the safety of all the other people on the road. Taking care of your car is one of them.

  22. Re:So, what is the problem? on Yahoo Blocks Venerable Email List Over False Positives · · Score: 1

    Yahoo does this. Let your account go idle for several months. Your account will be gone. You are obviously quite ignorant on this matter.

    That is not what I am talking about. I have no problem dumping all of them email going to a canceled account. However, I DO have a problem with then marking all of that mail as SPAM and blocking it from my other paying customers. It would be very stupid of an ISP to use a canceled account as a honeypot for SPAM because there is a strong possibility that legitimate email is still being sent there. Once again there is a difference between email that is no longer wanted by one particular person and email that is not wanted by anyone.

    What are your qualifications? Why is it wrong? Do you know I've written co-registration scripts? Do you even have a clue what a co-registration signup is? I don't think you do.

    I am glad that your an admitted spammer. Anyone who has been on the web any amount of time has seen PLENTY of co-registration signup's.

    Or maybe.. you can't distinguish between an idea from an instance of an idea? Opt in mailing list from "This Is True" mailing list? Class versus object? Cookie cutter versus cookie? Any of that ringing a bell? Are you really that stupid?

    Actually since we are discussing this particular instance... the This Is True mailing list all of my points are about this particular instance. I am sure there are scummy people out there Randy Cassingham is not one of them (at least not as far as his list is concerned I have never met him in real life).

    What are your qualifications? I'm speaking from experience in the field of sending email and information gathering (adhering to CANSPAM laws).

    Since you were so nice as to ask. I have had to deal with both sides of this issue. I have been in charge of the email systems of a major regional construction firm for about 12 years now, and have had to deal with all sorts of SPAM and a group of people who generally were not Internet savvy enough to avoid winding up on the lists us just about anyone who ask for their information. Also, I run a couple of websites that try to respond to user query's via email (end user asks us a question, an automated script responds to that question with the information they want), I have spent a LARGE amount of my time as of late trying to get Yahoo to deliver email that is requested by their clients to them.

    If you're not a troll, then you're a dumb ass. By the way, format your message right next time. It looked like a child put it together.

    Is this a little easier for you to read?

  23. Re:So, what is the problem? on Yahoo Blocks Venerable Email List Over False Positives · · Score: 1

    And you're ignorant. Rather than request clarification for something you did not understand, you cry "stupid" like a typical slashmonkey beating his chest. I hold these viewpoints because I have industry knowledge in this topic, which you were unaware of.

    >

    Wow you think really highly of yourself. Conveniently the original poster here is probably someone who has signed up for this list. In any case I AM someone who is a member of this very list (through a non-yahoo account thankfully). Only a very stupid ISP would enact policy 1. Otherwise anytime you had someone die, or just plain decide to stop using your crappy service you would suddenly start blocking legitimate emails.
    Your point number 2 is interesting but very wrong in this case.
    Point 3 is also invalid. And fairly stupid. So I opt-in to a mailing list and it starts spamming me... then maybe I should unsubscribe from that list. Just because I don't want something anymore does not make it spam. If the person has truly become a spammer then he won't honor your unsub request and then it becomes spam. It doesn't matter in this case because this list has not become a spam list. It is still the same content as it has always had.
    And then we get to option 4... still not an issue in this case, there are many examples on the lists website (that you had to go to to sign up for the list in the first place). So anyone who does decide to subscribe should know exactly what they are getting.

    In short, grow up, stop claiming special "industry knowledge" that is almost assuredly shared by most everyone reading this site. And please let me know where you work so I can make sure never to use your services.

  24. Re:Walled Garden on iPhone 1.1.3 Update Confirmed, Breaks Apps and Unlocks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The question you should be asking, is how many of those people will have enjoyed using the phone and had no problem using AT&T with them. I understand that you don't want an iPhone with the current restrictions on it. But just because you feel superior for turning your nose up at it; it does not mean that people who have been enjoying one for the last year are fools. Just that they have different requirements for a phone. If you really want to be able to program for your phone, go buy a Windows phone, and a copy of Visual Studio. If you want a tightly integrated phone, with a nice UI, that ties into a complete music delivery system... buy an iPhone.

  25. Re:ihpones on Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T · · Score: 5, Informative

    That would be a great idea. And the really neat thing is that you can.