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  1. Re:Trying to build up an endowment on Wikipedia Exceeds Fundraising Target, But Continues Asking For More Money (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This is all a shell game with non-taxed money, because they're supposed to be a non-profit.

  2. Do you think that level of technology runs itself?

    Of course not. Do you think all the people that make the place work get paid? (answer: not remotely!)

  3. That's a game of whack-a-mole. It only takes a few minutes to break their anti-adblocker bullshit. At the end of the day, it's my browser; I control what it does or does not do. Pornhub started randomizing ids, which you'd think would kill adbolckers, but they've done it so wrong, it's only two mouse clicks to defeat. cpu-world, despite their (impressive) highly complicated, multi-thousand line crap, is defeated by a single rule.

  4. you can't just write some software in a year that other companies had been coding for a decade or longer

    You can if you believe the BS from Rackspace and Facebook... OpenStack! (hint: you'll die of old age or commit suicide long before you get anything remotely usable based on openstack) You can quickly setup a "cloud" using VMware's collection of purchases, but you'll go insane trying to make sense of it all, and end up bankrupt.

  5. His videos and animations show a netmask of 128.0.0.0. I don't know of any dhcp clients that will accept a 0.0.0.0 netmask. Also, his github repo doesn't include any of his system setup -- eg. the dhcp server configuration.

  6. Re:I hope so on Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It. Never. Is.

    (how can they ensure data has been destroyed on a server they no longer posses? It's not likely those machine have encrypted filesystems requiring human input at boot.)

  7. Correction: It "pretends" to be HALF the internet. 1.0.0.0/128.0.0.0 to be exact.

  8. If you're encrypting the rootfs, it's very likely to be a laptop or other system where access is normally from the local console. It's encrypted to secure it in the event it "grows legs".

    My desktop workstation is fairly safe, sitting in an office I can lock, in an office suite that's always locked, in a building with limited access, etc. etc. The "engineering" laptop, however, is often outside that pseudo-secure environment. On more than one occasion, we've had laptops stolen out of hotel rooms, parked rental cars, and once out of the office. (they hit every office in the building, btw. That laptop did find its way back to us, eventually.) Of course, we don't rely on hokey userland protections; we enable the laptop's own "TPM" (hardware) security measures and the hard drive's native full disk encryption.

  9. Actually, it's setGid (group), so it can mess with utmp. If you don't care about it fucking with utmp, then run it as a normal user. It hasn't needed root for a long time.

    (not that anyone cares, but I've run screen on solaris as a normal user for decades. Installed in $HOME/bin even)

  10. I agree. On a PC, with the idiotic 4 partition layout, multiple partitions never made much sense. Even when distro's wanted to be all SunOS-like with 18 partitions, I always selected the "put everything in root" option -- if it had one, or went around it's back to do it anyway. (I've actually been doing that to Solaris installs for decades, too. And it does know how big those partitions need to be.)

    The largest issue with linux is the lack of any codified standard on what goes where. Even if there were, nobody would follow it. So yes, you never could know how big /, /usr, /var, /opt, /usr/local, /home, ... needed to be. The relatively recent insane solution to that has been LVM and dynamically sizing filesystems. (aka. a makeshift ZFS) Except no linux filesystem is designed for that. And thin provisioned virtual filesystems are the surest path to colossal ruin.

  11. Right. Because no one ever accesses a system via the network or a serial port. God help you if you want to install through one of those ugly interfaces.

    (read: systems exist that don't have a gfx console. I have a room full of hardware that doesn't have video chips of any kind. Most of the hardware Sun/Oracle makes has no gfx console.)

  12. For people who use linux for Real Work(tm), this has been wanted for years. Run an install on headless (serial or network only) hardware and see how much you like the single terminal screen interface. You can't see any logs. You cannot get to a shell to do things outside ("in spite of") the installer. (without exiting the installer)

  13. Re:TRON: Legacy on More Code In Movies: Nmap Meets Snowden (nmap.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's linux half-ass faked to look like SunOS (Solaris).

  14. Re:Tron Legacy on More Code In Movies: Nmap Meets Snowden (nmap.org) · · Score: 1

    sun4m (M as in monkey, not U) and it also says "i386". So which is it? (very likely the latter) And it's clearly linux from the obscured names in the process list.

  15. Re: one of the biggest issues with 'tech' movies on More Code In Movies: Nmap Meets Snowden (nmap.org) · · Score: 1

    If it was in the 80's, maybe. All those transfers were sent to the fed via (hardware encrypted) 56k lines. So it might've actually taken 10sec.

  16. Re:but can nmap hack the gibson? on More Code In Movies: Nmap Meets Snowden (nmap.org) · · Score: 1

    No, no. You copy it to your floppy. At a speed slower than I can read out loud.

  17. Re:WTF? on Uranium-Filled 'Lost Nuke' Missing Since 1950 May Have Been Found (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You do realize there's a difference between weapons grade, enriched uranium and depleted uranium, right? To accurately gauge the weapon carrying capabilities, it would be loaded with a "dummy load" which means no actual nuclear fuel. It gets loaded with depleted uranium to match the mass and weight distribution. In other words, the small ball of plutonium that actually makes the giant kaboom, isn't on the plane. (i.e. everything but the core. "In tonights test, the part of plutonium will be played by a ball of depleted uranium -- because we have a lot of that shit laying around.")

  18. Re:Long before The Pirate Bay on Re-Discovering The 'Lost Civilization' of Dial-Up BBS's (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, back in the days when DRM was so primitive we didn't bother removing it. (and it was dirt simple to remove.)

  19. Re:Human did it in 4.74 seconds 5 days ago on Robot Solves Rubik's Cube In Less Than a Second (livescience.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't see why a computer couldn't use a similar algorithm...

    Because the people that programmed this thing have never read any of the books written on solving a rubik's cube. There is *ONE* solution; one sequence of moves that when repeated will eventually solve the puzzle. There's no need to think out a solution. Simply pick up the cube and start repeating the pattern until all the sides match. (btw, that's how real people do it.)

  20. In other words, "FCP is faster than everything else -- because it's all I know how to use." Even if FCP were available on windows, it would be a bloated pile of slow crap. (have you see itunes and safari on windows?)

  21. Re:It's always the losers who want to change the r on Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? · · Score: 2

    The system hearkens back to a time when a vote of the populous would take years, if it could ever be done at all. Getting everyone to vote, counting those votes, and communicating the results was not possible 200 years ago. Additionally most of the population wasn't literate. Each state appointing electors was the only workable solution. (and even that had it's problems -- the union is vast when hoof and foot are the only means of transportation.)

    What many (most?) people fail to realize is the electors can vote for whomever they damn well please. There may be consequences when they return to their home state, but they are violating no federal laws and their vote(s) stand. (I don't recall it ever being a problem, because electors are chosen carefully.)

  22. Re: yes they should on Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? · · Score: 1

    Actually your math is backwards. CA gets 55 electors, yet only a handful of its population actually voted. That gives its voters more of a say. CA ~6.1 electoral votes per million voters, vs. MT at ~6. (vs. FL at ~3.2) The college only works if voting is mandatory, and the census only counts citizens -- the number of electors is based on the number of representatives, which is based on population from the last census, and the census counts every physical body. 30 states -- over half the union -- accounts for only 27% (150) of the electors.

  23. Re:Cost of the target. on Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to bomb a single house, and only that house, you do it with a precision guided bomb dropped from a plane. You don't rely on a floating cannon out at sea. Plus, with a 100mi range, that house would have to be pretty close to the ocean to even be in range. If that "house" is mobile (i.e. another boat), your odds of hitting it drop to nearly zero at that range. WW1/WW2 boats had trouble hitting each other at 5mi visual range. We learned very quickly in WW2 that air power is everything. The last time we (USA) used a battleship, it had been refitted to fire missiles.

  24. Re: WTF on Two Critical MySQL Bugs Discovered (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody who cares about their data uses innodb. I guess you've never experienced any type of file corruption. The makers of innodb cannot be bothered to write tools to detect errors, much less do anything about them. "Get database dumps" is the wrong fucking answer! All it takes is a single bit getting flipped to ruin an entire datastore -- which can be multiple databases.

  25. Re:hey, you got your computer in my PLC on Researchers Create An Undetectable Rootkit That Targets Industrial Equipment (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Because that stopped stuxnet dead in it's tracks. Driver signing only makes the task of getting them loaded slightly more complicated. (i.e. obtain someone's signing key)