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  1. Re:Nobody Noticed ... Except Everyone (Even Slashd on For 18 Minutes, 15% of the Internet Routed Through China · · Score: 1

    You don't need an infrastruction to terminate connections, you just need to watch traffic flow and record it. You can analyze it over time later elsewhere to find useful information.

    Not that I think that was the point or anything, but if I were going to do something like this, knowing that I wouldn't be able to keep the traffic flowing in my direction for any length of time, I'd just log everything and analyze later. If I was China, I'd upload it to EC2 and pay Amazon to analyze it for me at that, they could probably afford it.

  2. Useless on The World's Smallest Legible Font · · Score: 1

    It may be 'readable' if I tried, but considering its hardly legible I stopped after the first line.

    Fitting more on a page isn't always the right goal, making useful information visible and readable is the goal.

    This sort of silly shit is only of interest to advertising agencies who like to put out commercials telling you a bunch of bullshit that isn't true and cover their asses by saying its not true in print so small you can't read it.

    Yes, I CAN read it. No, I wouldn't read anything presented too me like that, neither will anyone else, and thats most likely the point.

  3. Should have used Elastic Map/Reduce on Cracking Passwords With Amazon EC2 GPU Instances · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it could be done cheaper and faster using Elastic Map/Reduce which password brute forcing would fit very nicely into.

  4. Re:No, it shows that WEAK PASSWORDS are bad on Cracking Passwords With Amazon EC2 GPU Instances · · Score: 1

    [a-z] + [A-Z ]+ [0-9] = 62

    62*62*49 = 3139 = 130 days = roughly 4 months.

  5. Re:Cheaper to buy CDs on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    I can fit your entire country into a couple of our states, don't pretend you have any idea what 'rural' actually means.

    Area of the UK: 93,800 sq miles (Includes england, wales, ireland and scotland)

    Area of texas: 268,581 - Just Texas.

    We could literally drop the UK in a field in one of several of our states and never notice it again unless one of you managed to find your way out.

    Europeans have absolutely NO idea what rural actually means, sorry.

    We have a large population of people that are not within a hour of what you would consider a supermarket, let alone 20 mins.

    Hell it takes me 10 and I live in the city to get to someplace that sells CDs 24/7 and you're talking a walmart with a limited selection.

  6. Re:If you don't already.... on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    No, not even fucking close :)

    As can be seen by my other posts, I'm not a Beatles lover, but comparing the beatles to some douche bag who hasn't been around long enough for me to realize he's name isn't justin BEAVER is just fucking retarded.

    He'll be gone in a year, just like the last 100 before him over the last 10 years.

    Justin Bieber is a manufactured figurehead for the record industry, he wouldn't exist without someone writing his songs, someone making his music, some other people doing backup vocals, and most importantly, some guy running Autotune for him.

    Comparing him to the Beatles is fucking retarded. Are you a 12 year old girl or something?

  7. Re:If you don't already.... on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    Or old enough to have stopped idolizing them like something they aren't.

    They were a product of the changing times, not the motivation behind the changing times. Society was changing without them, they just happened to be along for the ride and be popular.

    You take any generation since music because easy to access and they'll all have some bad that 'changed the world' when the reality of it is, the world did the exact same sort of 'changing' long before everyone could listen to vinyl.

  8. Re:Compact music on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    When the movie was made the most compact form of music storage really was the compact disc.

    Yea, if you ignore all the other options for digital music storage at the time, than yea, it was really just the copact disk.

    Sony would probably disagree with you, as would a couple other manufactures that made products that didn't take off like CDs, but hey, what do facts matter for on slashdot?

  9. Re:Citizens Arrest on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    No they don't. They haven't been able to for years. Citizens arrest used to work when everyone carried weapons and the only way a 'citizens arrest' happened is if something serious happened and the posse went after the bad guy.

    Come to my state, try to perform a citizens arrest, see how far it gets you. If you say 'you're under arrest' you'll just get laughed at, but the person you're arresting and the cops. You touch them, and then you've assaulted them, in which case they can defend themselves.

    Its not the law and hasn't been for years because idiots like yourself use it for your on personal gain and agenda rather than the purpose it originally served which was to give people some sort of control in an area with no official law officers.

    Of course, ignoring all the truth in the law ... and going on your original statement ... Do you REALLY fucking think you can claim 'citizens arrest' on a fucking federal law enforcement officer in a public place doing the same thing he/she does every day? Are you REALLY that fucking retarded? What cop are you going to tell? The other 20 guys/gals JUST like him standing around? You gonna tell the state cop that hangs out with them? Who are you going to tell? Get a grip, reality is a little different than where you live.

  10. Re:Naked Body Scanners DO and ARE saving images! on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Could you possible have posted links to a more biased and untrustworthy source?

    I'm not denying anything, but you posted links to a website that acts as if the government does nothing but evil, all the time, and never does anything useful.

    You need to not post links to a site thats nothing but sensationalism and nutjobbedness (tm).

    Of course, on slashdot, facts aren't really that important, just who can get the most people riled up.

  11. So who did Gizmodo steal this data from? on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I trust Gizmodo about 10 times less than the US Government.

    Gizmodo saying something bad about them is almost a get out of jail free card.

    Gizmodo is not a reputable source for anything, ESPECIALLY news that involves politics.

  12. Re:Good, but overrated products on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    I really don't see how one of the most if not, the most popular band in the time can be considered 'outside mainstream'.

    Popularity defines mainstream, therefore, they were defining what mainstream actually was during their career.

    Just because everyone wants their favorite band to be 'unique, different, and exciting' doesn't mean they actually are.

  13. Re:If you don't already.... on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why, because we didn't buy into their self absorbed crying about how their 'art' should be sold.

    They aren't that good, seriously. When people and companies think they are so special that they will not allow you to buy something in an alternate form when there is massive demand because they are greedy self entitled fucks ... you should probably shop elsewhere so they get the point. Of course its too late for that, so instead you're just going to keep getting ripped off by paying $130 for a boxed set that costs them literally $5 to make, or $150 that cost them $0.05 to let you download.

    At this point, anyone who buys anything Beatles related is rather retarded for doing so.

  14. Who cares? on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps I just don't like the Beatles enough to think this is a good thing ... but ...

    My solution to bands who 'refuse' to be put on iTunes, for any reason?

    I don't buy their shit. I won't buy anything from the Beatles or Metallica ever again for that reason, even if they change their minds later.

    You guys go cater to their self absorbed temper tantrums and sense of entitlement. I'll pass and buy things from people who actually appreciate my money.

  15. Re:Cut it! on The Story of My As-Yet-Unverified Impact Crater · · Score: 1

    He didn't say cut it with a wet tile cutter did he?

  16. Re:never heard of metorites reacting with water on The Story of My As-Yet-Unverified Impact Crater · · Score: 1

    Or simply an abandon stip mine from a few generations ago.

  17. Re:I dont see the downside to stuxnet on Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment · · Score: 1

    I'm betting there were a few heads which literally rolled on the floor when this was originally found out.

    I'm not real sure you realize exactly what kind of people rule Iran. I'm not saying that it wasn't worth it, just that there most certainly are a few people that aren't alive because of this, even if Iran did it themselves, they'd have to do it to put on the show.

  18. Re:I don't know whats more worrying... on Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, Windows, Linux and OS/2 DO help to fly aircraft every single day.

  19. Re:Every country, and a lot of corps could do this on Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry you're white pretending to be black, but seriously, you're not only a racist, but a hateful ignorant prejudice fuck as well. You're post is nothing but a shitty attempt to camouflage the fact while you spew your prejudices on the rest of us.

    There is indeed not a damn thing wrong with racism. It is completely ignorant to pretend all races are equal in every way. They are not. They are VISIBLE not equal in every way for fucks sake.

    People are different, do some things better, some things worse, race has a general effect on those traits. Its just the way people involved in those particular areas over time in order to be better suited to survive in that area. THAT IS OKAY.

    Hate is not okay. Assuming because a generalization exists that it applies to everyone is not okay. Ignorance is not okay.

    You sir, are the exact problem people a referring too when they talk about racism, not the color of someones skin or who their parents were. You've shown your hate for Muslims and your prejudice towards them, but you're pretending to be a champion of tolerance to cover your hateful rant.

    I am racist, I make no attempt to hide it. I do my very best to not be a hateful, ignorant, prejudice fuck on a daily basis however. Stop telling people you're something you aren't and start acting like the person you claim to be.

  20. Re:The problem with computer sabotage... on Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment · · Score: 1

    Thats not a problem, thats a feature.

    You simply have to make it so the trail points in the direction you want it to ... to further your propaganda.

    Thats pretty much what the CIA/NSA/blacksuites have always done. Get caught, but make sure they guy 'getting caught' appears to be your enemy.

    Spy games aren't exactly simplistic, and they are a little smarter than your average slashdot first poster.

  21. Re:RTFA on Tablet Prototype Needs No External Power Supply · · Score: 1

    Most intelligent beings consider our sun, Sol, to be the largest external power supply we have access to.

    It, and other stars like it are in fact as far as we know the only sources of usable power that exist to humans.

    Without sunlight there is no fossil fuels, no hydro power, obviously no solar cell/boiler power. Even nuclear reactors get their power from things born during the death of larger stars.

    If you have a solar cell, you are using an external power source and wireless transmission, but none the less you are using an external power source.

    If you aren't going to read the articles posted to slashdot, may I ask why you are bothering to come here in the first place?

    Why the fuck are you on slashdot if you don't realize when people are making a point about technicalities rather than practicalities.

    Technically it has an external power supply even if from a practical perspective, it doesn't have one (no cord).

  22. Re:RFC? Standard? on New Facebook Messaging System Announced · · Score: 1, Troll

    Google opened up the federation protocol

    Wave is built on top XMPP, federation was there before Google started even USING XMPP (which was with gchat).

    Google didn't 'release' anything that wasn't already there.

  23. Re:Google Wave, Anyone? on New Facebook Messaging System Announced · · Score: 1

    Actually, it sounds more like my Google AFYD accounts.

    I get my voice mails, emails, sms and chat all under one account in GMail, with my own domain, and I don't have to participate in the popularity contest/social whoring that is known as Facebook.

  24. Re:I'll go. on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    Yea, I'd say a revolt would be justified if they forced you to take the Wife.

  25. Re:save the humans! on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If we have the technology to make Mars habitable, then we have the technology to fix Earth.

    Terraforming Mars over hundreds of years and several generations is a lot different than fixing Earth after it has been slammed my a large chunk of rock like those that have hit in the past and nearly wiped out everything, or those in the past that did things like ... you know ... turning the planet into one giant ball of molten rock.

    When your data center burns down, its not really hard to rebuild it and start over, however your company will cease to exist in the months it takes you to get back up and running. And then, what if your backups get completely wiped out in the process.

    Wipe out human life on Earth in one big event and we can't rebuild shit.

    Consider Mars to be a backup data center with a back copy of the code required to rebuild. Having DNA and living organisms elsewhere is a good idea.