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  1. Re:Inexcusable on Cisco Linksys Routers Still Don't Support IPv6 · · Score: 2

    Apple, Netgear, Dlink, etc are offering support for it.

    This is why no one wants to switch yet. If the users can't access your sites businesses are not going to judge it very cost effective to make them available on v6.

    It's not about *switching*.
    It is about getting dual-stack devices and dual-connectivity.
    Once set up this way, you don't even notice whether the website you just went to was IPv4 or IPv6.
    I've been set up this way for a number of years via a tunnel-broker.

  2. Acts of War on Is an Internet Kill Switch Feasible In the US? · · Score: 1

    1. Destroy communications.
    2. Destroy power distribution.
    3. Destroy economy.

    These are what you do to your *enemy* in time of war, not to *yourself*!
    Any politician supporting a kill switch is too incompetent to hold office.
    Would they support shutting down the phone system in time of emergency?

  3. Re:Password in plaintext email on PlentyofFish Hacked, Founder Emails Hacker's Mom · · Score: 1

    But on the tech side, it irritated the living crap outta me that POF would send me a weekly e-mail with my password IN PLAIN TEXT. Every week, just as a reminder of how easy it would be to log in.

    Oh, but it gets better: POF just now sent me an email notifying me of the breach, and sent me a *new* password, in PLAIN TEXT of course.

  4. Re:Forget about talking to cars -Talk2 traffic lig on Ford Building Cars That Talk To Other Cars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's few things more irritating to me than waiting for a red light when there are no other vehicles at an intersection. All I want is a simple way to communicate to the traffic light to let it know that I am approaching so I don't have to stop. It seems that most automatic lights I have encountered wait until I have come to a near full stop - which partially defeats the purpose.

    Implement this and then BAM - instant time savings and 3+ Miles per gallon savings for every vehicle on the road.

    The solution already been invented, and doesn't even require high-tech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout

  5. Re:Wrong - Jobs awarded options by board on IRS Nails CPA For Copying Steve Jobs, Google Execs · · Score: 1

    Publishing this article this way is as stupid as publishing Paris Hilton whining about network protocols would be.

    Like this? http://routergod.com/parishilton/

  6. Re:Enough! on Microsoft (Probably) Didn't Just Buy Unix · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates Jr. retired from Microsoft some time ago. Couldn't you Slashdot guys at least update the silly icon so it shows Ballmer as a Borg? You could even make him the Borg queen...

    Assimilaters! Assimilaters! Assimilaters!

  7. Re:migrate on Comcast Migrating Customers To DNSSEC Resolvers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you're stuck with Comcast...

    "Stuck with Comcast"??? From my perspective as a network engineer, Comcast is taking the lead in deploying IPv6, and now DNSSec. They are putting the rest of the corporate world to shame on these fronts. (And I am neither an employee, nor a customer of Comcast.)

  8. In other news... on Microsoft Rumored To Buy Second Life · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Second Life still exists???

  9. Re:Culprit ? on Hurt Locker File-Sharing Subpoenas Begin · · Score: 1

    The culprit was that the movie sucked plain and simple.

    Absolutely true.
    It was nothing but a rehash of what we have seen in previous war movies, with no originality at all.
    And the fact this turkey beat Avatar for "best film", has totally destroyed any credibility of the Academy Awards for me.

  10. Re:It was a Cisco bug in a specific model of route on Duke Research Experiment Disrupts Internet Traffic · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is this the same vulnerability that was on slashdot over a year ago? http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/22/0310236 The summary tried to make it sound like Mikrotik was to blame, because it sent the bad bgp information, but it was the Cisco that errored out.

    No.
    That was a configuration error made on a Mikrotik resulting in massive prepending of the BGP path.
    This was a flaw in how unrecognized BGP attributes are handled.

  11. It was a Cisco bug in a specific model of router on Duke Research Experiment Disrupts Internet Traffic · · Score: 5, Informative
  12. Burning Man on Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons · · Score: 1

    Obviously, Iceland is hoping to host the next one.

  13. Re:First off... on Child Porn As a Weapon · · Score: 1

    This is exactly why "possession" (of *anything*) shouldn't be a crime.

    Absolutely! It is asinine to make possession of the *evidence* of a crime, a crime its self. By that logic, it should be a crime to possess photos of the stacks of bodies found in the Nazi concentration camps at the end of WWII.

  14. Re:With such a simple solution at hand.. on Consumer Reports Can't Recommend iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    Never buy a rev 1 Apple product.

    I thought we were talking about iPhone *4*.

  15. So will my fondness for Guinness... on Things You Drink Can Be Used To Track You · · Score: 1

    ...provide evidence that I've been living in Ireland all these years?

  16. Prior art on A Genetically Engineered Fly That Can Smell Light · · Score: 1

    Back in my mis-spent youth, a hit of blotter acid was all we needed to smell light, hear colors, and see sounds.

  17. Or ditch the traqffci lights and use roundabouts on IBM's Patent-Pending Traffic Lights Stop Car Engines · · Score: 1

    1. They move more traffic than lights. 2. They waste less gas. 3. They are many times safer. 4. They require no installation nor maintenance of traffic lights.

  18. Re:An old saying... on Chinese ISP Hijacks the Internet (Again) · · Score: 1

    "Once is an Accident, twice is a Coincidence, and three times is a Pattern."

    Uh, oh! Did anyone notice The Observer in the vicinity?

  19. A couple interesting quotes I've seen about CA's: on Government Could Forge SSL Certificates · · Score: 1

    "A CA will protect you from anyone from whom they won't take money."
    -- Paul Vixie - on the NANOG mailing list
    (Going from memory here, so the quote may not be exact.)

    "In the real world, you prove your identity with documents provided by a government.
    In the digital world, why are we trusting certificates provided by 3rd-party business???"
    -- a former coworker

  20. Re:Orange and purple are more professional? on Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity · · Score: 1

    Orange and purple?
    I would call that the "Nash Bridges" color scheme.

  21. Re:The end of a giant. on Motorola To Split In Two · · Score: 1

    Then they became bloated, bureaucratic and stopped innovating. And the bigger they got the more concerned with internal processes they became, yet the less profitable they became.

    I worked at Motorola for 3 years in the mid-90's.
    You just described it perfectly.
    It was clear that they considered the primary product to be bureaucracy and paperwork.
    Doing actual work was something you had to do on your own time in the evenings.
    After 3 years I could not take the BS any more and fled screaming.

  22. Re:What constitutes "fake" hardware? on Chinese Man Gets 30 Months For Fake Cisco Sales · · Score: 5, Informative

    So, buy the cheap parts. Selling identical, unbranded hardware isn't a crime (patent issues aside). The Cisco ones come bundled with Cisco support and all that jazz. The problem is when people sell those cheap parts, but claim they are Cisco. People buy them at a higher price because they think they're getting Cisco, and hence, Cisco support. It's that fraud which is the crime.

    Anyone who has purchased Cisco hardware knows that the price does not include support.
    Support is a separate line item that must be added to the purchase order.

  23. Re:Monty on European Commission Approves Oracle-Sun Merger · · Score: 1

    Monty is going to have a fit.

    We can only hope. ;-)

  24. Re:Deluisional idiot or con man? on Fraudulent Anti-Terrorist Software Led US To Ground Planes · · Score: 3, Informative

    The author was on NPR a few days ago [transcript and audio], in case you won't visit PlayBoy or get distracted once you get there :-)

    Here is also video of a Rachel Maddow interview with the author: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/maddow_with_roston_on_the_incredible_magic_al_jaze.php

  25. Re:What Was He VP of... Mind Control Devices? on Google About Openness · · Score: 1

    These guys crack me up. Any day now there will be video of Schmidt dancing around, chanting "Developers! Developers! Developers!"

    No, I think Schmidt would dance more like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPasYRPEZ8c