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  1. Re:A small ray of hope on Federal Court Rejects NDAA's Indefinite Detention, Issues Injunction · · Score: 1

    When such action is based upon a false premise then yes.

    Which action(s) is/are based on a false premise, the ruling itself, or my approval of it?

    One of these two conditions Rebellion or Invasion, must exist before the argument of a threat to public safety may be attempted on a legitimate basis.

    And how will this illegitimacy prevent Congress from legislating it?

  2. Re:A small ray of hope on Federal Court Rejects NDAA's Indefinite Detention, Issues Injunction · · Score: 1

    This anti-government propaganda makes me want to puke.

    So approving of a court ruling that places limits on such use of government power is anti-government propaganda?

    it is highly unlikely that Congress with be able to get away with such action.

    So Congress couldn't argue that terrorism is a threat to public safety? Also, the only way it would fail to get away with it(if passed) is if the courts overturn it. But then I would approve of such a ruling, and you would call that approval anti-government propaganda.

    Anyone that says it authorizes the detention of American Citizens is either an ignorant buffoon and/or a liar.

    The NDAA does not alter existing law in that respect. But does the AUMF permit indefinite detention of American citizens?

  3. Re:Risk/reward on Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over With Facebook IPO · · Score: 1

    The cancer drug is probably going to be enormously successful, making it lower risk.

    And what proportion of purported cancer treatments actually work, let alone are successful?

  4. Re:XKCD on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    If they have that kind of access, why worry about passwords?

  5. Re:Wrong on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    With 7776 tokens

    What? Slashdotters don't have D20s?

  6. Re:XKCD on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    72^17=3x10^31. Assuming 100,000 common words, 100,000^4=1x10^20. Using mixed case would require about 35 letters in the passphrase to get equivalent difficulty (2^35=3x!0^11).

  7. Re:XKCD on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    Weaker by half for each letter. With a 28-letter passphrase, that's a factor of 268 million.

  8. Re:XKCD on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    Somebody recently (a couple of years ago) demonstrated a build it yourself Beowulf that'd do

    Restrict the system to one login attempt per user per second. intruders only get 3x10^7 attempts per year, regardless of their equipment.

  9. Re:This is too simple to fix on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    Of course, it depends on how many words are in the phrase. With 9 words, 5000^9 is almost 2x10^33.

  10. Re:This is too simple to fix on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    For the first one, 72^11=2.7x!0^27 (52 upper/lower case letters, 20 symbols, although more might be usable). For the second, 26^25=2.4x10^35.

  11. Re:A small ray of hope on Federal Court Rejects NDAA's Indefinite Detention, Issues Injunction · · Score: 1

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDAA_2012 The bill passed the House 283 to 136.[18]

    The president can't flip four votes to make it 279 to 140 (overriding a veto requires a 2/3 majority)?

  12. Re:A small ray of hope on Federal Court Rejects NDAA's Indefinite Detention, Issues Injunction · · Score: 1

    No, not on this issue.

  13. A small ray of hope on Federal Court Rejects NDAA's Indefinite Detention, Issues Injunction · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's about time someone stood up to the nightmare of a police state.

  14. Re:Congratulations, Verizon on Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    But GP might be cool with the existing terms.

  15. Re:A high schooler? on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1

    I believe a negative index would throw an out of bounds exception

    java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

  16. Re:A high schooler? on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1

    Not really. Mechanisms are patentable, algorithms aren't.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karmarkar's_algorithm#Patent_controversy

  17. Re:Newsflash: All car ads are a waste on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    Something like Terri Garr's lecture to Schooner Tuna in Mr. Mom? She criticizes them for having towel/glass offers when they have the most expensive tuna on the market.

  18. Re:Advertising as a whole isn't worth the money on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    Please feel free to blow a few million more on another Superbowl ad that will garner you maybe a few thousand actual unit sales.

    Considering that GM's units sell for over $10,000, that isn't so stupid. Paying $3 million to sell three thousand cars might work.

  19. Re:Heavy social media users are typically losers. on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    I don't have a neckbeard, you insensitive clod!

  20. Re:$30 million dollars?!?!? on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    GM sold only 2.5 million cars last year (they are a dying company, that is about half what they sold in the 90s, in fact pretty much the bailout destroyed about half their sales)

    According to this, GM sold 9 million vehicles worldwide in 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_motors

    Also, while the 2.5 million vehicles sold in the US in 2011 was half the number sold in 1999 (5 million), that figure is 25% higher than the number sold in 2009 (the year the bailout occurred).

  21. Re:Forbes is smoking crack - S&P500 is flat on Forbes Names Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Worst CEO · · Score: 2

    Forbes is selling the kool-aid

    FTFY

  22. Re:But I like MIcrosoft more now on Forbes Names Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Worst CEO · · Score: 1

    BTW, the accented characters like ä and ö have to be expressed in html on Slashdot.

    Slashdot is a web site. What part of it isn't expressed in html?

  23. Task Manager on The 30 Best Features of Windows · · Score: 1

    Is it a good idea to make Task Manager consume even more CPU cycles? Especially if you're using it to find an application that is using 99% of the CPU9s) in the first place?

  24. Re:Interesting technology on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    How many ISPs include Usenet these days? I miss the flame wars on comp.os.linux.advocacy.

  25. Re:Interesting technology on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    No, while it can use Microsoft dlls, the goal is to replace them all.