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  1. Re:Nice biased wording there on Intel Removes "Free" Overclocking From Standard Haswell CPUs · · Score: 0

    Really bad example. No one alive can tell the difference between 60 FPS and 75 FPS.

    Just lots of people who think they can.

  2. Re:Is the power saving feature PATENTED ?? on Microsoft Boasts of Tiny Energy Saving With IE · · Score: 1

    Shock. You are telling me that they oversimplified a topic like computer power consumption?

    Operating system comparison would provide significantly higher power usage differences.
    As would the presence or absence of Flash and ad blockers.

    Hell chances are there would be significant differences depending on if the laptop was switched on 30 seconds previously to an hour previously.

  3. Re:Prediction: Police Violence footage still missi on UK Police Now Double As CCTV Cameras · · Score: 1

    Harder to block the mic as well. Far more suspicious if both the lens is accidentally obscured and the mic is damaged.

  4. Re:Kinda cool that they found it on New In-Memory Rootkit Discovered By German Hoster · · Score: 1

    And what if it patches the binary as soon as it is loaded in to memory?
    So you couldn't copy over a clean version of say ps and run it.

    Remembering that at this point you don't even know your machine is infected, just strange traffic and if you reboot it all evidence is lost.

  5. Re:Raspberry Pi with camera on Dashcams Going High-Def, High-Tech · · Score: 1

    A little bit of circuitry could be made to power the Pi off a supercap for a couple of seconds.
    That means you can detect the loss of 12v and save the files automatically.

  6. Re:EvaPharmacy has been doing this for years... on New In-Memory Rootkit Discovered By German Hoster · · Score: 1

    It does leave you scratching your head for awhile first however.

    And rookies wouldn't know about that at all.

  7. Re:Kinda cool that they found it on New In-Memory Rootkit Discovered By German Hoster · · Score: 1

    When all the tools used to do that have been patched to not show the strange processes?

  8. Re:it'll be there for a while, too on ROVs Discover Deep Sea Trash · · Score: 0

    So we need steeper temperatures?

  9. Re:little late on Hacker Publishes Alleged Zero-Day Exploit For Plesk · · Score: 1

    My company went from Plesk -> cPanel but when we moved to a clustered dual-datacenter hosting environment I found rolling my own control panel surprisingly easy.

    The trick is not to make the control panel run as root. Make it write the config to a db and let a shell script write all the config files.
    Extremely simple (its just a regular PHP web app) and works really nicely. Even done per account bandwidth monitoring, phpmyadmin, aliases, crons, etc...

  10. Re:Second amandment on Verizon Ordered To Provide All Customer Data To NSA · · Score: -1

    Turkey is showing how its done at the moment.

    The US loves their guns but really there will never be a revolution.
    a) The military has bigger guns, b) Americans are all talk about their constitution that is getting shat on. In other words, pansies.

  11. Re:Battery Life on Sony Touts 25 Hour Battery Life For Haswell-Equipped Vaio Pro · · Score: 0

    It is a purely stupid claim for Sony to make.

    I have a Dell laptop which is about 6 years old. It gets a good 8 - 10 hours of battery usage.
    It gets light use (for stuff where a tablet isn't suitable) and its actually a genuine surprise about once a month when its battery is flat.

    You'd probably call it cheating however if I say it does have a expanded 9 cell battery.
    Just as sticking a massive battery pack to the laptop is also cheating.

    I bet those weights are not with the extra battery. That would be too honest of Sony.

  12. Re:Fascinating misues of adjectives there! on AMD Launches New Richland APUs For the Desktop, Speeds Up To 4.4GHz · · Score: 1

    Exactly. In reality 99% of people don't actually need raw performance. And 90% of the 1% are idiots.

    My current computer is a AMD Phenom II X4 (well actually a X3 but Asus kindly allows me to unlock the extra core for free). Its been serving me nicely for the last 4 years.
    I went with it because of the good performance/price point. I still don't actually have any plans to replace it.

    The target of the APU is exactly like my computer. Work machines and everything from a casual gamer down.
    Thats a pretty massive market and price is a decent concern for that market. Performance is stunning for all those uses as well - probably excessive actually.

  13. Re:XML? on Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Yep. Here are a couple of outputs for various files:

    $ file index.php
    index.php: PHP script, ASCII text, with very long lines, with CRLF line terminators
    $ file doc.pdf
    doc.pdf: PDF document, version 1.2
    $ file doc.docx
    doc.docx: Microsoft Word 2007+
    $ file archive.zip
    archive.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

    It won't tell you the program used to make it, but it will give intricate details on the exact file format.

  14. Re:What are they trying to achieve? on UK Police Launch Campaign To Shut Down Torrent Sites · · Score: 1

    Traffic blitzes are a little bit different because of the life saving nature of them and they are still regular.
    They put emphasis on those laws once every few weeks not as a freak one off like this case.

  15. Re:XML? on Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Well technically there is a nifty Linux command called 'file'. It will detect exactly what file format any file is in pretty much.

  16. Re:What are they trying to achieve? on UK Police Launch Campaign To Shut Down Torrent Sites · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When police put overt effort in to enforcing a specific law then you have to ask the question why?
    They should be enforcing all laws equally, not picking on some and neglecting others.

  17. Re:Yes, backwards compatibility, blah blah blah... on Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    But your EBCDIC documents are absolute rubbish now and the tools to convert them aren't commonplace any more.

  18. Re:emulation / virtualization on Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    How do you encapsulate the VM so it will still work 20 years in the future?

  19. Re:XML? on Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow · · Score: 2

    In to a usable document from scratch? Pretty hard. Ever looked at the XML of a moderately complex document?

  20. Re:Counter-campaign on With Sales Down, Whale Meat Flogged As Source of Strength · · Score: 1

    Their sumo wrestlers are trying to anyway.

  21. Re:Attention - Young Turks on Disposable VPN: Tor Gateways With EC2 Free Tiers · · Score: 1

    If you've never been to Istanbul, damn it needs every park it can get.
    Not terribly 'green'. I could just be spoilt by Australia however.

  22. Re:ajax.googleapis.com on 4K Computer Monitors Are Coming (But Still Pricey) · · Score: 1

    Nope. I've used webmail, commercial email solutions and ISP email.

    The latter two *should* always say the username you authenticated with the SMTP server with, not your IP.
    I just did a test to demonstrate this. If your email provider doesn't do this then it might be an idea to use one who knows what they are doing.

    Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
            by smtp29.relay.dfw1a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 02066398EA5
            for ; Fri, 31 May 2013 19:49:02 -0400 (EDT)
    X-Virus-Scanned: OK
    Received: by smtp29.relay.dfw1a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: sending-AT-email.address) with ESMTPSA id F384B398E99
            for ; Fri, 31 May 2013 19:49:00 -0400 (EDT)
    Message-ID:

    As you can see, Rackspace's email server is the first received header and it only says 'Authenticated sender: sending-AT-email.address' which is my email address. My IP isn't there at all.

  23. Re:ajax.googleapis.com on 4K Computer Monitors Are Coming (But Still Pricey) · · Score: 2

    The googleapis.com domain exists purely to be a cookie free domain. Helps with caching.
    Its a pretty common technique for static content.

    Without cookies, they have a IP and the website that loaded the script. Hardly useful for advertising and it cannot be tied to your personalised advertising profile.

  24. Re:ajax.googleapis.com on 4K Computer Monitors Are Coming (But Still Pricey) · · Score: 1

    ajax.googleapis.com isn't a tracking domain and your IP shouldn't be in any emails you send unless you run your own mail server.

    Next?

  25. Re:third-party software? on Drupal.org User Accounts Compromised · · Score: 1

    Why not do #1 and leave it at that?
    Slower but far less fuss and it could stay there for years instead of hours.