Slashdot Mirror


User: X0563511

X0563511's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
10,035
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 10,035

  1. Re:Yeah yeah whatever on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 1

    I suppose the point was that you weren't supposed to be able to register .pro domains without actually having some means to vette your profession?

    I'm not the person to ask.

  2. Re:Medical issues on Subdermal Magnets Allow You To Wear an IPod Like a Watch · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong. The iron in hemoglobin is not magnetic.

  3. Re:Medical issues on Subdermal Magnets Allow You To Wear an IPod Like a Watch · · Score: 1

    The iron in your blood is not magnetic.

    If anything, this would be a GOOD thing. You should not have any free flowing heavy metals in your blood. If you do, your kidneys are probably about to explode.

  4. Re:No more hours of downtime on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 1

    Certainly doesn't replace a backup, but that's good to know about.

    I assume these shadow files are counted as free space? Eg, when you actually do need the room they "make way" for the new data?

  5. Re:No more hours of downtime on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 1

    I didn't say schedule.

    To turn it off (try it in an XP VM, if you refuse to believe truth):
    1. Run TweakUI
    2. Click on "General" (the second item in the left hand pane)
    3. Scroll the "Settings" list in the right hand pane.
    4. The next to last item is "Optimize hard disk when idle".

  6. Re:Other virtual currencies on Bitcoinica Breach Nets Hackers $87,000 In Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    The "value" of gold is just as arbitrary.

  7. Re:Other virtual currencies on Bitcoinica Breach Nets Hackers $87,000 In Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    ... as opposed to what? The Yen? Ruble? Yuan? Peso?

  8. Re:There's a typo in the title... on Bitcoinica Breach Nets Hackers $87,000 In Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Newsflash: things are worth what people are willing to pay.

    Dog shit would be worth $100/kg if people would buy it.

  9. Re:I think it's kind a cool... on Bitcoinica Breach Nets Hackers $87,000 In Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Unless we just don't hear about it, or they always go for those low hanging fruits figuring it's easier.

    FYI, its "kudos"

  10. Re:No more hours of downtime on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 1

    Windows, since XP, defragments the filesystem when idle.

    You can turn this off via TweakUI for XP, I know this. Not sure how to do so on Vista/7.

  11. Re:No more hours of downtime on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 1

    And if you are smart and have previous backups and/or incrementals, you can get what you need without bringing the virus along for the fun.

  12. Re:No more hours of downtime on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That only "backs up" against drive failure. What happens if something gets deleted? What happens if a process goes mad and scribbles all over something important? What if someone breaks in?

  13. Re:No more hours of downtime on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 1

    Can I have both? Can I have a drive that, on that one minute warning, immediately flushes it's cache and goes offline?

    It would make recovery after replacement much smoother. Clone and go, no worries about incomplete writes etc.

  14. Re:tl;nt on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 1

    Which is why DNSSEC is supposed to be enforced for it, because that stops those kind of shenanigans if people bother to implement it.

  15. Re:LAN to online-only on The Dutch Repair Cafe Versus the Throwaway Society · · Score: 1

    It is nonsense.

    What is happening now doesn't go back and change what has already happened.

  16. Re:Yeah yeah whatever on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 1

    You must not be seeing the AC's whole post. It starts with this, which tells you exactly what it is:

    Recall the ".pro" TLD? Supposed to be for "vetted professionals"?

  17. Re:tl;nt on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 1

    ... and how would it be detected or prevented? You don't seem to understand much of the actual technologies involved, here.

  18. Re:secure:// on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 1

    The only problem would be that just using https does not tell anything about the connectionsactual security.

    Of course not. That's the job of the browser. It's not the protocol's fault the browsers don't do it. The CA break-ins are all political problems really - those who were trusted betrayed that trust in one way or another.

  19. Re:.bank on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 1

    with PCI regulations enforcing

    BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

    If only you knew what an insider knew.

  20. Re:Yeah yeah whatever on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 1

    .con should be a CNAME to .com at the root (.) level :P

  21. Re:Yeah yeah whatever on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 2

    Erm, did you even read what you just quoted? The first sentence defines it.

  22. Re:tl;nt on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen those domains used? No? That's my point. Nobody uses them because they are a pain in the ass.

  23. Re:tl;nt on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 1

    The .secure domain is only different because people can just assume it is secure, even before clicking.

    You are forgetting about SSL? .secure will be mandatory vetted SSL, combined with it's own domain TLD? Eg, that certificate can't be used by a .com, which is not as vetted.

  24. Re:tl;nt on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 1

    I see no reason why it should. All that does is set up an HTTP redirect (which if you think about it for more than half a second is pretty much exactly like clicking a link)

  25. Re:More stupid laws. on Wear a Mask During a Protest In Canada: 10 Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    Yet another case of "this is why we can't have nice things."