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  1. Re:Why is that weird? on Study: Ad Networks Not Honoring Do-Not-Track · · Score: 1

    If 127.0.0.1:80 is timing out, your network stack (or firewall implementation) is fucked.

    You should be getting back (immediately) an ICMP Connection Refused. This should actually be /faster/ than a proper HTTP response.

  2. Re:Words can't describe... on DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing · · Score: 1

    It's not a cable. It's an adapter.

    Yes, I know - it's retarded, but (to someone) this makes a difference.

  3. Re:Admin Privs?? on Apple Store Artist Raided By Secret Service · · Score: 1

    So? You know what the Secret Service is, right?

    This was totally outside their normal realm. It's kind of like being in Canada and walking into your hotel room to find the London PD is going through all your stuff.

  4. Re:Double standards on Apple Store Artist Raided By Secret Service · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I'm at a loss as to where the Secret Service comes into this. That's not 'their thing' - if anyone was to rape his rights, it should have been the local PD or FBI.

  5. Re:There are SSL MITMs in the wild on StartSSL Suspends Services After Security Breach · · Score: 1

    You only need to verify once. If you are repeatedly asked on every visit, this is something you should report as a bug in said browser.

    You'd only be vulnerable on the first visitation.

  6. Re:Lower efficiency on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    Wow, my brain was really off tonight. I was thinking watts, not amps. Hurr.

  7. Re:So now where should hobbyists turn? on StartSSL Suspends Services After Security Breach · · Score: 2

    Doesn't really matter. SSL provides two services: verifiability, and confidentiality. Not having the CA's certificate installed only prevents the verifiability part of this... and what you are worried about falls under confidentiality, which still works just fine.

  8. Re:By default on Synaptic Dropped From Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    Synaptic used apt-get as well. It's all just newbie-fluff around the real tools.

  9. Re:Study Design a Must on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    You're still not getting it.

    Since you're being a thickheaded mule, I'll spell it out for you:

    Batteries don't hold infinite power. -any- laptop you leave powered on long enough without AC power will die.

  10. Re:So now where should hobbyists turn? on StartSSL Suspends Services After Security Breach · · Score: 1

    I installed it on mine. I'd say the onus of that is on the phone's manufacturer, given it's not a general purpose computing device.

  11. Re:I don't see a .pem file on StartSSL Suspends Services After Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Third link on the top right of the cacert website.

    Apologies, but it's a PEM file named .crt (this is correct, i'm just braindead)

  12. Re:Ok, the connector is pretty nice... on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    ... a PDA is a bit less delicate and complicated than a modern laptop.

  13. Re:About Time on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    Here's some formulas for you, since you're clueless.

    v = ir; i = v/r; r = v/i; p = iv

    Where:
    p is power (watts);
    v is voltage (volts, imagine that);
    i is current (amperes);
    r is resistance (ohms);

  14. Re:About Time on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    12v is nice. You can stack smaller batteries to reach it cleanly, or downconvert by a nice even ration from common mains currents.

  15. Re:Lower efficiency on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    More like 5.

    I'd advise you measure. It's not so small as you think.

  16. Re:Study Design a Must on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    It's a damn shame they don't have these little things to indicate such things. Oh! I know! We can make these little lights! We can call them indicator lights!

  17. Re:Study Design a Must on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    Do those things use permanent magnets? Doesn't that get crap all collected on them over time?

    Or do they use a portion of the current when connected to power an electromagnet?

  18. Re:Study Design a Must on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    Does that include a magical miniature hamster wheel that charges the battery? If not, you might consider rereading what you replied to.

  19. Re:coincidence? on StartSSL Suspends Services After Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Why would a phishing email include the correct URL?

  20. Re:So now where should hobbyists turn? on StartSSL Suspends Services After Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Just about any of them. Click on the fucking .pem file.

  21. Re:Fuck you guys, someone has to say it on Violent Games Credited With Reducing Crime Levels · · Score: 1

    GOOD Violence: Crusades, Holly wars

    Hindsight is 20/20, and you repeated yourself. Nobody ever thinks these are good except the willing participants and the delusional.

    BAD Violence: Gay bashing, Genital mutilation (unless its properly organized); /sarcasm

    Being a homophobe and/or calling people 'fags' is not violent (I'm assuming you don't mean bashing literally). I fail to see how circumcision (again assuming this is what you meant) is violent. Wrong perhaps, but not violent. I've also not heard of eunuchs being very common these days either (just to cover that base)

  22. Re:Fuck you guys, someone has to say it on Violent Games Credited With Reducing Crime Levels · · Score: 1

    7. Aging population. A good part of the population is getting too old to beat the crap out of each other.

    8. 9/11 changed everything. Knowing or at least reconfirming that there are "outsiders" who are after us keep us united.

    I urge you to go spend some time volunteering in, say, an Alzheimer's home.

    Some of the bruises my mother came home with were just as bad if not worse than those you'd expect from abuse/violence.

  23. Re:Fuck you guys, someone has to say it on Violent Games Credited With Reducing Crime Levels · · Score: 1

    Those are generally not the reasons one wants violence. It's a release of anger, and/or an expression of dominance or power.

    If it's adrenalin you want, well, there's plenty of ways you can get your fix.

  24. Re:Similar to how pornography reduced sex crimes.. on Violent Games Credited With Reducing Crime Levels · · Score: 1

    You can expect it, but the two are not directly linked. There's other factors you can't know, which means that assuming it is false.

  25. Re:Maybe, but I didn't write that forum software on Violent Games Credited With Reducing Crime Levels · · Score: 1

    Eh, just remember that slashdot is likely to be the only "forum" that uses HTML instead of BBCode