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:fail2ban on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because stealing RSA/DSA SSH keys is so much more common than dictionary/brute attacks...

  2. Re:fail2ban on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You have obviously never looked at fail2ban beyond a quick scan of a summary. IPTABLES doesn't analyze logfiles, douchbag.

  3. Re:Just wait... on California To Create Public Animal Abuser Registry · · Score: 1

    "Paranoid freak helicopter soccer moms"

    What, exactly, does "helicopter" mean here? I mean I get the rest... but that one is just way out there in left field.

  4. Re:Accidental reflow? on New Heat-Reduced Magnetic Solder Could Revolutionize Chip Design · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmm. How would the solder bond to connections though? From what I'm getting from this, the solder (and just the solder) would heat up. Basically you'd get a blob of molten solder refusing to bond to anything because of surface tension?

    (100% guaranteed cold solder joints, basically)

    You could pre-tin the connections, but then wouldn't the solder just remelt (while the metal plating remains cold) and "ball" off?

  5. Re:Well, what a surprise on Ubisoft's New DRM Cracked In One Day · · Score: 2, Informative

    You might be surprised. You may actually get a human to respond.

  6. Re:Insolvent Company on Ubisoft's New DRM Cracked In One Day · · Score: 1

    All it would take is one employee (who takes pride in his/her work) to release the "patch" itself, or the information required to do so.

    Assuming Skid Row didn't do just that the hard way :)

  7. Re:Not a selling point on Technical Objections To the Ogg Container Format · · Score: 1

    Given that Flash was really Macromedia's baby, Adobe themselves don't really have anything to worry about. Adobe has it's whole media creation realm, which as far as I remember has always been their thing.

  8. Re:It should have been phased out... on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    Serial, like I said, of not the various other protocols kitgerrits says parallel to me here. Did you even read my whole post? No, you didn't. Shut the fuck up.

  9. Re:The serial connection on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    Ahahahahaha!

    USB-Serial is just about useless for _many_ things. It works for consumer shit, but you tend to have problems when you work away from consumer level cruft. The best part is there's no easy way to know if it works or not. Some times it sorta-works. Other times it just plain doesn't.

  10. Re:It should have been phased out... on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My phone (Palm Pre) can even pull bootloader code over USB, so even if the boot flash gets hosed, it can recover via USB.

    Serial shouldn't be needed outside of microprocessor development these days... that it is is sad.

    Sure, a board may cost $0.50 more to manufacture... yea, stop penny-fraction-pinching you bastards!

  11. Re:Down on The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work · · Score: 1

    Note that in Assassin's creed, the game saves every time you do something important, and the smaller details of the world do not persist. The idea is your meta-gaming. You are playing a character who is in a machine "playing" his ancestor's memories.

    This DRM sucks. But this particular combination of game, mechanics, and DRM has a chance of working.

  12. Re:Upgrade... on Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability · · Score: 1

    Two nines? What, 9.9% ?

    Even a monkey could manage that.

  13. Re:So who's your daddy? OoooOoooh YeeaaaH! on GoDaddy Wants Your Root Password · · Score: 1

    I much prefer the moniker "NoDaddy"

  14. Re:new mirror on Cryptome in Hot Water Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's probably what the "and the rest being transferred" part is about...

  15. Re:If you use open source, you're a pirate... on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 1

    ... arrest all the useful geeks and watch it all come down...

  16. Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... yea, because racial overtones are so much better than ideological ones. Joy. Why do these asshats find Open Source so undesirable? Are they still stuck on the hippie-factor?

  17. Re:Monitor gamma? on Scaling Algorithm Bug In Gimp, Photoshop, Others · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here:
    http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2586/scalerbug.png

    Look at the third set of images. Had this bug not been present, they should have been nearly identical. As you can see, in my case, they are radically different.

    As the text reads:

    (dali picture)
    All four images in this page are the same one but your browser was instructed to scale it. The one below is scaled 1:2. On Opera and some versions of Internet Explorer it will show a gray rectangle. KDE Konqueror, Firefox and SeaMonkey will display it either pink or green or half-green, half-pink:

    (smaller dali or grey box)
    (mine draws in grey, despite using Firefox)

    Below it is scaled down 1:4. The right one is one pixel wider and higher than the left one. Some browsers display them quite differently:

    (two images, differing if you have the bug)

  18. Re:Monitor gamma? on Scaling Algorithm Bug In Gimp, Photoshop, Others · · Score: 1

    Yes, excepting that this issue is talking about the bug in image editors.

  19. Re:100 microprocessors? on NHTSA Has No Software Engineers To Analyze Toyota · · Score: 1

    Because it isn't a "computer" that controlls the parts of the cars. Each microcontroller has jobs it does. This is more efficient and "safe" than a single monolithic computer.

    Note that ECU actually stands for Engine Control Unit. Looks similar to CPU, but it ain't.

  20. Re:Hum. on The Surreal World of Chatroulette · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wouldn't. The /b/-tards over on 4chan have known about chatroulette for a while and frequently abuse it.

  21. Re:If so what instead? on Is OLED TV Technology In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, it is. Keep that shit away from me.

  22. Sadly, superfetch does more than just preload. it tracks usage and predicts what data will be requested at a given time. Yes... it knows you often load up Outlook at 9am on Monday, but at 10am on Friday.

  23. Re:Other countries are interesting on Perth Game Company CEO Takes IP By Night · · Score: 1

    I, personally, will happily pay $25 for a good quality pizza. Others seem happy with that $5 crap.

  24. Re:Why is this surprising? on iPhone's Liquid Sensors Can Be Triggered By Wintertime Use · · Score: 1

    ... and do they make any claims against it either? I don't have one laying about to check, but another poster said it states the humidity must be non-condensing.

  25. yea, hardly reliable on iPhone's Liquid Sensors Can Be Triggered By Wintertime Use · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So, Apple's LCI can trip unexpectedly...

    A few years back, I dropped my Motorola RAZR V3 into a hot tub. It was submerged about 3-5 seconds before I got it back out.

    The phone was dead, as expected - but the LCI did not "go off."