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  1. Slashdotted on Earth Under Threat From Dark Comets · · Score: 2, Funny

    Already down. There goes my chance of calling FUD.

  2. Whoops on Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean' · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'd think we would... you know... communicate with our allies? Maybe? At least they didn't almost collide with a lighthouse, though.

  3. Re:Vaporware Alert on UC Berkeley Lab Examines Cloud Computing Obstacles · · Score: 3, Funny

    What happens if it rains?

    All of your data comes down in binary and you have to reassemble it using pen and paper.

  4. Vaporware Alert on UC Berkeley Lab Examines Cloud Computing Obstacles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do you trust your data being up in the "cloud"? Do you want to risk that company tanking and your work going away? I don't. I can work fine over a IPSec link to my storage server (with more redundancy) and run subversion to keep track of my work.

  5. Re:What value? on Terabit Ethernet Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    Speaking of caps, any Comcast customers here who have run up against to or close to the ceiling?

    I think if two companies are in the same market then one of them will eventually blink by doing actual network upgrades to get customers from the other company. Of course that's assuming they want to make money by doing work and not raising rates.

    I've never come close to hitting my cap and I am a "power user." I also don't have an HDTV or a computer to stream HD from.

  6. Re:What value? on Terabit Ethernet Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Tera ethernet... 5-25 gig monthly caps... "I used my monthly cap in 31.65 seconds..UH O..."

    That would mean the telco companies actually decided to give us enough throughput. Sure, it'll work well on a LAN when they eventually deploy it, but unless if you have fiber coming to your house and all the way to where you're trying to grab that episode of Desperate Housewives from it will not go that fast. You also have to account for your neighbor who is addicted to porn and downloads it constantly seeding at 100% for days on end.

  7. Re:UI Design Fail. on Researchers Warn of Possible BitTorrent Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Fantastic! Now the 4chan'ers can stay in 4chan, and maybe Slashdot will regain some of its quality user base.

    You can still post anonymously by checking the "Post Anonymously" while logged in.

  8. Re:UI Design Fail. on Researchers Warn of Possible BitTorrent Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Argh. WTF. UI Design Fail.

    Disable the beta index. It's beta for a reason.

  9. Tag this FUD on Researchers Warn of Possible BitTorrent Meltdown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The internet is resilient, and someone somewhere will pick up the slack that could be left by TPB going down. There's enough trackers out there to lend a hand.

    Solution? Support The Pirate Bay. Don't download? Support them anyway for the things they do to battle the MAFIAA and other evils.

  10. Re:Actually, on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 3, Funny

    Both have about the same amount of proof either way.

    (citation needed)

  11. Re:Oh how I love planes.. on The Flying Giant Is 40 Years Old · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder how much of that loss of fun is the airlines' fault and how much is the result of the FAA bureaucracy?

    Or the result of greed on both parties.

  12. Re:Steve Jobs is Dead! on Telling Fact From Fantasy In the World of Apple Rumors · · Score: 1

    Wait wait wait... he died again? This is the third time!

    (Take two: Fixing my dead link.)

  13. Re:Steve Jobs is Dead! on Telling Fact From Fantasy In the World of Apple Rumors · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wait wait wait... he died again? This is the third time!

  14. Re:TrueCrypt or Wait for On Drive Upgrades on How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    6.1a won't even install on my Inspiron 9400, giving me a "memory parity error" on the initial reboot test for full drive encryption.

    Have you run memtest86+ and let it go for at least two full tests? Could be one of your sticks is bad.

  15. Re:TrueCrypt or Wait for On Drive Upgrades on How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything? · · Score: 1

    then you might as well just have used a password in the first place instead of encryption. You, sir, are a fucking moron. Please stop posting and do some research before spouting off nonsense.

    I second AC's statement. The GP says to "keep everything on a secure server." Do you know how slow it would be to have to grab all your data off a remote server on a laptop from remote sites? Don't mod him insightful, read what he actually said.

    TrueCrypt Supremacy. I've had it deployed at many organizations and we've seen no performance decrease. One thing to keep in mind is to keep the pagefile /enabled/ when you do full disk encryption. I may be incorrect in doing this, but since the disk is encrypted what's the harm?

  16. Re:Food for thought on All Korea To Have 1Gbps Broadband By 2012? · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the readers who don't already know: $200 Billion Broadband Scandal

  17. Re:Why does Obama support this? on More Claims From NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't you know how slow things move with the government?

    Ding, ding, ding, mod parent up. Whether or love Obama or hate him expecting real change on a ship the size of the Federal Government in ten days is pretty unrealistic.

    This is going pretty OT, but it's going to bite him in the ass when he's running for a second term and people are asking why he didn't change everything he promised.

  18. Re:Why does Obama support this? on More Claims From NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice · · Score: 5, Insightful

    p>So far, I haven't seen any change I can believe in. And I voted for him.

    It's been only a week. Don't you know how slow things move with the government?

  19. Re:Now... on DIY LED Array Marquee For Your PC · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are actually already license plate frames with little LED displays built in that allow you to do this.

    Yeah, but it doesn't quite scream "Nerd" as hard as when you built it yourself.

  20. Now... on DIY LED Array Marquee For Your PC · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The question is if I can do this and have it run from my car. I put in predefined phrases, and depending on which switch I hit or button, it says them?

  21. Re:Send me a copy on RIAA Hearing Next Week Will Be Televised · · Score: 0

    I was wondering if someone could send me a recorded copy of the stream since I won't be able to watch it live.

    I'm sure it will be all over once it's done. You'd be stupid not to record it.

  22. Re:Get any work done? on 1 In 3 Windows PCs Still Vulnerable To Worm Attack · · Score: 1

    Jeez, with virus scanners, several types of automatic updates, and other gadgety things polluting the standard corporate desktop, it is a wonder that people can get any work done on their PCs anyway. Six Inches of Air.

    It keeps plenty of business open for people like me who repair them in their spare time to make some extra cash. :)

  23. Do you really want to know? on The Secret Lives of Ubuntu and Debian Users · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously, do you /really/ want to know what they do behind closed doors?

    Because I certainly don't.

  24. Re:it figures, on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 4, Funny

    why are the cute ones always dumb?

    Take comfort in Judge Judy's quote: Beauty fades, but dumb is forever.

    Or Ron White's line: You can't fix stupid.

  25. Re:Full disclosure on GPUs Used To Crack WiFi Passwords Faster · · Score: 1

    "If some security manager reads this, goes back to work, and says "OK, change all our WPA passwords, our current ones may not be secure", he will be making a real improvement to his network. He might even be locking out an existing hacker in the process."

    Until 3 hours later when THAT password is now cracked.

    Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

    Or then implement WPA2 enterprise that authenticates against your Active Directory or RADIUS domain with blacklisting against MAC addresses that aren't registered to that user.