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  1. Re:Only 1 core, 2 threads, clocked at 7.03 GHz on Intel Ivy Bridge Processor Hits 7GHz Overclock Record · · Score: 1

    OIC. Deep Thought was overclocked, then. That's why we know the answer, but we still haven't run the computation.

  2. Re:Exactly why we don't need IPv6 on Sales of Unused IPv4 Addresses Gaining Steam · · Score: 1

    > 192.168.102.252/21
    This is meaningless. 192.168.102.248/21 would be correct. Was that an intentional error on your part?

  3. Re:Less is More on Mosh: Modernizing SSH With IP Roaming, Instant Local Echo · · Score: 1

    > psuedo
    Us nuerotic cleuless ueropeans prefer to type "pseudo" in liue of "psuedo". I believe the game "Cleudo" is at blame for your mistake.

  4. Re:Firewalls on Mosh: Modernizing SSH With IP Roaming, Instant Local Echo · · Score: 1

    > Since the port number is communicated on an encrypted session, it doesn't have access to that information. So how does this work in a secure environment? The paper doesn't mention any mean for the server to communicate with the network which port its listening on.

    I assume that mosh relies on stateful firewalls allowing outbound UDP packets. So, given that the ssh channel allows handshaking, here's what I guess happens:

    - Client C connects to Server S through ssh.
    - Server S picks a port P, and sends a dummy UDP packet to C:P. This packet won't reach C, but any stateful S-protecting firewalls make note of the packet S:P to C:P and know that a packet C:P to S:P should be allowed.
    - Client C starts exchanging packets with S, both using port P. After the first C:P to S:P UDP packet, any stateful C-protecting firewalls now will allow S:P to C:P packets.

    Of course, I might be completely mistaken :)

    After all, a connection is defined as the (local ip, local port, remote ip, remote port) tuple.

  5. Re:Passwords are for philistines on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 1

    The site is asking its (hopefully human) visitors what will be the output of a given computer program? If I understood correctly and this is what you're saying, then I can't understand what's the difference to some HTML saying “what's the sum of eight and eleven?”.
    It would be better if they gave a short listing with a couple (possibly random) substitutions, insertions, deletions and the compiler/interpreter's error output, asking the wannabe visitor to fix the code (in the s/old/new format :). This way, when the spammers break the scheme, they'll have advanced the error-correcting capabilities of computers and they'll be worthy of admission :)

  6. Re:the phone on IETF Attendees Reengineer Their Hotel's Wi-Fi Net · · Score: 2

    Translation: “I can't bother to RTFA, tell me the tl;dr version”.

  7. Re:How i drive on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 2

    I presume by “real world” s/he meant “outside the US of A” (and, obviously, a we-drive-on-the-left-side-of-the-road-because-our-ancestors-used-to-wield-swords-in-their-right-hands-while-horseriding country).

  8. Re:# 2 is 1280 x 800 on Windows 8 and Screen Resolution: WXGA Still Most Popular · · Score: 1

    There's no point discussing pixel shapes on CRTs. The monitor settings allowed the user to take almost any input resolution and shape it to the CRT's physical dimension ratio.

  9. Re:# 2 is 1280 x 800 on Windows 8 and Screen Resolution: WXGA Still Most Popular · · Score: 1

    1280x1024 is not 4:3, it's 5:4 (more square).

  10. Re:Mystery Rising Within Mercury? on Mystery Rising Within Mercury · · Score: 2

    Yes, just Mercury Rising would be accurate enough. Or: (Parts of) Mercury Rising.

  11. Re:"I Heard Your Giant's Drink Game is Broken?" on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    I dare not even consider how sleazy a metaphor Monster Cables would be, then.

  12. Re:This isn't nearly as bad as the division bug on AMD Confirms CPU Bug Found By DragonFly BSD's Matt Dillon · · Score: 1

    The thing is: you replied "Um, yes it is", while you meant "Um, sometimes it is".

  13. Re:yup on Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's · · Score: 1

    > Exceedingly horny women who look at porn regularly are and always will be the minority, regardless of empowerment, and prevalence and or societal acceptance of porn.
    And even those few porn-watching women, do watch the porn till the end in the secret hope that the starring couple will get married on-screen.

  14. Re:Before. on DC Comics Announces "Before Watchmen" · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's Big Bang: the Prequel. Sources close to $DEITY have revealed that since the beginning of time our universe was intended to be Episode 2.

  15. Re:MP3 Players... on Rockbox Developers Talk Open Source Firmware · · Score: 1

    "most MP3 players don't support flac without rockbox" is a superset of "stuff that needs iTunes"; they're not equal.

    GP said "most don't", you said "some do"; both correct.

  16. Re:Fresh water? on Graphene Membranes Superpermeable to Water · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The atoms might be at least 4.5 billion years old, but not *every* molecule of water is of that age.

  17. Re:So wait... on Raspberry Pi Beta Boards Unveiled · · Score: 1

    It seems more like the average selling price for Raz models sold will be $100/pi.

  18. Re:Time to move on, perhaps? on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Of course she applies in my example, don't pretend to be stupid; she's but one point in the statistics (you need to understand that "not many of them" does *neither* mean "absolutely no grandparent needs a beastly machine" *nor* "absolutely no grandparent runs Steam", so your answer is kind of useless in the discussion).

    Unless you really suggest that grandparents that *use Steam* on *non-beastly machines* is a *significant* portion of Steam users? And, to get back to your previous post, do you really suggest that the intersection of the set A="people running the firefox web browser" and set B="people running Steam" is a *significant subset of A* in order to validate your point? Is that your point?

  19. Re:Time to move on, perhaps? on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Different user groups. As an example: lots of grand parents browse the internet; not many of them need beastly machines with lots of RAM to run 3D games. So, what's your point?

  20. Re:Nice, but... on A Kindle Fire Review For Those Who Plan To Void the Warranty · · Score: 1

    > I remember escaping the bear a few times. Nothing happens afterwards though.

    Was it a bear or a yeti?

  21. Re:I wonder... on Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material · · Score: 1

    > It's "slick vs. stick." It'll be what every kid wants for Christmas.

    My kids aren't into science friction.

  22. Re:Slashdot is posting blatant scams now? on 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online · · Score: 1

    The end of the world was rescheduled for 20-11-2011.

  23. Re:drop in the ocean. on MIT's 'Artificial Leaf' Makes Fuel From Sunlight · · Score: 1

    > The gravitational energy from pumping the water up the hill is several orders of magnitude less than the energy of separating the water into hydrogen and oxygen. If you really want to use sunlight to pump hydro

    GP did not suggest "pumping the water up the hill"; instead, they suggested to let the hudrogen float up to the top of hills through tubes, then burn (still on high ground) said hydrogen, store locally the exhausts until cool enough, then let the water flow back downhill.

  24. Re:Playing with a drum machine on Ask They Might Be Giants About Almost 30 Years of Music · · Score: 1

    Don't joke about these; I've heard that TMBG have lost at least thirty drum machines so far.

  25. Re:Substation? on Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 · · Score: 1

    > Not only that, but is it even possible to orbit the Moon, which has a very low gravity?
    Anything with the mass of at least a proton can have other, lesser masses orbit around it.
    From a different angle: what do you think Michael Collins was doing while Armstrong and Aldrin went for a pee on the Moon?