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  1. Uhhhh on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Hiroshima bomb had a yield of 13 to 18 kilotons and the Nagasaki bomb 21 kilotons.

    The 10 to 15 megaton weapons in the US arsenal are close to a thousand times greater yield, with all the trappings that go with it.

  2. Re:Dispite what everyone says... on UI Features That Didn't Make It Into Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    The ability to switch tabbed browsing off with a single checkbox.

    And a lot of people don't give a turd about standards compliance. I do, but my parents, brothers, sister and ex don't.

  3. Re:IE has had these for ages on MS To Slip IE8 Into Vista and XP Through OEMs · · Score: 1

    Allegedly, "kdawson" is this guy.

    Allegedly is incorrect. On the Background page and in his resume, he says he's a Slashdot editor.

  4. You inconsiderate clod on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    I lost good money betting on who'd win at Dien Bien Phu

    Just finished watching Battlefield Vietnam from ed2k

  5. Re:Slashdot on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I would.

    The subnet of the IP would tell me what data center the server is in. Often, what side of the building in my network. Rather build logic into the IP addresses than the names.

    Each rack has a summary list in a plastic sleeve riveted to the rack. In large font. With the responsible engineer and the function of the server.

    And if the bastard who racked the server hasn't stuck the label from the handy labelmaker onto the machine, he is going to spend the next week handcuffed to the server's handles telling the tour from the ICT School how the network operates.

    If it was me who forgot to label, nope. Never happened. You can't prove it. Bye.

  6. Re:America, on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 5, Funny

    And we have dark fiber...

    There's your problem. Fiber tends to work better when one lights it up

  7. Re:SME Server 8 on Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative? · · Score: 1

    SME Server is Linux

    Windows SBS is Windows that comes with a rickerty SQL Server.

    Not the same thing.

  8. Re:Excellent for Internet2 connected institutions on Google Over IPv6 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Google has direct peering to quite a number of IPv6-capable NREN's around the world.

  9. Rainbow tables on A Hacker's Audacious Plan To Rule the Underground · · Score: 1

    I doubt they brute-forced the FDE, just the pass phrase to the key cert/ring.

    I'll lay good money that the NSA/FBI have a full set of rainbow tables for any hash currently used for passphrases. Takes major CPU to generate, but once you've got it, it takes a very short time to find your way in.

    Hell, Passware has an online site that can discover passwords for Office docs in seconds.

  10. And now.. on Dubai Is Building a Refrigerated Beach · · Score: 1

    ... it's a dump.

  11. Firefox 3 & IE7 anyone on Dubai Is Building a Refrigerated Beach · · Score: 1

    16 June 2008, correlates with the spike in traffic on the year graph.

    Slow dropoff as FF3 and IE7 start getting adopted with better ad blocking.

    How does Alexa track traffic, if ABP or other security mechanisms block the cookies/1px gif or other tracking mechanisms, it might be a artificial dropoff.

  12. Obviously sign of jumping to conclusions on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't rant first and ask questions later.

  13. Re:Pretty spiffy on Rainforest Fungus Synthesizes Diesel · · Score: 1

    Is worth it if it reduces the complexity of the process and eliminates the nastier chemicals involved.

  14. Re:I'll be happy if... on Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" · · Score: 1

    Unless you're on a slow curve breaker, designed to handle the surge of a UPS or HVAC starting up and only trip after a 2 minute overload, that some idiot has installed on the wrong circuit. Been there, cleaned up the charred cables.

  15. Re:Competition on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    So that's what Cheney was practicing for when hunting the lawyer.

  16. That's what you get.... on Yahoo Changes User Profiles, To Massive Outrage · · Score: 4, Funny

    for insisting on 38DD blondes. There is a fixed brain to boob ratio and it can't be violated.

  17. Not true on O3B Details Plan for Satellite-Based Bandwidth For Africa · · Score: 1

    There is minimal fibre capacity terminating in the southern sections of Africa. The biggest is SAT-3 and that is pathetic and only lands in South Africa. There are new cables in the pipeline, three under construction, but availability will be limited for the first few years. 2 of the ones under construction are to be dedicated for the 2010 World Cup and may (may) be released when that is over. The other will land in July 2009 and then we have to backhaul the capacity to the inland and distant coastal cities over networks which don't exist yet.

  18. Add a captcha on Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Anti-Spam Law · · Score: 1

    Be interesting if we could add a captcha to the SMTP conversation, server asks a mathematical formula in bc or rpn notation and client has to send an answer back. That will stop spoofed ip packets since the formula will never reach the client sending the spoofed packet and it will not be able to send the answer. Basically a simple form of IPSEC checking that humans could also use when we debug the SMTP.

    Just for anti-spoofing and getting the right IP in the packet.

  19. Go man on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1

    And while we at it, give me an option to disable tabs permanently. I hate them with a passion.

    Honestly, that's what the window manager is there for.

  20. There is one on Shuttle Retirement In 2010 Under Review · · Score: 1

    The Ministry of Silly Walks' Hop-Skip-And-Jump program which, for a mere 300,000 pounds, managed to get every school kid in the Thames Valley area skipping rope, and school, by 1982.

  21. Re:10GB no-extra-money limit on Typical Home Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    The Southern Hemisphere sucks.......................

  22. You ignorant fool on Google Reverses "Absurd" Mozilla Code Ban · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know you've just blocked Jamie Hyneman from using your code?

  23. Re:Can someone stop the creationist mods in here? on New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal · · Score: 1

    Found him. God

    Suppose that is an embarrassingly high number for a superbeing.

  24. Re:Internets... on Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous Trolls · · Score: 1

    Sex?

  25. Yeah on MySpace Joins OpenID Coalition · · Score: 1

    If they broken Kerberos so badly, why the hell can I right my KRB5 install on Centos to point to my AD realm and have it work without any arcane settings or magic?

    MS did not break Kerberos. Period. Ever. Now go away and blow your iBook.