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  1. Re:Oh dear on Stephen Hawking Is "Very Ill" In Hospital · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Implying that Stephen Hawking is going to Hell is not malicious?
    Did I miss the memo where we changed the definition of 'malicious?'

  2. Re:Postgres is looking better than ever on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1
    It's all about the data type with strings in MySQL..

    mysql> create table foo(bar varbinary(10));
    mysql> insert into foo (bar) values ('abc');
    mysql> select * from foo where bar = 'abc';
    +------+
    | bar |
    +------+
    | abc |
    +------+
    1 row in set (0.00 sec)

    mysql> select * from foo where bar = 'aBC';
    Empty set (0.00 sec)

    the varchar type are case insensitive. varbinary types do what you are expecting.
    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/binary-varbinary.html

  3. Re:Maybe, maybe not on Encrypted But Searchable Online Storage? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe something like this -

    Create an index of hashes using the unencrypted data on the client.
    Encrypt the data on the client so we now have an index of hashes that apply to an encrypted file.
    Upload the hash index and the encrypted data file to the server.
    To search, hash the search criteria on the client.
    Server search the indexes for the hash value, returning a list of encrypted files with an index matching the criteria hash.

  4. Re:omfg... on Online Storage For Lawyers? · · Score: 1

    You know, Slashdot might, just maybe, have a little more technical insight into things like security and digital archiving than, say, the Oklahoma Bar Association.

  5. Re:Warrant does not say 2 OSes -- Hacking on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    Actually, the white-text-on-black things was just the description of the login screen. The warrant application goes as far as to identify the OS as Ubuntu using BC's Network Registration System logs.

    The warrant application isn't as stupid as it's been painted in the summary.

  6. Re:Warrant was issued? on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    I suggest you actually read the warrant application. Slashdot is sensationalizing it to be the warrant is based on "running Linux is suspicious behavior" when that's nowhere close to the reason why the warrant was issued.

  7. Re:What's the problem here? on Obama Taps a 5th Lawyer From the RIAA · · Score: 1

    While I'm completely against the RIAA/MPAA tactics, how many lawyers would turn down the payday they were throwing their way?

    So, you want people in the government who throw morals out the window and do things that are questionably legal at the first sign of a dollar?

  8. Re:'Expendable' on What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. I think jobs doing HTML and CSS have moved from the techies and programmers to the graphic designers. So as a CS major, yes, the career in doing HTML+CSS is dead. As a graphic designer, it's another skill that's actually pretty desirable with a lot of jobs.

  9. Re:Where to complain on Time Warner To Offer Unlimited Bandwidth For $150 · · Score: 1

    I think your State's Attorney General handles consumer scams.

    I'm kind of curious of the implications of this. You get into a contract with them that advertises unlimited bandwidth for $x/month. They, change the contract and enforce a cap on your line. Then they demand more money (something like 3-4 times more) out of you for service that was in your previous contract.

    Seems like a standard bait and switch.

  10. Re:Kind of funny on Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report · · Score: 1

    Terrorism is something else and a term that gets abused to the point of making it meaningless.

    Them's sounds like terr'st words to me!

  11. Re:It's called "Counterpush" on EFF Says Obama Warrantless Wiretap Defense Is Worse than Bush · · Score: 1

    the people in the Republican Party who thought that McCain was some maverick conservative.

    If you want to every see how stupid partisan politics is, look at how the republicans viewed McCain before he won the primary. He was hated by a decent amount of the party. He wins the primary and suddenly becomes the new "Maverick Conservative!"

    You know you're out of tune with the country when your bastard member wins enough primaries to become your party's candidate.

  12. Re:SW != ST on Star Trek Premiere Gets Standing Ovation, Surprise Showing In Austin · · Score: 1

    Fine, fine...

    "You mean like how Star Trek fans went easy on the Star Trek: Enterprise series?"

  13. Re:Few companies work as hard to make bad decision on Microsoft Ending Mainstream Support For XP · · Score: 1

    Junctions = the old paths, like the Application Data directory

    Unless they completely reworked junctions into something completely different on Vista, that's incorrect. Junctions are basically soft symlinks.

    Hard Links and Junctions

  14. Re:Wait.. on Microsoft Ending Mainstream Support For XP · · Score: 1

    imagine just how much worse the malware scene would be if they had access to windows source code?

    I don't know. The Windows 2000 malware front didn't get too much worse when the bad guys got their hands on the source code.

  15. Re:I'm confused on Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C · · Score: 1

    You don't see Steve Jobs with sweaty underarms, do you?

    Don't know, can't see through his fancy white plastic shirt.

  16. Re:Excellent news! on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    he didnt make it.

    There's a FISA bill with his vote of "YES" that says otherwise.

  17. Re:huh? on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    So, are you saying the people got what they wanted?

    No, he's saying Obama simply told people what the people wanted to hear to get their votes.

    I can promise you millions of dollars for some reason, if that's what you want to hear. But I would also have no intention of following that through (mostly because of my own lack of millions of dollars).

  18. Re:Change? on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Well, that's what they do with anyone who comes in, regardless of insurance. You don't spend your whole stay in the ER. They stabilize you and move you on to a hospital room, intensive care (if it's really bad), or send you home (trivial injuries).

  19. Re:Favors on Data Center Raid About Unpaid Telco Fees · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The first article was spun into "FBI raids datacenter, believed to be because of MPAA requests on movie piracy." The entire piracy spin was added by slashdot (or the submitter, which should've been caught at the editor). There was no mention of it *anywhere* in the facts. Turns out it was false. They really seem to be trying to rile people against the FBI in this.

  20. Re:What kind of cowards do they hire? on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    I think it would've been interesting if he'd called the police.
    "There's some crazy mob rushing my car in the street!"

  21. Re:I can top that. Try the Globe and Mail! on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    Or, a more likely explanation, is server side script blocks.

  22. Re:5th Amendment? on ACLU Sues Penn Prosecutor For Empty Threat of Child Porn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If anything, you could charge the minor with public nudity or something, but not a pornography charge.

    They've noted the pictures are 'very explicit' and the intended audience was the girl's boyfriend. I'm going to take the safe leap and say her pictures were intended by her to be pornographic. Don't paint them as something they're not.

    The tricky part of the whole situation is she's 14, doing this all herself, and posting them onto MySpace.

  23. Re:Possession? on ACLU Sues Penn Prosecutor For Empty Threat of Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Even if the molestion charges don't stick, the child porn charges could.

    Even if they didn't stick, you're probably blacklisted from the teaching industry based on the accusation. I imagine you'd have a hell of a time getting a new job as a teacher.

  24. Re:This is the same mistake the music business mad on Why Fear the End of the R-Rated Superhero Movie? · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? While comedies have started delving into the R-rated territory more and more, it seems like action and horror movies have dropped down into the PG-13 range to try to get a larger audience.

  25. Re:Cue the following: on Texas Vote May Challenge Teaching of Evolution · · Score: 1

    You forgot the meme guys, you insensitive clod!