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  1. Re:Any side effects of NAT? on UK ISPs Consider VPN To Avoid Piracy Crackdown · · Score: 1

    That's one way, I've not personally investigated this but I've been told that Skype also uses UDP to punch through the firewall... since it is a connectionless protocol many home firewalls can't really tell if the "connection is open or closed" as with normal TCP traffic.

    So each of the client blindly send a UDP packet to each other as negotiated by the skype server.

    Client A's firewall sees UDP traffic going out from Client A Port 1 to Client B Port 2
    Client A's firewall says "aha this must be some kind of connection I can't monitor the status of, so I will allow traffic back"

    Client B doesn't receive the packet because its firewall thinks this is some junk.
    Client B then sends a packet from Port 2 to Client A Port 1.

    Both firewalls now believe there is legitimate traffic between the two, despite the fact their both firewalled and/or NATed as may be appropriate.

  2. Re:Slashvertising botnets now ? on Researchers Tracking Emerging 'Darkness' Botnet · · Score: 1

    I hate to be the person to say this, but surely it's more apt:
    In Soviet Russia, ICBM wears you.

    Just when I consider the suppository idea and relative sizes it seems more accurate a description of the process

  3. Re:Quick question on A Mind Made From Memristors · · Score: 1

    Reading the wiki page I surmise it as this, apply a low voltage to read the state.

    Apply high voltage to set the state, the current you pass while setting it determines which state it stays in.

  4. Re:The background doesn't change on Optical Camouflage Puts Kinect Into Stealth Mode · · Score: 2

    Can't speak for GP but I've done better using just a JPEG of a background. You can't see when I move at all.

  5. Re:The language barrier, obviously. on Which Shipping Company Is Kindest To Your Packages? · · Score: 1

    Especially if you're shipping clocks.

  6. Re:Proper packaging on Which Shipping Company Is Kindest To Your Packages? · · Score: 1

    Whenever people mention the egg dropping stuff I'm reminded of a slack day in seocndary school.
    So yeah we all got into our teams and made a parachute or some padding with our lackluster materials, but one team couldn't be bothered, so their entry was the egg itself.

    We thought they'd made a hilarious mistake... 4 stories high and the damn thing bounced, we broke the egg thinking it must have been hard boiled, that was the real mistake.

  7. Re:Defeated by Trusted Computing on Unspoofable Device Identity Using Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    I'm somewhat confused as to why timing would be a problem, typically I believe processors are a little faster than flash memory devices.

  8. Re:Sumatra on Adobe Confirms PDF Zero-Day, Says Kill JavaScript · · Score: 1

    It also remembers the last page you were looking at on a PDF, which is awesome for reading ebooks.
    IMO this is its killer feature, because AFAIK neither adobe nor foxit [can] do this

  9. Re:Just me? on How Google Routes Around Outages · · Score: 1

    You need to contemplate no more, since the answer is in easily digested film format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bus

  10. Re:That's why Adblock plus exists ! on Why Your Pop-Up Blocker Doesn't Work Anymore · · Score: 1

    AdBlockPlus 1.0.1, Noscript 1.9 and Flashblock 1.5.7.1 along with AVG Safesearch 8.0 here; I can't really say which of them is my tiger rock, but I didn't see any popups.

  11. Re:Astoundingly stupid on Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    The amount of damage done to a road has no direct relation to gross vehicle weight, but is instead proportional to the 4th power of axle weight. http://www.dft.gov.uk/consultations/archive/1997/lw/lorryweightsaconsultationdoc1696

  12. Re:File swapping destroys SSDs on Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you have only 1GB of space left, then wear leveling can only count on the blocks that don't contain data.

    The wear levelling hardware does not contain drivers for your filesystem, or any filesystem, so it cannot know whether the block "contains data"
    So your claim that it will only use 1GB and then wear it out is pure fallacy.

  13. When did and tags become unfashionable on Tech's Top 10 Workspaces · · Score: 1

    For the first time in a while I decided to look at TFA, I have to say I'm suprised that these wonderful workspaces have no pictures.

    But wait, visit the site with Javascript enabled ad I can marvel at the high tech nature, of clicking on a thumbnail and seeing an image.
    Truly the internets have evolved.

    Al Gore, I kneel before thee

  14. Re:14Pb for 170k employees... on World's Five Biggest SANs · · Score: 1

    My calculations suggest grandparent is only out by a factor of ~1.07

    My assumptions are as follows:
    Pb == 10^15 bytes
    170k people == 170 000 people

    Therefore 14 000 000 000 000 000 / 170 000 = 82 352 941 176 (rounded)

    i.e under 83GB per user

  15. Re:Interesting... on GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC? · · Score: 1

    I don't believe OpenBSD developers want to duplicate effort, they probably feel that GCC is something they have little control over, from a security viewpoint; I was reminded of some coments Theo made in this interview:
    http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550
    (toward the end)

  16. Re:the best 3d web thingy ever on Three 3D Web Browsers Reviewed · · Score: 1
    The best 3d web thing I've ever seen is Apple's dashboard widgets in OSX.
    I don't understand, what do dashboard widgets have to do with the web?
  17. Re:Even though I'm not a christian on Jonathan Zdziarski Answers · · Score: 1

    I think this video gives a nice perspective about religious belief
    Kissing Hank's Ass

  18. Re:Kind of a stretch... on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 1

    {if you ask someone to punch you in the face, and they do so, they can still be prosecuted for assault}

    Any adult in the UK can consent to Common Assualt.

    I'm not sure what Common Assault technically defines, but I think it's something like... no permanent injuries, not bruising, not bleeding.

  19. A tip to the learned on New Phone Service Promises to ID Songs · · Score: 1

    That service won't work if you just have a little bit of the song in your head.

    So I recommend recording your own version of the song, soon you will receive a legal writ accusing you of copyright infringement etc.

    On this will be the original Artist and Song Title

    Step 4. Profit

  20. Re:About "podcasting"... on LUGRadio Live This Summer · · Score: 1
    Now if you'll excuse me, I have to eat some red meat
    Seems like you just came out of the closet. If you need any tips on Smoking Beef I suggest you chat to the guys over at LemonParty.
  21. Re:UK TV Licenses on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads · · Score: 1

    > He's suuuure to belive me. Doesn't matter, he can't do anything if he believes you or not, he has to catch you watching telly before he can do anything.