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  1. Re:Do they... on 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Off the Coast of Japan · · Score: 1

    yes, not for failing to predict the quake, just failing to predict the magnitude of the unpredicted quake

  2. Re:Still news for nerds. on 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Off the Coast of Japan · · Score: 1

    indeed, nerdy are the skills, wares and gear to properly acquire, assemble, and play anime.....or JAV

  3. Re:Glad I work in the private sector. on GPS Tracking of State Worker Raises Privacy Issues · · Score: 3, Insightful

    without your knowledge? putting tracker on you personal car? if any executive at my employer did that to me, I'd cram said GPS far into their gastrointestinal egress, without lube. that's if I was in a good mood....

  4. Re:America Invents? on Obama To Sign 'America Invents Act of 2011' Today · · Score: 2

    You don't get it, wealthy people have the powerful in their pocket, who have transformed democracies into oligarchies and plutocracies to enslave and plunder and even kill the people who work.

  5. Re:America Invents? on Obama To Sign 'America Invents Act of 2011' Today · · Score: 1

    I've the the opposite too, but we still get corporate/banking bitches every time

  6. Re:Why not isolate the networks? on Italian Hacker Publishes 0day SCADA Hacks · · Score: 1

    there is another crack that puts call forwarding on the authorized line if one knows that number. those two cracks I mentioned have been well known for over a decade

  7. Re:Why not isolate the networks? on Italian Hacker Publishes 0day SCADA Hacks · · Score: 1

    nope, broken for U.S. robotics and the other common "security" modems - you spoof the modem into thinking a hangup has occurred, stay on the line and party on from there. There is another hack where you put call forwarding onto the authorized person's line. Look in any modern WAN security text, callback modems are now thumbs down.

  8. Re:Why not isolate the networks? on Italian Hacker Publishes 0day SCADA Hacks · · Score: 1

    sorry, but the callback model has been cracked. You spoof the callback modem into thinking the line was hung up and then intercept.

  9. Re:Metal Lives on Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal · · Score: 1

    this is why we're phasing out incandescent lightbulbs, let's see those bastard get any nutrition going nom nom nom on a CFL!

  10. Re:We can't even synthesize carbon-based cells yet on Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal · · Score: 1

    getting there, we can synthesize an entire genome, and replace a natural cell's genome with the artificial one, and the cell lives.

  11. Re:Complexity underestimated on Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal · · Score: 1

    oh, viruses aren't alive? for that matter, the DNA or RNA in our cells aren't alive?

  12. Re:He did not create anything. on Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal · · Score: 1

    by that logic, Intel doesn't create microprocessors, Toyota doesn't create cars, and you don't post on Slashdot.

  13. Re:Why not isolate the networks? on Italian Hacker Publishes 0day SCADA Hacks · · Score: 1

    how is dial-up with password any more secure than being on vpn or vlan? caller id is trivial to spoof, and once the bad guys social engineer your password or know a maintenance password from vendor,......

  14. Re:Why not isolate the networks? on Italian Hacker Publishes 0day SCADA Hacks · · Score: 2

    not me, since early 90s there was *always* some guy with card in his pc hooked to SCADA net also NIC to corporate LAN. Maybe you should look at each and every box that touches your imagined "secure" systems to make sure.

  15. Re:Let the patent war begin on Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS · · Score: 1

    Free? Not if you want to do things with that which you produce with your tinkerings, you'll have to pay money. And more importantly, you don't have freedom to do things with your tinkerings, you can't start a business or use at work or even use for a contract with that license.

    I can tinker just fine on Linux and BSD, and have a thousand times the tools to do so, and have freedoms with what I make.

    Menuet would be great for making high-end controller interface for machining, facility control, laboratory instrumentation....IF it had say BSD license.

  16. Re:Let the patent war begin on Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS · · Score: 1

    Proprietary real-time OS supporting only low-level assembler programming on only the x86 and x86-64, and closed source license for 64 bit??!!

    You're funny.

  17. Re:Let the patent war begin on Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS · · Score: 1

    Plan 9 is available if you want to develop for that; it's even used commercially

    VMS has a GUI, DECwindows Motif on top of OpenVMS's X11. most of your Unix/Linux stuff can run on OpenVMS anyway thanks to GCC running there and the POSIX libraries

  18. Re:Let the patent war begin on Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS · · Score: 1

    uh, those are a Linux based unix-like OS, and a Darwin based unix-like OS

  19. Re:Recapturing the glory days? on Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS · · Score: 2

    it's open source and free as in freedom and beer (GPL), anyone can copy, distribute, sell or not sell, modify, etc in accordance with the GPL

  20. Re:FUD in the article on Microsoft Reveals More Windows 8 Details · · Score: 1

    you mean like Firefox 5? I know, that is *so* last season.

  21. Re:FUD in the article on Microsoft Reveals More Windows 8 Details · · Score: 1

    hey, at least the thin clients run GNU/Linux (yay?). provisioned by software that only can run on windows (boo, hiss), usually to connect to apps running on windows (aw, suck) though some clients actually run things on Unix(tm), system/z or Linux(tm)

  22. Re:Great choice of name on theSkyNet Wants Your Spare CPU Cycles · · Score: 1

    Fear the Yowie, it horribly mutilates hoop snakes and drop bears before dining on tourists for breakfast.

  23. Re:FUD in the article on Microsoft Reveals More Windows 8 Details · · Score: 1

    As it happens, I've already run into a few such apps. For example, the provisioning software for new HP Thin clients requires either Windows 7 or certain version of Windows Server to run.

  24. Re:A short history of unfair trading practices... on $300M To Save 6 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    You left out incidents that show you are overlooking the core issue in this particular aid to high frequency trading. Such as:

    1929: Stock market crashes because of unsustainable self-referential pyramid scams supported by a time only by sheer volume of trading in them rather than real wealth production.

  25. Re:The giant leach on society on $300M To Save 6 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    You are speaking the benefits of infrastructure and distribution that predate high speed electronic trading. Benefits which are now disappearing. Food prices are rising because of the massive trading of paper that drag the price of real food high for people who really need it. People can't buy shelter because banks won't lend money, they are instead into the electronic pyramid scams.

    You'll notice the biggest inventions upon which our civilization is built ALL predate high speed electronic trading; this is instead a tool of the parasite, the leech, those in the banking and finance cartel that are draining our nation of real wealth and prosperity.