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  1. Re:IPV6 and the **AA folks on IPv6 Deployment Picking Up Speed · · Score: 1

    IPv6 privacy extensions go some way to solving that problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Privacy

  2. Re:MacKinnon or McKinnon? on MacKinnon Extradition Blocked By UK Home Secretary · · Score: 2

    It should be Gary McKinnon. The /. headline is wrong.

  3. Re:A 10kg dumbbell in the face sure feels forceful on Preview of Synaptics's Next Generation Input Devices · · Score: 2

    Weight is force due to gravity. You are thinking of mass.

  4. Re:Gah on Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client · · Score: 1

    $ file thunderbird-bin
    thunderbird-bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped

    I've been running 64-bit Thunderbird for years!

  5. Re:Why not warn them? on Paul Vixie: 100,000 DSL Modems May Lose Their DNS On July 9 · · Score: 1

    Sure, it's bad if the ISP does it on their own DNS servers, but these are some criminal's servers that have been seized. Are those things really equivalent?

    Of course HTTP isn't the only DNS user, but you can't pretend that this won't inform the overwhelming majority of users. They obviously use HTTP a lot.

    Every single ISP doing traffic inspection or redirection seems like a lot more work than just doing this at the source.

    I'm not advocating false DNS results from ISP's servers or treating other protocols as lesser than HTTP, I'm just suggesting a way to fix this for the majority of affected users.

  6. Re:Why bother warning them? on Paul Vixie: 100,000 DSL Modems May Lose Their DNS On July 9 · · Score: 1

    I see your argument, but they could do it purely to reduce the burden for all these clueless user's tech support people. Whether you like it or not, they are going to want their "internet" fixed...

  7. Why not warn them? on Paul Vixie: 100,000 DSL Modems May Lose Their DNS On July 9 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why don't they just start redirecting web users to a warning page explaining the situation to them at some point before the cut off date?

  8. Re:Failed big time on Raspberry Pi Now Has Distributors -- and Will Soon Have Boards for All (Video) · · Score: 1

    Nope, Jersey.

  9. Re:Failed big time on Raspberry Pi Now Has Distributors -- and Will Soon Have Boards for All (Video) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Instead, they gave us company-orders only, minimum order amounts of €50, creditcard only and only to a select amount of countries.

    I've just ordered mine as an individual (not a company) for ~£25 (less than €50) using a debit card.

  10. Cloud on Google Close To Launching Cloud Storage 'Google Drive' · · Score: 2

    But what if it rains?

  11. Re:About fucking time on SOPA and PIPA So Far · · Score: 0

    The soap box, or the ... sopa box?

  12. Re:no transformers found, I guess? on High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon · · Score: 1

    shows the surface shape and features over nearly the entire moon with a pixel scale close to 100 meters

    So I doubt you can see any footprints :)

  13. Re:IPV6 on Ask Internet Visionary and Pioneer Vint Cerf · · Score: 1

    I believe Vint Cerf's answer to this is that 32-bit or 128-bit were both options, so he pressed ahead with 32-bit for the sake of the experiment with the intention of changing things for the "final" version of TCP/IP, but TCP/IP just slipped into usage in its experimental form and it became too late!

  14. Re:Like Apple Messenger? on RIM Server Crash Leaves Millions Without BBM · · Score: 1

    It's very useful when you run out of battery to fully run the device. The alarm will still sound in a reduced environment. That's saved me a couple of times.

  15. Re:We want something new but the same. on Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users · · Score: 2

    My problem with Google+ is that it signs me in to all other Google pages too. I don't want to be logged into my search engine with my social network account, and it's too much hassle to sign in and out of Google+ each time I want to use it.

  16. Re:Slashdot on Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement · · Score: 1

    How is the quote wrong? I didn't write it, so I don't make any claims to its correctness, but the entire blog appears to be written by a person knowledgeable in the field.

  17. Re:Slashdot on Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement · · Score: 4, Informative

    It seems that EFI may not be the brilliant thing that it is supposed to be. Somebody doing a lot of work involving it blogs here - http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/ - and there are lots of depressing things to read there. To quote from the page:

    > It's an awful thing and I've lost far too much of my life to it. It complicates the process of booting for no real benefit to the OS. The only real advantage we've seen so far is that we can configure boot devices in a vaguely vendor-neutral manner without having to care about BIOS drive numbers. Woo.

  18. Re:UltraVNC? on Intel Shows RealVNC Embedded In the BIOS · · Score: 2

    This probably just implements the standard RFB protocol, so any viewer (UltraVNC, RealVNC or whatever) can connect to it.

  19. Re:Bandwidth monitoring on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    Process Explorer, along with most other network monitoring tools only seems to show interfaces' total bandwidth. iftop shows per-connection upload and download bandwidth. Please correct me if I'm missing something in Process Explorer though.

  20. Bandwidth monitoring on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    Is there anything similar to iftop [1] for Windows?

    [1] http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/

  21. Re:PDF is heavily slashdotted on Inside Amazon's Data Centers · · Score: 3, Informative
  22. Re:ATM machines on Tech That Failed To Fail · · Score: 1

    Yes, accounts in the UK are generally free and come with all the free conveniences described by the GP. Banking in the US sounds horribly old fashioned...

  23. Re:Not least due to keyboard and mouse on PC Gamers Crush Console Brethren · · Score: 1

    The console player appears to be able to move at any speed in between 0 and fast, controlled by the amount you push on the stick. PC gamers don't have that luxury, they have several fixed speeds and no way to get in between them.

    What!? You can move a mouse as fast or as slowly as you like, you're only limited by your arm/wrist speed. You can move at any speed you like below your physical maximum speed, too. With a controller you can only choose between 0 and some maximum speed defined in the game settings, with a limited usable range angles between those points.

  24. Re:Congrats! on HDCP Encryption/Decryption Code Released · · Score: 1

    Running the built in single core benchmark on my Core 2 Duo E8500 running at 3.7 GHz gets 351 FPS. If 7x slower for 1080p decryption is accurate, that'll give about 50 FPS on a single core. I'm sorted.

  25. Re:Why does linux get this? on Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux · · Score: 1

    The title is as such because Linux did have a 64-bit version for a long time, which was unexpectedly pulled a few months ago. Adobe have re-instated the 64-bit Linux version, but also they have now released 64-bit versions for other OSes too.