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  1. Re:Someone missed the point. on Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    that the manufacturer does not provide

    Or worse, the manufacturer forces you to pay for it. I'm expecting it will start out with OEM's forcing people through EULA hoops to buy license kits.

  2. LOL this stuff is SO cool! on Massively Parallel Computer Built From Single Layer of Molecules · · Score: 1

    FTFPDF
    Writing, erasing and retrieving information: In Fig. 3a we demonstrate the
    sequential writing of a state 1 matrix on a state 0 surface. The states are stored as static
    information until spontaneous pattern evolution is triggered externally. By scanning the
    surface at -1.68 V one can reset all molecules to state 0, thus erasing the information. To
    retrieve information the surface is scanned at ~0.2 V (Figure 1d).

    Logic gate: The effects resulting from Rule 3 appear similar to the interactions in
    the Billiard Ball Model,31 which has been used to design logic gates. We have realized an
    AND logic gate based on interactions in which Rule 1 dominates over Rule 3. A
    schematic logic device is shown in Figure 3c. A random composition of states 1 and 3
    (density > 0.5 electrons/nm2) written in a circular form is a logical "1" and the absence of
    any such composition is a logical "0". If we write two logical "1"s at most 15 nm (15
    cells) apart, only then a new composition is created automatically on the surface
    depicting logical state "1". If any one or both input compositions are absent we do not get
    such an output; rather states collapse at the same space (Figure 3d), we get a logical "0"
    at the output location. Thus we realize an AND gate. A large number of such logic gates
    could be operated in parallel on DDQ CA by separating those by ~15 CA cells. The
    output of a logic gate could be transported to the input of another logic gate, as described
    in Figure 3b.

  3. Re:Last year's news on Massively Parallel Computer Built From Single Layer of Molecules · · Score: 1

    At least the pdf is no longer paywalled.

  4. Someone missed the point. on Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 2

    I don't want to disable the functionality to use Linux or any other operating system. I want it to be customizable so I can use it with any other operating system. Having it locked down for existing OEM's is what makes it evil.

  5. silver lining on In Bolivia, a Supervolcano Is Rising · · Score: 1

    If they both erupt the "is man effecting climate" argument would become moot.

  6. Re:Once Upon a Time on Netflix Loses 800,000 Subscribers After Qwikster Gaffe · · Score: 1

    I'd be willing to bet that the total cost of making a seasons worth of "reality tv" is cheaper than the original cost of making an episode of I Love Lucy. Still. It isn't just that yesteryear TV shows were expensive to make. Factor in the cost of running the entire broadcasting station into the cost of making and developing new shows. Your looking at millions of dollars in expenses per year. Either advertising costs have dropped to the floor or the owner's paycheck is a little steep.

  7. Re:Circumvention on BT Ordered To Block Usenet Binaries Index · · Score: 1

    According to TorrentFreak, Newzbin Client 1.0.0.127 sets up an encrypted session with the Newzbin2 website, "rendering blocking impractical and snooping more or less impossible".

    Switching to an encrypted connection, which everyone should have been using anyway, will not circumvent blocking Usenet or index sites by IP address.

  8. Re:Block access to highways on BT Ordered To Block Usenet Binaries Index · · Score: 1

    Your publicly claiming there is a brit that has not driven drunk?!? You surely meant to post anonymously. :P

  9. Re:So BT eats the cost? on BT Ordered To Block Usenet Binaries Index · · Score: 1

    Correct. My wallet had 1,000,000 dollars in it. Please send it next day delivery.

  10. Once Upon a Time on Netflix Loses 800,000 Subscribers After Qwikster Gaffe · · Score: 1

    In a world so very different from today there was this thing called broadcasting. Access to the content was free, as in turn on TV and watch. These "TV stations" used advertising revenue to build multi-million dollar businesses. In todays world a companies claim they can not stay in the black if they do not charge customers for access to the content AND make money on advertising revenue. It really makes one wonder how those old school broadcasting companies managed to stay afloat.

  11. Re:hmmmm on New Attack Tool Exploits SSL Renegotiation Bug · · Score: 1

    It looks like PSH is set ON the renegotiation packet.

    08:54:25.852659 IP localhost.localdomain.51515 > localhost.localdomain.6060: Flags [P.], seq 1:62, ack 1, win 513, options [nop,nop,TS val 19313608 ecr 19313608], length 61
    08:54:25.852793 IP localhost.localdomain.51516 > localhost.localdomain.6060: Flags [P.], seq 1:62, ack 1, win 513, options [nop,nop,TS val 19313609 ecr 19313609], length 61

  12. Re:iptables on New Attack Tool Exploits SSL Renegotiation Bug · · Score: 1

    for redirport in 25 587 995 21 113 22 563 119

    Not allowing any 443 (HTTPS) traffic should do the trick :P IMHO I would rethink allowing ftp and ssh from the outside world.

  13. hmmmm on New Attack Tool Exploits SSL Renegotiation Bug · · Score: 1

    Don't SSL renegotiations have, or follow, packets with the PSH flag set? I'll have to check it out; but, I seem to remember it looks like one or the other. If someone knows off the top of their head it would be helpful.

  14. Someone was watching? on New Version of PROTECT IP Bill May Target Legal Sites · · Score: 1

    They are going to try this until somebody falls to sleep and they get it done or run out of money. I fear the day nobody spots it or i gets folded into another bill.

  15. Re:can't believe they missed this one... on Analysis of Google Dart · · Score: 1

    Force of habit. I've always added a forced flush to the last output on CINT scripts to ensure a hang doesn't effect output. In an actual C++ application, that I've debugged and will strip, it would get removed. Sometimes. Maybe. OK I'm lazy it wouldn't get removed. :)

  16. Re:can't believe they missed this one... on Analysis of Google Dart · · Score: 1

    Check out Cling. It is a perfect example of how C/C++ could be the "scripting language" used instead of ECMA. Think CINT for the browser. IMHO all scripting languages should be usable but...

    http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/what-cling
    #include <iostream>
            using namespace std;

    int main()
    {
            int array[8];
            for(int x=0; x<8; x++)
            {
                    cout < < "enter a digit:" << endl;
                    cin >> array[x];
            }
            for(int x=0; x<8; x++)
                    cout << array[x] << endl << flush;
            return 0;
    }

    cint array.cpp
    enter a digit:
    1
    enter a digit:
    2
    enter a digit:
    3
    enter a digit:
    4
    enter a digit:
    5
    enter a digit:
    6
    enter a digit:
    7
    enter a digit:
    8
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8

  17. Re:can't believe they missed this one... on Analysis of Google Dart · · Score: 1

    The whole, "I think I'll put a semicolon here. Meh. Why bother." thing in javascript still gets on my nerve. But. It is the only scripting language built into all browsers so wtf are you going to do? sigh.

  18. Re:can't believe they missed this one... on Analysis of Google Dart · · Score: 1

    And this:

    int a, b, c // creates interface a b and c instead defining them as type integer.

    Just looking at it makes me want to shove a stick into my eye.

  19. Re:Not a violation on Is Verizon Breaking FCC Regulations With Locked Bootloaders? · · Score: 2

    You wouldn't happen to have a list of C-Band devices would you?

  20. Unacceptable on Is Verizon Breaking FCC Regulations With Locked Bootloaders? · · Score: 1

    Block C should never have been sold. They should have charged for permission to build devices that communicate over 700hz and left the connectivity and use up to the public. Allowing ONE company to control a frequency is completely unacceptable!

  21. Re:They better stop advertising it as "unlimited". on Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans · · Score: 1

    :) tried that. I even tried it with a hot spot modem. I'm pretty sure they (T-Mobil) are doing TTL checking to block it. Adding a box running proxies that uses the phone as a modem is going to be my next attempt.

  22. Global Zaibutsu on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Although zaibatsu existed from the 19th century, the term was not in common use until after World War I. By definition, the "zaibatsu" were large family-controlled vertical monopolies consisting of a holding company on top, with a wholly owned banking subsidiary providing finance, and several industrial subsidiaries dominating specific sectors of a market, either solely, or through a number of sub-subsidiary companies.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaibatsu

  23. Re:They better stop advertising it as "unlimited". on Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans · · Score: 1

    I've seen people using it like a modem via a USB cable. It would be nice to route traffic to a phone and use it as the gateway for a LAN.

  24. Re:If you can't beat 'em, starve 'em on Wikileaks Suspends Publishing Of Cables Due To "Financial Blockade" · · Score: 0

    You having a lysdexic moment?

  25. Re:$3.5 million? on Wikileaks Suspends Publishing Of Cables Due To "Financial Blockade" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd bet the staff is more like 4 lawyers at 800k and 2 employees working pro bono.