User: VincenzoRomano

That's not news! Already known in 1994

On: Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion?

You can read it here (ridiculous Google translation) while the original is here.

Design is an illusion

On: Slashdot Launches Re-Design

Re-design doubly so.
Please, revert it back as in Chrome it really sucks!

Yes, of course!

On: Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion?

That's important also for Mr.Berlusconi. Cold fusion.

Longest standing bug

On: Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs

This very one is 12 years old (yes, you read right), it's huting HTML4 compliance (HTML5 is not a standard yet) and is also affecting all known opensource browsers.
Eyecandies first, stuff that matters maybe.

Interesting

On: VP8 Decoder Implemented In Flash Using Alchemy

as much as useless timewasting project.
I would have preferred spending those resources into making a better/faster/leaner VP8 decoder!

How can you blame Assange

On: Pentagon Credit Union Database Compromised

When your security leaks like a sieve?
And if those data get secretely sold to bad guys, do you think it's better than free publishing all of them?

Use sudo

On: Disempowering the Singular Sysadmin?

You insensitive clod.

So you mean

On: Spoofed White House Card Dupes Many Gov't Employees, Steals Data

That GOV documents like ehm ... cables can LEAK out without the intervantion of an insider?
Interesting ... indeed.

If you are asking this

On: How Do You Prove Software Testing Saves Money?

there's no chance for real software testing and related money saving.

Stupid technology, aka thinko

On: Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes

One question: do you think there's more information in the IP address of the incoming HTTP GET request or in the IP address of the incoming DNS query?
While everyone is using a browser, very few are running a DNS server. Provided that it's properly configured.

Real scince breakthrough!

On: Periodic Table Etched Onto a Single Hair

I wonder whether scientists and engineers have a use of resources better aimed to mankind benefit.
But I could be wrong as I'm hairless.

Looking at the wrong side of the problem.

On: Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers

Those cablegrams got their way out of the Governmental offices. This is a fact not involving Wikileaks at all.
The content of those cablegrams was produced by a number of persons we think wrote the truth down.
Also this fact doesn't involve Wikileaks at all.
Then you have basically two options:
red pill: those files get sold (possibly more than once) to some bad guys that will use them the way they want (more money or more power or both)
blue pill: those files get published to everyone FOR FREE, so none can make nasty things with them any more.
Then if the content is embarrassing, you can blame the authors/actors, not the publisher.

Mobile, home and small office equipment?

On: After IPv4, How Will the Internet Function?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I suspect that a large part of the IPv4 space is used by smartphones, ebook readers, home and small office equipment.
Either all that stuff needs be upgraded to IPv6 or operators will need to deploy IPv6-to-IPv4 gateways.
If you're lucky you can mod your routers with OpenWRT or its derivatives.

I just woder

On: What's the Oldest File You Can Restore?

About file age. If it's data, then anything older a few years iis not worth recovering. If it's software it won't probably run on current hardware/OS. Multimedia files have been replicated on a number of media and don't really need restoration.
So what?

Re:There's also a "technical" reason

On: Google Pushes Openness Over Rooting

Would you trust Apple or Google that market apps won't create botnets? I prefer running root than be jailed.

There's also a "technical" reason

On: Google Pushes Openness Over Rooting

The operators say that misbehaving phones can disrupt their network. That could be true for a very large number of bad phones.
The truth is that I don't know a out any "mod" touching the radio stuff.
It's just FUD.

Why? Easy to guess

On: Problems With Truncation On the Common Application

To save paper and ink/toner. Yes, they are going to print them all!

Not really trivial

On: Database of Private SSL Keys Published

OK, you own a private SSH key of a router.
Now what?
Remeber, you got the router key, not Alice's or Bob's!

Also a lot of banks

On: Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL

should be included into the Smithsonian! They're still using COBOL!
Unluckily, this is not a joke.

nice

On: BitTorrent Client Offers P2P Without Central Tracking

And once you'll get cryptography enforced and a few more TCP/IP tricks I wonder how riaa will stop p2p.

Re:That's not the first time

On: Medical Researcher Rediscovers Integration

Maybe you can just ask (real) mathematicians whether there's already something suitable for your purposes ...
Then if you have spare neurons you can also memorize the solution ...

That's not the first time

On: Medical Researcher Rediscovers Integration

Maths was ahead of other sciences, in the sense that the maths for a certain breakthrough was already there, but simply ignored.
The one needed by Einstein was already there since decades, but no physicist was aware of it!
Anyway, the bottom line of the story is that every BS/MS should include a calculus course.

Re:simple solution

On: DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing

Distributed defense vs distributed attack.

simple solution

On: DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing

Put everything on bittorrent.

Inter-core communication?

On: Intel Talks 1000-Core Processors

I wonder how the inter-core communication will scale without packing 1000+ layers in the die.