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  1. Re:Germany on German Govt. Skype Interception Trojans Revealed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    An to do the same without public announcement is better? Or what "old attitudes" have CIA and NSA? Are they Nazis too? Or worse?

  2. And what if... on US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection · · Score: 1

    ...i'm not a tourist, but a buisnessman? No buisnessman ever can visit his partners in the U.S. without fearing industrial spying at the airport. Remember that industrial spying is a official commission of your CIA (and maybe others).

  3. Ah... on The Rising Barcode Security Threat · · Score: 1

    ...someone was faster. Sorry for that.

  4. 24C3-Video about the barcode-hacking on The Rising Barcode Security Threat · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://ftp.uni-kl.de/24C3/matroska/24c3-2273-en-toying_with_barcodes.mkv

    See this website for mirrors, other video formats and the rest of the videos of the 24C3-conference (some of them are really interesting, videos with a 'de' instead of 'en' in the filename are in german). http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Conference_Recordings

    Happy new year, gentleman/women :-D

  5. Great, but... on Ye Olde World Charm · · Score: 1

    ...are there any sites with selfmade high quality _Cyber_-Punk casemods or gadgeds around? I visited a dozen casemodding gelleries, but i found nothing really cool or interesting there. Any tips for good sources?

  6. Re:Really? Really? Really? on How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected · · Score: 1

    It's not about Top-Speed, it's about the most fighters can't crack Mach 1.6.

  7. Really? Really? Really? on How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but how many F22's are flying around these days? I think the few dozen machines are less then 1% of the world's fighter jets. So, the average fighter jet is a design from the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. No supercruisy F22.

  8. Re:If you need restraints... on NASA Purchases $19M Russian Space Toilet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) Yes.
    2) No.

  9. Re:More interesting sight.. on Roswell UFO Festival · · Score: 1

    Ah, damn. I hoped for the guy who held the spotlights during the shots. 'cause of his qualified technical knowledge ;-)

  10. I said it... on Microholography Could Lead to 500 GB Discs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... a thousand times. The traditional 2D-technology is uncompetitive since the end of the 1990s.
    The cutting edge of optical disks are HD-DVDs als BR-Discs with up to 50 Gigs, but even todays
    harddisks can store an entire terabyte of data. At the beginning one or two CD-Rs where able to
    store the content of a common harddisk, today you would need dozens of expensive BR-Discs to
    backup all that stuff. A holographic storage system with 500 Gigs or more should be the past,
    not the future. The industry failed at this point. They try to sell us an old, but badly advanced
    technology from yesterday.

    I hope this is chance for Newcomers. New smaller companies with good and really innovative
    products. But my fear is that the power in public relations of the present giants of the market
    will prevent it. Wouldn't be the first time that bad technology wins the race.

  11. Ai... a.. on Synthetic Biology For Natural Fuel · · Score: 0

    ii i hope zey make them acid re.. resistant *burp*

  12. Re:Not ideal for servers on Slackware 12.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Only if you use fat32 as filesystem ;-)

    I handled files with much more than 2GB since years on Slackware without any problems. What concrete "incomplete compatibilities" do you mean? They are definitely not related to the common filesystems like ext3 or reiserfs. Some tools had problems, but they had these problems on other distros too, because these issues where related to the code of these tools (years ago tar, was a bug, or parted, which is not part of Slack by default) not of Slackware.

  13. Also great: on Slackware 12.0 Released · · Score: 1

    http://slacky.eu/

    Site is in italian, but the interesting thing ist the repository at http://www.slacky.eu/repository/
    Especially the complete VLC-Package including all dependencies (codecs and so on).

    Thanks to mr. Volkerding. My distribution of choice since almost 10 years.

  14. What game ist that? on The History and Future of Zork · · Score: 1

    I know it's the first game of the first Zork trilogy, but what version is that with that graphical background?
    http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/feature/14 99/95460435000.jpg
    I've never seen it before. Any idea?

  15. Re:Attack or Counterattack? on Crackers Cause Pentagon to Put Computers Offline · · Score: 1

    Uh, a specialist... I think there are enough targets in cyberspace. Belive it or not, but even the countless axis ov evlis (China, N-Korea and so on) and "wog"-terrorist have computers today. But hey, you're free to believe what your ultra-independent newspapers tell you withot questioning, no problem. And the iraqis killed little babies...

  16. Attack or Counterattack? on Crackers Cause Pentagon to Put Computers Offline · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's the question.

    The CIAs and NSAs operations are totally secret, maybe they attacked a cybertarget before, and that's the just a counterattack. That's a widely known strategy to control the media. The public thinks their countries computers are attacked by evil guys from whereever because they can't link that event to the secret event done by their own secret service before. So the (counter)attacker looks more wvil ("Hey, why do they hate us???") and the government can use this to raise the fear of the people. Also the computer guys from the services can demand more money for defense of the countries networks.

    You shouldn't believe everything the secret services (of any country) make public. Especially when they make something public ;-)

  17. Re:Obligatory on Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The really cool thing with that is, there are so many adresses that networms cannot jump to machines via the usage of random ip adresses and you cannot scan entire subnets anymore. It's like to try fishing in an ocean with a gun. Maybe you'll never hit any crature in the big water.

  18. Great! on Moore's Law for Motherboards · · Score: 1

    Give me such a thing with 3 or 4 SATA-connectors (for a good or better RAID-array), 1 CF-disk-connector, 1 10/100/(1000) MBit ethernet port and optionally 1 serial port ans it would be my mini fileserver/NAS base of choice. A GHz and 512 Megs of RAM would be more than enough for an FTP-server and on or two p2p-clients and lot's of disk cache.

  19. I don't want... on A Hardware-Software Symbiosis · · Score: 1

    ... smaller computers. I'm very happy withe the form factors beginning at Extended ATX down to picoITX/SBC. Sizes for all my needs. But faster and cheaper, especially the small SBCs and pico/miniITX/felyATX, would be nice.

  20. By the way,... on NASA Unveils Hubble's Successor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...the telescope will be brought up by a Ariane-V Rocket
    from French Guyana.
    http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/images/esa_pic_a riane_5.jpg

  21. So what? on Nvidia To Recall Every 8800 GTX/GTS Card · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There are more earthshaking News around. Se there http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/87582 (german). The Mozilla Foundation wants 1.4 Billion US$ from Microsoft because of a patent registered in 1922. :-D

  22. The Swarm (Der Schwarm) on Scientifically Accurate Sci-Fi for High-Schoolers? · · Score: 1

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0060813261 /sr=8-2/qid=ARRAY(0x66d11a30)/ref=dp_image_0/002-8 166626-0307252?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&qid=117386 0727&qid=1173860727&sr=8-2

    Nice Book, a eco-bio-sci-fi-thiller. Some characters are a lil bit stereotype, but all the katastrophes and scientific speculations are accurate. And it's pretty cheap.

    The first time ever that the german version of the cover looks better than the UK/US one in my opinion.
    http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/3596164532/ sr=8-1/qid=1173860930/ref=dp_image_0/302-6225487-6 896802?ie=UTF8&n=299956&s=books&qid=1173860930&sr= 8-1

  23. Re:But... on Prototype Telescopes Complete Key Test · · Score: 1

    1st: These damn terrorists.

    2nd: Where is that information? The only text on the Software/Hardwaresites is "Under construction.".
    Or contains that phrase the information of running older RedHat versions ;-)

  24. Why don't you ask... on Define - /etc? · · Score: 1

    ... Thompson or Ritchie? Their mail addresses are freely available.
    Maybe one of the two guys would answer the question.

    http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/

    http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/ken/

  25. No. on Worm Exploiting Solaris Telnetd Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    It's the first thing a good admin never turns ON ;-)