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  1. Re:I've had experience dealing with this! on CERN Releases Analysis of LHC Incident · · Score: 3, Funny

    You work in tech support?

  2. Re:Time for a new protocol on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Why is anyone surprised? on Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle · · Score: 1

    It's far easier to use an entire a.b.c.* as a logical sub-domain than fiddling with netmasks and all that stuff so that a.b.c.1 and a.b.c.200 are on different subnets.

    It's also easier to have a flat /16 where everyone's just plugged into nested switches and served off one DHCP server. But it doesn't bloody scale.

  4. Methodology in full on Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle · · Score: 1

    sudo nmap -T insane -O 0-255.0-255.0-255.0-255

  5. penetrated "98 percent of ... desktops" on Linux Now an Equal Flash Player · · Score: 1

    With security flaws like this! http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9954408-7.html

  6. Re:Jeez you people... on International Spam Ring Shut Down · · Score: 1

    You could hawk penis enlargment pills by spam, but really send them cyanide. That would cut it down a bit.

  7. Re:Terrorists? on Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List · · Score: 1

    M-x overthrow-government

  8. Re:Check yourself, on Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List · · Score: 1

    The closest category they have is "couldn't get him for anything, but he looks a bit dodgy and his eyes are too close together."

  9. Re:Arrgghh! No more videos! on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 1
    Speaking as a Brit, may I be the first to apologise for our 'crappy' accents. I have written to our prominent thinkers asking them all to pretend to be from New York when delivering speeches in future.

    Thanks for drawing this shortcoming to our attention.

  10. Re:What a dumb crime. on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 1

    What id dont get is why if someone hacked my email, there is no way theyd get a penalty like that.

    Unfortunately, exactly right. If you haven't lost serious money in a security breach, don't even bother ringing law enforcement. (I work in computer security, and have appeared in legal proceedings so I know whereof I speak.)

  11. Re:Penrose is smart on No Naked Black Holes · · Score: 1
    It's true; Dawkin's is a good scientist, but evolutionary theory has nothing to say on the existence of God. Personally, I don't believe in the Christian God, but science does not demonstrate his non-existence. (Yes, I am a scientist.)

    I am prepared to listen to rational argument, but I don't appreciate being told I have to believe the One True Way by religious fundamentalists *or* atheistic zealots.

  12. Plague, not pox on Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin · · Score: 4, Informative

    "A plague on both your houses" is the correct line (from Romeo and Juliet)

  13. Re:Penrose is smart on No Naked Black Holes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because he is not a sensationalist twat (cf Richard Dawkins).

  14. Re:eh on Linux Rescues Battery Life On Vista Notebooks From Dell · · Score: 1

    She doesn't - she prefers Manhunt 2.

  15. Re:Whiskey? on Ultrasound Machine Ages Wine · · Score: 1

    Oh, shut up. Ardbeg 10 yr old is very drinkable for one.

  16. Re:Unnecessary blog reference on Schneier On Scareware Vendor Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Brian Krebs is about the only journo that I trust to report security stuff accurately.

  17. Re:Uh ... on Towards a Wiki For Formally Verified Mathematics · · Score: 1
    Gaaah! Goedel proved that no sufficiently complex system (at least integer arithmetic) could be consistent and complete. Meaning, that there would be at least one true statement which was not provable or that there would be one false statement which was provable.

    It is perfectly possible to collect a set of proofs, all of which are correct and provable in a given system.

  18. Re:Uh ... on Towards a Wiki For Formally Verified Mathematics · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it no-one claimed that the system would be complete, just that it would be consistent - which is perfectly possible and not really any different to the way we all do maths right now.

  19. Re:Osama Bin Laden on Hackers Clone Elvis' Passport · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's OK - they already assume everyone who isn't white is Osama Bin Laden.

  20. Re:The projected costs are worthless. on The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps · · Score: 1

    Fiber To Transfer Porn?

  21. Re:incongruous on Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis · · Score: 1

    Care to expand on why you think you can't do 'meaningful scientific data analysis in Excel?'

    Because I have
    a. done meaningful scientific analysis
    b. used Excel

    I've actually used a combination of perl, matlab, C, weka and pen and paper, so that might sound even worse, but it's not :)

  22. Re:Time to bury our heads... on IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem · · Score: 1

    I'd rather bury the head of the IOC in the sand. Will that do?

  23. Re:25% on Quarter of Workers' Time Online Is Personal · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Compiling!" http://xkcd.com/303/

  24. Re:The worst part is-- on China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days · · Score: 1
    It's got so bad that 10.0.0.0/8 is already in use internally by many separate organisations!

    No wonder most admins have given up and simply refuse to route packets to 10/8. Stop the insanity!

  25. Doesn't matter on Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "In trials using 140 volunteers those told to act suspicious were detected with 'about 78% accuracy on mal-intent detection, and 80% on deception,' says a DHS spokesman."

    None of that matters - what's important is the false positive rate, ie. the proportion of people with no malicious intent who get flagged up. If it's as high as 1% the system will be pretty much unworkable.