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  1. Mod parent troll on Best Solution For HA and Network Load Balancing? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obviously has shares in Kingston.

    (16Gb RAM for 1k visitors? What kind of pages are you serving?)

  2. Re:sudo ping -f www.jonesday.com on Startup Threatened Into Settling Over Hyperlinking · · Score: 1

    You realise that is going to knock YOU off the net for the duration, not jonesday, right? (Hint, you probably have a 512kbps uplink, or something, where as most websites will have much bigger downlinks.)

    I don't know whether to flame you for being unethical or just really dumb.

  3. Re:Cool on Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Debian unstable is like a Windows RTM, except it's more stable.

    PS. Don't mod this funny like you did last time, it's fucking true.

  4. Re:Tiny effect on Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? · · Score: 1

    "You do realize that microwaves don't have any effect besides heating water..."

    Er , do you realise that your eyeball looks like a spherical glob of water to a microwave? Localised heating will occur preferentially in some areas, and I don't think you'd enjoy it.

  5. Re:So long cables running from space to earth? on Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are NOT MASSIVE LOSSES IN THE GRID! "Although losses in the national grid are low, there are significant further losses in onward electricity distribution to the consumer, causing a total distribution loss of about 7.7%.[6] However losses differ significantly for customers connected at different voltages; connected at high voltage the total losses are about 2.6%, at medium voltage 6.4% and at low voltage 12.2%.[7]"

    -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Grid_(UK)

  6. Re:Fuck IE on Microsoft.com Makes IE8 Incompatibility List · · Score: 1

    You are me in 1998, trying to get pages to render nicely in Mosaic, lynx and IE 3.0.

    We hates it, we hates it forever.

  7. Re:read Wireds: "The Plot to Kill Google" : on Obama Anti-Trust Chief on Google the Monopoly Threat · · Score: 1

    The story basically details how Microsoft and AT&T have been lobbying the Federal government that Google is a monopoly and needs to taken down.

    Well, if anyone should know about that, it's AT&T and Microsoft. Can't you accept their disinterested advice in the helpful spirit that it's offered? Sheesh.

  8. Re:Who is Dan Kaminsky on Security Researcher Kaminsky Pushes DNS Patching · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, Kaminsky used an interesting technique to map the spread of the Sony rootkit - http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11369

    Saying "he also did research regarding the Sony rootkit" is entirely accurate.

  9. It's not a problem with SSL /per se/ on Black Hat Presentation Highlights SSL Encryption Flaws · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's a problem with sites that start out with http://example.com/ and then transition to https://secure.example.com/.

    If I read it right, encrypt it all, turn off http except as a 301 redirect to https and you should be fine. Anyone confirm this?

    Course, you still should check the certificate is the one you're expecting.

  10. Re:the next lander is nuclear powered on Mars Winds Clean Spirit's Solar Panels Again · · Score: 1

    "It was supposed to launch during the 2009 optimal planetary configuration,"

    Leo: Today the Sun is in the ascendant, with Venus taking a back seat. Try to take control in your financial and personal relationships this month. Thursday 25th would be a great day for launching an interplanetary spacecraft.

  11. Re:Amazing on Mars Winds Clean Spirit's Solar Panels Again · · Score: 1

    OK, so the OP has confused watts and watt-hours, but is the Troll moderation really fucking necessary?

  12. Good, but.. on Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" · · Score: 2, Informative

    still plenty of data from other sources, NASA in this case showing a trend of ice melting... http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?old=2006101923416

  13. Re:An outside viewpoint on Stimulus Could Kickstart US Battery Industry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OK, you've won me over with your thoughtful, well-argued post. Consider the matter closed.

  14. Re:Across the country? on Confusion Reigns As Analog TV Begins Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Based on a random sampling the last few times I was in the US, no TV would be a significant improvement.

  15. An outside viewpoint on Stimulus Could Kickstart US Battery Industry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm perplexed. Why is there so much fuss about spending $800bn on at least vaguely useful stuff when the Iraq war has already cost you $600bn and that's not counting ongoing medical care for the 30k+ injured veterans? Serious question guys - I really didn't see people complaining about the cost of the war in the same way as they're complaining about this stimulus bill.

  16. Re:Finally on Researchers Hack Biometric Faces · · Score: 1

    Halloween mask?

    Just sayin...

  17. Re:Ok then... on Researchers Hack Biometric Faces · · Score: 1

    YES! Biometrics are identification NOT authorisation. That is, a replacement for a username, NOT A FUCKING PASSWORD FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS PURE AND GOOD.

  18. Re:I've said it a million times before... on Repairing / Establishing Online Reputation? · · Score: 1

    It's pronounced "throat-warbler mangrove"

  19. Re:Marijuana/Tomato Hybrid on Hacking With Synthetic Biology · · Score: 1

    Hmmm.. I forsee an endless, unstoppable cycle of pizza-eating.

  20. Re:Polluted by life? on Earth-Like Planets In Our Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    More precise, but also more wrong.

  21. Re:Coil Guns on Physics Experiments To Inspire Undergraduates? · · Score: 1

    Lead-acid batteries. Or better yet, just the electrolyte, which is typically shipped separate from the batteries (except for sealed batteries).

    Yeah, I was a 12-year old with a 12-year old's budget :(

    'Course, I could have nicked the car battery, but that would have had Repercussions.

  22. Re:A DRM ban clause should be added as a constitut on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    "Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."

            "But that's terrible," said Arthur.

            "Listen, bud," said Ford, "If I had one Altarian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say "That's terrible" I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin. But I haven't and I am.

    Now, where's that gin?"

  23. Re:Coil Guns on Physics Experiments To Inspire Undergraduates? · · Score: 1

    I had one idea last fourth of July to separate di-hydrogen-monoxide with some electrodes into a floating pillar of its component parts hydrogen and oxygen, then reassembling it very quickly.

    No offence, but I was doing that age 12 or so. It's not hard. The difficult bit is getting hold of sulphuric acid.

    (If you use salt, chlorine is given off and chlorine/hydrogen mixtures are allegedly, pretty damn unstable.)

  24. Re:Dude. What about the World's rich? on Drug Giant Pledges Cheap Medicine For World's Poor · · Score: 1

    Mea culpa. We collectively pay for the drugs, but you don't need to worry about turning up to the doctor and not being able to afford the drugs you need.

    Of course I know my taxes are going into the NHS, but I could have put it better.

  25. Re:Why not? on Do We Need a New Internet? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, they were into networking from Windows 3.1 onwards, regardless of how they felt about the Internet. However, the assumptions they made about the "trusted" Local Area Network, throwing the principle of least privilege out of the window and similar huge design mistakes which they've never gone back and rectified.

    Their attitude to the Internet reflected in the fucked-up privilege model found in Internet Explorer, but it's not the sole reason that Windows is so bad.

    I've got actual data from a university where I used to be the security guy for 2 years. Windows suffered from a lot more incidents per machine than Mac OS X or Linux. In fact Linux had more incidents than Mac OS X. So, the number of incidents is clearly not solely related to the intelligence of the user.