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  1. Re:Recent International Issue on Senator Wyden Asks DHS To Explain Domain Seizures · · Score: 1

    Not quite--last time I checked, the generic TLDs were administered ICANN, a US organization. (Apparently, they're even associated with the United States Government.)

  2. Re:Idiots on Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control · · Score: 1

    cellular is replacing radio for a lot of field operations comms requirements these days

    I can provide a small sample: My local fire department, as well as the recently-christened Pan Am Railways, use cell phones to supplement their radios. Mostly so they don't have to conduct extended converastions and monopolize the channel.

  3. Re:GPS in a dark room? on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness · · Score: 1

    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. The GPS continues to point you forward. What do you do?

    Turn up the brightness on the GPS unit and use it as a light source. Duh.

  4. Re:Ceci n'est pas une app on App — the Most Abused Word In Tech? · · Score: 1
  5. Re:When was the last time you picked.... on Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets · · Score: 1

    Step 1) Be a retailer, or get a job for a retailer, selling lottery tickets.

    Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to win if you're an employee of a store selling lottery tickets or in the immediate family of someone who is, in order to prevent something like this happening.
    Lottery tickets have a lot of fine print on the back. This condition should be right there.

  6. Re:Facebook alternatives? on Facebook Private Info Increasingly Used In Court · · Score: 1

    Diaspora gets a lot of mention here on Slashdot. I'm pretty sure it does everything you want, in addition to being open-source.

    (However, when the first version came out not too long ago, the Slashdot community's reception wasn't too warm. There were a lot of (verbal) attacks on the code.)

  7. Re:Infinity of what and why? on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    This is why God was invented. ;)

  8. Re:Comcast user here... on Last Available IPv4 Blocks Allocated · · Score: 1

    Why did you go with DHCP rather than the simpler, faster and cooler stateless autoconfig with radvd?

    I think that's actually what I did. I don't quite remember.

    None, assuming you set up a firewall to block incoming IPv6 connections.

    This I didn't. Although it seems DD-WRT has an ip6tables package, so maybe I'll install that and set it up there.

  9. Re:Comcast user here... on Last Available IPv4 Blocks Allocated · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not yet, Comcast is currently trialling IPv6 in select locations (i.e. San Francisco, NYC, Boston, etc.). They expect to roll out IPv6 to the rest of us some time this year. (You can keep up with their progress here.)

    Meanwhile, if you really want IPv6 for whatever reason, I set up a tunnel with Hurricane Electric. After configuring my computers and router (DD-WRT, IPv6 is fully supported), I had IPv6 both internally and externally (i.e. IPv6 DHCP and access to the IPv6 Internet). You can set your own up here.
    (I took it down shortly afterward, because I don't know about any security ramifications this would have.)

  10. Re:Deicide tends to be controversial on The Hidden Reality Draws Ire From Physicists · · Score: 1

    Unless you suppose that God is behind creation in general, including each universe in the multiverse. ;)

  11. Re:Why is "Critical Infrastructure" available onli on Internet Kill Switch Back On the US Legislative Agenda · · Score: 2

    Am I the only one who wonders what that kind of system is doing connected to the internet in the first place?

    No, someone asks the same thing on every story like this.

    One of the responses I remember was a pair of questions from some kind of consultant or something:

    Question 1: Is this critical system separated from the Internet?
    Answer 1: Yes.

    Question 2: If, in an emergency, an admin needed to get in remotely, how could they do that?
    Answer 2: Well, you could VNC to here, then ssh to there, and so on and so forth...

    So, the system isn't actually air-gapped. And not really that secure, then, either.

  12. "real holography" on A Kinect Princess Leia Hologram In Realtime · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Real holography" my ass. Unless I'm misinterpreting the video, what they're producing is a ~15 FPS red blob, with no 3D except what's captured by the Kinect. You're still going to see a flat image on the screen (and those on the left and right of the theater will get the same image).

  13. Re:Anonymous cannot be destroyed on FBI Executes 40 Search Warrants For 'Anonymous' · · Score: 2

    Anonymous is not about anonymity in that sense. Anonymous is anonymous in that it could be anyone and everyone.
    Think Fight Club's "Project Mayhem".

  14. Record the audience separately? on New Red Dwarf Series Threatened By the Twitter Era · · Score: 1

    I don't know what kind of time is needed between a show being shot, the networks needing the content, and the actual airing, but if this is such a big issue, why couldn't they drop the "live studio" part and screen the episode for the audience shortly (i.e. days) before its premier, record the audience noise then, and tack it on?
    It obviously "just wouldn't be the same", but if you're that worried about it...
    (Which apparently they aren't, because according to the summary, the only one known to be worried is one of the actors.)

  15. Re:Misguided on FSF Announces Support For WebM · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe not so much "faster" as "more optimized". It's definitely more mature. (I myself generally have had good performance with Flash (with Firefox on Linux, for what that's worth). I tried HTML5 video once, and it didn't work at all.)
    And openness isn't necessarily Google's only reason for doing it (and, in fact, the publicized reason for anything is rarely the only reason).

  16. Re:Misguided on FSF Announces Support For WebM · · Score: 1

    So, why is the default YouTube delivery in Flash, and not HTML5?

    Because it's supported in more places, more stable, and faster?
    And it's not part of an unfinished standard. There's that too (not that it stopped anyone else).

  17. Re:Debunked on Facebook Images To Get Expiration Date · · Score: 1

    Well, you specified "binary" in your post, so I started with /bin/echo, but that was too big, but the only good smaller files I could find were text, so I decided to just use your post as it was rather apropos. (And then I zipped it for the "binary" part.)

    Re OutGuess: It was actually the sixth steganography program I tried, and the only one I got working. I started by Googling "jpeg steganography" (I'm not familiar with any other way of embedding data in am image), which led me here, but all of the programs mentioned there were either gone or didn't compile, so I moved down in the results to OutGuess, which did work. (However, the command syntax is rather cryptic (ha): you use outguess -d DATA.BIN IN.JPG [OUT.JPG].)
    Don't go gettin' yourself on no watchlists, now. ;)

  18. Re:Debunked on Facebook Images To Get Expiration Date · · Score: 2

    I just tried, and it worked. (Granted, it wasn't a very good test: I embedded your post, zipped, inside today's featured picture, with OutGuess, a JPEG steganography tool.)

    Unfortunately, due to that compression/resizing Facebook performs, the data did not survive (even with OutGuess' ECC option enabled and using Facebook's "download in high resolution" link).

  19. Re:This has always been a problem with Wikipedia on Wikipedia and the History of Gaming · · Score: 1

    Question is--was it reverted?
    (Also, you probably should've just used {{unreferenced}}.)

  20. Re:Why did you throw in that bit about regulation? on Catholic Bishops Support Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Whoa. Hold on a minute. Did the editors read something I didn't?

    As the Internet continues to grow in its influence and prominence in Americans' lives, we support legislation and federal regulations that ensure equal access to the Internet for all, including religious and non-profit agencies, as well as those in more sparsely populated or economically distressed areas. True net neutrality is necessary for people to flourish in a democratic society.

    Notice that legislation and federal regulations are nowhere in there.

    Uh... What? (Emphasis mine.)
    You must be reading something I'm not, because the exact phrase "legislation and federal regulations" is most definitely in there.
    I mean, they're writing to Congress. Legislation and federal regulations is what they do.

  21. Re:a programmer's programmer using VB on Pro Silverlight 4 In VB · · Score: 1

    No, a mechanic's mechanic working on a Yugo.
    This is Slashdot, remember? We use car analogies here.

  22. Re:ClamAV engine poor at general malwre detection on ClamAV For Windows Open Beta Begins · · Score: 1

    A vm with flash player, Sun java, acrobat reader, dotnet addon etc results in the "whats all this network traffic, shit the VM is sending spam" or "popups WTF?" every few months, followed by going back to a known good copy of the VM and redownloading lots of updates.

    Why not just make one known-good VM, then use whatever that feature is that discards any changes on shutdown? (I know VirtualBox has one, dunno about others.)

  23. Re:Color me impressed on New York Times Reports US and Israel Behind Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    This means they do 100% have spys inside of Iran's nuclear systems

    Uh, no. This means they do 100% have people who studied the systems Iran is using. (Which I doubt would be too hard to figure out, if you just do a little asking around and/or research into some purchases or shipping.)
    Spying in the sense of "having someone on the inside" is overrated these days. You're either using informants or telecommunications (Internet or otherwise).

  24. Re:Bad idea on Apple May Remove the Home Button On the Next IPad · · Score: 1

    It's been there for as long as I can remember. At least somewhere in 2.6, probably.

    In any case, there isn't a "line" tool because GIMP isn't a drawing tool, it's an "image manipulation" tool. ;)
    (Of course, that doesn't mean you can't use it to draw. It's just not its primary function.)

  25. Re:Bad idea on Apple May Remove the Home Button On the Next IPad · · Score: 1

    he problem, of course, is that GIMP does not provide any visual clues that assist people in drawing a line- so in that respect it is not user friendly.

    Have you tried reading the status bar? I quote: "Click to paint (try Shift for a straight line, Ctrl to pick a color)"