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  1. Re:I Knew It on Ratio Vulnerability in BitTorrent Discovered · · Score: 1

    That idea would also exponentially increase the load on trackers. Sending checksums in a tracker request could end up making the tracker requests go from being less than 500 bytes per request to being almost the size of the .torrent files or larger on each request.

  2. Re:Not Getting Them All on Ratio Vulnerability in BitTorrent Discovered · · Score: 1

    What if the "significant cheating" is really due to the user having a faster broadband link now than they had before? Are you going to ban people for seeding faster?

  3. Re:Encryption -- hashing on Microsoft Drops Aging Encryption Schemes · · Score: 1

    or maybe it is only really a form of authentication but isn't remotely like a hash?

  4. Re:Encryption -- hashing on Microsoft Drops Aging Encryption Schemes · · Score: 1

    Would creating a random token, then encrypting that token to the user's password, then storing the unencrypted token outside of (or concatenated with) the encrypted data be considered "hashing" too ?

  5. Re:What are you going to store them on? on Preserving Old Research Notes and Documents? · · Score: 1
    Phase-change media, like CD-RW, will easily outlast my children.
    That is only true if you get a good brand (or good batch or whatever) of CDRW's. I've had brand new Memorex CDRW's that LOST all their data 1 week after having data burned on them, without ever leaving my cool desk and without ever being in direct sunlight.
  6. Re:War and Peace on New IBM Ultra Fast Printer · · Score: 1
    Seriously who needs something this fast?
    The people who print their horoscopes at my job.
  7. Re:In other words... on Developing Firefox Extensions with GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    What would be nice is if there was some sort of support for "sub-users", or some sort of sub-level type of users that are limited within one's user account with less privileges than the main user. So user "bob" and "joe" can each have a sub-user named "firefox" (that the app sets up for every account on the system when installed by the admin) that is limited to a small set of dirs inside the user's home directory. If the app tries accessing any dirs outside the default set of allowed dirs, the O/S should display a dialog saying that the app is trying to access areas outside where it is allowed and give the user a choice to "allow" or "deny" that (just once for the duration of the app being open). That dialog should also outline how unsafe it is to grant an app full access to one's files and offer an option to "always allow the app full access to my files". Once an app is granted access to all the user's files, its titlebar or the window border should change to a different color so the user knows the app has more privileges than another app.

  8. Re:Sorry for being a luddite but.. on Help Beta Test Slashdot CSS · · Score: 1

    Could that be solved with a "Jump to Articles" or "Jump to Contents" link at the top of the links/navigation list and a "Back to Navigation" or "Back to top" link at the top of the content area that only displays when CSS is not being used?

  9. Re:Um on FCC Extends VoIP 911 Deadline · · Score: 1

    Well, one idea is having location info sent out via DHCP so any device grabbing an IP via DHCP can also get its own physical location in the DHCP response. That way, no matter where you plug your device at, it would be able to "know its own location" and therefore, would be able to send that location when dialing 911. Sadly, even if this is done, chances are, not everyone would be doing it.

  10. Re:It's Windows on Zotob and Mytob Worm Authors Arrested · · Score: 1

    WINE?

  11. Re:TRANSLATION on Practical Solar Power for Travelers? · · Score: 1

    Methane, after the human powering it eats a lot of beans first.

  12. Re:What is even more interresting... on 2.7 Million VOIP Subscribers in the United States · · Score: 1

    Ah, sorry about that then.

  13. Re:Privacy Issues on Google Releases GDS 2.0 · · Score: 1
    Also: people will keep on clicking on search results until they find what they were looking for. So, the last one clicked on most likely is the one that satisfies the user.

    Or the one that crashes the user's machine. ;)

  14. Re:Readable cache of entire article on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1
  15. Re:What is even more interresting... on 2.7 Million VOIP Subscribers in the United States · · Score: 1

    Yes

  16. Re:Why this is not sustainable... on 2.7 Million VOIP Subscribers in the United States · · Score: 1

    Doesn't BrightHouse or Time Warner Digital Phone service offer on-site techs for VoIP line issues?

  17. Re:Funnel on Urine Powered Battery Developed · · Score: 1

    Isn't that only required for people with bad aim?

  18. Re:Pardon me on Urine Powered Battery Developed · · Score: 1

    What if you miss and pee on the laptop?

  19. Re:Shouldn't CSS Be Enough? on IBM Donates Code to Firefox · · Score: 1

    Didn't they make the DHTML unreadable (getting rid of newlines and long variable/function names) so it can download faster on slower connections?

  20. Re:RIAA should address the cause on Recordable Media a Bigger Threat Than Filesharing? · · Score: 2, Informative
    or if the player were to mechanically break down and scratch the CD (especially computers reading digitally at 52x)

    Add to that list "or if the player were to completely shatter the CD while trying to read it in the drive.". I've seen it happen once.

  21. Off-Topic: PhoenixNet BIOS on USB-Powered Linux Server Fits in Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    How did the PhoenixNet BIOS, that had spyware or adware or whatever that it installed when you booted windows, pull it off without appearing as a drive to windows?

  22. Re:Worked for me on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 1

    How fast were you able to type on a TI graphing calculator?

  23. Re:IP Cop on Live-CD Firewall Solutions? · · Score: 1

    But, does it have load-balancing and failover features in it?

  24. Re:A hard disk failure every hour, $200,000 per ho on Indiana Schools May Purchase 300K Linux Computers · · Score: 1

    Aren't there ways to allow thin clients the ability to save things to local drives?

  25. Re:not negligbile to the teachers on Indiana Schools May Purchase 300K Linux Computers · · Score: 1

    Are there places where teachers get paid more than garbage men do?