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  1. Re:Really!? on India First To Build a Supersonic Cruise Missile · · Score: 1

    ...BTW in the sixties the USA developed but never tested or deployed a nuclear powered supersonic cruise missile.

    Got any sources on this? I've heard of missiles with nuclear payloads, but not where their power source is nuclear...

  2. Re:Oh yeah, great idea on Deposit Checks To Your Bank By Taking a Photo · · Score: 1

    You forgot about the second pic of the back side of the check that also has your signature on it - nothing could ever go wrong with that, even thought TFA assures that the images will be encrypted when sent.

    Easy enough, don't sign it..."FOR DEPOSIT ONLY" is pretty much universally accepted, you should never have to actually sign your check unless you are exchanging it for cash or transfering it to someone else.

  3. Re:Making copies shouldn't be a crime on Man Swallows USB Flash Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    If I print $1 trillion in cash tomorrow and hand it out on the streets, suddenly your house and everything you own is worth less. You still have a house, I didn't take that from you. I just stole it's value.

    No you didn't; my house is still as valuable as it was the day before, only the measure of it's value with that specific currency has changed. If the printed money was handed out equally "on the streets" all you did was cause inflation, my house now 'costs' more, as does everything else.

  4. Re:Nice. on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 1

    m.facebook.com is the lightest of all (designed for the most basic mobile browsers) Though I still haven't gotten it to render in Lynx :/

  5. Re:DNS on Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age · · Score: 2, Informative

    I didn't RTFA, but it's not a new idea

    It certainly is not, 1996 just called and wants their Universal Internet Numbers back (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ#UIN)

  6. The list on Ten Gadgets That Defined the Decade · · Score: 5, Informative

    Canon Digital ELPH (2000)
    Apple PowerBook G4 (Titanium) (2001)
    Microsoft Windows XP (2001) / Apple Mac OS X (2000)
    Apple iPod (2001)
    TiVo Series2 (2002)
    Motorola RAZR V3 (2003)
    PalmOne Treo 600 / 650 (2003 / 2004)
    Microsoft Xbox 360 (2005)
    Apple iPhone (2007)
    ASUS Eee PC 900 (2008)

  7. Re:So...IPv6 then? on Lockheed Snags $31 Million To Reinvent the Internet, Microsoft To Help · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "It took them over a decade to implement TCP/IP properly." What??? MS has made continually less and less useful implmentations of the IP stack with each build!

  8. Re:random noise generator? on Stealing Data Via Electrical Outlet · · Score: 1

    According to most old-timer's "That ain't music, it's just 'noise'". They fail to classify the type of noise.

  9. Re:Were the songs any good? on UK Gang Caught After $750K Online Music Fraud Scam · · Score: 1

    If they had any quality they are are likely out there. It would be interesting to find out how prevalent they are, so these 'artists' can come up with a figure for how much all that illegal file sharing is costing them!

  10. Re:That's a lot of patches on Microsoft Sets Record With Monster Patch Tuesday · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For MS maybe, but there have been many time that I've seen Umbuntu ask to install a list of updates longer then my johnson... Of course it is updating multiple products, but so is MS here.

  11. Multiple Tabs, and Windows on Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? · · Score: 1

    Tabbed browsing is great, and ther eis nothing stopping you from using both tabs AND windows. I do it all the time. Easy example, small-batch updates to Wikipedia, can open 20-30 tabs of pages to work on at once in one instance, but if I need to do something else I just spawn a new browser instance and typically use tabs there. Folder grouping on taskbars was only useful when using a non-tabed browser!

  12. Re:Just a Thought... on A Vision For a World Free of CAPTCHAs · · Score: 2, Funny

    And yes, that must be a capital "5" !

  13. Re:Just a Thought... on A Vision For a World Free of CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    In fact, there are many, so-called, one-way (correct terminology?) algorithms. So, for example, for a given file, it's easy to compute its MD5; harder to compute a file for a given MD5 (though doable).

    There are almost no situations (Rulling out EXTREMELY small files) where that would be true. It is doable to create a COLLISION with an MD% hash, not recreate the source, it is by nature lossy.

  14. "and a game costs $50 to replace" on Gamefly Complains of Poor Treatment From USPS · · Score: 1

    Claiming that the lost MEDIA costs more then a few dollars to "replace" is utter bull (assuming it includes a printed manual). If they loose a copy, they just press another, and another, and another--to think that huge distributors like Netflix, Gamefly, etc are actually getting retail copies of the media is ridiculous.

  15. Re:From across the pond on March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day · · Score: 1

    In any electronic listing, I always use big endian date formats, undelimited with padded zeros as needed, makes sorting a breeze (e.g. The first of March 2002 as 20020301). When handwriting dates I use middle endian to make it easy for most readers around me, but use short month so as not to be ambiguous to those used to the little endian (e.g. 01MAR2002)

  16. Re:From across the pond on March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day · · Score: 1

    Everyone will be over it after our March 14th' 2015 party (3/14/15), also starting at 9:26.

  17. CA's using MD5 on CCC Create a Rogue CA Certificate · · Score: 5, Informative

    FTA, the following common CA's are still using MD5.

    RapidSSL
    C=US, O=Equifax Secure Inc., CN=Equifax Secure Global eBusiness CA-1

    FreeSSL (free trial certificates offered by RapidSSL)
    C=US, ST=UT, L=Salt Lake City, O=The USERTRUST Network, OU=http://www.usertrust.com, CN=UTN-USERFirst-Network Applications

    TC TrustCenter AG
    C=DE, ST=Hamburg, L=Hamburg, O=TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH, OU=TC TrustCenter Class 3 CA/emailAddress=certificate@trustcenter.de

    RSA Data Security
    C=US, O=RSA Data Security, Inc., OU=Secure Server Certification Authority

    Thawte
    C=ZA, ST=Western Cape, L=Cape Town, O=Thawte Consulting cc, OU=Certification Services Division, CN=Thawte Premium Server CA/emailAddress=premium-server@thawte.com

    verisign.co.jp
    O=VeriSign Trust Network, OU=VeriSign, Inc., OU=VeriSign International Server CA - Class 3, OU=www.verisign.com/CPS Incorp.by Ref. LIABILITY LTD.(c)97 VeriSign

  18. Re:Content still blocked by Blue Coat at my employ on IWF Backs Down On Wiki Censorship · · Score: 1

    Regarding BlueCoat, there are two issues at play: (1) Not only do you have to wait for BlueCoat to update their list, but then you have to wait for your company to update from BlueCoat. (2) Your company has CHOSEN to block "IWF-Restricted", and they can remove category from blocking, or exempt a page from it.

    On a side note, this is simply a work-issue, I'm sure if you can show your IT department your business need for reading the Scorpion's Wikipedia entry, especially if you can show a quantitative loss, it will be fixed quickly by them!

  19. Re:Been there done that... on Wikipedia's New Definition of Truth · · Score: 1

    EVERY Wikipedia article page has a link to the General Disclaimer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer) stating "Wikipedia cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here."

  20. Connectivity? on World's Smallest IPv6 Stack By Cisco, Atmel, SICS · · Score: 1

    Having an IPv6 stack does NOT incur a device with connectivity anymore then having an IPv4, nothing is specifiying how it is I am supposed to provide network access to every lightbulb here, are they going to come with teeny tiny G3 cards?

  21. Re:I thought it was in beta on Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity · · Score: 1

    Which is how it should be seen, what other product would gather market penetration data while it was in beta? (Oh except this is Google, where after gmail the definition of 'beta' has been greatly changed).

  22. Just don't need another browser on Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With all the options available today, there's just not a need for another browser right now. For most that don't want to use whatever their default browser is, they use FireFox. Firefox also had a lot more grass-roots promotion in the earlier days, that does not appear to be prevalent with Chrome.

  23. Re:Never play in the USA on Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC · · Score: 1

    Providing a productive working temperature for employees is a never ending battle. In the end cooler has some advantages: If there is temporary AC loss, tolerable conditions last longer; also as you've demonstrated you can always wear a sweater if your chilly, but if you're hot, you can't strip, just sweat up the place.

  24. at least the site loads on Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com · · Score: 1

    At least the .com discussion site got one thing right: it works! Mosey on over to the official .org site, and get bombarded with a monstrosity of flash and auto playing video! Guess I should be happy it didn't ask my to install silverlight...

  25. Re:Not so slow on Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow? · · Score: 1

    Originally posted by timothy on Sunday September 07, @07:32AM
    Reply by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 07, @07:37AM

    Still seems slow, you managed to get 15 bytes of data across in 5 mins....