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  1. Re: This is the real game changer on Missile Defense Test Intercepts ICBM Target, Says Pentagon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    > How are you going to pay them back the trillions of dollars you owe then if you're blown up?

    So the cost of taking out the world leading military power / bully is a few trillion of there dollars? Could sound rather cheap....

    Mind you .. more fund would just be to dump your US dollar reserves on the open market and watch there country implode on it's own as there economy pulls itself to pieces

  2. As the price of a call is always >= the intrinsic value then the writer of any calls (deep in the money or otherwise) will be happy with the stock prices going down 15%

  3. Re:Okay, but... on Hack Allows Escape of Play-With-Docker Containers (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You hand edit all this stuff? I guess that's call job security - until you get a boss that knows what a computer is and gives you a month to sort your stuff out otherwise you're fired.

    I'm not saying docker doesn't have it uses (I know of one place whos' build process actually automatically builds a cleaner docker image and this gets deployed to the farm) but a work around for writing good software isn't one of them

  4. Re:Invented by Boyan Slat when he was just 17... on Giant Plastic Trap Breaks, Gets Towed Back To Land (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    actually if you RTFA you'll see that it did. Even if it doesn't work at least he's trying to do something to help

  5. Re: "doom" is probably also what sealed on Doom Turns 25: The FPS That Wowed Players, Gummed Up Servers, and Enraged Admins (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Just what I thought when I read this. Doom was released when people had dialup if they were lucky. You got Doom by getting the demo on the cover disk of a magazine.

  6. Re:Queue Some TechnoLuddite on Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used To Be (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    In my head I was bundling this one up with a but I'll grant you this should be separate.

    However this doesn't get away from "it's a cooking recipe site FFS!". The evil plot by ninja hackers to insert too much salt into peoples cooking recipes and thereby kill off the entire western world will be exposed at last.

    I know people are going to talk about ads and tracking the cooking websites I go to so they can blackmail me of the chocolate browny recipes that I downloaded but this is just insane paranoia. Then the next group of people will say but how do I know that I'm getting the correct cookie recipe. Well I'm download a random recipe of the web written by someone I don't know from a website I just googled why should I trust this recipe at all HTTPS or not ? At the end of the day .. it's just a cookie recipe.

  7. Re:Queue Some TechnoLuddite on Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used To Be (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    HTTPS does indeed authenticate the remote site via a chain a trust. This is why when you enter your banks address you can be confident that you really are talking to your bank and not a scam artist.

  8. Re:Queue Some TechnoLuddite on Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used To Be (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If you site only has recipes then you don't need HTTPS!

    HTTPS does two things
      a) Identify the remote site
      b) Encrypt the traffic

    If you are browsing recipes you do not need your traffic encrypted
    If you are browsing recipes then you need to be paranoid to require that a third party believes the remote site is who they say they are.

  9. Re:....as a human being on Caldera and Microsoft Settle Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Also remember that even though the offending code never shipped to consumers

    In fact is was - it was just deactivated by default. It could be reactivated by changing a single byte in the binary.

    Stuart

  10. Re:As a Microsoft employee... on Caldera and Microsoft Settle Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    -----------------------------
    Non-fatal error detected: error #4D53
    (Please contact Windows 3.1 beta support.)

    * Press ENTER to continue.

    ENTER=Continue.
    -----------------------------


    But the beta that contained this code was released to thousands of people.
    I'm a big company and I'm looking to buy Win3.1 when it comes out. I get given a beta to evaluate and on running it on my DR-DOS systems I get a "non-fatal error" but running it on my MS-DOS system doesn't give the warning. Hence, I feel uncomfortable about running DR-DOS with it (true FUD) so buy MS-DOS instead.

    Now, what makes this smell bad is the fact that the code that did the tests
    a) Turned off debuging interrupts to make to harder to debug
    b) Was encrypted self-modifying code

    In fact the code was very elegant but it still smells bad.

  11. Re:288? 576? on Samsung Claims World's First 288Mb Rambus DRAM · · Score: 1

    Because they are ECC

    No - they aren't ECC! ECC can self correct one bit errors, single bit parity RAM (which this is) can't.

  12. Re:Anonymous Proxy on Playboy And...Linux? · · Score: 1

    Sadly - work also happens to block SSL azs well

  13. Re:Can you post that reply? on Richard Stallman Calls for Amazon Boycott · · Score: 1

    1-click technology

    Yeh - and for the place I worked last summer I "invented 1-click technology" about I can assure you it didn't take 1000's of hours - maybe a couple of days from requirement to a working system.

  14. Re:won't work on LinuxPDA EPOCH 32? · · Score: 1

    I think it's impossible because you're not smart enough to do it.

    He was taking the piss I assume BTW

    And if he wasn't - elks

  15. Re:Consenting adults clause? on Corel Linux Only For 18 and Up · · Score: 1

    Could you then get your kid to use the same hammer on nail on the 10 year old local kid to do some major damage?

    Seems only fair.
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  16. Re:Should've bought a Hitachi on NSA Overwhelmed with Information · · Score: 1

    If you look at the Top 500 supercomputers, the Hitachi supercomputer at some Japanese university has a fraction of the processors of any of the other Crays and is still up in the top 5 I believe.

    But these are only the top 500 computers that people are happy for you to know about - they are slow, just puppies by 'other' standards.
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  17. Re:PGP on NSA Overwhelmed with Information · · Score: 1

    If you don't have GnuPG or PGP, get it now, and start using it!

    Why - it's crackable in real time anyway - you just don't know about it yet. In fact, encrypting would help the powers that be a lot - sources and destinations of the communication become much easier to trace
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  18. Re:Good and bad... on White House Web Page Cracker Faces Prison · · Score: 1

    All told, the attacks cost the government and businesses more than $40,000, prosecutors said"

    People are forgetting the fact that not only did they have to clean up the cracked web server (a simple task) but also ensure that he had not attacked other systems - this is the costly part of a cleanup. Reparing the actually damage is often very easy but first you have to ensure that you've found all the damage otherwise your cleanup efforted is wasted when the crackers come back next next using the security holes they created on there first visit.
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  19. Re:Innovative on Microsoft Monopoly, The Board Game · · Score: 1

    I'm just ammazed that MS hadn't bought the domain name up

    Would have made a nice question to ask Bill Gates in the Paxman interview

    and there's even been a online clone of the game Monopoly made about MS - have you ever played it? Did you win?
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  20. Re:Two words: PRIZE MONEY (nt) on Dcypher.net Linux Clients Available · · Score: 1

    ah - but it doesn't cost you anything to enter (assuming the extra cost of electricity used by running CPU at 100% rather than 2% is small)
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  21. Re:Couple good reasons on First Class Action Suit for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    . (4) Your GUI has is too integrated into your kernel. A bad video driver crashed your machine.

    But that gives you performance. Let's look at linux and all these frame buffers drivers sitting in the kernel now - a bad one of those and your system crashes - just you wait until hardware vendors start shipping linux frame buffer drivers for there video cards!
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  22. Re:Hey I want in! on First Class Action Suit for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    What? Everyone knows coffee is hot! Do we really need to go around telling people

    "Careful now - don't jump into the river - you might get wet"

    "Make sure you don't stuff 3 chessburgers into your mouth at once - you might suffocate".


    The person that should have been hosed down and nail to a wall is the stupid money grabbing woman that sued.

    I feel sorry for her - it's a nasty accident - but that's just it. I suppose if McD's had served the coffee at a cool temperature she would have sued because the coffee was not hot enough and so she didn't perform at her optimum that day. McD's were right to fight this - it's just a shame that the Judge and the American legal system is so stupid.
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  23. Re:A few facts... on Transmeta Details Continue to Unravel · · Score: 1

    Their web server is running Linux.

    Web server in the singular? There's more than one web server sitting there.

    The more interesting question (maybe) is what hardware is it running on?
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  24. Re:I wonder... on Quake3 Demo Test Released · · Score: 2

    People like me who play nethack instead ;)
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  25. Re:Minimalistic on How do you Define "Operating System"? · · Score: 1

    I would go for

    An operating system is ...
    The kernel and related programs that enable a user to [log on and] execute other applications and that enable applications to access the standard hardware via device independant interfaces


    This doesn't including a browser, text editor, compiler but *may* include the GUI. In fact, if you're operating system works but compiling every program on the fly then it would include the compiler as well.

    If your operating system is for webTV then it would include the browser.
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