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  1. Re:The FAA , another broken government organizatio on FAA Denies Vulnerabilities In New Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    As always, it's the government (except the NSA) not being attractive enough or not paying enough to get some real experts on board.
    There are many government-paid university researchers around. Why was there no academic project to evaluate the quality of the system?

  2. Re:Well... Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! on Private Key Found Embedded In Major SCADA Equipment · · Score: 1

    Come on, Canadians are nice guys, there can be only whitehats in Canada. Canadians would never exploit security holes for malicious purposes.

  3. Re:WiDOT on Private Key Found Embedded In Major SCADA Equipment · · Score: 1

    Railway switches and signals? That would be an *interesting* playground.

  4. Oh! Look! on Video Purports To Show Successful Hover Bike Test Flights · · Score: 1, Troll

    A small hovercraft without a skirt!
    Yawn. Ground effect only. That's not flying.

  5. Stupid question for the EEs here on Mobile Operator Grabs 4G Lead In UK — But Will Anything Work On It? · · Score: 1

    Why are the transceivers hardwired for one band? Is it really that hard to make one that's switchable between bands? Or is it the antennas?
    Sorry, dumb CSer with only basic EE here :)

  6. I think I like girlfriend throwing better on Finland Hosts Mobile Phone Throwing Championships · · Score: 1

    Girlfriend+pier or pool=fun.

  7. Re:Another reason... on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would only be affected if I used Windows 8, which I don't plan to.

  8. Re:Another reason... on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 3, Informative

    Its basically a kludge from bygone days before DNS, and for 99% of use cases where you might think "I can use a HOSTS file for that", there are far better methods-- or else the thing you are trying to do is retarded.

    Ah, so I should rather set up a DNS server for my 5 machines, rather than have one hosts file that never changes and that I append once after installation?

  9. Re:Nope on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 1

    Looks like you never heard of Xubuntu, Kubuntu or Lubuntu, let alone Gnobuntu (although I don't know if that works yet.)

  10. Re:I'd be one of the first to go on Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist · · Score: 1

    Einstein was born and raised in Germany though.
    What you need is an environment that's healthy and free of stressors plus education. I don't see how health issues are conducive to mental development or that there's any correlation between intelligence and health detriments.

  11. Re:"Energy Sector"? "Energy companies?" on Destructive Shamoon Malware Targets Energy Sector · · Score: 1

    I did read it and I'd like to know.

  12. Magic incantations? on eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items · · Score: 1

    So I couldn't sell my magic bash or perl incantations on eBay?
    Thank goodness my employer pays me to cast them against the evil spirits that live in our systems.

  13. "Energy Sector"? "Energy companies?" on Destructive Shamoon Malware Targets Energy Sector · · Score: 1

    Which ones?
    It seems to be targeted against specific companies. There's a rumor that Saudi Aramco is one of them.
    The set of target companies should give us a very good idea of the purpose. Economic? Political?

  14. Re:Linux on Mac?! on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    NX works very well even on slow connections, but you can't remote control the actual desktop, only a new one.
    I have gone as far as using nxclient to create a new desktop and then "vinagre localhost" to access the physical desktop.

  15. Re:Better than Arch? on Happy Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 2

    And if you want the latest newfangled code, enable some of the more adventurous repos and install from them.

  16. Re:Yay! debian! on Happy Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 2

    The wheezy installation I ran two weeks ago told me that I needed two binary non-free packages and asked if I wanted to load them from another device.
    I didn't try it though because I installed via a wired network.

  17. Re:He REALLY pissed off governments.... on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. A major international incident about this?
    Yeah right. This is either a rumor, posturing or somebody in London ready to do some unprecedented US ass kissing.

  18. Re:wasn't this debunked? on Advance Warning System For Solar Flares Hinges On Surprising Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    Bah. Real men load the message into a debugger and overwrite that one byte.
    No need for something as complicated as an editor.

  19. Re:Variable rate of decay? on Advance Warning System For Solar Flares Hinges On Surprising Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    You're overcorrecting.
    Phenomenon, singular
    Phenomena, plural

  20. Re:Good riddance. on Adobe Officially Kills New Flash Installations On Android · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yup. Flash always sucked on low powered CPUs like Atom. It'll consume 20% on a modern fast CPU with accelerated video and if you don't have video acceleration it'll be much higher.
    On an Atom Netbook with Intel GMA under Linux it's unusable. I disabled the plugin, downloaded the .flv files and played them with VLC - no problem.

  21. Re:i hope never on Could Flying Cars Actually Be On Their Way? · · Score: 1

    Obviously they all watched too much Jetsons as kids. It's ingrained now.

  22. Re:SICP on Khan Academy Launches Computer Science Curriculum · · Score: 1

    We learned ALGOL68 back in the day. I still think its clarity is unsurpassed. Understanding that "REAL a;" means "REF REAL a=LOC REAL;" and that "REF REAL a=HEAP REAL;" is something very different makes you appreciate the difference between a constant and a variable with a storage location behind it. Coming from BASIC and FORTRAN that was a real eye opener.
    No wonder most newer languages like the PASCAL and C families are derived from it.

  23. Not working on Khan Academy Launches Computer Science Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Does anybody know what the player requirements are?
    The presentation style courses hang at "Loading audio..." for me. Chrome, chromium or iceweasel on Debian wheezy.

  24. Can be done but not for home use on Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? · · Score: 1

    The fabled low cost/GB of tape only comes into play after you've amortized the cost of the drive over many tapes.
    The long access time makes tape feasible as an online storage medium only if you have a disk subsystem in front of it and HSM SW automatically keeps frequently accessed files on disk. That SW alone costs more than a decent size NAS subsystem which also means that you have to amortize the SW cost over many drives, i.e. you need a library. It's required for reasonable reliability too.
    This is big iron technology that's only used if disk would be too expensive for the amount of data you want to store, say more than a few thousand disk drives, and if the access pattern are suitable.

  25. Re:Uh... on Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? · · Score: 1

    Modern drives are *very* good at keeping the tension constant the entire time.