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  1. Re:Deprecation shouldn't start at the browser on Why Google Is Pushing For a Web Free of SHA-1 · · Score: 1

    How do you deal with entities that aren't physically located where you live?

    There's no amazon place of business in australia, but I buy stuff from them all the time. I'm pretty sure that ebay australia doesn't have a local presence in my home city, and there's definitely no valve place of business here. How do I exchange certs physically with these entities without flying to sydney or to america?

  2. Re:An explicit return to the failed timesharing mo on The Twighlight of Small In-House Data Centers · · Score: 1

    All hardware sucks and all software sucks. The difference that has to be weighed up is wether the applications/data are going to fail less and is going to be more recoverable if it's hosted in the cloud than if it's hosted locally. If the business has the time, the human and monetary capital and the equipment to be more reliable, with more access to the data than if it's hosted in the cloud, then there's no reason to host in the cloud. However, for the price/performance/reliability offered nowadays the cloud is hard to beat when all those factors are taken into consideration.

  3. Re:ha ha suckers!!! on Windows Patch Leaves Many XP Users With Blue Screens · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course not. Same folder, different name.

  4. Re:So much for pirate ethics on How Piracy Affected the Launch of Demigod · · Score: 1

    Sure, i'll tell you - read the articles where it explains what happened and why (you were wrong, btw).

  5. Re:My cats are little people on Evolution of Intelligence More Complex Than Once Thought · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, if given the right, who would they have voted for in the previous election?

  6. Re:I was nearly with you until... on Speedcabling - Untangling For Fun and Profit · · Score: 1

    awesome, thanks :)

  7. Re:I was nearly with you until... on Speedcabling - Untangling For Fun and Profit · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't happen to have any pics online, would you? I always like to see people's racks to see if they're worse or better than mine - usually better, but i live in hope.

  8. Re:Australian Aboriginese are on Aboriginal Archive Uses New DRM · · Score: 1

    Yes, they did learn to live off the land - because the alternative was extinction. Too honourable to tell us? Really? Define how they are more "honourable" than those of us who don't have black skin and were born in australia.

    Sure, a westerner would starve unless shown where to look - just as an aboriginal would starve unless shown where to look by it's elders - they don't magically soak up knowledge because their skin is black.

  9. Re:Fire is the topic of the year on DOE Awards 265 Million Processor-Hours To Science Projects · · Score: 1

    Reading the document, it sounds like they are thinking of moving to plan-9 as the OS on the machines.

  10. Re:And what about... on Robots To Control Oil Drilling Platforms · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually a navy would work much better, what with all the sea stuff.

  11. Re:Brett Swanson? on Why the Coming Data Flood Won't Drown the Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess the internet isn't intelligently designed.

  12. Re:Yet another wrong answer... on Spam Trap Claims 10x-100x Accuracy Gain · · Score: 1

    Sure, that'll work wonders against spammers who are in another country. No, wait ..

  13. Re:Science! on MIT Students Show How the Inca Leapt Canyons · · Score: 1

    You are totally right, to the point that i did a paper back in high school about that campaign.

    Whoops.

  14. Re:Science! on MIT Students Show How the Inca Leapt Canyons · · Score: 1

    Metal workers in japan and china worked out how to use carbon in it's different forms to manipulate the types of steel produced, but they also refused to spread the knowledge and technology - they deliberately kept it to themselves.

    The titanic sinking was not because of a failure of knowledge of chemistry - it was a business and political decision to sail early while the ship was still being fitted (missing critical gaskets), stupidity on the part of the captain to use an area with icebergs reported, a decision to go full speed in said area, and an inability to realise that compartmentalising a ship requires no gaps be left between ceiling and walls.

    Then again, I don't remember too many japanese ships of steel on the waters around the time the british launched the titanic.

  15. Re:For what it's worth.... on New Version of Gmail Being Tested · · Score: 1

    Come see the violence inherent in the (beta) system!

  16. Re:For what it's worth.... on New Version of Gmail Being Tested · · Score: 1

    For my 2 cents, the branding on my home gmail page is still all gmail beta.

  17. Re:Old news, from APRIL 2! on New Cave Entrances Seen on Mars · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely wrong. Nothing much has changed at all.

  18. Re:So does this mean on Hacker Publishes Notorious Apple Wi-Fi Attack · · Score: 1

    The british invaded new zealand, although not with total success.

  19. Re:Oh, come on.... on Misleading Data Undermines Counterfeiting Claims · · Score: 1

    Everyone bloats numbers to promote an agenda, from governments to individuals to corner stores.

  20. Re:HP Does not Support Switches on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 1

    Printers can range all the way to multi hundreds of thousands of dollars, all communicating via ip (level 3 and 4). My brother $200 networked printer is networked, and it wouldn't care if it was behind a router or not as long as everything went where it was supposed to go. As for subnets, you could stick it in a /29, and if it's private ip space it doesn't matter a whit about wasting a subnet or three.

  21. Re:HP Does not Support Switches on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 1

    You could be doing vpn stuff, in which case it is. Either way, I'm not seeing how plugging a printer into a router is all-out 'wrong'.

    Then again, my knowledge of routers etc could fill a thimble.

  22. Re:HP Does not Support Switches on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 1

    Really? Printer Router Rest of the network is going to work fine. You might have to put the printer onto a different subnet, but I'm not seeing any issues here.

  23. Re:Major embarassment on Australian Comedy Group Prods APEC Security · · Score: 1

    More information: linky

  24. Re:Major embarassment on Australian Comedy Group Prods APEC Security · · Score: 1

    I understand where you're coming from, but if they were concerns about those then the convoys would go from the checkpoint into a sheltered bay where they would be inspected/challenged, and then let through. I doubt they did a check for guns, because they would have noticed the guy dressed as osama, along with a lack of bodyguards. It's a big embaressment for the police.

    (realistically, there's no way bush's convoy would be stopped, ever. the checkpoints and convoy would be in radio contact, and they'd just be waved through).

  25. Re:Major embarassment on Australian Comedy Group Prods APEC Security · · Score: 1

    No, it does not make sense. The further bad guys get in the more freedom they have to do something. You stop all you can in the outer ring, restricting movement as much as possible.

    If the enemy can view their attempt at being stopped, it means they haven't got close to what's being protected. It doesn't matter in this case what the checkpoint was made of, everything should have been stopped and accounted for, and that hasn't happened here at all.