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  1. Re:Er on Best Resource For Identifying Legit Applications? · · Score: 1

    Can you include the link?

  2. Re:I'm glad I'm not the only one on Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible? · · Score: 1

    Least clever retort, ever.

  3. Re:surprise surprise on Hardware TPM Hacked · · Score: 1

    That sounds retarded. If you XOR with random data, you have made it unrecoverable unless you save that random data, and that is now the key.

    Key security is what this article is about. The researcher violated the physical and software security to obtain the secret key. On hardware devices this key must always be stored somehow.

  4. Re:Hunter should watch his back on A Space Cannon That Might Actually Work · · Score: 1

    All a president has to do to be a president is "preside"; you can't simply make up further requirements.

    Saddam Hussein was one of the very few elected heads of state in that part of the world. Not a nice guy, dictator, sure. But don't just start making stuff up.

  5. Re:We need more ideas such as this on A Space Cannon That Might Actually Work · · Score: 1

    No balloon has negative mass.

  6. Re:a good anti drunk driving group talker may of b on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 1

    Possible translation:

    "A good spokesperson for an anti drunk driving group may be someone who had been a big drunk, only to have had something happen to them (or to someone they know), leading them to stop and subsequently to speak up."

  7. Re:Dolls and tea sets? on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 1

    Whoa, it's all one or the other, then, now...

  8. Re:I wonder on Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close · · Score: 1

    You, too, may be an idiot:

    "Of the Web vulnerabilities, Web Browser vulnerabilities comprised eight
    percent of the total vulnerabilities found, and Web servers comprised two
    percent. Vulnerabilities in the code of commercial Web applications was 90
    percent of the total Web related vulnerabilities."

  9. Re:In Defense of Artificial Intelligence on IT Snake Oil — Six Tech Cure-Alls That Went Bunk · · Score: 1

    Slashdot fails on both counts.

  10. Re:Cleaning job on After 1 Year, Conficker Infects 7M Computers · · Score: 1

    They took encryption seriously. The authors have implemented Ron Rivest's research algorithm MD6.

  11. Re:It's mandatory here. on Appropriate Interviewing For a Worldwide Search? · · Score: 1

    In case you've never heard this joke before, the reference is older programs that would prompt "Type any key to continue..."

  12. Re:Good developers dont have time to take many tes on Appropriate Interviewing For a Worldwide Search? · · Score: 1

    You must be a real ass.

  13. Re:How small is it? on Major ISPs Seek To Lower Broadband Definition · · Score: 1

    Did not read the link. But broadband means a combination signal sent over multiple carriers simultaneously, like ISDN. A single, exact 2.4GHz clean carrier you describe is a baseband signal. Even though I think 2.4GHz would actually be implemented in some sort of spread spectrum, usually though...

  14. Re:Yeah so... on Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? · · Score: 1

    Just thought I'd mention this is the best comment I've ever seen on Slashdot.

  15. Re:a slither? don't you mean a sliver? on Thanks For the ... Eight-Track, Uncle Alex · · Score: 1

    How old is Linker3000? Further, what is his native language and how sophisticated is your lexicon/grammar in that language?

  16. Not flamebait! on Nissan Unveils All-Electric LEAF · · Score: 1

    sheesh.

  17. Re:GERMS ARE GOOD..... on US Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu · · Score: 1

    You really think this is how Mexico brought the flu upon themselves? By squeaky-cleaning the whole country too much?

  18. Re:On behalf of all Canadians... on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    What list? Parent said "Yes"...

  19. Re:sure it is on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    No, David Escalante the Director of Security for IT traced harassing emails(page 8) back to the accused. That part is not hearsay from the roommate.

  20. Re:And next up on Believing In Medical Treatments That Don't Work · · Score: 1

    In a system where the octogenarian pays for the services rendered, it doesn't matter; anybody can spend their money how they like.

    If you want to live in a society where heath care resources are shared for the benefit of everybody, it is insane to spend massive amounts of resource to modify sick people who are about to die.

    All people die. The purpose of medicine is to improve life, not to prolong death. When someone is reasonably near death and sick, it is often more sensible to comfort them and provide pain relief rather than apply expensive therapy designed to restore people to productivity.

    It all sounds so awful, but we can't deny this.

  21. Re:And next up on Believing In Medical Treatments That Don't Work · · Score: 1

    Yeah, "dire" consequences of actually applying limited resources where they will do the most good.

  22. Re:Do Not Want on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    tar. A normal tar that works.

  23. Re:mac != unix on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    You can do FileVault with a series of hdiutil commands.

  24. Re:"commercial UNIX" on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    There was a SPARC laptop called the Tadpole but I don't think it was made by Sun.

    I've seen a couple. They were thick and bulky looking. And running Solaris 7. Yuck.

  25. Re:I dunno `bout the rest of the world.. on With a Computer Science Degree, an Old Man At 35? · · Score: 1

    It sounds like they do high level system design. Like maybe they design customised operating system configurations to turn computers into kiosks.

    In places where I work "engineering" often means deciding on an operating system configuration and maintaining the specification for that.

    He's probably not writing mouse drivers or ASP.Net websites.