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  1. Government regulated QoS on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    Now gamers in Iceland will have much better ping times and lower latency, plus much more time for WoW!

  2. Re:Obvious question on EU Citizens Warned Not To Use US Cloud Services Over Spying Fears · · Score: 2

    Wuala, www.wuala.com. And as a US company, Spideroak, www.spideroak.com

  3. Can't do it, universities will go bankrupt on Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense? · · Score: 1

    Foreign students pay at least twice the amount of what US, in-state students pay. Also, if you just take a look at any Masters or PHD programs, you will see that they are full of non-US citizens, so in a hypothetical foreigner ban, these programs won't be able to survive with only American students. There are also other advantages such as expanding US culture into other countries/cultures, exposing US students to other cultures, etc. So in other words, US is not giving free higher education to anyone, don't worry.

  4. Re:Hashes list link on LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online · · Score: 1

    It is a more than a year old account, but less than 2 years old.

  5. Re:Hashes list link on LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online · · Score: 1

    Even if this is the real deal, I don't think this is all the password hash db of linked in, my randomly generated 16+ character password's hash does not exist in this even when substituting the first five chars with zeroes.

  6. set ban interval to 11 seconds. on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 2

    So, set your fail2ban or denyhosts configuration to 11 seconds intervals, and problem solved?

  7. Re:Terrible location on NATO Exercise Banned From Jamming GPS · · Score: 1

    Seriously, guys. Off the coast of Scotland? Why not, say, here?

    Because that would take too long and be to expensive for a shitload of ships to send to.

  8. Go with a tablet on Ask Slashdot: Ebook Reader for Scientific Papers? · · Score: 1

    I have (or had) several e-book readers, as well as an Acer A500 tablet. Even if you hack your kindle, nook etc. to install a proper pdf reader, the real problem is their screen resolution, 800x600. At this resolution, technical or scientific pdf files become very hard to cope with. On the tablet you have a 10 inch 1280x800 screen, which works great for pdfs. I agree that e-ink beats the regular LCDs for reading comfort and paper like feel but a good high res pdf capable device with e-ink simply does not exist yet.

  9. Re:Options on Ask Slashdot: How To Combat IP-Based Censorship? · · Score: 1

    However, I would be very careful because the last thing that you want to do is end up in a Turkish prison.

    Turkish people think exactly the same thing for US prisons. At least you don't have to worry about your ass if you drop the soap in Turkish ones.

  10. Re:Nothing has changed on Dropbox Releases Revised TOS · · Score: 1

    And that's the reason I dropped dropbox last week and switched to Wuala, although I must say I am not terribly happy with that either.

  11. Use fail2ban or denyhosts on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 1

    Either use Fail2Ban or denyhosts, assuming you are using some sort of a linux/unix server. Both of them allows you to set thresholds so that it blocks further attempts from that particular IP for a preset amount of time. So you can set something like: if username is valid, allow 5 password attempts, then ban for 10 minutes if username is invalid, allow 2 attempts, then ban for 30 minutes if username is root or admin, block the ip until the world ends (which is two days from now apparently).

  12. Re:Dear USA on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    Of course I didn't read it, what did you expect? This is slashdot.

  13. Dear USA on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    You fucked yourselves up by using your shitty pounds, inches, fahrenheits, feets, X football fields, gallons. Please do not try to mess with our finely defined base 10 measurements and rot in your stupid imperial units.

  14. Re:The Nook already does this in the US. on Sony Breathes New Life Into Library Books · · Score: 1

    Sony also does this in the US. I am using this with my first gen. ebook reader (PRS-500) for the past several months.

  15. Re:And ST is being picked on.... on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Fortunately BSG for BSG fans, the show got more viewers and lasted longer than Firefly - though I think it owed Firefly a huge debt for the look, tone, etc.

    No my friend, it owed that to Tricia Helfer and Grace Park. God bless Cylons (but not the male ones)

  16. Re:Cars??? on Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So lets scale these up and replace the power pakcs on cars!

    I would love to be able to drive for a few hundred years between recharges!

    Screw the car, I want this on my next laptop.

  17. wacom support on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    And still my tablet pc works as a standart laptop. I wonder when (or if) will they fix the wacom drivers.

  18. Re:ReadyNAS on SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput? · · Score: 1

    For NV+ they released a new firmware which also fixes FF3 compatibility issues. Probably they did it for 1100 too. We were trying to build a backup server in the company I am working for and bought NV+ and ended up rolling our own linux server with Amanda (www.amanda.org). It is much faster than Netgear stuff and we used leftover computer parts, only new thing in it was 2x 750GB SATA disks in RAID 1 configuration (mirroring) and it has a write speed of ~50MB, which is limited by hard drive sustained write speed but it is more than enough for us.

  19. Re:clean the screen on Laptops Screens, Glare or Matte? · · Score: 1

    I honestly think that there should be laws against touching someones monitor, i.e. sexual harassment. Put them in a jail and register as "screen touchers" in a public database so they cannot live close to me! Uhm, sorry I've lost it for a second.

  20. Turk in Turkey? on Research Indicates Beijing Is World Virus Capital · · Score: 5, Informative

    "This compares with slightly lower percentages for cities in countries noted for having a malware problem. Moscow was second for spam with 5.12 percent, Seoul third with 3.58 percent, Turk in Turkey fourth with 3.4 percent, and London in fifth place on 2.47 percent."

    As a Turkish guy I would like to state that we don't have any city/town/place called Turk in Turkey. But we have around 65 million Turks living in Turkey. I am really sorry that we don't have a place like the author said but I'll contact the authorities immediately to build a new city named Turk and place all spammers/virus writer in there so you don't have to change your post. We're benevolent people.

  21. Re:I wonder how safe they will be? on Engine On a Chip May Beat the Battery · · Score: 1

    no, it is "Thrusted Computing".

  22. simple file management on Why the iPod is Losing its Cool · · Score: 1

    As long as those fancy ipods (and other brands as well) doesn't allow me to copy my music files via windows explorer (or any file manager on linux), none of them is viable, at least for me.

  23. Re:Depression exists for a reason.... on Ever-Happy Mouse Sheds Light on Depression · · Score: 1

    well, they are so careless that they don't even need green tea to calm down.

  24. It's like Serenity! on Ever-Happy Mouse Sheds Light on Depression · · Score: 2, Informative

    Anybody saw/remember Serenity (movie of Sci-Fi series Firefly)? Can it happen if we get rid of stress? Spoiler Alert! -------------- In the movie, somehow they took people's aggressiveness, and people simply stopped doing anything (they literally stopped moving), and they died while they are sitting/lying down like dolls. --------------