Comment But who is anonymous this time? (Score 1) 183
That's the thing with anonymity, isn't it? Anyone can be anonymous on the internet. Isn't one of the main ideals behind anonymous that it cannot be false-flagged? Notice how the media and even /. is trying their hardest to portray anonymous as a single, organized group.
Comment Re:Too many links. (Score 1) 260
Dumkopf!
Comment Product pics? (Score 1) 136
Was there really no photos af the actual product?
Comment Re:And they do that with socialized medicine! (Score 1) 358
As in "please choose between fertility and infertility"?
Comment Harvesting (Score 2, Interesting) 124
As someone pointed out in the article comments; This enforces fb's agenda to have its users submit as much personal info as possible to them.
Comment RIFLE IS FINE (Score 5, Funny) 265
Comment Priorities (Score 1) 406
For the players of the internet infrastructure market ipv6 is uninteresting. They've divided the v4 address space between them and have crafted strategies to dominate the market. This is nothing exceptional or strange, but rather applied business strategy. I'd bet that they're willing and even motivated to fight v6 adoption for the purpose of maintaining their position at current terms of technological environment. As they see it, v4 is delimited to something ownable, controllable. V6 is for them something that would reset the playing field and make a significant portion of their investments obsolete.
Comment Why is dd not sufficient? (Score 1) 206
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hd[x]
Comment Grasping at straws (Score 1) 213
Reading the summary makes gave me the imrpession that microsoft really has decleared open season on Google internally. As MS can't compete by product quality, they do what they do best: Spin, FUD and judicial assault.
Comment Suspicious (Score 1) 347
"Working in a "looped" mode - when it runs out of space, it starts overwriting from the beginning."
This would require some sort of modified/custom filesystem. Seems quite ambitious.
"And the "looped-overwriting" does not touch the other files present on the drive."
This would be magic. How could it possibly do that? The firmware would need to keep track of all the contents and intervene with every io write.
Comment Random choice wins (Score 0) 292
So I gave it a random choice ffor 52 rounds and I'm leading by 25 to 18. Having a hard time predicting randomness, are we?
Torrent Users Fight Back 238
eonlabs writes "Torrent users being blamed for illegally downloading Far Cry are fighting back. In a 96-page lawsuit, the lawyers at Dunlap, Grubb, and Weaver are being accused of: 'extortion, fraudulent omissions, mail fraud, wire fraud, computer fraud and abuse, racketeering, fraud upon the court, abuse of process, fraud on the Copyright Office, copyright misuse, unjust enrichment, and consumer protection violations.'"
Linux Radio 141
An anonymous reader writes "This might very well be the nerdiest site we'll ever encounter... Linux Radio is an online radio station broadcasting the Linux kernel! Each time someone visit the site, a random source file is selected and read loudly by a virtual speaker materialized through the open source speech synthesizer eSpeak. Will it prove useful to anyone is probably a difficult question to answer, but the excitement provided is worth experiencing at least once. However, this concept proves once more the advantages of open source over proprietary software making such achievements impossible : whoever in his right mind would want to listen to binary files loudly?"
What Software Specification Tools Do You Use? 200
IronWilliamCash writes "I currently work for a small software development company and for many years we have been using internally built tools for all our software specifications, bugs, change requests and the like. Traceability is a big issue as we are CMMI level 2, and thus our internal processes need to be clear and everything must be documented. We are currently looking into getting a unified solution for this, and after quite a bit of Googling, there are quite a few different options (Contour, Kovair, MKS, Doors, CaliberFM, Accept360, etc.). I was wondering: what do other Slashdotters use in their everyday life? Does it fulfill your needs? And what is the most important part in a specification management tool?"
