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Comment Re:where is the power of two (Score 1) 234

by wilx on Wednesday April 23, 2008 @01:26PM (#23173732) Attached to: AMD's Triple-Core Phenom X3 Processor Launched

Logs are so college algebra.

Ugh. Where do you live? Logarithms are high school stuff here.

Ohio Study Confirms Voting Systems Vulnerabilities 91

Posted by Zonk on Saturday December 15, 2007 @07:22AM from the never-thought-i'd-be-longing-for-paper dept.

bratgitarre writes "A comprehensive study of electronic voting systems (PDF) by vendors ES&S, Hart InterCivic and Premier (formerly Diebold) found that 'all of the studied systems possess critical security failures that render their technical controls insufficient to guarantee a trustworthy election'. In particular, they note all systems provide insufficiently protection against threats from election insiders, do not follow well-known security practices, and have 'deeply flawed software maintenance' practices." Some of these machines are the ones California testers found fault with last week.

Submission + - XP SP3 White paper released 1

Submitted by

duggi

on Thursday December 06, 2007 @04:31AM

duggi writes: "XP SP3 has been released. Would you like to upgrade? Note that Microsoft is not rubbing its users on their heads with IE7 by not including it in this pack.If they want to make XP more secure, and IE7 is more secure, why are they not pushing it?"

Submission + - CCP destroys users' OS with patch (eve-online.com)

Submitted by on Thursday December 06, 2007 @02:12AM

An anonymous reader writes: CCP's new trinity patch for EVE Online has an option to upgrade to "premium graphics." However, the patching file that upgrades the game to premium graphics deletes the user's boot.ini file from the partition the game is installed in. For the less technically inclined (not the slashdot readership, but whatever) this makes the computer unable to boot up after restarting.

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