Fedora 14 here with OSS ATI drivers
Chromium works fine; Firefox 4b7 works (slow~ish, after updating extensions), Firefox 4b8 (JS preview build) doesn't work

FTFA: "Cryptologist Ron 'The R in RSA' Rivest withdrew his MD6 process - it was highly-rated but conspicuously sluggish"

Someone simply misread or misunderstood "sluggish" for "too fast"

Fix'd

Yeah, vote for Mickey Mouse - he doesn't have an agenda!

2 major problems with using iPad as a car pc (off the top of my head, mind you)

* glare -- HUGE problem when you're in daylight and you've got light coming in from every window. And if the sun hits the screen directly... have fun!
* no extensibility -- no CD/tape/radio. Forget sat radio. No higher quality GPS or any other upgrades. True, you don't get extreme flexibility with pre-built car pcs, but they're still upgradeable to an extent..

MS Access can't possibly handle 2 billion records, no matter how much hardware you throw at it.

...and if they used Nginx they could easily withstand both slashing and dotting
Too bad they've only got Apache with PHP

Constructing one isn't very hard, just line the walls/windows/doors with metal screen door mesh, then ground it.

But that doesn't solve the problem of students networking between each other. If that's a necessity, a wifi jammer can be placed inside the faraday cage - this both prevents illegal jamming (nobody outisde is affected), and internally nobody can use wireless either.

Might cost a bundle, though :P

[This Darwin award candidate] was struck and killed by a southbound Caltrain while crossing the tracks [...] Witnesses said at the time [he] rode his skateboard around a lowered crossing arm and was listening to headphones when he was hit.

on a 2x6core server at work ;)

[xxxx@xxxx smallpt]$ time ./smallpt 100
Rendering (100 spp) 100.00%
real 0m29.127s
user 5m41.044s
sys 0m0.093s

P.S. and compiling didn't take me hours, either, since I'm on Linux

Whose ass do you have to sue to get some highres monitors around here?

Shred simply writes random/patterned data on OS level into the file. Which means if you have a journaling/snapshotting filesystem, shred won't even kill all copies of the data you wanted to remove.

I remember seeing a vim hack once, a few years back, where someone used the stdin/paste to make vim animate a picture of ASCII art.
Can't find the link, though :(

If using asymmetric keys, then indeed the private key is not transmitted. But if using password authentication, it is transmitted in "plaintext" within the encrypted connection established by DH session. In other words, if the remote machine is compromised (or someone replaced it), it can get your password. Which is why it's important to heed the host key change warnings.

I don't get it -_-