The-Pheon - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Bush was right after all (Score 4, Informative) 431

by The-Pheon on Friday December 03, 2010 @12:31PM (#34432124) Attached to: Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet

... so it's like a series of tubes, right?

Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said that, not Bush.

Comment Re:reason for the acquisition (Score 1) 223

by The-Pheon on Thursday September 30, 2010 @07:52PM (#33754472) Attached to: Microsoft Rumored To Buy Second Life

From http://www.mono-project.com/Scripting_With_Mono

The early results of switching showed that there was a 50 to 150 times performance increase in switching from LSL/interpreted to LSL/Mono.

Comment Re:reason for the acquisition (Score 1) 223

by The-Pheon on Thursday September 30, 2010 @07:49PM (#33754444) Attached to: Microsoft Rumored To Buy Second Life

They have decided that the scripting language is far superior to Jav... er, C# and .NET.

The Second Life scripting language compiles to run on the CLR. Second Life has embedded mono in their client.

Comment The next James Bond as well! (Score 5, Informative) 142

by The-Pheon on Friday May 28, 2010 @05:25PM (#32382340) Attached to: <em>The Hobbit</em> On Hold

Bond 23 has also been delayed because of MGM's legal issues. http://www.imdb.com/news/ni2143090/

I was looking forward to seeing Mr. Craig shoot some guns, drive some fast cars, and flirt with some girls.

Comment Use Open Standards (Score 4, Informative) 62

by The-Pheon on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @01:46PM (#31416332) Attached to: Open Data Needs Open Source Tools

People could start by documenting their data in standardized formats, like DDI 3.

Comment Re:Uhm, I thought it was open? (Score 0, Troll) 238

by The-Pheon on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @02:23AM (#30914176) Attached to: Canadian Android Carrier Forcing Firmware Update

and in other news, my sister is going to do this? good luck with that.

Comment Re:As a current free DynDNS user... (Score 1) 125

by The-Pheon on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @04:26PM (#30742262) Attached to: DynDNS.com Acquires EveryDNS

EveryDNS is more like the "custom DNS" feature in DynDNS which uses their servers to provide nameservers for your own domain. DynDNS's custom DNS service is $30/year if you aren't hosting with them, while EveryDNS is/was free.

ThatIP only charges $10/year for the same "custom DNS", and now started doing dedicated ipv6 nameservers too!

Comment Re:The Augustine report ? (Score 5, Informative) 144

by The-Pheon on Thursday October 22, 2009 @04:42PM (#29839875) Attached to: Astronaut Group Endorses Commercial Spaceflight

The Real link is here:
Final Report

Comment 59 square miles (Score 5, Informative) 259

by The-Pheon on Sunday September 13, 2009 @06:56PM (#29408377) Attached to: Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea?

Minneapolis has complete downtown coverage now.

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/wirelessminneapolis/

Actually using it right now to post, doesn't really seem like a dead idea from here!

Submission + - Craters, lava flows and tectonic features on Mars (spacefellowship.com)

Submitted by

xp65

on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @11:57AM

xp65 writes: "The Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera imaged a region close to Ma'adim Vallis, one of the largest canyons on Mars. The images cover 138 x 70 km, roughly the size of Cyprus. A sharp boundary is visible in the centre, dividing dark material to the west and light material to the east. Scientists suspect that this feature is most likely the edge of a basaltic lava flow. The pictures are centred at about 29S and 182E and have a ground resolution of 15 m/pixel."

Comment Re:Look at the bright side -- ZFS for Linux! (Score 4, Informative) 205

by The-Pheon on Monday July 13, 2009 @04:34PM (#28682175) Attached to: Mass Speculation Suggests Oracle May Kill OpenSolaris

I've long been immensely frustrated that you can't get kernel-space ZFS (sorry FUSE) compiled into a Linux kernel because of inane licensing issues*....

Well it is a good thing FreeBSD does not have a restrictive license like that. FreeBSD 8.0 will have ZFS with zpool 13, and here is how to use it.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSQuickStartGuide

Cheers!

Comment Re:Missing Achievements (Score 1) 1582

by The-Pheon on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @05:49PM (#27424257) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

* UID is a prime number. (no wouldn't get it myself, i'm a couple of digits off)
* Has been moderated (-1 troll) more than 5 times
* " " Flamebait " " etc

Any others?

I like it, how about UID can fit in a 16bit uint?

CCC Create a Rogue CA Certificate 300

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @01:14PM from the they-even-faked-this-dept dept.

t3rmin4t0r writes "Just when you were breathing easy about Kaminsky, DNS and the word hijacking, by repeating the word SSL in your head, the hackers at CCC were busy at work making a hash of SSL certificate security. Here's the scoop on how they set up their own rogue CA, by (from what I can figure) reversing the hash and engineering a collision up in MD5 space. Until now, MD5 collisions have been ignored because nobody would put in that much effort to create a useful dummy file, but a CA certificate for phishing seems juicy enough to be fodder for the botnets now."

New Photos of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Assembly 122

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @11:25AM from the this-is-sorta-like-lame-porn dept.

RobGoldsmith writes "New images are now available of SpaceX's Falcon 9 being assembled. The images are accompanied with a small update from SpaceX. If there are no unexpected delays, it's possible Falcon 9 will be completely integrated by the end of the year. This update shows real flight hardware and really brings the rocket alive. View images of the Falcon 9 nearing completion now!"

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