Comment: Re:Hmmm ... (Score 4, Funny) 66
Is this the last teenager still using AOL?
Comment: PC Decrapifier is free (Score 0, Redundant) 474
Comment: Re:We're not dead, but an old server is. (Score 3, Funny) 252
Yo man, are you the deadhead I'm thinking you're supposed to be?
My name is August West.
Comment: We're not dead, but an old server is. (Score 5, Informative) 252
Good hello folks! It's wonderful to see we've made it onto Slashdot in-between releases again!
However, our website hardware is nearly toast, and is also co-located a long way away from where I live. It is an ancient VIA based system with a Celeron and 512MB of RAM. It also sports a Maxtor hard drive connected to a Promise Technology PCI IDE card, and LILO boots from a 3.5" floppy drive. Frankly, this wasn't really great hardware even when it was brand new, but it ran our site and mailing lists with excellent uptimes for over a decade in spite of that. It looks like the trouble could be a flaking Tulip based Ethernet card (getting DUP and dropped packets, and RX/TX errors). It was doing OK again after a reboot, but I'm having some trouble reaching it again for some reason.
We're looking for a new place to put the main site. Perhaps it could move to our other server, connie.slackware.com (in which case we need a PHP guru to port it to the latest version). There are other Slackware related servers that might be able to host us as well. To be honest, connie is also getting a little long in the tooth (that's a Pentium III with 256MB of RAM).
RIP bob.slackware.com, and long live Slackware!
FBI Wants To "Advance the Science of Interrogation" 252
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by
samzenpus
from the tell-me-everything dept.
from the tell-me-everything dept.
coondoggie writes "From deep in the Department of Creepy today I give this item: The FBI this week put out a call for new research 'to advance the science and practice of intelligence interviewing and interrogation.' The part of the FBI that is requesting the new research isn't out in the public light very often: the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, which according to the FBI was chartered in 2009 by the National Security Council and includes members of the CIA and Department of Defense, to 'deploy the nation's best available interrogation resources against detainees identified as having information regarding terrorist attacks against the United States and its allies.'"
Comment: Google's strategy is to not give a shit (Score 1) 166
What could the population of Wikipedia users using the mobile app and looking at articles that have map info be on a given day? 12?
Comment: Re:But a plecebo is the most effective drug of all (Score 2) 566
To be an effective placebo, it has to be a believable placebo.
Thus, you have to dress it up with ritual or herbs or pins and needles or lots of water or whatever the method of convincing the patient that they're getting something that will help.
Actually, there was a study comparing a double-blind placebo with "here, take this sugar pill containing no active ingredients", and the placebo was just as effective even when the patient know it was a placebo.
Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing Is Booming 308
Posted
by
Soulskill
from the can't-stop-the-signal dept.
from the can't-stop-the-signal dept.
PatPending writes with this excerpt from TorrentFreak:
"The RetroShare network allows people to create a private and encrypted file-sharing network. Users add friends by exchanging PGP certificates with people they trust. All the communication is encrypted using OpenSSL and files that are downloaded from strangers always go through a trusted friend. In other words, it's a true Darknet and virtually impossible to monitor by outsiders. RetroShare founder DrBob told us that while the software has been around since 2006, all of a sudden there's been a surge in downloads. 'The interest in RetroShare has massively shot up over the last two months,' he said."
Comment: Slow down (Score 4, Interesting) 108
I'm not seeing any data on what portion of those keys with bad moduli were actually attached to valid certificates.
It's damn fine survey work, but the conclusions are just strange. More detail here:
<a href="http://dankaminsky.com/ronwhit">Survey is good. Thesis is strange.</a>
It's damn fine survey work, but the conclusions are just strange. More detail here:
<a href="http://dankaminsky.com/ronwhit">Survey is good. Thesis is strange.</a>
Comment: Perspective (Score 5, Insightful) 438
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/01/82-percent-of-atts-q4-2011-sales-are-smartphones-66-percent-are-iphones.ars
Yeah. 66% of AT&T's 4th quarter sales were iPhones. I was on Verizon for years, switched to AT&T only for their iPhone, and stuck with them only for their GSM capabilities worldwide. Sure, your margins are less when you offer a better service. Would you prefer no sales though?
Yeah. 66% of AT&T's 4th quarter sales were iPhones. I was on Verizon for years, switched to AT&T only for their iPhone, and stuck with them only for their GSM capabilities worldwide. Sure, your margins are less when you offer a better service. Would you prefer no sales though?