Forgot your password?

typodupeerror

Comment: Re:So... (Score 3, Interesting) 47

by PowerKe (#37624142) Attached to: Europeans Needed To Create Broadband Performance Measure

You're supposed to put all your devices behind the "Whitebox". Using your solution would give them skewed results, according to their terms:

The Whitebox should be placed in between your existing router and your networked computers. Any devices that connected via ethernet cable to your existing router should instead connect to the Whitebox. This ensures that the SamKnows device is always aware of the network being used and will never run tests at a time when you require your full bandwidth to be available. (Whitebox faq)

Comment: Re:cracked? (Score 1) 164

by PowerKe (#34533754) Attached to: ChromeOS Laptop-Smashing Ad Equation Solved
The problem of factoring a large number is hard when it's a semiprime where both factors are very large numbers around the same magnitude as the square root of the semiprime. In this case 191605050401140404051920181528 can be factored into 2^3 * 3 * 23 * 222647 * 694079 * 8335727 * 269462689 which is easy to factor as the one but largest factor is only ~= 8 million. A naive program that just divides by 2 and all odd numbers up to 8335727 can give you the answer in less than a minute on a moderate computer nowadays. After finding the 8335727 factor you know that you will not have any more factors in 269462689 since sqrt(269462689) ~= 16415 which is the largest divisor you'd have to try to factor it.
United Kingdom

No UK law vs photographers->

Submitted by AHuxley
AHuxley writes "The Independent is reporting: Two police officers stopped a student, who works as a freelance photojournalist from taking pictures of an Armed Forces Day parade (public place) — and then claimed they did not need a law to detain him.
We don'½Â(TM)t have to have a law.½Â A second officer later informed him he was ½Âoeconsidered a threat under the Terrorism Act½Â and escorted away from the parade.
Slashdot readers can now listen to this via youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQucfv0slOE"

Link to Original Source

Comment: Re:Two reasons for SSL (Score 4, Informative) 269

by PowerKe (#32727726) Attached to: 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid
Don't click the 'Get certificate' button. Once you click 'Add exception' and the pop-up is shown, Firefox is already retrieving the certificate. When it has retrieved the certificate, the 'Permanently store this exception' box is checked. If you click, 'Get certificate', the process starts over again. So what happens is that you uncheck the 'Permanently' checkbox and the 'Get certificate' process will re-check it again just before your click on the 'Confirm' button is processed. Indeed, very annoying.

Dell Sold Millions of Faulty Optiplex Workstations->

Submitted by christoofar
christoofar writes "In a damning condemnation of Dell by the NYT, your half-decade long nightmare with corporate Dell Optiplex computers with their impossible-to-figure-out driver updates and difficult mobo upgrading methods and fighting the mysteriously-odd dead computer in your IT department was all for nought. The major problem that affects millions of Dell Optiplex workstations delivered between 2003 and 2005 were faulty capacitors manufactured by Nichicon, a Japanese supplier. E-mails now unsealed in the lawsuit customers filed against Dell revealed that Support Engineers and Sales both knew of the problem, but Dell emphasized "ambiguity" when discussing support problems with customers related to the broken computers."
Link to Original Source
Graphics

Photoshop CS5's Showpiece — Content-Aware Fill 378

Posted by timothy
from the it's-like-stalin-was-never-there dept.
Barence writes "If you're looking for reasons to upgrade to Photoshop CS5 when it arrives, a new demo video might just persuade you. Narrated by Bryan O'Neil-Hughes, a product manager on the Photoshop team, the video shows the new content-aware fill tool, which has the potential to revolutionise the way you clean up photos. If you're not happy with an item in your picture, select it, delete it, and Photoshop will analyse the surrounding area and plug the gap as if it never existed."
Security

Hacking at Random 1

Submitted by
gmc2000
gmc2000 writes "On their site, the people behind Hacking at Random (the successor of What the Hack, a four day outdoor hackers conference) announced a date and location: "On August 13-16, 2009 the 20th anniversary edition of the four-yearly Dutch outdoor technology-conference will take place near Vierhouten, NL". This event promises "four days of technology, ideological debates and hands-on tinkering". Given that these events happen only once every four years, I wouldn't want to miss it for the world!"

Many pages make a thick book.

Working...