noppy - Slashdot User

Comment: Did the right thing (Score 1) 595

by noppy on Sunday January 03 2010, @10:18PM (#30637072) Attached to: How Norway Fought Staph Infections

It does happen

Comment: Rogue AP made easy (Score 1) 234

by noppy on Wednesday November 04 2009, @05:16AM (#29975834) Attached to: Unfinished Windows 7 Hotspot Feature Exploited

Now available in GUI

Comment: Re:hmm (Score 1) 217

by noppy on Sunday August 16 2009, @12:30AM (#29081143) Attached to: Google Two Years Into Overhaul of the Google File System

Today is funny day

Comment: Turing complete? (Score 2, Funny) 135

by noppy on Sunday July 26 2009, @01:58AM (#28824943) Attached to: Bacterial Computer Solves Hamiltonian Path Problem

Lets hype over it when it can run Linux

Comment: Re:Obligatory XKCD quote (Score 1) 236

by noppy on Thursday July 02 2009, @12:25AM (#28554101) Attached to: New AES Attack Documented

rubber hose cryptanalysis.

Comment: Underutilized (Score 1) 123

by noppy on Tuesday June 02 2009, @09:44AM (#28182233) Attached to: AMD's Six-Core Istanbul Opterons

How many of your favorite app already re-written to take advantage of the additional cores?
How many of your favorite compiler already re-designed to generate codes that uses additional cores?
How many of your favorite boss already re-wired to fuss about the additional cores?

Comment: Re:Whew! (Score 1) 180

by noppy on Friday May 29 2009, @09:41AM (#28138791) Attached to: Google Considers Taking Beta Tag Off Gmail

...and they are now RC1

Comment: Re:Critical information missing (Score 1) 325

by noppy on Saturday April 25 2009, @05:13AM (#27711133) Attached to: Researchers Show How To Take Control of Windows 7

Social engineering. Tell him its a CD with pr0n that will show up during reboot.

Comment: Re:Not so sure (Score 1) 168

by noppy on Saturday April 25 2009, @05:01AM (#27711091) Attached to: A Vision For a World Free of CAPTCHAs

Assuming you could write an algorithm to determine humanistic behavior, it stands to reason that you could write a bot to fool the initial algorithm.

Write a bot that surfs all day at /.

Comment: Re:screenshots? (Score 1) 871

by noppy on Saturday April 25 2009, @04:51AM (#27711061) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X

So somebody invented a new measurement unit other than Library of Congress?

In the next $OS release, everyone should give a rating in terms of Slick Scale (SS), in reference to Ubuntu 9.04 as 1 SS.