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.

Comment: Re:What are the implications of this discovery? (Score 1) 127

by noppy on Friday April 24, 2009 @02:57PM (#27705941) Attached to: Rydberg Molecule Created For the First Time

I see reverse psychology at work here. Which means this post will be modded down.

Comment: Re:What's next? (Score 1) 323

by noppy on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @09:38AM (#27674621) Attached to: US Military Issuing iPod Touches To Soldiers

iPod mounted guns

M-m-m-monster kill !!!

Comment: The truth behind the scene ... (Score 1) 307

by noppy on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @07:08AM (#27584391) Attached to: Work Progresses On 10,000 Year Clock

... that it is silently running linux hosting a simple ntp server that routinely synchronizes its analog dial with pool.ntp.org.

After a few decades when ntp.org domain expires, the clock would mysteriously stop working. And it coincidentally relates to yet another doomsday conspiracy, sparks worldwide chaos and marks the end of humanity.

Comment: On the other news ... (Score 1) 284

by noppy on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @06:47AM (#27584271) Attached to: Facebook Users Get Lower Grades In College

Slashdot Users Get Lower Intimacy Relationship In General

*ducks*

Yet another stereotyping at work

Comment: vhost (Score 1) 443

by noppy on Thursday April 09, 2009 @05:18AM (#27515831) Attached to: New ICANN TLDs May Cause Internet Land Rush

I.never.thought.real.life.vhost.is.possible