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Comment: Fended off sharks? (Score 1) 72

by vantango on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @10:09PM (#42199537) Attached to: Swimming Robot Reaches Australia After Record-Breaking Trip

How do it do this?

Comment: All your spam (Score 0) 47

by vantango on Thursday August 23, 2012 @03:11AM (#41091539) Attached to: Australia Passes 'Lite' Data Retention Laws

are belong to us.

+ - Australian Police database lacks root password-> 1

Submitted by Concerned Citizen on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @12:24AM

Concerned Citizen writes "The Australian Federal Police database has reportedly been hacked, although hacked might be too strong a word for what happens when someone gains access to a mysql database with no root password. Can you be charged with breaking and entering a house that has the door left wide open? Maybe digital trespassing is a better term for this situation."
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Comment: Re:"But it might be possible... (Score 1) 257

by vantango on Friday August 14, 2009 @02:07AM (#29062395) Attached to: A Planet That Orbits Its Star the Wrong Way

Isn't it more likey that influence of the star in this solar system captured the planet from a neighboring system?

Comment: Re:Use subversion either hosted or your own server (Score 1) 302

by vantango on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @03:22AM (#28766721) Attached to: Collaborative Software For Pair Programming?

Bazaar http://bazaar-vcs.org/ does not require a dedicated server.. maybe this would be better than svn?

Comment: Re:Please note... (Score 1) 419

by vantango on Wednesday July 05, 2006 @02:42AM (#15658740) Attached to: Patient Revives After 19 Years By Rewiring Brain

Your link doesn't say that for a variety of different tasks, you use all of it.. just most of it. If you used all of it, "re-wiring" couldn't occur, but it does.