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Comment Re:20 years of asking what works: (Score 1) 1146

by slushdork on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @01:20PM (#28959989) Attached to: Navigating a Geek Marriage?

So do you make her laugh? Does she make you laugh?

Basil Fawlty: Do you remember when we were first manacled together? We used to laugh quite a lot. Sybil Fawlty: Yes, but not at the same time, Basil.

Comment What about non-HTTP? (Score 5, Interesting) 362

by slushdork on Thursday July 09, 2009 @03:30PM (#28640915) Attached to: Comcast DNS Redirection Launched In Trial Markets

I'm a Comcast "customer" in an affected "market" (Colorado). How will this affect DNS resolution requests for non-HTTP purposes? There is no way for the Comcast DNS servers to know what a DNS name resolution request is for: it could be for HTTP, or it could be for SSH, FTP, etc. So if I mis-type an FQDN hostname in an SSH command, will the DNS resolution request now suceed? Previously SSH would fail with a "cannot resolve hostname" error or something similar. Will it now try to connect with SSH to the Comcast "domain helper" servers? What about its effects on local DNS caching servers (e.g. dnsmasq)?

Also, this statement from Comcast's blog is blatantly false:

Despite the fact that web addresses are easier to remember than their IP address counterparts, sometimes you mistype an address. Let's say you type in http://www.comtcas.com/ (instead of http://www.comcast.com./ Normally you then sit and wait for the Web browser to time out, then you receive an error message that the site does not exist, and then you have to retype the correct address.

Normally you would *never* "sit and wait for the Web browser to time out" (well, these *are* Comcast's DNS servers after all, so in this specific case it might be true). Normally, your browser would get a DNS resolution failure and show you a built-in error page instantaneously. Now, on the other hand, you have to wait until your browser goes off and loads a page of Comcast ads.

Domain Helper my a$$!

Comment Ob. bash (Score 0, Redundant) 64

by slushdork on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @08:12PM (#27592881) Attached to: Unzipping Nanotubes Makes Superfast Electronics

Unzipping...

Comment Ob. Penny Arcade (Score 2, Funny) 145

by slushdork on Sunday April 12, 2009 @12:05PM (#27549039) Attached to: Twitter Gets Slammed By the StalkDaily XSS Worm

Le Twittre - pretty much says it all...

Comment Re:Tinfoil is the answer. Seriously! (Score 2, Insightful) 251

by slushdork on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @12:31PM (#26726291) Attached to: Hackers Clone Passports In Driveby RFID Heist

I believe the article is talking about passport cards , and not about passport books . It's quite a bit harder to read RFID data from a passport book since "the passport cover contains a radio-frequency shield, so the cover must be opened for the data to be read."

Comment Re:Dear Every Corporate Tool in the Universe: (Score 5, Funny) 711

by slushdork on Friday January 02, 2009 @03:05PM (#26302929) Attached to: Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution

Maybe they should have used this backup strategy, although this one looks more like this...

Comment Re:I shall name my first child Renata Pronk (Score 4, Informative) 482

by slushdork on Sunday December 21, 2008 @10:33PM (#26196285) Attached to: Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV

Will she look like this?

New EVE Online Expansion Detailed 96

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 09, 2008 @12:34AM from the excel-in-space dept.

Eurogamer reports on the EVE Online Fanfest, at which developer CCP revealed details on the game's next expansion, due out in March. It will be the biggest expansion yet for EVE, and it will "introduce 'Tech 3' modular ship designs, branching epic mission arcs, further improvements to the new player experience, and exploration of uncharted space through unstable wormholes. ... The focus of the expansion will be 'true exploration,' with players using new skills and modules to travel through wormholes into all-new, unconnected space." CCP also hinted that further graphical upgrades would be coming, and a standalone first-person shooter based on EVE may be in development for a console release.

Yahoo Interested In a Microsoft Buyout, But Microsoft Isn't 174

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 08, 2008 @10:12AM from the baby-come-back dept.

Linux Blog writes "The Google-Yahoo advertising deal has been rejected by the Department of Justice, and Google has pulled the plug on a search-ad partnership with Yahoo that would have given Yahoo major new revenue, but that raised antitrust concerns. Now, Yahoo has said the 'For Sale' sign is still on its front lawn and that Microsoft should buy the company. The internet portal's co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang made this comment despite the fact Yahoo rejected a $33 a share offer from Microsoft back in May. What a huge loss for the share holders. Microsoft was quick to respond that their buyout efforts were a thing of the past, but left the door open to a search partnership."

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