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Comment Disintformation alert - don't promote distribution (Score 1) 230

by jeanke on Sunday April 26, 2020 @03:55AM (#59991872) Attached to: Michael Moore Offers Free Streaming of Movie Criticizing the Green Movement

One of the film's distributors stopped distribution because of disinformation together with a lengthy motivation:
https://www.filmsforaction.org...

Homebrew Cray-1 140

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @01:00PM from the when-i-was-a-child dept.

egil writes "Chris Fenton built his own fully functional 1/10 scale Cray-1 supercomputer. True to the original, it includes the couch-seat, but is also binary compatible with the original. Instead of the power-hungry ECL technology, however, the scale model is built around a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board. All software is available if you want to build one for your own living room. The largest obstacle in the project is to find original software."

Comment What Linux needs to hit mainstream is (Score 1) 710

by Economist on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @06:55PM (#27839339) Attached to: Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows

... a good powerpoint viewer. One that supports all powerpoint slideshows perfectly, no matter how much multimedia is embedded. A lot of home users receive annoying powerpoint presentations with some stupid joke or something, and they LIKE it.

They aren't supported very well in linux. Some are, many are not. Especially when sound is embedded. And Average Joe will open a presentation, notice it isn't what it is on Windows, and then believes Linux is no good.

Journal Journal: The Pill Alters Women's Sexual Choices

Journal by jaadu on Thursday August 14, 2008 @10:14AM

A research group in the UK recently found that oral contraceptives reverse women's perception of pheromones. Rather than preferring the pheromones of men with genes different from their own (as is normal), women on the pill prefer closely-related men. The full text of the paper isn't available yet, but it's already generated

Submission + - MD5 proven ineffective for app signatures (win.tue.nl)

Submitted by

prostoalex

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @12:22AM

prostoalex writes: "Marc Stevens, Arjen K. Lenstra, and Benne de Weger have released their paper 'Vulnerability of software integrity and code signing applications to chosen-prefix collisions for MD5', which describes a reproducible attack on MD5 algorithm to fake software signatures. Researchers start off with two simplistic Windows applications — HelloWorld.exe and GoodbyeWorld.exe, and apply a known prefix attack that makes md5() signatures for both of the applications identical. Is it the end of signed software? Not quite, researchers point out: "For abusing a chosen-prefix collision on a software integrity protection or a code signing scheme, the attacker should be able to manipulate the files before they are being hashed and/or signed. This may mean that the attacker needs insider access to the party operating the trusted software integrity protection or code signing process. An attacker with such access can most probably do more harm anyway, without the need for chosen-prefix collisions, to get official digital signatures on malware.""

Comment Re:Neat Implications (Score 1) 136

by Economist on Sunday February 04, 2007 @08:36AM (#17880454) Attached to: Wii Hacked To Control Sword-Wielding Robot

And how are they going to play Zelda for scientific reasons then?

Journal Journal: Glaciers swim In and Out of meat that looks like genitalia. 6

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Tuesday January 04, 2005 @05:23AM

Glaciers swim - like meat.
In and Out - More meat than you can shake butter at. A stick of butter.
of meat that looks like genitalia. - or vice versa.

More useful stuff!:

Comment Last Post (Score 1) 56

by $$$$$exyGal on Thursday August 19, 2004 @09:58AM (#10011896) Attached to: shout outs

Thanks for thinking of me, first. Have a great day.

Comment Modem noise (Score 1) 1352

by Larsje on Friday July 30, 2004 @04:35AM (#9841592) Attached to: Abused, But Working Hardware Stories?

I had been using my 56k modem for about 2 years, and i had justed switched to cable modem, and a friend of mine wanted to start using internet so i sold him my 56k modem. When i was trying to install it, it worked fine, but there was just no way to turn off the noise from the modem dialing the connection, so out of frustrating of the terrible noise, i ripped off the little speaker and the modem worked just fine afterwards, no more annoying noise. Oh, and it was on windows xp...

Journal Journal: I'm a man 15

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Friday May 21, 2004 @02:30AM

It's time to tell the truth. I am a 55 year-old man. My name is Andy Kaufman, and I live in New York City.

I am sincerely sorry to everyone for all my lies.

--Andy

Journal Journal: Slashdot History: Hurrah for the ZEROES! 7

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Thursday March 18, 2004 @12:52PM

A few irrefutable facts about humans:

They see faces everywhere.
They are biodegradable.
Base 10 zeroes excite them.

Here's a little something to excite you:

Journal Journal: Governor Schwarzenegger: The First 100 Gays 6

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Wednesday February 25, 2004 @12:11AM

HahHahahahaHAHAh!

What a clever play on words I made ;-)

Next journal topic: Coming soon!

Journal Journal: Bill Clinton likes naked naked naked naked naked naked . . . 8

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Saturday January 31, 2004 @11:40AM

Journal Journal: Merry Christmas -- $$$$$exyGal

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Wednesday December 24, 2003 @11:20PM

It's not the new year yet, but it seems like a good time to give thanks.

Long story short, I've had a good year. Great job, short commute, and dating again. I've become focused, but with great flexibility. I'm not sweating the big stuff, or the small stuff. The good stuff is in the middle.

May your holidays be commercial-free,
$$$$$exyGal

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Comment Re:kopete (Score 1) 367

by jeanke on Saturday September 27, 2003 @04:21AM (#7070793) Attached to: Yahoo Messenger Blocks Outside IM Clients

I still have problems with kopete.
I'm using the latest "stable" release (0.7.2).
Although kopete mentions that I'm connected with the yahoo network, there is no connection (at least not an effective one).

Do you use the cvs version? That would be great.
Or did all your yahoo contacts just seem offline?

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