XipX - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Digital destruction is fine, but... (Score 2) 209

by XipX on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @04:11PM (#38151692) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Data Remanence Solutions?

Do it the "right" way. Use the Secure Erase command added to the ATA and SCSI interface specs. http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml. Funded by the NSA until recently.

Comment Re:I wonder... (Score 1) 1135

by XipX on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @03:24PM (#34258628) Attached to: TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old

The only effective change to security since 9/11 happened the moment the world learned of it. Never again will the passengers of a plane allow it to be turned into a guided missile. If I have to tell my children that only mommy, daddy, their doctor, and oh yes, any government goon who flashes a badge can touch and rub their privates (and if you tell the government goon 'no' he'll sue and there goes your college fund) then we've destroyed our country far more effective than any act of terrorism could.

Comment Re:Um no. (Score 4, Insightful) 764

by XipX on Thursday November 04, 2010 @03:32PM (#34128428) Attached to: Jammie Thomas Hit With $1.5 Million Verdict

Come back in 18 years or so when you have a firm grounding in the real world and how the legal system works.

The U.S. legal system can be described as many things, but certainly not as having a firm grounding in reality.

Comment Re:What's the problem? (Score 1) 955

by s20451 on Thursday April 10, 2008 @02:52PM (#23028060) Attached to: Many Scientists Using Performance Enhancing Drugs

It is possible to be coerced by the structure of the problem. See "prisoner's dilemma".

Former BSA VP Confirmed as Tech Undersecretary 178

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday April 07, 2006 @01:23PM from the get-your-scared-on dept.

RedOregon writes "The Senate has confirmed Robert Cresanti as the Commerce Department's new undersecretary for technology. Who's that, you ask? He was the former vice president of public policy at the Business Software Alliance. Does this give anyone else the Heebie Jeebies??"

ATI's 1GB Video Card 273

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 22, 2006 @01:41AM from the choke-on-the-price dept.

Signify writes "ATI recently released pics and info about it's upcoming FireGL V7350 graphics card. The card features 1GB of GDDR3 Memory and a workstation graphics accelerator. From the article: 'The high clock rates of these new graphics cards, combined with full 128-bit precision and extremely high levels of parallel processing, result in floating point processing power that exceeds a 3GHz Pentium processor by a staggering seven times, claims the company.'"

Comment Translation: (Score 0, Redundant) 729

by XipX on Thursday October 20, 2005 @02:47AM (#13833585) Attached to: Microsoft Thinks Africa Doesn't Need Free Software

Microsoft thinks poor people are dumb.

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