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Re:So little detain in this article by Nemyst · 2016-04-09 07:57 · Score: 5, Informative · on High Schoolers Use Homemade Nuclear Fusion Reactor To Dominate Science Fairs (us.com)

I dug around on the website and found this document which seems to indicate that yes, we're talking about a Farnsworth Fusor.

Re:Paypal freezing is old news by alexo · 2013-09-09 02:41 · Score: 1 · on PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account

This is one of those risk mitigation plans we were talking about the other day which helps the US government find the "bad guys".

Here's a collection of tools that can be much more effective in helping the US government find the bad guys.

It's not Mevade by FhnuZoag · 2013-09-05 06:39 · Score: 2 · on Security Company Attributes Tor Traffic Surge To Botnet

Here, look at this:

Pull up a google search:

http://www.vir.us.com/delete-trojanwin32mevade-b-user-guide-to-remove-trojanwin32mevade-b
> Countries Affected: Germany, USA, China, Switzerland, Canada etc.

Now look at the Tor user numbers from China:

https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=userstats-relay-country&start=2013-06-01&end=2013-08-30&country=cn#userstats-relay-country

Why is Mevade creating Tor traffic from places as tiny as Vatican city, and having zero impact from China? When apparently China *is* affected by the botnet, and if past knowledge is any indicator, is probably the world capital of malware?

It doesn't add up.

Re:EME == Active-X on all web browsers by tlhIngan · 2013-03-21 03:26 · Score: 1 · on Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards

I can see compromised websites popping up with requests to load codec-XXX to "See Sexy Suzy Stripping". And there'll be a lot of idiots who'll fall for it.

They already do. It's called the codec exploit. Many fake torrents for movies play a video that is nothing but "Your system does not have the right software to play this video. Please download it at http://rootkits.r.us.com/pwned". And many sites that do that have a landing page that says "Your system lacks the required codec. Click to install.".

EME binary blobs or no, it happens right now. Hell, turn off your ad blocker and view TPB or other common torrent site and look at how many ads are saying "Plugin missing" or other crap to get you to click on them.

This form of social engineering actually has a name - Dancing Pigs (or rabbits). It's an extremely successful method to because users are task-oriented - they get on the web to get something accomplished. Anyone who's watched a user click a dialog box without reading it or other thing has experienced this.

Anyhow, the nicer thing is that if you don't want to run binary blobs, you don't have to. Imagine if it was impemented inside Silverlight or Flash - they will probably just run it blindly until some exploit happens that causes them to lock it down. A browser can easily see intent and not download or run them by default unless they're signed or preapproved or already installed. Or disabled altogether. Or not run them until the user clicks on them (making them useless for thins that need auto-play). And hell, a browser can treat them like plugins and refuse to run vulnerable versions

Hai by rickyrocks · 2008-12-14 18:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic · on The Wackiest Technology Tales of 2008

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Re:eh? by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · 2008-10-01 05:55 · Score: 1 · on Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis

The money and availability arguments posted below are better. You can always write up a simple conversion script to convert from the data crunching program to excel. And if you are doing serious number crunching parsing a file to csv isn't much of a task. Learning how to do something in excel will not make it easier in Mathematica. Its always easier to do any kind of mathematical operation in Mathematica.

Now if you have a crazy person that needs to twiddle some numbers and watch the out put in excel.. then you have a point. Haven't read the book, but there are some third party plugins that turn excel into something like a data cruncher. TK Solver includes an excel plugin that give it its capabilities.

Bwootoof Re:quite useful by mrmeval · 2007-12-31 11:01 · Score: 1 · on Ion-Mask Coating Could Make Waterproofing Electronics Easy

I'm sure some would pay a couple hundred extra for an iPod that would survive a six foot drop and a six foot dunk. I wish there were a cell phone that would (damn nokia).

Since you'll probably not get it, stick a bluetooth transmitter on the ipod and stick it in a sealed RF transparent but near invulnerable box. ;) It'll cost about the same.

I'm not sure if the following offers any remote capability, didn't look to close and I'm not endorsing them, just pointing at the first I found
http://www.bluetomorrow.com/content/section/153/255/

Not sure if both would fit in here http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp;jsessionid=NQ0NFJEDBR0IRLAQBBICCOVMCAEFCIWE?id=0037999018340a&type=product&cmCat=perf&rid=0180101070502&xpid=k17401&cm_ven=Performics&cm_cat=Affiliate-click&cm_pla=Nextag&cm_ite=DDI%20Link&afsrc=1&_requestid=121893

but should fit in here, the other one is a bit more portable but Pelican is good stuff.
http://www.pelicanproducts.us.com/detailaspx8.html?gclid=CPTnguLP05ACFQUsPAodBDFxXQ

US.COM email is now available (using Hotmail) by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-02 03:01 · Score: 0 · on GMail for Domains vs. MS Live Office?

We haven't tried the Google mail program, but we have built a nice product using the Microsoft mail program. We've arranged it so that anyone can use email addresses like YourName@US.COM. For years we've sold sub domains on the US.COM suffix. Now in cooperation with Microsoft we are making the email addresses available. See the details at http://www.us.com/ .

As far as working with Microsoft, it is a little extra work to get it all working but we think the security is excellent.