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  1. Re:I don't recall... on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    It was printed on the screen at this point, not my fault the cops decided to just kill the power and cart it off to the station without reading the monitor first.

  2. Re:I don't recall... on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    oops, it was a one time pass and when your band of uniformed hooligans busted the door down they triggered the sensor that automatically scrambled it.

  3. Re:I don't recall... on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    They can't use the fact that you are the one with the combination as evidence that you put those contents into the safe though. This fine line is where the issue is as encryption blurs it a lot.

  4. Re:I don't recall... on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    Only if they have a warrant from the court, and that just cause you know the combination they can't say well, you must have put it in there. Basically the issue is, the fact you know the combination/key, the assumption that you were the one who put it in the safe in the first place, prosecutors love to try and use this if they could, but that is in effect self incrimination and illegal under US law. Basically there is a very fine boundary on how it is argued, and if crossed it becomes unconstitutional. Now, the easy fix for all of this is a ruling by the courts that states there can be no assumption of guilt of a party by the fact they can unlock/decrypt safe/data because they are the only one with the key/passphrase/combination.

  5. Re:Why indeed. on 5 Concerns About Australia's New Net Filter · · Score: 1

    And those that support such action support Nazi Germany. (Sorry Godwin, but in this case it's actually relevant).

  6. Re:The quick answer: on 5 Concerns About Australia's New Net Filter · · Score: 1

    Or that corporate interest groups buy off or purposely position a mole in whatever agency monitors and decides what is on this net to protect said corporate interests.

  7. Re:Read Norton DNS' page (has good details) on 5 Concerns About Australia's New Net Filter · · Score: 1

    If I'm going to MITM you, I would just be a hop to any address, and you wouldn't have a clue, infact, your data goes through upto 30 routers to any server anyway. I can modify it at any point and pretend it went all the way and/or modify the reply. Sorry, easy to fool.

    The only way to protect against MITM is complicated encryption systems that sign data to prove integrity, then it comes down to trust, one still needs to trust that is the servers key, and it hasn't been compromised (known by the eavesdropper).

  8. Why not? on Tilting Bike Uses Google Maps To Simulate Routes · · Score: 1

    Why not go get a push bike and actually go outside and cycle? Hell, if you really must go to the gym, cycle to it and back.

  9. Re:Wow. on Italian Anonymous Hacker Cell Arrested · · Score: 1

    That's what the cantenna with a 1000ft range is for.

  10. Re:"Hacker Cell" on Italian Anonymous Hacker Cell Arrested · · Score: 1

    A cell suggests a particular network command structure that anonymous just doesn't use. Terrorists use it because 1) they tend to need a team of several agents, 2) if an agent is caught, they can only give information about other agents in their cell, and maybe the controller. Anonymous needs no such structure, of course subgroups can form and disband at will. But Anonymous literally just make a post for some kind of action in a public place, and anyone who wants to carry out the action can. There is no single leader (anyone can make a post for action), no command heirachry (everyone is allowed free choice about carrying out action) and no permanent set of members.

  11. Re:It's been said before on Italian Anonymous Hacker Cell Arrested · · Score: 1

    Mathematicians tend to use =/= as it looks more like the math symbol, while programmers tend to use != from C, as it more natural, easier to type, and makes sense. Of course, we could use the unicode symbol 2260, if /. would just display unicode properly.

  12. Re:Speed an issue? on Space Station To Get HD Streaming Video Camera · · Score: 1

    Yes and no, they have dedicated data streams, the actual internet is only a small stream. They can easily stick it on another and use a server to shift it to another later. As for them being dial-up speeds, urm, try more like a few billion satellite broadband users, they can hook into any satellite they have line of sight on and open a connection to any point on earth they have a line of sight on with pretty much as much bandwidth as they need. The biggest problem is latency from earth to orbit, and they just shifted the orbit further out. Not to mention, the closest ground station is rarely directly underneath their location (shortest distance with least interference).

  13. Re:Sweet Lord No on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    we call them mini-roundabouts in the UK, and we invented them too, and yes, sometimes we drive more over them than around them.

  14. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    so, here in the UK when my dad is lost... round and round and round we go, when we turn off, nobody knows.

  15. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    Some have them on all the time as well.

  16. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    Spaghetti junction is not all that bad at ground level, just stick in the signposted lane and you'll come out the right exit. Mostly.

  17. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    Majority of the motorway on/off ramps in the UK are straight up onto a roundabout built on two bridges over the motorway..

  18. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    or use the rule in certain UK areas (channel islands for example) of every other car unless lights, that works beautifully. But with areas with higher populations usually end up having two many selfish idiots ignoring such rules.

  19. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    Well, that's the rule anyway, but some don't even follow that at lights either. We even have painted no stopping areas marked on the roads intersections in the UK, but far too often there is some ID10T who decides to ignore it. But yeah, they obviously haven't figured that one can put lights on a roundabout yet in the US.

  20. No problem! on In Australia, Censorship vs. DNS, and Porn As Network Driver · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not in AU, but I happen to use my own DNS servers anyway.

  21. Re:You need to move to texas on 40GB of Data That Costs the Same As a House · · Score: 1

    UK house prices and UK mobile phone providers.

  22. Re:Am I the first ham in the room? APRS was earlie on BitTorrent Chat Demystified · · Score: 1

    I think if I chuck text files to each other over freenet, I probably have elementary distributed chat.

  23. Re:Am I the first ham in the room? APRS was earlie on BitTorrent Chat Demystified · · Score: 1

    ARPANET, hell, how you think the POTS works? Or even old telegraph cables. The difference is whether packet switched, broadcast or circuit switched.

  24. Was done years ago! on BitTorrent Chat Demystified · · Score: 1

    Yes, the old UNIX chat command didn't need a central server, every system was a client and a server. Nothing magic about expanding this with DHTs to make connecting easier.

  25. Re:General algorithm already known on Algorithm Solves Rubik's Cubes of Any Size · · Score: 1

    There are parity solve algorithms that can be reduced to.