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  1. Shredding candidate list on An Anonymous, Verifiable E-Voting Tech · · Score: 1

    What is the point of detaching and shredding the list of candidates part of the form in his method? Surely the 2D barcode must have this information of what box is what candidate. Just means counting by hand would now be impossible as one would have to decode the 2D barcode. I guess it's so the ballot worker doing the scanning doesn't see it. But the scanner is a computer and can decode the barcode by definition.

  2. Re:WTF on UK's National Rail Shuts Down Free Timetable App · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or the Swiss. There is a reason their trains run on time, and it's not just that they make accurate timepieces.

  3. Re:Different situation completely on Xbox 360 Jailbreaker May Need Real Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    Corporations are real people, well the board of directors is. If a corporation commits fraud every one of the board is expected to do jail time for example.

  4. Re:Other problems... on Opera Embraces Extensions For v.11 · · Score: 1

    Opera is QT by the way.

  5. Re:But if he doesn't patent it... on Why Geim Never Patented Graphene · · Score: 1

    "r" == 1,"m" == 2, " " == 3, at least one character for the filename == 4, return == 5.

    So that's at least five clicks.

  6. Re:One small problem... on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 1

    I think you are confusing Unix and Network sysadmins with Windows sysadmins.

  7. Re:The IPv6 nightmare begins with it's design... on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Host operating systems tend to already have support, Linux was early in 1996 with experimental support. By 2005 all the major desktop systems had support (well, winxp needed download from Microsoft). We've known this year is coming for quite some time. Also IPv6 is actually more effecient, removing a lot of the left over ARPA cruft that is nolonger neccersary, for an address size at 4 times the size of IPv4, the IP packet header is only twice the size. The problem is the router manufacturers and network engineers don't like it cause it's quite different from IPv4 with that cruft removed, and they can't seem to read the RFCs. FInally I had a friend who stated that IPv6 needs all routers to support it, as if 6to4 tunneling didn't exist. As long as it'll pass on protocol 41 packets like any other it works fine (with the necesity of manually forwarding through a NAT for the standard reasons.

  8. Re:Gotta say, they picked a good one on Microsoft Migrating Live Spaces Users To WordPress · · Score: 1

    As are quite a few wordpress themes if one wants to find them.

  9. Re:Not surprising on Haystack and the Myth of the Boy Wizard · · Score: 1

    I hereby ban you from logging into slashdot then. There are good and bad uses for cookies as there are for all technology. Should we ban all planes cause they could be used as bombers?

  10. Re:Er, on Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates · · Score: 1

    Mine is analogy of what this company is doing, not on copyright infringement.

  11. Re:In this case... on Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates · · Score: 1

    Well, I can line to their site if you wish, but as it's running IIS 6.0 I recon a single exploit attack is going to be easy enough anyway.

  12. Re:Mod parent insightful on Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates · · Score: 1

    That is only a valid analogy for a distributed denial of service attack. DoS attacks can be targeted exploits at services designed to crash them in one request.

  13. Re:Er, on Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell, a better analogy is this: A person enters a shop looking to buy a particular item, now the shopkeeper doesn't have any in stock so he suggests another shop run by a friend which happens to sell fenced goods (not that the shopkeeper knows that). So a person who had one of their goods fenced by the second shop after they were robbed goes and smashes up the first shop so the owner has to close for repairs and so can't tell any more customers about the shop that sells fenced goods shop.

  14. Re:Blizzard on Game Publishers Using Stealth P2P Clients · · Score: 1

    Most P2P networks actually use UDP, and math states that whatever the protocol, if you saturate your upload on a non full-duplex system then there will be an adverse effect on ones download.

  15. Re:Blizzard on Game Publishers Using Stealth P2P Clients · · Score: 1

    Yeah, lack of your knowledge of how asynchronous connections work.

  16. Re:Yes, something is up on Why Microsoft Is Being Nicer To Open Source · · Score: 1

    my symbian S60 phone has mysql install on it.

  17. Re:Yah, except on The Doctor's Every Journey · · Score: 1

    when they decide not to renew the contract, but it's all part of the storyline that each Timelord gets 12 regenerations (13 incarnations). Oh and the Master broke that limit already.

  18. Re:perfect bomb triggers on Germany To Roll Out ID Cards With Embedded RFID · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is 96ft (~29m) far enough away, that's the Defcon record. Blackhat USA 2010 has beat it don't know the practical distance achieved but the paper gives a theoretical maximum of 565ft (~172m). Want to change some of those assumptions? It's a radio, distance is based on three things transmitter power, receiver sensitivity and atmospheric conditions the first 2 can be controlled very easily.

  19. Re:identity cards, not passports on Germany To Roll Out ID Cards With Embedded RFID · · Score: 1

    The kind who haven't seen Oliver Twist.

  20. Re:Human nature on Belgian ISP Claims One Customer Downloads 2.7TB · · Score: 1

    Just to add something XOR is the same as any binary addition modulo 2, which is the case we actually are usually interested in when dealing with binary data.

  21. Re:Human nature on Belgian ISP Claims One Customer Downloads 2.7TB · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, the one time pad would have as much or as little pornographic information as the linux iso, only when used together through an XOR stream cipher would they become the pornographic file.

  22. Revoke time on EFF Asks Verizon Whether Etisalat Deserves CA Trust · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Time to revoke Verizon certificates on my computers.

  23. Re:Flash cookies remain too on Browser Private Modes Not So Private After All · · Score: 1

    don't forget the server's ISP and and any routers bounced through on the way. And finally the DNS servers.

  24. Re:Phone home? on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 1

    We are talking about around 4 bytes of information from my figuring, is already 13 bytes. Firebug tells me google home page is 90KB of which 79KB came from my firefox cache.

  25. Re:Phone home? on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 1

    Loading Google takes a lot more bandwidth than something like this.