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  1. Re:The problem is not an efficient algorithm on What Computer Science Can Teach Economics · · Score: 1

    Yeah, for a start what counts as a line of code?

    printf
    (
    "hello world!"
    )
    ;

    does that count as 5 lines of code?

  2. Re:This tool is intended... on How Much Is Your Online Identity Worth? · · Score: 1

    I know a couple of symantec employees or employees (from a different section to Norton) that refuse to use Symantec's security products, several of the free for home user products are better than Symantec products have ever been, and they've been that way for some time.

  3. Re:Gog.com on Bethesda Sues Interplay Over Fallout License, MMO Plans · · Score: 1

    I happen to know that too, but even the disc check isn't that major, same with oblivion, only the launcher does the check.

  4. Re:Gog.com on Bethesda Sues Interplay Over Fallout License, MMO Plans · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As Bethesda is one of the company that tries to do the least DRM they can get away with (Elder Scrolls: Oblivion IV only requires a disc in the right volume label) and fallout3 only uses the most basic disc inserted check securom is able to do. I do not think they'll go as far as to deactivate the legacy games. Also, not that interplay were under the terms of the contract still legally able to sale the legacy games, they just were suppose to allow Bethesda to check marketing material and were suppose to have started dev of the MMO version. The first is actually quite important in the RPG world, as with the rights transfer so did who said what is and isn't officially Fallout lore, and all RPGs take lore seriously as it's a fundamental point of RPGs.

  5. Re:Um, here's a thought. on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    This is why we have different distros. Some try the low configurability for new user approach (ubuntu, xandros) others are made for as much configurability as one could want (Gentoo, Arch Linux, Linux From Scratch). You will not find a Vi/Emacs flamewar on ubuntu forums for a reason.

  6. Re:Get rid of passwords.. on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    It's not quite that simple, ideally it will be smartcard and pin pair (with key on crypto calculations on smartcard itself) however most computers I use do not have smartcard readers yet.

  7. Re:Um, here's a thought. on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Linux developers gave choices to allow the optimisation for each particular user.
    Windows and Mac OSX both try to enforce their way of doing things.
    And your argument was that the Linux developers aren't getting it right.

  8. Re:Ever typed a long WPA key into an iPhone? on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    And when it's quicker to crack a WEP key than type it in...

  9. Re:Masking passwords doesn't do much on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    personally I would choose the EM of the data cable between keyboard and motherboard technique. Anyway, he specifically goes for usability of websites. once pass is gained that's it, connect from another computer onion routing bouncing through several nodes in the botnet (or just use tor) no physical access required.

  10. Re:Only when registering on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    There is an ATM hack where they basically put a second set of sensors under fake keycaps.

  11. Re:Makes sense on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    what if I have performed a VNC dll injection attack to open a view only shared session?

  12. Re:Not to fanboi all over the place... on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    My Motorola L6 does it (proprietary Motorola OS). My Nokia E71 does it (Symbian S60 3rd edition).

  13. Re:Not to fanboi all over the place... on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    It was written in such a way to implicate it was an iPhone innovation to have this compromise.

  14. Re:Not to fanboi all over the place... on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    All mobile/cell phones I've used in the past 5 years have done this, and none made by apple.

  15. Re:No More Encryption! on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    So great, any SQL injection attack can now totally hijack any user account on the system 100% and give a good guess at a password they might use somewhere else. Also, it's not encryption (we consider this as bad as plain text usually as key needs to be on the system to decrypt or encrypt the entry before compare) but cryptographic hashing.

  16. Re:How about a compromise? on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    I've started to get quite fast and accurate on my E71 keyboard noticing errors as I press the key before I see it on the screen.

  17. Re:Ever typed a long WPA key into an iPhone? on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Wifi keys (WEP/WPA/WPA2) really are pointless in masking. I mean it's not like someone is going to remember them...

  18. Re:Um, here's a thought. on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    What the developer wants is not always wrong, I am far more efficient working in my Linux environment where every key combo and set of key strokes and set of mouse movements does exactly what I want them to. I like select copy, middle click paste for example my Linux using flatmate doesn't so he disables this functionality. In Windows where it is strictly as M$ expect the user to want in (Mac is no better adding an extra key to the keyboard for such stuff).
    On that note, my system is extremely optimized to the way I work a lot more so more than Windows or Mac OSX.

  19. Re:Two words on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    One step easier for son/daughter/niece/nephew/younger sibling to take out your shiny new convertible for a joy ride.

  20. Re:Two words on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    I think they existed before computers even. Not 100% sure, but think they were just a hole in the wall with a wooden flap over it for when it's cold or sand storm protection even further back..

  21. Re:Two words on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    I prefer the term guru in some cases. Fits technical situations better often.

  22. Re:Lotus Notes on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    fail unless the glyphs are a cryptographically sound hashing algorithm of which:
    1. I know none that don't change the entirety of the hash by extending it by one character and
    2. there is a minimum length on secure hashing algorithms 3. Currently known hash algorithm insecurities is why there is currently stuff running by both NSA and ESA to find a new standard algorithm.

  23. Re:Two words on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    This is where slashdot's approach of remembering authentication cookie and having that public terminal checkbox to tell it not to in public places work fine.

  24. Re:Two words on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Type quicker?

  25. Re:hunter2 on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Correction, you should be using passphrased ssh authentication keys. And openssh doesn't echo those passphrases (however gui pin entry apps do :( ).