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  1. Re:I tried to access the floppy drive on What Did You Do First With Linux? · · Score: 1

    And to think by how much knoppix and mepis predate ubuntu... and dual boot predated even that ;)

  2. Re:What about MySQL? on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1

    I believe netbeans is also a c/c++, ruby and python IDE (plus more languages I can't recall), as is eclipse... However I also know CS students who don't even know what IDE stands for. As my best lecturer says, a programmer should aim to learn at leas one new language each year. Basically learn the new and the old. I also agree, knowing formal names for things isn't what makes a person a good programmer.

  3. Re:Search the Freenet project. on Encrypted But Searchable Online Storage? · · Score: 1

    They use plaintext indices.

  4. Re:My way of tackling the problem... on Encrypted But Searchable Online Storage? · · Score: 1

    Cryptographically hash word by word over encrypting them anyway, then one would have to find the same collision. Problem with this is the possibility of false positives (hey at least I'm not decrypting and searching all the plain text...) All one would have to do is search the hash index by using the same algorithm on the search terms. Might be noted that with such an approach, generating the index will take a long time and must be done somewhere with the plaintext content. And even if we do discard repeated word hashes, for a couple of documents the index likely to be bigger than the documents themselves. At a few hundred documents it could work...

  5. Re:You want to... on Encrypted But Searchable Online Storage? · · Score: 1

    this is also untrue with truly random keystream generation, or with any of the block cipher modes (you could encrypt the search string a number of times with on of the modes to be possible).

  6. Re:Maybe, maybe not on Encrypted But Searchable Online Storage? · · Score: 1

    depends on the block cipher mode, some still uses modes where dictionary based attacks can work...

  7. Re:It's not possible even in theory on Encrypted But Searchable Online Storage? · · Score: 1

    My shares are limited to certain other hosts on the network anyway, plus my mum can't even manage to connect to her own shares. Finally, most of the time I use sshfs and so do not have samba/nfs running.

  8. Re:How about other democracies? on The Net — Democratic Panacea Or Autocratic Tool? · · Score: 1

    sorry, that should be constitutional monarchy.

  9. Re:How about other democracies? on The Net — Democratic Panacea Or Autocratic Tool? · · Score: 1

    Well, as the UK is technically the oldest still surviving democratic government in the world, all modern democracies are based on parliment (there are a lot of parallels you probably don't notice). However, technically we are an autocratic monarchy, and we gave up on our time of pure democracy very early on.

  10. Re:Cool on COBOL Turning 50, Still Important · · Score: 1

    RTTY is still used by some of us. Then a phone code isn't needed.

  11. Re:hit them back on Designer Accused of Copying His Own Work By Stock Art Website · · Score: 1

    Both the Linux Foundation and Microsoft are bigger than me (a lone code at the moment), I find one a threat but not the other. Further more the bigger one of the two has reported the smaller one is a threat to it.

  12. Re:Symbian^3 ? on Symbian Introduces Open Source Release Plan · · Score: 1

    Could be Symbian XOR 3?

  13. Re:Frogs in boiling water on Verizon Wants To Share Your Personal Information · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the MoD leaves loads lying around. And it's not unknown to find DLVA data either.

  14. Re:Children on Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them · · Score: 1

    Which would force the software to only be sold in the US, as not all citizens of all countries don't necessarily have an equivalent of SSN or CC# either.

  15. Re:Ummm... on Researchers Hack Biometric Faces · · Score: 1

    Thanks...

    I'll go and grab it for some fun, you do have everything backed up? Even that drmed stuff from the iTunes music store and iPhone apps store?

    Now in contrast, my E71 has an alpha numeric password of length I set, encrypts both the phone memory and the micro sd-card, and only erases due to someone tampering with the actual sim, then getting that passcode wrong several times at which point it also sends gps coordinates of it's current location via sms.

    Seriously though, how many combinations from a four digit passcode? 10,000 not many, and most will not want to enable the erase. I was getting into the 4 digit combination locks on school lockers when I was younger (several times my friends forgot their own passcodes) sometimes by brute force.

  16. Re:Ok then... on Researchers Hack Biometric Faces · · Score: 1

    There is an easy fix for this... paralax method off two cameras simultaneously... then one can compare the face metrics in 3D not 2D and therefore a 2D image would just fail. However, as this would require two camera's no-one has even really thought about it.

  17. Re:ultimately reduces consumer choice on Mozilla To Join EU Suit Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Everquest II in fact does use mozilla ingame (embedded firefox 2 to be precise), type about:mozilla to see the firefox 2 book of mozilla entry.

    As for browser being core to the OS indeed it is, but that doesn't stop me removing firefox and xulrunner on linux and having majority of the OS still run, I admit there are a couple of apps which I prefer which choose xulrunner/gecko for rendering html (I'm now trying to think of one that doesn't allow webkit as a compile time choice).

  18. Re:ultimately reduces consumer choice on Mozilla To Join EU Suit Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    And one of the recent applications I installed on my machine had firefox embedded in it, would have worked fine whether or not I already had firefox installed (it's even a different major version).

  19. Re:My machines on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    Nah, my housemate uses places, magrathea...

  20. Re:Depends who is reading what at that time. on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    Well, all my systems are named after Star Trek ships (all series).

    So domain name and wifi SSID is starfleet, routers are named after ambassador class ships USS Ghandi and USS Excalibur, Server is USS Excelsior (not so good as enterprise but thinks it's better), Desktop is USS Defiant (hidden away at home) and my laptop is USS Enterprise (goes out exploring with me). I generally drop the USS and just use the name.

  21. Re:You have missed the point. on Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    (4) This is NOT about adding a mime-type handler. It is about installing a mime-type handler that some users may not want, secretly, in the background, without asking for permission.

    Especially the browser (since version 3.0) provides a way to add handlers through javascript that automatically asks the user whether it is wanted. No damn extension is needed. Oh, and java webstart gets by without any such measures.

  22. Paintball mode on New Open Source FPS Blood Frontier Shows Promise · · Score: 1

    I downloaded it and tried the paintball mode just to see how it differs. Basically, you halt for a few seconds after getting hit. After four hits you die and have to respawn. And there is a time after the pause during which you can't be shot. Quite unique, fun and different.

  23. Re:"Better" is relative... on Mozilla Donates $100K To the Ogg Project · · Score: 1

    Call it Vorbis then? :P

  24. Re:I thought Ogg was dead on Mozilla Donates $100K To the Ogg Project · · Score: 1

    "Sound files on Wikipedia generally use the Vorbis audio format, and video files use the Theora format." Wikipedia help pages and the template gives cortado a simple Java applet ogg player on the pages.

  25. Re:Air Force One replacement on USAF Seeks Air Force One Replacement · · Score: 1

    Why couldn't he? All it requires is a powerful transmitter... But they have taps in all over the ground too. Places the media corporations don't know about probably. What happens if the TV stations all get bombed and he needs to get a message to all the citizens?