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  1. Re:Infamous? on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 0

    Being urged and built by Hitler... Paving over known roman sites/ruins before full excavation.

  2. Re:The most annoying thing. on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh man, don't get me started on cooking meth...

  3. Re:How quaint on MIT Students Release Code To 3D-Print High Security Keys · · Score: 1

    One of my old work places had fancy glass doors with a touch bar to get out, badge swipe to get in. We used to keep a paperclip in the planter box by the door outside to stick through the gap and touch the bar with. It always opened.

  4. Bad comparison. on Watch the Crab Nebula Expand Over a 13 Year Period · · Score: 3, Informative

    The second "larger" image was processed differently - more lightening of the dark end & over exposed. All the stars bloom in the new image as they've been enhanced stronger than the older image. Granted the internal filaments did move slightly, there is cheating to make it look more pronounced.

  5. Well, not much would change then, would it?

  6. They messed with it! on Tar Pitch Drop Captured On Camera · · Score: 1

    The drop wasn't near tall enough to watch the thinning of the drop tail, and you can see they messed with it to try and get it - they raised the armature holding the funnel after it had dropped causing it to sheer off under the funnel and plop to the side. If they had allowed it to fall further I imagine there would be a tapered very long, stringy, wispy filament.

  7. Re:WinRT != Win32 on Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes · · Score: 1

    I haven't bothered yet, but I would have imagined it to be just like windows CE. a near-drop-in-identical API to Win32, cross-architecture

  8. Re:Apple iOS on Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 1

    I have successfully restored between devices from a single backup and retained all my WiFi connections. (iPod > iPhone)

  9. Re:64-bit arm support? on Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes · · Score: 1

    Isn't the MS Surface RT an ARM windows device? Not sure of the bit-depth, though... the chipset mentions plans for 64, so future forward?

  10. Re:Apple iOS on Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 1

    WPA handshake/crypto is done by hash of SSID+phrase, there is no need to store the original phrase but it is, as far as I can tell, for end-user convenience when changing your AP's SSID and not having to rekey the passphrase. Though on the client side I can't think of a reason for it... In the end, though, the hash can be considered the new passphrase but not exactly human-readable.
    Granted "reversible" is redundant when talking about encryption, I never implied a hash was reversible.

  11. Re:Apple iOS on Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 1

    Maybe the do save the hash instead of recalculating it on the fly, but they do also store the original passphrase. Otherwise tools like WiFiPAsswords wouldn't work. Still handy if the person changed their AP name but keeps the old password.

  12. Re:Apple iOS on Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 1

    ...And how is the keychain "easily snooped"? That's news to me. Please elaborate....

    https://github.com/ptoomey3/Keychain-Dumper

  13. Apple iOS on Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While not storing cleartext, they do store your WiFi passwords in a reversible encryption. If using WPA I think they should just store the ssid:phrase hash instead of keeping the phrase. WEP can't be helped... Anyhow, Apple stores all passwords in their keychain and this is easily snooped. Jailbroken iOS devices can get "WiFiPass" to reveal all the AP & passwords its ever connected to. It's handy when I pass my device to an AP owner to "privately" enter their password but I want to associate more devices, I just load that program and see what it was and do it myself.

  14. Re:Let me get this straight on Office 365, Amazon, Others Vulnerable To Exploit Microsoft Knew About In 2012 · · Score: 1

    I used to demo this all the time with open wifi traffic. Tis trivial. Cookies should use session IDs that expire, and tie to a browser's useragent (though this is easily spoofed, its just another layer). I used to also reference the IP somehow but this causes issues with mobile and DSL.

  15. Re:Protect the ribbons on Russian Federal Guard Service "Upgrades" To Electric Typewriters · · Score: 1

    Moreso carbon deposit ribbons like what selectric used, the cloth & ink ones usually reversed and re-typed over previous letters several times before needing replacement

  16. Re:I wonder how much was skimmed by the bag men on ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken · · Score: 1

    Correct, OP's wording says they report to a surely-dead Jesse James

  17. Re:Be prepared to pay out the nose for the filamen on Staples Starts Selling 3-D Printer · · Score: 2

    There is a bypass/hack for that http://www.howmuchsnow.com/cube/

  18. Re:cartridge based on Staples Starts Selling 3-D Printer · · Score: 5, Informative
  19. Re:Forget ZIP drives on Lenovo To Drop Iomega Brand On Joint EMC Products · · Score: 1

    The real drawback was that it was proprietary and thus not portable.

    But they were pretty much ubiquitous ca.1999

  20. Foxfire, Mushrooms on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 1

    There are mushrooms that already are known to produce enough light to be a torch, naturally. Foxfire, faerie fire... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxfire They use liciferin, too, and its a constant light. No "charging" needed by UV light or otherwise outside of keeping the growth healthy.

  21. Yes, I have on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Many times a person is searching for a program to do something by keyword instead of software title, and for free. Torrent sites are a common place to go for something free. I just generate a .torrent for my software(s) and upload it to a few big trackers and the others seem to pilfer it from there. Just make sure the filenames and titles are relevant. It's like SEO, but TTO: Torrent Tracker Optimization.

  22. Re:Dumbest idea, ever on Apple To Launch Largest Stock Repurchasing Plan In History · · Score: 0

    iPhone only brought capacitive/multi touch mainstream, iPad wasn't/isn't novel, just branding successful

  23. Re:UpDown on Should California Have Banned Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving? · · Score: 1

    No. Cost, forced licensing fees. You sound like a lobbyist for Navis.

  24. Re:Good. on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 1

    Unless he has [insert word for irresistible urge to shine lasters at planes here (aerofotophilia?)], he most likely will NOT do it again. Drunks have an addiction. Alcoholism.

  25. Re:Nothing new. on Twitter, Hotmail, LinkedIn, Yahoo Open To Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Ture, but even then I could tell what sites there were viewing based on DNS queries/IP. Mr. Straighlace might not like that I can see he's browsing https :// hungshemales.com every night.