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  1. Re:Let me get this out of the way on Judge OKs Wiretap Lawsuit Over Google Wi-Fi Sniffing · · Score: 1

    For this reason alone, I always VPN to my home router when connecting to open networks. I can't find the article right now, but I believe the FCC already states radio waves are free to receive, but circumvention of protections is illegal. Put your protections on (encryption)! And isn't the 2.4GHz band free-to-use? i.e. no real regulation of proper usage beyond power level? Just like RC toys...

    If I flash my passwords plaintext in morse code using a light, and someone records it - even inadvertently, is there a law being broken? No, because *I* am the idiot, not the receptors.

  2. Re:TrueCrypt on Ask Slashdot: Tools For Linux Disk Encryption and Integrity? · · Score: 2

    Nope, it offers full disk encryption, partition encryption, and file container, regardless of filesystem type within on Linux. My only problem with in on linux is the partition labels do not propagate thru mounting (eg /media/truecrypt1 instead of /media/MyDiskLabel)

  3. TI 82 on Are Graphical Calculators Pointless? · · Score: 1

    The only functions I used that for that a regular calculator didn't have was to play games!

  4. Re:I'm sorry it is a rip-off. on Are Graphical Calculators Pointless? · · Score: 1

    The DOLLAR store sells scientific calculators, with more functions than one would expect - it even does base conversions, arbitrary roots and arcs

  5. Re:Happened to me... on Magical Chinese Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    What were you expecting, and what did you get? #s, please.

  6. I've receive similar trickery on Magical Chinese Hard Drive · · Score: 3, Informative

    I bought a 2GB micro SD off ebay for cheap, received it and it reported the size correctly, except when it got past 32MB (yes megabytes) i got IO errors. Turns out, the FAT table was written as 2GB on a 32MB card. Writing zeroes then reformatting revealed only 32MB partition onward.

  7. I approve of these actions. on Anonymous Launches Attack On Sony · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Am I now part Sony's subpoena to get user IPs from ./ who comment on Sony stories?

  8. Re:321 rule on 'Zodiac Island' Makers Say ISP Worker Wiped an Entire Season · · Score: 1

    the "cloud" has just become a euphemism for the interwebs.

  9. "Rolltop" is a stupid name on Cylindrical Rolltop Laptops · · Score: 1

    A laptop is a computer that can be use atop one's lap. A rolltop suggests to me its light enough to place on your protruding fat rolls without sinking down and being absorbed in your disgusting self.

  10. Re:Why don't you go somewhere white.... on Ask Slashdot: What Gadgets Would You Use For Hunting Meteorites? · · Score: 1

    Because fresh impacts are not smoldering and made of charred cotton candy.

  11. Re:Easy on Ask Slashdot: What Gadgets Would You Use For Hunting Meteorites? · · Score: 1

    I think you found a diamond, not a lump of...

  12. Re:Settlements on Texas Site Pushes Back Known Settlement Date For North America · · Score: 2

    With Texas in the same sentence, no less. I was trying to wrap my head around a publicized patent suit so famous it didn't need to be named in the headline.

  13. Re:Vote by SMS? on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Wireless Voting For Students? · · Score: 1

    #4) break out that portable C02 laser you've got and BAM! landslide victory! ...and no more meter.

  14. Re:The Positron Rifle on Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark · · Score: 1

    Does this make it fiction now?

  15. Re:Am I going to get sued on PS3 Hacker Claims He's Jailbroken 3.60 Firmware · · Score: 1

    Articles?

  16. Been done before on British ISPs Could 'Charge Per Device' · · Score: 1

    Cable providers here in the bay area, ca, usa used to charge more if they detected more than one MAC on your cable modem (hub). They also prevented known router mfgr MACs from obtaining IP addresses - luckily this was avoided by configuring your router's MAC to spoof the MAC of your original machine 's NIC (back then it was called "@home" for me)

  17. Re:Damn! on Japan Earthquake May Have Shifted Earth's Axis · · Score: 1

    wat

  18. Re:Agree on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    He had access to one of the ships to experiment with. Supposedly the ships are run by something similar to the larger (mother) ships.

  19. Re:Teletype Displays on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the terminator was autistic/a visual thinker.

  20. Money making opportunities on DHS Eyes Covert Body Scans · · Score: 1

    I can see new lines of undergarments with foil shapes woven in. A large cartoonish bomb with the word "bomb" on it, or more TV-style cylinders wrapped around the torso. Maybe a fake dong down to your knees in pants. Explatives directed at scanner screeners, etc.
    Also a great time to start investing in personal geiger counters, assuming backscatter xray is in their detection range.

  21. Re:huge customer demand? on Panasonic Launches Beautifying Camera · · Score: 1

    I'm reminded of Homer Simpson's makeup-applying shotgun. "Homer! I you've got it set on 'whore'..."

  22. Re:Yes Virginia, there is enough toast for all on Gmail Accidentally Resets 150,000 Accounts · · Score: 1

    This is why I have a message filter set up to copy the email to a local store upon receipt. Essentially mimicking POP, but I like IMAP more for the folder organisation and instant notification.

  23. Internet layer 2? on Freedom Box Foundation Wants Plug Servers For All · · Score: 1

    It may be nice that, if every house has one of these, the devices created a wireless or powerline ad-hoc network which would then be out of reach of any government agency for a kind of kill switch short of cutting power. Kind of like what OLPC envisioned. It'd be interesting to see the latency/hops in this kind of network. And before "OMG H@X" comes up, it shouldn't be any different than your already-conencted computer/router...

  24. Oh, good. on Google Goes After Content Farms · · Score: 1

    They maybe I can disable the messy greasemonkey script that adds -site:wn.com -site:eggheadcafe.com etc to all my queries.

  25. Re:Can Sony sue me for this? on Sony Gets Geohot's Hardware, But Not YouTube/Twitter User Info · · Score: 1

    lol, I was wondering how someone would make a free speech flag out of that one...