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  1. Re:Lesson? on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    Some other web 2 site died a month or two ago.

    The story was on /. but I don't remember the services name. Turned out the guy had a single copy on a RAID array which got wiped, game over.

    Lesson still not learned apparently.

  2. Re:It's not a problem with SSL /per se/ on Black Hat Presentation Highlights SSL Encryption Flaws · · Score: 1

    They show on page 69 how it looks once they substitute a lock image for the favicon (if they had wanted to be Extra Evil, they'd have given their fake favicon a blue background, which would have made firefox 3 look exactly like it was SSL protected, except for the S missing in the URL)

    WTF? No. The box where that icon is shown in FF3 isn't 16x16 pixels. Having a blue background would look weird and out of place.

  3. Re:Multiple redundancy on Major Cache of Fossils Unearthed In Los Angeles · · Score: 1

    Multiple redundancy = Tautology

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(rhetoric)

  4. Re:New computers need *SOME* sort of browser on MS To Slip IE8 Into Vista and XP Through OEMs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Start->Run

    ftp ftp.mozilla.org
    cd /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0.6/win32/en-US/
    get "Firefox Setup 3.0.6.exe"

    IE is one of the most bloated firefox download tools there is.

  5. Re:Sounds a bit useless on Euro Parliament Wants "Red Button" For Shutting Down Games · · Score: 3, Funny

    This reminds me of when I was playing Red alert 1 with my cousin, when we were teens.

    His mum got pissed off and hit the power switch.

    Then the UPS kicked in. It really lessened the impact she was going for.

  6. Re:Oddly enough... on MS Critical Patch Fixes 8 Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    How about no.
    http://secunia.com/advisories/product/11/

    22 unpatched vulnerabilities, some of which are critical.

  7. What's in a name on Build a BoxeeBox and Wean Yourself From Cable · · Score: 1

    A 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo based system isn't going to be silent.
    I think THE requirement for a media centre is silent operation. (and I don't mean silent 2.0 as defined by the marketers these days)

    Also, stupid name.

  8. Re:Culture on China Aims To Move Up the Food Chain · · Score: 2, Funny

    Recursion and a stack overflow?

  9. Re:Key Management on How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything? · · Score: 1

    I keep my keys on a USB disk.
    I swallow the disk and wait for it to come out the other end. Rinse (literally) and repeat.

  10. Re:Give an example on UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah, I can throw anecdotes around too.
    But i'm not going to because I reject your relativist approach to this whole issue.

  11. Re:Very sad on UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I disagree.

    People seem notoriously unable to recognise a police state when they are immersed in one.

    On the other hand, I don't think there is a photofit image of a police state for easy identification. It's fallaciously to say, "Oh look, we aren't as bad as China/Iran/Zimbabwe, so we can't be a police state, every thing's fine."

  12. Re:Must be a slow news day.. on February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm going to quit work before 2147483647 because I don't want to update all my code.

  13. Re:I just found out about this. on OpenDNS To Block and Monitor Conficker Worm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not sure why people around here seem positive about using OpenDNS (as opposed to running your own say).

    When I make a type I get an Address Not Found error and THAT'S THE WAY I LIKE IT.

  14. Substitution exercise on Houston Courts Shut Down By Malware · · Score: 1, Funny

    Houston court (Your mums PC), was shutdown by malware, and Gray Hat Research (You) were brought in on an emergency contract (Called up from the basement) to eradicate the infection (reinstall windows XP)

  15. Re:The horrible problem on Passwords From PHPBB Attack Analyzed · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you're going to rant about encryption then get modded +5, try to be factually correct so you don't mislead people.

    CRC32 is a checksum algorithm.
    Integrity algorithm - This doesn't mean anything!
    MD5 and SHA1 are both hash algorithms.
    MD5 is weak because it's not not collision resistant.
    SHA256 and up are recommended.

    For passwords simply appending the salt is sufficient. Hashes are not reversible. They can't be "undone mathematically".

    There is a related issue called an extension attack, where data can be added without knowing the original hash value. For that you need an HMAC which is the correct way to incorporate ("mix and blend") a secret key with data.

    Avoid adding rounds to weak hashes. Pick a larger hash. A 512bit hash has 1.3 Ã-- 10^154 possible outputs!

    Do not reinvent the hash.
    Do not reinvent the HMAC.
    Learn the proper application of both.

  16. Re:Summary != Link on Major Study Concludes That Cloud Seeding Is Effective · · Score: 5, Informative
  17. Summary != Link on Major Study Concludes That Cloud Seeding Is Effective · · Score: 1

    What I like best about this article is how the link has absolutely NOTHING to do with the summary.

    So what shall we talk about?

  18. Your first radio on Students Call Space Station With Home-Built Radio · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's going to be considerably more difficult for the next generation to build their first radios, once it's all gone digital.

    There won't be much left to listen to on a simple crystal set.

  19. Re:Pirated on Web Rescues Un-Aired Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Did the industries scheme to demonize copyright infringement backfire?
    If they scream piracy at everything, then the word piracy will dilute until it doesn't really mean anything.

    This might already have happened.

  20. Re:kdawson on Corporate Espionage Involving a Patent At Microsoft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn, I'm just not that imaginative.

  21. Re:The First Ones on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 5, Funny

    FIRST POST!

  22. Re:Silly IT boy on NFL's IT Chief Gears Up For His 25th Super Bowl · · Score: -1, Troll
  23. Re:LOL on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When camera phones that don't click are outlawed, only outlaws will have camera phones that don't click.

  24. Re:Zomg on AMD Phenom II Overclocked To 6.5GHz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, only 6.5GHz too.
    Call me when it goes up to 11

  25. Re:Won't happen on Mozilla Labs Wants To Monitor (Volunteers') Firefox Use · · Score: 2, Funny

    You'd only be giving them a hash of your best porn sites.
    With so many to choose from, I think your love of horse/goat double penetration is safe.