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  1. Google glass - keyboarded passwords not an option on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    I don't think people have quite got the implications of google's new headwear (Project Glass). Others have gone before - but Google have shown they can push into the mass market.

    I think you should assume from this point forward that anyone wearing eyewear is recording everything they're looking at in sufficient resolution and frame rates to play back your typing later and thus discerning your password.

    Previously you'd call this "shoulder surfing" - but they human eye doesn't really do "zoom". Digital zoom from digital eyewear, on the other hand, means your password could reasonably be read off your moving fingers from a bus-length away.

    A second factor is now a requirement, IMO. Interesting times.

  2. Google Docs Party Comparison on A How-To Website For Australian Voters · · Score: 2, Informative

    The following document is a summary of the parties and their positions on various subjects. Publically modifiable, so if you can contribute, please do.

    http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgwGFHFd0TUIdExCbkNZWllUaVRsRG9yZXVVTXhUN0E&hl=en&authkey=CJu2lp8P#gid=0

  3. Re:Needless amounts of effort! on Nit-Pickers Guide to Deviations in Jackson's LotR · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > The question I have is this: Is there any change > from the book that actually bothers people?

    If I were Faramir, I'd be suing for defamation.
    Faramir was the one truly-mortal man in the book who flat-out refused the ring.

    You /may/ put this down the the Ring "deciding" that Faramir wasn't going to be a good "host", but I've always thought of Faramir as a strong character because he refused the Ring.

  4. Re:Trying to throw us off the trail, huh? on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 1

    > Come on, Darl, you HIRED someone to write it,
    > didn't you? An open source Reichstag fire, right?

    The Open Source movement has been breaking Windows for years.

    An Open Source Reichstag Fire is the natural progressions from KristalNacht, no?

  5. Pining for the trees on SCO Fails to Produce Evidence · · Score: 1

    Now if you were an IBM lawyer, and possibly having a bad day, would you be thinking about printing all that AIX source code out for SCO?

    After all, IBM said the format was unreasonable for SCO to have given IBM. Since SCO /supplied/ their copy of the linux source code in printed form, naturally they must be happy to receive it in that form, right?

  6. Re:No Tridge in sight? on Samba Team Points Out SCO's Hypocrisy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I noted that Tridge did not add his name to the "Samba Team"

    Should we assume that's for the obvious reasons - the whole IBM-being-sued-and-employees-commenting-would-be-a -bad-idea?

    I got a comment, "No, seriously, I can't comment on that" out of another friend working at IBM. Sounds like the heavies really did come around...

  7. Re:I tried it... Couldn't use it on GnuCash - A Call For Help · · Score: 0

    Ah - the Law of Conservation of Money :-)

    I migh argue (and we are getting a little pedantic...) that the rest of the world is, in fact, not "poorer" at this point - the rest of the world has "equity" in the accounting system.

    In fact, I'd guess that's why we call that account "equity" rather than "Stuff I had when I started tracking my expenses". If you were to form a business, you would transfer "equity" into the new business via the "equity" account.

  8. Re:I tried it... Couldn't use it on GnuCash - A Call For Help · · Score: 0

    > Boy was I wrong. I figured out the >take-out-of-one-account-to-credit-another system, >but I couldn't figure out how to put money into >the system.

    There is an entire account type devoted to "putting money into the system". That would be "equity".

  9. Re:Useful for netbackups too on Gzip on a PCI card · · Score: 0

    Doesn't use gzip? Some files to remove, then....

    ---
    pbarker@milligan:~/muck/rsync/zlib$ ls
    CVS/ adler32.o dummy.in infcodes.o inflate.o infutil.o zutil.c
    ChangeLog crc32.c infblock.c inffast.c inftrees.c trees.c zutil.h
    Makefile deflate.c infblock.h inffast.h inftrees.h trees.h zutil.o
    README deflate.h infblock.o inffast.o inftrees.o trees.o
    README.rsync deflate.o infcodes.c inffixed.h infutil.c zconf.h
    adler32.c dummy infcodes.h inflate.c infutil.h zlib.h
    pbarker@milligan:~/muck/rsync/zlib$
    ---

  10. There are options... in Canberra on Pity Broadband Users In Australia · · Score: 0
    My mobile phone is with the "incumbent" telco; they're the only people who cover significant parts of the outback.

    Having said that, I currently buy no other services from them. The reason? TransACT.

    4 twisted pairs (cat-5) into the house. Total theoretical capacity in my house right now: 208 Mbit. Cost to run another similar line? Possibly a few hundred dollars. VOD, pizza-over-the-net, telephony on the same wires.... it's all here.

    Now all I need is a television.

  11. Re:This is stupid... on Russia Declassifies "Stealth" Warship · · Score: 0

    Actually, visual locations are easy to come by. Your ships may only be several hundred meters long, but their wakes can be several kilometres long. Apparently, in various oceans, this wakes phosphoresce....

    Additionally, thermal imaging can be used from satellites. Fairly easy to pick up a nuclear pile against the sea's background.

  12. Trademark issues? on New Language CURL Merges HTML And Javascript · · Score: 1

    I wonder if there are any trademark issues pending with libcurl?
    I know what happens when you let lawyers loose, but the legal page did seem a little over-the-top.

  13. Re:Probably a fake on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So, what might they change it do? "Attack of the Clowns"?

  14. ANU has been doing this.... on Technology vs. Cheating at the University of Virginia · · Score: 1

    The CS department of the Australian National University has been doing this for at least 8 years.

    They don't look for "phrases", however; too easy to randomise. They look for digraph pairs, amongst other things.

    It is surprisingly good at picking out dupes; evern programs where the variable names have been changed.

    Anyways....

  15. Re:This is not a tragedy, its an opportunity. on Adobe Discontinues FrameMaker for Linux · · Score: 1

    Search Freshmeat for Panda. Think of it as "libpdf". Allows you to create PDF documents programmatically from c,c++,vb and (soon) perl and python.