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  1. Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 2

    Not really..

    In it's gaseous phase, it's fairly harmless, and can be found in minute quantities in the air you breathe

    Furthermore, even if one is to inhale and fill it's lung with the foul substance, one may eventually be saved by allowing one to breathe again normally - assuming it is within a reasonable amount of time, then it is not fatal.

    So no : Not 100% lethal !

    (I must be new here!)

    --Ivan

  2. Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected (might because of reading something wrong - or a mispelling)..

    Thanks

    --Ivan

  3. Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 1

    Maybe look for hexane, or hydroxilic acid or Oxygen dihydride or something as such

    --Ivan

  4. Re:7.4 != 9.2 Not even close. on 7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Japan; Tsunami Alert Issued · · Score: 2

    This figure reflects pretty much measures the energy released during the event.

    For effects, you want to use the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale - which is a closed scale - ranging from 0 (not felt) to 10 (everything leveled).

  5. Re:iOS not IOS on IOS 4.3 Now Available For Download · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you referring to IBM's i OS (aka OS/400)

  6. IOS ? on Malicious Websites Can Initiate Skype Calls On iOS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IOS ?

    Isn't that CISCO's router OS ?

    (I remember IBM having to rebrand their own (formally OS/400) own OS for IBM i systems from i/OS to IBM i5 OS because they feared a CISCO suit)..

    enable
    conf term
    interface eth0
    no shutdown
    exit
    write
    exit

    --Ivan

  7. Re:BLOGGING? Who the fuck BLOGS any more? on Microsoft Migrating Live Spaces Users To WordPress · · Score: 1

    Oh.. And Blog!=Facebook!=Twitter!= THE INTERNET (which is nothing but a loosely set of protocole routing rules by IANA - the self appointed Inernet Keeper, that delegated said routing to RIRs then to LIRs)..

    (I don't know how this fares - probably going to get modded off-topic.. Oh well - had to get this off my chest).

    --Ivan

  8. There WAS some DNS issues too ! on Why Browsers Blamed DNS For Facebook Outage · · Score: 3, Informative

    The confusion might have come from the fact that when I looked, there seemed to also be some DNS problem.

    Basically, when asking directly, the servers that are authoritative for the zone were giving me a CNAME for the 'ANY' query, but not the associated A records, which it should, since the CNAME was pointing to a host name within the same authority. At this point, any sensible resolver stops asking !

    This only lasted for a little while though - so it might have been a glitch or possibly a deliberate action related to how they were trying to fix the underlying issue itself - possibly averting traffic until they actually solved the actual problem.

    --Ivan

  9. Re:Corruption threatens "soul and fabric" of U.S. on Blagojevich Appears At Chicago Comic Con · · Score: 1

    Forget it..

    Of course..

    Not Guilty "Implies" Innocent
    Innocent "Does NOT imply" Not Guilty

    Duh !

    --Ivan

  10. Re:Corruption threatens "soul and fabric" of U.S. on Blagojevich Appears At Chicago Comic Con · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that for a correct application of common law and/or civil law, you were innocent until proven guilty..

    So to me, "innocent" is true unless a "guilty" status is achieved. Therefore "Not Guilty" is a sufficient condition to name the defendant "innocent".

    Of course, "not guilty" doesn't mean acquitted, so a retrial is possible without risking double jeopardy. (but he still has an "Innocent" status).

    But IANAL of course.

    --Ivan

  11. Release the Kraken on Ikatako Virus Replaces Victims' Files With Pictures of Squid · · Score: 1

    Release the Kraken

  12. Re:I am terrible at math..but on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 1

    It's cognitively not that obvious.

    Parsing "4+3+2=()+2" is actually not a trivial process. It may become trivial after some time, but it's not intuitive.

    This could easily be parsed as (4+3+2=x)+2 and therefore, as ((4+3+2=9)+2)=11 because () is usually meant to change the precedence of a statement.

    Now this could easily be read as :

    "There are four red apples, three green apples and two yellow apples in a (nice little red basket) and two brown apples".. How many apples ?

  13. Re:So they plan... on Defeating Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    Except theory says that once you've measured one, the wave function collapses and the 2 particles are no longer entangled.

    Because this seems to indicate that information has traveled at a velocity greater than the speed of light, Einstein (and others) weren't too happy with it.. Hence the EPR paradox.

    Einstein believed there was a locally hidden variable. However that was dismissed by Bell's inequality theorem.

  14. Re:Exactly. on Sometimes It's OK To Steal My Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have to disagree here..

    Mainstream games *DO* need exposure (just like any product to be sold).

    However, they use another venue for this : commercial advertisement.

    Just 2 different angles to address the same problem. One is going for the upfront lump sum approach (mainstream), the other one is going for the progressive scheme : If the product is a flop, nothing lost - if it's a hit - then the revenue is probably less than if it would have been a mainstream company.

    Just my .02 (of whatever you currency is)

    --Ivan

  15. Factor "overall" cost of IT dept.. on Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? · · Score: 1

    It's possible the "internal" cost is simply some form of rudimentary metric to measure the relative usage that is made of the IT dept by each of the other depts (so each dept is charged accordingly).

    --Ivan

  16. Habeas Corpus ? on US Supreme Court Upholds Indefinite Confinement · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to Habeas Corpus ?

    I thought this was a basic principle in the U.S. legal system.. Whereas, a person could not be held in custody without a court order - and I can't think how a court order can go beyond the age of a sentence of imprisonment.

    Does this also mean that peeing in the improper place can now be turned into a lifelong sentence without parole ?

  17. Re:I see. on German User Fined For Having an Open Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    You switched off the SSID broadcast. You locked the door of your house. By doing both, you made a pro-active attempt to secure your network. Do those, and no judge in their right mind is going to say you were facilitating.

    Well - at least we seem to agree on that ;) (I was just saying it differently).

    The only difference, is that - imho, once the judge agrees that you weren't facilitating, then the "security device" performed its function - at which point - whether the villain went around it or through it is moot.

    And I hear you.. Yes, there is sometimes a way "around" (but not necessarily "through"). But that's independent of the "security device" - it's dependent on the "security system".

    What I am saying here is that the statement "all security devices can be circumvented" is a tautology, and not necessarily a bad one though - it serves as a reminder that a security device within a poorly designed security system is useless - or rather - a security system is only as good as the weakest device that comprise the system.

  18. Re:I see. on German User Fined For Having an Open Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    And what I am saying, with all due respect, is that the notion that "virtually all security devices can be circumvented" is misleading.

    If you take it into a broad and global sense, that's of course true - but becomes very impractical after a bit. If you can't break the Wifi, you break the house. If you can't break the house, you break the ISP's premise. If you can't do that, you start a revolution and take over the country, then nuke the country, start an intergalactic war, etc..

    However, you can only talk about the validity of a security device by the scope of the resource it is protecting. And in that respect, a Secured Wifi setup can only secure *ONE* thing : your wifi connection (but not any underlying resource - your house, your DSL modem - or your kitchen stove).

    The whole point of a security device is to make it so that it is not economically viable to go *through*.

    And in the respect of the OP context, the proper setup of the WiFi as a security device would seem to have been enough to secure both his WiFi and his internet connection and thus is liability with regard to German law. IANAL, but if someone broke in (thus - in your term - circumvented the security device(s) - the WiFi protection, the door lock, the window glass, whatever) and downloaded whatnot from the DSL line - he would have not have been liable since he would have put reasonable effort to prevent the misdeed from happening - and thus, the security device would have performed its function.

  19. Re:I see. on German User Fined For Having an Open Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    The security device in itself wasn't circumvented.

    The security device in this case is used to prevent unauthorized access to the WiFi - NOT to prevent access to your Internet Connection. The WiFi access in itself was never broken in - and if this is what you are trying to protect - then it has performed its duty - and was never circumvented.

    Now, unfortunately for your hacker, my house is protected by flying sharks with friggin' lasers - so once you enter my house, you are blown to smithereens (Humm.. is that a word ?) by my *secondary* security device !

    But I hear what you are saying. Unfortunately, your post seemed to infer that proper securing of WiFi access points is moot to start with (and can be easily bypassed) - when I believe it is not. Breaking sufficiently large symmetric ciphers is NOT trivial (like you'd see on TV shows).

    Also - on a side point - Mr "Elite Hacker", not wanting to be indicted for larceny, will probably just go do his road warrior thing a bit more until he finds a more accessible access point to perform his mischief.

  20. Re:I see. on German User Fined For Having an Open Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Virtually every security device can be circumvented

    Citation needed...

  21. Re:Yeah me too on DNA Cancer Codes Cracked By International Effort · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you think a 'random bot' would post AC ?

    I'm going for the browser - or more likely - an issue with the entity between the chair and keyboard.. (never happened to you eh ?)

    --Ivan

  22. Re:Yeah me too on DNA Cancer Codes Cracked By International Effort · · Score: 1

    Yup.. Apparently I commented on the wrong thread indeed.. (blast ye Ajax - or my recklessness)..

    So my -1 off topic is commended for my comment.

    Oh well, I'll survive ;)

  23. Yeah me too on DNA Cancer Codes Cracked By International Effort · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When I was 12, my buddy swashed me with a flashlight, which resulted me in being abducted by aliens.

    I therefore sue the company that extracted the minerals necessary to build the metals that subsequently were turned into the casing of the very flashlight that caused me to be abducted.

    --Ivan

  24. Re:In the name of the Greatest US President ... on Will Australia Follow China's Google Ban? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you mean *Bing* it on ?

    (I know.. sorry.. you may mod me down as appropriate).

  25. Re:A Christian's take on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    After all, the initial singularity from which the universe sprung had to come from somewhere.

    Says WHO ?

    --Ivan