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  1. Re:Of course not on Should British Hacker Lauri Love Be Tried In America? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Between the full wrath and fury of the US and Brexit, the UK as we know it may very well cease to exist within the next 5-10 years.

    Don't worry, the Queen has connections everywhere:
    http://www.newstatesman.com/gl...

  2. Mine has one too, but it can only be used to connect to a dial-up Internet connection.

  3. Re:I'm all for modifying things but... on Hobbyist Gives iPhone 7 the Headphone Jack We've Always Wanted (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... there'd be a lot of difficult technical challenges implanting a retractable microsd card into my pinky finger.

    Just choose a less challenging and more cost effective location instead.

    Inspire yourself from that guy with his headphone jack; you already have an easy adaptable port located in your lower back.

  4. Re:Not impressed on Hobbyist Gives iPhone 7 the Headphone Jack We've Always Wanted (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TFA seems to confirm popular belief that Apple users don't care about how much it costs.

  5. El Nino and climate changes on El Nino's Absence Is Causing An Active Hurricane Season (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    So what is the relation between El Nino and climate changes already?

    http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2...

    https://www.skepticalscience.c...

    https://e360.yale.edu/features...

  6. It is now. What happens to the price of nuclear propulsion when the oil runs out? People want their fresh bananas and coffee...

    That's a win-win situation. A lot of fruits and vegetables are irradiated so they stay fresh longer. Carry them on an atomic ship and combine the two steps of transportation and irradiation!

  7. Nope, we even have central vacuum cleaners that throw the air outside.

  8. Salting won't stop a rainbow table,

    Hmm.. that is not my understanding although I might be wrong: Rainbow tables to crack WPA/WPA2 password are unique to the name of the access point (AP) because the AP name is used as a salt in the hash. You can't reuse the same rainbow table when the AP name, e.g. the salt is different. You need a rainbow table for every AP name.

    since md5s usually have to be stored next to their salts, or they're useless.

    I also salt the salt with a unique hard coded formula residing in the application binary code to try to mitigate that a bit ;-)

    Salts prevent knowing someone else's hash that happens to be equal to yours, from making you able to know the other guy is using your password. They make cracking of each individual hash require effort, rather than being able to hunt for reused passwords.

    Agreed,

  9. Also, from TFA:

    We've made a massive password reset strategy and also increased the encryption of the passwords from MD5 to SHA256. We've also been in contact with our community via our customer support team," a Taringa spokesperson told The Hacker News.

    Why not go with a SHA512 salt and a SHA512 hash while at it and "upgrading" security? I do not see the load on the system being raised that much because of that. Anyway, that's what I use.

    And no mention of salts anywhere in TFA.

  10. Does this mean they weren't using a salt value?

    Even with md5, I can't imagine that it would be that easy to crack when salting with a different salt for each password as best practices states but I have never looked into it closely so I am wondering...

  11. Re:That's nothing... on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 1

    As another poster has mentioned, small enough objects don't make it to the Earth surface due to the protection of the atmosphere. I assume they just disintegrate faster the greater the speed.

    Also, to further illustrate the formula I posted, if the mass is 8 times greater you get 8 times more energy but if the relative speed to Earth is 8 times greater you get 64 times more energy and it is even more than that if the object travels at a considerable fraction of the speed of light relative to Earth. The formula I posted is only valid for small fractions of the speed of light.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. Re:That's nothing... on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 1

    The mass is important but with a big enough mass, the speed becomes much more important since the kinetic energy varies to the square of the speed:
    E = 0.5*m*v*v

  13. Are you sure? We might find out if you forget to check the "post as AC" checkbox again...

    I am truly wondering if it is you or not.

    Cheers my friend,

  14. Re:Timely on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Because we didn't want to cause mass panic. This is how things works out most of the time.

  15. Re:That's nothing... on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 2

    I might have read your link too quickly but anyway; what strikes me in those kind of reports is that they don't mention the relative speed of the object with Earth as a reference and this plays a big role in the amount of energy released should an impact occur.

  16. Congratulations to /. on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 0

    Congratulations!

    This, at least sounds like news for nerds although I understand that motto is gone.

    Thank you,

  17. I had to scrub my LinkedIn profile shortly after I got hired. A well-known whistle blower contacted me via LinkedIn wanting to meet with me. Of course, I reported this to management and security.

    Hey, that was me and I just wanted to share linking strategies for our revenue streams since I have some too. Anyway, it is useless to "scrub" you LinkedIn profile once you made the information available.

    I don't handle classified information. But I do work on systems that might have classified information and I might find out something that I'm not supposed to know.

    Don't worry about that. As a whistle blower I know people who earn 200K a year just to make sure this doesn't happen.

  18. My cover story is cleaning out IT closets. My actual job description is [REDACTED].

    Strange agency you work at. In mine, once our cover is blown, we retire.

  19. Re:Pass on the freebie modems... on AT&T Uverse Modems Found To Have Several Serious Security Vulnerabilities (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sorry but I don't believe you. After all, you need at least an enterprise class modem to do the kind of work you do.

  20. Re:At what Experience Level? on Tech is the Most Lucrative Career: LinkedIn Study (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Keywords "government job". Civil Service jobs are HARD to get fired from.

    I'm a contractor at my government IT job. Contractors can get fired quite easily. One contractor got fired for not disclosing on his background check that he had a murder charge. Several contractors were surprised to learn that they were expected to work and found themselves back on the unemployment line.

    If those contractors were expected to work, it means someone else expected them to work. How could they be, as you say, "back on the unemployment line" then if someone is expecting them to work?

  21. Re:At what Experience Level? on Tech is the Most Lucrative Career: LinkedIn Study (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    My god, you are so amazing! I just can't figure out how you can handle so many emails a day. I have problems handling more than 3 or 4 a day so I have to work overtime and weekends when I get more than that.

    You are really a miracle worker!

  22. Re:At what Experience Level? on Tech is the Most Lucrative Career: LinkedIn Study (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The only time I ever got fired was when I worked in construction with my father and punched the boss's grandson in the mouth after trying to assault me with a rebar.

    So, you punched the boss's grandson in the mouth after you tried to assault yourself with a rebar?

  23. Re:ROTFL - no NDA? on Kaspersky Lab Forces 'Patent Troll' To Pay Cash To End Case (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    France pretty much created the US. I only learned English when I was 21.

  24. Re:ROTFL - no NDA? on Kaspersky Lab Forces 'Patent Troll' To Pay Cash To End Case (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Comrade, our land doesn't have nuances such as yours. e.g. France helping you to separate from England. Your flag has been showing the same blue-white-red colors as France ever since then as recognition. Of course, the number of stars on the flag has varied.