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  1. Re:Numbers don't add up. on VTech Hack Gets Worse: Chat Logs, Kids' Photos Taken In Breach (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Simple answer: Not every registered parent (for maybe warranty or something) had registered children in the system.

  2. Re:Doctor's diagnosis on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From that physicians website

    She treats cancer with homeopathy. "Supportive Care for Cancer: Possible treatments include: Complex homeopathy"

    This makes me sad.

  3. Re:DDoS solved in IPv6 on China's Foreign Ministry: China Did Not Attack Github, We Are the Major Victims · · Score: 1

    Sounds interesting, however, do you have any RFCs or references about this. I'm having trouble validating this.

  4. Re:Its a cost decision on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 1

    For things where the material used in your home 3d printer isn't suitable, you can 3d print a cast which can help some use cases.

  5. See your face...where your face is a single pixel on Google's Satellites Could Soon See Your Face From Space · · Score: 1

    ...If you are fat.

  6. Re:Not for international orders (at least yet) on Bitcoin Payments Go Live At Overstock — Two Quarters Early · · Score: 2

    Ah, not entirely true it turns out, I can click a link and go to their non-international version

  7. Not for international orders (at least yet) on Bitcoin Payments Go Live At Overstock — Two Quarters Early · · Score: 1

    Which has irritated me somewhat, as it would have allowed me to bypass excessive currency conversion fees.

  8. AAISP already implemented it..but.. on British Prime Minister Promises Default On Porn Blocking · · Score: 2

    If you choose to have censored internet access you can't sign up and are told to choose another ISP.

    I love those guys.

  9. Baseband security? on Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense · · Score: 1

    They already support blacklisting IMEI serials on phones, but the problem being that there is no global IMEI blacklist, so stolen phones get shipped around the world very quickly. This solution from apple allows them to seize this control from the network operators, which is a good and bad thing.

    Currently most phone security exists in its baseband. The baseband could easily have a hardware security mode that requires the equivalent of unlocking by the manufacturer to make it work again. Unlocking modern phones is still pretty tricky and is much harder to defeat than the standard OS security, for example, you can root an android phone, but still not unlock the baseband very easily. This whole thing could be standardised across all manufacturers too, yet allow freedom of OS on the device.

  10. Tiny Tiny RSS on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Run your own google reader:

    tt-rss.org

  11. Re:A recording of this effect in action on Speech-Jamming Gun Silences From 30 Meters · · Score: 1
  12. A recording of this effect in action on Speech-Jamming Gun Silences From 30 Meters · · Score: 1

    This clip if of a radio presenter trying to speak when this effect is applied, its quite astounding:

    http://radiofail.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/dj-in-delayed-headphones-fail/

  13. Re:How long until R supports this? on Matlab Integrates GPU Support For UberMath Computation · · Score: 2
  14. Re:Huh? on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    Say you had received 10 bitcoins, you would have a private key which could generate a matching signature to unlock the public key it was transferred to.
    When you spend say 4 coins, you create a transaction and publish it to the network. This transaction consists of
    1) A point to the place in history where it was transferred to you
    2) An amount, 4 bitcoins and an address of a recepient public key
    3) An amount, 6 bitcoins and an address of a new public key you have just generated, and hold the private key for

    Any attempt to respend this coin would be rejected by the network as it has been marked as used. To spend the remaining 6 you would have to point to its new location and if you had restored your wallet to an old version you'd have lost the private key for that, thus losing you all 10 sadly.

  15. Re:Benefits of DNSSEC? on Comcast Launches First Public US Trial of DNSSEC · · Score: 1

    I've not deployed DNSSEC, but i was interested by your comments about exposing zone data at least.

    I did a quick google and it suggests that used to be the case but from bind 9.6.0 onwards it can use NSEC3 to hash the child names.

    Worth looking into for anyone who is concerned.

  16. Re:Come again? on Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 vs. Early Fedora 13 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    What the hell is a bad performance improvement?

    Must be similar to a positive regression.

  17. Re:First time on Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem? · · Score: 1


    3. Grab start and destination endpoints in each hand, and pull taut: O(1)

    What are the optimal start and end points?

  18. Do we need the extra cores? on AMD Quad Cores, Oh My · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of cores we do!

  19. How they get the MD5/AES hashes on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They probably aren't actually making files with the same hashes, just modifying the clients, probably open source ones too, to report the md5 sums that they want to for each file, so if the client doesnt re-check the sums, it'll get corrupt files, if it does, it'll just have wasted bandwidth.