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  1. Re:brute farce on WPA/WPA2 Cracking With CPUs, GPUs, and the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Just use keys longer than 23 chars , alphanumeric + special chars , and use a nonstandard SSID for the network (treat as a password, it's used to salt the key derived from your PSK). All this on WPA2/AES and you should be considered secure.

  2. Re:Very interesting on GPRS Can Be Hacked Easily, Claims German Researcher · · Score: 1

    They probably used the C123 from Motorola/

  3. Re:Too much potential for false alarm on Using Brain Waves Can Shorten Braking Distance · · Score: 1

    Or maybe he doesn't have a clutch.
    Euro cars have clutch on left , break+gas on right.

  4. Re:as a cloud sceptic and ubuntu user let me comme on Ubuntu One Hits the Million Users Mark · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity , what issues have you encounters with encfs ? Been using it for years without problems so far.

  5. Re:+1 unintentional irony on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    Fair point , collage was actually free but i could've used the beer money.
    And before anybody asks , no i couldn't just exchange the currency when it went downhill , the money was locked away until i turned 18.
    Anybody holding large amounts of USD should whoever immediately buy something more stable , like gold.

  6. Re:Inflation on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    I currently have like a gazillion $ on a type of cheque from my grandpa. Should've paid for collage. It's worth nothing after the local currency went through massive inflation.

  7. Re:How big of a rocket? on Evaluating the Capabilities of Chip-Sized Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    You'd still loose gas , although at a slower pace. Hydrogen/Helium atoms are small enough that they can and do pass through the balloon material .

  8. You're all too civilised for all of this on UK Taxpayers' Money Getting Wasted On IT Spending · · Score: 1

    Let me break it down , there's two possible reasons.
    One , as other readers have suggested , the article might be purposely omitting various facts or mixing up total cost of ownership with purchase value.
    Two , it's not that the buyers were stupid , they might be to some extent (not knowing the market well enough to shop around for the best deal) but that doesn't cover such a deep discrepancy.
    Most often than not , at least in the ex soviet block , these things are done to take money away from the institution. The buyers just agree with the sellers to up the cost dramatically and get a part of that money back as incentive to do it. And these things happen ALL THE TIME , in all corners of all public institutions. That's why these states are doing so poorly , budget wise. It's called corruption.
    This may come as a shocker to you if you were brought up in some place where these are not common day activities. Criminal penalties should be enforced against such wrongdoers.
    I can not emphasise enough , this is the kind of stuff that brings a nation down , one expensive toilet seat at a time.

  9. You can DIY it in linux. on IBM Speeds Storage With Flash: 10B Files In 43 Min · · Score: 1

    Some filesystems allow you to store the journal on a different disk , such as a SSD

  10. Re:Obvious on UK Sticks With Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Transporting energy has losses , you know , electrical resistance and all that jazz.

  11. Re:When we all have jet packs there will be sky ja on Martin Jetpack Climbs 5000 Feet Above Sea Level · · Score: 1

    If cars never "took off" we wouldn't have _proper_ roads everywhere.

  12. Re:Strange on When AIM Was Our Facebook · · Score: 1

    Actually IRC was massively popular in Romania in the 90's. Everybody would hop on dial-up after 8:00 pm when the phone tariffs where lower. It was not just for the technical. Radio stations used to read comments and play tracks requested on IRC.
    Undernet was _the_ network of servers to hang on , huge wars took place for control of popular channels. Meanwhile everybody was looking for a "non-free" email account (non yahoo/msn , etc ) so they could register with Undernet and have their ip hidden.
    Later on everything moved on to msn and yahoo messenger , the victor being yahoo in the end. Currently facebook seems to rule the masses after everybody migrated off of hi5 or myspace.

  13. Food on Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Persistent Bacteria Go Down · · Score: 1

    Most antibiotics are to be taken just after a meal , when your blood sugar levels are peaking.
    However , maybe a little more sugar wouldn't be a bad idea.

  14. Re:Step 1 on Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Network Administrator? · · Score: 1

    Out of my hands , haven't worked there in a while. Anyway , we had them set on top of an UPS just to avoid this kind of crap.

  15. Re:Step 1 on Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Network Administrator? · · Score: 1

    Yep , dead serious.

  16. Re:Step 1 on Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Network Administrator? · · Score: 1

    HP bought 3com ?
    We're screwed , 3com switches - never had a problem
    Hp procurve switches ? Locking up like it's crazy on the slightest electrical fluctuation , pos hardware.

  17. Right on Nikon's Image Authentication Insecure · · Score: 1

    Not like anybody would've expected that ...no way ...

  18. The important part on Kentucky Man Builds Bourbon Powered Car · · Score: 2

    Bourbon is 40% ABV.
    Anything under 50% doesn't really burn directly , I'm curious what he did to make it run.
    Perhaps using excess engine heat to separate alcohol evaporating it first from the content.

  19. Re:Latency is a pathetic excuse. on Sony Blames 'External Intrusion' For Lengthy PSN Outage · · Score: 1

    It's unlikely he'd have 100Mbit on dsl/cable/dialup/wireless and so was probably implying a fttb or ftth connection , therefore low latency

  20. Re:Right... on Sony Blames 'External Intrusion' For Lengthy PSN Outage · · Score: 1

    Pardon ?
    It's basically games and everything else you could do with the box. If anything some people bought it considering that the gaming abilities aren't "a major function".
    A ps3 is what ? 300 euros. If you split that evenly between processing power , games and a blueray player , that's 100 euros per "major function".
    Seems right to me.

  21. Summary in a few words on Kinect's AI Breakthrough Explained · · Score: 1

    Neural Network / perceptrons.

  22. Re:Wireless Local Network on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Wireless Voting For Students? · · Score: 1

    access points can't handle more than a few clients. you need a lot of access points for 500 users , and by that time you're getting a lot of interference too.

  23. Your cheap solution on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Wireless Voting For Students? · · Score: 1

    One high-res digital camera and
    A4 papers printed with a large QR code (2d barcode) - unique id and answer number printed in human readable form as well.
    Just pass out as many papers as there are answer options (2 , 3 ? ) to the students.
    Use a canon 5d mark III or something that can record video as well and ask them to wave the cards around for 5 seconds or something , so you get everyone (in case one card is behind someone else's head).

  24. Re:Rather deliberate on Paramount Pictures To Release Film On Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Of course it's going to be a low budget movie , no exec would ever approve busting open tens of millions of dollars on a movie so they can release it for free and "hope for some buys" without a serious dosage of crack in their coffee.

  25. Putyour money were your mouth is! on Paramount Pictures To Release Film On Bittorrent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Donate and or buy it if you like it , they're testing new grounds and we need to prove we're not hypocrites.
    The slashdot crowd seems to follow the "try before you buy" mentality , so if you end up enjoying the movie , put your money were your mouth is.