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  1. Re:first and last time i RTFA on Team Creates Footwear Recognition System · · Score: 1

    I thought it would recognize footprints and compare minor details, the same way tire treads can be traced back to cars.

    But this looks at the top of your shoes instead. If you want to be anonymous just wear black formal shoes, they all look the same.

  2. Re:Before you break into a mans computer... on Team Creates Footwear Recognition System · · Score: 1

    Once again RMS' foresight reveals itself - this is why he always wears sandals, it causes the system to throw an error :-P

  3. Re:Fresh water? on Graphene Membranes Superpermeable to Water · · Score: 1

    I imagine the water doesn't stay super-pure for long either, after it follows a Big Ma^H^H vegan soy burger that tastes like dust into your stomach where all the other food you ate in the last couple hours is.

  4. Re:Media whore on Julian Assange To Host Talk Show · · Score: 1

    That moron DDB deleted it along with all the other leaks in waiting at the time.

  5. Re:Faceplant on The Chevy Segway Keeps On Rolling (Video) · · Score: 1

    Yeah something like either of those, which would allow lane widths to be cut in half thus doubling the "bandwidth" of a road. Saw some concepts of that size that look pretty good too.

  6. Re:Hmmm on Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood · · Score: 1

    What? Are we looking at the same creek? It clearly changes from dark green to dark red as it passes behind the meat plant, and if you keep following it you can even see the dark red creek flowing into a wider dark green river later on. It's possible that it is just silt but the fact that the silt starts right behind the meat plant is worth investigating.

  7. Nice on States Using Cloud Based Voting System For Overseas Citizens · · Score: 2

    Votes running online on a Microsoft-based system? This would be awesome if there were any candidates worth stuffing the virtual ballot box for :-P

  8. Faceplant on The Chevy Segway Keeps On Rolling (Video) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, if a vehicle has only two wheels they should be one in front of the other.

    If any new form of vehicle is the future it'll be the half-width car, it will probably be a 3-wheeler though.

  9. Re:Wow on The Chevy Segway Keeps On Rolling (Video) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Coffee shop? on Ask Slashdot: Choosing Anonymous Proxies? · · Score: 3

    And more important than all of that, use a totally clean browser with geolocation and any other privacy-destroying features disabled, and locked down tightly to put scripts, flash, cookies (including flash cookies and HTML5 storage) and off-site requests on a whielist system.

  11. Re:Bad idea on Pirate Bay To Offer Physical Item Downloads · · Score: 1

    If it's something attached to the engine or hydraulic system components I'd agree, but I think it will be fine for pretty much any interior or body part.

  12. Re:Botnets and Seven Chains on Ask Slashdot: Choosing Anonymous Proxies? · · Score: 4, Informative

    An anti-MITM browser plugin like Perspectives or Convergence is a good thing to use when browsing via a proxy.

  13. Business idea on Hackers Manipulated Railway Computers, TSA Memo Says · · Score: 2

    I should start a service selling "industrial control system security retrofits." Between the Internet and the PLC, I'll set up a simple Linux box, with cryptknock and brute-force protection that only allows SSH logins with passphrased keyfiles. Then I'll give the operators a nice script (in .bat form and shellscripts) that puts them to the login prompt in one click and sets up a tunnel between their localhost and the PLC or whatever. Then they connect to the control client to localhost and work as usual. Because the places that do this shit usually have NO IT STAFF, I'll put together a simple interface for managing the keyfiles (some GUI on the box itself would be safest - really stripped down of course, ncurses-based ideally).

    For each installation I will charge $3k, maybe with a support option if they want me to manage their keyfiles remotely, very affordable to them but I am actually taxing them out the ass for stupidity >:)

  14. Re:Encryption and security is about layers on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Oh I've looked at LUKS encryption, but migrating an existing Linux install to it is incredibly difficult (I've tried) and it has no deniability or duress features like TrueCrypt does.

  15. Windows 7 Start menu on Ubuntu 12.04 To Include Head-Up Display Menus · · Score: 0

    Ah good, they're copying the Win7 start menu, every OS needs to replace its nested menus with a type-to-search menu. Now if only MS would copy Nautilus, Windows Explorer is a real relic at this point, I mean no tabs, SRSLY?

  16. Re:Bullshit Strawman on AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr · · Score: 1

    Still I think that for safety most people would like their yearly costs capped at a sensible number, say, somewhere around the cost of a flat screen TV, rather than a Lotus Exige S.

  17. Already happening on AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr · · Score: 1

    This exact shit is already happening. Airlines offering free Facebook and Twitter (other content costs money), ISPs offering cap exemptions for Windows Update...

  18. Re:Simple: don't know your password on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Actually you could never turn the computer off since off=unplugged as far as the USB device is concerned. However, if the mobo supports wake-on-usb where the USB ports are powered on as long as the computer is plugged in, that could work. Still it's highly unsafe, one little hardware fault and the software's gone forever.

  19. Re:Encryption and security is about layers on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    It's really too bad Truecrypt's full-disk encryption only works with Windows.

  20. Re:no 5th? on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Encrypting with a random, unknown password is actually used as a method of disk wiping (although it is the most stupid method for a number of reasons).

  21. Re:no 5th? on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    One time I forgot a password from my muscle memory because I had to type it in on a PDA instead of on a full-sized keyboard. Took me about 5 minutes to remember it.

  22. Re:Am glad that I ain't American !! on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Huh, true, they could argue that anything contains a hidden encrypted partition and there would be no way to prove that it doesn't. Have a flash drive or cell phone on you? Go directly to jail.

  23. Re:Let's hope he gets extradited, he'll be better on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Problem is that forensics officers take backups. They'd back up the drive first and boot from the backup so whether it destroys the data or not is irrelevant. And if you gave the officers the "self destruct" password that horked the backup then that is further evidence that you are up to no good.

    In addition to that, the functionality the GP mentions is impossible in the same sense that working DRM is. If the drive is wiped when a bad key is entered, that action is maliciously taken by the decryption driver or some other piece of software involved, it's not something that can happen as a natural result of attempting to read the drive with a bad key. It will only work if the police are using the same software tainted with what is, to them, essentially malware code.

  24. Looks like a Kia? They wish on The Coda Electric Car at the Detroit International Auto Show (Video) · · Score: 1

    This car doesn't look like a Kia, that's an insult to Kia which currently makes cars with really good styling, that would be REALLY good looking if they weren't so big and bloated as all modern cars are.

    No, this looks more like an early/mid-2000s Chevy. Bland, boring, uninspired, with a little hint of "ugly" thrown in that makes it look even worse than Toyotas of the time.

    (Toyota almost made a really good looking car recently - look at the Scion FRS-2 concept. Unfortunately it was given a sound beating with the bland stick before it hit production).

  25. Re:Electric Charging Stations on The Coda Electric Car at the Detroit International Auto Show (Video) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps those are quick chargers?