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  1. Re:Huh? on No Cheap Replacement For Hard Disks Before 2020 · · Score: 1

    All the world must use American English, right?

  2. Re:Bootloader? BitLocker? on Of Encrypted Hard Drives and "Evil Maids" · · Score: 1

    Not if the attacker has the original TPM chip. Then it's a trivial replay attack. Ask the original TPM chip to sign its serial number, then hardcore the answer into the new chip.

  3. Re:Oh please on Why Microsoft's EU Ballot Screen Doesn't Measure Up · · Score: 1

    Why is there no "-1, wrong"? :(

  4. Re:Never buy 5 Star on Do Retailers Often Screen User Reviews? · · Score: 1

    Actually that sounds like what a manipulative retailer would do if they were smart. Let through one or two negative reviews, bin the other 99% of the negative reviews, and you give the consumer false confidence that you've let through a proportional number of negative reviews. Bonus points if you even go to the trouble of generating fake negative reviews yourself to give the consumer false confidence.

  5. Re:I lock my computer when I walk away on Schneier On Un-Authentication · · Score: 1

    Why would you go out of your way to make your keyboard less useful? What do you use for your second meta key?

  6. Re:optical structured cabling? on Intel Connects PCs To Devices Using Light · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is it not the same thing? Scenario 1: redefine everything (e.g., phone, audio) to work over some "universal bus". Scenario 2: redefine everything (e.g., phone, audio) to work over Ethernet. They sound like the same thing to me.

  7. Re:what's the point of IOS? on Microsoft, Cisco Finally Patch TCP DoS Flaw · · Score: 1

    So what? Is x Linux hackers + y CISCO employees working on some code worse than y CISCO employees working on some code? If the Linux hackers don't do what you want them to do, fine, fork the code in the worst place. You're no worse off than you were just working on your own.

  8. Re:what's the point of IOS? on Microsoft, Cisco Finally Patch TCP DoS Flaw · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not about better suited; it's about well suited. As long as it's good enough, why not take advantage of the free maintenance all the Linux hackers do for you?

  9. Yes, but on Thieves Clear Out NJ Apple Store In 31 Seconds · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the plus side, that $46345 of Apple hardware was only worth about $10000.

  10. Re:As an American... on Nintendo Working On Football Controller · · Score: 1

    And people in Canada. And people in Australia. And South Africa. And Puerto Rico. And, according to Wikipedia, a good 10 other countries.

  11. Re:Virus on MAC ? on Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In that light, anti-virus software seems like a losing battle. I was going to suggest we build an OS for people to stupid to close their own mouths, but I think that's really missing the mark. That's just dealing with passive stupidity. Active stupidity is a much harder problem to tackle....

  12. Re:Nonsense on Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well yes, that's what the anti-virus is for, to ensure Mac's don't get viruses ;)

  13. Re:Simple... if "Y" chromosome found = male on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even more confusing, how would you classify a chimera where some body parts have Y chromosomes and some don't?

  14. Lofty goals on Obstacles Near Emergency Exits Speed Evacuation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yanagisawa said that the next step is to program models of people intelligent enough to self-organize into a line.

    Personally I think it would be most useful to model humans :\

  15. Re:Yeah but on Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution · · Score: 2, Informative

    Finland has 10 people?

  16. Re:What is it? on Google Wave Preview Opens Up On Sept 30th · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To be fair, I've also heard the Internet, the World Wide Web and e-mail touted using the EXACT same phrase to the letter.

  17. Re:"Why is the sky blue?" - Not so easy... on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    That's not true. Rayleigh scattering is elastic (no energy is lost) which means none of the light is absorbed. The bits are not holding onto any red, sorry.

  18. Re:plausible deniability on Encryption? What Encryption? · · Score: 1

    There's really no limit to how many volumes you can have and there's no way for them to know how many volumes there are hidden. Most people have only 1 or 2 volumes but there's really nothing, except your own ability to memorize passwords, stopping you from having 3 or 4 or 10 or 950 billion volumes. At what point would they assume that you've told them everything?

  19. Re:And? on Bing Search Tainted By Pro-Microsoft Results · · Score: 1

    Say what? Are you trying to say this is subjective? I'm pretty sure that results about what Windows is more expensive is objectively superior to results about why Macs are so expensive given the search query. Isn't the whole point of search engines, objectively, to return what was queried for?

  20. Re:Another advantage for TPM chips... on Entropy Problems For Linux In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Black box testing isn't all that productive for RNGs. You can check distribution and very simple patterns, but beyond that it's a major headache. White box testing makes things much easier. Yay source code!

  21. Re:10 reasons why aliens might not use radio on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 1

    It depends on how "loud" it is. Even if the content of the signal is indistinguishable from noise, you might still be able to tell that it's coming from somewhere.

  22. Re:I'm dubious on Are Women Getting More Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    Yes, though I'd always heard that was due to environmental factors, not genetic factors. Children are exposed to more nutrition and food energy (this is a polite way of saying "kids eat a lot") which causes puberty to start earlier.

  23. This is incredibly underwhelming on Bacterial Computer Solves Hamiltonian Path Problem · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Len Adleman did a more impressive DNA computing experiment way back in 1994. Since then Adleman has stated that DNA computing is a dead end until someone comes up with a huge breakthrough. Well...it would be a huge understatement to say that this E. Coli experiment isn't a breakthrough.

  24. Re:How about we leave things as-is? on Canadian Gov't Asks Public About New Copyright Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's complicated by the fact that Canada foolishly signed on to WIPO. In order to honour our international obligations, we have to make our copyright laws completely draconian and dysfunctional, or at least that's the rationale they're using. Really I'd much rather see them diplomatically try to weasel out of WIPO.

  25. Re:How... on DNA Differences Observed Between Blood and Organs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Checking DNA "across the board" would be effectively impossible up until very recently. Even now, DNA sequencing is a horrendously laborious procedure (in spite of what CSI would have you believe). You'll note that even in this study they didn't sequence any DNA; they just looked at the expressed mRNA.