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  1. Re:Lie detectors are ruining the Torture Industry! on Lie Detector Company Threatens Critical Scientists With Suit · · Score: 1

    If they worked we could do away with trial by jury - just hook them up and ask "did you kill your wife?" and if the detector says they did then throw them in jail for 20 years.

  2. Re:I'll take Pandora, thanks. on OLPC 2.0 — One Laptop Foundation Reboots · · Score: 1

    Didn't bother the gp32 and gp2x, which preceded it. From the looks of the links this is just the natural succesor.

  3. Re:IIRC, Deckard was a replicant on Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's never explicitly stated.. and even if he was the script suggests he was a newer model newer - Rachel was a prototype for giving replicants memories, but Deckard also had memories.. which makes him newer.

  4. Re:Are you sure ? on Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    Oh god.. don't give them ideas.

  5. Re:I saw that one coming...(I'm in Canada) on Fraudsters Abusing Canada's Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    Happens all the time... Our main line is on TPS and gets 2-3 calls a week from recorded messages with american accents saying we've won something implausible.

    We just leave it off the hook. If they're prepared to pay international call rates for their scam they're going to pay as much as I can fleece them for.

  6. Re:Freeze the CPU on Solution Against Cold Boot Attack In the Making · · Score: 0

    For some odd value of 'easily' :p

    Desoldering a chip whilst it's running sounds like fun..

  7. Re:Easier on Solution Against Cold Boot Attack In the Making · · Score: 1

    A capacitor inline to the memory controller could give it enough time to execute an emergency erase/scramble if the power fails. It's probably not that expensive to develop either.

  8. Re:Highlights one of the problems.. on Google Terminates Six Services · · Score: 1

    That sounds like your client - I've never heard of this and have used google apps for most several mailboxes for quite a while.

    Occasionally it seems to have authentication problems, but hitting retry a couple of times fixes that. That's the extent of the problems.

  9. Re:Local resources on Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative? · · Score: 1

    Does that still exist? Last time I was around there they'd demolished it and built a cinema.

  10. Re:VistA - VA Open Source on Electronic Medical Records, the Story So Far · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unfortunate name :p

  11. Re:Seriously... on iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info · · Score: 1

    What? Did you even read those articles?

    All they're saying is that illegal downloaders should be given at least two warnings before the ISP takes action. This is better than the current situation where the ISP will terminate the account immediately.

  12. Re:Smaller? on Here Comes iPhone Nano, But Not In the US · · Score: 1

    I know lots of my friends phone numbers but not their email addresses. Half of them don't even have email outside work anyway.

  13. Re:"Huge, heavy brick?" on Here Comes iPhone Nano, But Not In the US · · Score: 1

    Not even close. I have a nokia here that's so small I keep damned losing it. They make some *really* small phones. It's about the size/height of 2 ipod shuddles end to end and about half as thick.

  14. Re:Why not respond to all AAAA DNS requests? on Google Over IPv6 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Resolvers sit on the end user machine. Resolvers talk to Servers... that's how DNS works.

    Having talked it over with the ISP and some others none of us can work out what the hell google are asking here, so have emailed for clarification. The opinion of the ISP is the way it's written end users need to register (and since most of us run our own DNS anyway we'd have to).

    Why the heck they just didn't advertise AAAA records in the first place is beyond me. So the 1% of users with borked networks don't get upset? Let them fix their damned networks..

  15. Re:why not enable it for everyone? on Google Over IPv6 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Yes that would make more sense.. ask over ipv4, no AAAA record. ask over ipv6.. return AAAA record.

    Then it's just up to the end users and ISPs to get their networks sorted out.

  16. Re:Why not respond to all AAAA DNS requests? on Google Over IPv6 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    They've rather borked this rollout though. They state that you need to register the *resolver*. Which means the end user must register. However then they state that you must have multiple users/multiple connections, which excludes end users.

    eg. I have a solid routed ipv6. There's no point in my ISP registering because they only run the DNS, which I don't use anyway. There's no point in me registering because I don't fulfill the criteria.. hence no ipv6 google for me.

  17. Re:D-Link and Cisco routers support IPv6 on Google Over IPv6 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    IPV6 Ready Logo is meaningless. They can get that by making one internal build to 'prove' that their router can do IPV6. If they never release an ipv6 capable firmware *ever* they still get to keep the logo.

  18. Re:Why is this a surprise? on The Exact Cause of the Zune Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Most? TomTom and Garmin are both Linux, and that's a huge chunk of the market right there.

  19. Re:disney on Image of Popeye Enters Public Domain In the EU · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mickey Mouse will *never* enter the public domain in the US - Disney has bought a lot of senators to make sure that doesn't happen.

    By the time mickey is public domain in the EU, the US copyright law will be 200 years after initial copyright.

  20. Re:there's plenty of address space on IPv4 Address Use In 2008 · · Score: 1

    Or, more obvious for a home user... two copies of any online game on two machines in the house.

    Port forwarding is an ugly hack designed to work around an ugly hack. You should be using an IP per machine even now.. it's not like they're hard to get, I got 16 just by asking nicely.

  21. Re:Get IPv6 now, you might be sorry later on IPv4 Address Use In 2008 · · Score: 1

    Yeah but 6to4 is broken... for example, trace to 192.88.99.1 from my server in Dallas ends up in a server in Holland, and would add 360ms to my first hop.

    Really you want (a) routed ipv6, (b) a nearby tunnel. 6to4 is a desparate last resort.

  22. Re:tunnelbroker.net on IPv4 Address Use In 2008 · · Score: 1

    BTExact shut down their tunnel broken. Apart from Sixxs there aren't any the UK any more. Anyway, tunnels suck. They add huge amounts of latency and are unreliable

    Luckily there are at least two ISPs that'll route IPV6 (AAISP and Entanet).

    Unluckily unless you fork out for a cisco router (or hack an old linksys) you can't use it..

  23. Re:Just for the record, only UK subjects on Terry Pratchett Knighted · · Score: 1

    Actually she doesn't. The supremacy of parliament and law are enshrined in our constutution.

    OTOH she is the head of the army - they swear alliegance to her not the government - so she could order them to bring down an opressive government, if they wouldn't allow themselves to be dismissed.

  24. Re:A nice piece of work on CCC Create a Rogue CA Certificate · · Score: 1

    No, RapidSSL/FreeSSL need to remove their MD5 CA from the trusted list. Merely stopping issuing new certs is not going to do anything - the entire trust chain is compromised until *all* MD5 CAs are removed from the trusted list. In practical terms that means they need to reissue all certs based on the old CA.

  25. Re:The sky is not falling. on CCC Create a Rogue CA Certificate · · Score: 1

    You still seem to think the CA is involved in this. Read how the attack is done. They generate a certificate with the same MD5 as an existing CA certificate. This allows them to issue certificates as if they were signed by the CA *without the CA having any knowledge*.

    It is now impossible to trust any certificate signed by CAs using MD5. If that includes thawte then tough - they're going to have to reissue all their certificates.. they should have thought of security instead of trying to cut corners.