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  1. Re:the passports of all U.S. citizens on US Passports To Recieve RFID Chips · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want a taste of freedom you should try visiting France disguised as a black North African. You'll soon find out how much fun having no papers is.

  2. Re:Farraday on US Passports To Recieve RFID Chips · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are sooooo far behind the curve

    http://www.rfsafe.com/

    You could keep you passport in your RF proof boxers : $68.99

    Pocket sized RF Shield : $7.99

    or simply make your own garments from the RF Shielding Fabric 12x12" : $15

  3. Re:It's only a matter of time... on US Passports To Recieve RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    Er, you do know it already contains dinucleic acid ?

  4. Re:In other words... on Microsoft's Vigilante Investigation of Zombies · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Full scene antialiasing on PS3 To Run At 120 FPS? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you're right. I was on about the final output stage. It was 3dstudio 4 in my animating days and at minutes per frame we didn't turn on the fancy stuff =)

    I used to write post production filters and had to de-interlace, filter, re-interlace. It surprises me still when I see post-production effects on TV where flicker has been introduced from not doing the de-re stage, Adobe Premier 4 used to be a great candidate for this mistake !

  6. Great, it's the fields ya know on PS3 To Run At 120 FPS? · · Score: 1

    When you render for TV you render the interlaced frames at 768x286 x 50fps not the 768x572 x 25fps that the TV displays. (adjust for your local Tv signal encoding - 60fps / 30fps for NTSC)

    So that the next generation can render at, wow, twice the speed, comes at not much of a surprise when they are packing multiple 3+Ghz CPUs

  7. Re:Umm, OK on Is There Such A Thing As A Final Cut? · · Score: 1

    It's incredibly telling that *anyone* should consider that they are defined by their entertainment.

    Just how passive have the passive observers become.

    Be defined by your actions, not by your inaction.

  8. Re:Chance for change... on USCO Reviewing DMCA Anti-Circumvention Clause · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "savages that behead people on TV"

    A curious stance. The US tortures and executes people behind closed doors and out of the reach of it's own jurisdiction.

    I have more respect for people that do things in the open, it suggests an honesty.

    The US's (and allies) secrecy is counter to honesty.

    The world would be a different place if we all had access to the CCTV in Gitmo !

  9. Sigh, netkey is the *real* answer on Two Factor Authentication Systems? · · Score: 1

    The server asks you to hash a string.

    You run a program locally (here's some) or incorporate it into your client in which you enter your password and it spits out the 5 digit hash. Tell the server what the hash was, it compares it to what it thinks you should have entered.

    All very simple and works just fine over unencrypted links !

    plan9 uses it for ftp access

    Apache / Firefox also support something similar for HTTP Authentication - your password is md5'd with some salt instead of just being base64'd

    that is all

  10. Re:stop whining on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1

    thats the fella

    anyway it's whichever email is displayed on the ban, it's not banned because it's not banning an individual

  11. stop whining on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1

    You didn't read the rules, you lose, too bad.

    I've been repeatedly banned from Slashdot because our ISP uses a transparent proxy and it looks like we all use the same IP. Emails to peter@slashdot.org have never got me anywhere.

    You even used a "famous" name in an MMORPG, you're own at that.

    What do you think the R in RPG means ? In EQ you would have been named changed just for that.

  12. Re:In analogue phone days on Snooping Through Walls with Microwaves · · Score: 1

    It must have been used just in the interviews then

  13. Re:In analogue phone days on Snooping Through Walls with Microwaves · · Score: 1

    I guess they could have lied about the source of the tapes but tapes there were and that was how the cops said they got it.

    AFAIK there are four wires in a POTS phone, two for 48Vdc power (OnHook/OffHook being a switch), two for signal.

    You just need to splice the signal wires in the house's junction box and amplify.

    As you might expect, I'm no expert =)

  14. In analogue phone days on Snooping Through Walls with Microwaves · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some associates were spied on by the telephone.

    Just because the receiver was on the cradle didn't mean that the microphone wasn't active.

    The cops played stuff back in interviews/court that was off topic but was the occupants bitching about each other to try and divide and conquer them.

    This was in Leeds, UK.

    I can't remember many more details or find a link. I didn't know them at the time and only heard about it later as a warning.

  15. Re:I'm impressed on Apache Webserver Surpasses 50 Million Website Mark · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's no myth.

  16. Re:OpenBSD pf on Rental Home Wireless Networks? · · Score: 1

    get down with the street homes =)

    shizzle means shit

    amongst other things

  17. Re:OpenBSD pf on Rental Home Wireless Networks? · · Score: 1

    for Windows it's two clicks

    one to download putty from the default page on your pf firewall

    one a link to putty.exe

    and one to download & run a batch file from the same webserver that does :

    putty -D 8080 -ssh gatewayIP

    which will also add a SOCKS proxy on localhost:8080 into the mix

    hardly rocket science and it leaves you with one set of instructions for windows without having to know anything about the configuration programs of various Wireless cards

  18. Re:D-Link Airspot Line of Wireless Routers. on Rental Home Wireless Networks? · · Score: 1

    Amen,

    Sometimes someone in our circle will crack and buy a Dlink because of some feature set. It doesn't take long to remember why we say "oh it's a Dlink, there's you're problem"

  19. OpenBSD pf on Rental Home Wireless Networks? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Run pf on a 486 and use pf as your firewall, then you don't need MAC addresses and shizzle like that.

    http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/authpf.html

    Authpf(8) is a user shell for authenticating gateways. An authenticating gateway is just like a regular network gateway (a.k.a. a router) except that users must first authenticate themselves to the gateway before it will allow traffic to pass through it. When a user's shell is set to /usr/sbin/authpf (i.e., instead of setting a user's shell to ksh(1), csh(1), etc) and the user logs in using SSH, authpf will make the necessary changes to the active pf(4) ruleset so that the user's traffic is passed through the filter and/or translated using Network Address Translation or redirection. Once the user logs out or their session is disconnected, authpf will remove any rules loaded for the user and kill any stateful connections the user has open. Because of this, the ability of the user to pass traffic through the gateway only exists while the user keeps their SSH session open.

  20. Re:well, here's a cynical explanation on Navy Sued for Sonar-Blasting Whales · · Score: 1

    You can't join.

    That's the point.

    There is no "joining"

    Action is the only step on this path.

  21. Re:How about Iraq? on Easy, Cheap, Effective Laptop Cooling? · · Score: 1

    Put on a big coat, put the laptop underneath, around the chest area.

    Run headlong at a US checkpoint, shouting "American pig dogs" (optional)

    viola, the laptop now has ventilation holes

  22. Re:geek sweat on A Closer Look at SUSE 10 · · Score: 1

    if it was supposed to be pronounced Suzy they should have spelt it properly.

    As far as I am concerned is it Sues, a distribution of Lie-nux

    =)

  23. Re:Hardware support on A Closer Look at SUSE 10 · · Score: 1

    And yet when someone from Bell-Labs, part of AT&T (you have heard of them no?) drops you an email for spec on stuff for their oS it just drops into the "Deleted Items" folder too.

  24. Re:Disney? on Disney Encrypting Screener DVDs to Prevent Piracy · · Score: 1

    for $5 expect shoddy artwork :)

  25. Re:Disney? on Disney Encrypting Screener DVDs to Prevent Piracy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    yeah, no one made any $ out of selling copies of Monters Inc. at swap meets