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  1. Re:Confused on Google Cleans Up Search Results By Ditching Sidebar Ads (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a good thing, it makes it very easy to write a greasemonkey script to STRIP all the fucking "sponsored" search results.

  2. How many executives let go? on Yahoo Closes Lab, Among Other Things (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because 90% of the company woes lie in their laps with their stupid decisions and their incompetence.

    Why is it they lay off everyone else yet keep the dead weight that actually destroys the company employed?

  3. Re:Dont need an OS. on Meet Linux's Little Brother Zephyr, a Tiny Open Source IoT RTOS (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, and a good programmer knows how to write a program that is multi threaded... still don't need an OS.

  4. Operating at a loss, or not high enough profits. on Bad Karma: WISP Pares Back Its Monthly 4G Hotspot Plan, Again · · Score: 2

    Honestly you really need to read closer. IS it really they can't afford it or they can't afford it after thinking they need to increase profits by 25%. You really cant believe anything out of the mouths of the executives because they believe they are entitled to record profits and will word it as they are losing money..... losing imaginary money they want.

  5. Re:God this guy in an idiot on Kanye West Is Reportedly Considering Legal Action Against the Pirate Bay · · Score: 2

    She is the feminine products spokesperson for Summer's Eve women's hygiene who tries to sing on the side.

  6. Re:God this guy in an idiot on Kanye West Is Reportedly Considering Legal Action Against the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Try flexing your brain on bands that understand what the fibonacci sequence is and compose to it's constraints.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Re:We Can't Ever Fix This on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I like that one as well but requires the hand off of a physical item, which is the best way to achieve the highest level of protection.

    I like the added function erase the pad as used, wonderfully clever way to make sure the pad will never fall into the wrong hands.

  8. Re:We Can't Ever Fix This on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You sure it's an english version? How do you know that I did not use a Chinese version of book 1 and a German version of book 2? how do you know if I stripped out all spacing? how about if we reversed the book's file One? the other? both? How do you know that we did not decide to use the top book on project gutenberg that month, and took the UK national Lotto's last winning number as the key for an RSA encryption of that file to create the pad?

    Plenty of ways to simply cause a whole lot of problems for the Cryptoanalysis but cause almost no problems to the two communicating.

  9. Re:Dont need an OS. on Meet Linux's Little Brother Zephyr, a Tiny Open Source IoT RTOS (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 2

    I already have access to network devices, it's coded in the software, it has a wifi chip inside (ESP8266) and does perfectly without an OS or any drivers.

    Not needed.

  10. Re:Dont need an OS. on Meet Linux's Little Brother Zephyr, a Tiny Open Source IoT RTOS (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 2

    If it's cheaper than an 8 bit MCU? yes. I don't care if it has a 256bit MCU... it will never need an OS.

  11. Re:We Can't Ever Fix This on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Lots of evidence. I could show it to you, but then I'd have to kill you.

  12. Dont need an OS. on Meet Linux's Little Brother Zephyr, a Tiny Open Source IoT RTOS (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 2

    Running the application on the bare metal is just fine.

    Sorry but very rarely do you need a full blown OS. my weather station does not need an OS, it just needs it's program to run and loop over and over and over again running directly on the hardware.

    I can see things like Amazon Echo using an OS, but then it's processing power and capacity can easily run a full blown linux. no need for anything that is super tiny.

  13. Re:Quick question! on Stealing Keys From a Laptop In Another Room — and Offline · · Score: 1

    Not if a $0.29 ferrite bead was put around it.

  14. Re:We Can't Ever Fix This on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It is very common and used a lot. It's not used for consumer crap because consumers are too dumb to use it so something simple that has no thought required by the user is far more popular instead.

    I GUARANTEE that one time pads are used daily in multiple places in the world. And in many of those uses it's a life or death situation.

    Remember a one time pad does not have to be a giant book of random, I can use anything as a one time pad. Say I tell my friend in a message that I like two books.

    Those two books become my source for a pad. so Dave the Spy and I pick up "Green Eggs and Ham", and "one fish two fish red fish blue fish" we both know to take the two books and XOR the two texts together to get our pad source file.

    so now later I send Dave the secret plans on how to make Eggs American style... I encode it starting at position 0 in the PAD. I place the file someplace for him to find it, and he decodes it. I mark that the message was 1000 characters long so my next starting point is at 1001. he decodes and sends me an answer starting at 1001. and so on.

    I did not have to give him a giant chunk of data, just 3 small bits of data. two book names and what we do to create that pad can be easily handed off at a dead drop or other simple out of band manner. we could also have multiple pads to choose from. I post on my facebook, "I love re reading the Harry Potter series" can be a clue to him to switch to the harry potter based PAD. what book in harry potter did we choose? what other book was it XOR'ed with? enough information for him, not enough for the Feds or Hydra to know what to look for.

  15. Glad to see agency directors are morons. on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This guy is either a complete and utter moron or is trying like hell tp push a personal agenda.

    If he really thinks the attacks would not have happened without crypto then he really is a complete moron. A complete and utter moron.

  16. Re:until people get punished for false claims on Copyright Professor's Lecture Removed From YouTube Over Sony Content-ID Claim (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Then I vote that a corporation/people that violates a very bad law get's the death penalty. Yes I want Corporate Death penalty where the company is sold off for it's assets and dissolved.

  17. will it survive being smashed by a hammer?

    Technically if you wrote the data to the crystal properly with redundant writes you should be able to.

  18. News flash. your iPhone is MADE IN CHINA.

  19. Re:They aren't ordering Apple to decrypt it on Congressman: Court Order To Decrypt iPhone Has Far-Reaching Implications (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    There's an app for that....

    http://www.livescience.com/387...

  20. North Korea will start something and we will be unable to respond...

    It's the beginning of the end people..... Doom...... DOOOOOOOOOOOOoOOOOOOOOooOOOOoOOooooooommmmm.......

  21. Re:They aren't ordering Apple to decrypt it on Congressman: Court Order To Decrypt iPhone Has Far-Reaching Implications (dailydot.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then they should try waterboarding the body.

  22. All of the China crap you need to ASSUME it is riddled with backdoors and other security problems and even sending your info elsewhere. The China ONVIF security cameras are FILLED with this kind of crap.

  23. Just projector mapping.... on Gaga, Bowie, the Grammys, and the Internet of Augmented Things (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    This has been around forever. and honestly that demo really sucked as it was not able to keep centered on her face. Come on all they needed was to put some IR reference reflectors and some nice fast galvo mirrors on that projector output to keep it within 1/6th of an inch of human movement.

    This is the EXACT same tech used to do Gorillaz stage shows.

  24. Re:The deed is done on Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or you know the FBI can look through all the phone records and use their other sources of information. These people had twitter, they know that, they can also easily find their email accounts.

    It's the FBI being whiney.

  25. Judges are not bright. on Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    But they do have an inflated sense of power and get all pissy when people don't do the impossible if they demand it.