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  1. Re:Non story on Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More · · Score: 1

    Record the content? I think the Xbox1 lets you record on the xbox. So maybe you can record the input also?

  2. Re:God of the Gaps on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The thing is we moved from a caring god being at the top of the food chain, to Ebenezer Scrooge being at the top. So no wonder people want God.

  3. Re:Meta review on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 1

    Some people did that to the S-boxes in DES. They wanted to remove the "backdoor" they believed was there. It make their DES more crack-able.

  4. Re:We owe our thanks to Mr. Snowden on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 2

    The DES "S-boxes" were magic numbers that people believed it was a backdoor. It took years for people to see that it closed weaknesses. The way the NSA work, they can't talk about why they put in the magic numbers. Not that we should not try to find out what the numbers do. If we change the "magic number" without learning that it really is a weakness, we could end up making Elliptic curve weaker.

  5. Re:And was on slashdot in 2007 as well on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 2

    NSA also picked the boxes in DES. For years people believed it was to make a backdoor. Then people learned that the NSA know of a weakness that they closed by picking the boxes.

  6. Re:Pointless posturing on New Jersey Congressman Seeks To Bar NSA Backdoors In Encryption · · Score: 1

    The down side is the NSA are why we ever even got to DES. They were the big guys pushing for more/better encryption; and still are. Without them, who would have put out the big money to keep effective Encryption coming?

  7. Re:Pointless posturing on New Jersey Congressman Seeks To Bar NSA Backdoors In Encryption · · Score: 1

    Most of the weather data is from the government. It is supplied for free from the government.

  8. Covering butt on Amazon Forbids Crossing State Lines With Rented Textbooks · · Score: 4, Informative

    This sounds less like Amazon being evil and trying to hurt people. It sounds like they put that in to cover their butt. They don't have to deal with book makers saying they are "promoting" braking the law.

  9. Re:Rock and a hard place on Microsoft: Xbox One Won't Require Kinect To Function · · Score: 1

    All the games may still make it mandatory. Just you don't need kinect to turn on the xbox.

  10. Re:Uh... on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    Also speed runners.

  11. Re:Universal survival tool on 10 Wearable Habitats To Shelter You From the Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    Add all the sides on two dies: 42

  12. Re:Bullies like being bullies on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    Based on what you are suing from, changes if you can get restitution. There are many cases that a judge orders restitution, and the agency says "no". At the point all the judge can do is ask nice.

  13. Re:Don't tell the tax man! on PayPal Credits Man With $92 Quadrillion · · Score: 1

    No, it is to much money. The IRS will give him a past and say he only has to pay 1% of taxes owe, and no penalties. Also he will have 20 years to pay, and if he gives it to his kids, he owes no taxes and they don't have to pay any.

  14. Re:The answer to the question on Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun · · Score: 0

    The Supreme Court at one time did read it as "state militia", only a few years ago did they --I think for the 1st time-- read it as a right for private citizens. So it could be a little while before the supreme Court changes its mind.

  15. Re: I always suspect.... on Ex-Employee Busted For Tampering With ERP System · · Score: 1

    Who breaks the law, and what law; does effect guilt. You are always breaking laws. It is the base for getting you convicted that marks you.
    Ex. Man and woman go to bar get drunk. While drunk they have sex. Later the woman can press charges on the man for 'rape' and win. The way the laws are USED says that a man should know better then to have sex with a woman who does not have full control of her self (Drunk, drugged, insane,...). The man would be hard pressed to get rape charges on the woman even if under the law it was still rape. The woman, who was also drunk, took avenge of a man who was not in full control of him self..

  16. Re:Yep, typical on President Obama To Nominate Cable and Wireless Lobbyist To Head FCC · · Score: 1

    Succession has one more trouble. Obama has talked about how he wanted to follow Lincoln's ideals.
    (Insert joke about Obama plans to shipping white people back to Europe)
    So any succession would follow by Obama declaring war on who left, and removing habeas corpus.

  17. 75% can buy a lot on French Science and Higher Education Programs Avoid Austerity · · Score: 1

    The new tax can pay for everything (if people stay there and pay it). I still do not under stand the idea of a pure 75% tax. I could under stand a tax on money after the 1st mil at 75%, but won't the new tax make some Rich have less money after tax then people making a lot less money?

  18. Re:What's the big deal? on Think Tank's Website Rejects Browser Do-Not-Track Requests · · Score: 1

    ip tracking.

  19. TOR! on Think Tank's Website Rejects Browser Do-Not-Track Requests · · Score: 1

    Use TOR.... NOW!

  20. Re:I'd second that. He's spot on with this. on Zuckerberg: Betting On HTML5 Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake · · Score: 1

    Two words: section 508.
    A lot of blind people are using iphones and ipads because apple has been pushing better support for people with diffrent needs.
    If you run a flash website, you lose out on a large population of blind users. Facebook wants as many people as they can to use the site.
    HTML5 as part of a good MVC setup lets access to more people with less wasted money on apps for every platform.

  21. Re:For Mobile on Zuckerberg: Betting On HTML5 Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake · · Score: 1

    Facebook programmers suck at the "view" part of MVC. Don't blame HTML5 for Facebook not knowing what they want to show. They could do just as much with a good view as a mobile app. The good view would put less work on the mobile phone.

  22. Re:Brown Note on Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes · · Score: 1

    think it is number 2 (ha ha). The US Government has tested a lot of crazy things, just in case (ex. ESP). I would not be surprised if they tried to find it... and failed.... I hope.

  23. Re:It doubles the speed at which the FBI notices y on Tor Project Experiments With Funding Fast Exit Nodes · · Score: 1
    To help Chrisq (894406) out, here is a cite:

    Ryan Pries, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, and Wei Zhao, “A New Replay Attack against Tor Anonymous Communication Network", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (Best Paper Award of Information and Network Security Symposium), May 2008.

  24. Re:Bandwidth costs $100/mo on Tor Project Experiments With Funding Fast Exit Nodes · · Score: 1

    The way Nodes are picked tries to prevent that. IP address that are to close to each other (without looking it up I would say 2 octects), or IP address that are from the same area can't be used together.

  25. Good idea. on Tor Project Experiments With Funding Fast Exit Nodes · · Score: 1
    Right now most of the evil exit nodes would be people who have evil use for the data. They are willing to put out more money and have more money for making them faster (Evil governments, Org Crime, Ad companies). So right now, getting a faster connection could be a bad thing. This would help even the playing field a little.

    Sill, they need to do a lot more. With the tor network you don't need to control any nodes if you have control of a few routers along the way (Governments). Look up: Wei Yu. Replay Attack still make it easy to know who sent information to who. If it is not End-to-End tor, they know what you send too.