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  1. I read on Warner Bros. Acquires Turbine · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ahh, I read "Warner Bros. Acquires Turbine" and thought "That's nice of them wanting to save the environment"...

  2. Correction on Apache Foundation Attacked, Passwords Stolen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    s/hackers/crackers/g

    Additionally, Brutus is password cracking software... not mentioned in the summary.

  3. For free, huh? on Crytek Plans Free Version of CryENGINE 3 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Speech or beer? I do hope it's speech...

  4. Bad on Google Incorporates Site Speed Into PageRank Calculation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If another site pretends to be me or tries to sell products that sound like my product, and have more money than me to spend on servers, and are closer to Google, Google will redirect people to them instead of me. Bad move.

  5. Lolicon on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 1

    Save the lolis! If people want to be able to have and distribute their own pictures of something, then nothing should stop them. It's only pictures for goodness sakes, it's not like it's the real thing, It might even prevent abuse.

  6. Meh. on Android Gets Carrier-Operated European App Store · · Score: 1

    This i almost like comparing the Linux community with just Ubuntu's software centre. Things on Ubuntu are going to work on Ubuntu, other apps might not. This is just going to help compatibility.

  7. Force on Yoctonewton Detector Smashes Force Sensing Record · · Score: 1

    The force is stro- no wait.

  8. Version on Sony Update Bricks Playstations · · Score: 1

    3.2 1 Gone!

  9. Reverse Engineering on Making Closed Software Act Like It's Open · · Score: 1

    Some closed source software explicitly prohibit modificatiion (unknown whether it counts in memory) and reverse-engineering. This is probably illegal.

  10. Great on First LHC Data Hint At New Particle · · Score: 1

    Funny name "neutrinosaurus". That would be annoying. We can barely see neutrinos.

  11. Obvious. on Tremulous Switching To Xbox Live, Exclusively · · Score: 1

    A bit obvious. Anyone who knows the contents of the GPL can see right through this. Additionally, "very capable and experienced Microsoft engineers"? Give me a break.

  12. Re:Say no to rapidshare on Rapidshare Trying To Convert Pirates Into Customers · · Score: 1

    Or big file sites, or ftp accounts, or bibud (when it's ready).

  13. Adobe on New Malware Overwrites Software Updaters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now if that's not an excuse to get away from Adobe Reader, what is? This?

  14. BT HomeHub on Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs · · Score: 1

    The BT HomeHub mark 1 in the UK uses a sha1 (I think) algorithm for calculating its SSID and key.
    You take the hash of the serial number and use the portions like this:

    SSIDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX10DIGITKEY
    (though it might be the other way around)
    or similar.
    SSID is the suffix (e.g. 716F in BTHomeHub-716F)
    10DIGITKEY is the WEP key (e.g. 581fdc1977).
    This insecurity allows you to look up possible keys for the SSID match in some tables and cut your guessing down to a mere 70 or so guesses for the key.
    That is why it's a REALLY good idea to change your SSID and encryption key.

  15. Celebration on Pi Day and an Interview With a Pi Researcher · · Score: 1, Informative

    To celebrate, I'll be having pie for dinner.

  16. Jailbreaking on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    I could do this ages ago with jailbreaking (Backgrounder, Kirikae, etc). But I do wish that in Android it would make backgrounding not default unless I set the program specifically to background.

  17. Re:TKIP and CCMP on A New Wi-Fi Exploit, Limited But Clever · · Score: 1

    I jolly well hope so! It's a shame so many users still have WEP/WPA 10-digit hex passwords. To say nothing of default router and predictable passwords.

  18. TKIP and CCMP on A New Wi-Fi Exploit, Limited But Clever · · Score: 1

    TKIP and CCMP are both vulnerable to cracking still. People can go in, wait, deauth you, steal your 4-way handshake, and dump the file on a computer or cluster, and have your password quickly.

    How about ethernet? No? Well, make sure it's WPA2 Enterprise with a very long password, hidden, etc.

  19. Order to chaos on What Is Time? One Researcher Shares His Exploration · · Score: 1

    The direction of time is order to chaos (with a few exceptions). The universe is more chaotic than it used to be, but with packets of order.

    Fundamentally, it takes a little energy to turn order to chaos but a lot of energy to turn chaos to order. Like breaking an egg, or thermodynamic laws (energy moving from hot objects to cold objects, due to hot objects having more entropy).

  20. ARP Spoofing on Passive-Aggressive Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    I'm sure your neighbours would LOVE to see LOLcats instead of the pictures they actually wanted.

    Of course, a DNS redirect and a harsh notice on your server wouldn't go amiss.

  21. Re:Tell us the patents on Microsoft, Amazon Ink Kindle and Linux Patent Deal · · Score: 1

    Anyone who tries to infringe them. I put "us" in because I clump myself in with the open source crowd that "MS is trying so hard to sue".

  22. Re:OpenGL on DirectX 11 Coming To Browser Games · · Score: 1

    Hey at least Flash is platform independent, and where it isn't, we have Gnash and SWFDec.

  23. Tell us the patents on Microsoft, Amazon Ink Kindle and Linux Patent Deal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think MS should tell infringing parties which of its patents are being infringed, otherwise its patent claim should be invalidated due to insufficient proof.

  24. MSN on Twitter Hit By BZPharma LOL Phishing Attack · · Score: 0

    I swear that my MSN messenger has messages "from my friends" saying "haha this you? -link to dodgy site-". Of course I've never clicked on one. In fact I talked about security to a "hey wanna see my webcam?" bot once.

  25. Don't forget on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 0

    Without our dear inertial dampers, we'd take ages to accelerate to that velocity. Or die whilst being squished into our seats.