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  1. Re:PHP Bug #55439 FIXED (Aug 20) on Serious Crypto Bug Found In PHP 5.3.7 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope.

    $valid will be the return value of crypt which will be true in the non-broken code as well.

    $crypted == crypt($pw, $salt)

    will always be true in the broken code, if $crypted was created with any old password and the same salt.

    Of course if you have existing such password, they'll always match false, so no one is going to be able to change their password and trigger the problem anyway :)

  2. Re:Open and shut case on Teachers, Students Fight To Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    Because one is restricting freedom of speech at certain locations and times, while the other is universal.

    Of course that doesn't mean the such limited restrictions are consitutional, but it is a difference that allows both views to held a the same time without being hypocritical.

  3. Re:This is why people don't give NASA enough suppo on What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? · · Score: 2

    Given it wasn't funded by NASA, and wasn't done by NASA, and NASA has no involvement at all. What do you propose NASA do about it?

    Ban everyone who is affiliated with NASA from human contact outside of work?

  4. Re:Makes sense... on 13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough · · Score: 2

    Evolution make no claims of producing optimal setups - for a single component or for the whole.

    There are also likely plenty of other selection pressures on plants that have to be traded off against solar energy collection.

    But yes it does seem like something someone would have tried before - then again putting your solar panels where there they aren't in shade at any point and pointing them at the same should still be better. Of course for solar panels not in the middle of the desert that can be problematic.

  5. Re:Intelligent scientists? Are you kidding me? on What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? · · Score: 1

    Being bad at astrology is a good thing.

  6. Re:wow on DARPA Hypersonic Vehicle Splash Down Confirmed · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure a pilot could (well I don't know what the g forces are on that thing, let's assume they are conscious). After all "controlled splashdown" means "dive straight down into the ocean", also known as "crashing". Which is better than flying at Mach 20 in a random direction and hoping you stay over water.

  7. Re:Sturgeon's Law on Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games · · Score: 1

    That 90% of gamers are crap?

  8. Re:Failsafe Investing on New Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beats the Stock Market · · Score: 1

    Since I've been using this I've averaged about an 8% per year return. You don't have to believe me run the numbers yourself they are all available.

    I suspect it would be dependant on when you do that annual rebalance.

    But yes that mix will have done well, a much better idea that trying to pick stocks. Very US centric though,

  9. Re:Way younger... on Moon Younger Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Priest is an English word - that Catholics use it is a title doesn't change that Judaism , Christianity, Hinduism, and lots of other religions have priests.

  10. Re:Huh? on UCLA Engineers Create Energy-Generating LCD Screen · · Score: 2

    Except it's doubling as a polarizing filter which is fundametally needed by LCDs and hence you already have the energy loss.

  11. Way younger... on Moon Younger Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    We all know it was created just a few thousand years ago on day 4.

    NASA could have saved the trip if they'd just asked the local priest!

  12. Re:Finish Minecraft on Notch Asks For Trial By Combat · · Score: 1

    Did you get a time frame on completion before you handed over the cash?

    No? Well I guess you're a moron then.

    Heck there's a release date even, why would you expect it sooner? Or expect anything in the meantime?

  13. Re:He's Right on Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users · · Score: 1

    Sure maybe the goal is to grab yet more "monetizable social information", but it seems about equally likely that it's just an attempt get people out of facebook. Since when people use facebook they see facebook's ads not google's ads, google could see it as a profitable move to create Google+ not to collect social data but just to move those ad views from facebook to google.

    Of course it's google - they are going to mine that data like crazy, but the primary goal could have been to create a "better" social network in order to move users into their ad views.

  14. Re:And? on Anti-Piracy Lawyers Accuse Blind Man of Downloading Films · · Score: 1

    Maybe he likes listening to the audio?

  15. Re:Touch typing defense on How To Steal ATM PINs With a Thermal Camera · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just set the keypad on fire.

  16. Re:And Finally on Australian 'Electronic Pigeon Hole' Could Replace Gov't Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    No way!!!!

    The government being able to read the things they send to you and you send to them. The horror!

    I much prefer a system in which they just guess what you sent them, and instntly forget everything they have ever told you before. Actually that is how the DMV seems to work here in NJ...

  17. Re:It's a really good idea on Australian 'Electronic Pigeon Hole' Could Replace Gov't Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    It's opt-in so why would any of that be necessary?

    It's an attempt for the government to reduce some costs, and costs would be rescued with less than 100% opt-in.

    And of course there is that whole national broadband network thing they keep arguing about to election time.

  18. Re:"Pigeon Hole" on Australian 'Electronic Pigeon Hole' Could Replace Gov't Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    No since "web mail" would imply you could use it to send and receive email to an from arbitrary email addresses.

    Whereas this would be purely for communication with the government. It would function just like a bog standard office pigeon hole in that respect, so why not name it as such?

  19. Re:Let me just say it for the hundreth time on Can We Fix SSL Certification? · · Score: 1

    Breaking apart verification and encryption doesn't mean doing away with verification, it just means having encryption as a stand alone option.

    Yes, it opens up man-in-the-middle attacks. But a man in the middle is a lesser than evil than no encryption at all in which every one in the path can snoop. Obviously you would layer authentication as well for things that need it (such as banking) and not bother for things which don't (such as browsing cnn.com).

  20. Re:Wrong on The Post-Idea World · · Score: 1

    We also have cars that tow just fine, nothing has been lost.

    Since most people don't want to tow RVs around most of the time only a retard would not trade off towing performance for things that most people actually do care about - at least in the product aimed at most people.

    We haven't lost any of the things you mentioned (and clearly reliability and safety have improved by orders of magnitude) - you can still buy a vehicle to meet those requirements today. There are just additional much better options for the bulk of people who care more about running costs than being able to break the speed limit by a bigger margin or win a race from the traffic lights or tow an RV.

  21. Re:"average of 130 friends" on Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation" · · Score: 2

    facebook "friend" doesn't mean the same as the usual word frield. It includes friends, family, acquaintances, and people who were friends a decade ago.
     

  22. Re:Barr had it coming, but... on Aaron Barr Talks About DEFCON, Anonymous Attacks · · Score: 1

    Doing shit because you find it funny is a force for good? What "good" came of creating lots of black men in suits avatars and blocking off areas in a stupid social networking/virtual hotel thing and forming swastikas and declaring the pool closed due to AIDS? Aside from being funny of course.

  23. fair is fair on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The officer received a 45-day suspension for the beating

    What do you think would happen to me if I beat a police officer enough to cause "many broken bones in his face and permanent partial blindness"?

  24. Re:What 'Special Protection'? on Drug Companies Lose Special Protection On Facebook · · Score: 1

    You can block individual trolls but I'm shocked that their concern isn't bad publicity for their products from a few outliers but instead concern from government regulators! What? If you're giving them all your information about your drug's potential side effects, there shouldn't be any concern!

    So looking at the drug they listed, Seroquel [facebook.com] I see the user comments being actually very helpful. People talking about it losing its potency, people talking about switching on or off XR for better results. I'm sure that these comments have been weeded by some corporate automaton but, come on, these are customers helping other customers!

    Because one of those helpful customer will post something about an off label use. Some regulator somewhere will decide that since it was on the company's page and wasn't deleted within 10 seconds that the company is promoting such use. And said company will be fined several hundred million dollars.

    Even if it's moderated, that just increases the liability problem and the moderator wouldn't be cheap because you can't just employ someone with no knowledge of the products and regulatory rules in various jurisdictions (well you could, but that'll just make the inevitable fine larger).

  25. Re:Or a complete lie. on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    They aren't claiming radioactive decay, in fact they explicitly say it isn't that in the article.

    They are simply claiming that the usual laws of thermodynamics don't apply to their invention, which isn't exactly a novel claim.