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  1. Re:Ok I don't get it on Bootkit Bypasses TrueCrypt Encryption · · Score: 1

    Please point where the "get a warrant later" part is in that post.

    Since all I can see in it is that instead of taking the laptop they put this bios on it and take it later. Nothing about putting the bios on it being done under different circumstances than the original taking (which once upon a time would have needed a warrant then and there).

  2. Re:Ok I don't get it on Bootkit Bypasses TrueCrypt Encryption · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, for two reasons.

    1. truecrypt doesn't use related keys for encrypting different things, so there's no known plaintexts with which to perform that attack.

    2. 10 round 256 bit AES is less secure than 128 bit AES in cases for which that attack applies. But AES-256 is defined to use 14 rounds so that attack only works against bizarre implementations that decided to be incompatible with the rest of the world and to ignore the security advice of the AES designers. There are approximately 0 such uses of AES.

  3. Re:No way I would give them one penny on Tenenbaum Lawyers Now Passing the Hat · · Score: 1

    You get what you pay for has never been truer it would seem.

  4. Re:Sensible collissions that don't affect size? on Generating Fast MD5 Collisions With ATI Video Cards · · Score: 1

    Nobody should use MD5 for authentication and whatnot...

    Signing a hash is a very common method in cryptography. DSA for example signs with SHA-1 (SHA-2 these days), if you sign the unhashed message it isn't DSA.

  5. Re:Huh?? on Apple Keyboard Firmware Hack Demonstrated · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But if you removed the logger, say by reinstalling the OS or whatever I would lose that. With it in the keyboard I you need to also replace that (or reflash it of course).

  6. Re:sometimes secrecy is necessary on Apple and the Scalability of Secrecy · · Score: 1

    Yes, but expecting an ipod with non-modified software to then play the mp3 is a bit much...

  7. Re:Huh?? on Apple Keyboard Firmware Hack Demonstrated · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure it's easier for me to get some code to run on your machine than it is for me to break into your house and install a logger inside your keyboard.

  8. As long as you follow the license on The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    The original developer can go jump.

    As long as you including the source or a written offer to provide the source yada yada yada then you are complying with the license in letter, and in spirit: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

    They can just download the code and release a free (as in price) version for the iphone themselves if it is such a big concern to them.

  9. Re:Jumpgate is its own game, but . . . on Jumpgate Evolution Dev Talks Class Balance · · Score: 1

    So because one game which did PvE first and then tacked on PvP screws up balance, that means a different game that is doing PvP balance first and then thinking about PvE is destined to screw it up?

    If you get PvP balance right, then PvE will be easy - just give the monsters tweaked down player abilities. Since PvP is balanced and AI is crappier than good players that should make PvE easy enough.

    And if one ship ends up being better in PvE than the rest then who cares, update the PvE monsters be better against that ship - there's no need to tweak the already balanced player ships.

    That's why PvE is easier than PvP, you can tweak the E part without changing the P part to fix PvE issues with no effect on PvP at all.

  10. Re:This is not EVE with PvP balancing... on Jumpgate Evolution Dev Talks Class Balance · · Score: 1

    Except that each skill has a cap of 5, and you can only be in one ship with a few weapons in it at a time. That your opponent has huge amounts of skill points in skills for ships he isn't in right now and weapons he doesn't have right now doesn't matter in the slightest.

  11. Re:sometimes secrecy is necessary on Apple and the Scalability of Secrecy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because attempting to overwrite an entire partition with an mp3 file makes perfect sense.

  12. and yet everytime hispanics are put in games on Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity · · Score: 1

    they complain about it.

    More hispanic gangster bad guys and GTA games, that should address this awful imbalance.

    put some females in the game that you can pay for sex and then rob and they complain about that too.

    Developers just can't win!

  13. Re:Ahh the social sciences. on Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity · · Score: -1, Troll

    Never heard of climate science?

  14. Re:Makes me wonder on Null Character Hack Allows SSL Spoofing · · Score: 1

    How does nul terminated strings help in case b? You have to allocate memory in both cases anyway and keeping track of a pointer to the length store isn't hard.

    nul terminated strings are simple and efficient. They also require more effort on the part of the client code. Which is the C way.

  15. Re:Same as gas stations on Funds Dwindle To Dismantle Old Nuclear Plants · · Score: 1

    Why not just require them to build reactors that will teleport themselves into the sun when it is time to decommission them.

    It's equally possible.

  16. Re:Research on Are Women Getting More Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    But we aren't taling about that are we. We are talking about people getting taller. Last I checked there isn't some alien species directing our breeding to produce giant people.

  17. Re:Time to be pendantic! on New Class of Galaxy Discovered · · Score: 1

    It makes perfect to anyone who isn't intentionally being an idiot.

    That it's describing a size/mass difference doesn't make it mathematics. "A is X times less B than C" means that feature B of A is 1/X that of C. It's the same thing as "C is X times more B than A" but allows the speaker/writer to put the import thing at the start instead of end.

    Has been for 300 years (and probably longer). Isn't going to change because math lovers dislike it.

  18. Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    Bullshit.

    Rural area interstates in reasonable terrain are mandated at 75 miles per hour, some mountains or urban areas and that drops to 55. And of course design exceptions are allowed and there are grandfathered sections.

    I can't help but notice that 75 mph is 120 kmh, maybe you didn't notice the units in wherever you are regurgitating that ridiculous claim from.

  19. Re:All I want to see... on Antitrust Pressure Mounts For Wireless Providers · · Score: 1

    My cell phone plan has no termination charge, so signing up for one that does is clearly a choice made by the signer.

  20. Re:Time to be pendantic! on New Class of Galaxy Discovered · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's standard English and has been for hundreds of years.

    Yes mathematically it makes no sense, but language isn't mathematics. And look you understood that it meant 1/10th and 1/100th so from a linguistically it expressed what was intended just fine, even to people who think in math instead of language.

    Unless you're arguing "smaller' needs a qualifier to indicate it means volume. Even that seems a stretch since there are only two options, volume and mass, and the mass is taken by the 100x part.

  21. Re:All I want to see... on Antitrust Pressure Mounts For Wireless Providers · · Score: 1

    In which case the fee will be increased so that most people still pay $200.

    Did they hold a gun to your head when you signed the thing with the obvious non-pro-rated fee? If not why "should" you have to pay less than what you agreed to?

  22. Re:Mobsters, the new clinical trialists. on Dye Used In Blue M&Ms Can Lessen Spinal Injury · · Score: 1

    It isn't nice. It's common sense.

    The ones that get their back's broken get off easily, the ones that are get assigned get picked by the guy trying some random cancer treatment aren't so lucky.

    Frankly kill a million mice so that a nicer blue color can be found for eyeliner sounds perfectly acceptable to me.

  23. Re:Origin Systems Games on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The word was "good".

  24. Re:Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? on Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? · · Score: 1

    lol, hotter, wtf?? Seriously, what are you talking about.

    The near side has a much higher concentration of radioactive elements (plus a thinner crust), hence more recent lava flows removing craters.

  25. Re:Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? on Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? · · Score: 1

    So how does your "the earth sucks in asteroids that hit the moon" work then?

    Since half of those sucked in asteroids will be coming from the non-moon side of the earth, missing the earth and smacking into the moon's near side.

    Of course the near-side being hotter is a more likely explanation than either of these. But the earth as a shield still seems to make more sense than the earth as a vacuum cleaner.