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  1. Re:I wish the US Supreme Court was that smart. on UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense · · Score: 1

    They can come in, they just have to get in without my help.

    Rainbow table away.

  2. Re:Both sides... on Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Don't forget supporting Ted Stevens' DRM-your-lamp bill back in 02/03. Biden's a complete fucker. Still, look at the "competition"...

  3. Re:Killer App on Steve Wozniak Predicts Death of the IPod · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And if they can't improve other people's work, they just patent it:/

  4. Re:How it's done on Linux-Based E-Voting In Brazil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Crappy software running on linux is just as easy to rig...

    the problem with Diebold is political not technical

  5. Re:Sarah Palin: Secret Canadian on Artists Strive To Wrest Rights From Music Industry · · Score: 1

    I lolled

  6. Re:What about crypto modes? Never heard of CBC, CT on Encrypted Images Vulnerable To New Attack · · Score: 1

    False. I use XTS. If you use well-written software (dm-crypt + luks) you barely take a speed hit. I'm on serpent-xts-essiv:sha256 with a 256 bit key and I lose 20% disk access speed or so. Not even noticable unless I'm copying large chunks of data.

  7. Re:Easy on Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar" · · Score: 1

    Yeah these wars make the war on terra look positively intelligent, if you examine them closely.

  8. Re:differences on Encrypted Images Vulnerable To New Attack · · Score: 1

    Definitely fud, given it's coming from some no-name proprietary firm. This reeks of snake oil to me.

    The author's assumptions are completely absurd and the article itself seems deliberately poorly written.

    FUD has a strong effect on the weak minded.

    Now if you'll excuse me, I'm waiting for my hard drive to Caesar Shift with my Vaporware 8000 FDE.

  9. Re:nonsense on Encrypted Images Vulnerable To New Attack · · Score: 1

    Shit! *thermites hard drive*

  10. Re:The dark side (tm) on Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    Or go to California, where noncompetes can't be enforced after you leave the company;)

  11. Re:Yeah but... on Ultrasound Machine Ages Wine · · Score: 1

    There's an all-seeing eye underneath. Talk about poor product design. Conspiricists these days!

  12. Re:It would be cool on Ultrasound Machine Ages Wine · · Score: 1

    I feel better about preferring cheap wine to expensive now:-)

  13. Re:Fire them! on Managing Personal Electronics and Software In the Workplace · · Score: 1

    when I worked in a organization, their incompetent IT people closed my account early. So the local sysadmin built a back door in so I could do my job.

    If idiots manage competents, you end up with security holes. Better to allow much and document all.

  14. Re:Fire them! on Managing Personal Electronics and Software In the Workplace · · Score: 1

    If your employees are that stupid, you have bigger problems.

    Everywhere I've worked it's been; we support this. Stray from it + fuck up = major fireage. I brought my own laptop and USB keys and remote controlled by work desktop with ssh. No complaints.

    Of course I did have to spoof some things to get wireless... ...maybe I'm just an awful employee...

  15. Re:Fire them! on Managing Personal Electronics and Software In the Workplace · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The nice thing about IT people is that there are plenty of good ones, and you can afford to hire them and fire the idiots.

    The joys of having linux administered for me by someone else:-)

  16. Re:People have been expecting these Methane clouds on Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because natural global warming comes slowly and is periodic, unlike the unprecedented exponential increase we've seen lately.

    I think if more people understood what a first derivative was all this climate change denial bullshit would be far easier to expose as interest group lies.

    Well, time to replace democracy and freedom with socialism and planned economies, and murder all the Christians, which, according to the deniers, is all we scientists do

  17. Re:Here is a theory for ya on Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf · · Score: 0

    How did that ignorant propaganda flamebait get modded insightful?

  18. Re:you've got it backwards on Designing a Patent-Incentive Program? · · Score: 1

    And if the company has lawyers, this can translate into profits for them, and everybody wins! Except the innovators of course, but we are talking about patents here

  19. Re:Non-Chinese proof of this? on Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Bush administration did fake the Iraq war to scare Americans into voting Democratic. I am so sick of these liberal ploys to take over the white house.

  20. Re:Double blind on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    The blindness part is moot to me for obvious reasons but sure, why not, create one out of sugar, it's not lie it'll be any different. Guy a couple above is right. Four words: Peer reviewed scientific journal. He doesn't publish his methods. I wonder why.

    All snake oil promises one of two wisdoms: new wisdom (science technological breakthrough etc) or old wisdom (ancient people/medicine/religion). Both are valid sources of information, but until science confirms them, snake oil for your car.

    It's true that magnetic fields can affect properties of some fluids but I find it hard to believe any field powerful enough to affect atomization of droplets (if it's even possible) would do some serious damage and probably erase the unencrypted hard drives with personal information people of hte intelligence that buy this device tend to leave in there.

    I blame this on scientists at least on some level. We need to educate people as to what science, does and means.

    A many who will give his paper only to journalists...that says enough to me.

  21. Re:Go with the flow on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or get you fired for sexual harassment.

  22. Re:I willing to bet... on China Announces Launch-Success Details — Before Launch · · Score: 1

    Mission? They're actually doing one? Why, they just went to the moon! Didn't you read Veritas?

  23. Re:Apple fanbois on Google Unveils First Android Phone · · Score: 1

    Treacherous platform is implemented in Vista with how only vendors who have paid Microsoft protection money will have their drivers allowed to install, unless you run Vista under Xen and do some other magic.

    On the iPhone it is used to prevent any non-party-approved apps from running.

    The first step is only requiring it for treacherous apps. Guess what happens down the road?

  24. Re:simply boycott them on EA Hit By Class-Action Suit Over Spore DRM · · Score: 1

    The Sony rootkit created major security flaws, hence the lawsuit. As in, exploited ones. Dunno if SecuROM does too.

  25. Re:Or more reasonable policies on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    "But how can that be, son? Your algebra teacher promised at parents night he always wears a condom while teaching"