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  1. Re:So what on Assange Secret Swedish Police Report Leaked · · Score: 5, Informative

    in Sweden if the woman withdraws consent during the act it is still considered rape, with prision terms.

    The point of contention is not the swedish law, but whether the consent was actually withdrawn and the credibility of the womens' statement. The women seem to have continued their relationship with Assange, despite the rape and condom-break incident, which makes their claims sound a bit dubious.

  2. Salt your hashes on Learning From Gawker's Failure · · Score: 3, Informative

    See title

  3. Re:Common sense wins on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 1

    More updates: Assange has to remain in jail, till the appeal is heard (which may take upto 48 hours)

  4. Re:Version 1.0 on Hand-Off, Reconnect To Verizon LTE Can Take 2 Minutes · · Score: 2

    Yes. These should have been sorted out in Beta.

  5. Re:Partisan politics sucks. on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Ok lets ignore the parties. Do you think it is unconstitutional or not?

  6. Re:Will it be as hard to update as Android? on Google Unveils Beta Chrome OS Notebook · · Score: 2

    Yeah imagine the horror, one could literally burn their fingers (and possibly other parts of the body)

  7. Re:Free Dmitry Sklyarov! on Canon's Image Verification System Cracked · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thats really old news, and no one seems to have cared enough to update the website. Here are some updates...
    "The charges against Sklyarov were later dropped in exchange for his testimony. He was allowed to return to Russia on December 13, 2001. On December 18, 2002 following a two-week trial in San Jose, California, a jury found that Elcomsoft had not wilfully violated the U.S. law." -- wikipedia

  8. Re:Profit! on The Odd Variations On 3G Per-Megabyte Pricing · · Score: 1

    You are welcome to try!

  9. Re:Techniques on Race On To Fingerprint Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    3. Yeah foolproof unless it measures the size of the banner that has been set to stretch till it fits the width of the screen
    4. Until the server tries to poke you by sending a flash video (when you claim to not have it) and may be try to display an ad (when you claim to not have adblock)
    5. Depending on the User Agent you send, the server can send you a set of Javascript tests that run on your machine and see if you are lying.

    Besides you only have to go wrong once and you become completely unique henceforth.

  10. Re:Techniques on Race On To Fingerprint Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    1) Except for the round trip time for you to talk to the server. It only makes it better for them that NTP makes this more accurate.
    2) You manually did not install it, but some applications still install fonts they use.
    3) You would be identified as someone who changes screen size too often and after awhile become unique.
    4) Refer 3. Besides the version of flash, acrobat reader, you are running also make you unique
    5) That makes you unique. You must be the only one with user agent as "recently updated FF, MSIE, or ancient debris".
    The best is to hide in the crowd, get the most commonly used processor (sometimes websites can identify the processors), most commonly used OS and browser (do you use FF by the way?), and most commonly used setup (plugins, no hifi extensions)

  11. Re:Free 3G wireless internet? on Nook Color Rooted — Will B&N Embrace the Tablet? · · Score: 2

    Not on the color version. Free 3G is only available on $199 grey scale version.

  12. Re:One thing has changed on Iran Admits Stuxnet Affected Their Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    Wow, you seriously believe Iran cares about Slashdot?

  13. Re:Abandon all your cash on Estonian Economist Suggests Abandoning Cash · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you are the only one with cash and everybody has abandoned it, it would be useless (except to burn it and keep yourself warm may be).

  14. Re:The one that annoys me... on Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results? · · Score: 1

    Start searching for +mkiss instead of mkiss. Case closed. Next!

  15. Re:Israeli Airport Security folks are professional on Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA · · Score: 1

    Do read my other comment - What I said was that exact replica of Israeli security is not possible, because of the scale. My point is also that, we do not need an exact replica of their security, only a replica of their attitude (real security instead of security theater, human centered approach instead of electronics centered approach)

  16. Re:Stupid Article on Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that, the store does not claim to be unbiased, but google does (for anti-trust reason). Anyway the whole thing is non-story, google does not reorder search results, it just adds a widget on top, that can give you more direct information from other google services.

  17. Re:Israeli Airport Security folks are professional on Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA · · Score: 1

    Actually he is right about the scale... Israel's major airports (that can be counted in one hand) handle about 10 million passengers an year. Major airports in the US (easily >10) handle about 50 million each. So you easily need about 25 times the trained interrogators that Israel has (if you were to guard only the 10 major airports in the US). It would be impossible to train enough interrogators to handle all of the airports in the US. You may have to shutdown the small regional airports and make air transport less lucrative, even in larger airports, for this to work.

  18. Re:How is the TSA invasive? on Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So how long do you think before, TSA would require a body scan before boarding a bus or a train or a ship? You would still be fine with it, if you were informed in advance, right? One can still take the car or walk or swim, right?

  19. Re:Israeli Airport Security folks are professional on Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA · · Score: 1

    Yeah an exact replica of Israelie security may not be possible (The Ben Gurion handles about 10 million passengers an year, while US airports like JFK handle 45 million). But its the attitude that matters. You can use electronics to help trained humans handle the security, but no way can any advanced electronics operated by dumb and untrained humans handle security well.

  20. MOD PARENT UP! on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    MOD PARENT UP!

  21. Re:What is this costing the taxpayer? on What's the Oracle Trial Against SAP Really About? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Duh, they (both parties) of course paid court fees.

  22. Re:So.... on The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs · · Score: 1

    Even better, advertise them as the more times you push, the faster the signal changes. And to be even cleverer about it, advertise it as it counts the number of people (by counting the number of button presses) and acts intelligently.

  23. Re:or just use proper security on Firesheep Countermeasure Tool BlackSheep · · Score: 1

    Oopsie, I forgot to mention, you need a live plus account to be able to change settings at https://account.live.com/ManageSSL . But still visiting https://www.hotmail.com/ should still work for non-paying users. Here is a source if you are interested... http://lifehacker.com/5684326/hotmail-adds-always+on-secure-https-connection-option

  24. Re:or just use proper security on Firesheep Countermeasure Tool BlackSheep · · Score: 1

    It does work for me (with out using EFF's addon). Do try visiting https://account.live.com/ManageSSL , where you can set this up. Not sure why simply visiting https://www.hotmail.com/ does not work for you.

    And I do understand what you looking for is https even beyond logon. The one I had mentioned (in this post and the prev post) is exactly for this purpose.

  25. Re:or just use proper security on Firesheep Countermeasure Tool BlackSheep · · Score: 1

    Hotmail has had HTTPS support for a while now. All you have to do is visit https://www.hotmail.com/ and as soon as it logs on click on always https (hotmails prompts you for it).

    And most websites I use support https (if not they lose the tinfoil market)