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  1. Caesars palace does not have such locks. Additionally they made you sign a document saying they could come in the room at any time without notice.

    People saying this was done without consent didnâ(TM)t read what they signed at check in.

    I donâ(TM)t agree with it but there was notice.

  2. All of this withholding of material would work if only the studios weren't the same people who own the movie theaters.

  3. Re:Still abusive on Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS · · Score: 1

    Clearly you have not heard of salting a hash. That's what stops the rainbow table attack you describe.

    On the other hand, going through my DNS history is a violation of my privacy and I'm not going to play this game.

  4. Address? on Robotic Kiosk Stores Digital Copies of Physical Keys · · Score: 1

    I really hope they don't make you register with your address. Losing that database would be terrifically bad.

  5. Re:Familiar with image recognition at all? on Introducing the NSA-Proof Crypto-Font · · Score: 1

    When you invent your own cryptography, you are doomed to failure. All you need to do is load the font into the OCR software and it's game over. Sorry, sophomoric design student.

  6. WiFi Pineapple on iPhone Apparently Open To Old Wi-Fi Attack · · Score: 1

    The WiFi Pineapple has made this sort of attack possible for a long time. It's not just the iPhone that is vulnerable. Nearly everyone has connected to a "linksys" or "attwifi" hotspot before, and you can easily spoof this with Karma.

    http://hakshop.myshopify.com/products/wifi-pineapple

  7. Re:So cats contract it by eating rodents... on Cat Parasite May Increase Risk of Suicide In Humans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wash your hands.

    If you are a cat owner, and you can't handle the simple fact that you are dealing with feces and vomit every day without a proper hygiene protocol, something has already gone wrong.

  8. Re:$99 !!!!!! on MS Will Remove OEM 'Crapware' For $99 · · Score: 1

    If their OS was designed correctly, Norton and McAfee's entire market wouldn't exist. Both of these AV vendors profit because of poor security controls in the operating system.

  9. Re:We do it at our store for $65 plus tax. on MS Will Remove OEM 'Crapware' For $99 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A considerable amount of time?

    Yeah, because paying for someone to eat donuts and stare at the progress back is a good use of money.

    This is yet another reason not to use Windows. It's broken by default.

  10. Slashdot misses the point on 'Iceman' Gets 13 Years For 2nd Hacking Offense · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This isn't about a 13 year sentence for "Hacking."

    This is a 13 year sentence for credit fraud, credit card theft, and oh yeah, he also stored the credit card numbers on a computer where other people could get to them.

    There's no cleverness here that needs awarding. Back doors are easy to install when the FBI has already allowed you to contract there.

  11. It Failed in SF, it won't work now. on First MS Retail Stores Will be In Scottsdale, AZ and Mission Viejo, CA · · Score: 3, Informative

    How is this the first?

    Their first store was in San Francisco at the Metreon in 1997.

    It failed miserably.

  12. Re:Doesn't Solve the Problem on Smart Parking Spaces In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    You're right. This has absolutely nothing to do with helping people find parking spaces.

    It has to do with maximizing revenue from each parking space, removing the "Free" parking time you get if someone pulls out of a space with time on the meter, and accurately tracking people that don't pay so that the DPT can direct enforcement to areas where more people park longer and don't pay.

    I interviewed at streetline networks a couple of years ago. I refused the job because I wouldn't help them do this to people. Parking in SF is already impossible and our parking fines are extremely high here.

    I probably lose between $300 and $1000 a year to parking, fines, meters, and everything else.

  13. Re:Arduino? on Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer? · · Score: 1

    I'll second this. Pick it up with the companion book, "Making things talk". I was fooled by the title at first, but the book contains a wealth of information about interfacing and electronics.

  14. Re:Oh the Humanity! on 'Porn King' Says Google Should Block Porn Access · · Score: 1

    To hell with filtering.

    Educate your children so that they can differentiate between right and wrong, and spend your time teaching your children about sex. Parents are too afraid to teach their children about a natural part of human life.

    The more filters and protections you put into place will only increase the child's curiosity, and they will only want it more.

  15. Re:ProTools on Yahoo Patents 'Smart' Drag and Drop · · Score: 1

    Also prior art when said trashcan changes to an eject symbol. This patent is useless.

  16. Re:The trick to getting seriously good audio on Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back · · Score: 1


    All of the artists you mentioned are great songwriters and musicians, but the quality of their sound comes from some seriously high-end engineering. They all had recordings made through very high-end consoles, compressors, and microphones, with a final mastering job to enhance the recording.

    Your low-end guitar and mediocre playing won't be able to match even the worst recording of the artists you've mentioned.

  17. Re:*not* a "staple" on "Cone of Silence" Possible Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    "Cone of Silence" was also featured in Max Headroom, circa 1987 or so.

  18. Re:Apache responds on MS Drops Licensing Restrictions from Web Server 2008 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have to wonder if it's because of increased security efforts by people using Apache to turn off ServerTokens so that the system no longer advertises what version of software is running in production?

    Most of the servers that we run in production do not announce they run apache, but I don't know of any way of turning this off in IIS.

    It's not like 2005 came around and suddenly people stopped using Apache. There must be an explanation for the massive decline in Netcraft's charts

  19. Re:carbon footprint? on 500-fold Increase in Data Flow from SETI Telescope · · Score: 1

    400W?

    Nearly every computer we have in our labs is 100-200W. Don't believe what you read on the power supplies.

  20. Re:Why do people like the iphone? on iPhone 1.1.3 Update Confirmed, Breaks Apps and Unlocks · · Score: 2, Informative


    For what it's worth, I was at apple when iTunes for windows came out. Apple didn't write iTunes for windows, it was outsourced to a bangalore programming team. This might be one of the reasons it sucks so badly.

  21. Re:MP3's and Audiophilia on The Death of High Fidelity · · Score: 1

    You're not making a fair comparison there. iTunes is going to have the demonstration disc on fairly high quality AAC, which is extremely different from MP3.

  22. Re:What does it do if the remotely control link go on Robots To Control Oil Drilling Platforms · · Score: 1

    There's a reason why network engineers, like myself, exist, and why we build redundancy into links. If you design for failure, then you assume that a link will go down. A number of protocols already exist for this use, and any good design for a critical system will include a high degree of redundancy.

  23. Re:Government Efficiency on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    I wonder how people are dealing with dimmer systems that can't / won't work with CFLs?

    We've got a fair amount of leviton and X10 hardware here that won't run with CFLs, and that means new dimmers / switches to run the lighting in the house, and lots of $$. Are there dimmer compatible CFLs? I never see them.

  24. Re:Does anyone still listen? on Radio May Have To Pay To Play · · Score: 1

    Well, the RIAA and sound exchange are busily taking out satellite radio by claiming that it's just another form of digital streaming and that the fees owed to the RIAA are significantly higher than terrestrial radio.

    So, expect XM and other digital streaming formats to suffer in the next year or so.

    They'll never be happy:
    http://www.betanews.com/article/SoundExchange_says_new_satellite_royalties_arent_enough/1196870662

  25. Re:Interesting, but... on Cisco To Develop Third-Party APIs For IOS · · Score: 1

    Closely guarded secret?

    When I interviewed there they showed me the emulation farm they use to test IOS. It's no secret.

    They emulate everything from the route processor to the individual network cards/supervisor modules on Solaris and have a team of admins that maintain the test cluster.