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  1. Re:That was funny on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Alternative to Facebook? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This is one of the stupidest conspiracy theories. There have to be a huge number of people involved here, throughout Google as well as the people/corporations they are selling to. In fact, you can sign up to be an advertiser. Try getting someone's info. Find somewhere Google is offering this. If they do it, they must be telling someone / advertising that they do this. It can't be secret, otherwise no one would be able to purchase it.

  2. Re:iPhone Security explained.. on John McAfee Offers To Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone For the FBI and Save America (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks, within 30 seconds I know how to crack it:

    "This immutable code, known as the hardware root of trust, is laid down during chip fabrication, and is implicitly trusted."

  3. Re:Nintento Light Gun on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    Nintendo resolution is 256x240 and something like 25 colors. I don't remember if we had 640x480 or 800x600 and probably a 256 color palette. Higher resolution sprites + backgrounds can easily eat up 640k. Yes, we could have done some optimizations. Also, sound that wasn't just some random memory location.

  4. Re:Nintento Light Gun on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's not.

  5. Nintento Light Gun on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Reverse engineered the Nintendo light gun (with the help of patents, purchased by snail mail, this was 1997). Soldered some wires to the inside of the Nintendo, connected them to the computer parallel port. Two of my friends and I wrote a Duck Hunt type game for DOS, just fitting under 640KB.

  6. W.O.P.R. on Nuclear Officers Napped With Blast Door Left Open · · Score: 0

    I thought they were all replaced by a computer.

  7. Servers are allowed on EFF Slams Google Fiber For Banning Servers On Its Network · · Score: 2

    You just need written permission from Google.

  8. Tell them once. That's as good as you can do. I've had my email address compromised from a well known financial institution. Of course the person I spoke to didn't know anything about it or why it was their fault. Two years later they publicly admitted they were hacked.
    I find that a lot of leaked addresses are from failed companies, whose websites no longer exist.
    There are many websites out there that are compromised. You would be quite surprised. I wish there was an easy way to post these so others could know.

  9. Re:What if your phone is stolen? on Will Mobile Wallets Replace Their Traditional Counterparts? · · Score: 2

    What if your wallet is stolen? Same thing. Call your credit card companies and cancel the numbers.

  10. Re:Please don't on Google Merges Google+ Into Search · · Score: 1

    It is optional.

  11. Wrong, and wrong. on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    1) They're right, we are a republic.
    2) At no point does the article say anything about not liking the word "Democrat."

  12. Redundant on On Retirement, Israeli General Takes Credit for Stuxnet Attacks · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The Haaretz" is redundant since the Hebrew prefix 'ha' means 'the'.

  13. Re:Purchase on FBI Releases File On the Anarchist Cookbook · · Score: 1

    I guess my antecedents were confusing. I didn't meant to say the Anarch Cookbook was not useful, as I didn't read much past the cover. The Anarchist Cookbook is good only for entertainment value.

  14. Purchase on FBI Releases File On the Anarchist Cookbook · · Score: 1

    I purchased this book at Borders some years ago. I had to order it, as they didn't have it in stock. The first time the order came in, they gave me "The Anarch Cookbook" Turns out it's not the same thing. It's quite an amusing read. I'm not sure there's actually one piece of useful information in there.

  15. Actually... on Cook's Magazine Claims Web Is Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Recipes can not be copyrighted.

  16. Oxygene on ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew · · Score: 1

    What's Oxygene?

  17. Terrible link on Making 3D Models from Video Clips · · Score: 5, Informative

    wow, what a terrible link.

    A quick search turns up the project homepage http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/

  18. Decypher? on Major Breakthrough in Direct Neural Interface · · Score: 1

    Decypher? Is that a British spelling of decipher?

  19. Boost & caching on Comcast and Net Speed Tests · · Score: 1

    It's possible they cache the data. In most cases, the test will say the results are unreliable. Comcast also offers a service where they don't artificially cap short bursts of information. I assume that's "PowerBoost"

  20. Ameritrade on What's With All This Spam? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Many of these stock spams have been going to people who have accounts at Ameritrade. It is likely that their email list has been stolen. See http://www.billkatz.com/node/77 for details.

  21. Re:200 miles on NEAR Touches Down on Eros · · Score: 1

    No, not miles, meters. That's the distance the cameras lose focus.