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  1. Re:Disbelieve on Multiword Passwords Secure Or Not? · · Score: 1

    A thousand words with no variation requires 500 guesses on average. If you use two words, getting only one right is still a wrong guess, you would need 500,000 guesses on average.

  2. Re:Take into account human nature on Multiword Passwords Secure Or Not? · · Score: 1

    Well if Lucy actually read the article she might have noticed that while pass phrases may be less secure than some people thought, they are still more secure than normal passwords by a long shot.

  3. Re:Sky is blue... on Multiword Passwords Secure Or Not? · · Score: 1

    More interestingly, despite being vulnerable to dictionary attacks, they are more secure than normal passwords. (which most of us already knew)

  4. Re:The problem is the length of the games on Can $60 Games Survive? · · Score: 1

    Thought of that one too, would like to play it more, but not again, it's not nearly as fun when you already know the solutions.

  5. Re:Man whose job relies on the scientific method.. on Lawsuit Claims NASA Specialist Was Fired Over Intelligent Design Belief · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see exactly how you intend to have the hypothetical omniscient god in your study unaware of which people are involved in the study.

  6. Re:Really? on 'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    They aren't just using the same name, they're using it as a direct reference to the trademarked material. In your example it'd be like if business B wanted to capitalized on A's success and named their business and products after A's.

    That said, since the trademarks have been in use for 20 years with nothing done about it the trademarks should be lost.

  7. Re:The Market Has Crashed Before on Can $60 Games Survive? · · Score: 1

    The other forms of media aren't at that level if you only consider the price, but if you consider the price/hour of entertainment they are about halfway between movie tickets and books. Albums are debatable as I don't know many people that will sit and do nothing but listen to music (well, recently released music) so it's harder to measure their entertainment value.

  8. Re:the problem on Can $60 Games Survive? · · Score: 1

    I don't know about that, I'd be happy with 40-60 hours, but too many games don't even come close to that. It doesn't help that the companies often lie about how long it takes to beat them. (that or they just really suck at playing the games they make)

  9. Re:The problem is the length of the games on Can $60 Games Survive? · · Score: 1

    Replayability is nice, but I can't think of any game that took less than 20 hours (of normal gameplay, not speed runs or whatnot) to beat that I'd want to play again.

  10. Re:Man whose job relies on the scientific method.. on Lawsuit Claims NASA Specialist Was Fired Over Intelligent Design Belief · · Score: 1

    We also can't prove the non-existence of such cures.

  11. Re:how do you tell your vote was counted properly? on Prof. J. Alex Halderman Tells Us Why Internet-Based Voting Is a Bad Idea (Video) · · Score: 1

    If you are allowed to vote multiple times with only one of them counting you can check your vote and still not be able to prove to someone else how you actually voted. However, this only means being able to check whether your vote was recorded correctly, not whether it was counted correctly.

  12. Re:I approve on Cell Phone Jamming Devices Enjoy an Increase In Popularity · · Score: 1

    When someone is talking loudly on the phone in such a situation it's most likely because they don't realize how loud they are rather than because they are doing it intentionally. Ask them to be quieter and you might be surprised at how often it works.

  13. Re:I approve on Cell Phone Jamming Devices Enjoy an Increase In Popularity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He may know about it, but if he's the one that needs help he may not be able to turn it off.

  14. Re:Latency on Ask Slashdot: What Is an Acceptable Broadband Latency? · · Score: 1

    With the exception of patches, no. I used to play MMOs and FPSs on dialup at college. (new dorm didn't have network connection for a while) As long as the latency is low and you aren't dealing with groups of people larger than a couple dozen the speed is almost irrelevant. Even after getting networked I sometimes used the dialup because it had lower latency when dealing with large groups of people, even if it didn't allow enough bandwidth to keep track of them all.

  15. Re:Resisting services on Video Games: Goods Or Services? · · Score: 1

    Actually, depending on how much time you have to play, $15 for a subscription can be cheaper than the older games would be. (ignoring the availability of free games)

  16. Re:Services Rendered or Ongoing? on Video Games: Goods Or Services? · · Score: 1

    So what do you consider games that require connections to a server to play? (think Ubisoft)

  17. Re:Would you kindly... on RIAA CEO Hopes SOPA Protests Were a "One-Time Thing" · · Score: 1

    As long as next Friday is the arrival date and not the construction date, sure.

  18. Re:One time experience? on RIAA CEO Hopes SOPA Protests Were a "One-Time Thing" · · Score: 1, Informative

    The part that exempted American citizens and lawful residents was removed from the bill before it was passed.

  19. Re:Picture label wrong, it's indium-antimonide, on Majorana Fermion May Have Been Spotted At TU Delft · · Score: 4, Informative

    The picture and article agree, only the summary says different, I think you can guess which is wrong.

  20. Re:Am I the only one? on Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever · · Score: 1

    Who do you charge with destruction when it was an automated process that just deletes any files that are older than a certain age that haven't been flagged for retention?

  21. Re:Am I the only one? on Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever · · Score: 2

    They already do audio around here, but last case I heard of police misconduct the audio was unavailable to the public until you do x, y, z by which time it had already passed the 2 weeks they keep the recordings for if there's no case associated.

  22. Re:correlation is not causation on Vendors Take Blame For Most Data Center Incidents · · Score: 1

    What happens when the person who took down the network works for Vendor C that you hired?

  23. Re:Body language is an effective tool on How To Sneak In To a Security Conference · · Score: 2

    Sales people aren't there to help the customer, they're there to make sales, preferably of items with good profit margins.

  24. Re:"Rigorous peer review" on Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review · · Score: 2

    His peers have interns/grad students.... err had anyway.

  25. Re:So says the religious guy. on Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science' · · Score: 2

    They are incompatible methodologies, but they need share no subject matter. Science has little to say on matters of God, morality, the afterlife and other things that cause people to turn to religion.