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  1. Re:Parking lots on Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law · · Score: 1

    Fun fact:
    The Prius actually has a reverse warning beep to alert people.

    The problem:
    It is INSIDE the car! So the driver gets an annoying beep, while pedestrians don't hear a thing...

  2. Re:Yo dawg, I heard on Assange Secret Swedish Police Report Leaked · · Score: 1
  3. Re:This doesn't sound like a good idea on US Army Considers a Smartphone For Every Soldier · · Score: 1

    Hm, a smartphone with LiPo battery could be considered as a form of reactive armor.

  4. Re:I would discharge at the first opportunity on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1

    Why? Are you afraid that the gay guy discharges in you?

  5. Re:Spamhaus jumping to conclusions? on Spamhaus Under DDoS Over Wikileaks.info · · Score: 1

    Well I would still rather use one of the other mirrors that one from these guys: http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL68370

  6. Re:Isn't spamhaus on Spamhaus Under DDoS Over Wikileaks.info · · Score: 1

    To have record SBL68370 (92.241.160.0/19) removed from the SBL, the Abuse/Security representative of RIPE (or the Internet Service Provider responsible for supplying connectivity to 92.241.160.0/19) needs to contact the SBL Team by email (use this link) to explain how the spam problem has been terminated (we need to know exactly how the issue has been dealt with and that this spam problem is fully terminated). If the spam problem that caused this listing has been terminated we will normally remove the listing from the SBL without delay.

    They don't mention payment on their site.

  7. Re:when goddamit when????? on Browsing the Body · · Score: 1

    Opear is at 11, download that.

    Everybody knows that a bigger number is always better.

  8. Re:Passwords are a failure on Learning From Gawker's Failure · · Score: 1

    LastPass is pretty good.

    It supports IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari on Windows, Mac and Linux, synchronizing the passwords between them.

    It uses a master password by default, but you can use an on screen keyboard and generate one time master passwords to protect against keyloggers on untrusted machines. You can additionally use Token Grid Authentication for multifactor security (like the copy protection on old games where you had to enter specific stuff from the manual to prove you own the game).

    The premium version ($12 per year) also supports iPhone, Blackberry WinMobile, Android, Symbian, WebOS and Dolphin/Firefox mobile browsers.
    Additionally it can use USB flash drives or a dedicated USB token as an added factor.

    I use long, unique randomly generated passwords for every online account I have (Except my main email account, that has a really long and complicated password that I know. So if all my computers, my backups and the LastPass servers explode, I can still reset every single password :).

    They also recently acquired Xmarks, a browser bookmark/history/settings synchronization service.

    (I'm not affiliated with them, just really like the service.)

  9. Re:Notch on Humble Bundle 2 Is Live · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Steam on Humble Bundle 2 Is Live · · Score: 1

    http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/12/Humble-Indie-Bundle-2---IT-S-ALIVE

    One of the comments says:

    The official statement is: We're looking into it. We are contacting steam, but they are very busy, and sometimes take a while to get back to us. However, they did make it happen on the first bundle! :)

  11. Re:This means one thing: PLAINTEXT PASSWORDS! on The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords · · Score: 1

    At some point in Gawker's history, they switched to bcrypt hashes. The only problem is that people don't change their passwords a lot, so anyone who signed up before the change probably just had the old crypt(3) hash.

    Why would you need co change the password for a hash algorithm change?

    Use separate DB columns for the old and new hashes.

    Modify your login code to:
    If a new password hash exists for the account compare the password with that. Login if it matches.
    If a new hash doesn't exist, but the old hash does, compare the password with that. If it matches, calculate the new hash for the password and store it. Remove the old hash from the DB and login.

    After the active users migrate over to the new hash you can send an email to the unused accounts explaining that they need to reset their passwords because of a security update. Remove the column containing the old hashes and remove the second part of the login code changes.

    People who use the site often wouldn't notice a thing.

  12. Re:Imperial - Metric on When Computers Go Wrong · · Score: 1

    That reasoning only works if your country doesn't (fully) use the metric system.

    Why should I care what the half of 2,54 is? Nothing around here is measured in multiples of 2,54 cm. (Okay, water pipes are. And tires. And screens. And disk drives.)

    A 2 by 4 would be 5 cm by 10 cm.

    Half of 1 meter is 5 dm half of that is 25 cm half of that is 125 mm. And if you want to be precise, half of that is 62500 um :P

  13. Open Source on WikiLeaks Defenders Threaten Amazon · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Paving the way for HDCP 2.0 on Goodbye, VGA · · Score: 1

    Don't play a protected Blu-ray movie to the audience?

  15. Re:I have a bone to pick with Mythbusters on President Obama On Mythbusters Tonight · · Score: 1

    To be fair, neither do most myths.

  16. Re:legal bittorrent? on Australia's Outback Could Get Web Via TV Antenna · · Score: 1

    Analog tv broadcast of internet would require something that doesnt need perfect transmission the first time, and packets can be retransmitted with error checking and checksums.

    Like TCP?

  17. Re:Awful article on Australia's Outback Could Get Web Via TV Antenna · · Score: 1

    I currently receive DTV on 794 and 818 MHz.
    Switching to lower frequencies would be nice, older antennas are less sensitive in the upper UHF channel range.
    (Some towers currently broadcast at channel 69, 862 MHz. That must suck for some people.)

  18. Re:ok .. on PS3 With 3.50 Firmware Jailbroken Without Downgrade · · Score: 1

    It looks like the tape is his 1337 H4xx0r way of blacking out sensitive information.

  19. Re:At least you were "modded up" for HOSTS use... on WikiLeaks Moves To Swiss Domain After DNS Takedown · · Score: 1

    TL;DR

    Seriously.

  20. Re:Unintended consequences... on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    Here in Hungary the channel logos disappear during commercials.

  21. Re:Not phosphorus free, not just DNA. on NASA Confirms Discovery of Organism With Phosphorus-Free DNA · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Well, we've finished with the hard part on Sahara Solar To Power Half the World By 2050 · · Score: 1

    I think they are called "plants".

  23. Re:Here's what's going on on Level 3 Shaken Down By Comcast Over Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    There are several things called "digital TV": Digital Cable/Satellite/Terrestrial TV _broadcast_ and Digital IPTV.

    The former is the same as analog, every subscriber receives the same signal and their receiver tunes to the chosen frequency, which thanks to digital compression can contain several channels in a "package" called a multiplex.
    (It is possible for a receiver with a single tuner to display/record multiple channels as long as they are in the same multiplex. Practically every PC add-on tuner card can do this with the right software.)

    IPTV is different. If you want to watch a channel, you get only that specific stream from a server somewhere, kinda like YouTube. It is independent of other subscribers (but I assume that multicast IP addressing is used to not waste bandwidth if several subscribers are watching the same channel).

    Switched Digital Video is basically a mix of both. In a given area (connected to a single distribution node) as long as at least 1 cable box requests a channel, every subscriber receives it. If nobody is watching it, it is removed to free up bandwidth.

    (This post is based on my understanding/experience with DVB-T/C/S stuff, exact details may wary based on local standards. No warranty for factual accuracy either.)

  24. Re:Dear Comcast on Level 3 Shaken Down By Comcast Over Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    Even better would be:

    Dear Comcast
    We are no longer your ISP.

    --Level 3 Communications

  25. Re:I Disagree on Level 3 Shaken Down By Comcast Over Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    Well I'm form the Europe, but I remember a Squanto.
    I think Ryan Malloy was supposed to play that role in a thanksgiving show in Unhappily Ever After.

    Ha, and people think pop culture knowledge is useless!