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  1. etaonirsh on Death of the Cell Phone Keypad As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    Looks like the main time saving gained is by putting ETAONIRSH as the first letters on keys. These are by far the most commonly used letters in English. You would need to use different arrangements for each language to get the same level of efficiency.

  2. Re:I recommend writing passwords down. on Writing Down Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Have you tried it?

    I wouldn't deface a $1000 bill, but maybe you could write out a personal check for $1000 to "cash" or "bearer" and write your passwords on the back.

    I agree, you'd be pretty careful with it.

  3. Re:Anonymous P2P on LokiTorrent Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the venerable Freenet: http://www.freenetproject.org/ and GNUnet http://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/ Entropy is dead though, and it's crypto was never really proven.

  4. Re:Spamming back the scammers? on Artists Against 419 Releases Mugu Marauder · · Score: 1

    Couldn't someone do this with currently available spamware?

    Instead of a list of millions of addresses, you just have the 419er's; who has given you explicit permission to reply to them after all, so you can't be accused of actually spamming them.

  5. Re:It's a GREAT Lake on Cooling Toronto Using Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    Water at it coldest at 4C?
    WTF?

  6. Re:Signs of a true scientist... on On Afghanistan's Thomas Edison · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've "patronised" public toilets in Germany that have little IR beam/sensor things in them near the top. They detect when you move away from them and automatically flush.

    The same place had washbasins with taps that switched on when you held your hands underneath them. The hot air hand driers worked in the same way.

    Automatic doors would have made it al perfect but they seemed to have neglected that.

  7. Re:Saved! on Next Generation Stun Guns? · · Score: 1

    Seeing as these devices all use charged particles of air, why not carry a portable fan to deflect the stream?

    If that works, then I wouldn't want to be using one of these guns on a windy day.

  8. Re:POP3 Yahoo email on Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? · · Score: 1

    Not so, you can sign up for free POP access to your Yahoo account providing you allow them to send you the occasional advertisement email (easily filtered)

    NB: This applies to Yahoo.co.uk accounts, YMMV with .$TLD versions.

  9. M$'s law firm name... on Microsoft to sue Mike Rowe for Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Smart and Biggar.

    'nuff said

  10. Re:1967 Outer Space Treaty on Orbdev Files US Federal Suit Over Asteroid Claim · · Score: 1

    He's exploiting the giant loophole that we should all be able to see in that sentence you quoted.

    "...national appropriation..." No NATION can appropriate extraterrestrial real estate, but there is no prohibition on anyone else from doing so.

    Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. But I did exchange emails with the guy who sells off bits of the moon and this is how these idiots claim to be able to do this.

  11. Re:Evolution of a blacklist architecture. on DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists · · Score: 1

    Freenet would be a good vehicle for this scheme I think.

    www.freenetproject.org for details.

  12. Re:life on Plankton in the Clouds · · Score: 0


    Whore's keep a whorin'
    Junkies keep scorein'
    Ain't no use in praying,
    That's the way it's staying baby.

  13. Re:I'm going to try something a little dangerous.. on Legal Issues Don't Bother American Downloaders · · Score: 1

    ...the RIAA is still a business and has a right to make money. ...

    Nope, no business has a "right" to make money. If their business model is sound and they offer a good product at a reasonable price, they have a chance.

    Nowhere in the US constitution (or any other country's constitution for that matter AFAIK) is a "right to profit" stated.

  14. Encrypted P2P on Danish Anti-Piracy Organization Bills P2P Users · · Score: 2, Informative

    www.filetopia.org for P2P chat and file sharing using strong encryption and IP hiding.

  15. Re:European Shitheads on Secrets Of BIOS Tweaking · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF does this have to do with BIOS tweaking?

  16. Re:It's 6.4516 square-centimeters on Terrabit Per-Square-Inch Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    For pity's sake, the word is spelled "centimetres"

    If Americans won't use the SI units, why must you spell them wrong as well?

    BTW: I'm quite sure I have made at least one spelling, formatting or grammatical error in this post and I don't care.

    :-)

  17. Re:Star Wars ~ The Matrix on Matrix Reloaded Trailer Online · · Score: 1

    My take on this is that Morpheus was simply wrong about the battery thing, at least partly.

    The AI civilazation may use human brains as "wetware" to run their consciousness either in whole or in part. The recycling the dead, and collecting the heat is just for energy efficiency.

  18. Re:Pay up! on UK Home Office plan: ID Chips in Everything · · Score: 1

    How the heck will the chip know you've sold the book on?

    Not many people have cash registers in their homes. Just how do they expect to enforce it?

  19. Re:Clone CD can copy it on Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers · · Score: 1

    'effectively controls access to a work'

    Key phrase there.
    If the circumvention method exists prior to the protection method it circumvents how in the world could the protection method be said to be 'effective'?