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  1. Re:No I would not. on Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? · · Score: 1

    So you don't carry a mobile phone, never use debit or creditcards, avoid areas with CC cameras... Otherwise, there's data that can be used to locate you (albeit with everything but the mobile phone with less than stellar granularity) everywhere already... Done properly (for example by encrypting with keys only known by the child device and the parent device), this won't expose any sensitive information to anyone but the right people (you, your spouse, an older sibling, a nanny/babysitter). Like any tool, it has its dangers, it has to be built properly, and used properly.

  2. Re:How would HUD even work? on Programming a Wearable Android Device · · Score: 1

    Try asking the US Air Force how that works out for them (rather well, actually), as they've been using it in fighter planes for decades now.

    Yes, but aren't those HUDs at about arm's length, on top of the console? Instead of less than an inch from your cornea?

  3. Re:The moon? on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 2

    I think the most valuable thing to do with this asteroid would be to cut it up into chunks and sell it to spacegeeks for a ridiculous amount of money per kg...

  4. Re:Place Bets Here on Scientists Study Trajectories of Life-Bearing Earth Meteorites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and the fact that it's more like hitting any of a dozen cockroaches with a million needles...

  5. Re:Firewalls on Mosh: Modernizing SSH With IP Roaming, Instant Local Echo · · Score: 1

    Not having read TFA and going purely by the quote in the parent, I would assume that the key is random ("chooses a random shared encryption key") but the port is not ("begins listening on a UDP port").

  6. Re:not so... on SpaceShipTwo Flies Free For the First Time · · Score: 2, Insightful

    they don't have to leave a 100 mile radius from their home town, as long as they live near enough the airstrip where this thing takes off ;)

  7. Re:How did they find the length of the passphrase? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    Watch it be a 52 character password, while the police spend some septillion years trying a 50 char password...

  8. Re:How do they know it's encrypted? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1
    Most likely because of reported internet activity. From TFA:

    Oliver Drage, 19, of Liverpool, was arrested in May 2009 by police tackling child sexual exploitation.

    This means most likely that his ISP, or some target website, caught him down/uploading unsavory things, and need data on his PC to convict him. He probably encrypted the whole disk, and gets a password prompt upon starting his PC, so that's how they know there's something to be decrypted.

  9. Re:Okay so then Steve Jobs will have a problem on NAB, RIAA May Seek Mandate For FM Radios In Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    any earphones will do, usually, cause AM/FM is a rather forgiving in antenna requirements

  10. Re:Use Password Hasher on 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email · · Score: 1

    Just use a simple algorithm based on the site's domain, that you can do in your head if you need to. Add some letters (letters 1, 3, and 6 for example) from the domain at fixed spots in your password, and ROTn them.

  11. Re:four directories on How Do You Organize Your Experimental Data? · · Score: 1

    with $PRJ_ROOT/data/made_up being the biggest one? ;)

  12. Re:People who cheat should blame themselves, not F on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    if you have issues with your partner, you should discuss them together or decide to leave on your own, not go around their back and cheat on them...

  13. Re:Scratches disc and improved dpads on New Xbox 360 S Uses Less Power, Makes Less Noise · · Score: 1

    a) That was a demo model, not a production model.
    b) It's a bad idea to move anything that has a spinning disc in it, from harddisks, to dvd-players, whatever.
    c) Why would you need to move your console while it's running anyway?

  14. Re:Noscript on Google Shares Insights On Accelerating Web Sites · · Score: 1

    You're mostly missing a lot of slow loading, badly designed pages. You can turn it off selectively when you need to you know.

  15. Re:easy solution on New Wii Menu Update Targets Homebrew Again · · Score: 1

    That's almost an apple fanboi worthy argument. Nintendo created a console with a ridiculously tiny amount of storage, that everyone said was ridiculous, and never turned out to be truly upgradable. Then, years later, they implement a stopgap measure to slightly aleviate the problem, and suddenly they're awesome :)

    I have a Wii, I like my Wii, but of the three, I'd say Nintendo is up there with Sony when it comes to screwing people over.

  16. Re:World's moxt expensive DVD player on Updated Mac Mini Aims For the Living Room · · Score: 2

    cheaper too!

  17. Re:Price point creeping up on Updated Mac Mini Aims For the Living Room · · Score: 1

    not to mention that the HDD is probably made by samsung, WD, hitachi, or some other manufacturer... all of whom will probably offer you the default factory warranty of at least 2 years.

  18. Re:Darn... on Hitachi-LG Debuts HyDrive, Optical Drive With SSD · · Score: 1

    usb is a lot slower than sata 3gbps... and some laptops only have two usb ports, which would be taken up by an external keyboard/mouse.

  19. Re:IBM is headed that way too on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 1

    Some versions of Visio actually work through WINE... I know Visio 5 did ;)

  20. Re:Those who don't learn from history... on Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time · · Score: 1

    I think that was Indy 500, you had to enter word X from line Y on page Z. Civ1 did the same thing. There was a very limited number of questions with very few answers though, so most of the time you could guess.

  21. Re:Gah! Where are my mod points? on Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time · · Score: 5, Funny

    leg warmers? wait what? Those are out of fashion?

  22. Re:How about this question ... on Large Irish ISP To Enact "Three Strikes" Rule For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    No, you're simply getting low sound quality music :)

  23. Serial-anything on US Supreme Court Upholds Indefinite Confinement · · Score: 1

    And here I thought the US already had indefinite confinement in the form of multiple consecutive live sentences...

  24. Re:Can /8 companies resell subnets? on Black Market May Develop For IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Actually, I know some of the big boys use external IPs internally, because they have them anyway... So it's far more than trivial to just sell parts of them...

  25. Re:Horribly misleading on New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space · · Score: 1, Troll

    Comparing speedingtickets to slavery is awfully close to godwin's law... And probably worse, from a politically correctness point of view. You're free to question a law, obviously, but you're not free to pick and choose which one to follow. The proper way to protest speedlimits is not through breaking them, but through your duly elected representatives. It's irrelevant whether you accept the speedlimit as correct, just that it's irrelevant whether you decide that running a red light should be illegal. While the law is in place, it is, and you're obliged to follow it or suffer the consequences.