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  1. Re:What about an open source tool? on Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul? · · Score: 0

    another tool not for the OP. There were the mozilla editor, then nvu, kompozer, now someone mentioned bluegriffon ... all the same software with different maintainers, and i do not doubt bluegriffon will be abandoned as well.

    i second the "learn html, use a real editor" part.

  2. Re:Same problem here on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 0

    you want to get the goatse-guy into trouble?

  3. Re:Some clients will "bounce" mail for you on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 0

    never ever use such a function.
    It may seem to be clever, but a spammer can see in the headers, that it's faked.

  4. Re:Frist to get jailbroken... on How Apple's iOS Went From Insecure To Most Secure · · Score: 0
  5. Re:so illegal businesses are using illegal currenc on Bitcoin Used For the Narcotics Trade · · Score: 0

    yet

  6. Re:Very few words are bad passwords. on A Brief Sony Password Analysis · · Score: 0

    and you need to brute force every password in the list, not one attack over all at the same time.

  7. Re:Morons! on A Brief Sony Password Analysis · · Score: 0

    ******* is my password! And nobody will guess THIS.

  8. Re:Ha Ha, mine goes to 11 on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 0

    then you're adding some randomness from choosing the chunk. Now you have two problems:
    1) there are not that many possiblities of choosing the chunk (n over k, if you know binomial coefficents)
    2) the human is not very good at choosing something randomly. there will always be predictable patterns, thus lowering the entropy of the parts you need to brute-force.

  9. Re:Ha Ha, mine goes to 11 on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 0

    there may be 100 popular generators. then this is a factor 100, which is not very much, if you compare it with the number of guesses for the correct randomseed ...

  10. Re:Ha Ha, mine goes to 11 on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 0

    and this random input is the seed, you need to brute-force. the generator uses it then to generate pseudo-random numbers from it, computing passwords based on there numbers. the seed of jiggling the mouse is not that strong, that it cannot be brute-forced, if you have enough computing power.

  11. Re:Ha Ha, mine goes to 11 on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 0

    now we can do two things

    1) Guess your password generator, therefore the routines used.
    2) brute-force the random-seed, generating passwords with the pseudorandom-sequence started by the brute-forced seed, hashing the paswords, all on the GPU.

    now your passwords are still insecure.

    I think you need a real random source (as some device counting radioactive decay) to create the passwords in a secure manner.

  12. Re:About damn time on Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate · · Score: 0

    1.0 is for me as developer the release, which features everything i think my software should have, with no known bugs at releasetime. Thus 1.0 is a hard release. Then its easier to follow, i.e. releasing Bugfixes-Release as 1.0.1, working on 1.1.1 as Release with new features.

  13. Re:When new numbers meant new features on Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate · · Score: 0

    he wanted to change from 2.6.X to a Y.X scheme. Now he NEEDED to increase 2, or should he have continued 2.6.39, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, ...? This would be confusing, using 3.X is okay.

  14. Re:Really? That's important ? on Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate · · Score: 0

    well, lets use a base-40 system. So it counts till 3.39 and then overflows to 4.0. The Big Question is: Will there be a 40.0 kernel? Or will it be 1.0.0?

  15. Re:Things we've lost on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 0

    > File revisions
    use nilfs2

  16. Re:kill is still alive on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 0

    try pressing escape or right-click. this at least works with kde ctrl-alt-esc xkill-feature.

  17. Re:Kick ass! *I* do pixel art! on Upscaling Retro 8-Bit Pixel Art To Vector Graphics · · Score: 0

    or try potrace

  18. Re:The relevant bits on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 0

    the hard part is how to use vi to change it.

  19. Re:Even after reading TFA on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 0

    this site does not answer the most basic questions.
    as ... how does the miner avoid, that two persons mine the same coin? ... how is guaranteed that no coin is double-spent? yes, you can prove its double-spent, but you cannot prove its not. you can only say "i have no proof its double-spent, yet" ... its anonymous, because nobody knows who's behind the number, which spent the money? cool, than my bank account number is anonymous, too ... its pseudonymous in the very best case.

  20. Re:Why not SLiM? on Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM · · Score: 0

    you haven't thought this to the end ...

    if you can click on "John Smith", you can try every password you can think of without even the need of knowing his login-name.

  21. Re:Opera Mail on The Features That Make Each Web Browser Unique · · Score: 0

    they had ICQ until the protocol changed, then they removed it and added some version later irc, as there the protocol will not change (behind closed doors)

  22. Re:Opera Mail on The Features That Make Each Web Browser Unique · · Score: 0

    opera had icq-support build in some versions ago ...

  23. Re:Will this help Firefox for Android? on Firefox On Linux Gets Faster Builds — To Be Fast As Windows · · Score: 0

    firefox on android sucked the last time i tried it.
    But the defaultbrowser is pretty much okay, if you want any more try opera for android. both are much better than firefox there.

  24. Re:First thing they need to do on Is Canonical the Next Apple? · · Score: 0

    now search for maverick meercat and for leopard.

  25. Re:More like Masters/PhD Thesis than Summer of Cod on Google Docs' OCR Quality Tested · · Score: 0

    hm, no genetic programming, train a neural net with input / correct output for single letters and then for whole words and see what you can get there.