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  1. Re:No Internet is a Plus for Parents on Nintendo Announces $99 Wii Mini For US Release · · Score: 1

    >Is your child 5 or 15 ? There is a difference.
    In between. Very active on the interwebs. I check in every now and then because that's my job.

    >I do most of my gaming on the PC
    Ditto. Steam. Big Nvidia card. The Wii is in my kid's room. I'll finish Okami one of these years.

  2. Re:When I see something like this I have to wonder on Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed · · Score: 1

    If you're stuck with Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and all the rest, trust doesn't come into it. Adobe has a lot of lock in on graphical file formats and tools.

  3. Re:What day is it today? on New Leaks Threaten Human Smuggling Talks and Lead To Hack Attacks On Australia · · Score: 1

    >Guy Fawkes' Day.

    You mean 'Bonfire Night'.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire_Night

  4. Re:Not the leaks on New Leaks Threaten Human Smuggling Talks and Lead To Hack Attacks On Australia · · Score: 1

    >"But everyone does it!!"

    I don't.

  5. Re:What's the point? on Nintendo Announces $99 Wii Mini For US Release · · Score: 1

    I stopped playing online Mario Kart when blatant cheating became the norm.

    Have they fixed it yet?

  6. Re:No Internet is a Plus for Parents on Nintendo Announces $99 Wii Mini For US Release · · Score: 2

    >The fact it doesn't have internet is going to be a plus for parents. Now they can let their kids play games without having to worry about listening to a tirade of profanity from half way around the world. The older people that play this, probably aren't getting on-line either.

    I'm a parent and I want my child to have the skills to cope with profanity and the internet and the intersection of the two. I don't see a Wii of any form having much relevance to that.

  7. Re:Just Get a PSP on Nintendo Announces $99 Wii Mini For US Release · · Score: 1

    Used Wii bundle. $79 at Gamestop.

    http://www.gamestop.com/wii

  8. Re:Very breakable on Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed · · Score: 1

    >They used ECB, hence no keystream.

    Facepalm.

  9. Re:Am I imagining it? on Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed · · Score: 1

    >Hashing + Salting = Problem Solved.
    Not against brute force password attacks.
    The lack of salt give benefit to the attacker when there are many passwords (which there are in this case). But the attacker can still take the salt and hash output and brute force the password space for any individual entry in the database.

    Hashing + Salting + a symmetric secret = Problem Solved.

  10. Re:The problem here is.... on Bitcoin Protocol Vulnerability Could Lead To a Collapse · · Score: 1, Informative

    Look at the current graph. To me it looks very much like now is not the time to buy.

    http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg360ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zv

    But if the chart looks good and you like to speculate on bitcoins, buy what you can afford to lose.

  11. Thank you Slashdot. on Bitcoin Protocol Vulnerability Could Lead To a Collapse · · Score: 1

    On June the 12th I got myself 2 bitcoins. More to see how it works with the vendors than anything else. I understand the crypto side of it. I had forgotten all about it.

    Then along comes this article. It reminded me that I had a couple. So I check the bitcoins and they've doubled in value, look peaky and there's a story of impending collapse.

    So I just sold them and I'll wait patiently for the collapse.

    Yay for unstable currencies.

  12. Re: NOT posted as AC. on TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint · · Score: 1

    Is that a new kind of shaver?

  13. Re:Article summary sucks. on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 1

    >why educate yourself when you can just assume and be wrong!

    I am not heavily invested in this topic. I'm heavily invested in slacking off by commenting on Slashdot during work hours.

    But now I know. Thank you.

  14. Re:Article summary sucks. on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 1

    What does AR stand for if it isn't Assault Rifle?

    It could stand for Abe Romney for all I know, but I assumed all along that it stood for Assault Rifle.

  15. Re:Gunman on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 1

    That's ok. The TSA has loads of pamphlets.

  16. Re:The abstract.. on Cornell Team Says It's Unified the Structure of Scientific Theories · · Score: 1

    My wife's PhD required the MANOVA, which forced the use of R, which is a truly horrible language. But it does support MANOVA.

    ANOVA is for for people who don't understand that the thing they're looking at is more complex than their test is designed for.

  17. Re:So, does that make it a...? on Cornell Team Says It's Unified the Structure of Scientific Theories · · Score: 1

    No, just a bit more unified.

  18. Re:yum on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1

    Not really, since he said "equivalent", meaning unlocked.

  19. The abstract.. on Cornell Team Says It's Unified the Structure of Scientific Theories · · Score: 2

    The abstract is a heck of a lot more clear than the description posted:

    "We report a similarity between the microscopic parameter dependance of emergent theories in physics and that of multiparameter models common in other areas of science. In both cases, predictions are possible despite large uncertainties in the microscopic parameters because these details are compressed into just a few governing parameters that are sufficient to describe relevant observables. We make this commonality explicit by examining parameter sensitivity in a hopping model of diffusion and a generalized Ising model of ferromagnetism. We trace the emergence of a smaller effective model to the development of a hierarchy of parameter importance quantified by the eigenvalues of the Fisher Information Matrix. Strikingly, the same hierarchy appears ubiquitously in models taken from diverse areas of science. We conclude that the emergence of effective continuum and universal theories in physics is due to the same parameter space hierarchy that underlies predictive modeling in other areas of science."

  20. Re:I wonder.. on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1

    It's my phone. I play the techy god at work all day. I'm not going to arse around flashing a computer I didn't design myself.

    The evidence point to SW, maybe interacting with HW, but if 4.2 doesn't break, a SW workaround is obviously possible. People who've downgraded made this problem go away.

  21. Re:640K on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 1

    640kHz is a really fast frame rate.

  22. Re:Nonsense on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 1

    Oooh. Shiny!

  23. Re:There are other applications on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wouldn't let a 1920x1080 monitor grace my cheap Ikea desk.

  24. Re:I wonder.. on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1

    A troll rating?

    There must be Google employees here who haven't been paying attention to the support boards for their products.

  25. Re:I wonder.. on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 2

    Here's a video showing the exact symptom on my phone that started with 4.3.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhS8gOKhi-4