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  1. Re:One Time DVD or SD anyone? on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 1

    This. Your OTP can't have any pattern to it. You'd have to remove the entropy first, maybe by applying tight lossless compression and then XOR'ing a set of images together.

  2. Re:a thought on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 2

    You're assuming that you're chaining the new AES key into the preceding message. Better to increase the frequency of the PKI handshake and periodically exchange new, clean AES keys.

    As for the parent's question about a new key for each message - you could exchange one-time keypads securely and then use a new keypad with each message. Bulky, but guaranteed to be as secure as your exchange and storage mechanisms.

  3. Re:Sue the lawyers on After Legal Fight, NCI Researchers Publish Study Linking Diesel Exhaust, Cancer · · Score: 1

    The biggest liability the tobacco companies had was that they KNEW what was happening and actively covered it up. I hope these groups have bought themselves a ton of liability from anyone who was injured AFTER they suppressed publication.

  4. Like pixie dust on OLPC Project To Air-Drop Laptops · · Score: 2

    We just sprinkle them over the poor, and POOF! All better.

  5. Re:Just say you can't raise your arms over your he on How X-Ray Scanners Became Mandatory In US Airports · · Score: 1

    When they passed seat belt laws in Michigan it was a "secondary offense" - you couldn't be pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt. Until they changed the law after about 10 years, once everyone had gotten used to it.

  6. Re:And I call on How To Rob a Bank: One Social Engineer's Story · · Score: 2

    Try carrying a big costco sheet cake that says "Happy Birthday!". Easier than carrying all those tools, and you can go business casual.

  7. Hmm... on Shady Reshipping Centers Exposed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1) Set up in a foreclosed house somewhere
    2) Answer ad on Craigslist for reshipping job
    3) Keep merchandise, send out packages weighted with bricks
    4) Disappear before 1st package arrives in Russia
    5) Profit???

  8. You act like you have an ownership stake - do you? on Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    It seems that the success or failure of the company is hinging on your loyalty. If that's really true you should expect some kind of equity stake if you stay. If your compensation is just conventional hourly and benefits you have to take the better opportunity.

  9. Re:So I guess... on HP Investigates Android TouchPads Delivered With Android · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Apparently they have an internal working android port, and the community is requesting the source code (per the license). If it can be shown that HP shipped android, even accidentally, then they need to provide the source on request.

  10. Re:Contest Prizes on Judge Rules Boss's "Firing Contest" Created a Hostile Work Environment · · Score: 3, Informative

    The leads are weak. The f-in' leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business 15 years ...

  11. Re:CS is part of IT on Ask Slashdot: CS Grads Taking IT Jobs? · · Score: 1

    I've worked in shops that called the software development group IT, and the maintenance / infrastructure team IS. I think this is turning into an unhelpful terminology war due to the poor phrasing of the OPs question.

  12. Re:MAD? on The Dark Side of the Tech Patent Wars · · Score: 2

    Not hardly, since so many patent trolls aren't developing anything. You can't even sue them back for violating your patents, so mutual assured destruction breaks down.

  13. Re:Oooh, phear the phishing on ICANN Domain Expansion Could Increase Phishing · · Score: 1

    Probably? They will PROBABLY offer chase.llc to Chase? That's your whole argument, that the new owners of each and every new TLD will probably do the right thing, so we have nothing to worry about?

    You realize we're going to have full character sets available, so you'll have a dozen different characters that look like the letter "a"? There will be hundreds of domain names that look like "chase" in each TLD.

    And you've seen how the registrars behave right now with the existing domains? And you're still optimistic?

  14. Re:Oooh, phear the phishing on ICANN Domain Expansion Could Increase Phishing · · Score: 1

    FTFA - "GTLDs such as .nyc, .london or .food could provide opportunities for many smaller businesses to grab names no longer available at the .com level -- like bicycles.london or indian.food.

    What part of this is confusing you?

  15. Re:Oooh, phear the phishing on ICANN Domain Expansion Could Increase Phishing · · Score: 1

    Scammers don't need to own a whole TLD, they just need a close-enough domain in some new TLD.

    What scammer is going to pay $185,000 and wait several months for a manual screening process to own a fraudulent vanity TLD?

    Wow, did you even read the comment you included in your reply? I am saying they will NOT buy an entire TLD. Scammers don't own the whole .com TLD - they buy _individual domains_ under existing TLDs.

    Once someone registers a new .llc TLD what do you think they are going to do with it? They are going to sell domain names for $10 a year - to anyone with $10. And sooner or later someone with $10 will buy chase.llc and use it in a scam.

    Again, buying an individual domain in a new TLD will not cost $185k; it will cost whatever the owner of the new TLD is charging.

  16. Re:Oooh, phear the phishing on ICANN Domain Expansion Could Increase Phishing · · Score: 1

    But once someone DOES register .bank, will I be able to buy chase.bank from godaddy?
    It's not the people registering the new TLD you have to worry about, so much as the people that they sell domain names to in the new TLD. Scammers don't need to own a whole TLD, they just need a close-enough domain in some new TLD.

  17. Re:Am I the only one that was bothered by this? on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 1

    We know very little about the cooling powers of the sun.

  18. 30 Billion on Research? on IBM Turns 100 · · Score: 1

    That's my new yardstick for insane figures. When someone says we spent 700 billion bailing out the financial companies, I'm going to picture 20 IBM sized companies funding 100 years of research.

  19. CHAPTER XXV on Steve Ballmer's Head On the Block? · · Score: 1

    WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS AND HOW TO
    WITHSTAND HER

    [...]
    Changes in estate also issue from this, for if, to one who governs
    himself with caution and patience, times and affairs converge in such a
    way that his administration is successful, his fortune is made; but if
    times and affairs change, he is ruined if he does not change his course
    of action. But a man is not often found sufficiently circumspect to know
    how to accommodate himself to the change, both because he cannot deviate
    from what nature inclines him to do, and also because, having always
    prospered by acting in one way, he cannot be persuaded that it is well
    to leave it;
    and, therefore, the cautious man, when it is time to turn
    adventurous, does not know how to do it, hence he is ruined;
    but had he
    changed his conduct with the times fortune would not have changed.

    "The Prince", Nicolo Machiavelli

  20. Seems like they made him better than he was before on Man Demonstrates His New Bionic Hand · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Better, Stronger - Faster

  21. Re:Tea? More Fluids in General? on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 1

    I'd assume this was a survey and data mining exercise, that they didn't assign people randomly into groups and tell them to drink specific amounts of coffee. Since the abstract doesn't mention it they may not have asked people if they drink tea or not, so the tea drinkers would be distributed among every group (some drinking coffee in different amounts as well, some drinking no coffee). It would have been interesting to see that information mined separately. I don't see how it would have muddied the water in terms of what they had set out to do originally.

  22. Tea? More Fluids in General? on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 1

    Disappointing that they didn't track hot tea drinkers as well. It would be interesting to know if this was associated with generally being better hydrated, or something specific to coffee. // just switched to green tea from coffee

  23. Re:Perfectly reasonable but is it necessary? on Draft Proposal Would Create Agency To Tax Cars By the Mile · · Score: 1

    Or charge taxes per gallon of fuel actually consumed. Seems like it perfectly rewards people for buying less fuel already.
    As a side effect it subsidizes alternative fuel and electric.

    If you need more tax revenue due to more efficient vehicles - raise the tax. Duh.

  24. external on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    You need to host this server externally (ie from home, on your own domain name, using something like dyndns). You've got no business having personal equipment inside the corporate firewall.

  25. do what PC makers do at Sam's Club on Game Developer Group Warns Against Amazon Appstore · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At best buy or sam's club you'll find a PC with a distinct model number - the manufacturer produces it just for that chain. Makes price matching more difficult and lets the chains show lower prices etc.

    So you make an Amazon version of your game with a different name. Maybe "Game Lite" or something similar enough to the normal name to ensure your people can find you, but different enough that you can legitimately say it's not the same game. Maybe leave out some levels or change backgrounds. Now you can set whatever list price you want - this game has never been offered before.

    Bonus - your core audience will buy this one to, so they have every version.