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  1. Re:PCI standards on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 1
    From the same article you quoted:

    A rainbow table is ineffective against one-way hashes that include salts. For example, consider a password hash that is generated using the following function (where "." is the concatenation operator): saltedhash(password) = hash(password.salt) or saltedhash(password) = hash(hash(password).salt).

    The salt value is not secret and may be generated at random and stored with the password hash.

    Which software is it you design? I'd like to know so I can avoid it at all costs in the future.

  2. Re:Ignorance out in full force again... on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1

    Yeah! It's terrible how nobody who works for an oil company can ever honestly be concerned about the impact of his work! This guy is such a paid shill!

  3. Re:some of the stories don't help.... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    ...e room. Or off of Wall Street.

  4. Re:some of the stories don't help.... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    One does need to suffer the inequality to claim one is suffering from it without being laughed out of th

  5. Re:Quarter mile time? on Tesla Model S: 0-60 In 4.5 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Air resistance increases with the square of the velocity. You can't assume constant acceleration.

  6. Re:All hype and no availability? on AMD Breaks Overclocking Record With Bulldozer · · Score: 1

    I already gave up and bought an i5.

  7. Re:Definitely not the case in the US on British CS Majors Doing Badly In the Jobs Market · · Score: 1

    Probably the one that includes a big city. I have a friend who's working in DC and making about 175% what I do... except his living expenses are three times higher.

  8. Re:Scope of Effect on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1
    Except that's in no way the corporations' problem. Equality of opportunity is all you get. Demanding equality of outcome shackles the people who've taken a risk (like leaving a job in a poor economy, say, or investing all their savings into an idea) to the ones who haven't. Or as de Tocqueville said:

    Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

  9. Re:Still no benefits to multi-core CPUs... on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: 1

    Games are increasingly becoming thread-aware. There's a video from Gamescom showing DiRT3 running on a prerelease Zambezi chip, using four cores. Rise of Flight is heavily multithreaded (to the point where (until the last patch) it was bouncing up against a problem with the Windows scheduler on dual-core processors. There are probably more examples, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

  10. Re:Protesters on Developing Nuclear Power Plant Tech For the Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer the moon without nuclear contamination, so that there can be a safe moon base there.

    A bit of nuclear contamination on the moon isn't going to make a huge difference to safety, considering that you'd end up getting fried by solar radiation anyway sans shielding.

  11. Re:You can do that right now on SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights · · Score: 1

    Exactly the same way as it works in an automatic. When the car is stopped and your foot is on the brake (say, you're in neutral at a stoplight), the engine shuts off. When you lift your foot off the brake (or touch the accelerator), the engine restarts.

  12. Re:How about replacing an open file? on Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Speaking as someone who uses Linux every day, I must ask: why in the world do you consider that a *good* thing to be able to do?

  13. Re:Total Nonstarter in the US. on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 1

    By the time you get to China, you've passed Vladivostok already, and Vladivostok is the eastern endpoint of the Trans-Siberian Railway. A lot of people don't realize how absurdly remote the Russian Far East is.

  14. Re:Total Nonstarter in the US. on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 3, Informative

    #4.5 It requires massive, incredible infrastructure projects in Russia. The nearest *paved road* to the Bering Strait is 1200 miles away. The nearest rail head is 2000 miles away.

  15. Re:Anti camera tech on The London Riots and Facial Recognition Technology · · Score: 1

    You can get IR LEDs with an 80-100 degree viewing angle, or you can make them yourself by filing down the tips of regular IR LEDs.

    /DIY head tracking enthusiast

  16. Re:Recovering wha?? on Intel Details New Ultrabook Reference Designs · · Score: 1

    Atom sales have fallen off sharply in the past year, thanks to a low-power platform from AMD that kicks the pants off of Atom

    FTFTFA

  17. Re:Too good credit rating anyway on S&P's $2 Trillion Math Mistake · · Score: 1

    $5,000 an acre is probably a massive overestimation. A lot of federal land is in the middle of nowhere, and market price for land not near anything in Virginia (which is far from the sort of middle of nowhere you get in the West) is about $2,000 an acre.

  18. Re:Belarusians deserve this on Belarus Cracks Down On VKontakte · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you're a troll.

  19. Re:The likeliest adopters are commercial users on .NET Gadgeteer — Microsoft's Arduino Killer? · · Score: 1

    'round these parts, people have a, "But how did he win? Nobody I knew voted for him!" mentality when it comes to Microsoft and profitability.

  20. Re:G+ is the future.. on Is Google+ a Cathedral Or a Bazaar? · · Score: 1

    sell you targeted items based on your 'likes and dislikes' or anything of the sort

    Google is an advertising company. This is exactly what they want to do.

  21. Re:Hasn't this already been done? on Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect · · Score: 1

    This could be used underground.

  22. Re:Yeap on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    The NHS budget for 2011 is about 115 billion pounds (http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/spend_index.htm).
    The adult population of the United Kingdom is about 50 million (counting people 15+ and over 65, and thereby probably inflating the tax base a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom)

    Those figures suggest about 2300 pounds per person. It's probably a good deal higher than that--I expect there are fewer than 50 million distinct taxpayers in the UK. If you're going with the whole population of about 60 million, the price per person is about 1900 pounds.

  23. Re:Get Rich Quick! on Spammers Discover Kindle Self-Publishing · · Score: 2

    Humanity fucking disgusts me most of the time.

    Well, we have to reproduce somehow.

  24. Re:Is the gold rush over? on Ask Amir Taaki About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    It's not tu quoque at all--that fallacy is:
    1. A argues against P
    2. A is guilty of P
    3. P is invalid

    This argument is along the lines of:
    1. Assume characteristics Y imply that P is a pyramid scheme.
    2. But Q has characteristics Y and is not a pyramid scheme.
    3. Therefore characteristics Y do not imply that P is a pyramid scheme.

  25. Re:Easy to remember implies less secure ... on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    My passwords are 20 characters long and easy to remember. They're also very strong: I have English passphrases, but I type them with a Russian keyboard layout.