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  1. Sounds familiar on Graphene May be the New Silicon · · Score: 1

    So when the computer breaks down you can still use it like a pencil to finish your work.

  2. And the answer is ..Re:So how do you encript ..... on Quantum Computing Not an Imminent Threat To Public Encryption · · Score: 2, Funny

    you disconnect it. First posts are encrypted by mod down, taken out of sight.

    The best encryption is disconnection. Its unbreakable even by quantum computers to the nth power.

    the next best is perhaps a sequence of seemingly unrelated actions followed by a false positive... or other such use of seemingly unrelated data/actions.

    A few might remember the seemingly different things you could do to cause a developer hidden message to come up on the Amiga.

  3. So how do you encript ..... on Quantum Computing Not an Imminent Threat To Public Encryption · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..first post?

  4. Re:Just a few more Linksys users on ISPs Losing Interest In Citywide Wireless Coverage · · Score: 1

    This is true and advertiser could even help foot the bill for proof of access point usage. So yeah it can be very profitable, no doubt.

    But then we have things like the RIAA and kiddy porn FBI tactics http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/20/2323247 and telcos violations of privacy at the request of some government official...that work against this sort of open unsecured access.

    I think the backing down of such plans is evidence of things to come, regarding the genuine reasons for such a change in support. VS the publicized reasons.

  5. Ok, sombody's got to say it..... on A Super-Efficient Light Bulb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thats a bright idea.

  6. Do No Evil????? on Google Patents Detecting, Tracking, Targeting Kids · · Score: 1

    Software patents are evil as they are dishonest in regards to the genuine nature of software.

    See: Abstraction physics for an expose of the genuine nature of software.

  7. Re:knowledge begets knowledge.... on China Continues to Shut Down Video Sites · · Score: 1

    to be clear, my site is only one of many many sites that include sourceforge based sites.

  8. knowledge begets knowledge.... on China Continues to Shut Down Video Sites · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... and specific knowledge begets its own increase.

    I find it interesting that it appears that most of the sites that point to pages that were installed on my site without my knowledge (just under 2500 pages), are Chinese in origin.

    google "threeseas.net" then google 'threeseas .net -"blogger/log/cache"' and see the different in result count. and look at what sites are pointing to those hacked in pages.

    It seems the Chinese people are bored and have taken up internet hacking for censorship as a hobby. And hey, even their government is doing it.

    What are the effects such hacking has thru AUTOMATED crawlers and AUTOMATED analysis of search engines like google?

    Watch as google finds more and more of these pages "not found" on my site (as I have removed them and redirected all hits to those pages) and google finds redirection.... to eventually reduce my legitimate listing in their search results.

    Imagine that, Chinese site hacking reducing search results of sites in other countries for the citizens of other countries.

    Google and other search engine companies have things they really need to deal with regarding such indirect manipulation of their automated systems.

    Until they get a better handle on it, there are far bigger and wider scope issues regarding Chinese censorship then what the article is about.

  9. reading the many comments here. its obvious.... on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    ....that either this is a scare tactic (not really in application) or the FBI and of course related authorities are so completely ignorant of technology, that what this would amount to in application is the wide spread court use of the "entrapment" get out of jail free card.

    In other words, even the kiddy porn enthusiasts can get a get out of jail free card.

    As a side note. Sex and the sex drive, as a natural human character, god given unavoidable hormones of go forth and multiply, has been used for as long as there has been the ability to think in abstract terms.... used to suppress and make guilty in the eyes of other humans in positions of power, many people.

    Yet it is not uncommon to find the same guilt inducing humans to themselves be guilty of that which they impose guilt upon others with.

    i.e. Has the catholic church finished up ALL sex related the cases against them?

  10. more info for criminals to abuse. on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the fundamental problem with the collection and access to personal identifying information is twofold.

    one is that it can start an unfair judgment on a person that can follow them unfairly thru their life.
    Wasn't it Einstein whos teacher said he would never be any good at math?

    If you don't fit what is considered the norm by the party making the judgement then its ok to abuse you?

    And what of the information tied to the personal identifying data? We are human and fully capable of being corrupt or in error and using such information against a person, wrongly.

  11. I'm absolutely certain there is one.... on The Uncertain Future of Global Population Numbers · · Score: 1

    ... myself. All the rest, could be just my imagination.

  12. Why is it that I think this website security .... on Breakdowns of Website Defacement by Platform · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...issue is more serious than it really needs to be?

    Using regular backup methods and unauthorized access alarms (access alarms that are either verified or not as a matter of access notification loops).
    So when a site gets hacked there is timely notification and backup usage.

    In other words, should access happen but not getting verification within a set amount of time, reverts back to the pre-unverified access state of the site.

    perhaps we can write this in PHP or python?

  13. Why wait for a judgement? on RIAA Will Finally Face the Music In Court · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Start encouraging your favorite artist to go a route of sales & distribution and royality collection outside of the RIAA.

    Though there may be contracts holding them to the RIAA directly or indirectly, such contract will either become expired or after this case, be challenge-able.

  14. tomorrow, tomorrow.... on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    tomorrow is always one day in the future, so how about we invent time travel one day into the future today?

  15. can anyone tell me the checksum of the code? on 10,000-website Strong Malware Maze Created by Criminals · · Score: 5, Informative

    I discovered my site had a directory and just under 2500 pages added to it. The directory and file dates are January 9th 08 and every one of the html files has the same script code in it. My research turned up indication of two mass site hacks in January.

    A google search for threeseas.net/blogger/log/cache/ (cache being the directory that contained the files [past tense]) shows up about 4500 site pointing to one of the files in that directory. Some of the findings are even sourceforge sites and you can tell they have been hacked as well. In other words there are a lot of hacked sites besides mine.

    I notified google this morning and my host has already removed the files from my site as the owner and group were set that I couldn't do this myself.

    anyways rather that posting the code, a check sum would be better of the code starting with teh word "function" to the end of the code.

  16. Automated information, the real AI on AI Researchers Say 'Rascals' Might Pass Turing Test · · Score: 1

    Artificial Intelligence is the by product illusion of automating enough information (static, active and dynamic) to generate the illusion of human intelligence.

    On the flip side we already have plenty artificially intelligent people. So perhaps the illusion should be based upon a real intelligent person.

    An example of an artificially intelligent person is a teen ager pretending and fooling another online person or persons into believing the kid is much older and much more educated and experienced in the field they claim to be in, where in fact they are just studying what they can find online to support the illusion.

    I suppose this is proof of the Turing test limitation.

  17. Re:Rob You Cab? on A Robotic Taxi Named robuCAB · · Score: 1

    don't you know, computers don't lie.

  18. Oh call it what it is.... on Microsoft Tries To Prevent Further Discovery · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Bait and switch.

  19. This reminds me of the..... on Physicists Store, Retrieve a "Squeezed Vacuum" · · Score: 1

    ....bags you store cloths and blankets in then hook your vacuum cleaner up to, sucking out all the air and squeezing the cloths and blankets down in size for storage.
    Later unplugging the bag to restore the cloths and blankets to full size.

  20. Seems to me its a matter of establishing a ..... on Wikileaks Calls For Global Boycott Against eNom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    standard procedure for which to handle domain shut down requests.

    a take down request should be specific and start with a request to remove the offending material, not the whole site.

    It could be done with laws but would need to be done in any country hosting.

    Perhaps I'm wrong, but this is a hosting site issue, not a domain registry issue (or it shouldn't be a domain registry issue).
    Registry is like an ID, messing with an ID is like identity theft or other wrongful manipulation of a persons ID. There should already be laws for this.

    Anyways, there is the possibility to organize a standards group on the issue just as there is the OSI, linuxs standard base ,
    etc.. and openly rate and publish hosting policies compliance level and even registry policies if that is indeed an issue.

    There should also be recourse against those who violate. Or at least a bad mark on the open rating report.

  21. Somehow I can see a lot more abusses of this info. on British Airport Will Require Fingerprints From Domestic Passengers · · Score: 1

    ... than I can see of criminal passenger tracking.

    make two list, one of the benefits of such tracking for criminal capture and the second as to how many ways this information can be used by criminals.

    See which one grows faster.

  22. Secret is as secret does... on Pentagon Hid Magnitude of Data Loss From Recent Breach · · Score: 1

    .. and to the typical American ... out of sight out of mind. Or in other words, WE STILL DON"T KNOW what all this secret information is but it apparently makes the hackers smarter than us about us.

    Thanks Homeland security......good job.

  23. train and pay the wikipedia elite.... and .... on User-Generated Content Vs. Experts · · Score: 1

    ...won't you have the same thing as what is being proposed?

    Oh wait, the wikipedia policies need to change to make legally responsible such editing.

  24. Well what did you expect of those who... on Record Box Office Indicates MPAA 'Piracy Problem' Hot Air · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... make it a business to create fiction?

  25. Thats because we don't get... on One in Ten Americans Are Chronically Sleep Deprived · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... month long vacations like in some european countries.
    And to think how the dollar is falling against the euro.... go figure...