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  1. anything worth it's salt on France Outlaws Hashed Passwords · · Score: 1

    I would never give real details for anything worth it's salt anyhow... and I got good entropy on my hash at home.

  2. Re:That's preposterous! on Anonymous Launches Attack On Sony · · Score: 1

    Boycott who, The government.... Seriously try not paying your taxes.

  3. Re:Publicity on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 1

    it depends, is it on health and safety grounds?
    or because you don't have enough estrogen.

  4. Re:Hackers=christians?? on The Vatican Lauds Hackers · · Score: 1

    now try testing someone on the autistic spectrum, a sociopath/psychopath type and someone who's schizoid against those criteria of self.

  5. Re:Hackers=christians?? on The Vatican Lauds Hackers · · Score: 1

    Let's think,
    Jesus (tick)
    Martin Luther (protestant reformation) tick
    Issac Newton tick.

    But what I believe he is saying is that the counter theology is endemic in humanity.

    I'd call it a diminished sense of self, relative to human superior types.

    Why should it be 'endemic', to what purpose.

    Take the following:
    A wise man observes the universe making no difference of account for himself (self diminished, or third person).
    He triangulates by observing himself as he observes other things and so understands the 'true' nature of things.

    But how should this new knowledge be passed on?
    The knowledgeable man takes the authority for this wisdom, he knows of right and wrong, of true and false of knowledge passed down by humans through authority and acts with authority.
    He triangulates by manipulating false and truth, by lying.
    But without him the knowledge would be lost.

    The last man of this trinity knows he can trust no-one and only believes and trust what he sees, as their are people who lie in this world.
    He believes both lie and truth of what he sees, in black and white, and goes a little obviously insane.
    But without him how would the balance be kept between the other two.

  6. Re:Do they account for hypothesis-mining? on Fermi Lab May Have Discovered New Particle or Force · · Score: 2

    "If I mine a big set of data against 100 random hypothesis I'll be able to find about 5 that I can show to be true with 95% confidence, despite the fact that there is nothing really going on."

    they call that psychiatry.

  7. Re:"Lost" on 10,000 Shipping Containers Lost At Sea Each Year · · Score: 1

    and the illegal immigrants too.

    I'd expect drugs to come stuffed up a mule or cow or race horse or something like that anyhow.

  8. Re:Publicity on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 1

    also possibly a discrimination charge.

  9. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Would You Take a Pay Cut To Telecommute? · · Score: 1

    buy better video games!

  10. Re:Not only that on Bashing MS 'Like Kicking a Puppy,' Says Jim Zemlin · · Score: 0

    widely used is different from popular? I don't know a single windows user who I've installed linux for who would ever go back.

  11. because on The Case Against GUIs, Revisited · · Score: 1

    because scripts don't work

  12. Re:And your point is???? on GNOME vs. KDE: the Latest Round · · Score: 1

    I usually give someone a more rich environment and see where they go.. either getting me to set it up more simply (or show them other more simple things) or they may go off and find something else themselves...

    u can make kde pretty minimilst with different activities.

  13. Re:Implement DNSSEC and DNS based SSL keys on Comodo Hack May Reshape Browser Security · · Score: 1

    opps...

    google being the certificate request issuer.

    anyhow the browser would know google as google self signed who issued a request that was trusted by the CA that the browser already knows.

    The user 'first time' trusts that it's google (the only real thing you could do, and the user could revoke trust etc...)

    so you create a tingle of trust.

    The user is told they can trust the CA by the browser and the CA trust this and so does 'google' when during SSL key exchange.

    'google' trusts the CA and the CA (for whatever reason). and the browser trusts the CA.

    the user then can choose to trust google, self signed as google and at the domain .....

    once the user has told the browser to trust the self signer as 'google' then the browser can manage a chronology trust if the certificate ever changes.

    'google' and the CA then have their own private keys in two separate places, both of which would need to be compromised.

    basically requiring three people to open the safe.

  14. Re:Implement DNSSEC and DNS based SSL keys on Comodo Hack May Reshape Browser Security · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if the issuing bodies required the certificate resuest to be self signed so only a trusted body could issue a the initial certificate request that then got verified by the key signer with the requester's public key and signed. So the certificate is now signed by both google (with their own self signed) and by the key signer.

    google would have to issue a new self signed for a change in certificate, so the client wouldn't accept a new certificate unless both parts had changed.

    That should be fairly trivial and backwards compatible.

  15. Re:In protest of people whining about tasers on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    obviously if instead they try to hurt or wound or kill someone they will have fallen into the enemy's trap and become the enemy.. we can't have that, they need to learn Honor.

  16. Re:In protest of people whining about tasers on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    I propose we give them cyanide pills in their teeth... If they see someone committing a crime they have failed in the line of duty and should kill themselves with honor. That way we may bring crime down, instead of turning it into a living or a way to make more money.

  17. Re:um... I'll have to check the patent... on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    http://www.householdgoods.com/rechargeable-flashlight.html
    (or the 15.56 version)
    This is a rechargeable flashlight with 3.5 million candlepower!

    Ideal security torch
    Used by the UK Ministry of Defence and Police
    Fully cordless and rechargeable
    Philips quartz halogen 3.5 million candlepower
    Fully adjustable swivel stands

    Perfect security light to see off intruders, (anyone staring directly at the light will be instantly dazzled and unable to see properly for minutes).

  18. um... I'll have to check the patent... on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    I've been carrying a torch for partly this reason for years.. and given pocket torches out to 'worried' friends.

    Also use million candle power torches... very handy in protests against people with pork chops.

    http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.206-3886.aspx?utm_source=GoogleShopping&utm_medium=GSF_NormalFeed&utm_campaign=GSF_TescoDirect&utm_content=206-3886

    "The device consists of a 75-watt lamp, combined with optics that collect and focus the visible light into a targeted beam, which can be aimed like a flashlight. Recovery time ranges from “seconds to 20 minutes,” Eisenberg says. “It’s very analogous to walking from a very bright room into a very dark room.”

    Yep... I'd say that's about right!

  19. Re:Welcome Back... on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion Over Intifada Page · · Score: 1

    it depends on the weapon that you opponent is using, the people doing the work of the government against you.

    If it's moving close to where you live, then their are the soldiers.
    If it's using money, then they are the soldiers.

    Anyhow... you still threw a strawman....
    a: what to gorilla fighters do?
    b: I don't believe you have evidence either way.... especially if they say blowing up the odd school is ok... well cos we killed some of the other bad guys at the same time...

    So are you saying if you kill a million people and only a 600 thousand of them are civilians it's ok... but if you just kill a few people who are unaware that they are acting as combatants for the government then it's all Gorillas for tea?

  20. Re:As a kiwi. on US Open Government Sites To Close · · Score: 1

    Knowledge is power... I wouldn't trust and government to aid openness in any way... except traling the names and faces or people who share the 'secrets' that help them keep their power.

    Wouldn't supise me if all the Government leaders get together for an afternoon tea (I think Muslims can drink tea and it's Kosha), plan their next move to control the people .. The get the Absenth, Crack pipes and hookers out an party it up all night, with the Journalists and Bankers.

  21. Re:...hmm interesting... on Pirated Android App Shames Freeloaders · · Score: 1

    I'm not quite sure what you are saying? ar you saying you broke the speed limit once so I should be allowed to nuke your house or sell you a car without breaks? you obviously like going fast in your car and not using the breaks. That appears to be your terms of use, so I'll just cut your breaks for you... but sending out SMS's may not even be a feature in the original app... so I think nuking your house would be more to the point.

    That was your argument wasn't it... or did I miss something. Sometimes with all the AstroTurfing that goes on the obvious needs to be stated to counter it.

    I also noted the text is basically slander... it's saying that the person stole when in-fact they only breached copyright.. which is totally different, just ask any media corp, they break it all the time.

  22. Re:"Superdecoherence" on New Quantum Record: 14 Entangled Bits · · Score: 1

    it depends if you can control the decay rater otherwise... physics is just a theory, until it's not then some apparent physical law doesn't mean much by the way of limitations.

  23. Re:More tolerent of human error on Google's Driverless Car and the Logic of Safety · · Score: 1

    It's a bit like people going mad with the anti-bacterial soap... if they don't understand it and can't see it then they have no idea how dangerous is dangerous, to the extent of making their health and lives work....

    What most people seem no to accept is they don't have much of an idea about themselves, let alone other people.

  24. Re:can't take revenge against a computer on Google's Driverless Car and the Logic of Safety · · Score: 1

    I try to run over at-least three people a-day to make sure I get all the hit and run drivers... I'd hardly want to do that to a robot driver, it may put a dent in my bull bars.

  25. Re:Welcome Back... on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion Over Intifada Page · · Score: 1

    More Gorillas or whatever they call them now a-days.. insurgents? I don't think Israel is alone in it's share of war criminals, or lack of them being held account.

    I don't think anyone who is currently in power can be tried for war crimes. Also apparently putting a bomb on a plain is totally off, putting a bomb in a school full of kids or what-have-you is a-ok in my book, however running around with a Gun in a school full of kids is also well off the mark, as is fondeling people... unless their about to get on a plain, you a doctor or a priest.

    all very confusing.

    thank God the internet isn't a human right.