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  1. Re:Expiration? pfft on How Often Should You Change Your Password? · · Score: 1

    What's my username? And who doesn't keep their token on them at all times? Leaving your token unsecured at your desk is the same as leaving your l/p written on a piece of paper and posting it on the bulletin board. The point of the enhanced security of the token is to keep it on you at all times, and in all of the implementations I've seen it's not the only security measure. One login and rotating password for access then RSA login and password for authentication

  2. Expiration? pfft on How Often Should You Change Your Password? · · Score: 1

    My RSA token generates a new unique password every 60 seconds.

  3. Re:Yes! on When DLC Goes Wrong · · Score: 1

    To be fairly literal, DLC just means content. The majority of stuff offered as "DLC" are not expansion packs. Expansion packs may be downloadable content, but that doesn't mean the inverse is true.

  4. Re:Yes! on When DLC Goes Wrong · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gay Tony is what you call an expansion pack. It is a completely new campaign, rather than a package of costumes and multiplayer maps. It also provided more gameplay time as a cheap expansion than Medal of Honor or CoD:BO in their full $60 campaign splendor.

  5. Re:Phew i'm good. on Research Inches Toward Processor-Specific Malware · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yea, no malware for my Cyrix either

  6. Re:Ha! on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    Goldschlager

  7. Re:practical application on NSA Says Its Secure Dev Methods Are Publicly Known · · Score: 1

    Well, security also generally means performance hit, so it's also a balance of performance and security. When you're wiretapping half the nation looking for those keywords that send up red flags you gotta be lightning fast

  8. finds? on Digital Archaeology Show Reveals 'Lost' Web Sites · · Score: 2, Funny

    Smithsonian Digital Archeology Museum exhibits: Hello My Future Girlfriend Mahir All Your Base Supergreg

  9. Re:Wait... on AOL, Yahoo Mulling Merger · · Score: 1

    Yahoo leads in webmail still, has the #1 visited sports site on the net(more than ESPN or Fox), owns various strong web properties like Flickr, and is still #2 in search(which means #2 in advertising, basically). They also have excellent Finance and Fantasy sports sections

  10. Re:Am I the only one who is confused... on Despite FTC Settlement, Intel Can Ship Oak Trail Without PCIe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You mean leaving no way for nVidia to do it. ATI has always had solid mobility offerings and AMD owning them just means that nV is left out in the cold if Intel goes down the course you say.

  11. Re:NASA sure is going downhill fast... on NASA's Stunning Close-Up Photos of Comet Hartley 2 · · Score: 1

    What? You've never seen a 60s era muscle car that's more Bondo than metal?

  12. Re:news? on Flash Can Rob 2 Hours From MacBook Air's Battery Life · · Score: 1

    I have an Inspiron 8600 Centrino laptop. 6 hour batterylife just fuckin around. 4 hour battery life with DVD use. Less than 2 hour battery life playing videogames(which forces the system not to underclock itself and utilizes the Radeon GPU). If the article claims 33% loss of battery with Flash, that's what I'm getting with the DVD in use. So the impact is the same in that case

  13. Re:Dreamer? on Flash Can Rob 2 Hours From MacBook Air's Battery Life · · Score: 1

    What's not free about VSE?

  14. Re:news? on Flash Can Rob 2 Hours From MacBook Air's Battery Life · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about you blame the ad companies for using Flash rather than blame Adobe for making an interactive product meant to enhance web content(which you admit it does)? Or blame the browser companies for not giving the options and/or making it more obvious that dynamic content is being used? Smith and Wesson makes guns. Are they at fault when some gangbanger kills another with a S&W?

  15. news? on Flash Can Rob 2 Hours From MacBook Air's Battery Life · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why is this news? Flash is actively drawn and persistent. It's also known that it is CPU intensive. It's like running a DVD or a videogame. It takes extra CPU cycles and possibly extra components(does Flash utilize a GPU/FPU?) to accomplish these types of things. In a word, duh.

  16. Re:Recipes aren't necessarily copyrightable on Cook's Magazine Claims Web Is Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Can't be copyrighted, but can be trade secrets. Just ask the Colonel.

  17. Re:Burma on Massive DDoS Cuts Myanmar Off From Net · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who put "Made in Taiwan" on all their goods. Taipei is merely used so the Chinese won't have any more reason than they already have to take it back in to its busom, and nations go with it because China can fuck all your shit up no matter who you are.

  18. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    My statement makes no such claim. Failing to mount a filibuster does not equate to failure to invoke cloture or failure to test a filibuster. That's like saying you got in to a car accident because your airbag deployed after you hit the wall.

  19. Re:No on A Decade of Agile Programming — Has It Delivered? · · Score: 1

    There are a different names for it nowadays, but the most commercial is probably Reality, which emulates PICK under *nix and gives it network capability(though I guess they've released a Windows version of it as well recently). PICK is an OS and a database at the same time.

  20. Re:I wonder.. on Aussie Research Company Brings Wi-Fi To TV Antenna · · Score: 1

    Biggest problem is legal, at least in the US, no unlicensed intentional radiators at any power level allowed in the TV bands... Going to take FCC rulings, maybe congressional bills. Probably just as bad in Australia.

    Until the queen says, "Make it so."

  21. Re:No on A Decade of Agile Programming — Has It Delivered? · · Score: 1

    See the PICK database. The scripting/query language is called ENGLISH. And it's pretty damn intuitive. Blows SQL out of the water as far as query capabilities go(when coupled with custom dictionary items) and in readability

  22. Re:Obligitory Hackers reference... on With the Jack PC, the Computer's In the Wall! · · Score: 1

    Active matrix, man. A million psychedelic colors

  23. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is essentially correct. There was a lot of talk about the Republican filibuster for various bills, but there was never actually any filibuster. If you don't take it to the floor to see if they can manage to filibuster you can't complain about the filibuster because it doesn't exist. The Dems couldn't muster enough internal support to bring some of these bills to the floor to begin with.

  24. Re:Now with 100% LESS privacy! on First Chrome OS Notebooks Due This Month · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google won't snag any of those markets, especially geeks because they tend to put a value on privacy.

    You would think so, but then again, there are a huge number of people that think that pro-privacy things like NoScript are stupid on this website. Google-analytics isn't blocked by AdBlock or FlashBlock, but whatever. Those that set it in hosts are excluded from this sentiment, but I don't think that is too big of a percentage.

  25. Re:NSF on NSF Funds Data Anonymization Project · · Score: 1

    Yea, seriously. It's the Non/In Sufficient Funds funds