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  1. Re:Everyone gets to keep what they bought? on Beats Music To Shut Down November 30 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes; you can transfer your Beats playlists to Apple Music; just open the Beats Music app and it will prompt you to do so.

  2. Re:It's the base assumption that its invalid on Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice · · Score: 1

    Once a "backdoor" is added to any encryption system, it is only a matter of time before it is used for nefarious purposes. Any backdoor that a company can be compelled to use via a warrant can also be used by hackers, identity thieves, and foreign governments. If I want the data on my phone to be safe from criminals, it has to also be safe from law enforcement (whether I need that or not). It is literally not possible to have a system that is simultaneously safe from criminal intrusion and has a backdoor.

  3. Re:Tax dollars at work. on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: 1

    If someone is inside of my house, and they are legally allowed to be there (i.e. I've invited them in), then I have zero problem with them using my outlets to charge their phone.

    If someone is on the train, and they are legally allowed to be there (i.e. they have a valid ticket), then I have zero problem with them using the train's outlets to charge their phone.

    If someone is in a government building, and they are legally allowed to be there, then I have zero problem with them using the building's outlets to charge their phone.

  4. Police with a warrant can open doors, break chains, crack safes, pick locks, take your keys, or do pretty much anything else they want to do to get access to your private information.

    Then let them break the encryption themselves, they shouldn't be allowed to force me to help them.

  5. Hold the home and lock button for 10 seconds; that's the force-reboot.

  6. Re:sata is free with chipset TB2 uses up pci-e lan on Apple's New Mac Pro Gets High Repairability Score · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Very broken system on Gang Used 3D Printers To Make ATM Skimmers · · Score: 2

    Simple:

    • Each card and ATM is given a public/private key pair.
    • The public keys are signed by the bank's private key
    • Every card also contains the bank's public key

    When the card is inserted, the ATM asks for the card's public key

    1. The ATM then verifies that the card's public key was signed by the bank, using the bank's public key.
    2. The ATM then encrypts a block of random data with the card's public key, and asks the card to decrypt it.
    3. If the card successfully replies with the same random data, it has just proven that it has the private key that it claims to have

    Then it's the card's turn to repeat the same process:

    1. It asks the ATM for its public key, verifies that it was signed by the bank, using the bank's public key.
    2. The card encrypts a block of data with the ATM's public key, asks the ATM to decrypt it

    At this point, both the card and the ATM know that they are talking to the appropriate device. Each device can then generate a symmetrical key for that session, and encrypt it with the other device's public key, and use those keys for any further communication.

  8. Re:A single fossil on Modern Humans Bred With Evolutionary Predecessors In Africa · · Score: 1

    "modern man" = "homo sapiens"; we were around long before 1 BC.

  9. Re:Off-topic advice on Hidden Wi-Fi Diagnostics Application In OS X Lion · · Score: 1

    The way that Apple did. A single binary (whether executable or library) can contain code for multiple instruction sets. There is no need for separate areas on the file system for 32- or 64-bit support, there is no need for separate 32- or 64-bit builds of the OS, etc.

  10. Re:I am the author of the spreadsheet in question on A Custom Objectionable Word List Ate My Homework · · Score: 1

    So what happens if these "bad" words come up in the context of a biology class, for instance? I see many body-part names in that list, are students going to have to use stupid, childish euphemisms in their place?

  11. Re:First w00t! on "Woot" Becomes an Official Word · · Score: 1

    "wow", as in the English word, nothing to do with "World of Warcraft"

  12. Anonymous Proxy on Australian Journalist Arrested, Released After Detailing Facebook Flaws · · Score: 2

    Couldn't these Australian Journalists use an American as an anonymous proxy of sorts? That is, when you find a good source of information, tell him/her to reveal the information to an American, and then use that person as your source. You can then freely name your source, but that source can't be compelled by the Australian courts to name the original source.

    Every problem can be solved by adding a layer of indirection ... or beer :)

  13. Re:Oh please on FTP Is 40 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Yes, many things can be left unencrypted; your password is not one of them. Using FTP for anything other anonymous FTP is irresponsible and stupid.

  14. Re:Obvious on Are Graphical Calculators Pointless? · · Score: 0

    The TI-83+ had the added feature of "Archiving" software, which (I surmise) wrote it to ROM

    How, exactly, would a calculator write something to ROM (i.e. Read-only memory)?

  15. Re:How about every intro animation in Simpsons on The Simpsons Reviewed For Unsuitable Nuclear Jokes · · Score: 1

    It's not even waste; It's an active fuel rod that he takes home.

  16. Re:radical news! on The Simpsons Reviewed For Unsuitable Nuclear Jokes · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How is it mature and sensible to retroactively censor a TV show? Seems more Minitrue to me.

  17. Re:glass is better on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 1

    Really? Except for water, Silicon dioxide is the most common compound on the planet. It's one of the least "limited" resources out there; the planet's made out of it..

  18. Re:For the Nth time now! on Electronics In Flight — Danger Or Distraction? · · Score: 1

    Wow, I never knew that a powered-down iPod was less likely to become a projectile than one that is turned on. You've really educated me on the physics in the imaginary world that you inhabit.

    And as to ignoring the safety breifing, who the F cares about the safety briefing? It's the same thing every time and it's all common sense information. Really, the nearest exit might be behind me? My seat floats? Wow, I'd be dead in a crash if I didn't hear those little nuggets of wisdom for the 7 millionth time.

    If the alertness of the passengers was as important as you claim, nobody would be allowed to sleep, eat or go to the bathroom on planes; nobody would be allowed to read books, newspapers, magazines, etc.

    The problem with repeating this "you don't know how many times" is that everyone already knows that it isn't true. Repeating lies over and over again just convinces people that everything you say is a lie (c.f. The Boy Who Cried Wolf)

  19. Re:The one they always overlook on The Time Travel Paradoxes of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    Define "same spot". Same spot relative to what? Same spot relative to the Earth makes as much or as little sense as any other reference point.

  20. Just let the badgers have them on Badgers Digging Up Ancient Human Remains · · Score: 1

    I'll never understand why we store our dead. It's such a waste of land and other resources. The people involved don't care, they're dead.

  21. Re:Solution on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    Even Win98 had a way to jump between windows w/o needing to use the damn keyboard (like you have to do with Mac apparently).

    Wait, so you don't want to use the mouse to switch windows, and you don't want to use the keyboard? I think you're being a bit unreasonable, what's left telepathy?

  22. Re:Solution on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, you're judging the Mac OS based on your experience with a version that was released 13 years ago? Should I judge Windows based on my experience with Win98? Should I judge Linux based on my experience with Slackware 3.0?

  23. Re:oh darn on Craigslist Removes Its Controversial Adult Section · · Score: 1

    I have not read any evidence that a majority of prostitutes work because they enjoy being prostitutes. Have you?

    As the other poster replied, that same argument could be applied to any job. Do the majority of sanitation workers enjoy handling waste and filth? Or do they do it because it is a paying job?

    Stop being a "prostitution is no initiation of force therefore it should be legal therefore it is OK" libertard and instead ask "Is it moral in general to pay for prostitutes?"

    Yes, it is moral, in general to pay for prostitutes. To not pay would be rape.

  24. Re:Or maybe we are living in a simulation... on A New Take On the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 1

    And the people running the simulation are asses: http://amultiverse.com/2010/07/26/infinite-pest/

  25. Re:i LOL on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, that evil, American oil company: British Petroleum.