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  1. If he were worried he could sell his ETH right now and be a multi-millionaire. That's obviously not his motivation.

  2. There are other chipsets for AM4 boards on AMD Announces X300 and X370 AM4 Motherboards For Ryzen, All CPUs Unlocked (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The post states:

    "All AM4 motherboards are built around one of two desktop chipsets for Ryzen, the AMD X370 or X300."

    That's wrong. If you look at the article the most common chipset will probably be the B350. The X370 is for "enthusiasts" who want to use multiple graphics cards.

  3. Re:Apply an easy to remember algorithm. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone finds out your password for two or more sites they will understand the algorithm and crack all your accounts anywhere in no time.
    It can happen quickly if you have a keylogger or something.

  4. How do you know which characters are available? It seems to be different on every site.
    Some allow some Unicode, some even allow Emoji...

  5. Re:Here is a bash function I use on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't trust /dev/urandom you can replace it with /dev/random or change the function to use openssl rand instead:

    genpasswd() {
         openssl rand 300 | tr -dc '[:graph:]' | head -c ${1:-16};     echo;
    }

  6. Here is a bash function I use on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Stick this in your $HOME/.bashrc

    genpasswd() {
         tr -dc '[:graph:]' < /dev/urandom | head -c ${1:-16};     echo;
    }

    Then you can just generate a password by calling "genpasswd". If you don't like the default length of 16 you can give a different length as a parameter.

    Here's an example of the output:

    $ for i in {1..20}; do genpasswd 30; done
    ?g*urm[[*eFX4595yE4IGJlE}Y=aKM
    o+g{\x]z}"G*!+9RSC/9}_?Cm.BAC,
    ^xvy:R1HAU?ltJvUHYC=?(/Vf94k"i
    >CV&G_L0;z~"/8),$]dc|JuVY.Ex8Q
    ?kRAo&p+?#HhC27tB!Dao$u1K}%Y6G
    Q$,CaghZ\>atglH3UNLQP}@G=aea+p
    !=5Od(kW\d~Ki4Gf,?6:[iWJVQs+64
    9,1FxZB&%#Ha@s,Y,$qNr%y6ddHT3Q
    ~Y2$7h1gxe(inHVFB=vE^8{dhu{{!"
    zG)ft;!I@,j7T<ZKBa3^o^7|~Y/*0T
    pfy>r$9B\efdt6)B-x/B5GCQywtb,%
    xU+.k%T.g,el|<"H3aejl,68!:9]B-
    g=VB2`#j!z5Fdrt|GxK[^oU<%+Qj,$
    W0?}1(2W+__~\@.5}d5+;@rM?%.1`>
    i59yTDH%Qla97'4"_bNbAh'hI243Js
    cq@v,U4_8s*"?:7[qytCQ=9zDxx=k;
    kozXefJoN[CI@w:'Fzi0$RSntHk<II
    pvpc1vi4U%?]7=/Q!OC[b3V?'9})sC
    1Frg'V]hTMFB5GA-Ek!"NCV3Y;5FK:
    {]cW%y8cepu)vW;nq:dh}9G]SI=He^

  7. Re:Read the Fine Summary on Intel Mac OS X Catches Up With Older Brother · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So why can't this check for TPM_Owner be removed?

  8. Re:news? on DIY Electronic Paper Display · · Score: 1

    Which mailing list are you referring to?

  9. Re:It's worked so well for alcohol and tobacco too on California Passes Violent Games Bill · · Score: 1

    So, just because some laws can be circumvented under certain circumstances, are you suggesting we shouldn't have laws at all?
    Hey, let's sell automatic weapons, people can get them anyway if they look hard enough.... etc.
    Your argument is flawed.

  10. What's the problem? This is GOOD. on California Passes Violent Games Bill · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who thinks children shouldn't be playing violent games?

  11. Games on Early AJAX Office Applications · · Score: 1

    Please reply to this posts with links to AJAX games. Multiplayer, preferably.

  12. Shows how much CNN sucks these days on Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car · · Score: 1

    They copy wrong stuff from Germany's worst newspaper. Shame on them.

  13. Automate finding and ignoring wildcards in domains on CentralNic Enables uk.com Wildcard DNS · · Score: 1

    I wrote a script to automate the detection of wildcard domains, go ahead and download it. It requires the djbdns tools in the path (dnsqr and dnsq). It generates a list of all wildcard domains suitable for the djbdns wildcard ignore patch.

  14. Re:Best Practice? on Perl Best Practices · · Score: 1

    Very encouraging. PHP seems to be very reliable.

  15. On their jobs page...: blah! on Company to Settle and Mine Mars · · Score: 1
    Desired Skill Sets - For Future Positions
    Engineering
    • Nuclear - power generation, propulsion blah
    Lol!
  16. The reason is that... on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1

    ... with Longhorn, it will no longer be YOUR COMPUTER!

  17. Silly on Red Hat & Centos On Name Usage · · Score: 5, Funny
    Quote: Moreover, our client does not allow others to provide links to our client's web site without permission.

    Good luck enforcing this or convincing a judge about this.

    Not.
  18. Re:bandwidth or bugs? on No More Players for World of Warcraft - For Now · · Score: 1

    The size of the virtual world is mostly irrelevant. It's just some numbers. Simultaneous player is all what counts and what requires CPU power.

  19. Re:Geostationary? on U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown · · Score: 1

    No, they aren't. They are flying much lower.

  20. Gaim should support standard compliant encryption on Plausible Deniability From Rockstar Cryptographers · · Score: 2

    I think cross-client compatible encryption is more important at the moment. Jabber offers OpenPGP, but the development of the gaim plugin that also does this has stalled a while ago. Bummer. As long as only gaim talks to gaim with a particular encryption, it won't get used on a wide scale.

  21. Re:Proprietary IM drawbacks painfully revealed on AOL Locks Out AIM Screen Names · · Score: 1

    Yes, proprietary server. Or do you have the source code and can you run your own?

    > I use AIM using Gaim because everyone I know uses it.
    > And none of them care about SSL/TLS encryption.
    Sounds like the old "I have nothing to hide" argument. If all your friends used gaim you could use gaim's encryption, but AFAIK it only works with Gaim. Gaim doesn't support OpenPGP yet :-(

    Btw, Altavista owned the search market and look at where they are now.

  22. Re:Closed Protocol on AOL Locks Out AIM Screen Names · · Score: 1
    Here's the difference:

    If it breaks, you can fix it yourself.

  23. Proprietary IM drawbacks painfully revealed on AOL Locks Out AIM Screen Names · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This shows once more the many drawbacks of proprietary IM protocols and servers.

    Let's not even mention that they probably log all messages that has ever been sent through them, just like Google logs all search queries.

    Jabber doesn't have these problems and it's an open standard with free software available.
    You can setup your own servers. It can talk to other jabber servers. You can use SSL/TLS encryption to talk to your server and you can use OpenPGP end-to-end encryption if you want no cleartext available at the servers. There are tons of clients available for all imaginable platforms, from mobile phones to Windows.

    Go Jabber!

  24. Re:spelling and grammar? on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    They're not the only ones. Check out this image from CNN...

  25. PAM does this for linux on Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pluggable Authentication Modules Want a new method of authentication? Just write a PAM module!