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  1. Re:Just a game on Play Pacman, Pinball, and Pong With a Paramecium · · Score: 2

    If this is just a game, how can we tell who the NPCs are?

  2. Re:Yeah but on French ISP Throttles Direct Download Website · · Score: 1

    What happened to P2P?
    The job bittorrent was made for, seems to have been replaced by a bunch of rubbishy web-based services.

    Robust, distributed protocols -> Web based junk -> Web based junk: Sign in using facebook ID -> iPhone app -> ???

  3. BlackWhite on Patriot Act Up For Renewal, Nobody Notices · · Score: 1

    This is textbook propaganda. All governments do it.

    Doublespeak, newspeak, thought-terminating cliches, loaded language and weasel words.
    Bonus points if you can shoehorn all that it into a backronym.

  4. Re:That's not correct on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 2

    Not always.

    Access points use the SSID as the salt, and most APs use common default SSIDs.

  5. Re:Wonder how safe longer keys are... on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 2

    Charecter set ^ password length = permutations.
    You're right with exponential growth.

    Just remember that if your password has password dictionary fragments, including all common substitutions, then the length is the number of fragments, not the number of characters.

  6. Re:Wonder how safe longer keys are... on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    If you use a 63 character, full ascii key, which is quite realistic since this is a key, not a password, then the time quickly rises to galactic scales.

    Crisis averted.

  7. Re:Soon, no more call centers on Jeopardy-Playing Supercomputer Beats Humans · · Score: 4, Funny

    They will give the AI a heavy Indian accent, because it's what callers expect.

  8. Re:cut pci but keep usb 2.0 and sata 3? on Sandy Bridge Motherboards Dissected, Compared · · Score: 1

    PCI slots dried up. My latest mobo has just the one.
    However PCIe devices, except graphics cards, just aren't there in terms of availability and choice.

    In the mean time, everything moved onto the motherboard, so you hardly need any expansion cards.

  9. Facebook is watching you! on Facebook's Revenues Leaked · · Score: 1

    These new social networks, of course, grew out of the old ones and tended to keep their names and pay lip-service to their ideology.
    But the purpose of all of them was to arrest progress and freeze history at a chosen moment.
    The familiar pendulum swing was to happen once more, and then stop.
    As usual, the incumbent was to be turned out by the faddy start-up, who would then become the incumbent;
    but this time, by conscious strategy, facebook would be able to maintain its position permanently.

  10. Re:And this is news? on BBC Astronomer Misses Meteor During Live Show · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I knew somebody who blinked in around 95% of photos. Even a fake count-down didn't throw them off.

  11. Re:more like cloud boot iCrap on Apple Creating Cloud-Based Mac? · · Score: 1

    Apple have gone too far this time!
    A cloud based Mac is going to implode immediately, and take all it's users with it.

  12. Re:DDR2? on Oversupply Sends DRAM Prices To One-Year Low · · Score: 1

    Most DDR2-era motherboards have solid-state tantalum capacitors.

  13. Only email spam? on The Significant Decline of Spam · · Score: 1

    This only covers email spam. I'm guessing facebook and twitter users get spammed quite a bit to their profiles, as these are used more and more for daily communication.

  14. Re:Let me guess.... on Living Earth Simulator Aims To Simulate Everything · · Score: 1

    When will this recession end, and we can get back to building custom-made luxury planets.

  15. Re:Lies on Old Facebook Apps Still Plunder Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    Incongruently, the junk from your profile is exactly what financial institutions, and other important accounts demand as security questions.

  16. Re:I did on Old Facebook Apps Still Plunder Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    But like you said, it's undoubtedly journal-like under the hood, so changing and deleting won't achieve anything.

  17. Re:Ah. HA! on Structure In Brain Linked To Varied Social Life · · Score: 2

    The amygdala is also the proximity sensor for personal/social/public space. Your had no problem detecting people on your lawn.