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  1. Re:Stronger car frames? on Materials From Tough-as-Nails Crustacean Could Inspire Better Body Armor · · Score: 1

    Bahhahaha

    "What happened to Jimmy?"
    "He got in a fatal accident so we replaced him with Lin Sung here instead. He's adapting quite well to our culture but Jimmy's old wife still has some reservation"

  2. Re:the thing i don't understand on Materials From Tough-as-Nails Crustacean Could Inspire Better Body Armor · · Score: 1

    Because we are omnivores? Tell that to a kodiak!

  3. Re:the thing i don't understand on Materials From Tough-as-Nails Crustacean Could Inspire Better Body Armor · · Score: 1

    But I think it's been proven fish love to try and stick sparly moving things in their mouth. The spinner is really effective. Often more effective then a plan old organic looking grub.

  4. Re:Stronger, lighter cars? on Materials From Tough-as-Nails Crustacean Could Inspire Better Body Armor · · Score: 1

    Actually, those crustacean are cool, saw a documentry on them. Their club is actually like an elastic/spring - that is how it generates the force it uses to wind up the club.

  5. Re:Stronger, lighter cars? on Materials From Tough-as-Nails Crustacean Could Inspire Better Body Armor · · Score: 1

    But in Canada we aslo have free* health care... so a broken arm is less of a big deal then a 7000aed broken arm in UAE.

  6. Re:Stronger, lighter cars? on Materials From Tough-as-Nails Crustacean Could Inspire Better Body Armor · · Score: 1

    In Canada we have 5mph bumpers as a "Canadian Motor Vehicle Safety Standard". The idea there is that the car should not be damaged in a 5mph collision with a solid object. The bumper should absorb the impact but stay in tact. The bumpers are usually solid and have shock absorbers, designed such that permenant damage should not occur. It is often used as a playing card by car manufacturers to prevent us from buying cheaper used American cars and bringing them across the boarder, but I would imagine if you damaged your new car in such an accident, you could go back on the manufacturer.

  7. Re:302 redirect on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 1

    I get the usability issues with XML, mid-stream downloads, SSL and AJAX - with intelligent products you could just look at the mime type and tcp reset the flow. If the customer investigates, they will know what's up - shouldn't that be acceptable?
    With SSL(facebook) unless the carrier has valid SSL private keys (I'm pretty sure some do) there is not much that can be done (besides blocking or resetting the TCP flow) without completely hyjacking the session which would inspire a browser warning.

  8. Re:No OS support. on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 1

    I have 2xBFG 9800GT passive cooled graphics cards I was thinking of using 2xMatrox tripple head 2 go DP editions to drive 2 sets of 2, then drive two wide and drive the other two native... but I am having a hard time justifying $600+ required for the matrox devices and cable adaptors. 2048 wide is too wide to run 3x2048 :(

  9. Re:No OS support. on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 1

    I have 6x2048x1152 monitors - Samsung, got them for $250 each. They aren't great, but they aren't terrible. For the price they were freaking awesome. Only problem is I can't drive all 6 from the same machine yet and all my Open GL screen savers seem to barf after 4096 pixels wide. I only have 3 hooked up now.

  10. Re:What would you do with it? on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 1

    I don't know if the AC is a troll, but T221 has a horrible lag... they are awesome... but shit at the same time.

  11. Re:WTF? on Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic · · Score: 1

    I think a jail broken phone is more like a car who's ECU was reflashed over bluetooth via an exploit... after all most of these jailbreaks are exploits.

    If your phone is rooted and software corrupted, there should be a procedure to fix the software and put it back in its factory state.

    The warranty issue should be if your phone is overclocked causing hardware damage or your car is made to produce more power/run outside its design parameters directly causing hardware failure.

  12. 302 redirect on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 1

    I vote 302 redirect to a landing page that describes the reson the page is blocked.

    Seems that is the way it is done in many countries that filter porn and politically sensitive material.

    Ohhhhhh we weren't looking for serious answers here, I get it.

  13. Re:Not exactly... on Researchers Can Generate RSA SecurID Random Numbers Flawlessly · · Score: 1

    Except the magic of soft ware is that two processes can be coded to behave differently... it could have been trivial for RSA to assume a different hash salt for tokens with different serial numbers or enrollment behaviours.

  14. Re:Not exactly... on Researchers Can Generate RSA SecurID Random Numbers Flawlessly · · Score: 1

    ^^ What he said... you need the serial number and the database that maps back to the tokens seed which most people assume is a unique private key, randomly generated and assigned to random tokens with serial numbers. The client is given the public key seed which maps back to the serial number for the tokens they purchase. The algorythm on the token generates a random secret number. The algorythm on the server is used to determine if any of the enroled tokens for that user could have generated the random secret number. If I am correct, even if the server storing the serial to seed mapping is compromised, there is still no way practical way to clone the tokens because you won't have the ability to predict the next numbers, only confirm if the numbers generated were plausible or not based on the predicted/known state of the tokens clock. Even if you know the serial number of the token, have all the seeds, there is the clock synchronization issue and often there is a pre or postpended user set pad.

  15. Re:Not exactly... on Researchers Can Generate RSA SecurID Random Numbers Flawlessly · · Score: 1

    My RSA admin declined me a Blackberry software token on basis of security so I have to carry arround this key chain that says "he must work somewhere where security is important".

  16. Re:Not exactly... on Researchers Can Generate RSA SecurID Random Numbers Flawlessly · · Score: 1

    Add to that, even if you know the seed, you need to know the state of the clock in that token as well... not that it's hard if you have seen unencrypted token data for the token you are cloning... but as a remote attacker who only has a seed, the username and a pin and the algorythm, you still need a resonable prediction of that physical tokens clock.

    This article summary should have said SOFTWARE tokens, as this is much less impressive.

  17. Re:What's wrong with keyboards? on The Leap: Gesture Control Like Kinect, But Cheaper and Higher Resolution · · Score: 1

    perfect technology for germaphobes.

  18. Re:now imagine a flick of the fingers on The Leap: Gesture Control Like Kinect, But Cheaper and Higher Resolution · · Score: 1

    except now all your chairs can have a pseudo built in trackpad/keypad... and the size and position of "keys" configured for your hands...

  19. Re:From a buffoon on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    I don't know.
    Do you have to add Urea to your truck every ~50,000 miles.

    Yes, you do.

  20. Re:Snail mail FTW! on Mega-Uploads: The Cloud's Unspoken Hurdle · · Score: 1

    That is relevant because it was easier/faster to get an up-to date-ish linux cd with a book that had to go through various editors, a printing press and the book stores distribution system then download the cd over a 33.6 modem... and then it was easier to read the book then load /search a document that large in a word processor and stare at a low res CRT screen.

  21. Re:Snail mail FTW! on Mega-Uploads: The Cloud's Unspoken Hurdle · · Score: 1

    I am much younger, I got my linux from a dead tree.

  22. Re:This had so much potential... on Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak" · · Score: 1

    Throw an Apple, and few Blackberries in a blender and serve with Orange, Blendtec guy!

  23. Re:Redundant on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Much of the energy from an electric motor is lost to heat as well... same with motor switching... and then there is the power grid... where much of the energy is wasted in stepping up and stepping down voltage... and then there is storage, where a every known storage mechanism seems to loose some energy to heat. In even mass production of energy, there is usually huge amounts of wasted energy that escapes through heat (nuclear cooling towers?!).

  24. Re:From a buffoon on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Is this not the whole bluetec / clean diesel which is now being mandated in all new trucks? Also in the new BMWs

  25. The real question that has been missed... on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 1

    Is it 15 times more efficient, or about 15 times more efficient?