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  1. Overall speed on Tokyo Wants People To Stand on Both Sides of the Escalator (citylab.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think I saw some research that actually when using both sides of escalator it actually increases the amount of people goes though. But the argument leaving other side free is to let those who are in the hurry walk and rest who are not that in a hurry just stand.

  2. Re:The health benefits of driving a BMW on Regular Sauna Users May Have Fewer Chronic Diseases (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you are implying that only rich people have saunas that's incorrect in Finland. EVERY house has sauna and in apparments they have community saunas. Actually it's hard not to find sauna close by in Finland :) And yes I'm a finn and I love to go sauna every week :)

  3. Re:Memories? on What Happened To Winamp? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed I have tried foobar but I cannot get it configured as one line that stays on top of windows.

  4. We should be investigating this... on The 'Impossible' EM Drive Being Tested By NASA May Finally Be Explained (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I strongly believe that this drive does not work but still needs to be investigated. First we find new things that we must consider when testing physical phenomenom. Second we might actually find some new mechanishm that translate force to earth, air or somewhere else.

  5. Re:Neat on Reinventing the Axe · · Score: 1

    Well at least for Finnish guys you have to learn it during army. When camping at woods you really have to know how to make firewood.

  6. Falcon BMS on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    I have recently started playing again Falcon 4 BMS with my friends... It's such a blast. Granted learning curve is really steep in that game but the multiplayer is such fun and still there is no dynamic campaign like that in any modern game.

  7. APU Name on AMD's Kaveri APU Debuts With GCN-based Radeon Graphics · · Score: 2

    In Finnish kaveri mean buddy. Quite fitting name :)

  8. Re:Internet costs in Australia on The Ridiculous Tech Fees You're Still Paying · · Score: 2

    Well in Finland we have 17 people per km2 and about everywhere you can get 100/5 mbit cable for 40 eur per month. I pay 20 eur per month for 100/10 mbit fibre.

  9. Hmm on Antivirus Firms "Won't Co-operate" With PC-Hacking Dutch Police · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think hacking has one big downside compared to traditional phone tapping. It is possible person being hacked can detect this and make counter measures against it OR even supply false information. For police standpoint I would consider information gained through hacking very unreliable.

  10. Re:And... on MPAA Executive Tampers With Evidence In Piracy Case · · Score: 5, Informative

    In Finland we don't have jury trials. There is judge and 2 or more lay judges who decide the matter in hand.

  11. Re:optical disks still cost less then usb keys in on Hard Drive Revenue About To Take a Double-Digit Dip · · Score: 1

    I have already ditched all internal optical drives of my computers. I have one usb dvd burner/drive in case if I need one.

  12. Hmm on How Verizon's 'Six Strikes' Plan Works · · Score: 1

    After few notices they will make sure that dl'ers are not found dl'ing any illegal stuff. For example by using vpn's.

  13. Re:I wonder on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 1

    nitpicking but fair enough

  14. I wonder on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I Wonder how often these kind of conversations are held inside of a corporation and never see light of day. At least GNU movement is candid and open about the kind of mishaps.

  15. Re:Key theft != cracking encryption on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    On side note Arch Linux encrypts the hibernation file also if you do root encryption with arch linux wiki instruction. On resume it will ask pw for decryption.

  16. Terrorism on Report Warns That Censorship Will Not Stop Terrorism · · Score: 1

    I call this report as terrorist reports since it would suggest to take more lenient approach against it :D

  17. Re:Technical professionals? on How Some Chinese Users Bypass The Great Firewall · · Score: 2

    Yup, I was in china in a conference few years back and bypassing the firewall to get to the facebook was as simple as ssh -D 1234 username@my.server.com. And then setting browser proxy setting correctly.

  18. About TV on 400,000 American Homes Have Dumped Pay TV This Year · · Score: 1

    Although I come from Finland I have noticed a trend with young people, they don't own TV anymore. All have computers that they use to watch stuff from the net but no TV. Now national TV channel is forcing everybody to pay license even though you don't own TV. I guess it was reaction to declining license collection rates.

  19. I have a thought. Google can block France completely...

  20. I Wonder on Should Social Media Affect Your Creditworthiness? · · Score: 2

    I Wonder what if you don't actually have any of those accounts. For me I don't have twitter or linkedin accout at all.

  21. Type of traffic on P2P Traffic Drops 10% After New NZ Law · · Score: 2

    p2p traffic down 10%. vpn traffic up 10% :D

  22. Re:Why? on Xbox 360 Reset Hack Yields Unsigned Code Execution · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Summary is COMPLETELY WRONG on France Outlaws Hashed Passwords · · Score: 1

    Yeah I think so that this is viable solution but as always when adding complexity possible attack vectors increase.

  24. Re:Summary is COMPLETELY WRONG on France Outlaws Hashed Passwords · · Score: 2

    It is still completely possible for Google to use hashed passwords to authenticate users and only "save" the plain password in a "write only" file (text or separate database) with the unhashed passwords...

    Yes, but this is stupid and really gets rid of the point of having the hashed password in the first place. Now you have two copies, and even better if you hack the french data you start potentially having information necessary to recover passwords from other more secure countries. As for the 'write only' file, seriously? the only write only file is /dev/null, if you can read it at all there's the possibility that it can be read by bad people - that's what a security breach is... I suppose you could use a printer and print them all, if there's no digital way to read it then it would have to be a physical security breach, but the cost of compliance?

    Well in fact you CAN create write only file. Simply make private/public key pair and store public key in the server (the one that you can only encrypt data). Keep the private key on safe location away from the server. So now server can write to DB with public key but it's imposible to decrypt it and when officials want data they can pull private key from usb stick for example and decrypt it.