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  1. Re:Not wishing to sound conceited but... on OSL Gets Bandwidth Donation from TDS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, your home line is not intended to be utilized 100% all the time, and you would probably not get 1Gbit/s for very long (probably bursted in the beginning) if you and your neighbours tried to use all the bandwith..

    The donated 600Mbit/s on the other hand, that is probably a connection that is guaranteed to work under a high load 24/7.

  2. Yay on Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators · · Score: 1

    Sounds like something fun to try during the christmas break. Ofcourse it would be even more fun to try now in the middle of exam week :-)

  3. Security? on Backup Your Life on a DVD · · Score: 1

    That's nice, if someone gets hold of my database they will know me better than I know myself.

  4. Oh, the price has gone down. on Burn your genes on CD -- for $500,000 · · Score: 3, Informative

    From this first post: "Craig Venter, Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2000 has a new hobby: collecting rich people's DNA. Millionaires are lining up to buy their personal gene maps for the cool price of USD$621,500."

  5. Re:Other ways of cracking on Cracking the Smartcards · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes a season can be very helpful but you won't get the sufficient amout of information about the encryption algorithm just by sniffing the traffic between the smartcard and the decoder.

    Here in Europe, Canal Satelite uses the SECA encryption, which is absolutely cracked. Applying some bugs of the existing smartcards you can create a "masker key", which is a kind of "root" account in the card. When you have created this master key on the card, you are ready to add providers, channels, buy pay per view events and a lots of interesting things.

    Here in Sweden Canal Digital uses Conax and there are no public codes or files so that you can unscramble the picture. (There are pirate cards, but rumor says that they have been stolen from factory or are MOSCed (modified original cards) On the other hand the largest provider Viasat and their system is compleately cracked.

    By expoliting or MOSCing the providers card you can read out the management keys (keys used for decrypting operational keys wich are used for decrypting the picture) and of course add other keys and idents. You can also change the time period that determines how long you are allowed to watch a channel. Right now there even are scripts that unlocks canal digital (conax) cards.

    You can find out more on satcodes.com

  6. I have found 2.4.* quite stable, until yesterday. on 2.4, The Kernel of Pain · · Score: 1

    I've found the 2.4.* quite stable, no problems at all (managed to avoid the really ugly releases). Until yesterday when ext3 decided to go ballistic. A fsck solved it though.

  7. Re:I've really got to wonder... on How Google Saved USENET · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, they do have sponsored links on the websearch, that should make them some money..

    See Search on google for sex

  8. Re:A spectacular view! on Invaders from Space! Leonid Showers tonight. · · Score: 1

    Ohh, I forgot to mention that this was in Sweden :) I'll go to bed now...

  9. A spectacular view! on Invaders from Space! Leonid Showers tonight. · · Score: 1

    I was driving home at about 0300 GMT and I saw this flash in the sky, after ten minutes one more - a big one. And they kept dropping in, I know that we isn't as lucky as you in the states and Australia when it comes to numbers. But it still is fantastic. A clear sky and burning meteors just make me happy. Usually I don't like to be out in the cold but on a night like this 0 - -5 degrees celsius doesnät bother me.

    I can barley wait until Sunday evening for the big finale :)

    This is the stuff that makes me want to get into amateur astronomy!

  10. EU protecting privacy? on Cybercrime and Patents in Europe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On November 13 the EU Parliment will vote on the the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector
    Read the report here . If passed it would make it illegal to idenitfy users on the internet without their permission. Keep your fingers crossed.

    Not all things that come out of the EU are bad. Belive it or not :)

  11. I can't see the intrusion? on White House Frowns on National ID Card · · Score: 0

    I can't see how a national ID card can be an invasion of privacy. It's not like you'll have to idenitfy yourself more often than you do nowdays.

    Local id-cards can be used just as easily to monitor people. It's just question of smacking the databases together.

    Here in Sweden we have a national ID card and I don't get stopped by the police every twenty seconds. Ohh, and for the record, we dont have to carry the card with us.

  12. Re:Kazaa: linux version on Napster Alternatives Coming Strong · · Score: 0

    Thanks m8.

    it's about time :)

  13. Money better spent on games than on missiles. on Army Funds Game Development · · Score: 0

    Me thinks that it is very reasonable for the army to fund games instead of buying 200 or so more missiles. Not that I think that the games will have that much inpact on kids lives and on their future, but atleast players will get their aggressions out.

  14. fp on Open Source Programmers Stink At Error Handling · · Score: 0, Troll

    pirst prost

  15. F29 retaliator - now there's a game on Ultima Revived · · Score: 1

    I remember long hours infront of my fathers computer while playing F29 Retaliator (F29?).

    Those old games had a certain feeling that just does'nt exist anymore. I'll rather listen to some beeps from my PC-speaker that those new all-to-commercial intros.

    BTW - Does anyone know where I can get hold of a copy of retaliator nowdays? :)