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  1. Re:Checkmate. on Kasparov Arrested By Russian Police · · Score: 1

    OP is playing FPS chess where the king can dodge out of checkmate?

  2. Re:But this is India we are talking about on RIM Agrees To Hand Over Its Encryption Keys To India · · Score: 2

    Well, he admitted to using mersenne twister for generating the keys. Mersenne twister is not designed for cryptography so it's quite possible it's relatively easy to crack. From wikipedia: "Observing a sufficient number of iterates (624 in the case of MT19937, since this figure is the size of the state vector from which future iterates are produced) allows one to predict all future iterates."

  3. Re:Abolish trademarks too? on Swedish Filesharers Start 'The Piracy Party' · · Score: 1

    Easy, the Anti-Piracy Bureau is composed of boring sods thus, they never drink grog. Arrrrr!

  4. Re:ProCD v. Zeidenberg on End User License Gems · · Score: 1

    I agree

  5. Re:Security on New, Faster Attack against SHA-1 Revealed · · Score: 1

    Compare the double ROT13 encrypted message with the original message. If they are identical, the message is authentic. It's a foolproof system.

  6. Re:So precensorship? on Google Launches Pay-Per-View Web Video · · Score: 2, Informative
  7. Re:This may sound stupid... on Firefox 0.10.1 Released, Fixes Security Hole · · Score: 1

    You could set your download directory to a folder where deleting files is a bad idea, e.g. Desktop or $HOME. Besides, the update takes less than 30 seconds.

  8. Re:Where's the community? on Linux Standard Base 2.0 released · · Score: 1

    That's why all distros have packagers.

    While it would be convenient to have all applications fit in the distro out of the box, it's not really critical as long as you're dealing with free software. Free software can be patched and adapted.

    Since most (all?) community distros deal only with free software, LSB is less important to them.

  9. Accidental spam reports, eh? on Dealing with False AOL Spam Reports? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most likely they signed up for the newsletter by accident and now they don't want it anymore.

    When I get newseletters that claim I signed up for them, the first things I utterly avoid are reading them and following any links or instructions in them.

    So, just stop sending email to people who obviously don't want it anymore; consider the spam report as unsubscribe requests.

  10. Re:No Ogg? Uh-oh... on AAC Chosen For DVD-ROM Section Of DVD Audio Discs · · Score: 1

    So, did Batman sue the guy who stole his cape?

  11. Re:It ain't necessarily so on Microsoft Rereleases Patch to Fix Problems · · Score: 1

    Dude, Murphy's law apply to everyone, even Microsoft.

  12. Re:They'll never get into the schools though, unti on KDE 3.2.1 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    They'll probably kill the application's parent and siblings too.

  13. Re:Whay has RPM got to do with anything? on ATI Releases Drivers for XFree 4.3.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.google.com/search?q=install+rpm+debian

  14. Re:That's Who on Celebrating Spam's Ten-Year Anniversary · · Score: 5, Funny

    And because you didn't kill her, the rest of us continue to get spam. Thanks a lot!

  15. Re:$11.7 billion... on Celebrating Spam's Ten-Year Anniversary · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You mean, like, follow the spam? I don't see the point, my problem is that spam follows me.

    Is this some Soviet Russia thing?

  16. Re:Instant??? What's instant about an SMS? on Fired Via Instant Message · · Score: 3, Funny

    Uhm, you're supposed to send SMS via the GSM net, not type it into your phone, put a stamp on it and send it via snail mail. Faster and cheaper.

  17. Re:Inspired! on Amazon Sued for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    A method of extracting capital from another party by patenting a method of extracting capital from another party by patenting method that the aforementioned other party has already successfully used to earn revenue.

    Hand it over!

  18. Re:It's Vegas. on Keyless Entries Fail In Las Vegas On Friday · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think it's more likely the concentration of slot machines attracts badluckons, the particle responsible for transmitting bad luck. Much in the same way as critical systems designed for stability attract murphyons. The universe always strives for equilibrium.

  19. Re:Brute force on Crack the Code and Win a Million Bucks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Surely anything can be cracked if enough brute force is chucked at it.
    Not really. Trying to brute-force a message encrypted with a one-time pad will generate every possible message of the same length. You can't determine which of those messages is the true one.

  20. Re:Digicams and colors on Explaining the Mars Photo Colorization · · Score: 1

    My T610 sees in infrared too. The thing that surprised me is that the infrared lightsource appeared as white with a slight blue tint. I had assumed the red filter would be more sensitive to IR. Cheap filters I guess.

  21. Re:Huh?? on Transmeta's New Smaller, Faster Chips Announced · · Score: 1

    I'll take low-power and high-speed. kthxbye

  22. Re:Since dust can be a problem on More on BTX Motherboards · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ. My father's computer recently became very unstable. The source of the instability was tracked down to a dustfilled heatsink. The airflow through the sink was practically null, causing the CPU to overheat a few minutes after boot.

  23. Re:I doubt this happens on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 2, Funny

    Top Google result for "tits": super-tits.com
    MSN result for "tits": "You have entered a search term that is likely to return adult content."

    'Nuf said.

  24. Advantage: MS on Microsoft Plans IE Changes Due to Plugin Patent · · Score: 1

    They're gonna use this as an excuse to force webauthors into using some MS-specific alternative to plugins, probably Microsoft(R) PlugX(tm) for Internet Explorer(R) Make This Work in Mozilla and We'll Sue.

  25. Re:umm on Disney Completes Dali Animation · · Score: 1

    besides he has worse problems, he's really danish yet people keep thinking he's swedish.

    Hey! As a swede, I resent that!