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  1. Re:How common is IR arming remotes? on $20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors · · Score: 0

    Yeah sorry that is exactly how "rolling code" DOESN'T work.

    The "rolling code" is used as PART of the encryption algorithm to validate the keyfob. The base and the fob both keep track of the "rolling code" and increment it with each keypress. It's also used to resync the base with the keyfob just in case you have kids who like to press buttons when you're out of base station range. (this is how car locking and garage doors, and maybe many other systems work)

    The base station still has to have stored the keyfob unique ID and the shared secret key. That all gets dumped into the encryption algorithm.

  2. Re:Ok? How is this new, or a big deal? on $20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors · · Score: 0

    What is accepted as a technical article these days astounds me.

  3. Re:Ok? How is this new, or a big deal? on $20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors · · Score: 0

    No it's like hacking a door lock by getting the key, making a copy and opening the door. People get paid for articles like that??

  4. Freelance IT journalist - WTF?? on Apple Has a Lot In Common With The Rolling Stones (Video) · · Score: 0

    How is this even a job? This fuck gets paid to blather about things he has no knowledge of and 'somehow' is some kinda 'expert' for giving us, 'the common folk' the gift of his blatherings??

    Reworked joke:

    Q: What do you call 5000 IT journalists at the bottom of the ocean?
    A: A bloody good start.

    We need to 'off' these bastards before they breed.

  5. Re:Relative on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Rock Star' Developers a Necessity? · · Score: 1

    Developers? Developers? Developers? Did somebody say Developers? http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/steve-ballmer-monkey-dance Dance monkey, dance!

  6. Re:It's a conspiracy! on Study Suggests Weather and Not Hunting Killed Off Wooly Mammoths · · Score: 1

    actually the Mammoths were driving the SUVs. Can you imagine the gas mileage of a Mammoth family going on summer vacation in their SUV??? Pathetic.

  7. Re: Solution: Window Blinds theme on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 1

    "monster with a billion features from which you ever only use 2%"
    kinda like Microsoft Word turned into....

  8. When you see.... on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    10 black Securities and Exchange Commission vans driving towards the office and you're just getting out of your car in the parking lot. Get back in and go to the nearest bar.

  9. Because McDonalds hasn't invented.... on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    the Bacon Cheese McBug wrap in a Happy Meal with a Hoppy The Grasshopper toy.

  10. Re:Start your own on Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy? · · Score: 1

    My grey hair turns grey, sees itself in the mirror, gets disgusted and leaps off my head in an apparent suicide.

  11. Re:Vindication on 'Gaia' Scientist Admits Mispredicting Rate of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    It is not a science at all. It is a religion and rotten to the core.

    FTFY

  12. Re:Summary is 100% correct on Amazon Blocks Video Streaming On BlackBerry Tablet, Blames Apple · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "And it says Apple is the reason why it blocked the service."

    ????? Is someone from Slashdot running Amazon now??

  13. Re:How about India? on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 0

    To add a bit to my reasoning - I had a contractor from Wipro working on site. One day there was a news report that a series of bus shelters were bombed around the area where their offices are. I suggested that he call home to make sure friends and co-workers were alright. After 1/2 hour on the phone he told me "Oh it's ok they were only small bombs" I really don't consider a place stable where people are used to the idea that small bombs are ok.

  14. Re:How about India? on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 0

    Absolutely correct - it was early and I was lazy.
    Perhaps this is better?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_India

  15. Re:How about India? on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 0

    India? Stable?
    A google search for 'india bombing news' gives "About 3,680,000 results (0.40 seconds)".

    You apparently have a different concept of stability than I do.

  16. Re:Cheaper iPad 2 on What the iPad 3 Looks Like · · Score: 0

    yeah interesting considering that that is not what the F'ing article says.

    From the article:
    Assuming Apple continues to sell the original iPad, the iPad 3 would cost about $499 (the current starting price of the iPad 2), while the iPad 2 would likely drop to about $399, and the original iPad to $299, or possibly even $199.

    The problem is the word "Assuming ". Apple doesn't sell the original iPad.

    Maybe instead of an iPad you should get a Speak N Spell!!

  17. Re:Apple gets singled out on Hackers Hit Apple Supplier Foxconn · · Score: 0

    Maybe give them rainbows and reach arounds too!!

  18. Re:Apple and Foxconn on Hackers Hit Apple Supplier Foxconn · · Score: 0

    Or...
    C. Are drooling morons who believe everything the talking heads on TV tell them?

  19. Re:Audiophiles on Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers · · Score: 0

    snarling badgers, weasels can be drop-kicked across a room.

  20. Re:You're a douche on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs? · · Score: 0

    "People should work on things they enjoy."

    "Work is not about fun; it's about work! It's about seeing how much crap you can take from the boss man! And thentakin' some more!"
    "If it wasn't work, they'd call it 'Super wonderful crazy fun time,' or 'Skippedy-do!'" -Red Foreman

  21. Re:Wow, that's what passes for best these days on Labor Activist: Apple May Be Terrible, But All Others Are Worse · · Score: 0

    and the guy in China says 'Nobody needs a house instead of renting a shitty apartment'

    It's all relative.

  22. Re:Battery on US Air Force Buys iPads To Replace Flight Bags · · Score: 0

    If there is an AC supply (your assumption) - couldn't ya just plug in the iPad charger?

  23. Re:Money sucking leech?? on The iPhone Is a Nightmare For Carriers · · Score: 0

    I guess I expected some kind of impartiality. Sad so sad. Maybe I should say something nice about Linus to get my karma up ............... nah!

  24. Re:it was inevitable on Robert Boisjoly Dies At 73, the Engineer Who Tried To Stop the Challenger Launch · · Score: 0

    flinging poop at each other. This effect is called .................... Slashdot

  25. Re:Ultimate Accountability. on Robert Boisjoly Dies At 73, the Engineer Who Tried To Stop the Challenger Launch · · Score: 0

    Well they toss the manager out after they reach orbit........... I mean it's just a manager.