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  1. Re:Obviously on Two Elements Added To Periodic Table · · Score: 1

    > Obviously, the elements must roll off the tongue as well as molybdenum.

    The disulfide is pretty slippery but I wouldn't put it on my tongue.

  2. Re:Non-alphanumeric characters on A Brief Sony Password Analysis · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you missed an opportunity to put Bobby Tables to work...

    It's also possible that the "#" just happened to fall right after the end of the maximum length password accepted by the site.

  3. Re:Bad passwords are not always the user's fault. on A Brief Sony Password Analysis · · Score: 1

    > ...would that be secure enough?

    As long as you are the only one doing it. Once the practice became widespread it would become worthless (I am not a security expert.)

  4. Mod parent up. on A Brief Sony Password Analysis · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

  5. Re:not surprising on A Brief Sony Password Analysis · · Score: 1

    > And if you write the pwd down, it will be lost/stolen anyway...

    Only if you are a fool, in which all is lost anyway.

  6. Re:Meh on National Academies Release Over 4,000 Free Science Books · · Score: 1

    > Are there any gems that are really worth making an account for?

    Not for you.

  7. Re:Not exactly "free". on National Academies Release Over 4,000 Free Science Books · · Score: 1

    I assume that you are aware that all these books were produced at US Government expense?

  8. Re:Are any of these actually useful? on National Academies Release Over 4,000 Free Science Books · · Score: 2

    Look at the NRC animal nutrition series. Very useful and definitely not for PHbs. I will be downloading "Nutrient Requirements of Horses".

    I don't think there is a volume on nutrient requirements of policy-makers, though. They just get whatever is in the public trough.

  9. Re:What I never understood about the uncertainty p on Using Averages To Bend the Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    We can see an interference pattern because we are firing a beam of particles, not just one at a time.

    But the "beam" can be so weak that there is never more than one particle in transit at a time.

  10. Four days to find a pistol? on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    For all we know, [the gun the cops claim to have found] could have been locked away in the trunk of the car.

    Or in the trunk of a police car. Get caught with a pistol and you just might be let off with a warning and confiscation. There's a reason for that.

  11. Re:What I never understood about the uncertainty p on Using Averages To Bend the Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    > So, as I understand it...

    You don't. Please read up on it.

  12. Where's the link to the original recipe? on MI6 Swaps Bomb Making Info With Cupcake Recipe On al-Qaeda Website · · Score: 1

    n/t

  13. Re:contract some guys on Ask Slashdot: Verifying Security of a Hosted Site? · · Score: 2

    Or get it done free: antagonize Anonymous.

  14. Re:Not very effective on World IPv6 Day On June 8 · · Score: 1

    The primary point of the test is to determine if any significant number of users will have trouble reaching the sites via IPv4 when the sites return both A and AAAA records. If this can be shown not to be a problem there is no reason for all sites with IPv6 access (there are a lot of them) not to add AAAA records.

  15. Re:I'm wary of this theory. on 'Worms From Hell' Unearth Possibilities For Extraterrestrial Life · · Score: 1

    > That seems like plenty of opportunity for contamination.

    By what route?

  16. How about we stigmatize the unattractive types... on DoD Paper Proposes National Security Through a Culture of Restraint (and Stigma) · · Score: 1

    ...who create goverment secrets?

  17. Re:Not-a-concept on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 1

    > ...devolution has a meaning:

    Yes. It's British for the transfer of reponsibility (but not power) to regional parliaments.

  18. Re:No surprises here on Mac Malware Evolves - No Install Password Required · · Score: 1

    > Why this is a corporate problem beats the hell out of me.

    Why aren't you doing it?

  19. Donovan, I assume... on Researchers Grow a Brain In a Dish · · Score: 1

    ...is what the lab techs called the thing in the dish.

  20. Because tsunamis are a huge risk in Switzerland. on Swiss To End Use of Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    n/t

  21. Re:Where is this going to end on Tweeter To Be Prosecuted, Twitter Now Censoring? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > ...if it didn't happen in public it's not public information.

    If it didn't happen in public the public would not know about it.

  22. Re:Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z on Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z · · Score: 1

    So you answer is to do thing the old way instead of come up with networks the secure the data.

    I didn't claim to have an answer.

    There will, eventually, be a real probem, though. People are going to become so attached to their personal electronics that asking them to give them up at work will be akin to asking them to take off all their clothes and don employer-provided ones (in fact, it may be exactly that). Unfortunately, the solution is likely to be the one being applied to the current security and privacy problems.

  23. Re:Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z on Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z · · Score: 1

    Trying to keep the lettering thing going is stupid, obviously short-sighted, and misses the entire reason why Gen X was named as it was.

    So you are saying that it was "Gen X" that came up with the names "Gen Y" and "Gen Z"?

  24. Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z on Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z · · Score: 2

    Because "gen Z" is even thicker than "gen Y"?

    they're going to need to get a whole lot more relaxed in general.

    Yes, companies are way too uptight about security. After all, it's not like there have been a lot of breakins or anything.

    BTW what comes after "Gen Z"? Oh. Wait. The Rapture was yesterday. Nevermind.

  25. Re:When is a phone just a phone? on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 1

    It is scary the same problems are starting to crop up in vehicles, where bad UI can cause the machine to be damaged or someone to be maimed or worse.

    Especially since, according to some of the pundits upthread, the withit younger generation will happily push buttons at random just to see what happens.