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  1. A linear induction motor is not a railgun. on Navy Uses Railgun To Launch Fighter Jet · · Score: 5, Informative

    n/t

  2. Re:You could just do what I do on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 2

    > Now get off my lawn.

    You aren't old enough to have one.

  3. Re:WRONG on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    "Government sponsored secure key system" is an oxymoron.

  4. Re:The right responsible thing to do on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    Question -- why doesn't Firefox or Windows or Linux come with a little application that GENERATES a secure password for the user?

    Most Linux distributions include several such applications.

  5. Re:Do we really need secure passwords for Gawker? on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    > I personally use the crappiest password I can remember for stuff like that.

    Thereby enabling comment spammers.

  6. Re:Not me. I'm cheerfully paranoid. on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    Every time I need a password, I either beat out a spastic smattering of letters and numbers, or dream up a weird phrase, and use the first letters, with a few of them converted to numbers.

    I use pwgen. It is much better at generating truly random strings than I am.

    I'm fine, as long as no one gets to my written log of all those passwords. If that happens, I'm screwed.

    Keep it with your credit cards and cash.

  7. Re:You could just do what I do on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 2

    > ...what can realistically be memorized by the average person ...

    And there is the real flaw: not the use of passwords, but the silly notion that average people should memorize them. WRITE THE DAMN THINGS DOWN!

  8. Bad Passwords Are the Weakest Link. on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    n/t

  9. WTF may be intended to express... on CIA Launches WTF To Investigate Wikileaks · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...the CIA's opinion of the rest of the government's computer security procedures.

  10. A link to the project home page: excellent. on Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory At South Pole · · Score: 1

    Much better than the usual snarky blog referencing an error-filled news article.

  11. Re:I have an idea ... on The Smartphone That Spies, and Other Surprises · · Score: 2

    This is not about any army issue equipment. That's all made in the USA and the soldiers are trained in its use. It's about the soldiers' own personal phones.

  12. Re:Since its a redirect... on D0z.me — the Evil URL Shortener · · Score: 1

    So what legitimate reason is there for CORS to exist?

  13. Re:Meh on The DNSSEC Chicken & Egg Challenge · · Score: 1

    Another point of the article is that there will be PHBs that interpret a misconfiguration or risk of misconfiguration as a reason not to deploy DNSSEC.

    It is. It may not be an adequate reason, but it is a valid concern.

  14. Re:Great Work! on Database of Private SSL Keys Published · · Score: 1

    I should be able to trust the router manufacturer.

    You "should" be able to trust any random person you meet on the street, too. But you can't, because people are human.

    If my bank had such weak security and I had to find out about it on Slashdot would it be my fault or would it be the fault of the bank?

    It would be your fault once you knew about it for not taking your business elsewhere.

  15. Re:Great Work! on Database of Private SSL Keys Published · · Score: 1

    > If absolutely all information wants to be free...

    Of course all information wants to be free. Just look how hard it struggles to get away and how expensive and difficult it is to keep it imprisoned.

  16. Re:Great Work! on Database of Private SSL Keys Published · · Score: 1

    Hopefully I can find one where the manufacturer doesn't suffer from a common sense failure.

    It's trivial to configure an old pc or laptop as a home router. There are also "consumer" routers which can be converted to Open Source.

  17. Re:Duh... on Nigerian Email Scam Victim Sues Bank, Loses Appeal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    > He later verified with the bank that the check had cleared.

    No. He verified that the check had been credited to his account subject to collection. Decades ago the bank would have postponed crediting his account for such a large, unusual item until after they had collected from the bank it was written on, but current law does not allow them to do that. This scam is a direct result of that law.

  18. Re:Well obviously. on Free Radicals May Not Be Cause of Aging · · Score: 1

    The radicals aren't free as in beer: you have to pay for them when you buy foods "high in free radicals". They are free as in speech, though, in that you don't need permission from the grocery store to pass them on when you are done with them. The bacteria at the sewage plant thank you.

  19. Re:Who defines porn? on UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default · · Score: 2

    Justice Potter Stewart. He knew it when he saw it.

    Pornography is fundamentally a religious concept, as is the notion that seeing it is harmful to children.

  20. Re:Requires insanely cold temps? on Physicists Improve Spin Information Storage · · Score: 1

    > The amount that subatomic things move around is the definition of warmth.

    No. The amount that atomic things move around is the definition of warmth.

  21. Re:Only an escaltion of the ongoing game on Carrier Trick To Save IPv4 Could Help Spammers · · Score: 1

    > Develop some new flashy service that "replaces" email.

    Perhaps we could call it "Facebook" or "Twitter".

  22. Re:Trivial if you want to go the extra mile on Carrier Trick To Save IPv4 Could Help Spammers · · Score: 2

    So what you're saying is that Google has decided to fully claim reputation-ownership of the mail their users are sending. They're staking their reputation that their users don't generally spam.

    Google Groups is a major source of Usenet spam.

  23. Image elicited by headline: on Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers · · Score: 1

    A store manager being menaced by a large, angry woman wielding a black bakelite Western Electric handset (to me the canonical "phone" is not a handheld two-way radio the size of a nickle Hersey bar).

  24. Re:Endless loop. on A Finnish-Chinese Connection For Stuxnet? · · Score: 2

    But the threat of attack by Israel and/or the USA (and the idiot "sanctions") is very useful to the rulers of Iran (Ahmadinejad is far from being a dictator). They need an external enemy to blame for all their internal problems.

  25. Re:If Lingenfelter is right on A Finnish-Chinese Connection For Stuxnet? · · Score: 1

    I believe that the "AIDS is a CIA plot" bullshit started as Soviet propaganda in the eighties and evolved into the current set of conspiracy theories.