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  1. Re:Words mean something on Stars Could Shine In Many Universes · · Score: 1

    We live in a Universe - it's contained by the boundary between everything we can touch and all that stuff that might be out there but we can't in any way get to it. I don't know what happens when and if we find an edge - perhaps we don't, we just curve around and return to earth. perhaps we just keep going.

  2. Re:there are other marble bags? on Stars Could Shine In Many Universes · · Score: 1

    Like University? The one and only school of higher learning?

  3. Re:In lameness terms, please? on Stars Could Shine In Many Universes · · Score: 1

    There is no way to prove that other universes exist. If you could touch them (or detect them) they would be part of this universe. Still if you saw a marble sitting on the sidewalk, would you automatically assume that it was the only marble ever made?

  4. Re:Freedom to take pictures in public spaces on Photographers Face Ejection Over Lenses · · Score: 1

    It's all from fear that terrorists would use pictures taken to plan an attack.

  5. Re:Still doesnt solve jack on Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs · · Score: 1

    But it takes so long to charge a battery, but the hydrogen tank fills up just like a gas tank.
    Properly designed tanks don't explode.
    Oh Noes back to hydrogen.
    Here in Sacramento SMUD has a hydrogen fueling station. It's got banks of photovoltaic cells on the roof.

  6. Re:Do the police... on Police Secretly Planting GPS Devices On Cars · · Score: 1
    If the police are following you around all day they are in fact using resources.

    Also you may begin to wonder why there always seems to be a police car behind you. (even two or three cars away) In other words you have a reasonable chance to find out you are being watched.

  7. The Shadow knows.... on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: 1

    Sort of a balance thing then?

  8. Re:To those who say this doesn't affect the innoce on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: 1

    To simplify what you just said... power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Wasn't it a British fellow who originally said that?

  9. Re:It's a ploy people on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: 1

    What is the watered down version... ISPs and such still have to collect the data, but it's not centralized? Don't the ISPs do this now?

  10. Re:They've tried this before on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: 1

    Bear in mind as well that these documents always over egg the pudding British idiom... do you mean they add features they don't care about only to drop them while negotiating?

  11. Re:Why are we surprised? on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: 1

    What is a "shadow home secretary" ? Just the title sounds scary and bigbrothery.

  12. Re:encryption on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: 1

    I think it's already illegal to withold your encryption keys in england. I don't know what they do if you lie though.

  13. Re:Example of no password on Moving Beyond Passwords For Security · · Score: 1

    yes, vidoop is one of many OpenID providers.

  14. Re:totally safe authentication method! on Moving Beyond Passwords For Security · · Score: 1

    Add to that the ship is tracking the whereabouts of each crew member at all times. So that adds a factor of "Where you are" I suppose it's done with combadges though so perhaps only a "what you have"

  15. Example of no password on Moving Beyond Passwords For Security · · Score: 1

    Take a look at vidoop They present you with some pictures - you pick out the ones that fall into the catagories that you picked earlier (picture A is a space-station, Picture E is a Dog, Picture F is a car. so you can enter A, E and F in any order The letters and pictures change next time but one will still be of a space-station, one of a Dog, one of a Car.

  16. Re:OpenID on Moving Beyond Passwords For Security · · Score: 1

    Anyone who holds your credit card can charge until you report it stolen.

    Nothing stops anyone from breaking and entering your house except "law" - brick+window, or crowbar + back door, or bumpkey + front door = entry.

    Your workplace has a kind of password - the people you work with recognise you. Try walking into some random place where you don't work - even a big company where there are too many employees for everyone to recognize everyone.

    You may be able to cart off a computer with the right ploy. On the other hand you might just get the "Who are you? Call security"

     

  17. Re:OpenID on Moving Beyond Passwords For Security · · Score: 1

    Somthing held = a card with 1000 5 letter sequences.

    Something known = The "algorithm" you change those 5 letter sequecnes:

    copy the last two letters, in reverse order to the front. Add the two digit day of the month (or minute) to the end.

    The host chalenges with a number: 567
    You look up "SBEce"
    You key in "ecSBEce10"

    Possible Changes:

    copy or move:2

    To the beginning or End:2

    First two
    center three
    last two
    first three
    last three:5

    Reversing them or not:2

    add 2 digit minute
    add 2 digit day"2

    To the beginning or end:2

    add two known letters:26 * 26 = 676

    prefix two know letters:26 * 26 = 676

    36,558,080 combinations on top of the 1000
    possible challenges..

    Of course if the change algorithm gets too complicated you may have to write that down.

  18. Re:Speaking of passwords on Moving Beyond Passwords For Security · · Score: 1

    and that is why your password should never be a simple dictionary word.

  19. Klingon Proverb on EFF Warns That Email Privacy Is In Jeopardy · · Score: 1

    If you do not wish a thing heard

    do not say it.

    I wonder though, is a walk in a random park still private enough for some sensitive communications.

  20. Re:Privacy on Fingerprint Test Tells Much More Than Identity · · Score: 1

    Everybody trade keyboards every morning.

  21. Burning Hydrocarbons on Hot Water, Hot Earth · · Score: 1

    This isn't the town that had to be condemned because the coal underground was ignited?

  22. Time for a Proposition on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whereas The government is too busy bickering with themselves to do their job.

    Whereas The people of the state are harmed by the lack of a budget year after year.

    We Propose that if a budget is not completed by the deadline, the previous budget is automatically re-enacted except Each legislator and the Governor get a 5% pay cut. During the period of the next two years the legislators may not raise their own pay.

    They (the legislators)may only raise their pay again with the second budget they enact on time.

  23. Takes 6 month to do and 9 months to undo? on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Why should it take any time at all to undo - Backup the source before you change it. Restore it when needed.

    (Or write it in a reasonable way so all you have to do is put back the data files)

  24. Make me a sandwitch on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    alias 'please'='sudo'

  25. Re:When and where on "Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions · · Score: 1

    yeah, since the cops don't know the plate is cloned they should find and stop both cars. Once they determine that the plate is cloned the original gets a new free plate, the cloner gets the slammer.