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  1. Re:Not Sure What to Make of This on Finland Hosts Mobile Phone Throwing Championships · · Score: 1

    This is a contest that has been going on for something like 15 years. It's just a bit of silliness. The mobile phones are thrown and then gathered up and recycled.

  2. Re:Careful Announcement on LHC Discovers New Particle That Looks Like the Higgs Boson · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's because they're not in competition as such. The results are complimentary. The Tevatron was able to isolate the same signal, just to a lower degree of precision (2.9 sigma as opposed to 5.0 sigma).

  3. Dr. Higgs himself said it best... on LHC Discovers New Particle That Looks Like the Higgs Boson · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the press conference, Dr. Higgs summed the findings up nicely: "This is an achievement in experimental methodology." To detect this signal has required a momentous effort, and the good people at CERN have had the good fortune of reaching results quicker than anticipated.

    This isn't earth-shattering news or anything even unexpected, but it is still cause for celebration. Let us rejoice and then continue to push on towards new findings.

  4. Re:Piracy: Free Advertising on Angry Birds Boss Credits Piracy For Popularity Boost · · Score: 1

    No adjustment layers (as of last year). No soft proofing for print - two very big dealbreakers right there.

  5. Re:I'm following the elections-2nd seat not likely on Pirate Party Wins At Least One European Parliament Seat · · Score: 1

    There already is a finnish chapter, that is now recognized as an official political party. However, they missed the registration date for the EU election by a hair. The next election will come in a few years.

  6. Re:Real Electronics ... on Integrated Circuit Is 50 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    Please, go ahead. The rest of us will be reaping the benefits of miniaturization.

  7. A disgrace to Finland on Finnish Censorship Expanding · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Simply put, this entire list is a disgrace to the nation. The entire list was lobbied through by appealing to simple-minder think-of-the-children rhetoric without any thought given to the implication of this list. Anyone even remotely knowledgeable about technology in gneeral knew that this idea could not possibly work and would end up being abused in no time flat.

    The mere existence of this kind of censorship disgusts me.

  8. Re:Technical review... on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 1

    Who commissioned a Krank all-tube amp shortly before he died.

  9. Re:it can work on Don't Dismiss Online Relationships As Fantasy · · Score: 1

    You need consider the possibility that the parent might be a teenager.

  10. Re:It's not about Cancer. on Study Shows Cell Phones Safe · · Score: 1

    A cursory Google search revealed the following article:

    I wish you luck on your quest.

  11. Re:The Real News on Hezbollah Hacked Israeli Military Radio · · Score: 1

    There are many ways to achieve this. If the transmitter or receiver is moving, you may use intersections of isodoppler curves. You may also use TDOA multilateration methods or TOA methods to locate a single transmitter using an omni antenna.

  12. Re:Next? on UK Terror Bust Caught With Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    TrueCrypt allows the user to mount several layers of hidden volumes, each within the other. There is no indication that a hidden layer exists.

    Your argument is essentially that the mere possibility of the existence of a hidden layer means that there is no plausible deniability, and I would argue that you are wrong. There might be a third, fourth of umpteenth hidden layer, but if you deny the existence of it, there is no way of finding out, short of coercing you to hand over your key. Then again, if you have no key due to the fact that the hidden volume doesn't exist, you cannot prove the non-existence of a hidden volume. This is essentially what plausible deniability means.

  13. Re:DRM that plays on anything? on The History of Hacking DRM · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand the point. Potable fresh water is not merely finite, it is a scarce resource, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.

  14. Re:Delta wing is crap! on Ancient Reptile Had Wings Like a Fighter Jet · · Score: 1

    Forward-swept wings have a significant disadvantage: the incoming air will tend to produce high rotational forces that will try to rip the wings off. The reported top speeds of the SU-47 and X-29 are 1.6 Mach, which is a bit lower than that of the F/A-18 (2.0 Mach) and F-16 (1.8 Mach). Apparently the new composite for the SU-47 has made the wings stronger, but the new high speed has not been disclosed.

  15. Re:ports on Skype Addresses Visibility Concerns · · Score: 1

    All of these, however, relied on getting the hacked skype client to the victim, didn't they?

  16. Constant annoyance on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have no horror story as such, but having to constantly point out the same things gets very old.

  17. Re:Bah... on Stolen VA Laptop Recovered · · Score: 2, Informative

    You must be joking. 2^256 is simply too large to ever be crackable. 2^256 translates to more states than there are estimated to be atoms in the universe; in other words, you will have to use the entire universe to build your computer. There is no possible way that AES or any other block cipher will ever be brute forced. So that leaves you with password security as the weakest link. In truecrypt, your passphrase and keyfiles are used to scramble the key. Using a unique file on a USB dongle as the key and randomized letters as the password, you will be safe from any brute force attempts.

    Of course, there might be some weaknesses with the AES algorithm, but to date no such attack has been found, at does not seem likely to surface.

  18. Re:I trust neither on China Frustrated In Encryption Talks · · Score: 1

    Which certainly doesn't say a lot. All five finalists were solid designs. AES was chosen because it was fast to implement inboth software and hardware.

  19. Re:It boils down to... on China Frustrated In Encryption Talks · · Score: 4, Informative

    The algorithm selected for AES was originally called Rijndael, and was developed by two Belgian cryptographers.

  20. Re:Full albums on How iPods Took Over the World · · Score: 1

    Your post has a good point, but the truth is that this has very little to do with iPods. In fact, iPods can indeed play an album at a time without messing up the track order while still shuffling between albums.

    Your point about marketable music is true, but it has applied to radio airplay for the last 30 years.

  21. Re:Substituion Cipher? on Mafia Boss Using Crook Crypto Captured · · Score: 1

    Not quite as such. Once you extract the keylength, you can do a frequency analysis for each sub-message corresponding to a key. The most important thing in breaking a Vigenere cipher is finding the keylength, which can be done by several means, such as finding the coefficient of coincidence.

  22. Re:ah, the irony.... on Total Information Awareness still Running · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So you say that the citizens of the united states should shut up, bend over and calmly take what's coming their way?

    I find it very sad indeed that the apologists for the current administration don't even refute the fact that the nation is becoming a totalitarian regime. Instead they just tell dissidents to shut up or face the consequences.

  23. Re:obviously... on Computer Jobs -- How to Resign Professionally? · · Score: 1

    Depends on the country. As another poster stated, in some places the empleyer must compensate any unused vacation time up to a certain limit.

  24. Re: *Sniff* Whats that smell? on Insect Substance Synthesized For Science · · Score: 3, Informative

    That hyperbole was invented by the reporter. The summary in Nature has no such claims.

    I really hate it when scientific discoveries get FUBARed by the press. What is it with journalists? Why don't they have any common sense?

  25. Re:We don't need more speakers. on 13.1 Surround Sound Coming to a Home near you? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sound can be easily preojected with as little as three speakers using methods such as VBAP, but the less speakers you have, the narrower the sweet spot is. With four speakers, the sweet spot is very small. With 13 speakers, the sweet spot is considerably larger. As you may have noticed, there isn't significant variation in the sound positioning in a movie theater depending on which seat you sit on.