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  1. Re:cribs on Schneier et al Report PGP Vulnerability · · Score: 2
    So, to make this attack viable this has to happen:
    1. Alice sends encrypted message to Bob.
    2. Eve intercepts message and rearranges blocks.
    3. Bob receives message from Eve, saves it and decrypts it by issuing gpg message.gpg. Then, Bob looks at message.txt, sees it's junk and sends an unecrypted message to Alice with message.txt attached to it. I can't think of anyone dumb enough to do that.
  2. Re:Cash up front on Building Anonymous-Friendly Computer Libraries? · · Score: 1

    About the proof of circulation problem, that's easy. Give the borrower a receipt with the serial number of the book and date of return when the book is scanned as returned. If there were any problems, the borrower could present the receipt.

  3. Re:A good suggestion, except... on A High-School Hacker's Notebook · · Score: 2

    It would be very nice if there was some standard machine readable mechanism to indicate, "yes, you may cache this to avoid slashdotting this site" that the site could serve

    It's called robots.txt and that's what Google and archive.org use.

  4. Re:Poor Sweatheart Cup Co syadmin... on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Actually, with a domain like sweetheart.com, I guess they have enough problems anyway...

  5. Re:Factoring might still be NP on Turns out, Primes are in P · · Score: 2

    This is a common mistake about probabilistic algorithms. Primes was up to now known to be in ZPP. That means there is a polynomial time algorithm that has > 2/3 chance of answering correctly, and 1/3 chance of not answering, independent between trials.

    Thus, to check primality, we simply employ this algorith until it answers, and then we could be sure of the answer. This could theoretically take a long time if you are extremely unlucky, but realistically, there's a bigger chance of you suddenly reappearing in China.

  6. Re:Popups still exist? on Pop-Up Ads Begin To Face Serious Opposition · · Score: 2

    That depends on how you define "works". The poster above seems to define "works" as "whatever IE does". In that case, I can point out several sites that don't "work correctly" under Mozilla. See my SIG.

  7. Re:7 is about right... on Ars Technica Reviews Mozilla · · Score: 2

    Yeah! And IE fails to show my riddles page but shows an error message instead. So IE must be bad, right?

  8. Re:There is no major reason to switch... on Ars Technica Reviews Mozilla · · Score: 2

    Wrong!
    IE does not even implement the HTTP RFC correctly as you can see in My explanation.

  9. My riddles page... on Tech-Interview Riddles · · Score: 2

    I have put up my own little riddles page. Time for a little slashdotting... ;)

  10. Re:some selected answers: on Tech-Interview Riddles · · Score: 2

    Your solution to the egg dropping problem is wrong. Check out my riddles site for a correct solution (and a few extra riddles).

  11. Re:Hebrew Support? on Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About · · Score: 1

    I tried printing and I got only spacing, no hebrew characters at all!

  12. Wireless on UDP - Packet Loss in Real Life? · · Score: 2

    Also, there is an issue of IP over wireless, where packet loss is a given, at quite high rates. Thus, if you need the reliability either use TCP or add a reliability layer over UDP.

  13. Software Engineering at Microsoft on Software Engineering at Microsoft · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, that's an oxymoron for you!

  14. Re:Why I use Linux on A Linux User Goes Back · · Score: 2

    VS.NET is the best development environment

    Can you develop a portable application that will compile on any system with ./configure && make ?

    Can you compile a Linux binary?

    Can you use it to write open-source software? BTW: Have you read the EULA?

  15. Re:Why I use Linux on A Linux User Goes Back · · Score: 3, Funny

    Never heard of Windows Scripting Host? It supports a number of scripting languages.

    No, Stupid! That's only for writing worms!

  16. Re:Stupid users on A Linux User Goes Back · · Score: 2

    For those so inclined, the search begins here...

  17. Re:It's a solved problem - USA just needs to catch on Telemarketers and Cell Phones? · · Score: 2

    In Israel each cellular company has it's own prefix.
    Incoming calls are never charged, and the minute cost of a call is determined by prefix - 02,03,04,07,08,09 = land lines, 05,06 = cellular (each provider has a set of area codes), 1 = special calls (emergency + services), 01x = internaltional calls (x = provider).

    Domestic calls cost about 3c/min in peak time and 0.5c/min at night.

    International calls to the US cost 10c/min.

    Cellular calls cost 13.2c/min from a land line.

  18. Re:mirror on TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis · · Score: 2

    I have setup Another mirror here

  19. Re:Batch photo scanning software? on To Digitize or Not Digitize the Family Photo Album? · · Score: 2

    TWAIN? TWAIN is not SANE....

    If your scanner is SANE-compliant, use a small shell/perl script with scanimage to do the trick.

  20. I don't believe it! on Microsoft Media Player "Security Patch" Changes EULA Big Time · · Score: 2

    I actually mentioned something like this but I didn't think they'd actually be that sleazy for real!

  21. Las Vegas? on Spelunking in Las Vegas · · Score: 2

    Maybe they'd find some Missing phone lines?

  22. Trying to force DRM? on Microsoft Discloses Security Flaws in XP and WMPlayer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    M$ announces bug. Everybody required to download a critical update...

    What's the bug?

    DRM doesn't work... turns out you can hear copyrighted MP3s. This is a big security vulnerability and you mush download this patch, otherwise the finanical security of the RIAA will be at stake, and that's unamerican.

    [Note: This is intended as a joke and as food for thought. This is not fact.]

  23. Re:Something troubles me... on Microsoft Discloses Security Flaws in XP and WMPlayer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, it's the other way around. There is/was a bug in XFree86 that makes it crash when requested a redicoulously large font size by Mozilla (or anything else).

  24. Re:No need, since Google already censored themselv on Dutch Judge Cracks Down on Hyperlinks · · Score: 2

    And you can also see A translation of the artice.

  25. Re:NO SPYWARE IN AUDIOGALAXY on AudioGalaxy Reaches Settlement With the RIAA · · Score: 2

    Right. There is no spyware, unless you install the Windows version for some unknown reason.