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  1. Re:Randi missed his target on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    Gold is used for connectors because it's more resistant to corrosion.

  2. Re:CSIRT is dying on Chinese Security Site Under New Kind of Attack · · Score: 1

    Only a very few settings were stored in the registry. Most of the settings are in the metabase. Don't ask, you really don't want to know. It is like the registry, only even more obscure to edit, and more prone to severe breakage.

  3. Re:The solution according to Roberts on Web Creators Call Internet Outdated · · Score: 1

    Well, the question is, did they come up with the solution first, and try to drum up the problem to make sales, or did they come up with the problem first, identify how to fix it, and start selling solutions? In most cases we assume the former, but considering these are new products, it could easily be the latter.

  4. Re:Hospital Blogging on Hospital Wants Critical Blogger's Anonymity Ended · · Score: 1

    No $50 wireless access point will record the MAC address anyway. Why bother?

  5. Re:Download link on IBM Challenges Microsoft with Free Office Suite · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Pointless? Useless? I Think Not on Realtime ASCII Goggles · · Score: 1

    Mechwarrior! Wireframe view made things so much easier. I can definitely see military applications.

  7. Re:NP != "Non-polynomial" on Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem? · · Score: 1

    Some time back, I read about the spaghetti sort, where you sort spaghetti by length in constant time. I set my mind to trying to discover a similar "solution" to TSP, mostly as something to do while waiting at the DMV, grocery store, etc.

    I came up with the string solution.

    You cut pieces of string equal to the distance between the cities, and tie each piece of string to two rings representing the cities, and label each ring with a city's name. To solve the problem for any pair of cities, you pick up the rings representing those cities and pull the entire mesh taut. Which ever string has the most tension (is at the top, whatever), is the best path to take.

    Of course, I didn't issue a press release claiming I'd solved anything.

  8. Re:Seems they forgot a few things on DNS Rebinding Attacks, Multi-Pin Variant · · Score: 1

    A host can have multiple A records, therefore you don't need to take advantage 0 TTL, you can just use the multiple A records to have the browser choose a random IP. You'll get a 50% success rate, but that's still pretty good.

  9. Re:Wow. Really amazing... on DNS Rebinding Attacks, Multi-Pin Variant · · Score: 1

    The really scary thing is, repinning to the local IP address, and then using the socket based vulnerabilities to port 135, allowing the attacker to bypass software (and hardware) firewalls, and fully compromise the victim. All for the cost of a single ad impression!

  10. Re:From Experience on Our ATM Is Broken, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the reply. The question was posed out of curiosity rather than any need to know. And I have heard that about credit vs. debit quite often. On the flip side, debit transactions are much cheaper for the merchant than credit transactions. I pay as credit whenever I can, unless it is a small business that looks trustworthy. The last time I payed as debit was an optometrist.

  11. Re:From Experience on Our ATM Is Broken, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Very interesting post. I have one question though. You say that "If you accidentally sign up to pay your car insurance with automatic reoccurring payments, and the INS. company takes 2x payment 1 month, the bank will not help you." It was my understanding under Regulation E, specifically Sec. 205.6, that the bank is required to limit your liability for an "unauthorized electronic fund transfer", with certain (somewhat strict) limitations.

    How does it actually work in practice?

  12. Re:4th Amendment on Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? · · Score: 1

    That brings up an interesting question. What about intentionally forgetting the key after the start of the investigation?

  13. Re:Fair Abuse on Uri Geller Accused of Bending Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    This is why programmers don't make good lawyers. The law is not a programming language with hard and fast rules. Rather, it is interpreted by judges, and attempts to bend or manipulate the law are frowned upon.

  14. Re:Useless Freeze? on Credit Industry Opposes Anti-ID Theft Method · · Score: 3, Funny

    But it'd be so annoying to come up with a new pin for everyone. Let's reuse an existing number that everyone already has. I know! Let's use their SSN!

  15. Re:Exemptions on The Privacy of Email · · Score: 1

    You are opening an email to check if your new spam filter is working properly. This requires a search warrant. Do you have a warrant?
    [Yes] [No]

    repeat 100 times.

  16. Re:That's why I like the LGPL on Does GPL v3 Alienate Developers? · · Score: 1

    If it's code you've written, you can do whatever you want with it. The licenses doesn't apply to you, as you already have the right to distribute copies of your own code in in any form you desire.

    You do not need a license to distribute code to which you own the copyright. The license gives permission for other people to be able to use and distribute the code to which you own the copyright, including derivative works.

    Hence, LGPL doesn't allow you to reuse the code that you've written. You can reuse the code anyway, regardless of whether it's GPL, LGPL, BSD, whatever. The fact that you wrote the code allows you to reuse it.

  17. Re:Bowdlerization on FCC Indecency Ruling Struck Down · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they're censored so that people who browse slashdot through a web filter will be able to see the front page? Either that, or it's to protect all of the little children that read slashdot.

  18. Packet8 on Simple, Stand-Alone Internet Communication Devices? · · Score: 2, Informative

    They've been slowly raising their rates regularly, so we're looking to switch to another voip provider, but Packet8 has a standalone video phone.

    http://www.packet8.net/equipment/residential/video phones.aspx

  19. Re:Banks save nothing on Why Are CC Numbers Still So Easy To Find? · · Score: 1

    If a merchant has too high a percentage of fraudulent transactions to overall transactions, they lose their ability to accept credit cards. This is per business type, so certain businesses have more leeway than others. ie. restaurants will not be allowed as many fraudulent transactions as porn websites.

  20. Re:Privacy on Google Pushes To Open Public Records · · Score: 1

    This measure hereby renews all of the laws of 1907 to be good for another 100 years. All in favour? All opposed? OK, let's move on.

    Humans are lazy, they'll put all the laws in one measure and pass it at the start of the year, and that's it. Your new system is subverted from within.

  21. Re:Soo...some ideas on RIAA Can't Have Defendant's Son's Desktop · · Score: 1

    Depends if a judge believes you or not. If the judge does then all is fine, if the judge thinks you're lying he will fuck you over (I believe that's the legal term) for destroying evidence, and hand victory to the RIAA. So it comes down to, are you feeling lucky.

    Seems the solution to that is to hire someone (Geeksquad or whatever professional computer handyman) to install a new HDD on your PC, and install windows or whatever. You then have a paper record (receipt) dating the process.
  22. Re:Time to move past SMTP? on PayPal Asks E-mail Services to Block Messages · · Score: 1

    I've heard this said many times, yet I have never heard anyone back this claim up. What are the defects in SMTP? Specifically, what are the defects that can't be fixed except by implementing and using a new protocol?

  23. Re:That's Cravath on IBM Asks Court To Declare Linux Non-Infringing · · Score: 1

    What about a case like this, where the other side doesn't make mistakes?

  24. Re:Woo? on NFL Caught Abusing the DMCA · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that the ones at fault are Youtube. If they received a counter notice, they needn't worry about the second C&D letter, and should have ignored it or responded to it with the counter notice attached. Of course, a lawyer would know better, and I'm curious what they would think on the matter from Youtube's perspective.

  25. Re:How do you know that? on Best & Worst Decisions Starting Companies · · Score: 1

    What liability reasons? As I understand it, LLC completely shields the managing members from liability, as long as they don't do anything to allow someone to pierce the corporate veil.