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  1. Anyone thought of this when trying to crack.. on Slashback: Embed, Dougal, FireWire · · Score: 2
    prime multiples: Calc and store every prime number and then in turn divide them into the key to see which ones crack it.

    I realise that the overhead is mainly in calculating the primes but you would only need to do that once. And the savings would be in the more times you use it to crack keys. How many primes are there that can produce a 2048 bit kit after all?

    Oh yeah, Im no mathematician.

  2. Least costly solution regarding the domain name on Slashback: Disputes, Clones, Audio · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Get another one. It would be cheaper to get a variation of the one you want and would save you the $$$$$ trying to steal the one already regged.

    Its not as if you are going to lose custom over it as you said you are a small business.

  3. Ever since that Frasier infomercial on My Segway HT "Month-iversary" · · Score: 2
    of the segway I knew they are desperate for suckers to buy it.

    Except huge losses in 2003.

    And wave to Clive Sinclair for me when you see him on the way down.

  4. Wasnt it a running 'joke' on BBC To Ditch "Tomorrow's World" · · Score: 2
    that if your invention got to be showcased on Tomorrows World it would never make a success?

    And the BBC are just dumbing down the remaining shows that need 4 brain cells to watch. Sky are hitting them hard when it comes to prime time viewing, the only thing that gets viewers on the BBC is EastEnders.

    But I hate the way they have phucked up science programmes. Walking With Dinosaurs was portrayed as a scientific show. IT WASNT! It was a bunch of script writers making up crap from pictures of fozziled bones. How can you deduce all that crap they showed from that?

  5. A fractal harddrive? on The Plastic Fractal Magnet · · Score: 3, Interesting
    So doesnt that mean instead of just a single bit being corrupted affecting the one bit, in the fractal drive that bit could affect the rest of the drive?

    Doesnt this therefore introduce the need for a (quantum like) million bits error correction per one bit problem?

  6. Son of Star Wars Missile Program on Vote for 2002's "Best" Vaporware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Itll disappear in a couple of years when the govt cant get any more PR out of it for TWAT

  7. Re:Filthy on Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines · · Score: 1

    Read the Glitter review. That review is satire, but usually he writes the truth.

  8. Re:"I have detailed files..." on Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Didnt the young John Connor throw the arm into the lava?

    I havent seen T2 in a while

  9. Terminators must be running buggy OSes... on Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines · · Score: 1

    ...if not one, but two of them can be reprogrammed to do the opposite of what they are supposed to do ie kill humans.

  10. Has anyone anywhere on FTC Moves Forward With National Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 2, Insightful
    actually bought anything from a telemarketer?

    "Yes, I would like to buy life insurance/cemorative plates/double glazing/magazine subscription from some company Ive known about a whole 30 seconds!

  11. Does it say if the majority of the $4 bil on The Business of Star Trek · · Score: 2, Interesting

    is pre- or pro- Roddenbury?

  12. Which is going to worse? on New Mad Max Film · · Score: 3, Funny
    This or Terminator 3?

    Taking bets now.

  13. Re:Meaningless on The Heretofore Unpublished Letters of Ernest Glitch · · Score: 1

    Any good forger would have used paper and ink from that period anyway.

  14. Re:Balancing costs and pure science on A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi · · Score: 1

    Does he own the supercomputer? If not then I guess his time booked/rented on it came to an end.

  15. About the talking car on 5 Predictions for 2012 · · Score: 1

    A UK show called Drive or something had in it a couple of weeks ago a car with a verbal command phone. You say the persons name and it calls him/her. Thing was you had to set it up with the names first and the voice recognition was terrible. It took two hours for the presenter (Jeremy Clarkson) to vocally input and store a phone number and its owner.

  16. The one thing wrong with predictions on 5 Predictions for 2012 · · Score: 1
    Is that they usually forget to take into account the human and business element.

    A world where everything is online? Companies will exploit it getting you to opt out of buying things from them and people will view it as a invasion of privacy.

    RFIDs on clothing? Wouldnt that make it easier for the people to steal stuff if the cashier element was eliminated? So cashiers will logically have to be turned into security guards in order to watch you. So stores become more intrusive in spying on you.

    Watch how you go TV? Unless the TV networks and studios merge into one this wont happen. You wont be able to store films as Hollywood wont allow you to (unless you bought the 2012 version of the DVD/VHS/hologram). Its more likely the TV of the future wil store what the networks think youd like ie commerically rich dumbed down shit.

    In a perfect world these would happen. In ours business and human habits affect it.

  17. two words to save Firefly on Firefly Likely to be Cancelled · · Score: 1
    SPACE IRAQIS!

    Then FOX will definitely show it

  18. Name me some good bands on Sony on Sony Adds New Copyright Method to CDs in 2003 · · Score: 1
    For the life of me I cant think of any.

    So why do I care if there try to restrict the wigger, crap, and bland pop bands that are everywhere now?

  19. The pic on the top right of the long room page on Jedi Archives In Dublin Library? · · Score: 1
    is called informally as the Hellraiser sphere.

    Unfortunately it doesnt move but it looks excellent.

  20. Strewth mate! on Australia Plans to Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    That mean I cant get me fellas together when the wakkaburras raise the price of me beer?!?

  21. What a ridiculous application on Nanotech Paints For Military · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Nanotech is first going to be used as a weapon, not as an alternative to rust proofing.

    We will be more interested on how clouds of nanomites can liquify a human in seconds than a hairline crack repairing coat of paint.

  22. Im sure on Microsoft: No Xbox for You! · · Score: 1

    the Japanese importers are going to love MS.

  23. MS blames modders to cover their own bad marketing on Microsoft: No Xbox for You! · · Score: 1
    How many modders will there be in Australia compared to the total xbox owners? 5%? 20%?

    It wont be even 30% anyway. So how much money will MS lose to the modders? Not much compared to the undercutting they are currently doing themselves on the xbox.

    Are they trying to blame modders for their bad marketing techniques?

  24. Why would you want a bullet proof baseball cap? on Thailand's "Q" Banks on Rubber Bullets · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The force of the shot would give you brain damage

  25. As long as its not that on Keanu Reeves as Superman · · Score: 1
    Van Diesel wanker.

    Even the ugly mutant guy from The Goonies who pretends to be Superman would be better.