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  1. Change to "near" Unbreakable. on Code for Unbreakable Quantum Encryption · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it can be decrypted its not unbreakable. Unbreakable encryption is easy, just not that usefull if you ever want access to what you encrytped.

  2. Great, more bad security. on Google/Earthlink Wins San Francisco WiFi Deal · · Score: 3, Informative
    Am I the only one that sees the proliferation of WiFi as a major network security problem? Seems you cant go anyplace without being able to find an open wireless network. Someplace around my office has not just an open network, but an open intercontinental network. If I dont turn off the 802.11 function on my laptop I'll see computer systems in tokyo.

    So the problem is thus, people in my office, connected to our LAN are also connected to this wide open network where all sorts of bad things could be roaming free. Windows and MacOS both seem to automaticly connect to these rogue networks and thus bypass any local network security I can enforce.

  3. Re:This is news? on VR Treatment for Lazy Eye · · Score: 1

    Yes, I spent many a afternoon playing decent in stereoscopic 3d.

  4. This is news? on VR Treatment for Lazy Eye · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I knew about this way back in the mid 90s when I was working with stereoscopic LCD shutter glassses. Forcing both eyes to work at the same rate corrects the problem of one eye being favored. The down side is that untill your eyes are corrected you will be NASTY head aches from using such devices.

  5. Re:Lets not forget. on NASA Reaffirms Big Bang Theory · · Score: 1

    Yea thats a rough one. How would you go about disproving the big bang short of mesuring the movement of all objects and showing that they dont radiate out from a common center. But even thats not much to go on.

  6. Lets not forget. on NASA Reaffirms Big Bang Theory · · Score: 2, Informative

    Lets not forget that in science you cant prove anything, only disprove. All you can do is postulate a theory and provide evidance to back it up.

  7. Beware the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief on NASA Reaffirms Big Bang Theory · · Score: 0

    Like all sane people I subscribe to the Great Green Arkleseizure theory of Universal origin.

  8. Prior Art on PS2 Controller Suit Goes Badly For Sony · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can pick up some prior art and your local adult boutique.

  9. Re:Then what are the savings on battery life? on What is the Intel Switch Costing Apple? · · Score: 2, Funny

    There is also no mention of the new MacBook curing cancer and not eating puppies. There for the inverse must be true, it'll consume your pets and give you cancer!

  10. External power brick not shown.... on The World's Tiniest Power Supply Unit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    " it will have to be used with an external AC-to-DC power converter"So this is just like all the other mini itx adaptors in that it requires an external brick to provide the juice. Who cares how small the internal part is?

  11. Re:PatentHawk charges $125/hour on The Patent Epidemic · · Score: 1

    So you've worked for and with bastards that will try and take advantage of any system for profit. And its the patent systems fault? Sorry, I dont buy that. What if I was a small devloper that came up with somthing new and worthwhile. Shouldn't I be able to get protection from the sort of people you work for? Without patent protection a larger group could just take my idea and undersell me.

  12. Its off the shelf parts... on Under the Hood of the Xbox 360 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I guess I just dont see anything too interesting about the design of the 360. Its a bunch of off the shelf parts put into a box.

  13. Patent on crap sound cards? on Creative To Defend Interface Patent Rights · · Score: 1

    They should file a patent on sound cards that use more system resources then every other device in your computer. Thats one I'd be OK with them defending.

  14. Re:Firewalls irrelevant because of firewalls on Cryptography in the Database · · Score: 1

    Get a good firewall. Use statefull packet checking and tell it to enforce rules that limit whats able to run on a given port (so only HTTP over port 80 etc). Block outgoing connections from unknown ports. Hey, presto your secure. The problem is not the firewalls, its that people dont want to secure their networks becuase it limits what they can use them for.

  15. So an ISP costs too much for researchers? on Royal Society Wants to Keep Science off Web · · Score: 1
    Wait a second. Couldn't researchers just get an internet acount and share papers that way?

    Are research papers published on the internet for some reason out of reach of the researchers creating them?

  16. Re:AllofMP3 on Apple iTunes Security Flaw Discovered? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some of us dont like supporting the russian mafia. And remember, just because a forian government says artist dont have rights, does not mean you should agree. At least apple gives somthing back to the people who write and perform the music.

  17. Wait a sec, the A'Hole bill? on The RIAA's Halloween Tricks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sweet, sweet irony.

  18. Re:$50M verses $5M on Massachusetts' CIO Defends Move to OpenDocument · · Score: 1

    Ok, thats a vallid point. Yes OpenOffice does run on Windows 9x. However I find it dog slow on hardware from that era. Bottom line is that if they feel they need hardware upgrades for MS Office odds are they will need them for OpenOffice. OS requirements asside.

  19. Re:$50M verses $5M on Massachusetts' CIO Defends Move to OpenDocument · · Score: 1
    "OS and hardware upgrades"

    Sorry, why do you need OS and hardware upgrades for MS Office-12? I sense a bloated budget proposal. MS says that Office-12 has the same hardware requirements as Office XP, which runs fine on a PII 300mhz. So the IT departement tried to sneak hardware and OS upgrades in with the Office software upgrade budget. Cant blame Gates for that one.

  20. Re:The Watcher? on BBC Tells World About The Warden · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Well in that case, who watches the watchers of the watchers? Hmmm? Answer me that ... if you can!"

    I dont know... The coast guard?

  21. Just dosn't work for me. on FreeBSD Logo Contest Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    I just cant see this new logo violating a penguin.

  22. Terms of service. i.e The Rules! on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1

    You agreed to follow a set of rules. You violated those rules and got taken to task for it. Just becuase you seem to not have read or known the rules you agreed to follow is not an excuse.

  23. Re:Fix the headline on BitTorrent User Guilty Of Piracy · · Score: 3, Funny

    So if he drank orange juice the headline "orange juice drinker guilty" would make sense to you?

  24. Re:Buy a MAC-Mini, call it good! on The Mini-ITX Project Revisited · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can I get two MacMinis into 1U of rack space? No? Then how does it serve my neads for low cost high density server farms?

  25. Re:Disappointing... on Sid Meier Responds · · Score: 1
    You think Go is simpler then Chess?

    A common saying is that no two Go games have ever been played in the same manor. Do have any idea of the number of moves open to a player?