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  1. Re:This should end well on Vista Pirates To Get "Black Screen of Darkness" · · Score: 1

    You're only throwing more money their way if you spend more than your $100 credit.


    Find me an item on Apple's store that comes out to exactly $100 after tax and shipping.

    The point is that EVERYONE is going to spend more than $100. That's why gift cards are so profitable... people aren't going to leave $6 on them.. they're going to want to spend it all... because otherwise they're out $6.
  2. Re:Gabe Newell is poisoning his own well on Valve's Orange Box For PS3 Delayed, Not Console Related · · Score: 1

    What did they say about the controls? I was looking forward to Skate because Tony Hawk was getting ridiculously unrealistic (and the achievements for things like million point combos are insane), but I played the demo and really disliked the controls for skate.

    I also, for the life of me, couldn't pull off the manuals at all.. and when I did it by accident, I'd get chastised for not flipping into it.

  3. Re:We need an intervention. on de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" · · Score: 1

    Here's a few examples of how Gnome follows Mac OS conventions over Windows:

    1. The order of OK/Cancel buttons
    2. Nautilus got a lot of crap for ripping off the spacial finder
    3. Network Manager is practically a clone of the wifi config in OSX

  4. Re:Nope on de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" · · Score: 1

    It may be okay to release a program with a bug, but it isn't okay to release standards with bugs.


    Like how the HTTP standard misspells "referrer". Let's burn down the web!
  5. Re:We need an intervention. on de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" · · Score: 1

    First it was Gnome, an attempt to build a desktop Just Like Windows./blockquote

    Actually, Gnome is closer to OSX. KDE is the one that's similar to Windows.
  6. Re:Yikes on de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" · · Score: 1

    Yes he is.. but he's going to get savaged by idiots who have no idea what they're talking about, so who cares?

  7. Re:This is why two factor authentication is necess on Ophcrack Says Your Password Is Insecure · · Score: 1

    If you are using MD5 for encryption (32 characters, 1char = 2Bytes, 1 Byte = 8bits, 32 Char = 512bits)


    You messed that up. md5 is 128 bit. 1 char = half a byte or one nibble. 32 char = 16 bytes = 128 bits. Still a huge search space though.
  8. Re:It's not as simplistic as all that. on Ophcrack Says Your Password Is Insecure · · Score: 1

    Is 53cr3TPa55W@rD a better password than Fgpyyih804423? Why?


    Because the only reason Fgpyyih804423 was cracked is because of the way the LM hash breaks it up into two hashes.

    Sure it looks all difficult because it uses mixed case and numbers, but LM hash breaks it into two 7 character strings and hashes each one separately.

    Fgpyyih
    804423

    Neither of which are very good on their own.
  9. Re:So... on Ophcrack Says Your Password Is Insecure · · Score: 1

    Okay, every md5 hash whose original input was under 7 characters and in the alpha-numeric-space-special range.


    That would be 62^7 (a-zA-Z0-9) or 3.5 trillion combinations. To even store 3.5 trillion hashes would require 56 terabytes.. and that doesn't even include the plaintext passwords the hashes equal.

    The only reason rainbow tables seem to work is because the LM hash has so many collisions that each hash represents one million unique 7-character passwords.
  10. Re:Things to note on Ophcrack Says Your Password Is Insecure · · Score: 1

    since the rainbow set for ALL characters is 64GB in size


    How is that possible? I thought LM did 7 characters with A-Z0-9. Even that gimped password has 36^7 or 78 billion combinations. That would require 1.2 terabytes to store (hash length is 16 bytes).
  11. Re:So... on Ophcrack Says Your Password Is Insecure · · Score: 1

    If you stored EVERY md5 hash (which is what rainbow tables do)


    That is certainly not what rainbow tables do. md5 is 128 bit. So to store every md5 hash would require 2^128 (3.4 × 10^38) * average_password_length bytes.
  12. Re:Yes, but... on HD VMD Shows Up Late For the Format War · · Score: 1

    Don't hurt yourself stretching to blame everyone but Apple.

    Every other phone manufacturer gives you a way to create your own ringtones. The only reason Apple doesn't is because Apple doesn't want to.

  13. Re:argh on Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod · · Score: 1

    Dunno, been using it since week 2 (didn't want to wait in line), haven't seen a problem - what's the nature of the issues that I should be seeing?


    In the browser... not much.

    With pop3? A ton! Sent email getting popped in your inbox. All incoming mail going into your inbox, regardless of filters that send it to archive.
  14. Re:What's that noise? on Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod · · Score: 1

    It's available on every iPod. You simply have to enable disk mode. It will appear on your desktop as an attached drive, and you can then drag and drop to your heart's content. It's more difficult to manage your music this way, but it works fine.


    Except that music dragged to the ipod in diskmode won't actually be.. you know.. playable on the ipod.
  15. Re:Take That on Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod · · Score: 2, Informative

    An 8gb SD card is about $75 on average.
    An 8gb iPod Nano is $199.

    That's 2 and a half times more expensive.

  16. Re:Your only alternative? on NBC Universal Drops iTunes · · Score: 1

    I don't much care for Heroes, but I'd like to watch Battlestar Galactica without waiting for it to come out on DVD.


    Contact SciFi. They do full episodes of Eureka and a few other shows. Find out why they don't do full episodes of Battlestar online.
  17. Re:$5 PER SHOW!!! on NBC Universal Drops iTunes · · Score: 1

    Um, read it again. It's not NBC that wants to raise the price from $2 to $5. NBC wants to double the wholesale price. We don't know what Apple pays, but it's a lot less than $1.99. Apple is the one saying that they'll be forced to raise the price to $4.99.

    Say NBC charges Apple $1.49 per episode. Apple makes 50 cents per episode at $1.99. NBC now wants to charge Apple $2.99 (that's double), shows should retail for $3.49 where Apple still makes 50 cents per episode, not $4.99 where Apple makes $2.00 an episode, 4 times what they were making previously.

    Apple is lying.

  18. Re:Just have to on Wii Breaks Sales Records in UK · · Score: 1

    The fact that he called it "Eledees" instead of "Elebits" tells me he's in the UK. They won't get Metroid 3 until October.

  19. Re:Sony vs. Nintenod on Sony Runs Out of 60GB PS3s · · Score: 1

    I want to play with Linux on Cell


    Why? You know it doesn't act any different from linux on a x86, or linux on a ppc.
  20. Re:But is that a confirmed cut? on Sony Runs Out of 60GB PS3s · · Score: 1

    Well then that means Oblivion, GRAW 2, Rainbow Six: Vegas, and FEAR were all 360 exclusives.. since they came out for the 360 before they came out for the ps3.

  21. Re:Put it all to the side on Bioshock's Launch Aftershocks · · Score: 1

    Those who copy the game weren't going to buy it from you anyway.


    They should just stop making PC games altogether. The 360 version of bioshock is going to outsell the PC version 5 to 1. Why spend all that time and effort?
  22. Re:Comparison of Blu-ray and HD DVD on NYT Confirms Movie Studios Paid to Support HD DVD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hybrid Discs -- Here we can find an advantage for Blu-ray, resulting from the new structure of the disc.


    Strange since HD-DVD/DVD hybrids already exist, yet I don't know of any bluray/DVD hybrids... so I'd say the advantage goes to HD-DVD on this.
  23. Re:they dont bother me at all on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web? · · Score: 1

    127.0.0.2 is a non existent address on the same subnet.


    Wrong. 127.x.x.x is all loopback. 127.41.2.67 is the exact same as 127.0.0.1

    $ ping 127.41.2.67
    64 bytes from 127.41.2.67: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.032 ms

  24. Re:Browser's fault? on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web? · · Score: 1

    They don't want to, obviously, because you may end up going away from the page (cuz you realised it wasnt the right one) before the ad loads, unfortunately.


    Actually, that's the opposite of what most websites want. It makes their clickthru rates look really bad if they're counting ad impressions that aren't actually impressions.
  25. Re:The other advantages of using Firefox on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users? · · Score: 1

    Historically, any site that starts blocking large groups based off questionable 'demographics' ends up getting backlash from the geek community and eventually gets ignored.


    Unlike, say, adblock plus which blocks all ads because of a few obnoxious offenders? ABP blocks adsense by default, filterset.G for adblock (not plus) blocks adsense by default.