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  1. Re:Quite sensible on How PALS Help Secure Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, no, it's quite true. We've had our Empire, and, to be honest, they're a lot of trouble. See India/Pakistan. You just end up blamed for everything. :)

  2. Re:What would make it acceptable to me... on Why the BBC's iPlayer is a Multi-Million Pound Disaster · · Score: 1

    How about a discount for everyone who is either unable or unwilling to receive the iPlayer service? No, that's not how taxes* work. Hmm, I've got private health insurance - I'll stop paying NI contributions. I don't approve of the war in Iraq - I'll not pay the proportion of my Income Tax that goes on military spending.
    I'm not going to/won't be able to watch iPlayer stuff - so I'll withhold part of my licence fee.

    *Maybe it's not technically a tax, but it walks like one, and quacks like one.
  3. Re:AC for Computer Room on Intel Considering Portable Data Centers · · Score: 1

    in flux means changing (in a state of flux). w.r.t. With regards to.
    HTH HAND.

  4. Re:Ugh... on The Obesity Epidemic — Is Medicine Scientific? · · Score: 1

    Shame you don't have any contact details on here - I'd like to get in touch

  5. Re:Trust the Government on UK Government Loses 15 Million Private Records · · Score: 1

    Apparently no one in HM Customs & Revenue thought anything of it. I bet someone did. But I bet they were told not to interfere.
  6. Re:Ugh... on The Obesity Epidemic — Is Medicine Scientific? · · Score: 1

    Do yourself a favor, and treat your next interaction with your doctor like a call with tech support: understand that they know more about how the system is supposed to work than you, 1. Tech support people generally know less than me.
    2. Doctors are human. They have bad days, overlook things, get divorced, etc. There's no harm in reading up on things for yourself. Plus, in the UK at least, the "front line" doctor is called a General Practitioner. See that first word there? General. They know a little about a lot. That's why they refer you to endo/cardiolo/onco-logists when things get more complicated.
    Several times I've suggested things that the doctor has had to look up in a book to check - they can't know everything.
  7. Re:Three times! on UK Government Loses 15 Million Private Records · · Score: 1

    Replying to myself, but yes, it does. WinZip AES. Better than nothing. (Assuming they used WinZip). Hope they're not meaning a "hold the Shift key down while opening the Access Database 'password'"

  8. Re:Three times! on UK Government Loses 15 Million Private Records · · Score: 1

    That the files were "password protected", which is clearly code for "not encrypted properly" (probably a ZIP file..). Although doesn't WinZip now use AES for its encryption - which is perfectly adequate for symmetric (password) encryption.
  9. Re:Wrong conclusion on In The US, Email Is Only For Old People · · Score: 1

    I try chat up lines in dutch Go on, give me a few to try. :)
  10. Re:By the authorise? on Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government · · Score: 1

    It's all because of this (now) irrational dislike of Java. Guys, it's not bad any more.

  11. Re:Alternatives? on Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government · · Score: 1

    Or if they do, this information isn't work giving up the knowledge that they do.

  12. Re:Not really an issue on US Control of Internet Remains an Issue · · Score: 1

    Like anonet?

  13. Re:Trust the Spies on New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor · · Score: 1

    Curses. You spotted the flaw in my plan.

  14. Re:Trust the Spies on New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor · · Score: 2, Funny

    -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
    Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

    jA0EAwMCPPnmI+wr8DVgyRye1U/9KBxX5jcOp0oidm/5y9TesyWpjQbYvE3j
    =pvFV
    -----END PGP MESSAGE-----

    This is secure. The password is foo. Let's have a symmetrically encrypted discussion using GPG. All passwords are foo.

  15. Re:From TFA: on New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor · · Score: 1

    6 words earn you a +5, Interesting. Amazing.

  16. Re:Good. on Police swoop on 'Hacker of the Year' · · Score: 1

    Perhaps just publishing the usernames, and not the passwords. Or just the passwords, and not the usernames.

  17. Re:Grandma was found dead at the scene on Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation · · Score: 1

    Grandma was pulled over by the sheriff Coming home from our house Christmas eve. Cops say microwaves can be used safely, But as for me and Grandpa, we disbelieve. Burma Shave?
  18. Re:Funny you mention this on Cooling Challenges an Issue In Rackspace Outage · · Score: 1

    At 17:00 too - just when you're ready to head home.

  19. Re:what's the big deal? on Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors · · Score: 1

    All you need to get a job in Switzerland is an ability to count gold bars.

  20. Re:Encrypt on Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic · · Score: 1

    Unless Alice has personally verified that the key she has is in fact Bob's key and vice versa, then she doesn't know for sure that it's Bob's public key that she's using. I'm fairly sure that that's what the GP meant by personally verifying - not that he personally verified it, but that he verified it in a personal manner - such as a phone call to Alice, whose voice he knows very well, to read out fingerprints.
  21. What would happen if... on NIST Opens Competition for a New Hash Algorithm · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What would happen if you wrote a program to randomly create algorithms? Most of them would be rubbish, but occasionally you'd hit gold. It must be possible for computers to create formulas that "add up" - i.e. that work?

  22. Re:Won't Work on Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK · · Score: 0

    The ISP can still do "man in the middle". Only if they can convince a Cert Authority to issue one with a massive wildcard - say, for *. Otherwise there'll be warnings popping up. Steganographic web traffic next, guys. Listening to an MP3 stream? Or really downloading a file, hidden in the least significant bits of the MP3?
  23. If we start shining huge lasers into space on Is a Laser Data Link 1.5 Million Kilometers Feasible? · · Score: 4, Funny

    If we start shining huge lasers into space, we're going to end up accidentally blinding aliens. Which might be good (if they're chest-explody types), or bad (if they're hot sex-starved space-babes). Your call.

  24. Re:Good article on Qmail At 10 Years — Reflections On Security · · Score: 1

    Huh? If, when I'm adminning a box, and I try and start apache, a quick netstat -planet shows yourapp.pl bound to tcp/80, I'm sorry, but it gets a swift kill.

  25. Re:Good article on Qmail At 10 Years — Reflections On Security · · Score: 1

    Sure, if you have untrusted users on your box. Plus, you can use things like LIDS or GRsec to restrict things like what capabilities programs have. Like I say, a compile option, or possibly a sysctl entry.