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  1. Re:Am I missing something?? on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: 3, Informative

    these types are also generally very weak and a modern cpu may be able to compute them faster than it can spool from disk.

    The way a rainbow table works is to generate a reverse mapping for your password, so if it's in the table, it's one index lookup away. Kind of hard to beat that, unless you're cracking WEP or something.

  2. Re:There are other reasons. on Voting Drops 83 Percent In All-Digital Election · · Score: 1

    you know, I thought that too - what's the 2007 vote count look like?

  3. Re:just doing their job on Cancer Patient Held At Airport For Missing Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    I doubt they held the plane for him; they might not even be willing to buy him a ticket on the next one.

  4. Re:malcolm in the middle? on How Comic Fans & Shops Are Stereotyped · · Score: 1

    It had to end, but they ended it well. Really, i'd probably watch more TV if people accepted that a good story usually can't last 10 years and planned accordingly.

  5. Re:The Answer on How Comic Fans & Shops Are Stereotyped · · Score: 1

    Steve jobs isn't inept - he's legendary for being able to talk people into just about anything.

  6. Re:Faster anything is good. on World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP · · Score: 1

    I would. Of course, I'd spend $800 and get the supermicro board and a good psu. Unless you buy the worst chinese crap, it's going to work all the time until it dies in 3-5 years. Web serving isn't all that intensive.

  7. Re:It is a part of fallen human nature-- the Bible on Google Earth Raises Discrimination Issue In Japan · · Score: 1

    Can you explain to me how you come to an understanding of what is moral or ethical? How do you know that any decision you make is really moral or ethical? What standard do you use?

    Simple. You start with the notion that man has a set of natural rights which amount to being left to their devices to live and pursue whatever they find worthwhile, and that the only exception is when those pursuits bump into another's. You can shoot into the woods all you like, so long as nobody's in there.

    Murder, rape, robbery are all examples of depriving someone of their rights.

  8. Re:Mike Rowe as a good will ambassador on Google Earth Raises Discrimination Issue In Japan · · Score: 1

    What if those parents were told their son was going to marry the daughter of a pipefitter? Seriously, it's not about doctors marrying plumbers, it's about not being able to get a job at toyota because your father, grandfather, g-g-father cut meat for a living.

  9. Re:This is true for some value of on The Future Might Be BIOS and Browsers · · Score: 1

    Do you realise how much energy that wastes?

    None at all, really. I have electric heat, so I'd be using the juice one way or the other.

  10. Re:What racist jobs are you talking about? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    DUH! They don't call police because they could be arrested themselves. By allowing them to be here legally they are more likely to report crimes. That doe snot mean they are committing the crimes!

    So now they're a target for crimes in addition to there being more crime in that area.

    You need to look up the definition of immigration [onelook.com], here it is: "noun: migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there". They are immigrants, those who immigrate.

    No they are not. You aren't an immigrant if you don't have the right to be there in the first place.

    More start businesses as a percentage than native born people do.

    Ok, how does an illegal mexican start a business? Can't even get a DBA license because you don't have the right to live in the US.

    And they pay rent, buy food, and spend money too. Those they send money too also want to buy American goods as well, which improves export.

    Those they send money to buy american products? Like what? We don't export all that much to mexico.

    Did you think this through? Mexico was a shithole before a lot of Mexicans started crossing the border.

    Did you? If the underclass can just leave and work here, why would they demand change at home?

    Yea, and let's call it the Berlin, er Apartheid [wikipedia.org] Wall.

    It's a national border, asshole. Mexican is not a race.

  11. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    Yeah, obviously all those things you thought of in 30 seconds of hearing the idea never crossed their minds.

    If they're anything like our politicians, they didn't even write the law, and really don't care too much about the negative impact, so long as they can be seen as 'doing something'.

    Yes, how idiotic to pretend that it's a safety measure. Everyone knows that the faster you go the safer everyone is, because you spend less time on the road, and that every driver should be able to decide how fast to drive, which side of the road to drive on, and anyone who wants to tell you otherwise is obviously a Commie.

    Yeah, actually. When we raised the national speed limit, traffic fatalities went down, people generally drive whatever speed they're comfortable with, and if there's a real emergency, you don't have to worry about some buzzer on your dash tattling on you.

    If you care to examine your car, there's no enforced compliance to driving on the right. You have the option to drive the wrong way any time you like, but around here it makes the news when someone does that.

  12. Re:Good. on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: 1

    which is what I was talking about with pending legislation.

  13. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    FFS, do you imagine that the government would mandate technology that would crash your car if you went over the speed limit?

    Well, my government does all sorts of stupid short sighted things and, from what I hear about .au, so does the aussie government. There are lots of reasons why a governor is a bad idea, the least of them being that it's enforced compliance to an arbitrary standard at my expense, with bonus things that can go wrong, like GPS deciding that you're on a frontage road or freaking out when I go to the track.

  14. Re:Good. on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: 1

    you already can. Go get an OBD2 reader or have a shop pull the codes. Interpreting them is a bit harder - I thought there was legislation requiring manufacturers to divulge the codes, but I'm not sure.

  15. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    No it won't. Even in the worst case, IT DOES NOT PUT ON THE BRAKES

    Cutting fuel is the same thing as putting on the brakes - both can cause you to lose control, especially if the roads are slick or icy.

  16. Re:What racist jobs are you talking about? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    Okay, it's nationalistic just like the NAZIs were.

    What's wrong with you? We aren't committing genocide, we're just attempting to protect our borders like everybody else.

    Citation needed.

    Go look it up. Do you really think it's the cream that's coming over to work illegally? No, it's the desperate people. The crime is personal experience - chunks of Arlington VA are heavily settled by illegals, and assault and petty crime is higher in that group, as compared to the people in north arlington. This is obvious when you consider that they're poorer that the people in north arlington and don't usually call the cops.

    And allowing immigrants in will be to our benefit.

    This isn't immigration, because they aren't allowed to be here. Go tell socal it's for their own good that their schools and hospitals are overrun by illegals.

    Immigrants start more businesses of their own than native born citizens

    Guess what? These guys aren't starting businesses, they're working for cheap and generally are a drain financially.

    And many only want to come here temporarily and work to send money home then go back.

    Great, they live 4 to a bedroom, spend like misers and send money out of our economy. That doesn't exactly make me want to issue a work visa.

    Did you ever think that the reason mexico is such a shithole is that the government exports its underclass to us? Lock down the borders and make it impractical to come here and work illegally, and see if they don't riot.

  17. Re:What racist jobs are you talking about? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    No, the laws about how noncitizens aren't allowed in are not prejudicial. Anyway, why would we allow most illegal mexicans in anyway? They're low skill and tend to bring higher levels of crime to the places they settle. Immigration is for our benefit, not that of others (refugees excepted).

  18. Re:Military required? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    No they wouldn't, because the penalties for hiring them would be stiff and enforced.

  19. Re:Nationalism on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    Who cares? We aren't invading Mexico like Mexico is invading us and, frankly, Mexico can use all the help they can get dealing with the cartels and coyotes.

  20. Re:What racist jobs are you talking about? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    And yes anti-emigration laws are at least prejudice if not racist.

    Bullshit. The laws state that if you don't have permission to be here, you can't be here. That's not prejudicial.

    Sure, the immigration policy can be racist, but that doesn't mean that keeping illegals out is.

  21. Re:Military required? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, so I'll just run down to the store and buy some non-pasteurized beer...

    Gee golly, I can get about 20 kinds of beer that aren't Bud, and they're all pasteurized. I don't know what backwater you live in.

    My fear is that in the course of legalizing it, in order to get to the next step which is taxing it, the government will have to keep control over who is allowed to grow and sell it.

    Yes, that may be, but it really takes the wind out of the DEA's sails, so they're fewer people killed by them, and illegal grow ops are both smaller and less hazardous to the growers.

  22. Re:Military required? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    Yes I do, because if KFC tries to pass the cost on to others, we can just go to McD's or some other place.

  23. Re:immigration on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    Fuck you. The english didn't immigrate to a country, they conquered land and slaughtered the disorganized natives who were there. My ancestors are the original residents of this country, by right of conquest.

  24. Re:Military required? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    If you answered "because of prohibitionist, Protestant knee-jerk drug and anti-immigration policy", you win.

    Prohibitionist? It's not like these people have a right to come work in another country.

    Change the policy, and the violence stops.

    Enforce and increase the penalties for hiring illegals and it will stop. Nobody's going to come here if they won't get a job.

  25. Re:what is needed? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    What racist jobs are you talking about? Keeping foreigners out when they don't use the legal channels isn't racist.