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  1. Send to another person... on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is of no use to set up a secure channel if the person you are sending to doesn't understand why you would like to secure these data

  2. Re:nerd credentials? on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just recognize me as a mad scientist genius and we are all set...

  3. Re:The power to tax is the power to destroy on The Case for Lunar Property Rights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. See how the Old World split America in several parts they "owned". See what happened then.

  4. Re:Tarrists! on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 1

    The more funny thing is that even with the Orwellian anti-terrorist US laws, they still fear the RIAA more than the anti-terrorist parts of the government.
    I am not sure yet if I find it a good or a bad...

  5. Re:Python? on F/OSS Flat-File Database? · · Score: 1

    Python can store lists in a dictionary (that is a hash table). It has a sort and a find function. It can easily marshal structures into a file. If you are ready to use python, chances are you will be able to code quickly what you need without relying on external packages.

  6. Advice on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    My advice (knowing that IANAL) is : don't worry. Scientology lawyers are trying frighten people by making this procedure appear in the press. They plan on loosing. UK is known to tolerate public hate speeches of radical imams without prosecution. I don't think the law has changed ever since.

  7. Re:Of course they can work on Do Static Source Code Analysis Tools Really Work? · · Score: 1

    It looks like you are reading memory from unallocated memory space, you should comment line 427 in ssl_seed_generator.h

    I also see how it could bring a distribution to its knees. But I agree that they will probably be worthwhile 90% of the time.

  8. Re:I see that the French term for OS is... on French Judge Orders Refund For Pre-Installed XP · · Score: 5, Funny

    SEX is better when it is free

  9. Re:goose, gander, etc. on China's All-Seeing Eye · · Score: 1

    Because in the U.K., they are not used to detect thought crimes (yet)

  10. Re:I wonder... on Using Magnets To Turn Off the Brain's Speech Center · · Score: 1

    I see more use in interrogation rooms. Of course shutting down the speech area who not be the idea of course...

  11. Re:Articles attitude explains everything on 20% of U.S. Population Has Never Used Email · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it was my first reaction too. Then I realized that this probably means that I begin to get old...

  12. Who cares ? on Bletchley Park Facing Financial Ruin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is not some unique work of art or architecture. What was invented there (computer science) is what is really important and it is very alive in a lot of places today. The place where it all happened is just a footnote in history (and as some other posters will probably explain, Bletchley Park was only an important step in the coputer science history but is included in a continuity)

  13. Re:Not enitrely true... on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 1

    As they should be able to. Any sovereign nation has the right to control who and what enters the country.
    Any sovereign nation has this right. Every democracy recognize the right of every citizen to privacy. No democracy is concerned by what information someone might be carrying on his/her laptop.

  14. Re:Israel on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    Was it at the time ? He refused to acknowledge the "chosen people" dogma but identified with Jewish culture. There is no reason he would not have been a good president. Dismissing a humanist scientific genius because he is not religious seems one of the worst reason I can think of.

  15. Re:Do people still write letters? on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What do emails fail to achieve ?
    We already have a few historical emails about the creation of internet, spam, linux, and so on...

  16. Re:What does "guessable" mean here? on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 4, Informative

    From what I undestood, with my limited cryptographic knowledge and my total reluctance to dig into all the details of the sources, what happens is that when you asked your debian box to generate a key, it did so without integrating enough random data in its choice. That means that a brute force attack will not have to try every key to find yours but only a small subset, depending on the knowledge it has about your machine and its state when it generated the keys.
    There is no such thing as a master key, but it would mean that several different servers may have generated the same "random" keys and that a clever attacker could create a dictionary of plausible keys (or, more plausibly, an algorithm to generate them) and try all of them on your server with a good chance to have one of them working. The dictionary would probably be huge however. A good measure would be to block an IP on SSH after a reasonnable number of failures (like 100)

  17. Re:stupid stupid stupid on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 4, Funny

    How is that mutually exclusive ?

  18. Re:Change LimeWire EULA now! on How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators · · Score: 1

    And discover with shock that no one reads EULA ! Well it won't solve the RIAA problem, it will at least make a strong point against EULAs...

  19. Re:stupid stupid stupid on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This could be very smart.
    Planting a vulnerability that has gone undiscovered for 2 years and that gave the keys to a lot of SSH servers. Genius !

  20. Re:Why not cellular? on Homemade VoIP Network Over Wi-Fi Routers · · Score: 1

    Wifi has the advantage of insanely cheap communication.

  21. Re:How do schools make science dull? on Lectures On the Frontiers of Physics Online · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are maybe a few dozens of wonderful high-level science speakers who can make science interesting, that's them that you see. There are millions of children that need teachers. These two numbers make things difficult.

    What I would like to see, however, is a national TV broadcast of this kind of speeches. That would be a heavily profitable investment on education.

  22. Re:Finding water = important; Finding life = ? on Seeking Signs of Ancient Martian Life · · Score: 1

    We don't know if life is common in the universe or if earth is an exceptional place whose unique conditions were the only one to allow for life to form. That is quite interesting if you ask me...

  23. Re:wouldn't be allowed to develop? on First Genetically Modified Human Embryo Under Review · · Score: 1

    Most of the people who oppose abortion, see no problem with surgical amputation (when medically justified) even when you take into account that stem cells are killed this way. I mean, this is, after all, autonomous life including self-replicating cells that may or may not have certain dependencies for life.

    Is there any official position of any religion on the possibility to make an embryo from a non-sexual adult stem-cell ? It is theoretically feasible and creates a clone of the individual. When are we allowed to "kill" it ? No fecundation occurs in this case.

  24. Vigilante on USAF Considers Creation of Military Botnet · · Score: 1

    Well, this goes far beyond the usual question about botnets on slashdot : "should forced updates be made through botnets ?". If militaries think that this is a military issue for them, then they should begin with this. They are not talking about protection against enemy strikes, but about the ability to make counter-strikes (which usually goes hand in hand with the ability to make first strikes). I would like to see military efforts to clean botnets. I don't really care about them having their own.

    The only thing I want to be made clear is that I can erase any program running on my computer at any time.

  25. Re:Compare vs. Britain ... on Google's Street View Meets Resistance In France · · Score: 1

    Paris is imitating London's video-surveillance program. We are just a bit late as always with technology. We have people who ask the right to walk in public with a mask however (preferably the one from 'V for Vendetta')