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  1. Re:Dead giveaway on Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby' · · Score: 1

    That's also why I was saying grouped; this way, people that you expect would / could validate if the email was modified will not detect any watermark as they received exactly the same mail, and that's also why I was refering to reducing the problem (divide and conqueer, and not a direct link to the solution)

  2. Re:Dead giveaway on Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby' · · Score: 1

    If I was to send a follow up email, I would have added some kind of watermarks and grouped it expecting the follow up to be leaked too thus reducing the targets by a wide margin..

  3. Re:LOL Android on Why Google Went Offline Today · · Score: 1

    A BGP attack matched with a cert. leak could yield you on a spoof site, and you would provide your credentials to that man in the middle whichever device you are using. Except if you are using google chrome, where you might understand with the pinned certificate error that something is not correct, or with an android device that you were so eager to dismiss...

  4. Re:Masking tape on Will Microsoft Dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers? · · Score: 1

    why would you provide your address when buying a tv ?!?

  5. Re:Agree 100% on Linus Torvalds Advocates For 2560x1600 Standard Laptop Displays · · Score: 0

    You might get this 'high resolution', but the OS is not using it. You have to replace the OS to use it as it should be!

  6. Re:But what about Mutual Benefits on France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets · · Score: 1

    I've noticed a lot of news sites that redirects traffic based on the referer and you end up on the front page if you followed a link from google news. Thing is, I actually dislike that and generally close the site, which is the opposite of what usually happen when I go to read an article and end up crawling their site.

  7. Re:Before anyone panics... on Steam Protocol Opens PCs to Remote Code Execution · · Score: 1

    launch steam, go to library, find your game, right click and do launch.

    I was merely pointing out that for at least some people, starting steam is unnecessary as we/they keep it running and even keep it starting on launch. Finding your game is easy when you mark them, or know where they are just because you remember where they are ;) Right click to launch too was unnecessary. Usually, games are 3 quick mouse clicks away.

  8. Re:Before anyone panics... on Steam Protocol Opens PCs to Remote Code Execution · · Score: 1

    Steam's always running, tons of windows are opened in a very specific order spanning quite a lot of desktop space. I'm never seeing my desktop files. Opening the start menu (windows button) then typing the first few letters of what I want to launch is how I start anything not in steam.

    Beside, you can simply double click on your game name in steam

  9. Re:AMD needs some high profile support on Intel CPU Prices Stagnate As AMD Sales Decline · · Score: 1

    That totally depends on what is a mid level price for you. If I'm paying 10% more for my computer, and it will be 10% faster overall, then I will do it. Luckily, with the low prices of the CPUs vs the full computer, it's easy to add 200 bucks and get a much better and faster processor for a 2000$ computer. But then, 2000$ is mid level for me, 1000$ is a cheapo computer (hell, I barely get a single 30" monitor for this price!), as when we purchased our first computer, we paid what would be worth a bit over 15 000$ in current money ..

  10. Re:For God's Sake on Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords · · Score: 2

    This is the same as saying that flash is required, yet how many ipod/ipads could not access flash content ? I do run tons of js, but I can at least acknowledge the choice of those who won't.

  11. Re:For God's Sake on Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords · · Score: 1

    What if you don't want to be running javascripts on the client ?

  12. Re:For God's Sake on Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords · · Score: 1

    They most probably used HTTPS for the login process, but the password itself is retrieved in pure text on the server, then hashed, then compared to the hashed value. Then, to know what's happening, they stored every request as received past the HTTPS decryption, which meant pure text password, into a shared folder...

  13. Re:Press coverage on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 1

    Wow; I know that things are hard at some places, even in our country we've had unusual stuff happen. We've had our first tornado so far north ever recorded. Last year we had a record rainfall with something close to 6 inches of rain in an hour with high winds that left my basement in ruins and we were without power, phone and internet for over 4 days. It's evident that the weather is changing.

    I was merely pointing out funnily that there are some positives about some of the changes. I wish all the big countries like the USA, Russia and China would stop emitting so much pollution, but from here we have no control. The only thing 'weather related' that I will really speak out against is those proposition to throw stuff in the air to try and control the effects of what we threw there before...

    Even though some of the effects are nice, I do miss the very cold winters, when going outdoor would freeze the water vapor you were exhaling and create an ice face mask that you had to melt to remove :)

  14. Re:Press coverage on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hotter summer; check -- even got a pool since it's now useable !
    Less rain; check -- got to use that pool much more than it would have been possible a few years ago !
    More snow in the winter; yay, we can ski even more !

    So, that totally depends on where you are looking from :)

  15. Re:Marking items to 'keep'? on Game Review: Borderlands 2 · · Score: 1

    You can tag your items as favorite in this one:

    'To make managing your inventory easier you can click the left stick while highlighting an item to mark it as Trash or Favourite, so you don't have to compare weapons more than once. This also has the added bonus that when you visit a vending machine or trader to offload your unwanted items, you can sell every item you've marked as Trash with a single click of the left stick, though this only works when the Buyback or Purchase window is selected'

  16. Re:Multiplayer works jsut fine. on Game Review: Borderlands 2 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we tried that; it helped as in my friends were able to connect but I had forwarded the ports. When we tried connecting the other way around (to one who was able to connect to my game) we could not succeed :(

  17. Re:Multiplayer works jsut fine. on Game Review: Borderlands 2 · · Score: 1

    I've had quite a lot of problems with multiplayer games so far; yes it requires to forward a lot of ports for over the internet games but at least we've been ok for lan ones.

  18. Re:Imagine if this was self-driving car on BMW Cars Vulnerable To Blank Key Attack · · Score: 1

    They still needed to break a window to get in the car and install their device to then clone the key. Should we stop people from building houses since people can break the window and unlock the door ?

  19. Re:Efficiency should kill it on Cutting the Power Cable: How Advantageous Is Wireless Charging? · · Score: 1

    I don't know how you reach that number, but for my family of 5, in a large house with lots of window in a very northern location that gets very cold in the winter and needs a lot of lighting, with tons of computers & devices, we only manage to reach a yearly average of a bit less than 3kW. That's less than 0.6kW per occupant.

    Not that I am not seeing your point, I just hate that over 83% of all statistics like those come from nowhere!

  20. Re:In Olde English units on Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting · · Score: 1

    I guess they could, as I had read they used the wave travel speed to estimate the size of the chamber, since it would propagate differently in the magma vs the rocks around. It would definitely be an interesting read if a very knowledgable guy/girl could post about it ;)

  21. Re:In Olde English units on Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting · · Score: 2

    Last I had looked it up, they measured height variation, and with an estimation of the size of the magma vessel and the expected overhead mound of rock/dirt they would evaluate what kind of pressure was required to obtain the difference.

  22. Re:Rail gun ? on Gamers May Get a Charge Out of the Gauss Rifle · · Score: 2

    Well, the thing is that coilguns are built to shoot ferromagnetic projectiles and he's shooting aluminium pellets. And alluminium is not ferromagnetic (but paramagnetic). Anything I'm missing ?

  23. Rail gun ? on Gamers May Get a Charge Out of the Gauss Rifle · · Score: 1

    From the description is'nt it more of a railgun type of weapon ?

  24. Re:Don't panic! on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Data From a Carrington Event? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Not even remotely funny.

    Just in case, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/potable :

    Definition of POTABLE: suitable for drinking

  25. Re:oh... on Ask Slashdot - Careers In Computer Science That Keep You Physically Active? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Develop kinek games. You've got to tweak them a lot before shipping them to QA.