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  1. Car on Should Auditors Be Liable For Certifications? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I take my car to PepBoys for a yearly inspection in January. If my brakes go bad in February and my rotors are worn, that's PepBoys fault and they fix it.

  2. Related on Detailed Privacy Study Finds Loopholes Galore · · Score: 0, Troll

    For a related discussion of topics of Privacy on the web, including all original research, please see:

    The Privacy Log: http://privacylog.blogspot.com/

  3. Re:Am I missing something?? on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please read:

    Making a Faster Cryptanalytic Time-Memory Trade-Oï
    Philippe Oechslin
    http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/~oechslin/publications/crypto03.pdf

    or any other paper in its references

  4. Re:Simple solution on Verizon Tells Cops "Your Money Or Your Life" · · Score: 1

    >> Any time something like this happens everyone from the first manager with the authority to do something that refuses all the way up the chain gets held responsible for whatever happens as a result of their refusal to act.

    Hello. I am requesting the sum of $1 million from you to be paid to me via paypal as ransom for a cargo ship. If you do not pay, you will be responsible for the deaths of people aboard the ship.

  5. Re:PostgreSQL: Why don't people use it that much? on Has MySQL Forked Beyond Repair? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's because LAPP sounds stupid

  6. Re:Low on MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... or like playing tetris in emacs?

    Did I go too far?

  7. Re:States rights on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Because of the 10th ammendment

  8. Re:The medium is NOT the message on YouTube Video Sends Guatemala Into Crisis · · Score: 1

    No. Because television does not provide investigative reporting.

  9. Re:Router level solution on US Military Looks For Massive Spam Solution · · Score: 1


    Your post supplies a response to a spam-fighting approach which fails to realize the INCREMENTAL value of spam solutions, and specifically fails in the categorization of that approach into the following categories:

    (X) Open relays in foreign countries
    (X) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
    (X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
    (X) Extreme profitability of spam
    (X) I don't want the government reading my email

    However. Your other notes are completely valid.

  10. Re:Oh Noes! on The Hidden Secrets of Online Quizzes · · Score: 1

    When I used that site I got an error:

    mySQL error: 1062 Duplicate entry 'PELOSI' for key WHO

  11. Re:Real Age doesn't "sell" your details. on The Hidden Secrets of Online Quizzes · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, those IQ quiz sites use your phone number to initiate a monthly charge on your phone bill.

    For analysis, please see: http://privacylog.blogspot.com/2009/01/security-hole-in-sms-spam-websites.html

    Also, this page shows you how to initiate these charges to arbitrary phone numbers due to an utter failure of security on these sites.

  12. Re:Too specific on Google Unveils Search Options and Google Squared · · Score: 1


    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Search for: 5+5=?
    2. Click sumbit

    Actual result:
    Google returns 5+5=10.

    Expected result:
    Google provides an array of answers so that, while I could find the answer I'm looking for with a little effort, but I still have to work for it.

  13. Re:Neat on DOJ Nixes Lax Policy, Hardens Antitrust Enforcement · · Score: 1

    >> their IP portfolio can be invalidated simply for hindering overall technological progress

    [Citation needed]

  14. Re:Wikischools is total crap on Open Source Textbooks For California · · Score: 1

    Please take a more global view of the situation. Economics is a science of unseen consequences.

  15. news at 11 on New Pattern Found In Prime Numbers · · Score: 1

    A property which can be applied to log-normal-spaced distributions of numbers has been applied to a log-normal-spaced distribution of numbers.

    News at 11.

  16. OT: Presence on Time For Voice-Mail To Throw In the Towel · · Score: 1

    This is a little offtopic.

    Many people carry mobile phone that are more powerful than yesteryear. Also, many people use aim/gtalk/twitter or other presence or microblogging services and many of those people are liberal in allowing the whole world to know their "status".

    When *the default* mobile phone application books can integrate your friends' availability, this will change the way we communicate. This will also alleviate many of the "please call me back" voicemails.

  17. Re:Well on News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites · · Score: 1

    >> I read the Early Bird, a daily clipping service published on the web by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs ... you must be a DoD employee to log-in

    Link please

  18. Re:please... on Unclean Military Hard Drives Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    No matter that you must include reproducible instructions on how to do this.

  19. Re:But running windows would help on Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows · · Score: 1

    4) install KDE

    http://windows.kde.org/

  20. Ah on White House Joins Facebook, MySpace, Twitter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How interesting. All these sites, unlike slashdot, allow you to state your friends; not foes.

  21. Re:I don't like the way this is going on Papers Sealed In Class Action Against RIAA · · Score: 1

    Ultimately, the problem is the voting system, IRV solves this problem. A boycott on voting may also facilitate adoption of IRV.

    If you'd like to discuss these further, please reply.

  22. Re:Do want on Obama Says 3% of GDP Should Fund Science Research And Development · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If there was an appropriate return on the investment, the project would be taken up by private industry.

  23. Apple Mail on Encrypted But Searchable Online Storage? · · Score: 1

    Just a note, from the Apple Mail help pages. This application saves all your messages in encrypted format (if they were received encrypted). When the message is opened, a index is created and saved plaintext. This allows you to use spotlight on encrypted messages.

    I think it is reasonable to save plaintext indexes in this scenario.

  24. Re:Slashdotters: regard this as a GOOD thing on Microsoft Won't Vouch For Linux · · Score: 1

    Sure... unless you're hiring people

  25. Re:In other news... on Tesla CEO Says Gov't Loan Is 99% Sure and Deserved · · Score: 1

    If incremental technology improvements can't benefit society with only private funding, they can't benefit society period.