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  1. AMT based attacks? on Intel Adds DRM to New Chips · · Score: 2, Insightful

    anyone see their new remote administration "feature" as a possible remote security hole regardless of OS? perhaps we just trust that it is 100% secure and unhackable. Additionally, AMT also features what Intel calls "IDE redirection" which will allow administrators to remotely enable, disable or format or configure individual drives and reload operating systems and software from remote locations, again independent of operating systems. Both AMT and IDE control are enabled by a new network interface controller.

  2. Re:Quote from the BBC on Interview with the Creator of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine who works with autistic people has said that I remind him of his clients. It seem I am in good company.

  3. Sorry. on Time Travelers' Convention · · Score: 1

    I am not able to attend in the present, therefore there is no reason for me to attend from the future.

  4. Re:The TI99/4a was/is not a game console on Fixing That Old Game System · · Score: 1

    agreed! it was much more than a game system... i leaned to program on that thing when i was 5. mine even had a speech synthesizer that was great fun! I'll be glad to get it working again... the audio went out in my RF modulator.

  5. Re:Worst case scenario on FTC Wants Comments on Email Authentication · · Score: 1

    You know... that almost makes email sounds like it could fall under the jurisdiction of the FCC. possibly not a bad idea.

    they issue radio licences, they could issue email licences, and could hold and distribute a public key for you. You might have to take a basic computer literacy test, but that'd be easy for someome who would want to run an MTA.

    spam is kind of like a broadcast, and i wish spammers could have their email licences revoked.

  6. Re:I wonder on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1

    oh yeah... and it's about 12 hours light speed lag.

  7. Re:I wonder on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1

    after some calculation, if that's what's going on there would be about an extra 1.6 x10^-9 N on pioneer 10... about 1/100,000th of the sun's acceleration on it.

    values I used were:
    mass of sun = 1.98892 x10^30 Kg
    Mass of Pioneer 10 = 259 Kg
    speed of Pioneer 10 = 12180 M/s
    distance of Pioneer 10 = 86.11 au

  8. I wonder on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the discrepancy could be caused by an interaction between the more than 7 hour lightspeed lag between the spacecraft and the sun, and the craft's velocity.

    perhaps Gravity isn't

    Gravity=(G(M1*M2))/R^2

    but is instead

    Gravity=(G(M1*M2))/(R-((R/C)*V))^2
    where V=Delta R

  9. Re:It's not "the end of encryption" at all on The End of Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Because you may be able to transmit securely at some times and not others.

  10. Won't work. on Revolutionary Spam Firewall Developed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Any sufficiently advanced spam is indistinguishable from ham.

    Fenley's torment.

  11. Re:Why it spins. on Solder in Space · · Score: 1

    I have an alternate hypothesis: As the droplet moves, it is encountering hotter solder on it's leading edge. The resin wets the metal beter at the higher temperature and the droplet is pulled around the solder by this leading edge.

    I believe a similar effect has been employed to move small water droplets around on a flat surface by pulling them along with a laser.

  12. Re:It's gotta be said.. on Play Halo at the Movies · · Score: 1

    Too true... I find out about more local events and things through slashdot than anywhere else.

  13. Re:exposed disk drive innards in a filthy room on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 1

    Recently I opened up and old 300MB hard drive and installed windows 98 on it(still had some free space too!). I had fun sticking a screwdriver in the path of the drive head while it was working. It took quite a bit of abuse before it quit... then i turned it into a speaker.

  14. Re:Yeah Right! on 419ers Diversify Into Assassination Threats? · · Score: 1

    ...unless they got your email address from a whois search on a domain you registered. Then they might have your address on Quail Creek Drive.

    I'm kinda scared of this actually...I'm out there in a lot of places.

  15. Re:Cats landing on their feet on Like A Cat, New Robot Lands On Its Feet · · Score: 1, Troll

    Cats reposition themselves to land on their feet because they can sense the change in velocity (dv/dt = acceleration).

    Your professor was an ass. In freefall you can't "sense" the acceleration because you are in a (mostly) uniform gravitational field. You need outside clues such as air rushing past you, or the ground approaching rapidly to tell where down is.

  16. Someone@somewhere on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    The "somewhere.com" domain is owned by Kee Hinckley, and he has expressed many times to the ASRG that he gets more spam than anybody else on there for exactly this reason.

  17. Re:it's weird on E3 'Booth Babe' Interviews Reveal Comedy, Tragedy · · Score: 1

    I shaved my head and this has been happening to me lately. I totaly didn't realize what was going on the first few times.

    Getting hit on by girls rocks!

  18. Re:TV Dinners are So 1950s on The Single Man's Guide To TV Dinners · · Score: 1

    The reason i think they are great... Multi Tasking. While someone who "cooks" is chopping, grilling, flipping, and warming, I just got fR1st p05t!

  19. Re:Map Errors on A Complete Map To Springfield · · Score: 1

    The road crossing Springfield Bridge is listed as "Interstate 95"... Homer would most likely drive this way to get to work.
    the Russian district is on the 4th block up from 257th street along the left side near the water.
    Crackton is 2 blocks right, and 2 blocks down from the Russian district.
    Area 51a is next to Springfield Gorge.

    LATFM

    They probaly used the average positions of the most common locations when making this map, and the times when the camera floats over the town to get the relative positions. lots of things seem to move around for a joke, or for one episode. it's not real, and it seems like they did a great job sorting out all of the inconsistencies.

  20. I did this, but went a little farther. on Does SPAM Unsubscribing Really Work? · · Score: 1

    After i got fed up with spam at my old email address, I set up a new one. After I switched I decided to experiment with the old one... I recorded my email values for 2 weeks to get a baseline before starting the unsubscribe process. Everyday i would unsubscribed from each item. it took a couple of hours each day to go through the routine i had:

    1. Follow the unsubscribe instructions given in the spam

    2. If no unsubscribe instruction was given(or it wasn't working after a few days) I would follow the links to the sites being advertised, and unsubscribe from there.

    3. If there was no unsubscribe at the site(or it wasn't working either), I would do a whois lookup on a domain involved with the spam, and call them on the phone to complain.

    4. If the phone number in the Whois information was incorrect, I filed a complaint with internic about invalid Whois info.
    http://wdprs.internic.net/

    I saw my spam levels drop like a stone. went from 40-60/day to 5-10 average(one day i didn't get any!). I don't have the address anymore because I had already switched everything to my new one with no spam.

    I could get the address back and check the spam levels now (about year later) but it's not realy appropriate as an test address anymore because you can't remove all filtering on hotmail anymore.

    I also have my old data somewhere, and i could dig it up and put it here if anyone cares.



    ...one funny thing was that one of the spams had a cgi unsubscribe, and after unsubscribing to no avail once for each email they sent me, they gave me a warning that they had recorded my IP because I was performing a DOS attack on THEM, and that they would report me to the police... LOL

  21. Re:This company is EVIL on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    I like your use of the word "Google" there, it seems kind of like a "grok it"/"vidi well" combo..

    Clockwork Orange and Stranger in a Strange Land...
    classics that will probably get you put on that there list if you buy them now.

  22. So that's what that was... on MIT's Stata Center Dedicated · · Score: 1

    I was drunk when I stumbled by this building a few months ago.

    I guess I can add that memory to the "did happen" file.

  23. Re:Broken Edison Tube on Comcast Fires TechTV Staff · · Score: 1

    Oh jeez! that's got to be one of the most horrible things i have ever seen...

  24. Re:Not new, and unsafe..... on Directed Sound · · Score: 1

    I saw the exibit at the museum of science in boston, i thought it was interesting, but after a few minutes i did start to get a headache.

    I don't realy think these things are safe either. there's a lot of energy in ultrasound beams. I once burned my finger with the ultrasound beam from an ultrasonic fogger, and then i realised that the burn must go all the way through my finger. That thing gave be the same kind of headache when i ran it out of the water as the audio spotlights did.

    Also of note... when the beam from one of those foggers travels from water to thin plastic, the plastic on the opposite side melts and vaporises... i've used mine as a cheap ultrasonic welder.

    I'm not responsable if you burn yourself or inhale crazy vaporised plastic.

  25. just vibrations on Building Your Own Drivers? · · Score: 1

    you can hook a tiny motor to an amp and it will produce sound. lots of stuff will. I'm not responsible if wreck your amp.