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  1. Breaking and Entering on Electrolytic Etching, For What A Dremel Can't Do · · Score: 1

    Hmm.... a nice, silent, battery-or extension cord-powered, "set it and forget it" breaking and entering technique, might have to try this out. Those metalic things called locks might be a good place to start. The only supply needed is salt and a transformer, not all that suspicious.

  2. Re:Moderate Insightful on WiFi Hotspots to Cost Wireless Carriers $12B · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points. Genius.

  3. Re:Full Text on Petrified Wood In Days, Not Millions Of Years · · Score: 1

    Sorry that the link does not work for you. I am at a university, so it just worked without showing anything of that sort. I guess I should have known better than to blindly post that. It seems that most science journals have very expensive subscriptions. Lets all hope that this model continues to fall thanks to the internet and the cheap publishing and peer review that it povides.

  4. Full Text on Petrified Wood In Days, Not Millions Of Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    Full Text in Advanced Materials
    I love that you can always find the USA today equivalent on slashdot, but never anything more in depth, doesnt this site cater to nerds?

  5. Google on New Attacks on Spam · · Score: 1

    This seems like an easy way to trick a web server to block google requests. Google the site, then use the cached page to get the email. Bam, site looks at logs and blocks google. I hope that this has been considered in making the honeypot so that legitimate searches are not hindered. The simple solution would be to determine whether the search is from google's IP addresses and react accordingly. I guess the ips are reversed lookuped but if these are not human audited, legitimate searches could be banned by crafty individuals.

  6. Re:hypocritical of stallman? on Hackers, Slackers, and Shackles · · Score: 1

    stallman wants all code to be free... but he wouldn't mind music and art to be non-free? in what way does a coder differ from a graphics artist? according to stallman's views, should a graphics artist not be able to freely obtain the art of a game so he could modify it, without having to pay for it? after all, that is what he demands of software. it has to be free so a coder is free to change it without having to pay for it. does he have double standards? note: i like free software, but i don't feel that every piece of software that i use should be free. i just think it's a little bit odd that stallman is using double standards. (Long live free slashdot posts.)

  7. Re:The show on CBC Opens ZeD.cbc.ca Code · · Score: 1

    Can we get a torrent?

  8. How to disable on RIAA/MPAA Contractor Deploys Malicious Adware Trojans · · Score: 5, Informative

    If this is scripting, which it sounds like, it can easily be disabled. Disable Windows media scripting. This will disable videos from opening webpages and such. Nice. The article is vague, but this is what it sounds like. The webpages, would then load spyware through normal ie holes.

  9. Re:There's always a price. on Cognitive Enhancement Drugs · · Score: 2, Funny

    I knew my cat would be smarter than me some day, to make up for all the times he peed on my socks.

  10. Re:Is it April 1st ? on Legal Rights for Computers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One more time: Why do they call it television programming then?

  11. Re:Don't p*ss of the maintenance people... on Revolutionary Tower in Brazil · · Score: 1

    If you mean Problem Child, then yes.

  12. i2hub on MPAA Looks to Sniff Internet2 Traffic for Sharers · · Score: 2, Informative

    The real reason they want to be on: to scare college students off of i2hub. If you can, try it, you will start hating the normal p2p networks. Research be damned, I want to download a movie in 15 minutes!

  13. Re:Security Measures... on U.S. Offers $50 Download · · Score: 1

    If you want better images of both the 20 and the 50, extract them out of the interactive flash files with something like action script editor. You get 866 x 371 bitmaps with no red text that way. I dont know which tools work best, but url action editor works fine with print screen. 50

  14. Re:It's the Klingons! on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1

    They cloaked the sun. It is written on one of the pdas they carry around in episode 4x21. frame 232808 - 238302. Clearly you weren't paying attention. jeesh!

    read the small print for once
    that includes between the lines

  15. How is this the first portability/quality tradeoff on An Overview Of Present, Future of Music Technology · · Score: 1

    What about tapes and records? I don't see many car record players around.

  16. Re:Still privacy concerns on Chicago Pondering Huge Camera Network · · Score: 1

    Looking through windows is not the problem the real problem is when they attach dart guns to them and !POW! auto-turrets that shoot people with outstanding warrants. Plus all the teens stealing the darts for the sweet sweet halucenogenic serums inside. mmm... traquilizer darts....

  17. Brute force complexity on Implications Of The Recent Hash Function Attacks · · Score: 1

    I don't think people realize how complicated it would be to brute force one of these algorithms. Lets take one that has a 160 bit hash. This means that you would find a collision in ~2^80 tries, right? Wrong, this assumption requires that you store each of the hashes you receive in the brute force attack. This would amount to 2^80 x 160 bits, or 21990232555520 terrabytes. It is clearly not feasible to store that much. A 128 bit hash would find a collision in ~2^64 tries and would need 2^64 x 128 bits or 268435456 terrabytes of storage! Lets see someone distribute that.

  18. iTunes on Surviving College With Gear And Sanity Intact? · · Score: 1

    If your school is like mine, iTunes will be very popular as a means to sharing music on the network. Before you go to school, convert all the cd's that you have to mp3's and share them with iTunes. If you don't have many, use gettunes or ourtunes and download them there till you have a collection. Also consider borrowing a cd collection from a friend whose music tastes you admire to convert. I have started several conversations talking about the merits of someone's collection, and iTunes helps out a ton when you are djing a dorm room party.

  19. Re:Captin, she cant take much more of this on Crossplatform iTunes Sharing and Trading · · Score: 1

    Don't paint apple as benevolent, they are acting in business interests by disallowing downloading. They are a retailer of music, so they do not want people to download from alternative sources. They allow you to listen to other's music, but then they slap a buy this now icon right next to it. They don't want piracy, but the sharing between computers was a very good marketing tool for college students, so they bit the bullet and implemented it.

  20. Re:I use Gaim because it's the best in Linux on AOL IM 'Away' Message Security Hole Found · · Score: 1

    The problem with this philosophy is that you are subjecting your friends to the torture of the default clients by not informing them of alternatives. Run aim, msn, etc. for 5 minutes and you will remember all the reasons that it is worth suffering through bugs to use gaim. I am 5 for 6 at converting my friends to using gaim. I personally waited a long time for the windows port, using trillian. The main thing that people seem to like about gaim is that it has an uncluttered interface instead of the 10,000 useless, redundant and downright annoying buttons in aim, msn, (trillian), etc. Gaim does something that most software neglects to do, keep it simple.

  21. Re:How to unlock/pick the lock on Kensington Laptop Locks Not So Secure · · Score: 2, Informative

    shit, i found a much quicker method. use a key to another round lock and just jam it in there, then turn it and presto you have the lock open. This takes less than 5 seconds.

  22. How to unlock/pick the lock on Kensington Laptop Locks Not So Secure · · Score: 2, Informative

    The scissors are used to torque the lock, they are jammed in the notch and twisted. Then you push the pins down and they will lock in place if tension is applied to the scissors. I figured this out in like five minutes. I am currently looking for a better tool to torque the lock.

  23. Channel 11 on 2.4GHz-Friendly Phones? · · Score: 1

    My cordless phones are mostly 2.4 ghz of different brands. They all have channel settings, but none check to see if the channel has trafic on it before broadcasting. Stupid phones. They would kick me off when the channel on the phone hit the wifi. The trouble with the phones is that they would pick a channel at random. I did some searching and found out that channel 11 on the wifi would fix this problem. It did and I didnt have to stop using the 2.4ghz phones. Use channel 11!

  24. Re:Sounds ideal on Ford Launches First American Hybrid · · Score: 1

    You will then be in line for 26,000 kilowatts of free electricity every year (the average all-electric home uses between 14,000 and 18,000 kilowatts per year).

    Joules/s*s seems a bit fishy to me as a measurement of energy. It must be some sort of power change, like each year, the amount of power produced goes up by 26000 kW. I freaking love sites like these and even more, the people who believe them.

  25. Re:If I had money to spend... on Experiences with Laser Eye Surgery? · · Score: 1

    Thats clearly not true. Just because someone wants to fit in to their group does not mean that they are not an intellectual. Please don't pretend that real intellectuals are so smart that they don't act human.