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  1. No. Next question.

  2. Re:Just overexpose the image on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    The sensor alarm's the cops console in this case. They may or may not pull you over and issue a ticket for an equipment problem. Something along the lines of 'License Plate Light Bulb Not Operational - replace and reinspect'.

  3. Re:License Plate Bracket on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    The sensor alarm's the cops console in this case. They may or may not pull you over and issue a ticket for an equipment issue - generic or otherwise.
     
    Your good passive defenses include:
      - Using a full plate cover which filters UV or is smoke-colored
      - Using a full plate cover with magic tape on the inside to change the IR appearance of the actual lettering of your plate.
      - Not washing your car.

  4. New York State already does this on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    The State of New York (atleast, out in the Western bit, where I live) already engages in this practice. A lot of the municipalities and law enforcement agencies here have taken advantage of state and federal money to equip cruisers with the Remington Plate Reader (read: http://www.elsag.com/detail.asp?i=17). The cars use the vehicles onboard AVL, combined with the results of the plate reader, and transmits the location of the cruiser with what plates its spotted back to the State Police.

  5. Re:So much new and yet nothing new on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    The pitots on this aircraft were heated, and on this specific tail number, had been replaced recently.
     
      The leading theory also includes that the volume of supercooled water ingested by the tube simply overwhelmed the heater elements on all three pitots.

  6. Sheesh... on Researchers Create Computer That Fits On a Pen Tip · · Score: 3, Funny

    Researcher Create Computer That Fits On Pen Tip

    My team obviously went the wrong direction. We've just completed work on a breakthrough - a pen that's large enough to fit onto a computer - comfortably. We figured that computers were tired of just writing to disk, so we'd let them write on paper as well. The actual apparatus is so comically large, that, obviously, only a large-ish computer would want to use it.

    Embarassing.

  7. Re:Grow Ops in Marin? on California County Bans SmartMeter Installations · · Score: 1

    No, actually. I support it whole heartedly.

    Are you being funny?

  8. Re:Grow Ops in Marin? on California County Bans SmartMeter Installations · · Score: 1

    ...and more power to them.

    Very clever. Quite a few places are considering similar bans, for different reasons. One of the more prevalent issues is union labor pushing to keep meter-readers in business.

  9. Re:Passwords on Police Can Search Cell Phones Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    My wallet is not locked, but my phone is.

    If I lock the glove compartment in my car, I can refuse to open it, on the grounds that they will then need a warrant to search it.

  10. Passwords on Police Can Search Cell Phones Without Warrants · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What if my device is password protected? Can I be compelled to hand over the password? Because I won't.

    If I cannot be compelled to hand over encryption keys for other forms of media, I'm not giving up a password to my mobile device, either.

    At the same time, if they elect to seize and search my backpack, which is also locked, they have the option of breaking the lock to gain access to the contents. But is that legal? At that point, you're also destroying my property in the process.

    Are these 'law enforcement officials' permitted to install software on devices in the course of conducting a 'search'?

    Sticky.

  11. Re:PS2? on PS3 Root Key Found · · Score: 1

    Is it infeasible to think that someone couldn't emulate/virtualize the PS2 environment in the PS3's hardware? I know the PS3 is no dog when it comes to available firepower. Not sure how it compares to the PS2 overall. It'd be nice to think.

  12. PS2? on PS3 Root Key Found · · Score: 1

    Will this awesome bit of back-hackery enable PS2 backwards compatibility again?

  13. Re:mocking illiterate editors is too easy on Twitter Suffers Web Interface Exploit · · Score: 1

    You're entirely right, and that is an oversight on my part. I had originally mis-typed 'mutated' (mutaed?), and instead of spell-checking it to 'mutated', it went to 'muted'. I didn't realize until I saw it on the front page, and said 'Doh!'.

    You got the idea, though.

  14. Re:Organ Donation? on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    The supposition is cynical, and intended to be a jab.

    Licensed motorcyclists in states such as North Carolina and New York are registered as organ donors as part of the licensing. I'm expecting this is also practice in other states, as well. You're welcome to Google it.

  15. Organ Donation? on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nevada must be looking to get a foot in the door on the organ/tissue donation market. What they're not telling you is that when you get loaded into the DB, you're also flagged as a donor - much the same way licensed motorcyclists are.

    Moral of the story? If you need an organ, move to Nevada.

  16. Loud boom on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 1

    I was out to lunch when this occured. It sounded like a giant dump truck slamming it's trailer. Glad to hear everyone is okay.

  17. Re:Lat/Long on UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message · · Score: 4, Interesting

    More Lat/Long stuff: 74.14W 35.74N is right off the coast of North Carolina & Southern Virginia. 74.14W 35.74S is right off the coast of Chile. 74.14E 35.74S is in the middle of nowhere, with Madagascar.

  18. Great on HSBC Bank Sends Activated Debit Cards Through Mail · · Score: 1

    According to the expiry date on my HSBC card, one of the mailed cards could very likely have been mine.

    I will be cancelling my HSBC account as soon as I can find an effective replacement bank. We have an ESL Credit Union nearby; looking for any other alternatives if anyone has any suggestions.

  19. Re:Budget? on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 1

    Nativity is overrated. UNFS does a fine job.

  20. Budget? on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You made no mention of a budget. I'd go with a Drobo - probably the DroboFS. http://www.drobo.com/products/drobo-fs.php

  21. Remember to Exit Stage Left on Arbitrary Code Execution With "ldd" · · Score: 5, Funny

    I researched this subject thoroughly and found that it's almost completely undocumented.

    Completely undocumented... <CARUSO NAME="david" STYLE="csi/miami" SHADES="true"> ...until now. </CARUSO>

    YEAAAAAAAAAH!

  22. Re:DIY phone backups on Server Failure Destroys Sidekick Users' Backup Data · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, BitPim would not have been an option for this situation, as the T-Mobile Sidekick does not store any data locally - simply plus down an image from the giant server in the sky on a reboot.

    And that's the 'server' that's gone, now.

    This is an epic fail; many bards will send their sons to school on the song that will be sung from this gross misadventure.

  23. Re:How do you know when you've decrypted something on 60 Years of Cryptography, 1949-2009 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't know - and neither does the computer.

    Decryption is a mathematical operation. You are given a blob of yunk. You can be fairly certain it is encrypted with a given cipher because it meets certain characteristics - either length, or hash-depth, or there is a header or footer of a given length, or some revealing information about the cipher may have been sent prior to or alongside the encrypted blob.

    Then, if you're smart enough, or you have enough money, or time, or computing power, or a lot of luck, the decryption operation might occur. You can check as to whether or not you've successfully decrypted the data mathematically - e.g. does the result set fit with the function I've just run and give me the source data I started with? If so, yes, you've decrypted the data.

    It's your responsibility as a researcher to decide what to do with whatever came out the other side. You may have to decrypt it again before proceeding. You may find out that what you just decrypted was nothing more sinister than ICMP_FRAGMENTATION_REQUIRED (Frak!).

    The holy grail of cryptography may infact be steganographical encryption - or binary / machine language that reads as Grandmother's Cookie Recipe, but when run as an executable it actually glasses the machine. Who knows?

  24. Proof / Evidence on Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant Two Months Ago · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unless Jobsy himself has told you this, I'm pretty sure that running this article either violates HIPPA, or is simply full of lies...

    Where did the information about a transplant come from? I hope the source was verified, and re-verified, and then re-verified again. Remember when CNN posted that Jobs had had a heart attack, but it simply turned out to be "citizen journalism" gone horribly, horribly wrong? Gotta be careful with this crap.

    Either way, all the best to The Steve.

  25. Re:Fly Around Them on For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes · · Score: 1

    Counter-nits:

    US Airways Flight 1549 is recorded as an Airbus A320-214. The crusing speed of an A320 is Mach 0.78. Mach 0.78 is 593.7415 miles per hour, which is closer to 600 than 500, I believe. In holding with being a complete bastard, 91% of Mach 1 is 692.698416 miles per hour, fully 98.95 miles per hour more than your claim. (The speed of sound being 761.207051 miles per hour, for reference.)

    You are correct about the rate-of-climb at the time of incident, though - it was grossly less than the cruse speed.

    Also, nits - not nicks - are often picked, unless you're creating a new account.