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  1. Re:What's the process? on Denuvo DRM Challenges Game Crackers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In an extremely general sense:
    Somewhere in the program the validation code will either pass or fail. This is done with a conditional branch instruction in the assembly. Crackers use a debugger to find where this branch is, then change it to an instruction that will always branch to the pass condition.

    Of course there are countermeasures used, and sometimes crackers will be able to reverse-engineer the validation check to create a keygen, etc, but the general process is still to disassemble the executable and modify or inspect the validation check.

  2. Re:motion sickness on The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows · · Score: 1

    It can work both ways, but in the case of aircraft motion sickness it's most commonly that you feel motion but don't see it. Any disconnect between vision and inner-ear can cause motion sickness.

  3. Re:motion sickness on The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows · · Score: 1

    Yes, I was somewhat careless with my phrasing. Any disconnect between the inner ear's acceleration sense and that received from other senses can cause motion sickness. On aircraft, for most people (AFAIK), it's caused by feeling the acceleration with the ear and not seeing it with the eyes. For some, it gets reversed: they see too much movement out the window compared to what they feel, and so do better with aisle seats.

  4. Re:motion sickness on The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows · · Score: 2

    Other way around. It's when you sense an acceleration (inner ear) but don't see it that you get motion sickness. That's why looking out a window helps.

  5. Re:Dwarf Galaxies Dim Hopes of WIMPS on Dwarf Galaxies Dim Hopes of Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    Yep. If dark matter only interacts via gravity, and not via any of the other forces, then these results wouldn't constrain it. It would also mean that it's not going to be directly observable any time soon, so most scientists hope that's not the case, but it's certainly a possibility. Sterile neutrinos are one possibility for this.

  6. Re:esr will save us! on Help ESR Stamp Out CVS and SVN In Our Lifetime · · Score: 3, Funny

    Git is the best repository because it's the easiest to insult when something goes wrong. "Stupid git!" is a lot better than "Stupid CVS!"

  7. Re:Intelligence isn't that important on Scientists Find Rats Aren't Smarter Than Mice, and That's Important · · Score: 3, Funny

    You should try it with a lungfish. They're smart enough to breathe.

  8. Re:Homeopathy on GlaxoSmithKline Released 45 Liters of Live Polio Virus · · Score: 2

    Well, if you mean "destroyed the internal DNA payload and left only the outer protein shell" as being somehow equivalent to "watered down" then yes. But since the process has nothing to do with simple dilution that's not a very good comparison.

  9. Re:Signed Firmware on Hacking USB Firmware · · Score: 3, Informative

    They're not writing to the filesystem, so that won't help.

  10. Re:Bash is a very crappy programming language. on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 1

    Batch search & replace just screams "Beta reduction of lambda calculus statements" to those who love Turing tarpits. Or perhaps Church tarpits in this case.

  11. Actually, 192kHz is the sample rate. That's a maximum of 96kHz output frequency.

    The only point of such a sample rate is that it allows some audio modification techniques to have a lower distortion of the waveform in the audible spectrum range. It's very minor, far more of the effect comes from spending more money and the resulting placebo effect: the music sounds better and IS more pleasing, because the buyer thinks it should sound better. The effect on perception is real, even though the actual sound is identical to that of a cheaper system.

  12. Re:Natural immunity on Farmers Carry Multidrug-Resistant Staph For Weeks Into Local Communities · · Score: 1

    Hand sanitizer IS breeding antibiotic resistant bacteria. There are two kinds of sanitizer: The old alcohol-based ones, and the newer triclosan (an antibiotic) based ones. The triclosan sanitizers are often marketed as not drying out the skin, and so became popular. Resistance to triclosan tends to convey resistance to some other related antibiotics as well.

    Alcohol based sanitizers are fine. Just use moisturizer after if you're worried about dry skin.

  13. Re:4 digits = impossible? on Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police · · Score: 1

    And 5772. Don't leave the Euler-Mascheroni constant all alone!

  14. Re:Spoilers on The FCC Net Neutrality Comment Deadline Has Arrived: What Now? · · Score: 1

    No. Net neutrality allows ISPs to follow the DS field, just not to set it on traffic they didn't create.

    Of course, there's always the possibility of a legislature screwing it up and outlawing QoS, but redefinition of ISPs under FCC Title 2 wouldn't have that problem.

  15. Re:Spoilers on The FCC Net Neutrality Comment Deadline Has Arrived: What Now? · · Score: 1

    They don't even have to restrict bandwidth. They can also just store packets from non-preferred providers in a long queue, thereby vastly increasing latency. VoIP is especially sensitive to this.

  16. Re:Two factor authentication time! on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: 2

    No, it's a separate password for the same account. You can set it to expire or not, as you choose. Cookies aren't involved.

  17. Re:Seemed pretty obvious this was the case on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 1

    I put "random crap" generated by my password manager, and store it in the password manager. Security questions are just secondary passwords to the same account. They need to have the same amount of entropy as the real password to be of any use whatsoever.

  18. Re:Seemed pretty obvious this was the case on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 2

    My Mother's maiden name is 52Vg8alTkWjJ92AXLq8c. I was born in the town of iyUJuoE5go9pWhylGHJT, where I got my first pet, 9DurEntFD7WU9lpZJCKI.

    If you ever tell the truth with a security question, you've done it wrong. If you ever use the same answer to a security question twice, you've done it wrong. If your answers have less entropy than your passwords, you've done it wrong.

  19. Re:ECC? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    There's also the matter that better ECCs cost more overhead. You can detect single bit errors with a simple parity bit, but double errors will go undetected. And even something like Reed-Solomon can't correct all the errors it can detect. Spacecraft going to mars have very limited mass budgets, there are often better places to spend the extra mass than on an additional redundant flash chip (and associated circuitry).

  20. Re:business model on State of the GitHub: Chris Kelly Does the Numbers · · Score: 1

    No, it was that any of the clones would have the full version history of the entire source tree. You still want a primary repo from which you make your releases, but all the developers can have a copy of the whole thing. They can also make changes to their local clones when offline, then merge all the changes later. Anyone can branch from any point, and the whole thing works on snapshots of the repo instead of sets of incremental changes to each file.

  21. Re:Hello, it is 2014 on Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support · · Score: 1

    64-bit isn't just about ram, it's also about the extra registers & instructions.

  22. Re:Why not a master password for the PW manager? on Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support · · Score: 1

    ChromeIPass + KeePass works rather well.

  23. Re:Exactly! on Anomaly Triggers Self-Destruct For SpaceX Falcon 9 Test Flight · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Specifically, the space shuttle didn't have a launch escape system. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Vostok, Shenzhou and Soyuz all do/did, though Vostok and Gemini used ejection seats for the purpose instead of taking the whole capsule. The shuttle test flights had ejection seats, but those were removed when normal operations started. After Challenger a method to escape the shuttle was added: get into a controlled glide, get to the rear hatch, jump out, and parachute to safety...

  24. Re:Waaah. on New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W · · Score: 1

    Or just heat the water in a kettle on the stove. Most (electric) stoves use 240V outlets.

  25. Re:Unsubstantiated, but this is what I've heard: on NSA Agents Leak Tor Bugs To Developers · · Score: 1

    If by "three-letter government agencies" you mean the USN, specifically the Office of Naval Research, then you're correct. But most people in the US call the USN "the Navy", so there are some extra letters.