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  1. Re:Truecrypt on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 1

    There is, of course, a way to hide the fact that you're even using encryption.
     
    Steganography is that way. It's the art of hiding something inside of something else, such that nobody knows that it's there.
     
    Some methods hide text in the whitespace, others hide it in misspellings of words, and there are others that hide text in image files.
     
    Of course, this defeats the purpose of steganography, but there is an encrypted message in this post. (It's encrypted via rot13, FWIW. But that's not the point. Had I not said that I hid something in here, you probably wouldn't have known what I did.)
                                           
    Of course, watch Slashcode mangle that post. If it is mangled, you might get to see the results if you look at the source code of the page, but not sure.
  2. Re:can't work even if they wanted it to on RIM In Trouble For Not Violating Privacy · · Score: 1

    And lately, it's the Hyundai that's better built and more reliable, and I think might even have feature parity with the Lexus. (Genesis vs. Lexus GS.)

  3. Re:Brazier on Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can · · Score: 1

    Holy crap, he just discovered a perpetual motion machine!

    That makes two! (The first being buttered toast on the back of a cat, of course. :P)

  4. Re:Ah, I remember Windows XP on Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' · · Score: 1

    Except...

    The ONLY time I have EVER read anything saying that a version of Windows was ready to go before it was actually released was in a review of Windows 2000 RC3.

    I think damn near every other version, there was a comment that said to wait for SP1 (or whatever the equivalent at the time was.) Maybe 3.10 is an exception.

  5. Re:Hypercard was *amazing* on HyperCard, What Could Have Been · · Score: 1

    I'll note that HyperCard GS, the IIGS port of HyperCard, DID have such a multiuser function. I guess schools must have demanded it...

  6. Re:Yes I'd like to see that on Group Wants Wi-Fi Banned, Citing Allergy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, that brings up an interesting point...

    We consider, for example, civet coffee to be natural - and it's something that's been processed by an animal.

    Humans are natural.

    Therefore, isn't everything that a human produces natural, too?

    The only argument that I feel can be made that way is if we're talking geographically - for example, cactii aren't natural in the arctic. Or, moon rocks aren't natural on Earth.

  7. Re:And mine survived - The article's CPU might, to on Pushing a CPU to Heat Death, Intentionally · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, the newer CPUs will handle it BETTER than that P3 did.

    Anything older than that P3 would have cooked. That P3 went into a frozen state to save itself. The P4 and newer underclock themselves until they're running cool enough, and freeze if that's still not cool enough.

  8. Re:Way out of date chip set and you can better boa on Atom-Based Mini-ITX Motherboard Available · · Score: 1

    The issue is, Intel doesn't have any low-cost, very low-power chipsets.

    Then again, that's what the SiS chipset that they used on this board's predecessor, the D201GLY/D201GLY2, is for.

  9. Re:good very average joe on AMD Wants to Standardize PC Gaming · · Score: 1, Interesting

    For that matter, you could just figure out the algorithm that MS is using to determine the Vista experience scores, and use THAT.

  10. Re:In other news.... on Carl Icahn Takes on Yahoo's Board · · Score: 1

    I'm running Opera, and I don't believe I've ever seen the new form.

    What's more disturbing is... my popup blocker occasionally catches surveys popping up on Slashdot. Yeah, seriously.

  11. Re:Isn't this "alleged"? on Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    IANAL, but... as I understand it, when charges are filed against someone, the case goes before a grand jury, to determine whether the defendant could have possibly done the crime. If so, then the defendant is indicted, and the case goes to trial. Otherwise, it's thrown out before it goes to trial.

  12. Re:Scary on Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    Funny, I'm running Opera, and I still get the classic reply box when I hit "reply to this." None of the fancy AJAX crap.

    There's gotta be a way to disable it, and go back to the old way (which worked, at least...)

  13. Re:The epitome of unbiased summaries on NBC Activates Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1
    From Wikipedia on Heroes:

    The series is produced by Universal Media Studios in association with Tailwind Productions,[3] and it is filmed primarily in Los Angeles, California.[4] (my emphasis)

    Hint... Universal = NBC. ;)

    And Medium...

    Medium is created by Glenn Gordon Caron and produced by Picturemaker Productions and Grammnet Productions in association with CBS Paramount Television. So, you're fine on Medium. Heroes, though... they still get the money.
  14. Re:The epitome of unbiased summaries on NBC Activates Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1

    Don't watch the show?

    I mainly watch stuff on YouTube. I haven't watched TV in quite a while...

  15. Re:Don't get too smug - remember Macrovision? on NBC Activates Broadcast Flag · · Score: 2, Informative

    *ahem*

    Remember Macrovision eliminators?

  16. Re:Perhaps Apple should begin licensing OS X on Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that it was an artificial limitation that kept it from running on G4s that were slower than 867 MHz...

    (But, it won't run on a G3, I know people have tried forcing it, and it didn't work.)

  17. Re:Perhaps Apple should begin licensing OS X on Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs · · Score: 1

    Well, there was a time that PC Chips didn't have a good model in their lineup - so if you got a good PC Chips board, it was THAT SPECIFIC SERIAL NUMBER that was good.

    There was a time even earlier that PC Chips sold boards with generic chipsets branded with name brands, fake cache, etc., etc. Back then, they were outright fradulent.

    So, a modern PC Chips board is an EXCELLENT board compared to the crap they were pushing out back in the 1990's. But, I'd still prefer something like an ASRock for that price range, just because the stuff they've done in the past does leave a bad taste in someone's mouth.

  18. Re:Perhaps Apple should begin licensing OS X on Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs · · Score: 1

    Will Mini-DIN-8 on the serial ports do? (And, Mac printers tended to be serial.)

    If so, I do believe the PowerMac G4s can run OS X (10.5, even,) and have serial ports.

    No Mac has EVER had parallel ports, though.

  19. Re:Ads? on Youngsters Skip DVR Ads Less Than Seniors · · Score: 1

    Ponies? Relevant to Slashdot's interests.

  20. Re:cost of SMS? it's what people will pay on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 1

    Here in the US, it HAS become more expensive.

    I distinctly recall it being $0.10 per message on most carriers (if you don't get a texting plan)... now, some carriers charge as much as $0.25 to send. Mine charges $0.15 for send or receive.

  21. Re:Get a USB Modem on Dealing With Dialup · · Score: 1

    He actually represented 750 megabytes per siemens.

    (Siemens = inverse ohms)

  22. Re:A rare topic on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 1

    The 8086 was assembly-compatible (but NOT machine language-compatible) with the 8080/8085. So, if all you had to work with was a binary, you could run it through an 8080 disassembler, and then through an 8086 assembler, and it would run on the 8086.

  23. Re:Rickrolls on Microsoft IM Blocking YouTube Links · · Score: 1

    Except I can do file transfers on every major IM service, while sitting behind a NAT, and with the other user sitting behind a NAT, so I'm not so sure that it's a direct connection.

    But, yes, I know that relying on security by obscurity as the only method of protection is bad, especially when it's a public IP address that you're trying to hide. But, let's say you've got a reasonable amount of security against random attackers at your IP address, that don't really care to attack you, they just want to attack something. They'll give up.

    Let's say that you have an enemy of some sort, though, that you have to communicate with. The instant they add you as a buddy, they've got your IP address, and will be able to do focused attacks.

    Granted, Tor would get around all of that quite nicely.

  24. Re:Rickrolls on Microsoft IM Blocking YouTube Links · · Score: 1

    DCC on IRC works this way.

    There's two issues with using a protocol like that... first, a port has to be forwarded in NAT, and second, it's a HUGE security risk, as everyone on your buddy list has your IP address.

  25. Re:Agreed on finding a drive on Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies? · · Score: 1

    And the bit-by-bit copy will, most likely, work in an Amstrad CPC emulator. No file system driver needed.