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  1. Re:Yay! on The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw · · Score: 1

    Security through obscurity never works.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#Tamper-resistant_types

    Most of the following screw drives are considered tamper-resistant because of their obscurity.

  2. Re:Same as Nintendo on The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw · · Score: 1

    Wii uses tri-phillips screws. It too all of probably a day before some Chinese factory started cranking them out by the hundreds. You can usually get them free with your ModChip.

    Torx screws used to be 'weird'. Now you can find a driver at any Walmart. Heck you can buy a "security kit" with the security torx screw bits now.

  3. Re:Upload them of course on How Do You Store Your Personal Photos? · · Score: 0

    Yeah, I have.

    Heck it's how I distribute large files to friends. No MegaUpload or anything service. Just Usenet.

    Usenet works just fine.

  4. Re:Upload them of course on How Do You Store Your Personal Photos? · · Score: 1

    Usenet works just fine. They already store massive amounts of other data. Most servers are up to 3 years retention.

    If you don't want people to see the photos, encrypt them in a dmg or something. Split them into 50M rars with 100% coverage on the PAR2 files. Upload them to usenet. You don't even need to maintain an account. Come back after 2 years, pay $10 for unlimited access for a month and re-download everything.

    If you're really paranoid. Split 1/2 the rars into one name and the other 1/2 into another. I highly doubt anyone ever actually reads headers anymore. You could literally just do "Anonymous's Wedding photos.dmg" and I bet you may get 1 person in the world that actually downloads it and cares.

  5. Solaris Express + ZFS. on How Do You Store Your Personal Photos? · · Score: 2

    5 2TB drives in RaidZ2 (Yes, it's not optimal, but it'll take 2x failures.

    2 external 2x2TB enclosures with the drives mirrored. Rotated off site every week. When an enclosure comes home I scrub it make sure I didn't break anything and then for the next week everything is synced nightly.

    If I'm not shooting any photos, then I really don't rotate stuff.

    I'm not quite at a TB of photos, but shooting 8GB at a time does start to add up. Last resort nearly everything is on Facebook. They do allow photos up to 2000 pixels / side. It's not a lossless backup, but if it means having children's photos vs not, it's better than nothing.

    Sadly NOTHING has happened. No drive failures, nothing. I haven't been able to test any of it out other than when I upgraded to 2TB drives from 1.5TB drives with a
    zpool replace tank ...

  6. Re:so HR will just open any file? or is a word mac on Hackers Respond To Help Wanted Ads With Malware · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have you met anyone from HR?

    You could name it NotAVirus.jpg.zip.exe, send it to them with a "My Resume" subject and it'd almost guarantee being opened.

  7. Re:Home of the Free on Google Releases Software To Iran · · Score: 1

    Maybe he lives in Arizona.

    Where any person must submit papers that they are a legal US citizen. We've joked with the Hindi Indians at work that they better avoid AZ if they drive out west, but it's true. Unless they can produce their green card or SSN card, they could be detained.

  8. Re:true on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 1

    Decades? Decades ago Iran was on our side. We were selling them weapons and intel. We installed a leader for them. There was no need for a 'diplomacy' decades ago.

  9. Re:Fuck It. on Comcast-NBC Merger Approved By FCC · · Score: 1

    My campus has its own internal sharing program DTella. A mashup of DC++ and IRC.

    The source code is open, so you should be able to adapt it to any other subnet. I will take my laptop to campus and find a Gigabit ethernet port a few times a week. Makes me feel I'm living in a first world country. I'll can exceed my "Comcast 250GB Limit" in under an hour. Pondering setting up a dark net in my apartment complex.

  10. Sweear Occifer. on Music Really Is Intoxicating, After All · · Score: 1

    I was just lising to the radio turned up.

  11. Think of the children laws. on Man Mines Facebook For Security Questions, Nabs Nude Photos From Email · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In some states, the age of consent and child porn statutes have the same age limits.

    For instance, a quick read of NV law shows the AOC to be 16. Child porn is defined as sexually explicit blah blah blah involving a person under 16. Federal law makes it a crime with a person under 18, but there may be some state line/interstate commerce nexus that needs to be fulfilled.

    I didn't feel like looking at too many states, but found this same AOC/CP thing with NH-16/16.

    Many states forbid distributing/exhibiting obscenity to people under 18, regardless of their AOC/CP statutes.

    So, excluding the feds, it's not a crime to have sex with a 16 year old or film it. But, she can't watch the tape afterwards. It's a crime to allow her 16 year old friend to watch the act as it occurs, but not a crime to have her join. Neither of them can smoke a cigarette or have a beer afterwards. If either one were to rob,beat,kill one of their fellow particpants, they would be tried as an adult in every state in the country.

  12. Re:Security question on Man Mines Facebook For Security Questions, Nabs Nude Photos From Email · · Score: 1

    Nothing requires the "real" answer.

    Use an MD5 or SHA1. If you're afraid a hacker is going to do that, salt it with your favorite food.

    $ echo -n Pasta Kennedy | md5sum
    d579c75318c3f0635c5b897a86eedad4 -

    Use that as your mother's maiden name.

  13. If something else doesn't kill first? on Airborne Prions Prove Lethal In Mouse Studies · · Score: 4, Funny

    Birth is 100% lethal.

    Well 99.9999% if you count that Jesus guy, Mary and Elisha.

  14. Open Platform? on Is Samsung Blocking Updates To Froyo? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hows all that "open platform" "not locked to a walled garden" "no need to jailbreak" Android working out for all the people that rant and rave against the iPhone?

  15. Re:Home button will stay on Apple May Remove the Home Button On the Next IPad · · Score: 1

    Disaster Recovery Manager?

    Xorg uses DRM all the time for Direct Rendering Manager.

  16. Re:Being serious, on Apple May Remove the Home Button On the Next IPad · · Score: 0

    Apple Accessibility has been VERY good going back to when I started using System 7. Spoken dialog boxes, mouse keys, etc. OS X seems has a System Preferences pane broken down into Seeing, Hearing, Keyboard, and Mouse.

  17. Re:This is a Big Deal on Autism-Vax Doc Scandal Was Pharma Business Scam · · Score: 4, Informative

    Best part was McCarthy's son was misdiagnosed. ... of course that just means he "was healed through a range of experimental and unproved biomedical treatments."

  18. Re:Remember when you're reading this... on Aussie City Braces For Worst Flood In 118 Years · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, Spring, my favorite season.

  19. Re:Too little and too much, way too late on An Interview With C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 2
  20. Re:Remember when you're reading this... on Aussie City Braces For Worst Flood In 118 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you just gotta come down here, where it's sunny and 36 degrees celsius (96 degrees fahrenheit) one day and raining and 22 degrees celsius (71 degrees fahrenheit) the next.

    It's been fucking insane.

    We call that "Indiana". I see your instability and raise you.
    70F and sunny and 6" of snow and 14F.

    Also, how do you measure rain? Stateside it's not in volume but in just inches. Now I believe that they use a capture device with a 1" sq top.

  21. Re:Maybe... on Verizon To Offer iPhone Users Unlimited Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    iPhone has been "Coming to Verizon" for almost 3 years now. Always according to a "person close to the matter".

    Maybe they'll bundle it with Duke Nukem.

  22. Re:Math Illiteracy leads to science illiteracy on College Students Lack Scientific Literacy · · Score: 1

    And then I go and @#$ up the story. It was 3x$1s.

    I swear. I have my engineering degree.

  23. Re:Math Illiteracy leads to science illiteracy on College Students Lack Scientific Literacy · · Score: 1

    "Your total will be $8.24"
    Hands him a $10, 2x$1 & a Quarter.
    He hands me back the $2.
    I hand him back the $2 and tell me "Trust me."
    "Is this a Tip"
    "Just punch it into the computer."

    "Woa..."

    I did a mental faceplam. Seriously.

  24. Re:Early Development on College Students Lack Scientific Literacy · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Grow Ops in Marin? on California County Bans SmartMeter Installations · · Score: 1

    I cut my electricity by 20% when Illinois got Power Smart Pricing. Basically it's "Live" pricing rather than a flat rate monthly. Other than the Refrigerator and the AC (which got turned way up), I literally powered everything down during the day. I'd have my home server kick back on around 5:30 pm when I was getting out of work.

    If it wasn't mandatory, so I don't see why there would need to be a law to block it.