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  1. Re:"Real" Broadband on Virgin Media UK Pilots 200Mbps Broadband Speeds · · Score: 1

    What about the Fibrecity fibre to the home scheme in Bournemouth? H2O Networks are offering free installation, but are Virgin going to be the only ISPs permitted to offer services over it?

  2. Re:In Sweden on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Excepts identical twins, 3 occurrences per 1000 births...

  3. Bad for studying Mars? on Chance for a Tunguska Sized Impact on Mars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it does hit or in some other way cloud the atmosphere of Mars, would this put the brakes on current and planned future studies of the planet?

    A few years of darkened skies could finish off the rovers, or require better orbiting surveillance equipment, no?

  4. Re:Headphones? on Japanese Airlines Ban DS, PSP · · Score: 1

    Do they work passively/off sound energy, or with their own power source, or not properly until they're plugged in??

  5. Re:My UK Phone Deal is free - How does that compar on Does the UK iPhone Plan Add Up? · · Score: 1

    What's not great about the 6300?

  6. Re:Cruel Britannia on Does the UK iPhone Plan Add Up? · · Score: 1

    If you're not a regular drinker, aka alcoholic, be sure to not miss out on the uni fun!

  7. Re:Old games in general on Is nVidia Support for Older 3D Games Fading? · · Score: 1

    Ironic, IIRC Microsoft helped with MechWarrior 4, while MW3 worked fine in XP for me a few months back.

  8. Re:Absolutely. on Videogames Make Better Horror Than Movies? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Polygons? What about the 2d Doom enemies? Pitch black sections except for flickering lights, with Pinky snarls coming from them...

  9. Re:Three things. on How Would You Refocus Linux Development? · · Score: 1

    Mandriva/Mandrake's been doing these for years, and if you buy the PowerPack you've got licensed players, drivers, libraries and codecs. Otherwise just go to EasyURPMI and find a PLF (Penguin Liberation Front). mirror.

  10. Re:obHumor on Hans Reiser Interview from Prison · · Score: 1
  11. Re:So, they learned Common Sense 101? on PlayStation Blog Entries Define Sony Battle Plan · · Score: 1

    Maybe some expect them not to flip flop and cater to the moment, but maybe show a considered plan and stick to it? But then maybe they'll just never please everyone anyway, let alone all at the same time, or one after another.

  12. Re:Got it! on New AACS Crack Called "Undefeatable" · · Score: 1
  13. Sorry, didn't preview on Is It Time For an Open Source Certificate Authority? · · Score: 1

    "...an Open Source CA system to exist,..."

  14. Re:What is the question? on Is It Time For an Open Source Certificate Authority? · · Score: 2

    Story: Are there any free, reliable Certification Authorities?

    New question: Is it possible for a Open Source CA system to exists, as this would help ensure these qualities?

  15. Re:Fuck DVB-T on BBC White Paper Claims HD Over Low Bandwidth Signal · · Score: 1

    I know, don't feed the Trolls, but..

    Wouldn't better/DVD quality at the same framerate at a lower bitrate simply meant a more efficient compression scheme is being used, meaning lower signal frequency and thus power usage for the same decompressed results?

    And what makes you think a digital signal means you can't use an analog display, like all TVs and CRTs have been for years while playing back DVDs and PC content?

  16. Re:C# compatibility? duh... on Java Generics and Collections · · Score: 1

    I think they mean the Java6 Generics code is compiled to bytecode that will run on previous versions of the JavaVM, in effect allowing you to create Generics in older Java, although I admit I haven't checked this.

  17. Re:Woo hoo! on Top 20 PC Games on Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Yep my Quake4 disc has never suffered XP, NWN works great and Epic's Unreal Tournament series also has a linux installer on the discs.

  18. Re:NVIDIA has done this on Apple Charges For 802.11n, Blames Accounting Law · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Google. on Inside MySpace.com · · Score: 1

    Seems to be, 'though as a graduated UK resident, I can't join my uni class year as my email addy's inactive now.

    At least the myspace lot can't ruin the neat layout of FaceBook.

  20. Re:A simple solution. on Keeping Passwords Embedded In Code Secure? · · Score: 1

    Are you trolling or missing the point? If it is to be an automated system, you can't have the admin manually put in the password each time it starts. So how do you replace that? Having either the program itself read from a config file or even another program supply it doesn't solve the problem of how/where to securely store the password for these methods to work.

    Eventually you seem to have to trust root and file permissions that the programs and config files can only be accessed by those you trust to do so, and not altered to give up their secure password to whoever.

  21. Re:The question is based on a false premise on Keeping Passwords Embedded In Code Secure? · · Score: 1

    Does that work? Isn't the salt mean to be kept as secure as a non salted password hash? Otherwise you still know you need to reverse hash(salt+password), just like without salt when you needed to reverse hash(password).

    Only by not knowing the salt (i.e. that any password you hash isnt going to match the stored hash unless it happens to be the unknown salt+password) would you be trying the harder task of reversing hash(?????password) into salt+password.

  22. Re:Hashed passwords for database access? on Keeping Passwords Embedded In Code Secure? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For passwords for that program's users, yes it works, but as a stored password to be passed on to another system, like you say, no.

  23. Re:What I do... on Keeping Passwords Embedded In Code Secure? · · Score: 1

    Why not cut out the stored encrypted password bit and have the password only stored where those trusted employees can access? Sounds like a simple user/file permission system really.

  24. Re:Permissions on Keeping Passwords Embedded In Code Secure? · · Score: 1

    So as admins do they have access to the database program binary? What happens if they alter it to allow them access or just dump the data elsewhere when launched? Checksums and IDS against ur own admins?

  25. Re:I, For One on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    So you believe 100% of the laws are 100% correct, none flawed, open to misinterpretation or just plain wrong/outdated?