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  1. Re:Expected on WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" · · Score: 0

    And then just like a password attack, someone cracks their database and dumps all the OTP data and you're no longer secure.

  2. Re:why crack my Wi-Fi on WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" · · Score: 1

    No, that's SSL.

  3. Re:This whole thing seems like an ad for the Wii U on Is This the End of Splitscreen Multiplayer, Or the Start of Its Rebirth? · · Score: 1

    I played hours and hours of 4-way Warhawk with friends. Everyone did that at least once, and then memorized which corner of the screen they were in. Its not that hard.

  4. Re:The social interaction is HUGE on Is This the End of Splitscreen Multiplayer, Or the Start of Its Rebirth? · · Score: 1

    I truly miss the 4-player split screen fun I had with Warhawk for years on my PS3. I wish a lot more games would do full 2 and 4-way split-screen modes.

  5. Re:Does it make Minecraft run faster? on Java 8 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    The first answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/quest... is an excellent reference as to why your statement doesn't mean what most people think it means.

  6. Re:Does it make Minecraft run faster? on Java 8 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Java is one of the few languages that's rapidly named as being designed around threading from the start.

  7. Re:A year and a half locked up on A Dispatch From Outside the Prison Holding Barrett Brown · · Score: 1

    Obviously you can't make A->B comparisons.

    You said something was pretty common. So did I. You infered that made it not a violation of someone's rights, as though commonality were the issue.

    If being common wasn't your point, you shouldn't have said "is pretty common" and used an actual defense of the situation instead.

  8. Re:Higher SAT scores, etc on The Poor Neglected Gifted Child · · Score: 1

    For those browsing without anonymous posts -- parent is correct.

  9. Re:Higher SAT scores, etc on The Poor Neglected Gifted Child · · Score: 1

    Call your local school board. Testing in Sudbury, Toronto and Peterborough happens in grade 4 as a 'standardized test' for which high scorers are brought back in for an IQ test. Those who pass that are contacted by their school or board about additional programming.

    I grew up through the Sudbury gifted program (1 day a week, English only), and my daughter is in the Peterborough full-time gifted program which she had to give up French-immersion for, but at least she's not bored in class anymore.

  10. Re:Higher SAT scores, etc on The Poor Neglected Gifted Child · · Score: 2

    Here in Ontario, Canada we run special programs in most districts for the top 2% children. In some places its one day a week, others its a full-time replacement for normal grade school geared to the gifted.

  11. Re:I dn't thin it takes into accout on Google Flu Trends Gets It Wrong Three Years Running · · Score: 1

    It would seem to me that you underestimate how complex weather systems are.

    A farmer who says "when this happened last, the weather did this next" is more likely to be right than the guy who tries to model atmospheric pressure changes in a chaotic system.

    Sure, some people rely entirely on models, but good weather forecasting often involves both. How do we know what a strong north-west pressure system will do? The best answer is "what did it do last time" not "lets model it to death."

    PS, this is also how medicine works, which has a lot more science in it than weather forcasting -- historical comparison is an incredibly valuable insight in chaotic complex systems.

  12. Re:opposite of brilliant on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 1

    Consequences? Those are for poor people.

  13. Re:correction on Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS? · · Score: 1

    I still don't see how your edge case changes that pushing all that current knowledge into a massive wiki instead of millions of individual papers in journals wouldn't help for almost all other cases.

    Good job on the thesis though.

  14. Re:A year and a half locked up on A Dispatch From Outside the Prison Holding Barrett Brown · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, a simple threat of violence isn't a reason enough to take away someone's liberty this long.

  15. Re:A year and a half locked up on A Dispatch From Outside the Prison Holding Barrett Brown · · Score: 1

    So is prison rape. Does that make it okay too?

  16. Re:correction on Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS? · · Score: 2

    In fact this is precisely why I wish there were something like a comp.sci wiki. A lot of this knowledge should be easier to access for people who didn't need a full degree to get where they are but realize they have a problem to solve and need a better way to do it than posting their current code on stackexchange.

  17. This isn't a story on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    Yes, the possibility of doing wrong is obvious but that root CA installation is very common when dealing with 802.1x authentication with Windows clients. Its a side-effect of how stupid Windows' handling of certificates is.

    cf. this vendor's suggestion https://kb.meraki.com/knowledg... to disable certificate checking altogether to make it work instead.

  18. Re:Be aware of the consequences on Fedora To Have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" For Contributors · · Score: 1

    BS. There's no such guarantee on any open source software. Last I checked, even Microsoft uses foreign workers.

  19. Re:Be aware of the consequences on Fedora To Have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" For Contributors · · Score: 1

    A lot of encryption software comes from Canada because we're friendly to both sides ;-)

  20. Re:Abjectly false argument on Cops Say NDA Kept Them from Notifying Courts About Cell Phone Tracking Gadget · · Score: 1

    No, your statements may simply be phrased such that they do not clarify on which side of an argument you stand.

  21. Re:Abjectly false argument on Cops Say NDA Kept Them from Notifying Courts About Cell Phone Tracking Gadget · · Score: 1

    As soon as you try to convince the other person to sign it, you're working your way into conspiracy.

    A contract not intended for another to sign is pretty much non-existent.

  22. Re:Having used both on Ford Dumping Windows For QNX In New Vehicles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lower power requirements :)

  23. Re:Author doesn't understand the NSA on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    You know a secret warrant is called secret for a reason, right?

    https://www.aclu.org/support-o...

    http://www.techdirt.com/articl...

  24. Re:Tomorrow's News on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    You just have to convince the populace that whomever you killed had it coming.

    There are plenty of examples, some controversial (like Waco).

  25. Re:Tomorrow's News on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    ... pieces of security expert Schneier were found in his locked home, with no signs of forced entry. No signs of foul play are evident except for the brutal nature of his death. The NSA and FBI agree it must have been suicide.