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  1. Re:Are they selling used hard drives? on Australian ALDIs Sell Conficker-Infected Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Some new USB hard drives comes preformatted or at least have a small partition loaded with drivers and/or backup software.

  2. xkcd... on New Attack Can Disable Phones Via SMS · · Score: 1
  3. Re:err... on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    Calm down, all information/search providers does it. Maps have intentionally misplaced or nonexistant roads. Phone books with bogus entries.

    Why?

    They're called markers. If a competitor copies your data, he's copying the errors too. And data full of copy protection markers is easy to prove in front of a judge. Eniro, the largest yellow papers here in Sweden, slammed Gulan thanks to those markers.

  4. Re:Oddities beside the capacity on Some Hard Drive Nostalgia To Start Off the Year · · Score: 1

    I remember seeing a instruction video about why you had to bolt large drives to the floor. If the bearings failed, the drive wouldn't stop until it hit something solid, like a wall.

  5. Re:The intent would seem to include Win7 on France Planning Non-Windows Tablet Tax? · · Score: 2

    Sarkozy isn't an MS shill, he's a shill for the french equivalent of the RIAA.

    Sarkozy is a MS shill. Remember when MS bought the ISO standard? The French ISO members were supporting ODF, but were ordered by the French government to vote for MS. The boss of MS France and Sarkozy are old friends.

  6. Re:Especially since NASA... on SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon Make It To Orbit · · Score: 1

    Saw a documentay, about an engineer, that went thru the documents about the Challenger disaster. He pointed out a video that the Rogers Comission had overlooked, showing the leaking coming out in puffs i.e. the booster sections were rocking. This was caused by wind shear. Extreme wind shear were mentioned in the report, but they didnt investigate it further.

    The shuttle would be able to launch in temperatures lower than 53 F, but only if the weather were calm. NASA had one or two launches where they noticed that the seals failed in similar temperature conditions, but the slag (aluminium oxide) build up caulked the seals shut.

  7. Re:You what? on Preview of Ubuntu's Unity Interface · · Score: 1

    Logitech BT adapter?

    if so, the BT adapter emulates HID devices during boot and Ubuntu set the dongle to behave like a BT stack (HCI-mode) without keeping the keyboard and mouse connected. It reconnects the devices after the login... And it does a lousy job keeping the devices connected. The mouse usually lose connection after it has gone to sleep and you have to remove it manually and pair it again. You can keep the dongle in HID-mode by commenting out a couple of lines in /lib/udev/rules.d/70-hid2hci.rules

    The Logitech section should look like this:

    # Logitech devices
    #KERNEL=="hiddev*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c70[345abce]|c71[34bc]", \
    # RUN+="hid2hci --method=logitech-hid --devpath=%p"

  8. Re:Shouldn't they be happy? on RIAA Now Blames Journalists For Its Piracy Trouble · · Score: 1

    The music stock will be sold and we will see yet another flood of "Best of" CDs that the new owners releases to recoup the cost.

  9. Re:Earthquake In Nebraska Last Week on Midwest Earthquake Hazard Downplayed · · Score: 1

    Was it a green chair? A photo of a green overturned lawn chair were used to describe storm "damage" during hurricane season a couple of years ago.

  10. Re:Not uncommon on Giant Impact Crater Found In Australia · · Score: 1

    Result of volcanic activity and erosion.

  11. Re:What's next? on Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, Now Available · · Score: 1

    Oh, I forgot:

    Naughty Nautilus?
    Nervous Nutria?

  12. What's next? on Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, Now Available · · Score: 1

    Narcoleptic Newt?
    Neurotic Narwhal?
    Numb Nightingale?

  13. Mail this. Share this. Add this. Follow this. on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    And stop designing web pages with floating horizontal toolbars. Why can't they just put it in a sidebar? No, I don't want to follow your lousy web site on Facebook. I don't have a Twitter account. Go Away!

  14. goat.se on Seven Words You Can't Say On Google Instant · · Score: 1

    Why does 2600 hate Göran Persson?

  15. Re:One of many ways... on Was This the First Denial of Service Attack? · · Score: 1

    In the late 80:s, there were a bug in sunos that generated a kenel panic when you did a rcp (remote copy) to the audio device. The file copied ok until rcp tried to close /dev/audio. Some bloke spoke to his Sun rep. about this. But the rep being an ass, he downed every workstation at the local Sun office (I think it was in Sweden) using a sample from the movie "2001", where HAL says "My mind is going". After that he didn't dare come forward with the bug being afraid of losing his job. I think they fixed it by setting the rights to /dev/audio.

  16. Re:Sounds like a fork... on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 1

    Wow! My first time-traveler spotting!

  17. Re:interesting, on The First Windows 7 Zero-Day Exploit · · Score: 1

    In the eighties it was known as TRSR (The Red Switch Reset)

  18. Re:QR code? on Microsoft Tag, Smartphone-Scannable Barcodes · · Score: 1

    What you're thinking of is the Swiss Beetagg (hexagonal dots) system. There are a special Beetagg reader that also reads QR code and semacode tags.

  19. Re:Baby steps to the solution on A Look At the CoreFlood Botnet · · Score: 1

    but they do not protect against modified transactions. If an attacker has root on your system, then he can simply escalate the keylogging attack to a live modification of the transaction data.

    You're talking about the "man in the middle" attack. My bank, SEB, uses the transaction amount as one of the numbers I have to enter into the digipass to generate a pass key. In order to beat that they have to crack my digipass completely and I can't see how they will accomplish that since the digipass isn't connected to the computer in any way.

  20. Re:Three Gorges Dam on Stupid Engineering Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Ignoring the fact that the Yellow River is yellow.

  21. Re:I want to know how they did it! on MIT Hackers Appropriate Caltech Cannon · · Score: 1

    Try googling "kryptonite" and "bic pen"

  22. Re:"Optical Recgnition"? on How to Discover Impact Craters with Google Earth · · Score: 1

    N22.04 E19.22 and N22.16 E19.45 looks like calderas (collapsed volcanos)

  23. Re:Paper maps are not accurate on Google Terror Threat · · Score: 1

    Well, the Swedish maps were subjected to military censorship 'til they realized that the enemy (USSR) just had to compare the our maps against their and check out the unmarked buildings (i.e. military depots). The russians already have topographical maps of Sweden, thanks to air (Aeroflot) and satellite surveillance. All those errors in the maps are copy protection so they can see if someone used their data. A kind of water marking.

  24. Truly rugged phone? on Just a Phone? · · Score: 1

    Why can't they make a phone that's 100% dust proof, basic functions and buttons big enough to be usable wearing work gloves. My phones usually gets stuffed with magnetic dust in the microphone and the speaker. Well it's nice that some of them are water and shock resistant. But when you can't clean the speaker cavity with compressed air they're not for me.

    I got this one huge Ericsson R250pro. Rugged phone that you could rinse under water and open access to the speaker, unfortunately the speaker couldn't stand shocks (the permanent magnet slipped sideways locking the membrane coil). Ericsson wouldn't admit that they screwed that one up.

    Since my current phone (S-E T310) has trouble sending to the cell tower, I might look into ear protectors with Bluetooth to go with my next one or go looking for a "shark fin".

    I don't need camera since some of my customers have camera bans in place on their sites. Mp3? I've got a Ipod for that.

  25. Re:How do they get your fax number? on Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Wardialers. Thats what fax.com use to get your number.