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  1. Re:Bad way to search for kiddie porn on US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search · · Score: 1

    Instead of hashing the file, one would analyze the picture/movie for bone structure and basic body structure and hash that.

  2. Re:Once again kids: on Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Report · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A rather nastier way:

    Get the file and take it home. Load it in a VM and do your stuff in there. Cut to all the juicy parts (like all the rich people's kids and such). Now, print about 50 of these, using yellow-dot hackers to obfuscate your printer.

    Now take these papers and litter them around at a PTO meeting. Heads Will Roll. Just make sure to make yourself scarce so yours wont.

  3. The felonous emperor has no clothes. on Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Report · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And one who breaks security is like the one who alerts the king about wearing no clothes. You WILL get punished. You WILL be dealt with.

    I saw this all the time at schools, jobs and like. People dont like smart people. People who intentionally find broken ideas and mechanisms will be dealt with, not glorified and congratulated. Highlighting a security problem means they have to put in the effort to fix what you brought to their attention, or threaten you to STFU.

    If you are smart about security, keep your mouth shut. There's not much you can do, except yourself be a target.

  4. Re:Give a break on "series of tubes" on Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The techies call it pipes anyways. Same damned thing.

    I never saw anything bad about this, except for the idiot techies who laughed at "series of tubes" cause that's what it is.

    But where Im at, I call it fscking dialup.

  5. Re:Agreed, Very Interesting repercussions on Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The fact that somebody committed suicide over a trivial happening indicates that they were suffering from a disease of the mind.

    Suicide in terms of protecting a loved one is bravery, as is the solder who does the same for their comrades. It is questionable if it is acceptable to do so if they are end-term on a horrific disease, due to the chance of recovery.

  6. Re:Who cares? on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1

    Which is why Christianity is broken.

    There are deeds that are worse than others. Those class of deeds are ones that one cannot undo. One can return or replace stolen goods. One can fix what was broken.

    However, one cannot erase the memory of rape, or undo murder.

    To claim that somehow sin is all equal is just broken, as there are certain actions that can never be undone.

  7. Re:Ethics or just disgust with a cheap-ass boss? on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1

    Its cause Im text scraping. A bot doesnt need no screens!

  8. Re:Who Needs Traditional Peer Review? on Modern Methods For Sharing Innovation · · Score: 1

    We dont need a paper to determine if something is possible. Instead, you do it and document what you did to get to that point.

    You dont need sources upon sources upon papers upon esteemed colleagues. All you need is your wits, know-how and elbow grease.

    Im thinking about that Australian who designed a 1 million/min electrically fired gun, the Wiimote, Linux, and other hardware.

  9. Re:I highly recommend BackTrack 3. on Best OS For Netbooks and Underpowered Tablets? · · Score: 1

    Uh huh. Like I'd trust a bunch of exploiters to play nice with a system. What's its main feature? Extracting the SAM db on your windows machine and mailing it to remote-exploit.com? I'd bet a dollar that there's a trojan or 2 there for the unsuspecting users.

    Even though, it is their right to do so, they choose to advertise in that system. The claim is that only bookmarks are being advertised... Hardly doubt that.

  10. Re:Excel vs OO.o on OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And why would the financial world trust Excel at anything statistical?

    One would use a real stat suite, lest you implement the formulas (or MS) wrong.

    There was recently an article stating that Excel stat isnt very accurate. It was rounding errors 10^-2 or -3, which could easily compound if used excessively.

  11. Re:Linux or Windows? on Best OS For Netbooks and Underpowered Tablets? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well... That slimmed down XP sounds darned interesting. I think I'll add it to my netboot options over my lan for possible installation.

    And after a long and hard search, 30 seconds later, here's the link.

    Since you cant buy it, I see no reason why we cant download and use it. It does need a cdkey, from that which you will need yours.

  12. Re:Depends on inherent Linux compatability on Best OS For Netbooks and Underpowered Tablets? · · Score: 1

    That's why when I went with my new laptop, I went with a T61 Thinkpad with every bit of intel equipment I could get. I stayed away from Nvidia and Broadcomm both, so I could get Intel gfx and Intel abg wireless. I did choose to go with 4G ram, because I virtualize a few OSes here and there for certain purposes as testing or console playing.

    Suffice it to say, everything on my laptop works 100% with Linux. It runs even better than Windows does (it had vista basic cause they offered no freedos). And with, albeit unstable 8.10, everything runs fine... considering I never used .gvfs anyways. I hate that gnome-only mounting system as I'd rather use pyNeighborhood anyways and have it hook up to ~/mnt/$name_of_computer/$name_of_share/

  13. Re:Power usage effectiveness isn't the whole story on Microsoft, Google Battle Over Energy Efficiency · · Score: 1

    In the "Old Days", NT 4.0 had build targets for X86, Alpha, Sparc, and MIPS.

    Only recently did they can the other 3 architectures.

  14. Re:Afterword on Schneier on Security · · Score: 1

    That's the thing: all security can be broken. All security has some sort of a hole or another. People do not want to hear about "possible avenues of attack".

    Security really comes down to trust: do you trust the person you hired to not sell the company out or do evil to the company?

    The problems that beget lower security can be attributed to a cost of business.

  15. Re:Afterword on Schneier on Security · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And one who breaks security is like the one who alerts the king about wearing no clothes. You WILL get punished. You WILL be dealt with.

    I saw this all the time at schools, jobs and like. People dont like smart people. People who intentionally find broken ideas and mechanisms will be dealt with, not glorified and congratulated. Highlighting a security problem means they have to put in the effort to fix what you brought to their attention, or threaten you to STFU.

    If you are smart about security, keep your mouth shut. There's not much you can do, except yourself be a target.

  16. Re:Or... on Many Universities Spending $100K/Year Enforcing P2P Rules · · Score: 1

    Instead, what kind of a moron would do work THEN ask money for it?

    Real workers come to an agreement on what work gets done, then the work gets done and they're paid for it.

    Artsy types are doing it backwards.. They do work up front, for nobody in particular, then demand money for it. They ought to negotiate like the 99% of non-artsy types and do services rendered for money.

  17. Re:Air on Linux Ecosystem Is Worth $25 Billion · · Score: 0

    ---There is more to life than money.

    Not to a Capitalist.

  18. Ok. on Vendetta Online Lets Users Create New Game Content · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Lets see...

    You create the content.
    THEY approve the content.
    You and your friends play the content.

    They only have to wait for YOU to create it.

    So you're paying to PLAY your game.

    Smart.

  19. Re:Idealist have great ideas that shouldn't be use on Linux As a Model For a New Government? · · Score: 1

    What would go along with that worldview is the fact that when the USSR was dissolved, Russia took its place on the UN Security Council, along with the other 4 permanents.

  20. Re:It would have similar flaws to our current Govt on Linux As a Model For a New Government? · · Score: 1

    Vote for me and Ill give you a check for 10000$ !!!

    95% of the people will get the money as I only take the money from people who made WAAAY too much and those smelly companies! They deserve it!

    (There's your problem with democracy. Once people realize that they can maximize their gain in voting, they will always do so, regardless of ramifications even 1 day ahead.)

  21. Re:New governements on Linux As a Model For a New Government? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the idea IS that our base Constitution, after fixing those 2/5 person issues, has nothing else wrong.

    After all, Thomas Jefferson about the tree of liberty is most likely right. But who wants to go to war against the US govt?

  22. Re:Direct Democracy on Linux As a Model For a New Government? · · Score: 1

    Letting everybody have the vote isnt.. good.

    It's like 2 wolves and 1 sheep voting who's for supper. People are inherently greedy and will at any chance "vote" to take from those they perceive with more.

    No. What we need in this country is freedom. Small government that gets out of your way to do what you want to do. No unnecessary taxes and no taxes that you cant pay (like property tax).

    Democracy is effectively Communism... It just takes a few rounds of voting before it appears that way. And it also grants no individual rights, as they can be taken away at a simple majority vote. There's democracy for you.

     

  23. Re:There is an existing model to work from on Linux As a Model For a New Government? · · Score: 1

    It reminds me somewhat how the Greeks did it long ago...

    One was selected to do public service from a lottery. All their important jobs to keep the community and country running were pulled from a random chance.

    After a short reading, it does seem rather interesting as a base set to make a new government, however it does seem made for religious institutions, not populations.

    Given our anti-religious climate and "Congress shall make no..." set forth in the Bill of Rights, I dont think it would fly easily. And I do object to restriction on people's speech about possible good candidates for a specific position. I don't take lightly to restrictions on free speech.

  24. Re:Unauthorized impairment of a protected computer on Hacker Admits To Scientology DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Mentioning Europe, I believe that Germany has placed Scientology (spit!) on their terrorist watch list.

  25. Any.. on Playstation Network Gets Revised, More Restrictive ToS · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Any questions now why DRM is a... MASSIVE FAIL?

    Just wait until the PS3 is no longer popular and Sony shuts down the netplay servers. Wow... nobody'll then be able to play along or against each other. DRM at its finest.