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  1. Re:Wait... I think I missed something. on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 1

    using a collection of digital signatures and a distributed network like TOR, or even a hidden service on the TOR network it should be possible for anonymous individuals to build reputations under their signing key as being accurate verifiers, potential stories would be reviewed by these secret verifiers then if the verifier thinks everything is on the up and up, digitally signs the story and either posts it, or passes it along to a journalist they know.


    anyone could be a verifier and who to trust would be up to the reader

  2. Re:Why... on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 1

    That's where this gets tricky and generally bogs down.

    seems simple enough, "any person, organization, or machine collecting information for the purpose of public dissemination of that information"

  3. Re:This is likely why MS has GPOs in W7 on Pentagon Confirms 2008 Computer Breach — 'Worst Ever' · · Score: 1

    compiler should have had a valid signing key

  4. Re:Itunes requires quicktime on New QuickTime Flaw Bypasses ASLR, DEP · · Score: 4, Insightful

    bonzi buddy was pretty widely installed too.

  5. Re:Coincidences on Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? · · Score: 1

    king of the cable news market? that's like being the biggest fish in a bucket.

  6. Re:True patriots on Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? · · Score: 1

    it's a bullshit statistic.

    think about it, if some jackass came up to you and asked dumb questions, wouldn't you be tempted to give a mind numbingly stupid answer just to screw with him?

    the only way to get reliable information about level of knowledge is to be asking harder questions, or reward correct answers with something, like money or free food.

  7. Re:Haven't I seen this movie before? on Pentagon Confirms 2008 Computer Breach — 'Worst Ever' · · Score: 1

    my little 4 gig USB drive would become a dangerous projectile long before a magnetic field actually hurt it. my SD cards won't even do that.


    unless you intend to use a powerful and oscillating electrical field, which will also kill anyone with a pacemaker or metal implant.

  8. Re:This is likely why MS has GPOs in W7 on Pentagon Confirms 2008 Computer Breach — 'Worst Ever' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    there should be a way to restrict execution to only code signed by the owning organization's IT security.

  9. Re:Morons on Lexmark Sues 24 Companies Over Toner-Cartridge Patents · · Score: 1

    we have an HP multifucktion copier doc server fax printer at work. no that isn't a typo. i will never purchase or suggest another person purchase an HP device after having to deal with the bullshit from this thing. it's the second newest machine we have (our very newest is a tiny little single function ricoh copier right next to the HP $3000pileofShit9000)

    the HP will stop in the middle of a 2 or 3 page copy or print job to enter a cleaning cycle, and constantly halts with a jam inside lower right door, when there is no jam it just wants to fuck over productivity for half an hour while we get it running again.

  10. Re:Evidently you've not shopped for a laser printe on Lexmark Sues 24 Companies Over Toner-Cartridge Patents · · Score: 1

    others have already pwned you on how much more lasers can print, the other issue is laser printers can sit unused for a long time and be fine. leave your ink jet with new ink sitting for 9 months and you will need new carts or at least need to blow a ton of ink and paper running head clean cycles.

  11. Re:little OT.... on Searching For Backdoors From Rogue IT Staff · · Score: 1

    and the extra ethernet wire running to a cantenna'd WAP lets the bad guy back in

    or the main database server accepts a normal looking connection from a normal employee workstation, that isn't a workstation but actually is a wall wart computer mounted inside the wall masquerading to the network as a workstation.

  12. Re:Sweeeeet nectar on AMD Details Upcoming Bulldozer Architecture · · Score: 1

    $1176? my entire 8gig phenom 965 black edition machine cost that much including the SSD primary hard drive

  13. Re:I'd say treat it like a DR drill on Searching For Backdoors From Rogue IT Staff · · Score: 1

    and the data being restored contains a buffer overflow exploit that reroots the new system

  14. Re:Having helped build a couple on Scott Adams On the Difficulty of Building a 'Green' Home · · Score: 1

    that is what the shotgun if for

  15. Re:LEED certification and Sick Building Syndrome on Scott Adams On the Difficulty of Building a 'Green' Home · · Score: 1

    with some clever hacks you can save energy on other things too. tear apart the back of your fridge and add a duct that taps the outside portion of the exchange in winter and spend almost nothing to keep your food cold all winter, if you really want to go nuts you can pre-preheat your oven with outside air on a hot day, but that's a lot less useful (but not so bad in reverse, cool the oven with outside air in the summer so less heat radiates into the house.

  16. Re:Nope on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 1

    ". Japan currently has a stockpile of over 43 tons of plutonium, all separated from spent fuel extracted from commercial light-water reactors"


    that is how they plan on fueling their battlemechs i assume?

  17. Re:Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 1

    yea sure let inspectors in, that worked out so great for iraq. regardless of whether or not they let the inspectors in the war hawks will say they interfered or hid stuff from the inspectors to justify an attack, so they may as well keep them out and not give away valuable intelligence to a potential attacker.

  18. Re:convenient but useless on Portal On the Booklist At Wabash College · · Score: 1

    that occurs because before developers took the possibility of an extra crate or two into account some games were much easier if you brought and extra block with you

  19. Re:Torrenting on Why You Shouldn't Worry About IPv6 Just Yet · · Score: 1

    not torrenting TORrenting

  20. Re:Network meltdown due to hub cross-connects on Stupid Data Center Tricks · · Score: 1

    a hub can also be a switch. I have worked with people who referred to both switches and repeaters as hubs

  21. Re:Anonymous Coward on Blizzard Sues Private Server Company, Awarded $88M · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the monster stats and behaviors are copyrighted, you can't reverse engineer a copyright work and claim it is not copyrighted anymore.

    if a server operator gave the clients new map and monster packs just using the WoW engine that would be a lawful reverse engineered product.

    however i am unaware of any servers that do that.

  22. Re:For you dad... on Recycling an Android Phone As a Handheld GPS? · · Score: 1

    I had a tomtom car gps die on me once in a city I had never driven in. It was a chilly night but well above freezing and no reason for it to stop working. I now swear by Garmin but a magellin is probably solid too. Never trust a tomtom.

  23. Re:Can the mouse cursor be positioned by a script? on ReCAPTCHA.net Now Vulnerable to Algorithmic Attack · · Score: 1

    even if it couldn't be done normally, a hostile client could say the cursor is over the script just as easilly as it could place the cursor there.

  24. Re:Another current negotiation method on Hardware Hackers Reveal Apple's Charger Secrets · · Score: 1

    the flaw in that is it provides no way for a device compliant with your spec to know if what it is connected to is alkso compliant, just "start drawing and wait for a blip or a fire"

  25. Re:No!! on Should Professors Be Required To Teach With Tech? · · Score: 1

    sure there is when there is $$$$$ or even $$$$$$$ to be made selling "clickers" and other such horseshit to admins who don't undderstand how useless it is.