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  1. Re:embedding signiature?? on Hydan: Steganography in Executables · · Score: 1

    That's fine, except the software authors' claim is that the file size remains unchanged.

  2. Re:Linux vs. Windows on Linux vs. Windows · · Score: 1

    Whatever you use your computer for, just be productive and the issue of operating system becomes irrelevant.

    Arguably the GUI&/CLI is part of an O/S (yes, this is less true for GUIs and shells on Linux) and that does affect productivity, however.

  3. Linux vs. Windows on Linux vs. Windows · · Score: 1, Funny

    Isn't that what /. is really all about? Begin flame war... NOW!

  4. Translation on Disney Enters PC Market · · Score: 1

    With a childish design: Windows XP
    built in content control: Windows Media Player
    and other kid-friendly features:Admin accounts, for playing games and then browsing to spyware-installer sites in IE

    Microsoft and Disney: both sell mice. So are they really one and the same?

  5. Re:Women on long-term space flights? on ESA To Study Human Hibernation · · Score: 1

    Interesting women fall asleep before sex

    I think you meant to say feign sleep.

    How was it we evolved again?

    Clearly, it was thanks to uninteresting women. This must explain my problems trying to find interesting women.

  6. Re:Good News! on Australia to Get Software Patents and Anti-Circumvention Laws · · Score: 1

    The US legislation is signed by Bush, but it requires both countries to pass legislation before it comes into effect.

  7. Scientific collaboration networks on Top 100 Papers in Physics Ranked · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you're interested in network theory in general, and as it applies to scientific collaborations, you could do much worse than checking out Mark Newman's publications, in particular this, this, and this.

  8. Re:"Re:Nothing for you to see here." The answer is on An Insider's View of Software Patents · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Other neat tricks on Google:

    1. Do a search on "1" and then "2" ... "9" and for each number plot the number of hits returned versus the number, and you end up with something like Benford's Law.
    2. On Babelfish, enter a phrase in one language, and keep translating it through the set of languages until you hit a limit cycle.

  9. Re:Come on! on Microsoft Outsourcing High-Level Work · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's the god awful color again. How tough it this to change? Who decided on this horrible, horrible, horrible color scheme?

    Color scheme decisions got outsourced.

  10. Re:Which is why... on NIST Proposes Abandoning DES · · Score: 1

    My bad, I got eavesdropping mixed up with man-in-the-middle attacks.

  11. Re:Which is why... on NIST Proposes Abandoning DES · · Score: 1

    You cannot use a one time pad forever.

    That's not what I said, I said you can use the one time pad encryption scheme forever. Please read all the words next time.

    This is very important because without integrity over a clasical channel, even quantum cryptography would have been vulnurable to a man in the midle attack.

    Quantum crypto key exchange is invulnerable to a man in the middle attack because in QM making a measurement disturbs the state of the system that is then detectable by the true receiver, it is not due to anything classical.

  12. Re:Computation power?? on NIST Proposes Abandoning DES · · Score: 1

    It is always expected that any encryption will be crackable given sufficient computing power

    Not one time pads, although they are unpractical, and quantum cryptography which is (currently) expensive, and also distance limited since repeaters can't be used.

  13. Re:Which is why... on NIST Proposes Abandoning DES · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which is why we have to invent an unrealistic encryption scheme. Then we can use it forever.

    You mean a one time pad?

  14. Re:Entirely Factual? on Phish Scams Fooling 28% of Users · · Score: 1

    I see emails from VeralsisWorldofOTKSpankingDrawings-bounce@groups.m sn.com addressed to my PHB's work email address.

  15. Re:Obligatory MS Bashing ... on Democratic Convention Computer Security Threat? · · Score: 1

    That's not an oxymoron.

  16. Re:Oh wow, good call. on 419ers Diversify Into Assassination Threats? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Section 323 of the Nigerian penal code:
    Any person who, knowing the contents thereof, directly or indirectly causes any person to receive any writing threatening to kill any person is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

    So no we're going to have start calling them 323s.

  17. Answer on NBC Aims For Stability Through Redundancy In Athens · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Resale

  18. Re:Why the indirect linkage via a blog? on NBC Aims For Stability Through Redundancy In Athens · · Score: 1

    This story just seems to be posted to drive traffic to a blog. Why do the Slashdot editors allow this?

    I take it you didn't win the hourly prize then?

  19. Re:wow on NBC Aims For Stability Through Redundancy In Athens · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just check out the Athens soccer stadium!

  20. Apollo 11: proudly brought to you by... on Apollo 11's 35th Anniversary · · Score: 4, Informative
  21. Re:mach 10 on X43-A on to Mach 10 · · Score: 2, Informative

    They forgot to teach you that the speed of sound varies with air density and hence altitude, so it's not quite as trivial. Of course the number of seconds and divide by 5 rule is an approximation anyway.

  22. Re:4,800 degrees farenheit.. on X43-A on to Mach 10 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    4,800 deg. F is not twice as hot as 2,400F. Use SI units: 2,400 ~=1589K, so twice as hot is 3178K

  23. Re:More digits... on Bar Coding The World Away · · Score: 1

    It's already there.

  24. Re:Very stupid question... on Mozilla Foundation Now IRS 501(c)(3) Approved · · Score: 1

    Surely a non-profit organisation still needs to assure it has money in the bank and pay its employees.

    Yes, but a traditional business is supposed to also pay its shareholders / owners, ie make a profit instead of being non-profit.

  25. Re:Garage door remotes on U.S. Government Sometimes Jams Keyless Car Locks? · · Score: 1

    You don't need to wait for the US to show up, just drive up to the top of Mt Wellington, park your car, and wait for Your ABC to do the trick to your car's immobilizer with their broadcasts.