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  1. Is it possible to build in a decoy? on British Police Demand Access To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1
    Let's say i wanted to encrypt a jpeg

    As I understand it, encryption works through software using a given algorithm to convert a given (readable) set of data to an unreadable form. The person encrypting has a key they could use to decrypt the data into a readable form.

    Could software be written with the following functionality? I specify the jpeg I want to encrypt (say a picture of me in leather with a rose between my teeth which I use as my profile on a sadomasochism site), specify the encryption algoritm to use, specify the key, and lastly specify a decoy jpeg (say a pic of a rose).

    The software then provides me with an encryped file which can be decoded to the original using the key I specified, and it also provides a key which, if used, will convert the encrypted file to the decoy jpeg.

  2. Re:The smokers forced the ban on Internet Access 10 Kilometers High Up In The Air · · Score: 1

    Insightful! Something tells me this was not the poster's intention.

  3. Re:Ummmm, Okay. I'm Following Along, I Think... on Writing Fiction Using SubEthaEdit · · Score: 1

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  4. Re:Ah slashdot on Software Monoculture in Schools? · · Score: 1
    "If only there were some why to harness energy from arrogant pricks, slashdot could put OPEC out of business."

    Isn't the fact that we harness energy from them the reason we associate with those arrogant pricks in Saudi Arabia?

  5. Re:Ps on P2P Networks Blamed For Software Losses Doubling · · Score: 1
    Only $100?

    I refer to surrounding posts. The majority of people, myself included, are neither ineterested in nor able to pay for any software with a price tag above free.

    For the moment pitated software is more user friendly than OSS, and just as easy to get. If the situation changed, and pirated software became harder to find, a lot of people would just bite the bullet and download the OSS alternative.

  6. Re:Why just the port? on Comcast Port 25 Blocks Result In Less Spam · · Score: 2, Funny
    I believe a home visit by a cattle-prod wielding Company Representative would also do the trick, and I'm sure myself and other recipients of offers such as "Increase Your Penis Size While Improving Your Search Engine Placings On Google" would willingly fund this if neccessary.

  7. Gates and Balmer Overdrive on Build Your Own FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    Bourne 2 Beos Wireless Interface Linux Distribution

  8. Re:Up next: the fuel cell powered vibrator on Toshiba Develops World's Smallest Fuel Cells · · Score: 1
  9. Utter pish on Official Firefly Movie Web Site Launched · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yet another collection of cliches cobbled together and passed off as a plot. I take it someone somewhere has developed a Random Crap Generator? Is it Open Source?

  10. Re:Wrong crowd... on Playing Games While Not Ruining Your Relationship? · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yup - you want a quip about Microsoft being demons then you've come to the right place. Romance tips... All I can suggest is buying a furry glove

  11. COO? on Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free · · Score: 1
    "Sun's President and COO"

    In Capitalist Scotland a COO is something that says MOO

  12. Re:Hey, Fedora's not that bad! on Fedora Core 2 Dud or Dodo? · · Score: 1

    Fedora is not really intended for Joe Sixpack, as the article says. Anyone competent enough with computers to require FC2 will be competent enough to perform the fix, widely available online, and restore their XP partition unharmed.

  13. Re:umph... on Fedora Core 2 Dud or Dodo? · · Score: 1
    John Wayne could edit that /etc/xorg.conf file faster than any codeslinger alive. He was so devoted to the command line that he died of terminal cancer. If he were alive today, he'd saddle up his GNU, ride to Redmond, and hack Bill Gates apart. At High Noon.

    Now that's a REAL man - he'd read all the man pages, even wrote some of them himself... In re!

  14. Re:News Opinion on Biometric ID Cards Trialled in Glasgow · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You're actually right.

    Sorry!

  15. Re:ah, too late! on Voice Over IP Goes Global, The DNS Way · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Not if you can do it through your ass!

  16. Correction on Biometric ID Cards Trialled in Glasgow · · Score: 3, Informative
    Part of the section attributed to me is a quote from The Register.

    'It costs the UK 1.3 billion a year, and facilitates organised crime, illegal immigration, benefit fraud, illegal working and terrorism,'[Quote from Des Brown] Home Office Minister Des Browne said. He then said that the ID card would fix all this, but did not say how.[Quote from The Register].It's not only in the US where governments are using the excuse of terrorism to infringe on civil liberties.[Quote from StuWho].

  17. Re:Scaled Up on Things You Can Do With A Giant Fresnel Lens · · Score: 1
    Thank you all for taking the time to answer my question. To quote one respondant - a 300ft by 300ft lens is "one badass lens" indeed!

    Goddamn! I'd love to see it focussed on a house! You could slice the bastard like a joint of bacon!

  18. Scaled Up on Things You Can Do With A Giant Fresnel Lens · · Score: 1

    IANAPH but it the lens was say 300 feet by 300ft, would it still be possible to focus the light to a 1cm point? And if so, does the size of the lens increse the temperature?

  19. Re:Contrast with Mosaic circa 1994 on Mozilla's Mini-Me · · Score: 1

    Try this.if you actually facy the comparison.

  20. Re:For the Confused Amoung Us on JBoss's Fleury Abjures Astroturfing · · Score: 1
    I love this word - fake grass roots support - superb!

    The web is perhaps the most dynamic forge of language in use today. Karma-whoring... Another beauty

    Of course Astroturfing could also refer to the practice of wearing a merkin or selling dodgy marijuana.

    I think Fleury should be given a medal for bringing this fascinating word to our attention.

    J Smith

    (Absolutely not a JBoss Employee... Honestly)

    (But please don't trace my IP. Thanks)

  21. More dead cable on Cometa WiFi Hotspot Network To Shut Down · · Score: 1
    In the Nineties thousands of miles of fibreoptic lines were laid - far more than rational analysis of expected usage could justify - with the result that there is now a glut of bandwith and all the companies who spent millions laying the cables went bust.

    The same thing seems to be happening with wireless data services - both wi-fi and cellular (3G anyone) - the bandwagon is rolling.

  22. Re:A little locale on SBC CWA Strike Imminent · · Score: 5, Funny
    "SBC union workers are preparing (again) to strike after negotiations have broken down between CWA and SBC"

    SBC is the Somalian Bodybuilders Co-op, they are in dispute with the Cameroon Weightlifting Association (CWA). Something about stolen training methods.

    It's only really relevant because Microsoft fund SBC.

  23. Re:Message to 1995 on Cyber-Soap Returns From The Dead · · Score: 1

    PPS - You were right about Michael Jackson

  24. oo will buy my luvly bots? on Infected PCs for Rent · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Roll up Guvnor. You looks like a fine Gent and no mistake, but what's a fine Gent if he's not a man in need of a spambot with its tendrils in many fine PCs?

    2 and 6 Guvnor, you know you want it. Orl yer Viagra and Nigerian Malarkey - perfect for it, it is!

    Oh... Come on Guv!

    Let's call it a Tanner then.

  25. Was the solar system downloaded from kazaa? on The Venus Transit 2004 · · Score: 1

    "giving us the chance to see a small black spot going accross the disk"