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  1. Re:One other thing on Intel's Quad Core CPU Reviewed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Four core and seven years ago chipzilla brought forth on this on this die, a new processor, conceived in vanity, and dedicated to the proposition that all CPUs shall require a nuclear power plant to function.

    Guess they should have called the platform Gettysburg.

  2. Re:Creating them is a problem on Concern Over Creating Black Holes · · Score: 1

    Why, I don't see what could be wrong with having an infinitely penis. :')

  3. Death is not permanent online. on Avatars Need Personal Space Too · · Score: 1

    Death is not permanent online.

    Need to read your copy of Neuromancer again, fuck with the wrong black ice, and death online is infact, permanent.

    Oh, wait I guess I'm about 20 years ahead of reality.

  4. Re:Why would one want to do this? on LDAP Authentication in Linux · · Score: 1

    On my windows box I can login as Administator\NETWORK or Administrator\LOCAL, it seems likely you can have a fallback on your unix box too.

  5. Re:Stupid? on P2P Defendant Destroys Evidence, Case Defaults · · Score: 1

    Quick, learn too much for your own good

    Look in to using TrueCrypt + TC Temp, this will setup a truecrypt volume at bootup, set windows to use this drive as the TMP and TEMP directories, make sure your user profile in windows uses it as temporary storage also (think IE cache). Set your windows swap file to use the TCTEMP volume also.

    Setup a second truecrypt volume for your file sharing program and songs, do not copy the songs or other files to and unencrypted part of the hard drive. Run MRU blaster and Adaware to keep the recent file lists clear on your programs. Run an eraser program on the free space of your drive weekly as a percaution anyway.

    Remember before you delete your filesharing programs and data, uninstall the program first, DO NOT connect to the internet at this time, many programs will register the uninstall on a remote server. After uninstalling the program and zaping the truecrypt volume search the windows registry for left over keys that would show that the program has been installed. Do a full free space wipe on the drive.

    Now, hopefully you have a highspeed internet connection, get Wget for windows and set it to recursively download microsoft.com, slashdot.org, ibm.com and any other huge site you can think of till the drive is almost full. Delete these files (but not erase them) then defragment your drive.

    Make sure you leave NO TRACE of TrueCrypt or any secure file erasing program on your hard drive.

    And make sure your copy of windows is licenced!

    And name your political speech and religious freedom mp3s deceptively so they have to listen to 40 hours of essays on freedom of speach and copy right to see if you have one copy of britanny!

  6. Re:TrueCrypt is not for USB sticks on Is the U3 Smart Drive Encryption Any Good? · · Score: 2, Informative

    TrueCrypt no longer uses CBC in the latest versions, LRW mode has been the default mode since some time in the 4.1 version and beyond.

  7. Re:U3 'encryption' is a joke on Is the U3 Smart Drive Encryption Any Good? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm beginning to agree with you that U3 security is a joke. After googling for about 10 minutes here I've not been able to find much 'real' information on the security of U3. Its all press releases loaded with buzzwords, and no whitepapers telling how the drives work and which encryption standards are present.

    That concerns me, encryption is far eaiser to get wrong then right. On the TrueCrypt forums they are pretty good at telling you how bad there dog food is, and how to to lessen these risks. I'll stick with TC and a good security policy for now.

  8. Re:TrueCrypt is not for USB sticks on Is the U3 Smart Drive Encryption Any Good? · · Score: 1

    You can add one more step to improve security on USB drives in your scenerio, but it comes out of the USB drives life expectancy.

    Get a program like Eraser (free, but for MS operating systems). Choose erease free space after installing. This will fill the remaining space on the drive with files, then overwrite them to the security level you choose. I would recommend only doing a single pass psudeorandom free space wipe, but do it every time before you remove the drive from the computer.

    Is there any spec's on what encryption type/standard U3 is using?

  9. Re:It could never happen here on Korea's Online Aggression a Taste of the Future? · · Score: 1
    His confession conflicts with every publicly-revealed fact, suggesting that he is completely ignorant of the case.

    Many times the police will lie to the media about 'facts' for two reasons

    1. Some criminals will get pissed and do something irrational or unexpected, leading to there capture.
    2. It can weed out false accusations of guilt by someone only knowing the media portrayed facts.

    I'll withhold judgement until the Colorado police question him about his involvement.

  10. Re:Sadly... on Lessig Defends Free Culture in Keynote · · Score: 1
    drum up more outrage is simply because most people are entertainment sinks.

    That is because the media companies want us to be entertainment sinks. Much of the population is too busy filling there mind with crap to notice what is going on in the world unless its being broadcast to them by one of the big six.

    Check out "You Are Being Lied To" by Rusk Kick for some insightful information

  11. Re:Last Saturday on The Technology of Drug Prohibition · · Score: 1

    If drugs were legal and somebody sold you a bad batch, or didn't deliver, you could take them to court.

    err, Yea, tell that to Merek.

  12. Re:Privacy on The UK's Total Surveillance · · Score: 1

    illegal immigrants have no money (at least in bank accounts the cops can monitor), your financial history is all on record along with your tax history. The police lose money processing illegal's, they police raise money via fines because you'll pay them. Who are they going to fine/imprison first.

  13. Re:Child Porn on AOL Releases Search Logs of 657,427 Users · · Score: 1

    Whoever modded you Troll must have meant to hit the "True and too depressing to look at button, Hide from other users". And remember when searching "Overthrow facist goverment" and "bombs, guns, weapons" to use someone elses computer.

  14. Re:The ultimate DRM on Examining the Era of Print-on-Demand · · Score: 1

    I can easily give my book to someone else, I can think of no laws preventing this either (short of an NDA). A file that is encrypted and key encoded to my computer/device has much higher technical barrier, the DCMA allows for penalties if I break the encryption.

  15. Re:sugar sugar on Growing Insulin · · Score: 1

    On a farm if you want to fatten up livestock quickly, feed them a diet high in HFCS. Puts on fat like nothing else.

  16. THOUGHTCRIME! on UK Hackers Face Antisocial Behaviour Orders · · Score: 1

    1984, its not just a book, its DOUBLEPLUSREALLIFE.

  17. Re:Warning... on Lithium-Ion Batteries Linked to Airplane Fires · · Score: 1

    http://www.jaeri.go.jp/english/press/980624/supp.h tml

    That site has a little info on solid oxygen. I dont think your going to get the chance to play with it though... It forms a solid under 1/2 million atmospheres of pressure. I do think that if you quickly move it from the pressure chamber to our atmosphere that it would violently decompress and oxidize everything around it.

  18. Re:They do have a point on McAfee Blames Open Source for Botnets · · Score: 1
    Why should I tell theives how to work the exploit? Who is that good for? Isn't it better to disclose what's necessary to let people know what is wrong and what to do about it, but not provide a DIY guide for the malicious?

    What if the theif lives in one of the condo's... In real life (most)people dont walk around with signs saying I am a computer hacker/professional burgular/rapist.

  19. Re:Some Ns Are More Equal Than Others on Metcalfe's Law Refutation Explained · · Score: 1

    Decreasing its value to everyone else...

    Place a negitive value on some nodes, that a major spamming node may be worth a -10 on the network. It will soon me clear that Metcalfe's Law is an easy solution to the problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  20. Is it usable enegry? on The Energy of Empty Space != Zero · · Score: 1

    Tom Bearden thinks it is.

  21. Re:Umm, NO on Stephen Hawking Asks The Internet a Question · · Score: 1

    Radiation would be the least of your worries, the massive amounts of dust and chemicals sent high in to the atmosphere could cause a 'nuclear winter'. The millions in hungry starving mobs would quickly cannibalize each other.

    Anyway even if we dont manage to kill ourselves in the near future, the earth WILL try to do it for us. Just read about Toba, 75000 years ago, or Yellowstone. A winter that lasts six years will decimate the human population. A supervolc' going off is 10 times more likely then a large impactor from space. We may be able to smack the asteroid away before it crushes us, we are impotent against the biggest volcanos.

    I think now we are just comming to terms with how fragile humanity is.

  22. Re:cheap trick on The 10 Tech People Who Don't Matter · · Score: 1

    2. Loads of craptastic banner adds.
    2a. Doesn't work in firefox.

  23. Re:Oh I agree ( Was Re:Does this surprise anybody? on Immaturity Level Rising in Adults · · Score: 1

    Where is the tag, insightful but wrong.

    If a corporation files bankruptcy so the shareholders don't have to ante up to pay the debt for the entity they own

    Um, If I own a corp at $50 a share and it goes bankrupt and its share value drops to $.01, I've just lost $49.99 per share! Seems like I took a loss. Here is what you ment to ask...

    If a corporation goes bankrupt because the heads of the corp run it in to the ground spending all there money on mansions and personal jets, why do they not go to jail. We put these people in charge, and they build golden parachutes incase things get bad.

    At least a few people I know are FAR more concerned about corporate irresponcibility then any one individual. And yes western civilization because we 'individually' allow our respective goverments to give incorporated entities far more power then any one individual would receive.

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    My spelling sucks far worse then yours.
  24. Re:Is that money they turned down for real? on WSJ on CraigsList and Zen of Classified Ads · · Score: 1

    Lets let both of your idea's mate.

    Ok, here are the results of the abortion...

    Banner adds in X windows! which would get tens of millions of view a day.

  25. Re:Why nobody cares on Police Launch Drones Over LA · · Score: 1