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  1. Re:Apartment Wifi on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    Ah, I should have stated it was an active attack, replaying ARP. And while i am at it, all tests done with same attack hardware/software/technique.
    It is a few years ago, but i believe i was doing 100 - 400 packets a second. How does that look re keyspace of IV?

  2. Re:Dear FSF on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward" · · Score: 1

    You bent the needle on my sarcasm detector!

  3. Re:Apartment Wifi on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    I found that most wifi routers using WEP could be broken in 20 minutes but some took 8 hours. This seemed to be the time taken to exhaust the IV keyspace. Crappy WEP routers reuse IV often, good ones try to use a fresh one each time.

  4. Worrying on Tracking Browsers Without Cookies Or IP Addresses? · · Score: 1

    What will happen when 'they' identify me and fail to correlate my purchase history with the ads I have been served?

    "Oh jeez, another one who buys the same groceries every week, drives an old car and wears £3 Asda clothes until they fall to pieces!"
    "Another windows 2000 user?"
    "Yeah!"
    "Dammit, just stop serving him any pages at all and put him on the 'to kill' list."
     

  5. Re:This wouldn't be a problem except... on Designing the Computer UIs In Movies · · Score: 1

    Heh, seconded. It is chiefly Medicine, Aerospace and Computers that cause the eye-rolling in this house.
    Is there _any_ field that hollywood and tv writers get right? Maybe there is just one guy who was brought up in a cave by lichen and he writes all the film and tv scripts, designs cars and modern buildings, does urban planning etc, all from the same cave which he has never left.

    Hmmm, where does that leave cave/lichen references in film? Damn!

  6. Re:Wait a minute... on Tor Users Urged To Update After Security Breach · · Score: 1

    The bugginess is offset slightly by the neat RAID array of authors.

  7. Re:Not on my wrist on Asus Says Netbook Is Dead, Hello Wearable Computers · · Score: 1

    Same time I fumigated my boots.

  8. Re:Not on my wrist on Asus Says Netbook Is Dead, Hello Wearable Computers · · Score: 1

    Hehe, we are opposite. I _always_ wear my watch. It is good for 200 feet underwater so i don't have to take it off while swimming/washing up/working in dusty grimy environments, it sets itself with radio signals so it is always accurate and it costs £19.99 for a new one if it gets broken.

    I also have many clocks kicking around, but I find it is automatic to glance at my wristwatch and get the actual time rather than look for the clock in the corner of the desktop, on a microwave oven, dvd player, car dashboard or drag my phone out of my pocket and wonder if it is telling the right time (my phone has gps and internet connectivity as well as the digital phone network and yet it still needs me to set its clock for it).

  9. Re:Bad Drivers, Worse Pilots on NASA Designs All-Electric Personal Flight Vehicle · · Score: 1

    I would love these things to replace cars. Even with the retarded air-lane navigation that government would enforce to destroy as much freedom as possible, you wouldn't be delayed by a broken down commuter or a couple of vehicles that had collided.

  10. Re:And here I'm trying to get it off my Blackberry on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know all about tight pussy but you went out without your speculum?

  11. Re:Nobody in here make any cracks on Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter · · Score: 1

    'So why aren't authorities looking at the WHOLE PICTURE before reacting?'
    For the same reason that the staff at Burger Hut aren't looking at the WHOLE PICTURE of the customer's health and nutritional requirements, they are just obeying protocols and banking as many paychecks as they can.

    The goons just do what they are told.
    The supervisors tell the goons to do stuff according to procedures.
    The procedures are formulated to safeguard the jobs and enhance the careers of those who formulate procedures.
    Those who instruct underlings to formulate procedures will not be affected by those procedures nor will they have to deal with the people who are impacted by the consequences of those procedures.

    Case in point, getting a passport in the UK is a major exercise in hoop-jumping and paperwork thanks to ministers and ministries wanting to look like they are doing something about evil terrorists, but when a minister wants to get his children's nanny a passport the minister just asks a colleague to make it happen.

  12. Re:you could say... on HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format · · Score: 1

    *Timmarhy puts on sunglasses while blasting The Who from his cassette player*

  13. Re:Talking about apples and oranges. on HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format · · Score: 1

    Seconded! Eeh, back in t'day I was trying to play dvd-res video fullscreen on a 600MHz PII and divx + VLC could do it with clock cycles to spare while Windows media player saturated the cpu with its lameness.

  14. Re:90 years in the future... on Protecting At-Risk Cities From Rising Seas · · Score: 1

    Bah! If we are talking about England, all the current buildings will have been bulldozed and replaced by shittier buildings at least twice. It seems to be accelerating, there are shabby 15 years old buildings that replaced the 60's high rises that replaced the Victorian terraced housing. I blame air pollution, all that lead poisoning has increased the numbers of architects.

  15. Re:It makes sense really on Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Might it be that, for most people, DVD resolution is 'good enough' for video, like mp3 is 'good enough' for audio? Or am I just restating the '640k' thing?

  16. Ghast my flabber! on WHO To Investigate Handling of Swine Flu Information, Vaccine Orders · · Score: 1

    I am astounded that the UK Gov spent hundreds of millions on vaccine. Normally most of the cash spent on the NHS goes to layers of managers, travel and hotels for meetings and conferences, management consultants, rebranding etc.

    On the front line, all redundancy has been taken out of the NHS, it operates (ha ha) at full capacity on a 'normal' day with hardly any reserve equipment (I am not talking cat scanners here, I am talking about basic kit that costs a couple of hundred quid), so if there is a bombing or an air crash you will find that the wounded are dispersed to whatever hospitals that can find room.

  17. Re:Capt. Jack Harkness, is that you? on TV Show Seeks Terminally Ill Volunteer for Mummification · · Score: 1

    Hehe, I had to google 'Capt. Jack Harkness' . Where do I hand in my geek card?
    Not watched Dr Who since he was played by Tristan the vet.

  18. Re: Windows button on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Heh, I paid about £30 for an AT keyboard a couple of decades ago. I transferred it to the 486 that replaced the original 286 machine, then pentiums etc with the help of a 5-pin-din-to-ps/2 adaptor. I am still using it and, because it has no windows key, I have never got used to a windows key or any of those other odd keys that lurk around the spacebar. With luck they will all go away again before i need to find out what they do.

  19. Again? on TV Show Seeks Terminally Ill Volunteer for Mummification · · Score: 1

    Are those guys back in business again?
    Don't believe them folks, they say you will be preserved for all time and eventually resurrected so you sign up and pay them a fortune, then you get fucking ripped off by those stonemason bastards who are all part of some secret price-gouging club. You get the procedure, get settled in for 'eternity', then some asshat comes along after a couple of millennia, digs you up and uses you to power his steam train!

    That's not right. I, for one won't get burned like that again.

  20. Re:eating on One Variety of Sea Slugs Cuts Out the Energy Middleman · · Score: 2, Funny

    I use the term 'Underground Lair of Ubertude'. It has an astoundingly effective 'no girls allowed' sticker on the door.

  21. Re:passive and whiny on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    A douchebag? Living in lahndan? Surely not!

  22. Re:eating on One Variety of Sea Slugs Cuts Out the Energy Middleman · · Score: 1

    I and many others are pretty much spherical. Looking at the 5% maximum efficiency it would seem that I could cease eating easily as I move much less than those energetic sea slugs, the only difficulty is the need for sunlight. Could fibre optics pipe the sunlight to my sofa?

  23. Re:Anectodal info on Forrester Says Tech Downturn Is "Unofficially Over" · · Score: 1

    Hey,kid, give it 15-20 years and you will find that nobody wants to know about all your work experience and all the good jobs go to the new grads.

    Keep trying for jobs, especially when you have one, try to keep debt to a minimum (easier said than done, but evaluate and compare prices on _everything_ you buy and you will find surprising variations, also save up for things as by the time you can afford it you might find you don't want it any more), remember that your employer doesn't give a crap about you, don't buy extended warranties, remember insurance payouts are just a loan that will be clawed back later.

    Basically, keep struggling on and you will get your reward in the end (death).
    Also, try and keep off my lawn.

  24. Re:Yeah, tens of meters from a 50mW power source.. on Is RCA's Airnergy Snake Oil? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think it is the _change_ in magnetic flux that generates a current in a conductor, not just the presence of magnetism.

  25. Re:which class? on US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues · · Score: 1

    In context, I reckon you miss-spelt everything bar 'a spelling it came with my It plainly my Eye strike a key and type a word And it say am wrong It shows me a As soon as a is It long And can put the error ever wrong have run this poem it I am pleased letter perfect the My me'