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  1. Re:NSA could break PGP? on PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case · · Score: 1

    Lookup keys and a salt. The salt would make a significant difference.

  2. Secrecy? on Mozilla Uncooperative With OSS Groups on Security? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sounds like the alleged rules involve keeping bugs secret until users of the code have updated it and/or changing their release cycle to accomodate this.

  3. Re:Where do you get it from? on Wave Powered Generator to Power Homes · · Score: 1

    Isn't oil already imported from Canada?

    I live in Australia, where we are almost completely self-sufficient in regards to oil (something like 96% IIRC) so I would imagine that we export it over to you as well.

  4. Re:Cat power? on Wave Powered Generator to Power Homes · · Score: 1
    The other day I saw a bird which almost got killed from flying into a window. Fortunately it was still able to fly, although it picked a bad destination:


    Back into the window
  5. Re:I tried it, and it said... on Completing BitTorrent Decentralization · · Score: 1

    Sorry to nitpick, but:

    tar -C ~/.Azureus/plugins -zxvf /path/to/tarball

    does the same thing.

  6. Re:What the hell...it's only karma... on Push a Button, Land on a Carrier · · Score: 1

    They had already been trying to negotiate peace, but didn't want to surrender unless the Emperor's position could be secured.

    If Truman had been willing to accept a conditional surrender as opposed to looking for any excuse to use the new nuclear weapons the war would have ended. As it is, he only used nukes to end the war before the USSR could spread Communism to Asia.

  7. Re:No, the firing is NOT legitimate on Teacher Fired for P2P Lecture · · Score: 1

    Don't you have to just get them impeached before you try them?

  8. Re:Put GPS into all VoIP phones... on VoIP Providers Given 120 Days to Provide 911 Service · · Score: 1

    How do you plan on doing this inside?

  9. Re:Infant died? on VoIP Providers Given 120 Days to Provide 911 Service · · Score: 1

    I find that putting broken glass all over the inhabitants can be a good way of getting an ambulance if necessary.

  10. Re:I'm sorry on Chase Deploying "Touchless" Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Simple solution: you have to squeeze the card to enable the circuit.

  11. Re:well not being a killjoy or anything but.. on UK Ministry of Defense Broken by Spoof Video · · Score: 1

    You really think that they run their communications that the need for combat ops through a single set of shared email servers? Or that they use email at ALL as a required component?

  12. Re:The military and experimental drugs on Subjecting Yourself to Experimental Meds · · Score: 1

    But Gulf War 1 would have been the first time it was used in combat wouldn't it (spreading uranium dust and stuff everywhere would expose the troops).

  13. Re:Classic tech support advise! on Apple's First Flops · · Score: 1

    Sorry..keeping it *IN*.

  14. Re:Classic tech support advise! on Apple's First Flops · · Score: 1

    Wasn't he saying that it wasn't keeping it out?

  15. Re:The military and experimental drugs on Subjecting Yourself to Experimental Meds · · Score: 1

    Gulf War Syndrome? Wasn't that because of depleted uranium shells?

  16. Re:Notation? on HS Students Steal SSNs to Prove They Can · · Score: 1

    Yeah...because we really have a choice about whether we go to high school...

  17. Re:I'm glad at least one of the companies "get it" on Nintendo Revolution Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    Uhh you can just get a shuttle and put it inside your tv cabinet with no network connection and connect it with TV-out if that's what floats your boat.

  18. Re:Notation? on HS Students Steal SSNs to Prove They Can · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if they can't or won't take care of it, there's nothing compelling you to do it for them.

    Having my data on their servers seems compelling enough...

  19. Re:Odd caveat on Dish Network Dishes Source Code for DVR · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Probably that they have included proprietary drivers.

  20. Re:Europe? Cool on 2005 GDC Europe Announced · · Score: 1

    You know the conference is for game *DEVELOPERS* don't you?

  21. Re:Firsthand experience with FOSS in Victorian Sch on Roadblocks to Linux in Education · · Score: 1

    Is that that POS which got sent to my school a couple weeks ago?

    My school (I'm a student in SA) upgraded the internet connection/proxy/etc. over the holidays, and when I came back there was an internet system that couldn't deal with non-alphanumeric passwords, needed times of over 10 minutes for changes to password hashes to propogate, and can't work from my school's domain name.

  22. Re:Great on iPod Dangerous When Wet · · Score: 1

    I prefer to think that the ones in charge know what they're doing...makes me feel safer on the plane.

  23. Re:Great on iPod Dangerous When Wet · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that airport security people already know that Lithium Ion batteries can explode...

  24. Re:For a reward, on Broadway Awards Spam · · Score: 1

    Parent is not flamebait, it is a direct quote

  25. Re:Notation? on Factors Found in 200-Digit RSA Challenge · · Score: 1

    I thought it was from TeX?