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  1. Re:Impossible? on One-Time Pad From Caltech Offers Uncrackable Cryptography · · Score: 1

    This approach suffers badly in the face of lost messages or messages sent simultaneously in both directions. If a message from A to B is lost and not received by B then B will send their next message to A using the same part of the OTP as the lost message: an eavesdropper could then have two different messages encoded with the same key. Similarly, if A drafts a message to B, and B to A, at the same time then they will use at least part of the same key.

  2. Re:Heh, they havn't met the Zebra musels from hell on Swedish Data Center Saves $1M a Year Using Seawater For Cooling · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The zebra mussel is a freshwater creature. I'd be surprised if they had large problems with these in their seawater cooling circuit. I guess the salt will get them first.

  3. Re:Short yellow lights are a safety hazard on Florida DOT Cuts Yellow Light Delay Ignoring Federal Guidelines, Citations Soar · · Score: 1

    I prefer our version of that: Surfers Paradise Meter Maids.

  4. If only it would install... on Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users · · Score: 1

    Now if only Windows 8 would install on my hardware rather than the mid-install reboot leaving me with a black screen and no control... then I might be able to access this no-cost update.

  5. WayBack machine.. on LinuxDevices.com Vanishes From the Web · · Score: 1

    I cannot see even a few recent pages on the WayBack machine; just crawl time errors and

    Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

    Are the pull-the-plug drones really that efficient or has it been broken for some time?

  6. Re:Existential Problems? Asked the Dr. on Tylenol May Ease Pain of Existential Distress, Social Rejection · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, the good ol' days ... A cup of tea, a Bex, and a good lie down :)

  7. Re:Translation on Self-Proclaimed LulzSec Leader Arrested In Australia · · Score: 3, Informative

    [but nobody noticed or cared enough, so you don't know which one] The AFP confirmed it was not a Federal Government website. [are the afraid we'll laugh if they mention the site?]

    Somebody mentioned it because the ABC is reporting:

    The LulzSec group allegedly broke into Australian Government departments, universities and schools in 2011. Some of the targets included AusAid, Victorian Government departments and local councils in Victoria and New South Wales.

  8. Re:Oh Really? on Self-Proclaimed LulzSec Leader Arrested In Australia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When it comes to FUD and the Internet it only matters what material he could potentially have had access to, not what he actually had, or was supposed to have, access to. If Content Security handles any information anywhere that might be sensitive or politically embarrassing then the case will proceed on the assumption that Flannery had access to that information and used it. Flannery will, of course, have to spend serious dollars defending against these broad claims regardless of their veracity.

  9. Re:Gravity? on Bigelow Aerospace Investigating Feasibility of Moon Base for NASA · · Score: 1

    We can see these fireballs just fine from the Earth, I fail to see how getting a few hundred kilometers closer will change anything?

    No, actually, we can't. The atmosphere interferes greatly with our ability to see: through distortion and complete blockage at a whole range of wavelengths. This is precisely why the Hubble Space telescope, which was typically around 500 km "closer", was such a stunning success.

  10. Re:How to be retarded. Step one: Buy a Mac on Stolen Laptop Owner Outwits Mugger, Police, and the Media · · Score: 1

    So now the erstwhile owner of the laptop is committing the crime of unauthorised access to the insurance company's computer.

  11. Re:It should be legal on FCC Issues Forfeiture Notices to Two Business for Jamming Cellular Frequencies · · Score: 1

    ... and jails are a second good place.

    Seems you and the Australian authorities are on the same wavelength (or perhaps not): Phone jamming trial to start in Lithgow.

  12. Re:Knobs! on Maintaining a Publicly Available Blacklist - Mechanisms and Principles · · Score: 1

    Greylisting is great, except when you try to greylist gmail servers.

    What is special about gmail servers that would stop greylisting? Do they really not retry mail transmission?

  13. Re:Patent troll on Corruption Allegations Rock Australia's CSIRO · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All pseudo-government organisations in this country have been forced to fund themselves to some degree by economic rationalism (neoliberalism) in successive governments . In the case of the CSIRO this means directly exploiting the patentable inventions they come up with rather than those inventions being for the greater good as it was in years of old. I fully expect CSIRO now spends more time chasing things with higher potential returns rather than greater public utility. I cannot fault the CSIRO for adapting although I do lament the good ol' days. I can think of far more odious examples of exploitation of dubious intellectual 'property' triggered by the same policies.

  14. Re:Seems legit on Australian Networks Block Community University Website · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are present in the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement, Article 17.11. Curious how much of that document is about restrictions and not freedom.

  15. Re:Dear lawmakers on New Revenue Model For Low Budget Films: Lawsuits · · Score: 2

    or example a car license plate is not a unique ID of the driver but apparently you still have to pay a ticket for running a red light with a red light camera

    At least in my country/state while the registered owner of the vehicle is issued the infringement notice they can then trivially reply identifying the individual that was driving the car: i.e. hubby, little Johnny, the local mechanic etc. The fine/penalty demerit points are then applied to the driver (with some scrutiny for obvious abuses). There is always recourse to a Magistrates Court. In some cases the camera picks up the face of the driver and this is used in court.

    Granny has no hope of identifying the actual user(s) of that IP address at the specified time to summarily dismiss this.

  16. Re:slow news day? on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    Pet peeve #36: "Premise" is not the singular form of "premises." A premise is part of the supporting structure for a logical conclusion, and premises is a tract or land or a building.

  17. Re:It's easy! on Set Your Watches For the End of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    So? Knowing that stuff "created properly" just works does not make the stuff you actually have work. There are plenty of applications people actually have with various issues, most often is simply writing in now-protected or moved locations, and replacing them costs money... real money. If there's no prospect that replacing them will bring in more real money, or save real money, then it is an uphill battle in many business organisations.

  18. Re:He has a chance on WikiLeaks Party Launching This Week · · Score: 1

    There are 12 senators for each State and two from each mainland territory; a total of 76. Six of a State's senators will be up for election at any one senate election.

  19. I thought the product of US courts over the past decade or so is proof-positive that virtually anything can be proven by "judicial standards."

  20. Re:AARRGGHH!! on Scientists Study Getting an Unwanted Tune Out of Your Head · · Score: 1

    Number 9, number 9, number 9 ... beep, twitter ... number 9 ... number 9, number 9

    Thanks

  21. Re:Price it reasonably on Ask Slashdot: What Is a Reasonable Way To Deter Piracy? · · Score: 1

    Any thought on how you do this on a signed installer/executable fro Windows/Mac without deploying a full signing mechanism to your public web server?

  22. Re:Poorer countries on ITU Aims At 20Mbps Broadband For All By 2020 · · Score: 2

    I, too, would prefer FTTH simply because if they only take fibre to the existing exchanges, or even to new sub-exchanges/street boxes, then I will still have the same 40+ year old copper that can only support 4.5Mbps when it's dry, and routinely drops out in the wet. (It has been wet a lot lately)

    I, like most Australians live in an Internet privileged urban setting. My childhood home town of 250 (only 40 km off Highway 1, 3 hours from Brisbane) has just passed the hurdles to get NBN fixed wireless at "up to" 12 Mbps... under the other plan they may get the same but I expect they will get exactly what they have now: ADSL over aging copper with IP-over-avian-carrier backhaul because that will satisfy the "free" market. Makes the ITU 20Mbps look far fetched, the $20 laughable, and this is a first world country without a recession.

  23. Re:Poorer countries on ITU Aims At 20Mbps Broadband For All By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Please read the opposition policy on national broadband access and get back to us. That's likely what we will get come the September election.

  24. Re:Finally! on Electronics Arts CEO Ousted In Wake of SimCity Launch Disaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, but he still gets the "pay over time", just from some other company, because he's a member of the endlessly rotating pool of CxO/Director/Board Members.

  25. Re:Panoramic - mainly indoors - meh on Take Hands-Free 360 Degree Panoramic Photos With an iPhone (Video) · · Score: 1

    Panorama of your next circle jerk perhaps?