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  1. Re:calendar check. on Apple Maps Flaw Sends Drivers Across Airport Runway · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even then though, did the BBC check before 0:00:01 cupertino time?
    May still have been Tuesday...

  2. Re:Good job, Beijing on China Lifts Bans On Social Media, Foreign ISPs In Free Trade Zone · · Score: 1

    It's a start. And I am happy for it.

  3. Re:Well that's easily remedied on Link Rot and the US Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    /win

  4. Re: For those of you that don't RTFA... on TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades · · Score: 1

    soooo If I have one gallon of liquid in a 1 oz container, that's ok?

  5. Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... on TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades · · Score: 1

    \owned

  6. Re:I'm confused on Forget Flash: Resistive RAM Crams 1TB Onto Tiny Chip · · Score: 1

    That old card likely used SLC, NOR, and large gates, each of which contributes to data retention (and higher cost per bit).

  7. Re:I'm confused on Forget Flash: Resistive RAM Crams 1TB Onto Tiny Chip · · Score: 1

    NOR will always cost more than NAND, about 4 times more.
    NAND is 4 times denser, thus you fit four times as much memory per square mm of die space.

  8. Re:I'm confused on Forget Flash: Resistive RAM Crams 1TB Onto Tiny Chip · · Score: 4, Informative

    unpowered the flash cells will leak electrons off their floating gates (powered too if the device doesn't do some sort of maintenance cycle). with as few as 100 electrons making the difference on a cell...

  9. Re:I'll belive it when I'm holding it in my hand. on Forget Flash: Resistive RAM Crams 1TB Onto Tiny Chip · · Score: 1

    Between Battery Backed SRAM and Linear (NOR) Flash you forgot: Bubble Memory.

  10. Re:High School for Girls Academy on A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School · · Score: 2

    Windows or Linux fanboi, both agree Win8 set us up the bomb.

  11. Re:Most likely to hide PRISM on CNET: Feds Put Heat On Web Firms For Master Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    sign your own key. Use PSK with whomever you are communicating with.
    -nbr

  12. Re:Finally! on Bill Gates Is Beginning To Dream the Thorium Dream · · Score: 4, Funny

    oblig: as long as the cores don't have a BSOD...
    That would be bad.

    But in all honesty, I do like that his efforts are being spent on something like this, where the benefit to humanity is great.

  13. Re:Definitely... on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 0

    I'll go with load them on a plane to fly them back to US soil for trial, plane accidentally goes down in the ocean.
    -nb

  14. Re:False Flag on Apple Sued For Man's Porn Addiction · · Score: 2

    Only if my insanity matches their insanity, else they will attempt to bury me. (Or burn me at the stake).

  15. Re:Union negotiators screwed up on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, but the union also had in the contract that breads had to be shipped separately than cakes, thus you had to send two trucks to a store to stock it.

    It's not all the union's fault, and it's not all management's fault. They were both culpable.

  16. Re:In other news... on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    I'm an ADHD Aspie (yeah, interesting life) and I think that's not too far off actually...
    Curious about your opinion behind that statement.

  17. Re:Wanna earn $200K+? Two words... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    Yup.
    Wall St is the epitome of "If it ain't broke don't fix it"

  18. Re:Wanna earn $200K+? Two words... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lol, no, I don't think so. I took a job that pays $20K/yr less because there weren't assholes in the office. Having actually worked somewhere that was devastatingly dehumanizing* I realized the value of happiness.
    -nbr

    You know it's time to quit when you're in the dentist office, getting a root canal, not numbed because it's infected so badly the *caine's don't work, and that is preferable to being in the office. Moment of clarity.

  19. Re:Clip this! on Motorola Developing Pill and Tattoo Authentication Methods · · Score: 1

    nah, we're using it to prove to your lady that we are you, despite what we look like.

  20. Re:Automatic authentication by contact sounds bad on Motorola Developing Pill and Tattoo Authentication Methods · · Score: 1

    My bank has it.
    Something I have, something I know.

    If I am on a trusted computer I can store the something I have portion and only need to provide the something I know.
    If I am at an untrusted computer (or just got a new computer I want to trust) I get a PIN texted to my phone (trusted) that I can enter along with my normal passphrase. the PIN is from a OTP, so is useless after one use or 5 min, whichever comes first.

    If I lose my phone I can notify the bank (same as lost card) and both the phone number and stored token are invalidated.

    To validate a new phone I take it to the bank.

  21. Re:He's right on Bloomberg To HS Grads: Be a Plumber · · Score: 1

    Actually I think that the first 2 years of high school should focus on things you will need to survive: money management, how financing works and why revolving credit is not a good thing; reading and writing.
    The second 2 years should allow either continued academic *or* tradescraft. fo you go the tradescraft route you'll get two years focused on only the stuff you need for a particular field. Plumbing: math and geometry (drain slopes), chemistry (solvents and glues, interaction with metals), and of course hands on.
    -nbr

  22. Re:What's the benefit? on Using YouTube For File Storage · · Score: 2

    Ah, but this *could* be a good one to many broadcast of information. Have a botnet receive C&C directives this way?
    You could even post the QR code in a corner of the video, or embed it in the video data as an alpha channel.

  23. There is a crypto system for that. Schneier explained it in Applied Crypto.

    Basically the trick is that of 7 keyholders you need at least 5 (or some other number) that will all enter their key to sign or authenticate data. This can be extended to the signature applied to null (or any other chosen value) being used as the key for an encrypted volume.

    It is the system we use at my work to sign software. There are M keyholders with a minimum number of N required to sign the software.

  24. Re:Sounds handled fairly well on E-Sports League Stuffed Bitcoin Mining Code Inside Client Software · · Score: 1

    I've got some pizza.

  25. Re:Fraud is fraud on Video Poker Firmware Bug Yields Big Money, Federal Charges · · Score: 1

    That dealer will be yanked *very* fast, non issue.
    If you don't know how it happened, are you even sure you won wrongly?

    I think *most* people would go *WWOOOOOOO I Won!* then promptly blow the money on something else.
    -nb