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  1. Re:Butcher Re:Whats the problem? on Skin Sensing Table Saw · · Score: 1

    Very true, and unfortunately greater minds than mine (at least when it comes to the current subject :P) have tossed the problem around. I can identify the problems easily, but what good does that do anyone if I don't have any solutions to the problem?

  2. Re:Butcher Re:Whats the problem? on Skin Sensing Table Saw · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Unfortunately (speaking as a former meat-clerk) your hands soon become quite cold, as you cannot wear gloves for safety reasons (better to loose a finger than have your mesh glove get caught on the saw and throw you into it, or simply rip your hand off/apart)

  3. Re:Math on Firefox Analyzed for Bugs by Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    Music On Console does everything I need :) What's more universal to a *NIX system than the console?

  4. Re:use IE's content filter on Whitelisting Websites with Windows? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately a quick peruse of the registry allows a user to simply turn it off. Judging by what the submitter has told us, I'm willing to be the software requires an Administrator class account, simply to work magic with the system's ports.

  5. Re:Post the key! on A Different Kind of WGA 'Problem' · · Score: 1

    [blockquote]five volume license keys that had reportedly been posted on September 9 2004.[/blockquote]

    That right there should be enough information to find they key. Thanks, Ed!

  6. Re:One Time Pads on VoIP Numbers Stations were Social Experiment · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oops, forgot to specify:
    The data you hide the OTPed data in, does not have to be text. You could use an audio file (notch out a frequency on the edge of the sample range, and then use very small amplitudes to put the data in) or an image, or even a video. You could even put this data out on P2P (encrypted data in porn? who would bother to look?) and simply email an ED2K link or something to the intended recipient. Hmm, porn-link swapping; fairly benign behavior.

  7. Re:One Time Pads on VoIP Numbers Stations were Social Experiment · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Better method:

    1. Encrypt data with OTP.
    2. Hide this encrypted data in some false information (stenography)
    3. Encrypt the result with something that can be broken (but not too easily)

    This way, even if they managed to extract the original data from the stenography, they would just get what looks like random junk. It would actually be quite hard to even realize what you have extracted was real (rather than an error)

  8. Re:I guess he's not looking then on The Future of Closed Source Software and Linux · · Score: 1

    Enable your universe and multiverse repositories, and follow the wiki instructions on Restricted Formats to get DVD playback working (namely w32codecs).

    NEXT, look for acidrip (this should also install mplayer and mencoder)

    Congradulations, you can now easily rip DVDs to whatever format you want.

  9. Re:Video link on Liquid Armor the New Bulletproof Vest · · Score: 1

    Bloodloss is the number one killer in cases of battle trauma. You can stop a wound from bleeding (if not with bandages, you could use a coagulant). You can't readily stop a hemorrhage. But either way, it's better than no protection (as the video states, this stuff works against sharp objects as well - not just projectiles).

    This stuff might well be usefull outside of infantry armor as well - you could paint a tent with this stuff, or equipment bags, or on other soft materials (sides of tires?)

  10. Re:Video link on Liquid Armor the New Bulletproof Vest · · Score: 2, Insightful

    True, but if the flesh under the armor gets hit too hard (penetrated or not) hemorrhaging will result, a situation possibly more dangerous than an open wound. Also consider that if that hit your kneecap, it would likely shatter it... and the bone fragments moving in response to that impact would likely cause bleeding on their own.

  11. Re:I use WEP on Turning Network Free-Riders' Lives Upside Down · · Score: 1

    If someone wants into the network bad enough to actually crack your WEP keys, you've already lost. Might as well leave them a nasty suprise :) But if they managed to crack your WEP they MIGHT have the ability to make your life miserable.

    If you want ANY real security, throw your wireless router(s) away. WEP/WPA are essentially "patches" to fix an inherantly flawed system (flawed from a security standpoint, anyways)

  12. Re:Not a vulnerability. on Spyware Disguises Itself as Firefox Extension · · Score: 2

    Hell, you can probably take and pass the test without doing any of the coursework. Or you could do the coursework anyways and have a slight chance of learning a tidbit or two. I got my A+ without any study (like that's an accomplishment around here...)

  13. Re:Tree of distributions on Ubuntu Open to Aiding Derivative Distributions · · Score: 1

    Thanks! That chart lead me to BackTrack, which was origionally Auditor. Nice tool...

  14. Re:Sharper than my +5 Vorpal Sword? on The Sharpest Object Ever Made · · Score: 1

    Angry kibbles do not sound very dangerous to me.

  15. pperhaps i dont understand on Windows Genuine Advantage Makes Few Friends · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What's the deal with all the double Ps on "people"? In one of the quotes it was even added in brackets!! ("[P]people")

    Did I miss something, or am I completely misunderstanding something?

  16. Re:Very dangerous precedent on GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage · · Score: 1

    I don't. Partly because I don't want the trouble, partly because i don't want the responsibility, and partly because that specific kind of power doesn't really appeal to me (i would rather be behind the scenes)

    Thank you though.

  17. Re:Very dangerous precedent on GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes. The registrar has no business doing anything but the following:
    OK, your bills are payed. Now when people type A, A is resolved to IP B instead of C (a parking page)

    It's the responsibility of law enforcement to enforce law. But, in your own argument, the site is hosted in an anarchistic country. We (and whatever country the registrar is based in) have NO BUSINESS imposing law or right/wrong on another sovergn country OR IT'S CITIZENS OR BUSINESSES. We can yell/scream/make noise/threaten as much as we want, but we cannot enforce our views on them.

  18. Re:Deus Ex 2... on The Downfall of the Thief Series · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Check this out:
    http://www.thief2x.com/

  19. Re:Quaint little plastic disks? on Replacement for Jewel Cases? · · Score: 1

    Only if you have a StarForce protected disk. And God help you if you have a system-related CD or a music CD protected with THAT monster.

  20. Re:stop watering your lawn on New Nano Desalinization Method · · Score: 1

    Did you read about the part where that grass is used on golf course fairways?

    Maybe it's just that paticular species in the photo that's ugly, or maybe he just has a lumply lawn.

    Note that that kind of grass contains 8 genuses...

  21. Re:Using Actual Flash Disks in Laptops / Desktops on Samsung Announces Solid State Laptop · · Score: 1

    For about $12 you can get a CF to IDE adapter. Without chips.

    So, since you can do the same between standard HDs and laptop HDs, you should be able to go from CF to laptop IDE.

    Screw booting USB or using a PCMCIA adapter, you can do it the way I mentioned above and the BIOS wouldn't even SEE a difference between it and a real hard drive.

  22. Re:i bet on Windows Media Player 11 and Urge · · Score: 1

    I think you missed a "'t" in there. It explicitly states that you cannot burn the music to a CD. Come on, they're not that stupid.

  23. Re:interesting question about fragile on BlueSecurity Fall-Out Reveals Larger Problem · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.opennic.unrated.net/public_servers.html

    Don't rely on your ISP's DNS.

    Lots of times my ISP's DNS has gone down and opennic has saved the day. Of course, they can go down too, but usually ONE of the two work.

  24. Re:What a load on HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'? · · Score: 1

    Cable isn't packet switched, as far as I know. It gets broadcasted down a cable as an RF signal. RF signals don't follow the same rules as packets do :)

  25. Re:Bittorrent on SUSE 10.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Realize that anyone that has managed to download the ISOs through other means can start the torrent, stop it, replace the files with the full predowloaded ones, and bang! Instant seeder.