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  1. Re:Fascinating misues of adjectives there! on AMD Launches New Richland APUs For the Desktop, Speeds Up To 4.4GHz · · Score: 1

    Also, P.S.

    APU is taken. They need to come up with a different acronym. They can't toss the "well that's not computing!" card either, because it's still taken.

  2. Re:I beg your pardon on AMD Launches New Richland APUs For the Desktop, Speeds Up To 4.4GHz · · Score: 1

    I was confused what Auxiliary Power Units had to do with this.

    I think aviation/spaceflight has dibs on this acronym.

  3. Re:Is it Real? on Footage Reveals Drone Aircraft Nearly Downed Passenger Plane in 2004 · · Score: 1

    Looks like a combination of an antenna and a pitot tube, to me.

  4. Re:We need a box which scans for drone video on Footage Reveals Drone Aircraft Nearly Downed Passenger Plane in 2004 · · Score: 1

    Guess what, jackass? Data is data. If it's cyphered you have no way to know it's video.

  5. Re:Software Robot? on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    Either way it seems like a silly way to go about it. I'm sure a dozen ham enthusiasts would have jumped all over a chance to practice their RDF skills on something useful.

  6. Re:How on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    In fact the first transmitters used arc as well - spark gap transmitters.

  7. Re: Why the iPhone of all thing? on Chicago Sun Times Swaps iPhone Training For Staff Photographers · · Score: 1

    That is crazy impressive!

  8. Re: Why the iPhone of all thing? on Chicago Sun Times Swaps iPhone Training For Staff Photographers · · Score: 1

    How does one enable Wifi in a data storage card!?

  9. Re:The picture suggests ... on Researchers Determine Chemical Structure of HIV Capsid · · Score: 1

    So, aggressive drugs that could enter the virus could then be targeted to act on the capsid, sparing other cells/bacteria/viruses in the body.

    I know nothing about this though, really.

  10. Re:someone's spying on you on Ask Slashdot: Is GNU/Linux Malware a Real Threat? · · Score: 2

    Depends where the vulnerability is. If they get in prior to that check, then it would be obeyed, but if it's later in the codepath then of course it wouldn't apply.

  11. Re:Hasn't Comic Book taught you anything. on Mars Explorers Face Huge Radiation Problem · · Score: 1

    Which is actually true... if you leave enough time between hammer blows for your osteoblasts to do their job.

    Repeated stress on a bone results in that bone being strengthened. Here's what this looks like after a good long time of it. That's one of the leg bones from a Cobbler. Holding shoes over his/her leg and pounding nails into them through the majority of their lifetime resulted in that large reinforcement of bone.

  12. Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Yes, that was exactly my thinking when I was writing the comment. I could see a developer implementing the same technique into a disk encryption scheme.

    In fact I think that's how Windows NTFS disk encryption (not bitlocker) works. The file is there, and you can see information about it - you just can't read the data out of it without the key.

  13. Re:Good on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 2

    Yea well, dogs are dogs. Your stepfather is a person (who can reason, etc - as evidenced by his attempts to suppress/correct his impulse).

    I bet you would have made a good Nazi.

  14. Re:Good on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Pedophiles are deranged. Mentally ill. Sick. You can't reason with them because their brains do no work like normal people. The only thing that they respond to is force.

    OK, Dr. Let's see your credentials?

  15. Re:FBI shits on the constitution. on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    By that same argument, the guy now has every reason to claim the stress has caused him to forget the key. Anything they throw at him for that would be better than playing along with the "we know you have kiddie porn" line.

  16. Re:FBI shits on the constitution. on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I'm sure PLA MUCD Unit 61398 has you beaten to the punch.

  17. Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Don't even need to do that - just zero the data that associates where cylinders begin, platter alignment etc.

    You can't just pop the logic board off and slap another one on there - not without (effectively) scrambling the data that (used to be) on it.

  18. Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I would imagine it does support full disk encryption. Just not on your boot disk.

  19. Re: What kind of encryption did the FBI break? on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    You don't need an identical drive, you just need a drive (or storage system) that can fit that many bytes on it. You can then slap it on a loopback block device or such and access it - no need to use a physical disk.

  20. Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Technically, it's possible for file data to be encrypted without filesystem metadata (search/index tags, file/directory names and trees, etc).

    Sure, they have no guarantee that kiddieporn.mp4 is actually child porn, but if you have hundreds of files with names that suggest such, it's a strong indication that's what they are. Unless you like naming your data files in the most idiotic way possible...

    (note that I think such an encryption scheme would be incomplete and wouldn't bother with it, I could see it being out there)

  21. Re:Kickstarter & Slashdot on Slashdot Killed My Kickstarter Campaign · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He is implying this story is an advertisement.

  22. Re:false positive rate on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the important tags and markers are all still there.

  23. Re:Can they maybe start by fixing gmail search fir on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    Works just fine for me, my phone, my laptop, and my desktop. I get control over my UI, my searching etc.

    Seems to answer the problem quite well, so why don't you get over your own self?

  24. Re:Browser Reminders on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    Chances are if he can't do that, he shouldn't be accessing personal email either (by any means)

  25. Re:Can they maybe start by fixing gmail search fir on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    It works just fine if you use a proper client and connect via IMAP.

    Webmail is for tools, or fools without their equipment.