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  1. Re:Really? Only 1k? on 1K JavaScript Madness · · Score: 1

    Is this list looking better to you? And some of those are even released on multiple platforms :)

  2. Re:How to produce a really secure storage on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    You generate it when you install the OS. The key is kept in RAM (even when powered off, because of battery) until the cabinet is opened.

  3. Re:How to produce a really secure storage on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    I once had a similar idea, but simpler. You know those cabinet switches that detect opening of it? Make such a switch, combine it with some RAM that needs power to hold the data, and a battery. The ram can be connected via a USB chip or whatever, just so the OS can get to it. Connect the switch so that when it triggers, it cuts power from the battery. Make the wires so the setup is not obvious when opening the case.

    To top it off, password protect the BIOS (and of course have a password protected screensaver).

    If computer is power cycled to get around screensaver, they meet BIOS password. If case is opened to reset BIOS, or make a copy of the HD, the key is nuked.

    It can still be defeated if the attacker knows about it, or can spot it fast enough (for example, freezing the ram bricks or work around the switch). But overall, pretty good security for a pretty easy setup.

  4. Re:So now... on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm To Launch Dec. 7th · · Score: 1

    5-man dungeon leveling is pretty good for Protection (tank) specs

    Mmmmkay, you might want to read this rather amusing forum thread first, and ask yourself : Can my sanity handle this?

      -- A former WoW tank

  5. Re:most people still don't understand electricity on Rube Goldberg and the Electrification of America · · Score: 1

    I think it only makes sense to build a religion around electricity.

    And we shall call it The Foundation.

  6. Re:Faster Speeds? Yeah right... on Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? · · Score: 1

    That's because Blizzard have (or at least had) THE WORST BitTorrent implentation on the planet.

    If they had a decent client, things would have worked much better.

  7. Re:Honest question on AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    they can be cool, AND they can actually make it do something useful. Win-win ;)

  8. Re:cars on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    Who knows.. Maybe they are silicon life forms, that travel in specially made organic space ships?

  9. Re:Do they know on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    Even as advanced as we've become, a good swordsman or archer could still kill you pretty effectively.

  10. Re:*Only* 150k? on Users Say Sprint Epic4G 3G Upload Speeds Limited To 150kbps · · Score: 1

    Full HD porn video streaming?

    When you're finally doing it with a $5 hooker, you do want the world to know.

  11. Re:Nothing new here, move along... on Some Netflix Users Have Rated 50,000 Shows · · Score: 1

    You started your life being shot out of a dick, after all. Some people just never got any further.

  12. Re:Maybe time to move to Chrome? on IE9, FF4 Beta In Real-World Use Face-Off · · Score: 1

    From ChromePlus page:

    ChromePlus is considered the virus by some antivirus(such as kaspersky) recently. To resolve this problem, please update the antivirus to its latest version. If the problem still exist, please post the antivirus' product name to our forumcn: (http://forumcn.chromeplus.org/index.php), we will communicate with the antivirus officical as soon as possible.

    A project with that bad English on the front page... Tends to make a few alarm bells to start ringing.

  13. Re:Spotting fake celebrity suicides on White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack · · Score: 1

    You forgot : 5. kill yourself

  14. Re:Fuck it on The New Difficulties In Making a 3D Game · · Score: 1

    You might want to have a look at Owlboy, then. A 2d platform'ish game coming to pc and xbox. It's also the winner of Norwegian Game Award 2010.

    From the jury's description:

    The game has a distinctive 2D retro style and is full of neat little details and surprises. It stays true to its 8- and 16-bit legacy while adding its own qualities and avoiding the risk of becoming just another bland copy. We believe that the mix of puzzles, smooth platform gaming and beautifully pixeled graphics will make Owlboy appeal to a wide range of age groups and gamer types, and each member of the jury would happily buy the game as-it-is today.

  15. Re:Yep. My practices are justified. on Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties · · Score: 1

    A password that only lives in your head is of little use. Sooner or later you'll have to use it somewhere, and a virus can easily read it from the keyboard buffer / form field. Maybe it's even more likely it reads the password from a form than from where it's stored at the disk. While there are A LOT of ways to store passwords on disk, it's pretty limited in the ways you can use them.

  16. What a novel idea on Snoop Dogg Joins the War On Cybercrime · · Score: 1

    It's all about the pentiums

    bash.org

    And.. have to say... Snoop dogg? Really? Even Rick Ashley would be better..

  17. Re:his product on iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    Now, if only someone would write a decent GUI builder for Android, I would be happy.

    Like DroidDraw?

  18. Re:Wait... on PR Firm Settles With FTC On Fake Game Reviews · · Score: 1

    Nothing is impossible for ShellScriptMan! ;)

  19. Re:Use Password Hasher on 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email · · Score: 1

    I prefer http://www.hashapass.com/ - even have a pretty well working bookmarklet, and it's 100% javascript. Which means that you can save the page to a local file :)

  20. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Electrolytes, eh? Maybe you should try some Brawndo, The Thirst Mutilator! - It's got what plants crave.

  21. Re:iPhone? on id Software Demos Rage On iPhone, Releases Source Code For Two Games · · Score: 1

    You forgot:

    D. Paid apps are not avaliable in the store for most of Europe and I think all of Asia.

  22. Re:Failed because people didnt grok it on Google Kills Wave Development · · Score: 1

    I fully agree. We used wave for developing an open source project (sharing ideas, defining features, discussing said features and ideas, sharing data (like crash output) and discussing that) with people from different time zones, and it was an absolute dream. We could have 4-5 people active at the same time (two typing various features, one making a comment to a feature, one answering another comment, and so on) and it felt like being i an actual meeting with them, without the annoyances of people talking at the same time (even tho they typed at the same time).

    Saying google wave is a solution looking for a problem is like saying a smartphone is a solution looking for a problem. You can already buy phone, camera, notepad, gameboy, radio, watch, calculator, maps, gps device, music player, portable movie player... plus you already have the post office for sending letters and messages.

    Google wave collected more or less all current ways of digital communication in one system, and then some. I'm sad that they stop it, and it's annoying to see people dismissing it just because they're happy with existing email (and all it's flaws). Wave was a very good solution for a lot of a lot of problems which, granted, we already have some pretty crappy (and many) separate solutions for.

  23. Re:TorrentFreak? Really? Consider the source. on Major Flaws Found In Recent BitTorrent Study · · Score: 1

    Hey.
    The problem is that the raw data for the analysis shows torrents that have several orders of magnitudes more seeders than I have seen on ANY torrents in the last 8 years. The highest I've seen is around 23.000 seeders.

    Now, you probably won't just believe my word for it, so let's look at (arguably) the most famous and most used tracker, Pirate Bay. On their top100 page, the highest one have 17.000 seeders, and most of them just have a few thousand. And this is the most popular content on the most popular tracker.

    Furthermore, the file they claimed to have over 1 million seeds, was a two year old movie. How much do you see from 2008 on that top100 list? Fact is, those with most seeders are almost always the most recent releases.

    So, the question is.. Where did they get the data from? And how reliable is it (and the whole study)?

  24. Re:The best-seeded torrents... on Major Flaws Found In Recent BitTorrent Study · · Score: 1
  25. Re:The results are in... on Data Sorting World Record — 1 Terabyte, 1 Minute · · Score: 1

    In third place, with a time of 01:02.305 is Sort United.

    In second place, with a time of 00:58.112 is Team Sorted.

    And in first place, with a time of 00:59:836 is UCSD! .. which also designed the winner sorting algorithm

    Fix'd