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  1. Re:Brute-force password guessing not a problem on GPUs Used To Crack WiFi Passwords Faster · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since you generally never have to type a WPA key in, might as well go for maximum entropy.

    https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

    Or not even using something that is transmitted over the internet and is TRULY random:

    dd if=/dev/urandom bs=200 count=1 | tr -cd 'A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*()_+'; echo

    Credits go to someone from the Stupid (Useful) Linux tricks thread.

  2. Slashvertisement Alert on GPUs Used To Crack WiFi Passwords Faster · · Score: 1

    ElcomSoft Wireless Security Auditor runs on Windows NT SP4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008. The software ordinarily sells for $1,199, but is currently selling at half price ($599.5) until March 1, 2009.

    And just in time for getting blogged about!

  3. Re:Herd instict on Visitors To US Now Required To Register Online · · Score: 1

    For my contract at a school district in Pennsylvania I had to do a child abuse background check (Which had to be mailed in with a $10 money order, no personal checks), a $10 State Police background check, and $40 to have my prints put on file with the FBI/checked with the FBI via the local intermediate unit. It's widely required at other places of employment, as well.

    And you did this ?

    It was the first position that came to me when another contract ended (Strict contract, no hire). I took it and I've been happy so far. My prints will be on file for a year, which I'm fine with. I don't plan on stealing anything, so why not? Your teachers did it, the people who are teaching your children do it, the groundskeepers, custodians, etc. do it. If I ran a business, I would be doing background checks on everybody I hire.

  4. Re:Herd instict on Visitors To US Now Required To Register Online · · Score: 1

    and still your country has quite huge crime rates.

    Step one seems to be to collect every available piece of information on every possible individual. What step 2 will be, I do not know.

    Step 1: Gather Information.
    Step 2: ????
    Step 3: Profit!

  5. Re:Herd instict on Visitors To US Now Required To Register Online · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Afaik, no state on this planet has my fingerprints yet, and I do not plan on handing them over any time soon

    I had to hand them over just to get a job (New York State requires them if you work for an OMH licensed facility) so I'm already "screwed" in this sense.

    For my contract at a school district in Pennsylvania I had to do a child abuse background check (Which had to be mailed in with a $10 money order, no personal checks), a $10 State Police background check, and $40 to have my prints put on file with the FBI/checked with the FBI via the local intermediate unit. It's widely required at other places of employment, as well.

  6. Re:"Kumo" as a Search name? on Microsoft In Mobile Search Deal With Verizon · · Score: 1

    They should name it "bukakke" because the search results would just keep pourin' in!

    Mod parent funny. It's more accurate then cloud. Would you want your results to evaporate? I think not.

  7. Re:Who Gives a Shit on gOS Gadget Aims Ubuntu At Cloud Computing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He's going to get modded troll, but parent is dead on. Stop making more distributions, fix problems with the current ones.

  8. Re:The speed thing alwasy pisses me off on Sunday Evening, the New Web Rush Hour · · Score: 1

    Area, not areal.

  9. Re:The speed thing alwasy pisses me off on Sunday Evening, the New Web Rush Hour · · Score: 1

    I have 3 MB/sec DSL, and I get about 50 kbs downloading. Maybe up to 100 on a really good day. They really need to regulate what they can claim as far as speed with real world random sampling, or let you pay according to whatever speed you can actually get in your area, or something.

    It's based off of your areal, however I would bring it up with them if you haven't already.

    I technically should get 20mbit, but I only actually download at 12mbit. It's all based off of your neighbors downloading if you're on shared lines, like I am, or if they start shaping your traffic, like Comcast does.

  10. FUD on Researcher Says Social Networks Link Terrorists · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just another article stating FUD. Nothing to see here, move along. Might as well also get rid of online forums, USENET, and telephones.

  11. Re:Print is out on EGM Magazine Shutting Down · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most of those gamer magazines have 90% advertising ads in them and takes like 5 minutes to read anything worth while. Most of the time when I pull some of them out of the mail box and start reading/walking back to the house, I am done by the time I hit the door and it's in the the recycling bin.

    I don't know about you, but these magazines I get through free offers or side offers when I buy something I usually keep in the restroom. It's something to read, after all.

  12. Buzzwords on Green Is In At CES, But Is It Real? · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a buzzword. It'll get people to buy your product regardless because it catches attention, along with terms like "This new design is very Web 2.0." Want to know more? Watch Penn & Teller's: Bullshit!, they have an episode on Going Green.

  13. Re:Experiment, people! on Russia's Mars Mission Raising Concerns · · Score: 1

    They should just send a boatload of rabbits. What could possible go wrong?

    Hundreds upon thousands of rabbits suffocating?

  14. Re:RED on Russia's Mars Mission Raising Concerns · · Score: 1

    Is the red color on the title bar some kind of hidden Soviet Russia joke???

    Newly posted articles seem to be red, I don't know the exact reason but it could be because it's "hot off the press" or something to that effect.

  15. Re:FFS on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 1

    So you'll see profit from putting central air/heat in your home? Any more than buying a computer?

    Indeed. It increases the value of the home itself.

    That's the point I was going for with it. We did it and we saw a profit on it.

  16. Re:What a crock... on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 3, Funny

    You need to reinstall your sarcasm detection package.

    There's a serious lack of sarcasm tags, and it's required when it's not immediately obvious.

  17. Re:FFS on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 1

    Happiness isn't profit? Since when does it have to be a monetary return?

    Happiness also doesn't require money down. It's a terrible thing that it seems to be required though, however that's a whole other discussion.

  18. Re:What a crock... on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why the hell would you want to benchmark one of those beauties?

    Benchmarking is almost always the de facto standard for telling which is better, how it compares, etc.

  19. Re:FFS on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is nothing wrong, per se, with buying such things; but the notion that you are "investing" in them is patent nonsense.

    This. You put central air/heat into your house, you're investing it. You put money into a company, you're investing it. You fork out about $3000 to build a computer that is completely overkill, you're NOT investing it. An investment is when you'll see some sort of profit from it, so unless if you're a professional gamer and it will make your frag count increase by 23.2%, it's not an investment.

  20. Re:Reality check people on Israel, Palestine Wage Web War · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Lets have a little bit of perspective and not put some web sites being trashed in the same category as bombs and missiles flying around. The world could do with a little less drama and over statements. Honestly, its OK, you are still important.

    You forget that they could attack something mission critical, and it could escalate as it has in the past. What if they were to penetrate the network of a hospital? Of a police station? How about the government's network? Sure, they don't have the "LAUNCH MISSLES.EXE" in the root folder, but they sure could cause some damage on a military network.

  21. Re: Does Ballmer really fill Gate's shoes? on InfoWorld's Crystal Ball Predicts the Future of Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why no, not really.

    Why do you ask?

    His hands fit rather well on the legs of that chair though... *ducks*

  22. Re:Magic 8 Ball had this... on InfoWorld's Crystal Ball Predicts the Future of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Crap, I fumbled over the quote in a hurry for a frist proast. The line is actually Outlook not so good. You get the point, though.

  23. Magic 8 Ball had this... on InfoWorld's Crystal Ball Predicts the Future of Microsoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Magic 8 Ball has been on top of this for years... Outlook not good.

  24. Re:Not astonishingly suprising... on Hacked Business Owner Stuck With $52k Phone Bill · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Or the old quote. The Carpenters house is always the one that is in least repair.

    Good point, their site runs Sharepoint and the Site Settings prompt is open to the world.

    http://www.hub.ca/default.aspx

  25. Re:Some Math on Hacked Business Owner Stuck With $52k Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    Let's assume these calls cost $3.00 for a minute.

    Back in the day when I was on Dial-up I had a virus on my Windows laptop that was online for only two minutes and charged $30 to my phone bill. You'd be surprised.