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  1. Re:Password in clear-text on Is Battery-Free 2-Factor ID Secure? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's like having a few dozen CVVs. If you snoop one of the CVVs on the card it won't help you when the server asks you for a different one.

    If you can snoop a few dozen transactions you can crack it, sure, hut if you're in a position to do that the other person is basically screwed anyway.

  2. The image can be resized on screen. on Is Battery-Free 2-Factor ID Secure? · · Score: 1

    The little blue "resize" arrow clearly visible in the video says you're wrong. I'm guessing you line up the top-left arrows then drag the arrow until the bottom-right arrows overlap.

     

    Even the old Sinclair/Times Spectrum "lenslok" protection had a resize function. Duh!

  3. Re:Easily Rectified on Is Battery-Free 2-Factor ID Secure? · · Score: 1

    CONGRATULATIONS! You're the only poster so far who seems to have watched the video. The "garbage" chars are the key here.

  4. I heard what the problem was... on Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently the shit hit the fan a little bit too hard.

  5. Re:Physical damage trumps all other considerations on Up To 10% of CD-Rs Fail Within a Few Years · · Score: 1

    CDs have the foil exposed, DVDs have it sandwiched between two layers of plastic. DVDs should be physically much more reliable than CDs.

  6. Re:Not sure that hard drives are any better... on Up To 10% of CD-Rs Fail Within a Few Years · · Score: 1

    I don't recall ever thinking that about parallel ports. They were Ok for printers but as a means of connecting disk drives, etc. they were useless

    USB has backwards compatibility. When we're on USB 5.0 I bet it will still be backwards compatible with USB 1.0. The only thing I hate about USB is the stupid connectors (the standard size ones are OK but those mini/micros ones are awful and over-used, why would anybody put a micro-USB connector on a full size external hard drive is beyond me, but they do it...)

  7. How do we know the fake results aren't fake? on Computerized Election Results With No Election · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe this whole thing is a fabrication to make the ousted president look even more corrupt than he really was?

  8. Re:How do we KNOW that.. on New DVDs For 1,000-Year Digital Storage · · Score: 1

    ...and will there be any DVD readers 1,000 years from now?

     

    4Gb of storage is already getting quite small. By the time this gets to market it will be too late to be useful.

  9. I was me... on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 2, Funny

    I took a big dump overboard this morning. Sorry about that.

  10. Re:Pepsi points on Lawyer Offers $1M For Proof His Client Could Have Done It; Oops · · Score: 1

    All the kid needs is a really good lawyer (who'll probably take a sizable chunk of the money - and the government will take most of what's left over).

  11. Re:Technically.. on Lawyer Offers $1M For Proof His Client Could Have Done It; Oops · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there a reason why 'orange' doesn't sound like anything else?

  12. Re:Light bulbs are old, make a Joule thief... on Low-Budget Electronics Projects For High School? · · Score: 1

    I found a youtube video on how to make one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAqGKt64WM

  13. Light bulbs are old, make a Joule thief... on Low-Budget Electronics Projects For High School? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Make all those 'dead' batteries run little torches:

     

    http://www.emanator.demon.co.uk/bigclive/joule.htm

  14. What's his credit limit? on Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If he can be charged that much, what's his credit limit?

  15. Re:It may not be a joke on Bill Gates Puts Classic Feynman Lectures Online · · Score: 1

    I thought most of the gas came from burps. They should be making cows that don't burp.

  16. Re:I know why. on Bill Gates Puts Classic Feynman Lectures Online · · Score: 1

    Question: Which lectures are they...? I probably already have them in AVI formay and I'm not installing Silverlight just to find out which ones they are.

  17. Why the knee-jerk reactions to Silverlight? on Bill Gates Puts Classic Feynman Lectures Online · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...because of all the possible video formats out there, he just happens to choose Silverlight? How convenient.

     

    Summing up: I don't want yet another passing Microsoft fad installed on my machine which will add more vulnerabilities and be downloading weekly "reboot required" updates for the next ten years.

  18. Re:Yeah on Expanding the Electricity Grid May Be a Mistake · · Score: 1

    What percentage of the world's population do you think has enough private land to install their own generators and has enough capital to do so? What percentage of those live in places where there's good wind/sun?

     

    Most people who live in villages don't have enough capital to install a $15 goat and most of the people in cities have no space and the neighbors will tell them to take a hike if you ask them for money for a community project.

     

    Maybe there's a tiny percentage of people who live on enough privately-owned land in places where the conditions are right but that's not going to save the world from anything.

  19. Re:Yeah on Expanding the Electricity Grid May Be a Mistake · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's ironic that the people who could ultimately end up wrecking the earth are the "greens" and the"save the earth" types who'll do anything they can to prevent nuclear power.

     

    Isn't ignorance wonderful?

     

  20. Re:No controller? No failover? No interconnect? on Building a 10 TB Array For Around $1,000 · · Score: 1

    What about backup? What good is 10Tb of data with no backup? RAID5 protects you against hard drive failure but nothing else.

  21. Re:Unfortunately, it will never happen. on NASA Plans To De-Orbit ISS In 2016 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Could they move it into lunar orbit?

    Having a station in orbit around the moon would be a lot cooler than having one a couple of hundred miles away and we could use it as a starting point for lunar mining.

    You want to capture public imagination? Something like this would definitely do it (and it even has a "Save the Earth" angle - He3 to save us from global warming). The sooner the better, I say, before it starts falling apart.

  22. Re:It'll never happen on NASA Plans To De-Orbit ISS In 2016 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would be much cooler to add engines to it and send it off into space. Maybe even use one of the to-be-trashed shuttles for the job.

    For me, they could trash it tomorrow and divert the money they save into building more rovers to visit all the planets ... and especially some for the moon to check out the He3 content.

  23. In other news on Outlook Inertia the Main Factor Holding Business From Google Apps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Windows inertia keeping people from using a proper operating system.

  24. Re:On an A320?????!!!! on MAME Ported To the Dingoo A320 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everything is so automated that the pilots were getting bored. In fact much of the conversion work was done on the stupefying London - New York redeye.

  25. Re:Who wants to live in Spain? on Downloading Copyrighted Material Legal In Spain · · Score: 1

    Somebody needs to go back to Spanish 101...