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  1. Re:Dropped features on Microsoft Announces ReFS, a New Filesystem For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    compressed folders + truecrypt + robocopy also makes a wonderful hassle-free backup system.

  2. Re:Source? on House Kills SOPA · · Score: 1

    That article is from jan 14th, 2 days ago (unlike the current story's article which states "today" on jan 16th) and is way more vague:

    House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said early Saturday morning that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) promised him the House will not vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) unless there is consensus on the bill.

    (...) Majority Leader Cantor has assured me that we will continue to work to address outstanding concerns and work to build consensus prior to any anti-piracy legislation coming before the House for a vote."

    So far the only source for Jan 16th saying anything as definite as "stop all action on SOPA" is this one random guy's blog...

  3. Re:Stop limiting password length on Passwords Not Going Away Any Time Soon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From the link:

    The example with "D0g....................." should not be taken literally because if everyone began padding their passwords with simple dots, attackers would soon start adding dots to their guesses to bypass the need for full searching through unknown padding. Instead, YOU should invent your own personal padding policy. You could put some padding in front, and/or interspersed through the phrase, and/or add some more to the end. You could put some characters at the beginning, padding in the middle, and more characters at the end. And also mix-up the padding characters by using simple memorable character pictures like "" or "[*]" or "^-^" . . . but do invent your own!

      If you make the result long and memorable, you'll have super-strong passwords that are also easy to use!

    The goal is to prevent brute-foce hacking of your password, and the way to do that is by lengthening it. If you pick some long padding and add that to all your passwords, brute-force hacking it becomes prohibitively hard.

  4. Re:Stop limiting password length on Passwords Not Going Away Any Time Soon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Steve Gibson from the Security Now podcast did a lot of work in this arena and found that the password "D0g....................." is harder to break than the password "PrXyc.N(n4k77#L!eVdAfp9". He makes this very clear in his password haystack reference guide and tester: "Once an exhaustive password search begins, the most important factor is password length!"

  5. Re:You have no rights. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Deal With Roving TSA Teams? · · Score: 1

    It's true. Even holding on to your right to party is a struggle nowadays.

  6. Re:But are they? on French Court Frowns On Autocomplete, Tells Google To Remove Searches · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying that Lyonnaise de Garantie is a bunch of crooks

    Google now thinks you did.

  7. Re:Why not just on Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication Software? · · Score: 1

    1. go through all your files,
    2. for each file, compute a checksum (e.g. using the unix tools md5sum or sha1sum),
    3. for pairs of files giving similar checksum, compare them (optionally) and if equal remove one of them and make it a hard-link to the other.

    If comparing them is optional, why not just delete both copies and store the checksum instead? I bet you'll save lots of space that way!

  8. Re:Meetings on Out of Sight, Out of Mind · · Score: 1

    What does it mean when the answers come to you in the bathroom instead of at your desk?

  9. nice on UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER · · Score: 3, Funny

    So it's like a flashbang but without the bang. That seems kind of... HOLY CRAP IT LOOKS LIKE A SNIPER RIFLE I WANT ONE!

  10. Re:Well, it's possible... on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 2

    It's possible that we deliberately downed a drone over Iran with a modern appearance but made with the wrong materials

    From now on every U.S. drone should carry a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook so that anyone who finds it will most likely blow themselves up.

  11. Re:Is this a problem? on Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet · · Score: 1

    But what if I want to bring my goat?

  12. Re:Perfect fit for a Self-Driving Car on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hope the folks at Google adapt this to their self-driving car. Seems like a no-brainer.

    Ha! I get it! Because the car is self-driving! No human, no brain! Get it? There's no driver there to use their brain! No-brainer! Ha!

    Awesome.

  13. Batch it on Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? · · Score: 1

    1) Get all the computers together in a room with a couple of monitors and a few keyboards.
    2) Plug monitor+keyboard into computer 1, start backup script
    3) Plug monitor+keyboard into computer 2, start backup script ... etc
    4) Coffee break.
    5) Plug monitor+keyboard into computer 1, start wipe
    6) Plug monitor+keyboard into computer 2, start wipe ... etc
    7) Coffee break.

    I did something similar in the past, and ran everything off a boot floppy. I didn't even need to plug the monitor in, just boot from floppy, hit enter twice, "y", enter, and wait for the beep at the end of the process. It helped that all the computers were identical.

  14. Re:I wish this was the case in the UK on Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack · · Score: 5, Informative

    You sound like someone who hasn't seen this yet, but would enjoy it.

  15. Re:I wish this was the case in the UK on Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack · · Score: 2

    It's even better if you *mis-remember* the quote/lyrics

    Who knew that kissthisguy.com would become the #1 password dictionary.

  16. Re:It's called "Insurance" on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're going to do that, just leave the car and steal the club.

  17. I don't on Skilled Readers Recognize Words By Shape · · Score: 5, Funny

    read subjects.

  18. probably won't work on Ask Slashdot: Spoof an Email Bounce With Windows? · · Score: 1

    If you're counting on an automated process to handle your forged bounce, it probably won't work. In a strict sense, bounces sent with a non-empty Return-Path are incorrect and unless you're running your own SMTP server, you probably won't be able to send mail with an empty Return-Path header.

    If you're counting on a manual process to handle your forged bounce, I admire your faith in humanity.

  19. Re:I'm more interested... on Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard · · Score: 4, Funny

    that artificial corn syrup crap the rest of the world calls "maple syrup" that tastes like dead beetles

    It's called "beetle juice". It's quite popular in some areas. I love me some beetle juice.

    Mmmm. Beetle juice.

  20. Re:You mean the hack "re-enables" Siri on iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken, Hack Enables Siri on iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    And Dragon Go! for those times you need to ask for directions to somewhere.

  21. Re:Changelog : "Some Bug Fixing" on Dolphin, a 3rd Party Android Browser, Relayed URL Data · · Score: 2

    That must be an iPad-only version or something. Their other app for iOS (Dolphin Browser) has not been updated since September.

    They describe the webzine feature as something like the Reader functionality that was added in iOS 5:

    Webzine. Fast loading, without ads; Webzine simplifies the way you read your favorite news, blogs and websites.
    Effortless Browsing. Dolphin Webzine displays web articles in an elegant format without distractions. Scroll through thumbnail images to open one of 120+ channel subscriptions and = tap on any thumbnail image open to the article. From Elle to Wired, Webzine brings the elegance back to reading on the web.

  22. Re:How about eradicating PDFs instead? on Meet Firefox's Built-In PDF Reader · · Score: 2

    PDFs are great for printing, but who prints anymore?

    I do. Better yet, I use PDF to print stamps so that I can send my printed PDF to someone else.

  23. Re:Tomato on Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? · · Score: 1

    I'm using dd-wrt because it supports having multiple wireless lans on a single router, each with their own ssid and encryption. Last time I checked Tomato doesn't support that, but your post made me look at open-wrt and it does. Thank you.

  24. Re:I wonder: on Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes and no. FTFA:

    The November 9 date is near the end of hurricane season and before the severe winter weather season begins in earnest. The 2 PM EST broadcast time will minimize disruption during rush hours, while ensuring that the test occurs during working hours across the United States.

  25. '00 on Netflix Expanding Streaming Service to The UK and Ireland · · Score: 1

    That's so 'Oughts.'

    The term is "the noughties".