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  1. Re:If it sounds too good to be true... on PS3 Hacked via USB Dongle · · Score: 1

    No, it is not bound to surface at all. The only known method is through hardware logic futzing using other hardware. Good luck making that free.

    ~the guy that originally discovered the trace over-current trick

  2. Re:not hard for sony to fix this.... on PS3 Hacked via USB Dongle · · Score: 1

    "we would eventually end up with the PS3 only allowing Sony peripherals"

    Not with all the advertising for Bluetooth and such. Sorry, you want that logo on your equipment, you have to play by that logo's rules.

    Example - "enhanced" CDs are not allowed to carry the compact disc logo. They do not follow the Redbook standard.

  3. Re:What has this to do with sony yanking linux? on PS3 Hacked via USB Dongle · · Score: 1

    "The recent addition of all six PS3 Linux users to the effort probably had no effect."

    Six, eh? Well, let's see. I think the USAF is a bit larger than that, as well as many research groups using clustered PS3s for processing.

    "You REALLY need to realize that not everyone drools over Linux the same way you guys do,"

    The government and many universities disagree with you. Otherwise they'd have never bought a games console in the first place for the express purpose of running Linux on it.

  4. Re:Tag article slashvertisement on PS3 Hacked via USB Dongle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "even the great Geohot ripped off other people's work and failed to make a dent"

    FTFY. Trace over-current spiking was my idea.

    I'm betting the USB stick does the same thing but with some other automated software, because the data line on the USB ports runs down that same trace. That trace is the direct vulnerability past the hypervisor.

  5. Re:Before you think this is BS, guys, on Russian Scholar Warns Of US Climate Change Weapon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Heh, took me a while but it's Raytheon that developed this stuff. Raytheon also owns the HAARP patents. Raytheon is pretty heavily tied into government.

    http://www.raytheonaircraft.com/government/multi_jets.shtml#main

    Who's the idiot, again?

  6. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Building upon his work and the work of Dr. Maynard Murray.

  7. Before you think this is BS, guys, on Russian Scholar Warns Of US Climate Change Weapon · · Score: 1, Troll

    Please note that the US Gov't does have patents filed for machines that control the weather, create weather, and partially weaponize weather.

    And those patents are directly tied to HAARP.

    We can destabilize a hurricane with a strong laser, or we can make the thing worse with a different laser tuning.

    I think that story was on slashdot a couple years ago.

  8. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    "Excessive fluoride can cause white spots, and in severe cases, brown stains or pitting or mottling of enamel."

    BING! Right there. If I took a picture of my back molars, they're almost ALL like that due to excessive fluoridation of water when I was younger. (And we used to joke about something in Texas water.. well, guess what?)

    However, fluorosis CAN occur after oral cavity breach. The concentration of fluoride has to be high enough, which is rare except for at a dentist's office. This is why there is a limit on how long you hold that fluoride rinse in your mouth at the dentist's office.

  10. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    I *LOVE* my career. Working on methods of producing food with as little energy as possible is quite a rewarding challenge.

    And the global travel is nice.

    And the amount of free equipment that gets sent to me... WOOT!

    Oh, that reminds me, I should see what's on woot.com today.

  11. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Drywall has notoriously poor radio insulation capabilities, while metal-reinforced cinder block walls you find in schools do a better job of blocking the signal.

    So no, the school environment would be worse, if all that EM actually had any real perceivable effect.

  12. Re:Hmmm.... on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    All of which are usually processed with some preservative or another.

    I thought I had a nut allergy - nope, it's the shit used to keep the shelf life up fucking with my body.

    So now days, I get unshelled, unprocessed nuts and deal with them myself. No allergic reactions. It's fun roasting your own peanuts and cashews.

  13. Re:The Platypus Question on Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain · · Score: 1

    Ahh, Wikipedia, the wrong place to look for information.

    Visible-range wavelengths end in the red at 700nm, anything past that is IR. Some of my fodder production sheds use a combination of 660nm red and 730nm IR for enhanced photosynthetic and time-to-yield rates on fruiting crops like strawberries.

  14. The real problem on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    I think the true problem is the inherent weakness in the parental mind. This is what makes them blame something they're constantly bombarded by from birth, without the need for using any critical thinking.

  15. Re:Hmmm.... on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 2, Informative

    Chris Rock had a better one - in third world countries, you don't see anyone with allergies because there ain't shit to be allergic to. It's all REAL FOOD instead of processed chemical crap and HFCS.

  16. Re:Hmmm.... on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    "with your FUD about schools being hotbeds of sickness and filthy lucre"

    I see you haven't been in a boy's locker room ever.

    Nor the boy's bathrooms.

    Fuck, the desks with all that stuck-on gum, several different asses in each seat each day, all sorts of kids raised without manners coughing and sneezing without covering, and let's not get started on the vending machines, which were about as germ-ridden as your typical keyboard.

    You're the one spreading FUD, man. I've done many agar dish cultures for biology class and almost always was some rather nasty strain of bacteria found. Every sample site was on school grounds.

  17. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    "So what's the difference between home wireless and school wireless?"

    Transmission power to go through all that concrete versus drywall.

  18. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    "When you make a claim like that, the burden of proof is yours. Give it your best shot."

    He'll have one hard time with me standing right here, holding nothing more than a GED yet I have the position and title of Director of Research for a LARGE horticultural corporation.

    Twenty+ years of actual experience did more than enough effective teaching.

  19. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    'This likely would not be the case without government mandated schooling."

    Actually I knew how to read before school, thanks to learning how to use a computer.

    Of course, that kept me ahead of everyone else and constantly fucking bored in class.

  20. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Fluoride in the water makes your teeth decay by pulling calcium out.

    I've had two cases of cotton tooth caused by over-fluoridated drinking water. Both of those molars are gone. I have my canines suffering from this as well, though it has stopped since I switched to ion-filtered water.

  21. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Can't speak for humans but RO water is a bitch to use in hydroponics because of major pH instability, having a near-zero ion content.

  22. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In fact, yes. It was noted in some of the earliest writings on hydroponics that dirty water made plants grow better than clean filtered water.

  23. Re:Mod the summary funny on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Distilled water will actually pull minerals from your body.

    Drink enough distilled water and your internal chemistry balance drops out of whack, especially sodium.

    Bad thing to try when trying to pass a urinalysis.

  24. Auto-Adjusting Camber mechanism? on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    Nobody's thought of this, yet? My google-fu might be weak but in three pages of searching I didn't find anything quite what i had in mind.

  25. Re:Obvious joke alert on BFG Tech Sending Out RMA Denial Letters, 'Winding Down Business' · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The BFG certainly never acted like that in doom 1 or 2. I don't remember much of 3 because I was too busy playing whichever Unreal was out at that time.