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  1. Re:Credit cards on Is RFID Really That Scary? · · Score: 1

    Do your credit cards come with EZ Pass or similar?

    No, that'd be a huge credit card, and only useful if I'm trying to jog through toll booths. It does have PayPass though.

    Does your bank mail them to you with little metallic stickers affixed to the front of them?

    No it didn't, it had a little paper sticker on the front telling me to activate and sign it.

    Why are banks doing this extra step if there's no security risk?

    The card readers need it to be practically touching it to work, I don't think people are mass scanning my mail.

  2. Re:Crossings - the death of HSR in the US on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Planes may be faster (though only once you're on them), but just doing a basic check of airlines and train costs:
    Airplane: $110 - $130
    Normal Train: $50
    Acela Train: $95 - $110
    Driving: $25 + tolls (assuming 25mpg, $2.75/g)

    Time:
    Airplane: 1h 25m
    Normal Train: 4h
    Acela Train: 3h 30m
    Driving: 4h

    So it isn't a gain in money to take a plane instead of a train.

  3. Re:The Advantage on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Yes I have. I showed up at the station, got my ticket and walked onto the train. There were no metal detectors or bag searches or even a check of ID.

  4. Re:Criminal records on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 1

    As aside, a friend of mine had to answer "have you ever been arrested, which led to the amusing story of him and four other high school kids breaking into the gym because they got locked out during a late track practice... charges were dropped but technically that was an arrest.

    Why don't you go ahead and have a seat on that bench labeled "Group W"

  5. Re:Simple solution for these cases on Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If it were only one time it might be ok, but religious groups seem to think themselves exempt from trademark and copyright law.

    There are lots of stories of religious groups copying whatever they like to put religious propaganda on them. I remember when the lord of the rings came out, one group took the movie poster, replaced "Ring" with "King" and replaced Gandalph with Jesus. Now you may say that's just parody, but I don't really buy it when the point is to promote a religious message, not poking fun of the original.

  6. Re:How has metamoderation been working, Taco? on Buried By The Brigade At Digg · · Score: 1

    If you click that black rectangle at the top that says "Black (all)" and change it to another color then you'll get only moderated posts.

  7. Re:The name Skype on Skype Files For IPO · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, I've never wondered that. It's pronounced the same way as "Type" or "Hype" - it's not like they made up a strange new spelling combination.

  8. *gate on Chip Guru Papermaster Loses Signal At Apple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why does every "scandal" now have -gate appended onto the end of it? It wasn't called "Watergate" because it was a scandal about water...

  9. Re:This is problematic and I hope it can be disabl on Like Google's Chrome, Mozilla To Silently Update Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    No problem. Firefox is opensource so you're free to edit it to do whatever you want.

  10. Re:It's not so much Google, its Verizon. on Google and Verizon In Talks To Prioritize Traffic (Updated) · · Score: 1

    I was able to steam the super HD videos on youtube just fine with verizon FiOS. In fact it loaded a couple minutes of video in only a few seconds

  11. Re:Twice on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    But on the other hand, HTML condenses all spaces into one, so we're kind of losing ground there.

  12. Re:Apple Insider? Pah! on Browser-Based Jailbreak For iPhone 4 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm with you on that one. I downloaded the iOS 4 since it was free and suppose to have new features. Well it's sluggish and I've seen a lot more crashes - but worst of all, the battery seems to drain a lot faster than it ever did before.

    If I could downgrade easily to iOS 3 I would.

  13. Re:uhhh on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    The attacker would need to get them to visit the url, then type in the password, then change settings?

  14. Re:uhhh on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    Not hard, but Verizon uses a weird login that uses javascript to hash the password before sending it so it wouldn't be any use.

  15. Re:uhhh on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But if that's their fear, they should force people to use WPA2 (the option they have listed as "Recommended")

  16. Re:uhhh on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 4, Informative

    If that were the whole story then it would be end of thread. Verizon changed the LAN side password remotely using their backdoor to the system. The backdoor uses a completely different authentication system. The only time the LAN side access password is useful is if you're already on the network, at which point there are probably more pressing security issues.

  17. Re:Perhaps a little cheese with that whine? on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    Except you can't change the password of the Verizon backdoor remote access.

  18. Re:Putting things in perspective on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    Except that they didn't use that password to get in, they used their own password on their special back door.

  19. Re:uhhh on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    That's like thanking your phone company for doing you the "favor" of changing the unlock PIN on your phone from "1234" to something random without telling you.

    Sure it's more secure against people that steal your phone, but most people just want that so they don't butt-dial their boss.

  20. Re:uhhh on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, they were able to because they used their backdoor which has it's own password to login and change it.

    Realistically the password of the router doesn't matter if you have remote management turned off, but Verizon thinks that people are going around cracking the WEP keys and changing peoples routers.

    They did the same to my router so I blocked port 4567.

  21. Re:Flawed business model = creepy users on Chatroulette To Log IP Addresses, Take Screenshots · · Score: 1

    Personally I think they should use their penis recognition software to just match them all together. If that's what people want to do, they can do it together without bothering the legitimate (?) users of the site.

  22. Re:I don't see what all the fuss is. on Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes · · Score: 1

    The problem won't be just the teaching it, it'll be the hesitation of discussing evolution. Where as a standard biology class might be able to talk about how an organism evolved, the Louisiana classes will have to leave open the idea of creationism as well. When a student asks questions about evolution, there'll always be doubt added when the teacher brings up that there are "other theories" and talks about creationism.

  23. Re:An Industry Ripe for Change... on Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But typically with crowd sourcing, each of the contestants needs to submit something in order to be payed. Expedia doesn't let you try all the flights and then just pay for the one you like best. The competition is good. The need for everyone to provide services without getting paid isn't so much.

  24. Re:Is it really so difficult... on Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View · · Score: 1

    I sometimes turn on my GPS just to tell me how much longer there is to go and what time I'll be there. Used to just calculate it by keeping track of mileage, but it's a lot easier with the GPS.

  25. Re:"List of routers affected" is just a picture on Millions of Home Routers Are Hackable · · Score: 1

    If you count an exploit something where you have access to the network and can login to the router to change things, I imagine there could be a lot more routers that this exploit works on. Nothing's stopping a sys admin from setting his default root account on his linux router to "root::admin".