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  1. Re:Unbelievable on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they do this, they should have no problem listening to every phone call, opening up every piece of mail and package. In fact, they should just put microphones in every house, restaurant, bus and automobile.

    Don't forget the telescreens, not just cameras. The UK is part of Oceania, ya know.

  2. Re:Build something on Getting Hired As an Entry-Level Programmer? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right on the dot. I found no problems whatsoever getting a job right out of school. I did have a 4 month internship, but I spent a lot of my time writing my own web applications for the last year or so in college. That counts as experience. My employers found it impressive that I wrote applications to solve problems and were even more impressed that I had commercialized one of the them as well.

  3. Re:Summary is quite silly! on Elcomsoft Claims WPA/WPA2 Cracking Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    So today I feel a bit pedantic, so let's burn some karma:

    First, The terms "WPA-Enterprise" and "WPA-Personal" are inventions of Apple (or at least used by them) to describe what is really going on ('cause, hey, why use crazy acronyms?).

    "WPA-Personal" refers to WPA-PSK (pre-shared key) meaning that in order to get into the network all you need is a password. This means the single password is used by everyone to join the network.

    "WPA-Enterprise" refers to using 802.1x authentication, which means you have a set of users setup in LDAP or ActiveDirectory to validate who you are. This means that access control is done on who you are, not some generic password (WPA-PSK) that everyone passes around. You use your credentials to get access. A RADIUS server acts as the liaison of asking LDAP if the supplied UID/password are correct and do they have the permissions to join the AP. If so, the RADIUS server signals the AP that they are clear to join the network. Certificates are thrown in there to ensure that network is who they say they are.

    Now, what the article is talking about is the WPA-PSK problem of people setting goofy short password and passing them out to anyone who needs access to the point. This is insecure in and of itself, but isn't wise because all you have to do is hack that one password and you are in. Or even scarier, someone malicious could publish that key and the network would be none the wiser. The method outlined here could be mitigated by going to the 802.1x method of authentication where you would need to use a UID *and* password to get it, greatly increasing the difficulty of getting in.

  4. Re:Rustlin' on Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West · · Score: 1

    So what happens when a posse of rustlers comes along with a roll of tin foil?

    Screw hustling the cows, at $900 a pop for the radios, why not just take *them*?

  5. FreeDNS on Best DNS Service With API Access? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    FreeDNS I've been using them for a few years. Updating the DNS info can be done in a single click for all domains. They have a few free update clients, or you can use their API to write your own client.

  6. Re:Satellites=suck for communications on The Mobile Internet You'll Be Using In 10 Years · · Score: 2, Funny

    We are at the edge of the next generation of low cost communications brought to us by continuously flying drones flying between 10 and 20 miles up.

    Weather permitting, of course.

  7. Re:This is actually quite educational on Judge Munley is So Out of My Top 8 · · Score: 2

    The student should be lucky she was only suspended, rather than being sued for defamation.

    But I think that's what 'common sense' is asking. This is a civil matter, not a school disciplinary one. If the principal is so adamant for punishment, his principle's should have guided him to a civil suit, which IMHO, he would have won. If the student is doing something out of school, that ought to indicate where the remedy should be found.

  8. Re:Dumbasses on Ray Beckerman Sued By the RIAA · · Score: 1

    Maybe not under his NYCL pseudonym, but what prevents him from posting AC on here? Or under a different name?

  9. Re:*could* this affect Phoenix? on Phoenix Lander Photographs Martian Whirlwinds · · Score: 5, Informative

    It has happened and they are good for the rovers believe it or not. The normal winds kick up dust that inhibits the collection of solar light, but these dust devils actually help in removing it. One of the reasons they've been able to go so long on Mars has been for the devils themselves--this is just the first time they've been captured on film.

  10. Re:Good choice on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    Except that Palin isn't on the top of the ticket.

    Hey, despite what feminists would say, there's nothing wrong by going missionary.

  11. Re:USB "Superspeed" on Hands-on Look At USB 3.0, Spec Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    Mary Poppins, is that you?

  12. Re:Worth it. on Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On · · Score: 1

    As long as I get my awesome bar, I'll put up with anything.

    That's what she said.

  13. Re:Old fashioned way on Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare · · Score: 1

    I did this for quite a while in my college days. But then they instituted a 'Bookstore Loyalty Program' and slapped their own barcode on their books. If it didn't have their barcoded sticker on it, they didn't buy it back. And forget about trying to dupe the barcode. It uniquely identified a book, so they'd know if it had already been bought back or even purchased from their store.

  14. Re:So where is the cop outrage? on Citizens Spy On Big Brother · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm no rat. In a town this bent, who's there to rat to anyway?

    Maybe Lt. Gordon is right...

  15. Re:Prediction on Windows Is Dead – Long Live Midori? · · Score: 1

    However, the bank is also covered by federal and state privacy laws that prohibit it from disclosing that information to third parties.

    Even if that third party is the government?

  16. Re:Taxes, for one thing. on Software Price Gap Between the US and Europe · · Score: 2, Informative

    And when had the Euro not been <= to the Dollar? if you look at this graph from the past 5 years, they have never met.

  17. Re:perhaps they realize.. on Have Modern Gamers Lost the Patience For Puzzles? · · Score: 1

    I was going to say, the SCUMM VM games like Monkey Island, Full Throttle were favorite adventure games. Even relics like Space Quest and Kings Quest aren't even seen anymore. Portal is there from last year, but nothing with that calliber of pure unadulterated puzzling exists anymore.

  18. Re:Good on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    Depends on what sites you're visiting, in which case, it becomes hardware.

  19. Re:What this really points out... on Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss · · Score: 1

    It's not a weak spot, it's an abstraction. The components expect DC, and the power supply acts as an interface to get it. It's fulfilling its purpose. If you really wanted to be technical about it, the responsibility for providing power ought to trace back to its provider, the nearest being the breaker, then the main from the outside. If you want to put your reliability anywhere, it'd be there.

  20. Re:Or, he could just be a troll. on Linux Needs More Haters · · Score: 1

    And therein lies the problem. To the core Linux community Linux is perfect. It's feature complete. It doesn't need to change, only its detractors do. There is no shortage of people who don't have anything good to say about it, criticize it, et all. What the Linux community needs to do is *listen*.

    I know, it's easy to say that everyone else is wrong about anything they have to say, but very difficult to admit that its experience isn't what people come to expect.

    But that's the first step to making improvement. Otherwise, the community is just living in self-denial.

  21. Re:Some stuff that was stupid on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but *not* following 2 has some interesting side effects. If you don't put braces on it and someone comes back later and adds another line to the conditional logic--and forgets to put the braces on--THEN you will have a big problem. The developer will have thought that the statement is part of that if logic, when in fact, it is not and will always be executed.

    Consider the following:

            if (foo)
                    doBar()
                    doBaz()

    doBaz() will always execute, even if 'foo' is false. In order to ensure that doBaz() only executes when foo == true, put the curly braces on. In practice, you are helping protect the code from logic errors.

            if (foo)
            {
                    doBar()
                    doBaz()
            }

  22. Re:Add it to the pile... on Clove 2 Bluetooth Dataglove For One-Handed Typing · · Score: 1

    I think more than anything, there's no impetus for change. If you lost an arm for xyz reason, sure, this might be a great HID with which to get back in the groove, otherwise, like you say, why bother?

  23. Re:Report card on Clove 2 Bluetooth Dataglove For One-Handed Typing · · Score: 1

    oh come on! The bloody thing is a prototype! Anything made from scratch isn't going to look nice.

    Now if it were a commercial package, sure, it looks like a POS, but seriously, the guy made everything himself.

  24. Re:Time to Get Rid of The Gates Borg Icon on Fresh Air For Windows? · · Score: 1

    I think not. The legacy of Bill Gates will live on for quite a while. His biological and technological uniqueness has been added to the collective and all who have joined have changed their culture to support his vision. No, the Borg-Gates is still iconic of the entire MSFT organization.

  25. Re:Don't rule science out it. on Google Begat the End of the Scientific Method? · · Score: 1

    Where's BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?