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  1. Re:Mathematics Out of the Closet on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    Ugh...Maybe it was the 10th episode. My numbering is probably off, but it still was CSI New York and not CSI Miami.

  2. Re:Mathematics Out of the Closet on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    No. It was definitely CSI New York that I saw "Cornial Imaging" get used and it was the very second episode. They saw a shadow on a security camera that indicated someone walked by a girl who was in the camera but the person was not in view in the security camera near the time a murder was committed. The girl was walking by in the security camera footage who saw the person but didn't remember seeing him. So, detective Mac Taylor (yes, a character NOT in CSI Miami that is played by "Gary Sinise" on the show), holding a spoon, mentioned the concept of "Cornial Imaging" and zoomed into the lady's eyes from the security camera footage, reversed the image, and determined the basketball player who was then the prime suspect in a murder that was nearby.

  3. Re:Single Use Logins? on Phishers Using Keystroke Loggers · · Score: 1

    Well, it might not work too well if a trojan is installed that also takes screen captures during the keystrokes and for a short period after keystrokes stop, and sends those to the person that installed the trojan.

  4. Re:Mathematics Out of the Closet on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    What's even funnier is when they zoom into the reflection of someone's eye and pull a clear picture out of that to catch a suspect from a regular security camera on CSI New York.

  5. Re:Avoiding hardware key loggers: on Phishers Using Keystroke Loggers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about using a normal password then forcing a password reset after its use? As long as you don't check your email where the new password is sent to in a public place, no one can use your old password to login again. One problem, though, is that some banks require extra info on you before they allow a password reset.

  6. Re:Online Comparison on Online Shoppers Aren't Impulsive · · Score: 1

    Well, you don't have to drive to 10 different stores to get prices. You could just call them up and ask.

  7. Re:Obviously... on Online Shoppers Aren't Impulsive · · Score: 1

    How well would that work out when some places have as much as 15% restocking fees for returned items?

  8. Re:How is eMule... on Azureus Decentralizes Bittorrent · · Score: 1
    Anyway, if I were to implement a protocol like that, I'd simply cap uploads to any peer a bit faster that they're currently uploading to me. That way, the speed of two peers uploading to each other would increase as long as both have more bandwith available, and a peer that's not sharing data would get the shaft.
    If you upload nothing to people who are also uploading nothing to you, then hardly anyone would be able to download a file via bittorrent, since every peer starts off having 0 parts of a file, except for the seeder(s). Also, seeders can't always be the ones to give the initial few chunks of a file to every single peer on a torrent where there are a a lot more peers compared to the number of seeders (like over 1000 peers with a single seeder on a new torrent release of something).