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  1. Re:Instant Karma... on Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Actually all you need to do is right click on the executable and selected "Run As..." and then log in to your admin account. Hardly more onerous than sudo.

  2. ~28mph, seriously? on Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally · · Score: 1

    Average Tour de France winners speeds average around 25mph.

  3. Re:How much data? on Stanford's Quantum Hologram Sets Storage Record · · Score: 3, Informative

    35 bits is about 4x10^-13 LoC's, taking 1 LoC = 10TB.
    so, you could fit the entire library of congress in about 9x10^-12 grams of copper.

  4. Re:More details on grants on Mozilla Donates $100K To the Ogg Project · · Score: 1

    Basically, this dude just got $100k from Moz. Or more likely, it went to xiph.org.

  5. Re:Judging by the above coments... on 2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form · · Score: 1

    What's more interesting is that the religious beliefs of the Greeks changed the design some. Greeks believed it was blasphemous to suggest that the moon rotated the earth in anything but a perfect circle. So to account for the change in brightness that happens in a 9 year cycle because of the elliptical orbit there are gears stacked on top of one another with a pin slightly off center.

  6. Re:Ice...for now. on A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice · · Score: 2, Informative

    You surely mean 0.92km^3 of water, don't you?

  7. Re:Obvious things on Artist Wants to Replace Lost Eyeball With Webcam · · Score: 1

    A HUD for the other eye with thermals, facial recognition, 3D model generation, mapping & gps, optical zoom, macro lenses, depth of field cnotrol, focusing control based on the other eyes muscles, aim hackx, &c.

  8. Re:The question I would have liked to see.... on Blizzard Answers Your Questions, From Blizzcon · · Score: 1

    One of the main things we are talking about is that there has to be a way for people to play offline, on the plane or wherever, but those are discussions that we still have to have.

    Sounds like there may not be singleplayer either. This is an internet-only game and you need to log into their server to play it.

  9. Re:One of these things is not like the other. on Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit · · Score: 1

    you did notice that flash exploit they link to is from a month ago?

  10. The paper on Researchers Tout New Network Worm Weapon · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's the pdf http://www.ece.osu.edu/~shroff/journal/worm.pdf. Seems like if these countermeasures were put in place, viruses would have to be choosy about which hosts they scan instead of just scanning tons of random addresses if they wanted to propagate.

  11. Re:BASSE on Breaking the Fermilab Code · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The top floor of Wilson Hall has a lounge area and a lots of windows and it's where they take visitors for the view. You can however get to the floor above that but it's all concrete and DANGER signs, it is very noisy though: A clue!

  12. Re:I'm Unimpressed on "Understanding" Search Engine Enters Public Beta · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wrong. The correct answer is "What do you mean? An African or European swallow?", when a search engine gets that right then I'll be impressed.

  13. Re:higher prices for everything on Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, both increasing fuel prices and using food as fuel cause the price of food to increase.

  14. you want money for on German Wikipedia To Be Published As a Book · · Score: 2, Insightful

    wikipedia w/o hyperlinks? no thanks. or does it come with a box of bookmarks?

  15. Re:They will, eventually, be cracked again. on Some Anti-Spam Vendors Blocking and Slowing Gmail · · Score: 1

    they obviously know what spam looks like judging by my mail box and they could probably get away with running their spam filter on outgoing mail, but then it could become a privacy and usability issue. personally, i think keeping their domain name as far away from SPAM as possible is the best move google could make.
    your spamtrap idea is great, if i could stand to read another letter of it i'd be more interested

  16. Re:They are right on US Cyber Command Wants Greater Attack Mentality · · Score: 1

    General question post anonymously or whatever but when you were to hypothetically finally attack a system or even perform scans, how many proxy networks do you go through? How many hops in traceroute? Encryption between how many of those networks? Personally I don't think it's feasible for even an amateur hacker to be located by a single government with the prevalence of insecure/open wifi, the tor network, the great ocean of insecure pcs.
    This isn't about the gov't "getting back" at a single person, this is about trying getting enough skill or bandwidth to 0wn or effectively carve out certain groups from the internet.

  17. I've heard of these things... on 100-Year-Old Electric Car Design Makes a Comeback · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They go anywhere from 5-35mph depending on the weather and the engine equipped, they run on any type of food and they can cost less than $20. They bicycle has been around for a long time and needs to be taken seriously as a method of locomotion.

  18. Re:Caller ID or ANI ? on Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI · · Score: 1

    They do, there's a little bit about this in the latest 2600.
    "These days, any idiot with an Asterisk box and a sleazy VoIP provider based in Romania effectively has full SS7 control and the ability to impersonate any ANI they damn well please. This is because with certain VoIP providers, any TNI data that you configure in your VoIP PBX is accepted as gospel by the VoIP carrier, and is sent to the PSTN as both CLID and ANI data."

  19. Re:Spiders on Are Aliens Living Among Us? · · Score: 1

    and then they mutate into parasites and omg apocalypse

  20. bittorent + web interface on Miro Turns 1.0 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    a bittorrent client with a web "interface" is a terrible idea

  21. Where I stopped reading on A CIO's View of Ubuntu · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The only other problem Halamka ran into was with MIDI music".
    I can not take this man seriously anymore.

  22. Re:Interestingly enough .... on Canadian Movie Camcording Addressed With Legislation · · Score: 1

    Well I'm certainly not sure about your safety but if I'm not mistaken, isn't it illegal (in the US at least, maybe Canada) to record someone without their knowledge/permission?

  23. Re:Whatever on Steam Reaches 13 Million Users · · Score: 1

    Average unique players per month: 2,981,465
    source: http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=stats&cc= US

  24. Re:Oracle University Offers Linux Training on Where Do You Go For Linux Training? · · Score: 1

    $3700 a student for 5 days work? i want that gig

  25. Re:10-250 blows on MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key · · Score: 1

    You say such things about the 54-100's but it's six flights below the best classroom A4-100e?
    The bathrooms have bidets.
    Nonetheless, your point has been made prof.