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  1. Re:I would like to congratulate Belkins on Belkin's Amazon Rep Paying For Fake Online Reviews · · Score: 0

    Um, "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech". Not "no law abridging the freedom of speech. Except fraud. It's okay to make fraud illegal.".

  2. Re:In a related move Toyoda.... on Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers · · Score: 2, Informative

    You'd be right if he was speaking American. He's not; he's speaking English.

  3. Re:Why OpenID fails on Google Adopts, Forks OpenID 1.0 · · Score: -1

    >There's no easy (non-manual) way to authenticate an e-mail address to a person.

    Surely it can be done similarly to the way Launchpad uses. The Launchpad OpenID (for version 2.0)* just uses a generic Launchpad login URL, which the site the OpenID is being used on redirects to. This URL asks for your Launchpad name and password, tells you where it's being sent, and sends you back, logged in. Couldn't a similar method be used with an email address?

    I'm picturing something like this: (username@login.example.com). True, it's not an actual email address, but it looks very similar to one, which makes user understanding simpler. Essentially, it's the same thing: a generic URL. But this time, instead of using something like edge.launchpad.net/login/+openid, it uses login.edge.launchpad.net, and provided the username in advance. For example, if Slashdot, were an OpenID provider, my OpenID from slashdot could be randomoutput@login.slashdot.net, instead of www.slashdot.org/login.

    Does anyone see a problem with it now?

    *Launchpad does provide a non-generic URL for OpenID 1.0, but its use isn't a good idea.

  4. Re:What's the weirdest story like this? on Council Sells Security Hole On Ebay · · Score: -1

    GTFO my /., /b/tard.

  5. Re:Police thugs on "War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK · · Score: -1

    There are other possibilities
    (3) Your assumption that the airline regulatory agency's sole purpose is to keep the people as safe as possible is wrong
    (4) Being on an aeroplane changes the circumstances in such a way that, although people are typically safer with guns than without, they are not so on aeroplanes.

    I'm not saying either of these possibilities are correct (or incorrect), but that they are just as valid possibilities as yours.

  6. Re:haha on Hack a Million Systems and Earn a Job · · Score: -1

    The question is, is it OVER 9000?

  7. Re:They are your average uneducated citizens on DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers · · Score: -1

    When 9/11 occurred she picked me up from school (in Florida)

    O RLY?

    Strange, as I heard about what was happening on the car radio on the way to school (in Florida).

  8. Re:Pffft. on NSFnet — 20 Years of Internet Obscurity and Insight · · Score: 0

    WHERE?! I WANT THAT!

  9. Re:"The internet has confirmed it" on TV Viewers' Average Age Hits 50 · · Score: -1

    You'll need a TV to watch those DVDs.

  10. Re:Slaughterhouse Cases on PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License · · Score: 0

    And outsourcing to Canada, Mexico, or India won't be international crime?

  11. Re:If you are illegally hacking phone systems on FBI Illegally Tapped Phone Phreaks In 1969 · · Score: 0

    There's a fascinating documentary about the Weather Underground

    No. There's a fascinating documentary about the Weathermen titled The Weather Underground.

  12. Re:Reasonable limits aren't on Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief · · Score: 0

    Can't that be better written as "::2"?

  13. Re:The canonical solution: on Long-Range Wireless Keyboard/Mouse? · · Score: 0

    SSH over SSH?

  14. Someone will ask for it on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 0

    We all know there's someone stupid enough to actually want this.

  15. Re:translation on France's Citizens Expected to Help Build Internet Blacklist · · Score: 0

    ce qui pourrait peut-Ãtre mal tourner?

    Fail required preview is fail.

  16. Re:Consumers? on Verizon Wireless To Buy Alltel For $28B · · Score: 0

    TRACFONE PRICING:
    1 unit per minute/partial minute for in/out calls, .3 units per text out, free text in. Ringtones are painfully expensive (~$4).

  17. Re:tools on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 0

    And yeah, I do carry my TI-89 with me, but I'm an Aerospace Engineer. You lie! An AE would have an HP, not TI.

  18. Re:Pay teachers more on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 0

    WTF You went into a uni engineering program and hadn't heard of imaginary numbers before. In grade 6 or 7 (don't remember which) was the first mention of them (though no more than "the square root of -n is the square root of abs(n)i"), and a full lesson was in grade 9.

    This is in the US, BTW

  19. Re:Pay teachers more on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 0

    HP calculators FTW!

  20. Re:"It's the economy, stupid" (no offense meant) on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 0

    You know how some people consider "may you live an interesting life" to be a curse? Fuck those people. Wanna have an adventure?
    --XKCD

  21. Re:Dope Wars on GPL Edutainment Software · · Score: 0

    Link (for the calculator version)?

  22. Re:I already have this update... on Safari 3.1 For Windows Violates Its Own EULA, Vulnerable To Hacks · · Score: 0

    They have a lower ID than you, what's your point?

  23. Re:Maybe Desparationware on Is Microsoft Office Adware? · · Score: 0
    "Handwriting on the wall" is uncommon, but let's see what the first sentence of your link says.

    The writing on the wall (or sometimes 'handwriting on the wall') is an expression that suggests a portent of doom or misfortune. Emphasis mine.

    HTH. HAND.
  24. Re:In Soviet Estonia... on DoS Attacks on Estonia Were Launched by Student · · Score: 0

    Though "gaüti pea suu ometi" is.

    (It roughly translates as "shut all yer lousy traps NOW!")

  25. Re:Interesting development on Encryption Passphrase Protected by the 5th Amendment · · Score: -1

    There are 2^2048 possible 2048-bit keys. If you split it between 2 computers, each has to do 2^2047

    Wouldn't each computer only have 2^1024 keys to solve? To simplify the problem, let's take an example of 2^2 (that's four) keys. Let's use the possible keys "a" b" "c" and "d". Clearly, splitting these between two computers would give each computer 2^(2/2), or 2^1 keys. If the keyset is expanded to "a" ... "zzzzzz...zzzzzz", why wouldn't the same idea apply.