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  1. Guy in the Video on How PALS Help Secure Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    Wait does the guy in the video arm that fucking bomb?

  2. Front Page of Amazon on Amazon's Kindle Sells Out In 5.5 Hours · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well yeah it was the front page of amazon, yeah the entire front page.

    Basically the best advertising that any device could have.

  3. Re:Please help us improve our documentation. on Spying On Tor · · Score: 1

    You want to automatically detect in route sniffing? Good luck with that one.

    You want to detect MITM attacks on SSL? Already been done, do not waste your time.

  4. Re:How does a SSL MITM attack work? on Spying On Tor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Replace the SSL Certificate with a self signed one and hope they just click yes.

  5. Re:the only option on Highly Targeted Phishing From Salesforce.com Leak · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously saying that there should be an email system that can only verify the identity of windows users?

  6. Re:Can the users demand fixes now? on Mozilla Reponds - We Call the Shots, Not Google. · · Score: 1

    Come on now $500,000 a year for a CEO is chump change in corporate America today, especially for a company that is pulling in more than $50 million a year.

  7. Re:Why run data centres in hot states? on Cooling Challenges an Issue In Rackspace Outage · · Score: 1

    The heat generating oil burning back up generators were in the air conditioned room?

    Seems a bit foolish to me...

  8. Re:As long as the users don't care... on The New Facebook Ads - Another Privacy Debacle? · · Score: 1

    You need better friends then

  9. Re:I'm not... on Causes of Death Linked To Weight · · Score: 1

    Well what do insurance companies insure?

    You, your home, and your car.

    All of which are at home, but only one of which can be damaged if you hurt yourself away from home. Not to mention that the things you can hurt yourself with at home are probably less likely to kill you (insurance doesn't pay much for dead people's heath care).

  10. Re:ummm... what? on Highly Targeted Phishing From Salesforce.com Leak · · Score: 4, Funny

    "User education"

    haha .... hahahahahaha.... HAHAHAHAHA

    You had me there. No really what is your solution to phishing?

  11. Re:Just kill presentation software on Can Google Kill PowerPoint? · · Score: 1
    People learn differently

    People learn:
    • Orally
    • Textually
    • By doing

    I for one don't follow lecture style presentations very well, I have to write exactly what is being said and then read it to trully understand what is being said. Having a powerpoint presentation, even if it's the same thing as what is being said, is very useful to me because I can understand at the same rate as those who learn orally.

    On a side not I think that the way that you learn has a lot to do with your job. Learn orally? good people person. Learn visually? probably better engineer. Learn by doing? push that broom.
  12. Re:I was waiting for this... on Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting · · Score: 1

    I'm writing software for a company that is then selling that software to people, if they don't have a copyright they can't sell that software to anybody so they have no money to pay me.

    Now it is true that at some point someone would pay someone to design and build software that they need, the problem is that then the solution would exist for that problem and I could not get paid to design a system that does the same thing. Now I realize that that sounds ludicrous, after all why should I write the same thing twice? Because a large pool of engineers are needed for the best to exist, within a small group it is far less likely that there will be competent people.

  13. Re:"Dark fiber"? on ARPANet Co-Founder Predicts An Internet Crisis · · Score: 1

    Fiber is cheap it's the switching equipment that's expensive, notice the article is about the price of switching routers.

  14. Re:I was waiting for this... on Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting · · Score: 1

    You reject copyright?

    Without copyright there would be no reason for anybody to be in the software business.

    This is the Information Age, if I can't sell information that I own then I have nothing to sell.

  15. Re:Comcast is still lying -- and not just about th on Comcast Admits Delaying, Not Blocking, P2P Traffic · · Score: 1


    Moreover, disrupting P2P traffic will have no effect on "spammers and other miscreants", as they have far more sophisticated, self-organizing C&C methods already deployed. (No doubt having anticipated that use of traditional P2P would leave them vulnerable to such countermeaures.)

    The storm worm uses the eDonkey protocol for C&C. You were saying?
  16. Re:What about FPGAs? on New Password Recovery Technique Uses CPU and GPU Together · · Score: 1

    That has already been done, but it is far more complicated to setup.
    http://nsa.unaligned.org/

  17. Re:Just wonderful on New Password Recovery Technique Uses CPU and GPU Together · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or you could start using a more secure hashing function!

    The time it takes to calculate the hash is insignificant for a real user, but an increase of even a tenth of a second to an attacker could mean the difference between a day and a week to crack a hash.

    bluefish hashes take a long time (relative to md5 and sha1) to computer because the initialization takes a long time, there is no way to accelerate this initialization it must be preformed synchronously.

    OpenBSD FTW!

  18. Re:Encrypt Everything on Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic · · Score: 1

    So you encrypt the IP header and the router sends the packet where exactly? (As I'm sure you know most bit torrent clients support encryption, even forced encryption).

  19. Re:Good intentions on First Details of Windows 7 Emerge · · Score: 1

    Virtualization seems like it is the solution, but there are certain technologies that virtual machines simply do not support. An example being EMS, Expanded Memory Specification for MS-DOS.

  20. Relevent US CODE on Senator Slaps Down FISA Telecom Immunity · · Score: 4, Informative

    1802. Electronic surveillance authorization without court order; certification by Attorney General;" (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this subchapter to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year if the Attorney General certifies in writing under oath that--
    (A) the electronic surveillance is solely directed at--
    (i) the acquisition of the contents of communications transmitted by means of communications used exclusively between or among foreign powers, as defined in section 1801 (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this title; or
    (ii) the acquisition of technical intelligence, other than the spoken communications of individuals, from property or premises under the open and exclusive control of a foreign power, as defined in section 1801
    (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this title;
    (B) there is no substantial likelihood that the surveillance will acquire the contents of any communication to which a United States person is a party; and
    http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50/usc_sec_50_00001802----000-.html#a_1
  21. Re:I thought high end meant Xeon? on Intel X38 High End Chipset Launch and Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Sure you can, but that's not what the chips are marketed as.

  22. Re:I thought high end meant Xeon? on Intel X38 High End Chipset Launch and Benchmarks · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a high end Desktop chip, Xeon are server chips.

  23. Re:That Doesn't Make Sense on Quantum Crypto in the Real World · · Score: 1

    Why bother hashing? why not just assign an arbitrary string of acceptable length to each candidate.

  24. Re:That Doesn't Make Sense on Quantum Crypto in the Real World · · Score: 1

    A hash of a single bit variable? Genius

  25. Re:Hey! Down in front! on Japan Moon Probe Snaps First Photos · · Score: 3, Informative

    The camera is to observe the high gain antenna, not to take pictures of the moon.