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  1. Re:We can help you, comrades on Russia To Help NATO Build Anti-Missile Network · · Score: 1

    Those are roughly equivalent to the MIM-14_Nike-Hercules which was deployed in 1959.

    I would hardly say the Russians have ever been ahead of the US in missile defense.

  2. Re:Oregon voters... on Oregon Senator Seeks To Block COICA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or they could just wait out the filibuster. I heard a lot about Republicans threatening to filibuster, but they never actually had too because the Democrats apparently don't believe in their own policies enough to spend a night on the senate floor.

  3. Re:First call on Paying With the Wave of a Cellphone · · Score: 1

    And do a lot of programming. For instance, I cannot remove those stupid facebook, twitter, etc "features" from my N900 because they are in the basic part of it. I am not sure if I even could remove them with a half year dedicated study of the OS and development documentation.

    Might I suggest a new field of employment?

  4. Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    Fox news got on it (yes seriously).

  5. Re:Can you even buy a netbook without windows? on Comparing Windows and Ubuntu On Netbooks · · Score: 2, Informative

    That is not a netbook and you know it.

  6. Re:uhuh on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    No but it meant there was nobody there to defend him.

  7. Re:uhuh on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Rangel is screwed. He admitted fault by leaving the hearing and is likely to have charges brought against him in front of the soon to be republican house.

  8. Re:Before everyone says that's idiotic... on Sophos Researcher Suggests Password 'Free' to Spur Wi-Fi Encryption · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, technically, it would prevent someone from stealing your interwebs as long as you were already connected.

    Unless of course the attacker sends fake de-authentication packets forcing a new handshake to occur...

  9. Ridiculous And Totally Not Helpful on Sophos Researcher Suggests Password 'Free' to Spur Wi-Fi Encryption · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe he hasn't noticed that wireshark can decrypt WPA2 traffic so long as the network is being sniffed when the client originally connects.

  10. Not A CO2 Sink on Factory To Make Biodiesel From Chicken Fat · · Score: 1

    Just so that everybody is clear, this is NOT better than burning fossil fuels in terms of CO2 released.

    All of that chicken fat would simply have been put into a land fill, thus acting as a CO2 sink (kind of like fossil fuels right?).

  11. Re:Details on Royal Navy Website Hacked, Passwords Revealed · · Score: 1

    admin : f27f6f1c7c5cbf4e3e192e0a47b85300 | cracked: ppp

    Something tells me they aren't exactly the most security conscious bunch...

  12. Re:Don't put it on the Internet! on Evaluating Or Testing Utility SCADA Security? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.blackandveatch.com/Markets/Telecommunications/Utility_Automation/Default.aspx I stopped reading there.

  13. Re:help? on Europe Simulates Total Cyber War · · Score: 1

    That's funny, but about 60 years out of date.

  14. Re:Even so! on Americans Less Healthy, But Outlive Brits · · Score: 1

    I have no doubt that the difference in life expectancy has more to do with the use of explosives and motorcycles than it does with the quality of health care.

  15. Re:Obama should just call for elections on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    1) When looking at individual parts of HCR, most people approved of them.

    People only like the pieces so long as they dont have to pay for them.

  16. Re:Hopefully... on Firesheep Author Reflects On Wild Week · · Score: 1

    Like other posters you have failed to grasp that anybody sniffing the sharing of the per client key can read you traffic.

    So someone who starts sniffing the network after you have connected cannot listen in, but someone who has been there from the beginning can.

  17. Re:Hopefully... on Firesheep Author Reflects On Wild Week · · Score: 1

    you have to capture their "handshake" with the router in addition, and that takes a bit of questionable activity.

    To get the handshake you simply have to be sniffing the network at the same time the other client connects, note that it is possible to force clients to reconnect.

  18. They Need To Do Some Research on British Pizza Chain To Install Cones of Silence · · Score: 1

    Clearly they have not seen the research that shows that louder restaurants result in more people buying alcohol.

  19. Re:How long does it last? on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    So almost a million miles? Yup that'll do.

  20. Re:Ahh Limewire! That takes me back... on Looks Like the End of the Line For LimeWire · · Score: 0

    That is patently false.

  21. Re:Headline Is So Very Wrong on How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes · · Score: 1

    Wealth != Income.

  22. Re:At Last! on Adobe Reader X With Sandbox Due In November · · Score: 1

    They added the new features to sell upgrade of their document production software.

  23. Re:Excellent news on Tesla Signs $60 Million Contract With Toyota · · Score: 0

    OMG what if a rugged dirt road mountain sprung forth from the earth in the middle of my commute and you don't have 4wd? OMG OMG!

    That is precisely what an large earthquake does.

  24. Jobs Jobs Jobs! on French City To Use CCTV For Parking Fines · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a jobs program more than anything else.

  25. Re:Obvious corollary on Technological Genius Is Timeliness, Not Inspiration · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dear god that is an actual patent...