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  1. Re:Why is it odd? on Supreme Court: No Patents For Natural DNA Sequences · · Score: 1

    The result wasn't that bad, but the real question is "Why the fuck was this ever even an issue in the first place"?

    Because the system is broken and people want to take advantage of that system to make money for themselves and damn the consequences. Shame they couldn't invalidate all their patents simply because they wasted the courts time with an obvious answer. How often do you get 9-0? Thats a what the F### is wrong with you question.

  2. Re:The coin ... on Google Glass Teardown · · Score: 1

    For those who haven't read George R. R. Martins 'a song of Ice and Fire' (otherwise known as 'A game of Thrones' on HBO) The first phrase means 'all men must die' in High Valyrian. The second is spoken in reply to the first. 'All men must serve.'

  3. Re:It's obvious really on Google Glass Teardown · · Score: 1

    It will be used. And don't laugh about the 'Death of the Great satan'. here it will be 'Death to the mark of the beast; whose the beast? Who ever is responsible for implementing the next banking system to help us be more convenient.

  4. Re:It's obvious really on Google Glass Teardown · · Score: 1

    “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Turns out Orwell was wrong. There was no one single Big brother. We are Big Brother. And we are only just now discovering this: “Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
    We are the party. WE elected twice the man who knew virtually nothing about government practice and hung out with revolutionaries. He isn't to blame. He was a means to do it to ourselves.

  5. Re:Well I'm Glad That's Solved on No Black Hole Or Magnetic Monopole: Tunguska Really Was a Meteor · · Score: 1

    they do. It's called syria.

  6. Re:just now? on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    I do. And considering Snowden's revelation, do you really think still is beyond the pale?

  7. Re: Not-so-accurate source on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 1

    I absolutely agree I would love them all at the end. However, here that would mean simply that no one would watch them, ever.

  8. Re:Postapocoliptic Nightmare on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 1

    For me its simple I avoid those grains (and soybeans) Win. Even better, Monsanto is killing the vegans. Win win (primary diet consists of soybeans)

  9. Re: Not-so-accurate source on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 1

    Crap that's in America? Again with the attacks on amercian commercials. Come on, where else can you get a food company attacking vegans or a goat who stands with blacks and says common rap lyrics to a battered women like snitchs get stitches? And we even have a company that markets big fuel savings and online shipment of pants by making you think they are cursing. All you have is footie and Dr who. (althought I still love you all for your stellar Olympics coverage. I actually considered paying you'll if Iplayer would have let me. since it didn't the pirates were more than welcome to help)

  10. Re:Better Idea on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 1

    because the new people won't buy it because the olders HAVE BEEN putting up with crap for 20yrs

  11. Re:Never Heard of Office 360 on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Maybe not in your area but in my dozens. It is the defacto standard for production images. No everyone doesn't need to use it. However if you are making quality image you should otherwise it will look like crap.

  12. Re:Never Heard of Office 360 on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Hense its name. gimp
    Noun
    lameness, limping, gameness, claudication (disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet)
    Yes, I know its actually an acronym but its also the best descriptive name out there for a program

  13. Re:just now? on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    according to RSA 40bit keys were crackable in 2010. To not be crackable without a massive amount of computational power (chained supercomputers for the obvious idiots here) it needs to 112 bits.

  14. Re:just now? on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    And you seem to be missing the entire point. You seem to think I am talking about breaking into someones car first. So to clarify. I am not. This is why I am using Iphone jailbreaking as an example. If someone wants to break into an acura the most logical solution is by the car and the fob! Hello! To access all other cars one would obviously need both the car and the way to get into it! Dudes popped open the doors did it one of three ways.
    1. Its their car
    2. They defeated the locking mechanism
    3. or they used a key
    Obvious one and thee are false. To defeating the computer system you need all the components. That includes a car. Yes, someone can actually disassemble a car, Since by your post you don't believe that, I can't help you. I would expect nothing less.
    Also, I actually know a lot more about the subject than you do because:
    www dot engadget dot com slash 2010 slash 03 slash 09 slash 1024 dash bit dash rsa dash encryption dash cracked dash by dash carefully dash starving dash cpu dash of dash ele
    If China truly wants to restrict they can. They don't want too. They want to control information about themselves which isn't possible. With the internet its either off or on. There is no middle ground. Besides VPNs are just as hackable. Need I post a YOUtube of it? I can. As for BES, RIM is dying. BES is pretty much irrevalent to most hackers because its 1%. Its like windows phone, i can be done but why?. However to answer your question, Can it be hacked, yes, Opensecurity talks about it.
    Our govt and most others uses archaic computers systems and is Dumb. Do I expect them to be able to? Also NSA wanted to just to collect info for the purpose of collecting info so of course you tell them no
    Finally, I take it you were unaware of the court case where first the guy suspected of Child porn doesn't have to open his drive because they asked (it was true crypt) The after the cops do actually decrypt a drive and find evidence suddenly the judge orders him to open the others.

    Finally I'm being harsh either but you are unwilling to believe what is staring you in the face. It can be done and done now. All encyption can be broken easily. It requires raw computational power. I am not talking the 'hacking the gibson' bullshit either.
    As of 2003 RSA Security claims that 1024-bit RSA keys are equivalent in strength to 80-bit symmetric keys, 2048-bit RSA keys to 112-bit symmetric keys and 3072-bit RSA keys to 128-bit symmetric keys. RSA claims that 1024-bit keys are likely to become crackable some time between 2006 and 2010 and that 2048-bit keys are sufficient until 2030. An RSA key length of 3072 bits should be used if security is required beyond 2030.[6] NIST key management guidelines further suggest that 15360-bit RSA keys are equivalent in strength to 256-bit symmetric keys.
    I dont believe those cars were encrypted with 2048. I believe they were 512. So please go off some where with your troll like behavior. If you want to have a intelligent discussion on cryptography awesome, otherwise, GTFO because you obviously aren't keeping up or doing research because I can back up all my statements with hard facts from reputable sources as I have worked in the industry.

  15. Re:just now? on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    Most governments require backdoors,

    So do most Porn companies. At least they get more pleasure out of them.

  16. Re:just now? on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that wasn't done? I never suggested the length of time required or the amount of skill required. I simply said it could be done.
    As to Authentication and RFID yes I did ignore that. My bad. Obviously they found a way around them.
    The point I was making is if you truly want to break something, you will. No one will stop you from entirely disabling and extracting all the roms from a modern car,. viewing them on a Oscilloscope, doing the same to a key fob and rolling a program. Is it insane? yes. Is it time consuming? Yes, Will it achieve the objective? YES.
    As for irrelevancy, I disagree. No one could break the Iphone until someone rolled the program. I seem to remember that one jailbreak actually required soldering a point inside the Phones board.
    The difference is people are jailbreaking others phones. If they did, we would have a crap load of celebrity pron. yet we don't.
    As for the scales of Billions of years not true. You can chain enough processor power and pull that down. Remember the govt wants in to all your stuff too. Also Bitcoin for another example.
    What most likely happened? Acura or Honda had a bug or a flaw in their implementation and someone discovered it. Either hardware or software they did. Back tot the orginial post. never rely on Security by Obscurity. It will always be broken.

  17. Re:I have an exploit that works on all cars on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    It will on 97% if thrown correctly. The key word is correctly.

  18. Re:probably not a key that is sent on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    Are you suggested a basic buffer overload? If so that would be ROTFLOL!

  19. Re:Stumped my ass on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    All it takes is once.

  20. Re:just now? on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This wasn't an amateur attack. This is security by obscurity. SMH. So they had it set to a high level of encryption like maybe 256. Computers are powerful enough now that it can be done with a short amount of time and patience. Thats what cops don't grasp. It was never hard to break in for someone skilled. It was time consuming. Yes it took someone who could roll crypto with program writing. How do you think, Iphones were jailbroken? Android rooted? DeCSS, and Blueray broken? Same way.
    Honestly. they wanted to steal without getting caught. Now They simply unlock the door and look around.
    The caveats are always the same. Never store valuables in your vehicle. Never assume its safe. Always be vigilant.

  21. Re:Good News / Bad News on Early Brain Response To Words Predictive For Autism · · Score: 1

    Because I was diagnosed with the disease. The abundance of quacks who call themselves 'qualified psychologist' is more than the population of the state of California so while you are perfectly welcome to call yourself a disabled individual, I have having to suffer through a childhood and Middle school with the physically and mentally handicaped when there wasn't anything really wrong with my body or mind gives me a unique perspective.
    I am of the opinion that the whole of the DSM-IV is wrong because those 'qualified psychologist' never could understand. They are the equivalent of a Thomas edison's lab techs trying to work on a modern smart phone.
    I am also posting this because I give a F### about karma on this subject. You are as much a victim of the system that has REFUSED to narrow down the symptoms correctly to isolate the disease like any good doctor would. And who are you to attack my definitions so vociferously? Did you sit through class after class of meaningless teachings so dumbed down that you took to reading the encyclopedia because you were bored. (and nothing was down because that type of behavior was ok? You are 'disabled'" ) Did you and your parents have to fight '80s school boards and state education to get out of the program so you could actually have a junior and senior year? Did you have a teacher who was a 'qualified psychologist' who swore this would cripple me for life? (it didn't).
    I lost out on an typical high school experience because of 'qualified psychologists' who have the same failure to grasp reality as you.
    I lost out on being able to get to college because of the refusal to fund me because of that. ( it took till 2005 to get in).
    I lost my best years because of this style of thinking.
    You are welcome to believe whatever you want to believe. That's freedom (even if you aren't a US citizen). I however believe that Autism is a crippling disabling disease that deprives people of the ability to speak in a means that the majority of humans in the world does. Its not a special of thinking. Its mental blindness or deafness. Those people need lifelong care because unlike the deaf and blind, they will never be able to help themselves. Are so capable of magnificent feats? Yes.
    I aslo believe Aspergers is not the same. Its simple the failure to gather our normal sociological cues. That most uber intelligent people who high the high of the accepted IQ level have simply because of processing power (i work on computers now. No one seemed to care about my 'issue' after 1995. At least where I applied.)
    It has levels from the sheldon, beautiful mind level all the way down to mild.
    Finally just as with the removal of Homosexuality from the mental illness category, I feel that I will be vindicated. I just think it will be in my lifetime. There are way to many quacks. You are helping them. I never will. They stole too much.
    Finally to those who dicker about the meaning of words. Words mean what you want them to. The word 'fag' for example means entirely different things in UK than in US. (Here its a slur, there its a cigarette. Doubt me? Google image search 'have a fag') The word means what I believe it means.The problem is the 'qualified psychologist' quacks who want to make money off insurance who want a broad a range as possible and you having no clue.
    Last time I checked, I have a right to decide what words really mean. And thanks to being born in the US, I get to enforce that if I like. I also write fiction so yes, I can create and redefine.

  22. Re:Good News / Bad News on Early Brain Response To Words Predictive For Autism · · Score: 1

    No, autism isn't a different way of thinking, Aspergers is. Autism is a failure to process information. Aspergers is processing differently. One is a book with empty pages shaped without corners. The other is shakesphere in Klingon.

  23. Re:Good News / Bad News on Early Brain Response To Words Predictive For Autism · · Score: 1

    True. And thats the problem with spectrum. Sheldon Cooper doesn't have autism. He has Aspergers. Thats a socialization disorder. In laymans terms he missed the basic social cues but he is so intelligent in other areas he compensates for it. yet those are basic so he looks foolish. Austim is a debilitating disease that strips away basic human higher functions. Its is more akin to blindness. They can't process stimuli correctly. So they can't communicate. High function ones can. This is the core problem. You can't mix the too. The media and those clueless do this all the time. Its annoying.

  24. Re:Here's his best defense.. on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    "Having forgotten" would have implied that he once knew them...

    True.

    ... which would have been proof that the hard drives were his.

    False. You can tell the me combination to your safe, but the safe is still yours.

    ... refusing to decrypt would now be taken as evidence that he's got something to hide, basically an admission of guilt

    False. Lack of evidence is not evidence. The 5th Amendment is not a tool for the guilty, but for the innocent.

    Sure it is. However its no longer seen that way. Its seen as an admission of guilt. When you use it, you announce that you have something to hide that if spoken would crucify you. This is true even if really you don't.

  25. Re:Something It Isn't on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    That's just it. We don't have a RIGHT to Privacy. We have the privilege of privilege. Nowhere in the Constitution says people have an explicit right to privacy. Yes it was assumed then. You could say that quartering soldiers was that. Yet neither hold water. We have to accept that those days are gone. Don't do anything you wouldn't want know publically. Privacy as we knew it is gone whether we like it or not. Glass is the avalanche near the summit not the valley floor..