Actually, people need compatible donors: for the most part only Chinese can buy their organs from China. For the same reason, a black market in African American organs (haha get it?), isn't much use to me as a Caucasian.

Luckily for me, despite decades of equal employment pushes, white business men will still be the race paying top dollars for my kidneys. Or maybe not so luckily for me considering GP-post.

What other security researchers have accepted $10,000,000?

No one is "without sin," but there are some boundaries at which you stop being a normal person who has to bend his principles for the real world and become a complete dick who doesn't deserve to be a respected member of the white hat community.

Anyway, got my W2, so I have to go get back to making my yearly donation to the government; I sure hope they won't blow it on multimillion dollar bribes.

I read TFA, and you didn't miss much. The reporter dumbed the idea too far down or didn't understand it himself. https://github.com/bramcohen/DissidentX [github.com] has a little more explanation especially if you want to read the code.

Anyway, you can't tell how many messages are encoded, in fact you shouldn't be able to see if a single message is encoded at all, hence the purpose of the tool and stenography in general. Though, if you have the undoctered original file and you know that this tool is the only thing that might have messed with the file, then you can tell that at least one message has been encoded.

However, you can tell how many messages could be encoded and therefore keep water-boarding until you get that many messages, but likely no one put that many messages into the file in the first place so your just doing the extra torture for fun.

Of course not, no one has written a best selling book on it yet.

I for one, don't buy any scientific theories until I read a bestselling, true-adventure book that dumbs it down for me and admits no counterpoints.

I am trying to take up swimming though, so I could use a "Born to Swim" if it's out there somewhere. Christopher McDougall do your thing; Make me excited about my evolutionary drive to learn the backstroke.

Seriously, Anonymous Coward wants to know if this account has enough klout to deserve an opinion? If you think that people's insights are only worthwhile because of their notoriety, your using the wrong account.

Maybe some of us care what he says because he has some good points?

Hmm, have the stolen credit cards used or are they just sitting in a warehouse somewhere? Maybe the NSA is relevant to the current story?

I'm just asking questions!

Tech: Will you be a success?
Watson: What is 42?
Tech: ???
Watson: What is the beings who asked the question did not understand the question and therefore the answer is meaningless?

Nope, I got no idea what you are talking about. In fact, I found it pleasant.

Acknowledging large shortcomings of their study, the one thing they seem to find was that if you want your fiction book to remain popular with a broad audience, you should take my middle school English teacher's advice and show don't tell.

They came up with no magic: "save the cat" formulas to make hits and the industry expert says that this study won't help him much, stories still too complex to predict best sellers.

Further, they point out that finding the magic rules for broad-audience success books still won't ruin the industry since topics are so important; as a hyperbolic example: I'm currently enjoying "More effective STL." The plot is pretty bland, but it's one of the best books I've read in a year, and I've highly recommended it to certain friends. However, I doubt it will outsell "The Lost Symbol."

And books on Project Guttenberg have more to do with which are on high school reading lists than anything else. I'd say 90% of the reading I've done of public domain books/peoms was done for assignments.

I hate how overused that comic is, but I have to disagree with most disagreements with it.

I can type a full sentence about as fast as I can contort and remember a 13373D password.

I've used both and I'd say I get faster at a sentence you type 5 times a day as you do a sequence of random characters.

Of course if you use your favorite vim shortcut or a good line of assembly as your 8 character password, then I guess you could beat the full sentence strategy.

I use grammatically correct and spell checked sentences for my old true crypt passwords; I've never forgotten one.

"Alice had a little lamb. Porn Filter unit test files"

Occasionally I've had to try a few variations, but never been as baffled as I have for some old accounts that I've lost completely, with leetified names as most of my online passwords of "8-12 characters one special character [^"' ` ] and a number and capital letter.

I cam here to say exactly this. They locked my account while I was on travel internationally.

When did you sign up for gmail MM/YY? Uh, after 2002 but before 2008.
What are three tags you've applied to your email? TODO, NotSpam, ImportantInfo....wait no To Do, Mostly no spam, Saved info... no it was soon-to-do, Unspam.
When did you last successfully sign in to gmail. yesterday afternoonish or morning, is that in the future from this time zone? no wait, I did only work email yesterday? Does my phone's mail app count?
Who are three people you commonly email. Jim69@yahoo.com, oh wait he moved to some leetified version of jimmyjimmy@gmail.com now, but I can't remember because I've just typed jim into the "to:" field and gmail knew who to send it to, (tines 3)

This's why I have a gmail account, dammit! To keep track of contacts and dates for me. If I remembered all this stuff, I'd just use the free email provided by my ISP so people could send me messages.

Needless to say, I had to wait to get to a country, which I guess has fewer gmail attacks, before I could use my account again. I did remember my password though, I remember my last 3 passwords and more if you allow me natural human memory loss (was it @mailPass3? or @mailP4ssThree,)?

No, you get to do whatever you like with your house.

However, to prevent people from having a nice house like yours, you've burned all the blue prints and don't let anyone take any pictures. Then you demolish your house when it is no longer useful to you to make sure no one else can enjoy it. Now, it is a loss to society, especially if you had some ground-breaking, architectural inventions in it.

In different times you would execute all your builders and possibly blind your archetect too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_astronomical_clock). I guess DRM has been around forever.

I know all about Konging Off! I Kong off all the time; in fact I'm Konging off right now.

Actually, I'm only 30; It was only recently that some old guys explained to me that Donkey Kong was not invented in that psuedo-3d game for the super Nintendo (which I imagined this story was about). Apparently, it has something to do with Mario (that guy I know from Super Mario 3). I've never seen the original game.

If an eight year olds are writing computer viruses using "Move the Turtle," then I for one will be insanely impressed and consider hour of code a phenomenally unbelievable success. I will probably also have to retire from my job since I will be replaced by elementary school children, because if they can throw some blocks together to create computer viruses, I have no doubt they could do some digital signal processing as well.