Comment Denny Crane (Score 2) 368
It is my own thesis that any great character has elements of the actor's own personality in them. That said, how much of Denny Crane was the real Shatner?
Comment Social media (Score 1) 188
With the explosion of social networking websites, blogging and microblogging sites, etc., people are much easier to discover and contact -- some of whom may have been impossible to find in the 80's. Given these amazing tools, have you managed to speak with Ana Ng?
Comment Re:Something the academic forgot (Score 1) 409
Let's assume a massive dump is on the order of three pounds. At ten G's, that would weigh thirty pounds. Since toddlers have been known to hang from their diapers, I'm assuming it can be done. If not, research will need to be done to make a stronger 10G diaper. Even if the deathercoaster is never build, with the rise of space tourism, more people will be going into space in high G environments; oldsters make up a percentage of the population, so it's a good guess that some will be going into space -- thus creating a demand for 10G diapers.
Wait... I'm going to patent that. Everyone disregard this message
Comment Re:Something the academic forgot (Score 1) 409
One word: Depends.
Comment Re:No way! (Score 1) 171
But if you remove HIV you're certainly working towards such an event. I also *might* have been slightly facetious.
Comment Re:Man if it cures HIV (Score 1) 171
I'll trade in the pharmacists for unfettered, unprotected sex for all. A world without STDs would be an awesome world, indeed. Seinfeld's dream of an intercourse hello would be realized.
Comment I was wondering... (Score 2) 264
Who still uses Yahoo? I decided to take a quick trip to Alexa to get some sort of info about their demographics: "Relative to the general internet population, people over 65 years old are over represented at yahoo.com. Confidence: high"
That pretty much explains it. Grandpa learned to use the internet in the late 90's with Yahoo, and any other dangblasted, newfangled search engine won't be built like they used to be.
Comment But which game(s) does she play? (Score 1) 223
How can we judge whether or not this was a good decision without the requisite information?
Comment Why would a nation-state want to? (Score 1) 162
If a country can't figure out how to (or hire someone to) run LOIC to perform DDOS's and do simple SQL injections on their own, then they've got much bigger problems than working out how to infiltrate a group of teenagers.
Comment I would have been more impressed... (Score 4, Funny) 65
... if they used Minecraft.
Comment Seems risky (Score 1) 153
The monkey might go off course and land outside of Iran. The Iranian leadership would then run a great risk of the monkey defecting and giving up all their secrets.
Submission + - Online poker legalization bill coming next week (thehill.com)
GovTechGuy writes: Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) could introduce his bill to legalize online poker as soon as next week. The bill would legalize the game in all 50 states but sites could only be set up in states where gambling is already legal, so they can be licensed through existing gaming commissions. States could choose to opt-out of the law and ban online poker by referendum or a vote of the state legislature. The bill would also create a federal regulatory body to oversee the game.
Submission + - After 7 years, MyDoom worm is still spreading (sophos.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at Sophos have revealed that the MyDoom worm, which spread via email and launched denial-of-service attacks against websites belonging to SCO and Microsoft, is still spreading on the internet after more than 7 years in existence.
The firm suggests tongue-in-cheek, that it would be nice if computer users updated their anti-virus software /at least/ once every 5 years to combat the malware threat.
The firm suggests tongue-in-cheek, that it would be nice if computer users updated their anti-virus software
Submission + - Steganography: a nice way to memorize passwords (wikipedia.org)
alienoide writes: Strangely, I've rarely seen posts on the subject. Everybody speaks of secure passwords, encryption, authentication in the cloud (I hate that word), etc. Yet, a lot of people don't seem to realize everything is there for free, just waiting to be used.
Steganography seems to offer a convenient way to save complex passwords or other information and to create your own two-factor authentication mechanism. I don't know about Windows, but Linux offers steghide, a program to hide and encrypt data in the least significant bits of images and music files.
Generate a complex, long password with any tool and hide it in an MP3 or large JPEG file. Voilà. Upload it somewhere with a bunch of other files and nobody will suspect a thing.
I like to use pwgen, which is a free open source password generator. I generate passwords of about 128 characters or more and store them in a large image. Millions of images on the web, nobody sees it's there. And even if they do, they don't know what its for. You could even split the info over several photos. Only you know the combination.
No need to write down or memorize passwords. You just made your own two-factor authentication.
Combine that with tools as Truecrypt and change your passwords frequently. That will give people who are trying to steal your passwords and data a really hard time.
Of course, nothing is water tight. But you can sure try.
Steganography seems to offer a convenient way to save complex passwords or other information and to create your own two-factor authentication mechanism. I don't know about Windows, but Linux offers steghide, a program to hide and encrypt data in the least significant bits of images and music files.
Generate a complex, long password with any tool and hide it in an MP3 or large JPEG file. Voilà. Upload it somewhere with a bunch of other files and nobody will suspect a thing.
I like to use pwgen, which is a free open source password generator. I generate passwords of about 128 characters or more and store them in a large image. Millions of images on the web, nobody sees it's there. And even if they do, they don't know what its for. You could even split the info over several photos. Only you know the combination.
No need to write down or memorize passwords. You just made your own two-factor authentication.
Combine that with tools as Truecrypt and change your passwords frequently. That will give people who are trying to steal your passwords and data a really hard time.
Of course, nothing is water tight. But you can sure try.
Submission + - Japan Criminalizes Virus Creation (mainichi.jp)
camperslo writes: This legislation is a major move for Japan since the constitution there provides for privacy of communications, in sharp contrast with some other countries.
"Japan's parliament enacted legislation Friday criminalizing the creation or distribution of computer viruses to crack down on the growing problem of cybercrimes, but critics say the move could infringe on the constitutionally guaranteed privacy of communications.
With the bill to revise the Penal Code passing the House of Councillors by an overwhelming majority, the government intends to conclude the Convention on Cybercrime, a treaty that stipulates international cooperation in investigating crimes in cyberspace."
"Japan's parliament enacted legislation Friday criminalizing the creation or distribution of computer viruses to crack down on the growing problem of cybercrimes, but critics say the move could infringe on the constitutionally guaranteed privacy of communications.
With the bill to revise the Penal Code passing the House of Councillors by an overwhelming majority, the government intends to conclude the Convention on Cybercrime, a treaty that stipulates international cooperation in investigating crimes in cyberspace."
