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Comment Sounds as if a pastiche is needed here: (Score 0) 244

Battle Royale times Bible Black divided by Tentacle porn to the power of Pachinko modulo

buxom,Junoesque,adipose,agreeable,amply endowed,attractive,becoming,beefy,big-bellied,bloated,blowzy,bonny,bosomy,braw,brawny,built,built for comfort,burly,busty,callipygian,callipygous,chesty,chubby,chunky,comely,corpulent,curvaceous,curvy,distended,dumpy,fair,fat,fattish,fleshy,frivolous,full,gleeful,goddess-like,gross,healthy,hearty,heavyset,hefty,hilarious,hippy,imposing,jocular,jocund,jolly,jovial,joyful,joyous,laughter-loving,likely,lovely to behold,lusty,meaty,merry,mirth-loving,mirthful,obese,overweight,paunchy,personable,pleasing,plump,pneumatic,podgy,portly,potbellied,presentable,pudgy,puffy,pursy,rejoicing,risible,roly-poly,rotund,shapely,sightly,slender,square,squat,squatty,stacked,stalwart,statuesque,stocky,stout,strapping,swollen,thick-bodied,thickset,top-heavy,tubby,vigorous,well-built,well-developed,well-favored,well-fed,well-formed,well-made,well-proportioned,well-shaped,well-stacked

young woman, while separated from her friends, has to learn to use a semi-disabled tank to fight off swarms of horribly implanted aliens waves disguised as parents / bosses / ugly women / creatures from Australia.

Comment One key problem with patents (Score 4, Interesting) 131

is that there is no adversarial position, as in a civil or criminal lawsuit.

This means there is no effective counterpoise to the seeker of the frivolous patent, since the patent office itself has nothing to lose from rank incompetence.

An attorney team whose reward is correlated with the number of patents it gets dismissed or invalidated would be quite interesting.

Then we need to work on the broad strokes of varying patentable periods depending on the field at hand. Drugs, software, and shoes probably ought to be patentable for differing periods of time.

Japan

Submission + - How Japan's Data Centers Survived The Earthquake (itworld.com)

jfruhlinger writes: "A lot of Japan's infrastructure was knocked offline by this year's massive earthquake and tsunami, but its data centers by and large stayed running. How'd they pull it off? Good architecture and good planning, for the most part. But the data centers still face challenges in post-quake Japan, not least a new law mandating reductions in power use."
Privacy

Submission + - Defeating Skype Encryption Without a Key (securityweek.com) 1

wiredmikey writes: Researchers have found a novel way to decrypt Skype conversations without ever knowing the encryption key. This particular attack has its roots in linguistics. The researchers liken it to how infants break up speech into words without hearing actual pauses and word divisions within a sentence.

Because of its faster compression, VoIP systems tend to use what's called Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) to transmit voice conversations over IP. LPC creates data sets from spoken English on the sender's end by breaking apart the resonances, hisses, and pops within and between words. The conversation is then synthesized on the receiving end by reversing the process. What the researchers did was simulate that reverse process in a lab....

Adults have a lexicon of sounds that make up individual words, but infants do not. Infants must rely on gestures, intonations and other clues to infer the breaks between words within the stream of sounds they hear. That is what this attack does; it attempts to build a lexicon of sounds using LPC to decode the conversation...

Facebook

Submission + - MySpace sold for $35 million (nytimes.com)

h1q writes: MySpace was sold today for less than a tenth of what it was purchased for six years ago.
What will Facebook and LinkedIn be worth six years from now?

Comment Entropy of passcode space (Score 1) 167

I am sure that most people are aware that the entropy of passcode space is culturally dependent.

One way of evading the cultural diminution of passspace entropy is through a selection technique known as "shocking nonsense." (Google)

Comment George Orwell was an optimist. (Score 5, Insightful) 582

When I read 1984 as a youngster I was shocked at the telescreen, the minutes of hate, the ever-shifting language and designated terrorists, and the frightful Room 101 ways of dealing with questionable comrades.

At some point with water-boarding, elimination of due process and habeas corpus for designated humans and spying without warrants, we have now fulfilled Orwell's nightmare of a despotic totalitarian system of politic and thought. And we aspire to further degradation of the human spirit.

Comment a game for gentlemen, but the stakes are high (Score 1) 207

Until iPhone security is implemented with RSA or other public-key crypto system on chip, the cycle of crack and patch will be for us onlookers an amusing game of quoits, or maybe as a slap-fight at a Wild Irish Rose festival. For Apple, though, the stakes are higher than kids getting to play $0.99 games for free, as each exploit is a proof-of-concept that both questions Apple's entire design, implementation, and review process and demonstrates to businesses that their trade secrets remain low-hanging fruit on the iOS platforms.

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