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Comment Re:That is the modus operandi (Score 1) 373

by CTalkobt (#33639348) Attached to: Intel Threatens DMCA Using HDCP Crack
Actually 2 bit encryption has 4 keys : 00, 01, 10, and 11. I believe you're thinking of 1 bit encryption.

Depending upon your function to encrypt and what it does, having a 1 bit key doesn't make things necessarily any easier or harder. There may be additional values associated with the encryption algorithm which adds to the encryption complexity (eg: prior lookup on the past x+key bits that have been encrypted ).

Submission + - Summer IT Soap Season: AAPL vs GOOG vs MSFT (takethe5th.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This is a great set of reference links to the ongoing Soap Opera that is Apple vs Google vs Microsoft. There is humor, there is drama, and there are some great must read articles — for example, see the widely varying latest reviews of Windows Phone 7.
Media

Submission + - Journalists plot to kill stories critical of Obama (dailycaller.com)

Submitted by Third Position
Third Position writes: Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama's conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists."

Submission + - Pirate ISP for Sweden (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by Fireking300
Fireking300 writes: The Pirate Party of Sweden has announced the creation of 'Pirate ISP'. Which will be a broadband provider to offer anonymity and protection to its Swedish residents from 'Big Brother'. They plan to uphold against the Swedish Government which set a law for ISPs to monitor all traffic of it's users.
Piracy

US Pirate Movie Site DNS Seizure Fail 343

Posted by timothy from the routing-around-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Last week, the US government in a highly publicized copyright protection frenzy took the extraordinary step of seizing domain names from foreign movie sites like NinjaVideo.net and TVshack.net. While the seizure raises confusing Internet legal / jurisdiction questions (the US and perhaps the state of Kentucky can seize domain names for foreign companies?), this study shows the legal issues may be moot — the raids mostly failed. Within hours of domain name seizure, tvshack.cc was back up and running (but this time using a Chinese registrar and a Cocos Islands ccTLD)."
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Judge Orders Wall For Fighting Brooklyn Couple 1

Posted by samzenpus from the just-another-brick-in-the-wall dept.
A Brooklyn judge decided to invoke some Solomon-like wisdom and ordered a divorcing couple to install a wall down the middle of their house. Pinchs and Nechama Gold were married 21 years ago, but they've lost that loving feeling, and both refuse to move from the family home. From the article: "'They've been living like there was a wall up for two years now,' said Abe Konstam, an attorney for Pinchs. 'This just helps them completely avoid each other.'" No word on when the couple will cut their 5 children in half.

Comment Re:And how does the kitty-kat feal about all this? (Score 2, Interesting) 225

by CTalkobt (#32693702) Attached to: Bionic Cat Gets World's First Implant Paws
My 3 legged cat doesn't really use her stump that much except when climbing steps...

She's developed the ability that when the front 2 paws are on the higher step, and her good back leg is on the lower step she'll angle her butt so that the stump is at the edge of the top step. The little stump will then twirl and while it's doing it's think she'll bring the back leg up and keep going.

Watching it almost reminds me of those famous horse pictures proving that a horse has 4 feet off the ground at a time...

Comment Re:occupational therapy (Score 1) 225

by CTalkobt (#32693642) Attached to: Bionic Cat Gets World's First Implant Paws

i wonder if the treatment included retraining the cat on burying its business in the cat box.

Actually, both of my cats at home use their front paws to side paw the littler on top... So yes, assuming she doesn't step in it (unlikely) she'd be fine and up to the usual tracking the litter out of the box like normal...

PS: (Yes, I have a 3 legged cat so I have a basis for asserting this.)

PPS: ( Anyone have a 1 and 2 legged so I can complete the set? )

PPPS: (Yes, I like parenthesis).

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