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Comment Re:Price Matters (Score 1) 368

Non Apple Tables are priced roughly $200-300 too expensive. Get them around $199-$299 and they'll sell like gangbusters just like it did for Android phones in the mobile market.

I thought every manufacturer of every material and immaterial product in existence already did this. Because you KNOW $199 feels like a lot less than $200.

Comment Re:KEEP IT! (Score 2) 585

I recall our old 486DX 66 MHz (at least I think that was what it was) had a little 2x7 segment display and a button labelled "TURBO" on the front panel. Hitting the button would switch the machine between 33 and 66 MHz. That feature was probably for games like the one you describe.

Comment Re:Amusingly? (Score 1) 162

To be honest, I'm not amused as much as I am proud. It could just be that 25% of the respondents are the technophobic old-timers who don't trust computers because... well... they're EVIL.
A more pleasing interpretation is that the facebook generation is starting to think about data integrity and protecting their personal information. It's about time.

Comment Re:Then can you fix the problem at my end for me? (Score 1) 200

Silently drop DNS requests to facebook.com and shrug and say it must be a problem at their end when they ask?

Then they'd try Google, their webmail, and other sites on their Favorites, and see that I'm silently dropping everything. Then they'd bug me to troubleshoot the "problem at their end" for free, and if I refuse to whitelist the MAC of their laptop or tablet, and I further deny them the use of one of my own computers "just for a minute" that inevitably turns into fifteen or more, I'm perceived as inconsiderate.

No future invasions of the basement. Problem solved.

Comment Re:give keys? (Score 1) 586

You control your server, so if you're paranoid take some precautions. Set up an account (or better yet, an accout on a new VM) specifically for this with limited permissions and access. If you're really paranoid, you obviously won't be doing this at all.

Wait, let me get this straight. A non-paranoid server admin would allow someone else access to an existing account? Wow.
And here I was, thinking least-possible-privileges was supposed to be rule #1 for a non-insane server admin!

Comment Re:Predicting the future... (Score 1) 141

What if Black Unicorn was to post a public key on a place people trust (say, the website where BU first became known) and then use the corresponding private key to sign posts and make them identifiable?
There's no way to tie this key to an actual person, but us readers can verify with certainty that this or that post came from BU herself.

With any trusted PKI (like Black Uincorn's website in this case) in place, the problem you describe has already been solved.

Comment Re:I don't see how (Score 2, Informative) 373

These are supposedly using "legitimate" HDCP keys to get access to the protected data (the input to your stripper). It is my understanding that these keys could be revoked, making that stripper (and probably all the others of the same model which use the same key) useless.

This new "crack" allows you to generate new and perfectly valid keys, making the device's "authorization" irrevocable.

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