Comment Re:To expensive (Score 1) 695
"It's not a lightbulb, it's a heatball"
Comment Danish impossible to understand even for Danish (Score 1) 160
"Lately the Danish language has become impossible to understand even for the Danish themselves":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
Comment Research on psychosocial aspects (Score 1) 360
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/585644_2 (registration required, use bugmenot service or similar)
The psychosocial implications of in-flight sex and reproduction are at least as problematic as the related physiological challenges. For the foreseeable future, space crews will be relatively small in number. If pairing off occurs within the crew, it can have serious ramifications on the crew's working relationships, and therefore, on mission success and crew operations. Former astronaut Norman Thaggard commented, "[Issues associated with romantic relationships are] just one more problem that can potentially cause the whole thing to come apart."
Comment WPA uses sample principle - slow by design (Score 1) 409
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access#Security_.26_Insecurity_in_pre-shared_key_mode
If ASCII characters are used, the 256 bit key is calculated by applying the PBKDF2 key derivation function to the passphrase, using the SSID as the salt and 4096 iterations of HMAC-SHA1.
Slow by design.
Comment Re:Wind energy is harmful (Score 1) 223
Current technology can not capture wind energy in a way that is not harmful to the environment.
All energy production harms the environment, even hydroelectric energy production:
One study shows that a hydroelectric dam in the Amazon has 3.6 times larger greenhouse effect per kWh than electricity production from oil, due to large scale emission of methane from decaying organic material.
Tow the wind mills off shore. Bring down the production and maintenance costs. Scale up. Profit.
Comment Been there, done that (Score 1) 223
"Hywind, worlds first offshore floating windmill": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAyPpQ4gnjg
Comment Half bad indeed (in Nokia e5-00 browser) (Score 1) 2254
I don't think it looks half bad.
It looks rather bad in my Nokia e5-00 browser which until the recent changes displayed
Comment Re:Links wrong (Score 1) 273
Have you tried using http://www.eff.org/https-everywhere (Firefox extension) ?
Comment Re:Flash cookies (Score 1) 45
It doesn't get much easier than
rm -rf ~/.macromedia
Comment Re:Misleading CO2 (Score 1) 272
For example, a battery electric vehicle which uses 40 KW/h of electricity per 100 miles would release more CO2 into the atmosphere than many small gasoline vehicles.
Gasoline production is very energy consuming. Please add that factor into your equation before you draw conclusions.
Comment Re:Turn off the brakes (Score 1) 260
The tires are about the only wireless system. If they start designing remote disgnostics, then you can start worrying.
I worry already thank you. Cars are starting to become wireless and, consequently, vulnerable
Comment Re:Turn off the brakes (Score 2, Interesting) 260
All of this requires physical access to the car
That used to be true. While some hacks still require physical access, others can be executed remotely. Cars are getting online and the security problems go with it.
Comment Turn off the brakes (Score 2, Interesting) 260
Why bother with the tire pressure when you can make instruments give false readings, kill a car engine remotely or turn off the brakes ?
The Shoddy State of Automotive Wireless Security 260
angry tapir writes "Researchers from Rutgers University and University of South Carolina have found that wireless communications between new cars and their tires can be intercepted or even forged. While the potential for misuse may be minimal, this vulnerability points to a troubling lack of rigor with secure software development for new automobiles, said Wenyuan Xu, a computer science assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, who was a co-lead on the study. The researchers will present their findings at the Usenix Security Symposium, being held this week in Washington DC."
MP Wants Official Email Address Kept Private 179
nk497 writes "An MP in the UK has had his official email address removed from the parliamentary website, because he's tired of getting 'nuisance' emails via online campaign websites. MP Dominic Raab's parliamentary.uk email is currently not listed on the House of Commons' website following a spat with online campaigners 38 Degrees. 'Just processing the emails from your website absorbs a disproportionate amount of time and effort, which we may wish to spend on higher priorities, such as helping constituents in real need or other local or Parliamentary business,' he said, threatening to report the group to the government's data and privacy watchdog if they didn't remove the details from their own website. 38 Degrees says Raab gave them his personal email address during the election: 'it's only since he became a member of parliament with a taxpayer funded email address that he's now said he doesn't want to hear from people,' unless they're willing to shell out for a stamp to write him a letter. The lobby group said Raab likely averaged fewer than two emails from their site each day."
