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Comment Re:This (Score 1) 88

corrupt police officers who fined your car that was perfectly parked within the free parking lot

Because someone put a potentially fake note on your windshield saying "nice car".

If only Lonely Planet would advice people what Italian policemen mean when they ask you for a cup of coffee. I's all their fault, I think I'm going to sue them.

Comment Re:This (Score 1) 88

The pizza was gummy, the wine tasted of vinegar, the bread was at least two days old and they even charged 5$ for a bottle of water that was brought on the table already open, maybe refilled of tap water. I definitely do not recommend, please steer clear of vikingpower pizza lest they ruin your trip more than the corrupt police officers who fined your car that was perfectly parked within the free parking lot.

Comment Re:Wha?!?!!! (Score 1) 172

It is time to stop painting the open source fantasy as reality. Open source is great in theory but in practice it simply has not delivered outside of a few corner cases.

Actually the opposite is demonstrably true: http://www.zdnet.com/article/c...
Coverity finds open source software quality better than proprietary code
"In 2013, code quality of open-source projects using the Scan service surpassed that of proprietary projects at all code base sizes, which further highlights the open source community’s strong commitment to development testing."

Comment Re:Wha?!?!!! (Score 1) 172

FYI: Ancient Microsoft headers defined WORD as a 16-bit signed value and DWORD as a 32-bit signed value; then the Windows API declares its functions in terms of those same WORD and DWORD typedefs. As a result, anything attempting to be even remotely cross-platform copied the standard, so now WORD means 16-bit and DWORD means 32-bit. The terms have stuck, and now they're taught in school as hard constants.

This only has meaning in MS proper. Hardware architectures and programming languages that were born in non-16 bits environments have WORDs that are differently sized.

Comment Hardware password storage? (Score 1) 247

What about using an openhardware password storage device like Mooltipass? http://hackaday.io/project/86-... Mooltipass is composed of one main device and a smartcard. On the device are stored your AES-256 encrypted passwords. The smartcard is a read protected EEPROM that needs a PIN code to unlock its contents (AES-256 key + a few websites credentials). As with your credit card, too many tries will permanently lock the smart card. The mooltipass main components are: a smart card connector, an Arduino compatible microcontroller, a FLASH memory, an OLED screen and its touchscreen panel. The OLED screen provides good contrast and good visibility. Unfortunatley this project is about to fail it's Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign.

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