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Comment Re:From the article.... (Score 1) 263

by gnud on Thursday December 16, 2010 @01:11PM (#34575462) Attached to: Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5

https://www.surftown.com/

Comment Re:Detection (Score 2) 320

by gnud on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @04:00AM (#34470862) Attached to: Vuvuzelas Blare On Pirated Copies of Music Game

The checksum for the _code_ section is stored in the _data_ section of the binary. Does that help?

Comment Re:Backups (Score 1) 202

by gnud on Friday December 03, 2010 @12:44PM (#34432398) Attached to: Ransomware Making a Comeback

Your private key can be stored in a bank box, or a small fireproof safe.

It's not convenient to store several years of backups in those places.

Comment Re:In Soviet Russia... (Score 1) 579

by gnud on Friday December 03, 2010 @06:49AM (#34429104) Attached to: Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too

UK police and security services are fully aware where Assange is (he's not hiding from them), but are not arresting him because of errors in the Interpol warrant. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334899/Scotland-Yard-arrest-wanted-WikiLeaks-boss-today.html

Comment LTE is not 4G (yet) (Score 1) 273

by gnud on Friday December 03, 2010 @06:39AM (#34429084) Attached to: Verizon LTE Can Use the Monthly Data Allotment In 32 Minutes

LTE is not 4G. Here in Norway, one provider is in some trouble for falsely advertising their upcoming LTE offering as 4G.

Nokia explains that LTE is not 4G here.

Comment Re:A big deal (Score 1) 161

by gnud on Friday November 26, 2010 @10:32AM (#34349790) Attached to: UK Police To Get Major New Powers To Seize Domains

WikiLeaks is a reasonable point, but torrents really do not fall under free speech. You may well disagree with laws concerning copyright, but that doesn't change the fact that they exist.

Comment Re:What the hell (Score 1) 321

by gnud on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @01:29PM (#34319998) Attached to: FCC To Allow Texting To 911

My comment was a stupid joke -- because it's the pause, and not the tap, that determines wether you tap a . or a -
Morse code is easier with beeps though.

Comment Re:What the hell (Score 1) 321

by gnud on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @11:11AM (#34317738) Attached to: FCC To Allow Texting To 911

How do you perform this "long tap"? :)

Comment Re:Irrelevant to the health issues... (Score 1) 681

by gnud on Monday November 22, 2010 @10:34AM (#34305604) Attached to: Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable

You do realize that the authors of the letter of concern mention that, and point out that while the effects of this radiation is fairly well understood, the backscatter x-ray is not, because it only affects the skin, not the whole body.

Comment Re:4th (Score 1) 484

by gnud on Saturday November 20, 2010 @02:08PM (#34292142) Attached to: Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized

The word that's unclear to me in the 4th amendment is 'unreasonable', not 'effects'.

Comment Re:Vehicular travel IS a right (Score 1) 1135

by gnud on Thursday November 18, 2010 @11:02AM (#34267916) Attached to: TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old

Nah, but you probably have the right to buy up land, build your own sidewalk, and drive your rocket-propelled car on that.

Comment Re:Recent experience at IND (Score 1) 642

by gnud on Sunday October 31, 2010 @03:05PM (#34081390) Attached to: TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use

You don't have to stink, you can just wear pants coated in something sticky, preferably something that really irritates skin. And have some spare pants in your carry-on bag :)

Comment Re:Read the rest of my post (Score 1) 717

by gnud on Sunday October 31, 2010 @12:29PM (#34079980) Attached to: VLC Developer Takes a Stand Against DRM Enforcement

It doesn't nessescarily stop anything. But Apple is not allowed (does not have a license to) distribute VLC unless they follow the GPL, which amongst other things says that Apple must make the source available.

Comment Re:GPL requires no DRM? (Score 1) 717

by gnud on Sunday October 31, 2010 @12:27PM (#34079970) Attached to: VLC Developer Takes a Stand Against DRM Enforcement

APPLE is the distributor; THEY have to offer the source. And impose no further restrictions.

They don't offer the source, and they do impose further restrictions on distribution. Hence, TFA.

Comment Re:The last 25% (Score 1) 368

by gnud on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @05:04AM (#33646644) Attached to: BP Permanently Seals Gulf Oil Well

Salmon farms use way more fish as fodder than they produce - and they spill tons of antibiotics into the oceans. Let's hope we can either come up with some better ways tofish, or in the alternative some better ways to farm.

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