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Comment Re:Reminds me of a quote from Chris Rock: (Score 3, Insightful) 582

A single bullet can easily cost you the chair, or life in prison, or millions of dollars. Gun control is keeping your finger off the trigger until you are on target and are sure of your target and what is beyond it. Killing innocent bystanders already costs far more than five thousand dollars. Taking your advice on self defense and safety from a comedian is.... well comedic.

Comment Re:The airwaves are public not private (Score 1) 186

I dont believe wpa keys are done as just passwords, its more like the router says "solve the equation using this number i just gave you along with the key you already know" if your client cant provide the correct response then it doesn't allow it on, since the router rotates the number it provides and the equation is done in a complex and unidirectional manner it can't be reversed easily. Hence why people use rainbow tables to crack weaker keys. There are some weaknesses in the TKIP protocol used by wpa but wpa2 depreciates that and replaces it with a newer AES setup that is more secure in that regards and TKIP is done after the initial authentication.

Comment Re:The airwaves are public not private (Score 1) 186

You still need a radius server, some routers have a built in radius server that you can provide the certs to to make it seem like you dont need one. however what is this "evil twin" attack that lets you harvest passphrases? The only attacks I'm aware of that involve an evil twin involve setting up a clone with the same ssid without encryption that pop up a captive portal when you try to browse the web and request the passphrase... ie social engineering there is no inherent weakness in wpa or wpa2 involving an evil twin afaik

Comment Re:Not hard at all (Score 1) 736

So if you're transferring a file over the network maxing it out and you know it will take 10 minutes but then your wife starts streaming video over the network, how do you predict that at the start of the transfer? It's pretty damn difficult to predict the future man.

Mandatory Car Analogy: How long will it take you to drive 60 miles if you're going 60 miles/hour now? (what you don't know is that in two minutes someones going to cut you off and you'll end up rear ending them)

Comment Re:You have to wonder (Score 5, Interesting) 498

They shot up two women in a truck, and then in another incident rammed a man that in no way fit dorners description (thin white guy) in his truck and shot at him (he was not hit by any of the shots)

It gets better. They actually stopped him, talked to him, let him go then decided to ram him and shoot at him.

Comment Re:Stop screwing with it so much (Score 1) 171

Rumour has it that Android 4.2 will introduce an advanced skinning system that lets the manufacturer put its skin on but still get OS updates directly from Google. As a bonus the manufacturer (or hacker) will be able to enable an option to switch to vanilla Android too. I really hope that is true.

Seems unlikely. Android 4.2 was released months ago and I haven't noticed this functionality in it yet.

Comment Re:Hmm... (Score 1) 173

If it really was just that much of an emergency, you'd have rushed out to town, paid 50% more, and got it immediately...

Unfortunately I've no idea where I would even find one locally, quicker just to buy it on amazon with next day shipping than to hunt all over town for one.

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