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Comment Re:This is clearly a criminal tool (Score 1) 325

by N_vv on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @12:04AM (#26965555) Attached to: Combining BitTorrent With Darknets For P2P Privacy

Come on, the little guy has always been taking it bent over. If anything its amazing what freedom and justice we have stripped from those with power. But don't delude yourself into seeing the past with rose-tinted glasses. It wasn't so long ago that half the country was enforcing jim crow laws. And what about constitutional amendments banning gay marriage? If anything the few times freedom and justice have prevail stands in dark contrast to the multitude of times it hasn't.

Obama's "ZuneGate" 608

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 07, 2008 @06:17AM from the et-tu-barack dept.

theodp writes "Barack Obama supporters were left shaking their heads after a report surfaced that the president-elect was using a Zune at the gym instead of an iPod. So why would Mac-user Obama be Zune-ing out? Could be one of those special-edition preloaded Zunes that Microsoft bestowed on Democratic National Convention attendees, suggests TechFlash, nixing the idea that the soon-to-be Leader of the Free World would waste time loading Parallels or Boot Camp in OS X just to use a Zune."

Now From Bruce Schneier, the Skein Hash Function 139

Posted by timothy on Friday October 31, 2008 @10:49AM from the renaissance-man dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Bruce Schneier and company have created a new hash function called Skein. From his blog entry: 'NIST is holding a competition to replace the SHA family of hash functions, which have been increasingly under attack. (I wrote about an early NIST hash workshop here.) Skein is our submission (myself and seven others: Niels Ferguson, Stefan Lucks, Doug Whiting, Mihir Bellare, Tadayoshi Kohno, Jon Callas, and Jesse Walker). Here's the paper."

Who Do Warcraft Players Want As President? 82

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 30, 2008 @06:18PM from the give-the-orcs-a-voice dept.

I'm not sure how many electoral votes Azeroth has, but it could be a key battleground state.

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