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"Normally, highways are still built underground in these cases, and passing through a building is an extremely rare occurrence." Did they mean underground? Seems like an undergroun…

All the cable modems I've used (UK) have always downloaded a an image over TFTP on boot. As I understand it they can come up with a very minimal loader and reach out for their conf…

I should have said for a product like Lavabit, ie mail as secure/private as SMTP likely gets right now, I hope it wouldn't be unreasonable. However, in my heart of hearts, I knew i…

You can have a client side key BTW. It's a complete dick to setup and each UA is different so it's really not viable for a product for the unwashed masses. But for something like L…

Yes you could do that two seconds worth of testing, in basically every browser these days even. But then you couldn't write a link bait article about the possibility that they are …

When I attempted a similar thing on a C64 the external 5.25" disk drive was similarly inoperable. Turned out the elastic bands from the motor to the little ring that camped the dis…

This is just a common misconception over what Moore said, and what his law means. Hint: it has nothing to do with the clock speed or even directly the prefromace of your CPUs. Moor…

Bitcoin doesn't work by passing tokens around to represent the value. In a Bitcoin spend the value is simply added to the wallet/address's balance. Any further spend is deducted fr…

You can burn fiat cash, and fire gold bars into space. What are the consequences of those actions? Other coins are presumably worth more because there are now fewer of them.

I'm using the onboard/ondie Intel HD4000 and it works. You might have a driver that is blacklisted. Chrome and I think other browsers have a list of drivers known to allow executio…

This is what sdfjkl is intending I think. Have the TVs/Whatever on the other side so they can't scan your network shares to get the information to send back the HQ. I would be much…

It would either stagnate or go in the opposite direction.. and we don't need another WMP.

Not sure if serious But if you are, they did try to join the social-war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So.cl And failed.. The site actually seems to be down right now, I don't think…

Unknown drivers? How much do you know about any of the other drivers for any of the hardware? Most NICs and Video chipset drivers now come with a binary blob you have to feed it, i…

So I'm guessing the application logs into a user's online banking interface? Or is there some WS API the banks are making available?

I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if devices like the Galaxy Player didn't still have binary blobs for the Wifi/BT and video hardware. Even NICs for otherwise fairly open PC/ATX machin…

Or reply in some side channel, piggy back the next (expected, ie when the user has switch back to normal mode) UMTS radio packet for example. I don't know the packet structure but …

The radio interface could listen/wait without even replying, ie wouldn't make the GSM RFI speaker noise. If governments, carriers and law enforcement could all manage to use this s…

But if they don't have your address, ie it wasn't leaked or they're full of shit and never had the list, when you enter the SHA1 you don't give them the address.

A form to enter the sha1 of your email address so they can check against a list of addresses they've already sha1ed? And a form that takes the email for people that don't give a sh…

What you planning to do with my public keys? Or worst case encrypted private keys. Now putting something into ~/.ssh/...

When I stick a AA battery on a Peltier, to work out which side is which on unmarked unit, it actually does "feel" very cold really quickly. Hot side is obviously also very hot, ver…

I dunno about everyone else, but on this 24" Dell IPS I can see the next image being loaded and then scaled, does it every few seconds. The details starts getting a bit blurry them…

I still use GoDaddy for a couple of names because they support DNSSEC DS records. I'd like to move them out, but my other providers don't even have a roadmap to implement DS/DNSSEC…