Remember The Lisbon Treaty?

I’d almost forgotten the Lisbon Referendum of 2009 until this article in the Irish Times todayhttp://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0708/1224274266971.html An interesting read in it’s own right, but the particularly resonating paragraph follows this one. Keep in mind that this is an unelected EU commission/comittee that have legislative power over the entire EU. One of my major complaints about…

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My Big PC Box

problems problems, have had my new box a couple o months now, but ain’t had chance t fix it. prob is: hangs after logging into windows (server 2008rc2 & win7, both 64-bit). used to hang with definite graphics card probs -screen set to a random primary colour but could remote login to reboot, solved by…

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Jason Stackhouse (true blood)

"policemanship ain't just about tackling people, there's …marksmanship, …paramilitary training. I got all that now." just watchin s03e03 now, this show goes from strength to strength, awesome. -=mcmonkeys1=-

Software Patents

Great video against software patentability funded by the fsfIt gives a nice bit of history and background. Link is here: http://patentabsurdity.com/watch.html

UPC password cracking

just did a litttle research there. UPC WPA keys consist of 8 random capital letters.even with this restriction, that leaves 208,827,064,576 possible combinations (26^8),that's a wordlist of 208GB using ASCII encoding. using aircrack-ng it would take my new system, which is checking roughly 3,000 keys a second, 2.2 years to go thru every possible combination.…

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