Posts by tom jones

MS dual-screen tablet to arrive next year?

MS is actually good at something

I've long thought that MS should give up on it's third rate software/os development pursuits and stick to what it's always been actually very good at - and that is building hardware.

From their old sidewinder force-feedback input devices to modern consoles and tablets - they are usually solid bits of kit - shame they have to rely on such horrid software.

US websites buckle under sustained DDoS attacks

Simple!

Just send a bolt of electricity thru the network cables and fry the perpetrators as the type on their keyboards! I've seen it done on many movies so it must be true!

It's certainly not only the self-aware AI's that have access to the sudo send lightningbolt command, duh!

Crypto attack puts digital sig hash on collision course

Use multiple algorithms - NOT!

Chris C: what you suggest is often thought by non-cryptographers as an easy solution, but it is not. Combining two weak algorithms certainly does not magically work around the structural weaknesses of these algorithms. In particular the differential path finding techniques would still apply to such a naive construction.