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  1. Re:Nothing new on New WiFi Setup Flaw Allows Easy Router PIN Guessing · · Score: 1

    I won't go into how many certificate authority breeches in the last year. One CA actually managed to get itself revoked off every browser's list, but the bigger ones are not much better.

  2. Nothing new on New WiFi Setup Flaw Allows Easy Router PIN Guessing · · Score: 3, Informative

    Same old thing, default configuration is bad.

  3. Re:This well-known but not a problem on GnuPG Short ID Collision Has Occurred. · · Score: 1

    depends on the algorithm, most are actually 1:1, makes life simpler for all.

  4. Re:Let's face it on GnuPG Short ID Collision Has Occurred. · · Score: 3

    Yeah, it was never meant to uniquely identify a key, just find the key easily using it as the field to populate hash tables. There is only one thing that uniquely identifies a key, the whole damn key.

  5. Re:Where is your license mentioned? on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Deal With a GPLv2 License Infringement? · · Score: 1

    basically want CentOS does for Red Hat.

  6. Re:Where is your license mentioned? on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Deal With a GPLv2 License Infringement? · · Score: 2

    Of course, the person who bought it can legally redistribute it. For any price...

  7. Re:What about Google driverless car? on Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive · · Score: 1

    So a Saturn 5 is a missile and not a rocket? Or a Soyuz? Please, argue this one with NASA.

  8. Re:That is like suing Ford on Spanish Court Rules In Favor of P2P Engineer · · Score: 1

    Watch some MacGyver, you might find a few new uses for a gun.

  9. Re:What about Google driverless car? on Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Okay, a few facts, the A330 is fly by wire, this means between pilot and control surfaces everything must go through the avionics, if the avionics totally fails then that plane is by definition little more than a glorified missile.

    That said, it seems the backups and pilot responded exactly as they should have in this case. The plane pitched, enough to throw the passengers around and cause injuries, pilot disengaged autopilot and corrected, declared an emergency and safely landed at the nearest big enough airport.

    Please tell me how he did anything wrong? Please tell me how the rest of the computer systems failed to cause and actual crash Nope neither, the plane was left in one piece on the ground.

    The only thing I say is, why did it take Airbus 2 years to find and fix that major bug?

  10. Re:It wasn't a victory for "File Sharers" on Victory For Irish File Sharers Dashed By Government Report · · Score: 1

    s/HTTP file/HTML file/

  11. Re:It wasn't a victory for "File Sharers" on Victory For Irish File Sharers Dashed By Government Report · · Score: 1

    As is plain HTTP... I mean google would not work if they didn't share a HTTP file with me when I visited google.com

  12. Re:Google shouldn't had given them such right on YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video · · Score: 1

    Oh dear, the CEO of big music label will have to miss out on his usual weekend pleasure flights in his private helicopter for a couple of weeks next year.

  13. Re:UK Census, Church of Jediism on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 1

    Well, my surname is not McGregor, although I do actually share my first name, lols

  14. Re:UK Census, Church of Jediism on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 2

    Well, half the problem is power supply, we can make the ionized plasma blade, but we need one hell of a set of rather large magnets for containment and a several thousand watt power supply to power it. And there comes an issue that the whole device is then about the size of a large room.

  15. Re:Discrimination against The Jedi! on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 1

    Break that law, the UK Government does. Equal opportunities employer, it is.

  16. Re:UK Census, Church of Jediism on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 1

    Fallen to the dark side, I sense. The title of Darth, you should use.

  17. Re:UK Census, Church of Jediism on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 1

    so could a light saber if they were possible to build, it's blade is supposedly an arc of plasma.

  18. Re:Wow on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Actually, Skyrim uses more and more the more you travel and explore. Which is why some of us enabled the use of >32bit addressing by patching the binary.

  19. Re:Nothing really on Linux Mint Diverting Banshee Revenue · · Score: 1

    as far as they knew at the time it was, now if someone at Gnome/Banshee is playing silly buggers with the link redirect and not allowing other user agents (much as certain DRM systems did, BBC iPlayer *cough*) then well, that was their fault to some degree.

  20. Nothing really on Linux Mint Diverting Banshee Revenue · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Okay, lets simplify this for all that don't want to read the articles.
    Banshee's own link is dead so Canonical replaced it with their own in Ubuntu.
    When Linux MINT saw this in the changelogs while repackaging, they did the same thing replacing it with their own.

    I'm sure both would change this back if Banshee upstream started accepting donations again.

  21. Re:One step away from IT Unions on Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you probably won't get any clients without committing fraud. As they'll expect you to pass the bar, as already said you can defend yourself.

  22. Or maybe... on IBM Watson To Battle Patent Trolls · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...it could could be used to help manage that patent portfolio and find great targets to file a suit against.

  23. Re:This isn't the first time on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 1

    It's not a trademark issue persay, and never once has it been acted upon as such. No, there are various UN protected symbols on international treaties that are not allowed to be used by governments and such to pretend to be that UN organization. Basically, the red cross is saying games developers are bound by these treaties (even if the country has never signed them) and whats more, can't use them in the case that the treaty specifically allows in the real world. And now they basically want it the other way too and enforce that the TF2 medic can't be shot....

  24. Re:Geneva convention and the Red Cross symbol on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 1

    I'll just add to this, I'm talking about medkits alone here, not necessarily a healer class.

  25. Re:Geneva convention and the Red Cross symbol on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 1

    My choice would be to let the game designers decide for themselves and not force either way. But they should not send cease and desist letters to knows that use red crosses on medkits and then complain about violating humanitarian laws.