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  1. Re: Prior art on Apple Receives Patent For Accessing Sets of Apps With Different Passcodes · · Score: 1

    Version 4.3 of the same software on a tablet can even have restricted user profiles with own postcode that can access a whilst of applications.

  2. what dot dash on In India, the Dot Dash Is Done · · Score: 4, Informative

    This wasn't using Morse, in fact outside amateur radio, Morse hasn't really been used for several decades now. Until 2010 this would have been using teletype printers, likely using baudot or Murray code, neither of which use a dash even if one-off keyed. In 2010 the. Company in India upgraded.to a 'web based system's, according to Wikipedia.

  3. it already does on FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    FreeBSD already runs fine on UEFI, just ask Apple who use a modified version of FreeBSD in OSX and all Intel based Macs are UEFI now let's start calling this UEFI secure boot, an optional feature in the UEFI specification.

  4. Re:Every language is unsafe. on Millions At Risk From Critical Vulnerabilities From WordPress Plugins · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, it can't be impossible in any Turing complete language if you can do it in another Turing complete language. But the main point stands, the language doesn't matter, one can do bad things in any language.

  5. Re:Who cares? on MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher · · Score: 2

    I wonder what you call "Microsoft Game Studios"? If not the publishing arm of Microsoft?

  6. Really a problem? on Future Astronauts Must Deal With Toxic Chemicals In Martian Soil · · Score: 1

    It's not like we don't have these chemicals on earth, it's not like we don't know how to handle them, not to mention, anyone landing on Mars will be wearing full EV space suits you know the ones that can handle major negative pressure differentials and have their own self contained air supply. What are they planning to do, jump out of the space capsule nude and throw themselves into the Martian dust?

  7. Re:Simple standard? on FDA Calls On Medical Devicemakers To Focus On Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean asymmetric encryption? Symmetric encryption means it is the same key used, not a public/private key pair. However you are using it for integrity checking not confidentiality, you don't mind who can read the firmware binary, just want to make sure that is not modified in transport. Therefore it is a digital signature you want to use, not encryption.

  8. Re:Miranda on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    Or worse, remaining silent due to some other issue (didn't want wife to find out you were elsewhere, you were off in another part of the country committing a lesser crime you still don't want to go to jail for, you are a government agent who doesn't want to leak classified information...) is taken as a sign of immediate guilt.

  9. Innocent until proven guilty. on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    It all follows from that one concept. And for good reason, look in the history books as to just how much of a farce a trial is when that concept does not exist.

  10. Re:Now that it's moving up the cognitive chain... on Researchers Pull Out of Talks With Publishers On Text-Mining · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Name a journal that has paid a researcher to publish a paper. I'll tell you, there isn't one, researchers have to pay a "submission fee" to have their paper even considered if accepted copyright is often deferred to the journal, then they have to subscribe to the journal to read it. Infact the only thing the actual publisher pays for in this whole mess is the paper and ink to print the thing. I'm going to guess this is just another nail in the coffin of traditional academic journals as the researchers start taking more of their papers elsewhere for publishing.

  11. Re:depends on what you're going into on Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? · · Score: 1

    Actually it is programming that is the specialisation of mathematics the specialisation is called discrete mathematics.

    Any 3D Game Engine will include graphics rendering as part of it, as well as audio decompression. Admittedly they will try and leverage premade libraries and the gpu but someone still needs to write the shaders and write the code to pass the correct commands to the gpu as to how to render and update the polygons.

    The only thing you correctly stated was that game engine development is only one possible career path with a C.S. degree.

  12. Re:HTML isn't anymore on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 1

    You forgot to point out that most browsers don't interpret these days but JIT compile.

  13. Re:Barbara Streisand effect... on Film Studios Send Takedown Notices About Takedown Notices · · Score: 1

    And in the rare case the right guy is voted in for President, the Ido's elected to the house/senate will block every bill passed anyway.

  14. Re:Not sure I understand on A Sea Story: the Wreck of the Replica HMS Bounty · · Score: 1

    Urm, if they had that kind of radio equipment a standard mayday call on marine VHF channel 16 (156.8MHz) FM is all that is needed.

  15. Re:Who is surprised? on Nearly Every NYC Crime Involves Computers, Says Manhattan DA · · Score: 1

    At the moment, cause they are covered by current laws which apply the same for words on paper as bits on a hard drive. But they keep trying to write a law that exempts it if it is stored on computers.

  16. Re:Who is surprised? on Nearly Every NYC Crime Involves Computers, Says Manhattan DA · · Score: 1

    Okay, so it's a preprogrammed processor then? Though I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't a few that are running on generic AVR or PIC processors. You do know to reprogram ENIAC1 or Colossus they had to rewire them from scratch.

  17. Who is surprised? on Nearly Every NYC Crime Involves Computers, Says Manhattan DA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While I haven't read the article.

    Today everything in life requires a computer, to take money out of the bank, going up the elevator, walk through the automatic shop doors, the cctv recording every move in the shop, the alarm system, the opening of the cash register. What's more I'm carrying my smart phone, a credit card.... So far in about 5 minutes and I already can't count how many computers have been involved.

    No, the surprising thing is that the idiotic governments see this as any different to a security guard being sat there and manually writing down a list of people passing him, the guy at the cash register maintaining a list of everyone he served at the counter. They need a warrant to take that list, they think just cause it's a computer rather than a human recording the information a warrant can be ignored!

  18. Re:Not that simple (Re:Online Advertising Response on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately they need to do this else accounts.google.com session cookie is not going to work on mail.google.com, drive.google.com.... How do you distinguish third party cookies from valid cross domain authentication systems.

  19. Re:Separate the code and the data on Adobe Hopes Pop-up Warnings Will Stop Office-Borne Flash Attacks · · Score: 1

    Excel technically is an accounting program, spreadsheets were first created to do double entry book keeping.

    It's better than most the other uses I've seen for it, like excel based databases.

  20. Re:Workaround for the Cheap, Lazy, and/or Incompet on Researchers Devise New Attack Techniques Against SSL · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should look up SSL stripping attacks, and then there is just sniffing the session cookies out of the air, please see firesheep for a tool designed to do this.

  21. Re:On linux on 64GB MS Surface Pro Only Has 23GB of Free Space · · Score: 1

    Just to add to that, all virtual machines running on a x86_64 host have to support it as an x86 cpu always starts in 16bit mode until a mode switch is called, therefore the bootloader must always start with 16bit code. I'd imagine modern bootloaders call a mode switch fairly early, but until that operation has happened, they are 16bit.

  22. Re:On linux on 64GB MS Surface Pro Only Has 23GB of Free Space · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily, but you need hardware virtualization or emulation to do that, the second hardware virtualized CPU is running in 32bit mode.

  23. Re:On linux on 64GB MS Surface Pro Only Has 23GB of Free Space · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, it's just as much a limitation of x86_64 architecture as to why it's not included. Once the CPU is put into 64bit mode, it only has enough registers for 64bit and 32bit applications.

  24. Re:Does it handle OpenGL, then? on WindowsAndroid Lets You Run Android 4.0 Natively On Your PC · · Score: 1

    No it's not, but read the android SDK docs. Google have provided thorough instructions for enabling it, and details of the caveats.

  25. Re:Already in the SDK. on WindowsAndroid Lets You Run Android 4.0 Natively On Your PC · · Score: 1

    I never said it was perfect, but then give me any application that is. Just said it was available.