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  1. Re:Probably a few sites were hacked on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: 2

    The password they have for me was from the linkedin breach.

  2. Re:Publish the code on DARPA Unveils Hack-Resistant Drone · · Score: 1

    What, besides a OTP is "mathematically proven" to be secure? Probably that is what they are using, though hopefully with a hardware entropy source and some physical connection required to replace the key data. Biggest issue here would be getting the grunts in the field to actually replace the key unless doing so is required to get it to launch. OTOH "mathematically proven" could just be technobable that means "built on problems that are assumed to be hard."

  3. Re:Doubtless on AOL Finally Admits They Were Hacked · · Score: 1

    It doesn't say 2% of current members so it could mean ~600k accounts.

  4. Re:That is why social Hacking is Bad MmmKaa. on Anonymous's Latest Target: Boston Children's Hospital · · Score: 1

    I pay 9$ a month for hosting of my projects server through webfaction which is substantially less than any connection I could get that included a static IP. There is really no excuse except ignorance for hosting your website "under your desk" except ignorance. Obviously there are issues with shared hosting for places like hospitals, but once you have to deal with stuff like HIPPA there is even less excuse for under the desk hosting.

  5. Re:Not sure how I feel about this one on Aereo To SCOTUS: Shut Us Down and You Shut Down Cloud Storage · · Score: 1

    Its really unlikely that they are using deduplication. They have to have known from day one that this was going to end in front of SCotUS and anything that could be used to undermine their case was likely avoided.

  6. Re:...er... on Intentional Backdoor In Consumer Routers Found · · Score: 1

    Sure, if your technically competent enough to put OpenWRT on your router go for it but there is some advantage for "grandma" to be able to upgrade her firmware. I have no inside knowledge here but the AC basically asked if there is a potential legitimate use here and in fat there is... whether they are using it for good or evil I doubt anyone here can say.

  7. Re:...er... on Intentional Backdoor In Consumer Routers Found · · Score: 2

    You have to be on the LAN... DOCSIS tends to be pretty picky and I doubt raw Ethernet would be passed (been a while since I looked at the spec though). Sounds like its part of some kind of firmware upgrade type feature to me.

  8. Re:The commits are funny into themselves. on OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week · · Score: 1

    Comparing to zero is faster in most architectures and still is a valid optimization. There shouldn't be any problems with cache misses either, if the architecture does stream detection it should do it for reversed streams too and if it doesn't (only detecting actual misses) doing it in reverse isn't a problem.

    A good compiler should take care of that optimization for you (VC11 certainly does).

  9. Re:OpenBSD's version of OpenSSL will be on OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that this is a pretty hard fork where the first order of business was removing the ifdefs that weren't needed for OpenBSD.

  10. Re:Another Slashdot Beta progress report on Bidding At FCC TV Spectrum Auction May Be Restricted For Large Carriers · · Score: 0
    I love this part

    And where does that leave the âoeclassicâ Slashdot page

    [sic]

  11. Re:u wot m8 on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 2

    It's all fun and games until libc needs an update.

  12. Re:so the new clock is 3x as accurate as the old o on New US Atomic Clock Goes Live · · Score: 1
  13. Re:And thus starts the lamest day of the year on New York Public Library Releases Over 20,000 Hi-Res Maps · · Score: 1

    Doesn't look like it. Looks like a bunch of historical NYC area maps that were previously only available from commercial resellers. Nice to see this sort of thing being made easily available even if it does only have a niche relevance.

  14. Re:Go after em Nate on Nate Silver's New Site Stirs Climate Controversy · · Score: 2

    But he does talk about exactly that. Specifically about the relationship between per capita GDP and the expected death toll from natural disasters. How do you account for that if the reason isn't better, or at least more widely available, technology and preparedness. Is the counter argument that we are getting better at preventing damage from disasters faster than they are getting worse? That doesn't seem particularly different than his POV.

  15. Re:Read the update at the end of the article on Nate Silver's New Site Stirs Climate Controversy · · Score: 1

    If anything I thought it was part of his argument... cost in absolute terms is going up because GDP is going up, but going down as a share of GDP because wealth also allows us to prepare better for disasters (e.g. with better technology). I'm not in a position to say, but assuming that he hasn't doctored the data (which seems sadly common in this domain) it seems like an interesting assessment.

  16. Re:Go after em Nate on Nate Silver's New Site Stirs Climate Controversy · · Score: 1

    In fact, today’s climate models suggest that future changes in extremes that cause the most damage won’t be detectable in the statistics of weather (or damage) for many decades.

    So he isn't a denier exactly. He is saying that damage from natural disasters is not a significant contributor to the damages at this point. Someone making a, data backed, nuanced argument about climate change... seems like its time to get the popcorn.

  17. Re:Sucks to your ass-mar! on Simple Emergency Generators and Radio Receivers (Video) · · Score: 1

    Its funny... I read everything on the FP today (except the salshvertisiments) on Hacker News yesterday or the day before. Fearless prediction: we will get a Flappy Bird article by Tuesday.

  18. Re:Lasers on Do Hypersonic Missiles Make Defense Systems Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Probably what at least part of that $4.5B is for.

  19. Re:And these are supposed to be professional media on NBC News Confuses the World About Cyber-Security · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    idk, hijacking the back button is pretty low even compared to beta.

  20. Poor english on Is Verizon Already Slowing Netflix Down? · · Score: 1

    The key line from the transcript is "yes, it is limited bandwidth to cloud providers". You can translate that bad English into : "Verizon is limiting bandwidth to cloud providers" and get incensed or "Verizon has limited bandwidth to cloud providers" and have a complete non-issue. Given how unlikely it is that a low level CSR is going to know about Verizon's super secret throttling system I'm going with the latter.

  21. Re:in the private sector on HealthCare.gov Can't Handle Appeals of Errors · · Score: 1

    They do, but not often. http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/...

  22. HTTPS on ShapeShifter: Beatable, But We'll Hear More About It · · Score: 1

    IF your bank or e-commerce site isn't using HTTPS run away, if they are this thing is at best useless.

  23. Re:I have a new appreciation for this on Rosetta Probe Awakens, Prepares To Chase Comet · · Score: 1

    There is something called PlanetFactory that I think you could use to do that.

  24. Re:HOSTS file on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    This is really only true because not very people run ad blockers, if there were there would be tons of money in getting around them and plenty of engineers willing to spend their time getting around them. Its not really even a very hard problem, there just isn't any money in solving it.

  25. How does that work on Swarms of Small Satellites Set To Deliver Close To Real-Time Imagery of Earth · · Score: 1

    I assume the satellites themselves have minimal delta-v so how do you end up covering "large swaths of earth" with a bunch of satellites launched at the same time from the same craft?