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  1. Vulnerability if you already have access .... on Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System · · Score: 1

    So if you get local access to a system running a btfs filsystem then you can destroy it ...but if you have local access you can easily do that anyway with any filesystem ....?

  2. Re:by my estimation on Jammie Thomas Takes Constitutional Argument To SCOTUS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Note the RIAA has never published music, and is not a music publisher so should have no right to fine uploaders/distributors /publishers

    They represent some of the Music Publishers in the USA, but not all of them, and not all music publishers across the world

    But they will and have tried to prosecute people for uploading material where the copyright is not owned by the people they represent, even outside the USA

  3. Re:Survey with "Jedi" option available on "Jedi" Religion Most Popular Alternative Faith In England · · Score: 2

    Census also showed there were : 56,620 Paganists, 39,061 Spiritualists, 2,418 Scientologists and 20,288 Jainists ...and 4 million who did not put any religion ....

  4. Re:haha on Facebook Changes Privacy Policies, Scraps User Voting · · Score: 1

    You have marketed and sold the value of your product based on an interactive interface that can inform, update and interact with the user, then set up a voting system where you inform them of the vote by email, and the voting system is seemingly not coping with the volume of votes when less that 1% are trying ....

    As an exercise in proving the voting system is broken it worked very well

  5. Re:As much as I hate Microsoft... on Microsoft To Apple: Don't Take Your Normal 30% Cut of Office For iOS · · Score: 1

    Microsoft have their own infrastructure and inapp payments system and do not need to use Apple's resources at, Apple forces everyone to use theirs like it or not and charges them for the privilege

    Microsoft Apps can use any or their own
    Android Apps can use any or their own

    Apple are the only Smartphone system that forces you to use their app store for all apps, forces you to use their system to make in app payments, and charges you for each ....

  6. I call Godwin ....

  7. Physical phone - no on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Need a Phone At Your Desk? · · Score: 1

    The physical phone is not needed you can simply run a soft-phone on a PC/Laptop.

    But a headset/handset/speaker(phone) is essential unless you hardly use it, it's just these are plugged into a computer instead of the handset

    Note both Skype and mobile phones have very bad audio quality compare to copper or properly setup VOIP

  8. Re:crap system is proven to be crap on New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes · · Score: 1

    No it means that if someone can steal the password hashes then your passwords are known ....

    Why is the database of passwords on a machine that is capable of being stolen in the first place, this is like the soldier having a list of challenges and responses written down where anyone he challenges could potentially see the entire list ...

    The solution is for the user facing machine not to contain the hashes just an API to check individual passwords as needed

  9. Re:How to treat a loyal customer on Microsoft Steeply Raising Enterprise Licensing Fees · · Score: 1

    It depends what you do with exchange, if it is just an email server then it is vast overkill ...there are better alternatives

    If however you use it properly and completely then it is difficult to find an alternative, but many of the "properly and completely" features are integration with MS active directory, MS windows, MS Office, MS Sharepoint etc ... which unsurprisingly Microsoft can do better than anyone else ...

  10. Re:what comes around on Samsung Claims iPad Mini, iPad 4, New iPod Touch Also Infringe Patents · · Score: 1

    If you can tell the difference between an iPhone4S and an iPhone5 then you have one ... and by that time you have already bought it ..

    What are the advantages of the iPhone5 .... I have no idea and I have seen adverts for it?

  11. Re:Whose Data Is It? on One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics · · Score: 1

    No it does not help the customer who are in the majority ...if you sell 300 items then 300 people want them it does not matter who they are where they are, it only reduces your advertising costs as you can direct your adverts to people who are already buying your product (and leave out the people who are not buying now) !

  12. Re:Rats. on Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Leaves Microsoft · · Score: 2

    The real issue is not their competitors or even the market, but the single question "Can I run xxxx on it" the xxxx is currently a Windows application and so the only system that can answer yes is Windows ....(fill in with Exchange, Office, Outlook, etc etc ...)

    Microsoft will only fade when people ask about apps that will either run on other system or will not run on Windows ...

  13. Re:Rats. on Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Leaves Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Microsoft are trying to reinvent themselves as Apple but seem not to have notices that Apple have sewn up that position already....

  14. Re:Free speech is for useful speech. on Man Arrested For Photo of Burning Poppy On Facebook · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This occurred in the UK, we don't have free speech enshrined in a constitution

  15. Re:names are so cool, not! on The Release Candidate For Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" Is Out · · Score: 1

    ...Old Persian, a language that has not been spoken for 2000 years ...

    And ic cyðe eow, æt ic wylle beon hold hlaford and unswicende to godes gerihtum and to rihtre woroldlage...

  16. Re:Stupid. on Voting Machine Problem Reports Already Rolling In · · Score: 1

    All electronic voting machines have the issue that they are a black box where votes go in, and results come out and mysterious stuff happens between which the company who makes them tries to prove that nothing untoward can happen ...

    Putting a mark on a piece of paper and counting them works, has worked for many years, is at least as secure as any voting machine, and scales to electorates much much larger then the USA ...

  17. Re:Few things on iPad Mini Costs $24 More To Make Than Kindle Fire HD · · Score: 1

    Apple makes money selling the device, and from each App, and from the OS, and from any content you download ....

    Amazon makes money only from the content ...and they can still sell it for less ...

  18. Re:What is there to dispute? on What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    .NET is not a language C# is and is Java the Microsoft way
    Ruby is Perl updated
    ADA is what it is...

    Lisp/Scheme is a good basis for a language in the same way that most systems are still actually complied in C/C++ regardless of what they are written in

  19. Re:Young people thinking they know everything? on What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Haskell - 22 years old and counting ...
    Ruby - 17 years old and counting ....

  20. Re:Young people thinking they know everything? on What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Younger workers have not yet learned that long hours cause burn out that will not get them advancement, older workers have learnt that the people who do long hours are not the ones who get advancement anyway ...

    Each new batch of younger workers are also the ones that make the same mistakes over and over that the older ones have learnt to avoid ...experience is useful in being efficient

  21. Re:If only! on More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You · · Score: 1

    An app that asks for access to your addressbook when it does need to does not get installed on Android, on Apple you install it then block it ...?

    I like the take it or leave it, an app that asks too much is not installed and so cannot do anything,

    on Apple you install it ban it from some things, then much much later discover what else it was doing?

  22. Re:Right on on Richard Stallman: Limit the Effect of Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Software Patents are a US idea and a US problem, Patents are government granted and so can be taken away or invalidated easily ...

  23. Re:Need to take great caution with this on Seattle's Creepy Cameraman Pushes Public Surveillance Buttons · · Score: 1

    Walk or drive past an office building on the public highway and you are almost certainly being filmed, the cameras are not "authorised" by anyone by the company who use the building .... no-one has democratically allowed this

  24. Re:Did the cop got fired? on Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" · · Score: 1

    Entering private land without a a lawful excuse is Trespass, someone delivering to your house, or visiting is implicitly given access

    If you aren't doing anything illegal you are probably dead, you would be amazed what is illegal ....

  25. Re:No more nukes from this generation on Fukushima Fish Still Radioactive · · Score: 1

    Chernobyl : They experimented with a live reactor, turned off many of the safety systems, including many that cannot be disabled on most reactors

      Fukushima : Ran 6 reactors beyond their design lifetimes, ignored recommendations to increase the height of the tsunami defences, ignored safety inspection failures, ignored recommendations to protect backup generators. The reactors survived largely intact a massive earthquake and mostly intact after a huge tsunami (unlike all the conventional power stations on the coast) they had already started to shut down safely but were prevented from completing this due to flooding of their diesel generators used to pump coolant ....

    Conclusion : If a reactor has a design lifetime don't overrun this, if a reactor fails a safety inspection shut it down until it passes, don't play with a live reactor .... not exactly rocket science ...?