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  1. Re:Nurturing accuracy on What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot itself is guilty of promoting unfounded blog posts/rumors as news, practically every day. For profit. Journalism is on life support.

  2. Re:And there was much rejoicing !! on AT&T Officially Ends Plans To Acquire T-Mobile USA · · Score: 4, Informative

    T-Mobile is very profitable. Deutsche only wants out because it's no longer in growth mode. It certainly won't grow any without spectrum and LTE, and it can't afford either one. So yeah it will be sold or merged one way or another, but it's not a bad business. They can ride their faux-G network for a while but not forever.

  3. Re:Does Sony PR read Slashdot? on Discouraging Playstation Vita Details · · Score: 1

    Recently Sony gave up with their cameras and switched to SD cards like everybody else.

    Gaming, especially portables, is another market. Namely, young gamers who are too blinded by the latest gadgetry to worry about the little ways in which they're being gouged.

  4. Setec Astronomy on Ask Slashdot: Post-Quantum Asymmetric Key Exchange? · · Score: 1

    Crack my code bitches!

  5. Re:Ultimate purpose of Duqu on Open Source Tool Scans For Duqu Drivers · · Score: 1

    Because its professionally written from a Stuxnet base, uses a signed driver, a new 0-day in MS Word, takes screen shots and key logs and also completely removes itself in 30-some days... It's probably a government spy program. My guess.

  6. Re:Bargain on Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you leave everybody benefits. You gain a better commute, better pay and more opportunity. The old company's two junior programmers will benefit from new responsibility. The company will survive just fine without you believe it or not. If they really need you perhaps they can pay you a small retainer to consult for a few months.

    Bottom line, don't ever hold yourself back.

  7. Re:backblaze on Ask Slashdot: Network Backup Solution Out of the Box? · · Score: 1

    Agree with the Crashplan advice. I spent a lot of time using manual scripts and ssh, but the time I've saved with Crashplan has been well worth it.

    - It supports local backups as well as remote network backup, in one interface
    - Runs unobtrusively
    - Linux, mac and windows
    - The UI is easy to understand and schedule.
    - If you really need to, encrypt your important stuff to a truecrypt volume and back it up like you would any normal file.
    - Inexpensive

  8. Re:ssh is the same on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 2

    It actually works very well. Almost every break-in attempt is from a script. Almost every script only tries the default port. You can easily eliminate a very large number of script attacks just by changing the port.

  9. Re:ssh is the same on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 1

    That's a fine idea for private systems. For private servers I use only ssh with certificates. Poof, hack attempts are gone.

    For a public facing FTP server the idea is to keep it easy. It should work with any FTP client out of the box with no configuration. In this case your only defense is to pick real username and long, quality passwords.

  10. Re:Maybe it's time to update the banking system? on FBI Says Wire Fraud Scam Sending Millions To China · · Score: 1

    Well obviously they should stop using wires. Everything is wireless these days, stop using the wires - problem solved!

  11. Re:epic FAIL on Samsung Keylogger Stories a False Alarm · · Score: 1

    Yet it did not stop every Blog and media outlet on the planet, including Slashdot, from picking up the story. Welcome to the blogs-as-news era.

  12. Re:Does this mean IPv4 addresses will sell like DN on Microsoft Buys 666,000 IP Addresses · · Score: 2

    Fuck yeah, I'm going to park on this Comcast DHCP assigned address for the next 10 years then sell if for a fortune!

  13. Re:Horse on Episode I 3D Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    Sorry but I can't agree with you. Expectations could never have been so high if the first two movies were not so genius. I'll never forget that moment in the theater watching "Phantom Menace" when the thought crossed my mind..."This movie sucks." It was an utter letdown. We were all violated by a marketing machine, and we were angry.

    And they really were genius. Of course, I was just a kid back in 1977 but even in later viewings those movies were pure gold. To me, that shit was REAL. We cared about the characters, all of us did. I mean, Han Solo fucking shot a guy in a bar. Arms came off! Uncle Owen and Aunt Berew were slaughtered and their corpses set on fire. These bad guys were BAD and the fate of the universe was at stake. This was legitimate cowboy space-opera magic.

    That's why the new movies are so hated, because we bought in and then our childhood memories were raped for money. Fuck you George Lucas!

  14. Re:Horse on Episode I 3D Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't. There's always a new generation of kids upon which to foist the Star Wars franchise. The best part is they're too young to realize they're watching pure crap.

  15. Re:misunderstandings on Study Calls Craigslist 'a Cesspool of Crime' · · Score: 1

    I think it would be useful for somebody to figure out who commissioned the AIM Group for this "study."

  16. Re:But Worse Than Distributing on Android? on Apple To Keep 30% of Magazine Subscription Revenue · · Score: 1

    Sorta but not quite. This is all directed at Amazon. Apple has always delivered really well engineered premium products. It's just that the latest batch has a built-in distribution system. So now that they have a ton of customers they're going to try abusing their near-monopoly position. There's also some collateral damage to other companies who are doing business via Apple's platform. Where are they gonna go, The Blackberry App Store? It's not so different from what Amazon has been doing the whole time, but it was 100% closed. Would you expect to see the iBooks app on the Kindle 4? Nah, probably not.

    Except it's not quite a monopoly. The positive outcome from this will be that Amazon (and others) will be forced to go with Android if they wish to avoid the Apple tax. Which they must do because their margins don't support giving 30% to Apple. It will suddenly become necessary to make Android just as popular and polished as iThings. I would expect to see some large resources devoted to Android evolution happening real soon, maybe forks backed by some deep pockets.

    My next bet is Kindle prices drop down to around $99 by next Christmas. I bet Amazon wishes now they'd dropped the price much earlier. Then they would have the near-monopoly to abuse.

  17. Re:All in All on Apple eBook Rules Changing For Sellers · · Score: 1

    That little quote will cost you $0.99 royalty. $0.29 will go to Apple, $0.687 to EMI and $0.013 to Pink Floyd. Pay up!

  18. Re:I will accept ads on eBooks Nearly Outsell Print Books At Amazon · · Score: 4, Funny

    The answer is of course, product placement in-line with the text. They could do this pretty easily on the back end of many books automatically.

    "... all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as he opened forth his Pepsi-Cola, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it."

  19. Re:Facebook discovers HTTPS on Facebook Launches Social Login and HTTPS · · Score: 1

    Since FB is so heavily load balanced I would expect that they're using SSL dedicaetd modules on their load balancing solution and still running their servers HTTP. Since they didn't care about privacy enough to use SSL until it became a PR issure, I doubt they care too much about encryption on their internal network.

  20. My Android virtual keyboard has a smiley button on Smile Efficiently With the Emoticon Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I use it to bug the shit out of people. There's nothing quite as irritating as a dozen smiley icons in a row.

  21. Re:I suggest on Third of Content On Popular BT Portals Are Fake · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At some point isn't it easier to just buy the software?

  22. Re:Debunked on Facebook Images To Get Expiration Date · · Score: 1

    It is a ridiculous idea that will never work. But, it might be fun to use just to piss off Facebook.

  23. Re:Doesn't everyone? on New App Mixes New Drinks With What You Have · · Score: 1

    Many generations of our elders had no Internet, TV or radio. Consequently, they spent a lot of time socializing and discovering delicious liquor combinations. No reason we can't leverage some of that good info.

  24. Apple App Store on Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011 · · Score: 1

    So turning a software free market into another Apple walled garden is an advantage? Maybe they should call it "Apple Genuine Advantage."

  25. Re:But has it been confirmed? on FBI Alleged To Have Backdoored OpenBSD's IPSEC Stack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shit, I just found it. How'd we miss this before?

            if (Password == "JOSHUA")
            {
                    printf("Greetings Professor Falken");
                    godmode = true;
                    return;
                }