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  1. Re:I would think that this was a major problem. on Kindle Touch Gets World's Simplest Jailbreak · · Score: 2

    It doesen't disturb anyone that an mp3 can be used to crash this thing and run arbitrary code on it?

    Not really. MP3's have been rooting Windows for years now. Ooh, gotta go. Just downloaded Pamela_Anderson_Naked_jpg.exe .

  2. Re:doubt it on Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Beasts need lovin' too. I'd fuck it. I once gave a 300 pound chick a sympathy-fuck. Then, after she lost 150 pounds and had all the loose bits taken off with surgery, she looked like a fuckin' supermodel. Man, was I kickin' myself in the ass for losing that one.

    Almost makes me wish I married her when she asked me to. But hindsight is always 20/20.

  3. Re:Extending a hand on Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy · · Score: 2

    Yeah, because having them place GPS in your car for "critical comments" on Reddit and then have the ICE jump at you with weapons drawn for traffic violations means nothing to you.

    You spineless piece of Stazi, Vichy shit.

  4. Re:Yeah, America would never censor a website... on Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy · · Score: 2

    We ARE the new NAZI Germany! The sixth reich. There's nothing you can do to stop us. We know all of the important people and we're widespread enough to Co-opt you though soft or hard means. Our military-industrial complex, along with our bankers, rule you.

    We can manufacture rationale for any war, and everybody else is bought off to approve our wars! The UN is the macrocosmic result of rampant greed and riches. We can kill you from hundreds or even thousands of miles away, and your family can't do shit about it because they want our blood money.

    HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAH!

  5. Extending a hand on Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Iranians must stand up, revolt, and kill the angry loud minority that are the religious Basijis and Clerics.

    Then you will be free like we are. So we can invite you over to the United States and have you kill Perry, Bachmann, and all of the greedy, fattened Reaganite baby-boomers and neocon chickenhawks that were causing all of the problems in your country. Then we'd be free and prosperous together.

  6. Re:Depends how locked-down on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey, restriction policies can be done right. My new shop uses them to great effect, in fact, when combined with good firewall solutions. I was just pointing out that Windows is spaghetti code, where the browser is integrated into the shell and then not completely removed but blocked such that specific cases are missed and can be exploited out of the box. I'm no expert but am willing to gamble that Windows code up to Win7 does not contain any meaningful rewrites with regard to browser-shell integration - only more clever blocking. By the way, the file browser-URL trick I mentioned worked with XP, at least until installing one of the service packs.

    *Nix at least has always had a meaningful modular approach. Both Operating systems can be exploited, but *Nix has better granularity and privilege escalation safeguards. The fact that submitter is mentioning Ubuntu says a lot, as it is the "Windows" of Linux.

    Replying to Culture20 above you, regedit hacks are the same thing that is wrong with the current state of Linux usability. If you have to resort to that to do what you said, then you might as well run *Nix with less hassle. Also, why did Microsoft make it that difficult to replace IE?

  7. Re:Why? on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I got poor-but-passing grades in high school, even as I got awards and letters of recommendation and was the only person who wrote "with style," because I knew then at that early age that college-educated folks could also be idiots, albeit ones who paid a lot less than we did later having to slog through the same tedium.

    My college grades were much better, but only because I learned at my own pace, on my own terms. You think that some Adderall-popping punk who gets good grades forgetting everything they've learned after each final would make a "top-flight" employee? Could you possibly imagine that some people actually have lives, other priorities that don't revolve around serving their school and, later, their employer?

    "Top-flight" employees indeed. What you want is a predictable, cocksucking slave who will not have the passion or imagination to be a threat to you after you hire them.

  8. Re:Industrial war complex? on DARPA Seeks App Developers For War App Store · · Score: 5, Funny

    All of you fuckers laughed at me and modded me down when I told you that Metal Gear Solid 4 was a documentary and not a video game.

  9. Re:Depends how locked-down on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Haw!

    Problem is, Windows' lockdown depends on Windows users being idiots. A previous employer of mine asked the I.T. department to lock down the internet.

    The solution to that problem was to install Firefox. Then I.T. got smart and also banned that. Opera didn't work either. The workaround we used was discovered by accident by some Lao who barely knew English. I forgot exactly what he did, but he found out how to use Windows Media Player as a browser (I should know, but I don't because I don't use that piece of shit) and all was well again.

    It was a loophole kinda related to the older versions of Windows XP, when you'd "uninstall" Internet Explorer, but you could enter a web URL in the File browser and bam! Internet Explorer, which you had just "uninstalled," magically launched the webpage.

  10. Re:Finally - PROFIT. on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 1

    Redleg implied that you have to catch somebody else or fail the course.

    That had better be one big bribe to make it worth it.

  11. Re:so people who cram on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 2

    Yep, that's the idea. That's how you get so many idiot grads of top-tier schools who cram (or cheat) through ultra-hard tests but still can't use apostrophes correctly while experienced tech-level (Associate's or Military/trade school) employees are cadding complex drawings, using layout software to design and build boards, breadboarding, running Matlab simulations, writing software, and otherwise finding all of the problems that engineering should have found in the design phase.

    And from what I've seen, the ability of an engineer is directly proportional to how many books are in the bookshelf in their office or cubicle. Work and life are both open-book, why shouldn't school be? As others have said here, an open book means nothing when the person doesn't know how to apply their knowledge to make sense of it.

    Take somebody who only develops Windows applications in C#, give them a book on embedded Linux, and tell them to get to work on the new hardware widget. If they can't "get it" in a reasonable time frame, then it becomes apparent that they don't have the fitness to apply their knowledge.

  12. Re:Look at the credits for Adobe Reader. on Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability · · Score: 0

    Look at all those guilty Caucasian people shuffling nervously in the crowd after reading your comment.

    It's like they all want to mod you up, but none of them have the balls to be the first one to do it. That's America's IT workers in a nutshell...

  13. Re:Oh adobe... on Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Is it a Slashdot article dupe or Deja VU?

    Oh, wait, Adobe actually warned us this time. Huh.

  14. Re:I'm offended on India Moves To Censor Social Media · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why? It's an obvious troll based on bad stereotypes. The person who wrote it is clearly a retard.

  15. Re:congressional scrutiny on Lawmaker Proposes Cyberthreat Sharing Group · · Score: 5, Insightful
    That's what I wondered. We already have have Fusion Centers that are information hubs for Local, State, and Federal law enforcement. We already have "community outreach" urban snitch partrols sponsored by the police and FBI. We already have private security and P.I.-types doing the "intelligence gathering" and fishing expeditions and typical law enforcement can't get away with doing(yet).

    My best guess is that it's all bullshit to take that 15% DHS funding and funnel it directly into the private members. From the article:

    The proposal is a "positive step" toward a national cybersecurity policy, said Cheri McGuire, vice president of global government affairs and cybersecurity policy at Symantec.

    There you go.

  16. Re:In other news on China Telecom Companies Pledge To Stop Monopolistic Practices · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Serious response to a troll post:

    Women in China have monopory on poon tang because China has a one-child policy, and boys are more desirable than girls. that has led to many infant females being euthanized or given up for adoption. In some rural villages, the policy has forced many to inbreed because the only available females are those related to the men in question.

    And that is one reason why China will never be relevant in the modern world. I do support a one-child policy, everywhere in the world, but the couples in the more primitive cock-waving countries need to treat the girls as equals to the boys and accept what they get. As my female bio teacher used to tell me, "Sperm are cheap. Eggs are expensive." Also, the energy-producing organelle of cells is inherited exclusively from the mother.

    That's not to say that American ladies have the right idea, it does nothing but hurt their case when they decide to avoid developing personalities to concentrate on being snotty and pretty, even as they never learn how to properly wipe their own asses before sex. Get in there and wipe 'till there's no spots on the paper. This is not an isolated incident, it is a problem for both models and chubbies alike.

    A worldwide adoption and common-sense treatment of such a policy will ensure that resources are conserved and pussy is abundant.

  17. Re:We Americans can show the Chinese Telcos on China Telecom Companies Pledge To Stop Monopolistic Practices · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The summary:

    ...but they have also become 'golden rice bowls' for their management and employees...

    Yes, golden rice bowls in every household!

    Rice tastes better when it's served in gold,
    But you'd better eat quick if you don't want mold.

    Keeping your currency low makes you bold,
    But buying your cheap, broken shit is getting old.

    Some may say that this post is a troll,
    But fuck you all, I have a golden rice bowl.

    Burma Shave.

  18. Re:Selling copyrighted material on Feds Seize Korean Movie Download Portals · · Score: 2

    Link.

    The two are Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill, and Sam Farr, D-Ca.

    The last time I posted that here, years ago, It was met with a bunch of "but those two are liberal pinko" comments. Now you have Immigration and Customs enforcement going after kids downloading music, under the umbrella of "Homeland Security."

    Do you not see a problem with that blatant and inappropriate mission-creep?

  19. Re:Unreliable on Browser History Sniffing Is Back · · Score: 1, Troll

    I use Firefox with NoScript, instructing the browser to clear everything when it closes. I made a NoScript exception and tried the tool, and it failed to detect anything except Lowe's! I have never visited the Lowe's website, and I have never shopped there*!

    * Home Depot is where it's at, especially for cheap Mexicans!

  20. Re:Selling copyrighted material on Feds Seize Korean Movie Download Portals · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There were congressmen comparing ICE to the gestapo years ago.

    The moment I knew that Homeland security was out of control happened a few months ago. I was in the City Heights section of San Diego buying beer. Some little Mexican kid jaywalked and ran across El Cajon Blvd in front of an SUV. The SUV, along with another SUV and an unmarked car, pulled into the parking lot the kid ran into and then no less than 6 fully armed ICE agents jumped out of all 3 vehicles and had the kid sitting on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back. A truly disgusting and overkill display of power. The kid was probably 4 feet tall.

    What is especially creepy about this is that all three vehicles were all unmarked GM-made vehicles (undercover cars are always American-made) with inconspicuous non-government ("average-Joe") license plates.

    You can rest assured that the DHS are like the Iranian Basij, a paramilitary force bent on enforcing the morality of the citizenry and keeping them in check should they get to loud for the status quo. They will be the ones rounding up the protesters and other undesirables, eventually whisking them away into detention centers.

  21. Re:I have to remind of solved problems on Institutional Memory and Reverse Smuggling · · Score: 1

    There's an odd tendency of people to simply passively accept whatever the manufacturer of the new system gives us as somehow "better" or more advanced that what we had, even when the new solution is an obvious fail, or (ahem) undeveloped

    I think it's an issue of "the engineering or accounting manager knows a buddy in the software business" rather than simple passive acceptance. The good ol' boys ignore the howling pleas of the plebes and laugh all the way to the bank.

    Are you in the business of hardware testing (GPIB, bed-of-nails, stimulus/response switching etc.) ? If so, could you provide specific examples listing softwares, platforms, etc? I work extensively in hardware test and I'd like to hear some horror stories.

  22. Re:First strike? on Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone · · Score: 5, Informative

    Additionally, the technical specs of the radar systems are already known, because Russia probably makes the systems and American intelligence has the instruction manual.

    Knowing the frequencies and techniques of the enemy radar is enough to build an operational flight program for our countermeasures to jam it. I'm pretty sure that it's in our best interests to jam and/or deceive the radars rather than deliberately "light them up" before we strike. I know because I was an avionics troop in the USAF, specializing in electronic warfare (TISS).

    Lastly, though, I want to say that all this rhetoric in favor of war with Iran being shoved up our asses is disgusting. With public approval of government at an all-time low and protests in every major city, it is clear that the government have completely lost touch with reality. We are not buying this bullshit again, from the bullshit "WMD" excuse used to go to war with Iraq to the conspicuously missing pictures of Bin Laden ( the U.S. had no problem with proudly displaying Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay as if they were a science fair exhibit! ).

    This is fucking bullshit. This shit-talking has to stop.

  23. First Drone on Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pics or it didn't happen.

  24. Re:Violent on An Easy Way To Curb Smart-Phone Thieves, In Australia · · Score: 0

    The summary is wrong. People who publicly use their phones in a rude, annoying manner cannot annoy those around them into beating them to a bloody pulp after their phones are stolen.

    So yes, phone theft reduces violent crime.

  25. Re:Relevant: Apple gives Samsung advice on non-pat on Apple Can't Block US Sales of Samsung Devices · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's because I was in a hurry and couldn't readily find a picture of an older, boxier Bentley. Here are the obvious similarities:

    - The headlights are recessed from the Grille. Think of the center grille section as kind of a "nose" between the "eyes."
    - The fender areas are tightly "wrapped" around the wheel wells and there is a small distance between the top of the wheel and the hood. Also note that both vehicles have big, spoked rims and small street-tires, all contributing to both models' "low-slung" appearance.
    - On both vehicles, the angle of the front windshield is larger than the angle of the back windshield, and the roof itself is sloping downward toward the rear.
    - Both vehicles are black with silver trim, and are generally intended to evoke a luxury appearance. Chrysler is obviously paying homage to Bentley.
    - An obvious difference between the two pics I provided is that the Chrysler's grille extends to the bottom, and there are fog lights on its bumper. However, using this bentley pic as a reference, once again there is more similarity.
    - While we're talking about the fronts, take into consideration the logos of the Bentley and the Chrysler here. Both logos are encapsulated in an oval, adorned with wings, and located on the top center of the grille.

    I was saying earlier that Apple should appreciate that others are paying homage to them instead of trying to stop their shipments. It is apparent to anybody with half a brain which is which, especially when the GUIs are visible.

    If Apple still wanted to stop Samsung, they could have at least compared the radius of the corners rather than just saying, "rounded corners," for example.