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  1. Re:I am not rightly able to comprehend... on Amazon EC2 Crash Caused Data Loss · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Congrads. Does your GF have a key to your house? Because your "perfect system" has a single point of failure- a insider who could cause damage to both causing loss of data. Best not get on her bad side for now, anyway....

  2. Re:The have actual satellites on DirecTV Plans Netflix Competitor · · Score: 1

    Sky does this. They pre-seed your DVR with a range of movies you can watch on demand - i.e, they're already been downloaded, before you pay.

  3. Re:Whose enemies? on Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Israel has never publically confirmed a nuclear test - but the Vela Incident has always assumed to be a combined South Africa/Israel test.

    The NPT calls for disarmenent, not a reduction in stockpiles - which is sort of the point- the treaty is worthless, other than as a beating stick for large powers over smaller nation states.

  4. Re:Whose enemies? on Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Agreed, reduction has occurred. But you're not naive enough to sit their and pretend that Disarmament was ever the intention of the Nuclear powers under this treaty. The NPT was a political tool to coerce nation states into a public declaration that they wouldn't seek Nuclear Weapons - a damned if they do, and a damned if they don't approach. It completely fails to address the fact that Middle Eastern nation states live next door to a nuclear power who they have been at war at multiple times over the later half of the 20th Century who they distrust.

  5. Re:Whose enemies? on Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet · · Score: 0, Troll

    Which the US also signed. Care to explain how they're moving towards disarmenent, as the treaty obligates them to?

  6. Re:don't get hung up on shareholder lawsuit fantas on RIM Co-CEO Cries 'No Fair' On Security Question · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, it's like you sell bananas, but the USA says you can't anymore unless you can tell the government how to remove the skin without the end user knowing. You damage the brand and the business model (security) by caving in.

  7. Re:data data everywhere on VMware Releases Open Source Cloud Foundry · · Score: 1

    Just encrypt the data on the way out.

  8. Re:They didn't shut off HTTPS on Microsoft Denies HTTPS Shutdown Was Intentional · · Score: 0

    Fiji is run by a dictatorship. What is your point?

  9. Re:minor on McAfee's Website Full of Security Holes · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Windows 7 may be the issue - GPLv3 is speculati on Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Er... people are not going to use OSX as samba domain controllers. This is an non-issue.

  11. Re:Double engine? on Airbus Faces Charges Over 2009 Rio-Paris Crash · · Score: 4, Informative

    Operating too close to limits has long been the suggestion: http://trueslant.com/milesobrien/2009/06/08/the-coffin-corner-and-a-mesoscale-maw/

  12. Re:Really Stupid Idea on Chrome May Drop the URL Bar · · Score: 5, Funny

    And it still won't stop people doing this: http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/toolbars2.png

  13. Re:boncee on Encrypting Phone Storage and Transmission? (2011 Version) · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure why everyone always trusts the other ends of these cheap vpn services so readily. If you wanted to set up a credential fishing operations - why wouldn't you just set one of these up and watch the exit gateway?

  14. Re:wow on Cisco Linksys Routers Still Don't Support IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Here is another pretty good reason: Shit code: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Feb/228

  15. Re:Eh, it was probably right on Blogger Sued By Restaurant For Bad Review · · Score: 2

    He implied that the chicken was tasteless- fine. He said it was becuase it was undercooked raw, which now means he's accused Benihana of trying to poison/kill people. Which is certainly not so fine.

  16. Re:It's a series of tubes on What’s the Internet? (on 1994's Today Show) · · Score: 1

    Engine Braking.

  17. Re:Access password with no ACLs ? on Vodafone Customer Database Breached · · Score: 1

    There is no inherent protection in marking the key as 'not exportable'. There are many third party tools that will allow you to export the key if you have permissions to read it.

  18. Re:Australia only? on Vodafone Customer Database Breached · · Score: 1

    But i thought Vodafone used shared Egyptian call centres for multiple countries?

  19. Re:How wasteful we humans are. on Stuxnet Virus Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by 2 Years · · Score: 1

    Bases in Kuwait as well.

  20. Re:How wasteful we humans are. on Stuxnet Virus Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by 2 Years · · Score: 1

    If i lived in Iran, I'd want nuclear weapons too, to counterbalance the threat to Iran, of Israel's weapons program.

  21. Re:Go bareback! on AVG 2011 Update Causes Widespread Problems For 64-Bit Windows · · Score: 1

    That's fine, if you never download and install software. the problem is that the method of acquiring new software in the OSX/Windows space is just totally broken- (download something from anywhere and run it...)

  22. Re:endless possibilities on PayPal Demos Auto-Debit Gumball Machine · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Yes, everyone will be able to quickly and easily swap cheap payments via paypal, then there will be a fraud allegation, and someone's paypal account will be frozen permanently.

    People stupid enough to trust paypal with their record of appalling behaviour deserve what they get.

  23. Re:flash update on Adobe To Push Emergency Fix For Flash Bug · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What makes you think reader 8 is any better, security rise? It's just unsupported.

  24. Re:Threats on Game Reviewers Face Odd Bribery From Publishers · · Score: 3, Insightful
    FFS, i worked on the publishers side of the industry in the late 90's, and its even simplier than this.

    GAME PUBLISHERS.PAY.FOR.ADVERTS.

    MAGAZINES/WEB SITES SELL EYEBALLS

  25. Re:Toddlers and tv on Software (and Appropriate Input Device) For a Toddler? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Read, read, read.