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  1. Re: Question about how this works on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 1

    "I'm still waiting for an example"

    So, instead of doing what everyone else did and look up what was vulnerable and how shell shock could be exploited in SSH (which NIST specifically mentions), you chose to make up a bullshit idea about how it could be exploited that conveniently fit your "holier than thou" attitude about security and argue from ignorance about the exploit.

    Good call.

  2. Re: Question about how this works on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why you felt the need to blame the victim on this, but the reality is that this is a problem not because of lax security measures on the part of server maintainers, but because it allows attackers to bypass good security measures if the shell being used is Bash.

    And, because the exploit makes services such as SSH vulnerable, it can be used even if normal modes of passing data to the server are sanitized.

  3. Re: Emma Watson is full of it on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 1

    Here is a list of your arguments thus far:

    1. Women are underpaid compared to men absolutely (no other reasons given other than sexism)
    2. Women are underemployed compared to men in the face of criticism of 1 (no other reason given than sexism)
    3. Hand-waved criticism of 1 and 2 by claiming that when economies are in crisis (all of ours are arguable capitalist economies always are, nature of capitalism), the lowest paid are over employed relative to other groups.

    This seems like a pretty clear contradiction.

    Makes me think:
    1 is false, there is no real pay disparity overall and claiming the opposite such is disingenuous
      2 is false, there are roughly equal employment opportunities or more so per 3, and claiming otherwise is disingenuous
      3 is false, but this seems most likely to be true given our economy of the past few years

  4. Re: "Belief" is not part of the scientific method on Study Links Pacific Coastal Warming To Changing Winds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Test tube being our own planet (we KNOW why our planet is not similar in temperatures to the moon) and other planets we observe (Venus).

    There is hardly a disconnect between theory, lab experimentation, and reality.

    We know the greenhouse effect exists... if it didn't, we wouldn't be here.

  5. Re: What is there to renew? on US Revamping Its Nuclear Arsenal · · Score: 1

    Reading comprehension. Submarine fleet and their armaments aren't being neglected.

  6. Re: Excuse me?...excuse me?... on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    To travel with*

    *for some values of God (I.e., not the one with arbitrarily imposed omnipresence/omnipotence/omniscience).

  7. Re: Bananas vs Grapes on 'Why Banana Skins Are Slippery' Wins IgNobel · · Score: 1

    Those aren't grapes, dude, those are marbles.

  8. Re: Hmm... on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    That was a bad example. There is a pretty big consensus on both sides of the aisle that Bush was a mistake and fuckup (cause of the problems that the GOP complains that Obama hasn't fixed yet).

    I mean, Obama won as the "not Bush" candidate against McCain.

    Reagan would have been a better example.

  9. Neither "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that matters".

    So obviously front page material.

  10. Re: they will defeat themselves on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Won't last long"

    On the decades to hundreds of years scale, sure. Their policy will probably work for their (short) foreseeable future.

  11. Re: Anti-math and anti-science ... on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 4, Funny

    PSH, more than a little exaggeration. If they banned math, how would they know how to evade taxes?

  12. Re: You mean... on AT&T Proposes Net Neutrality Compromise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wouldn't be surprised if ISP wanted to charge consumers extra for the "turbo mode" privilege.

    Just more greed.

  13. Re: Maybe on Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use · · Score: 1

    Well, the downside being (for felons on parole), not all guns generate significant recoil. .22 LR handguns are perfectly lethal and generate almost no recoil at all.

    And you'd be experiencing about the same amount of recoil as a 44 Magnum chambered gun about any time you catch a baseball. As you said, lots of false positives, but I expect lots of false negatives as well.

    I mean, the most common guns used in crimes (mid-framed 9's) could probably not be detected with the user wearing a pair of weightlifting gloves and having a firm grip.

  14. Re: Contacting BBC, via VPN on BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    I don't think he meant a mouthpiece for whichever political party of the moment is, but if you have ever seen how the BBC whips up moral panics and that followed by knee-jerk, ludicrous legislation, you can understand why some have the perspective of it being a mouthpiece.

      But really it is a causality argument. Is it the government pushing the BBC to propagandize some flavors of legislation, or is it the BBC driving the sheep into pressuring the government to adopt those flavors of legislation? I think the latter is more likely.

  15. Re: Too late on Hackers Behind Biggest-Ever Password Theft Begin Attacks · · Score: 1

    Damn phone makes posting nearly impossible.

    Uname/password combo unique*

    Algo* not alto

  16. Re: Too late on Hackers Behind Biggest-Ever Password Theft Begin Attacks · · Score: 1

    Really? You are going with the "blaming the victim" route?

    How about this one. There are probably over 100 websites that have store my credit card information in their own proprietary system because every company seems to have "not developed here" syndrome, and making each uname/password combo is very difficult without some easy to guess alto, or even remembering where accounts might have been created already. And on top of that, nobody has any clue who was affected or how they were affected because the only group claiming to have any idea what happened has refused to divulge that information, giving the hackers free reign to continue to exploit vulnerabilities no matter how users respond.

    So any attempt at blaming users seems awfully idiotic in the face of everything else.

  17. Re: Ineffective advertising on Dell's New Alienware Case Goes to Extremes To Prevent Overheating · · Score: 1

    Maybe for low end prebuilds. I haven't seen an custom build that uses a case with that layout, and the most popular cases do not have that layout.

  18. Re: Good news everybody on Anti-Ebola Drug ZMapp Makes Clean Sweep: 18 of 18 Monkeys Survive Infection · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Bad ones"

    That isn't how evolution works. What you meant was genetically less fit to resist predation by lions and tigers before having a chance to breed if and only if lions and tigers are a significant cause of that species not being able to breed in comparison to other factors.

    I, for one, don't give a shit about genetic fitness against Ebola. Thinking that somehow these people (or animals) "deserve" to be weeded out because they are "bad" in the sense there is something wrong with them is completely unfounded, and is nothing more than blaming the victim.

    Or trolling.

  19. Re: Nice! on For $1.5M, DeepFlight Dragon Is an "Aircraft for the Water" · · Score: 1

    SONAR is not typically used for navigation by things trying to be stealthy, because, as you can imagine, pinging requires making a loud noise that can be detected and fixed on.

    Rather, position and movement can be accurately tracked with small inertial guidance systems (RLGs) and time.

    Then you just have to know where you want to go (map, waypoints, whatever)

  20. Re: Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1

    Just about all companies are held by the 1%. Typically, companies pay company holders enough to be 1%'ers. What was your point there? The 1% isn't a hand-wringing, conniving, homogeneous group of evil doers.

  21. Re: Who needs oil? on If Fusion Is the Answer, We Need To Do It Quickly · · Score: 1

    Sure, there will be nuts, by never underestimate the power of cheap.

  22. Re: This actually makes perfect sense. on Scientists Find Traces of Sea Plankton On ISS Surface · · Score: 2

    Shielded in the capsule holding components of the ISS? Why not? The ISS parts weren't traveling in a vacuum, and given humid, balmy, oceanfront Cape Canaveral, seems reasonable to me that their might have been some air exchange or air captured.

  23. Re: Unity is 64 bit now on Switching Game Engines Halfway Through Development · · Score: 2

    Why is that amusing? It was true for last gen as well. And the one before that. Simply, a $300-400 computer designed for low power(low temps), small formfactor just won't compete with a $750-$1500 computer without those requirements.

    That is just a fact of life, no matter how it upsets fanbois.

    What amuses me is the angst over "why does Skyrim run at only 30FPS and make me motion sick?" and "why aren't there 64 player maps like on PC?" Well duh.

  24. Re: Rise of the middlemen on Switching Game Engines Halfway Through Development · · Score: 1

    That might have been true 15-20 years ago during the dotcom bubble, but hasn't been true since. Not even slightly.

  25. Re: Pinch of salt needed on Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League · · Score: 1

    That is not what a Premiere League spokesperson stated in a recent interview with someone from the British media and was aired on NPR this morning. They specifically pointed out the cases where people record or take photos of parts of the game from their phones and post to Twitter/Vine.

    Also, interesting to note, the interviewer specifically pointed out the NFL as going through the same type of frustrations. In typical British media form, the interviewer was pandering to corporate interest in focus and language, and didn't make a single mention of the rights of the recorders, which seems perverse given that many Vines fit comfortably under the measures of Fair Use in the U.S.