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  1. Re:Okay, but... on Hacker Holds Key To Free Flights · · Score: 4, Funny

    This sounds like part of the plot of Home Alone 2...

  2. Re:GitHub is non-free on GitHub Launches Bug Bounty Program, Offers Between $100 and $5,000 · · Score: 1

    GitHub is one of the best designed Project-Hosting-as-a-Service websites that exists. They pay for hosting an untold number of free open-source repositories by selling their services to teams and companies. You can even buy a GitHub appliance that you host in your own network to make sure your code never leaves.

    If you want to use one of the "free as in speech" Git platforms, by all means, just do. But if you want a GUI, bug tracker, wiki, web hosting, etc. that cost a significant amount of money to develop - yet whose use is given away for free, use GitHub.

  3. Re:Upgrade? Win7 and 8 have their own update issue on Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines · · Score: 1

    The winsxs folder grows exponentially, and since everything depends on everything else, deleting from that folder causes all kinds of problems.

    Sort of no longer true (as of SP1): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2795190
    On my primary Windows 7 computer, it is down to 10.5GB.

  4. Downsides: on Google Makes It Harder For Marketers To Collect User Data · · Score: 1

    Marketers will at least know that the user opened the email because the images were loaded somewhere. See MailChimp's post on the subject. This means that you can not longer look at a message even once without the marketer knowing that you did.

  5. Re:Excellent question on Ask Slashdot: Practical Bitrot Detection For Backups? · · Score: 1

    Second shoutout for Crashplan! I have eight computers backing up to one account with "unlimited" storage and versioning.

  6. Re: @slashdot: use https per default! on British Intelligence Responds To Slashdot About Man-in-Middle Attack · · Score: 1

    Woops, wrong one. That RFC says not to use it for validation, only for a certificate authority to see if they should issue a cert. I will try to find the correct one.

  7. Re: @slashdot: use https per default! on British Intelligence Responds To Slashdot About Man-in-Middle Attack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Google Chrome supports certificate pinning so you can't go to a site if the certificate used does not match the known one on the list compiled into the browser, which sort-of solves the wrongly issued certificate problem.
    RFC 6844 has a proposed DNS type for verifying the proper certificate was served (requires DNSSEC to make sure the DNS was not tampered with).

  8. Re:Nothing for me... on Credit Card Numbers Still Google-able · · Score: 1

    Off-topic, but I have done the same thing. Once upon a time, you had to click submit to moderate, it did not use this "fancy" javascript. I can't find any option to go back to that.

  9. Nothing for me... on Credit Card Numbers Still Google-able · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I tried with the first 8 digits of 6 different cards and founds nothing but Australian phone numbers.

  10. Re:Really by fax? on Want To Hijack a Domain? Just Get a Fax Machine · · Score: 1

    I don't have an ax to grind and I certainly don't want to create bad blood, but we can build a castle in the air of people all over the world who understand every English idiom.

    I wanted to have one idiom for every letter, but I got tired of it.

  11. Really by fax? on Want To Hijack a Domain? Just Get a Fax Machine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The only evidence actually quoted that the attack was by faxed change request is the defaced website. Do we trust the "hackers" that much that we believe they made the change by sending a fax? Could the group be giving a red herring?

  12. Anyone can do it on NYC Is Tracking RFID Toll Collection Tags All Over the City · · Score: 1

    I did an undergraduate honors paper about reading E-ZPass somewhere besides a toll plaza. Not only were we able to do it easily, we also looked into (but did not follow through) creating fake tags using scanned IDs from other cars.

    We were even able to purchase E-ZPass lane equipment from XXXXX (redacted - the lawyers don't want me to say). They did not ask for any verification about what we were going to do with it - if we could come up with the money, they would send it to us.

  13. Seen this before... on Amazon Angling For Same-Day Delivery Beyond Groceries · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have ordered items (non-food) on Amazon and had the option to pay ....... $3.99! ..... for "Same Day Delivery" in the Washington, DC area. I have no idea how they actually paid for the courier to drive from Virginia to Maryland, since it certainly cost more than $3.99 in gas, but I ordered at 10 AM and had the item by 5 PM.

  14. Re:You know... on Google Gets Consumer Service Ultimatum From German Consumer Groups · · Score: 1

    And those contacts are really good. I have used them a few times.

    But as a business user who pays for Google Apps, I don't wat Google to provide direct support for all users because it would likely decrease the quality of the service that I receive.

  15. Surprised no one posted this yet on Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime · · Score: 2, Funny
  16. WHOIS on Ask Slashdot: Undoing an Internet Smear Campaign? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check the WHOIS information for the domains. If there is any missing information at all or if the phone numbers or email addresses don't work, you can file a report with ICANN. I have found that many times people will not reply to the complaint which means the domains are shut down within a few weeks.

  17. Re:Ugh on RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Have you actually ever read anything about te FSF and its goals. The FSF explicitely states that Free Softwre is a social movement for the greater good.

    When did the FSF trademark the term "free software"? Ubuntu can even market with the term free software without agreeing with rms.
    (Someone can show me a trademark registration to show that I am wrong...)

  18. WordPress Hosted on Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? · · Score: 5, Informative

    WordPress recently started a service specifically for municipalities: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/wordpress-for-cities/ Even with their paid upgrades, you would probably be saving money on development and you are paying for hosting or (bandwidth/power) anyway.

  19. Re:The farmer can make a buck on cattle on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 1

    But advertisers have some sacred "right" to make a buck that's more important than me making my own decisions.

    I would say that it is actually the owner of the site who publishes the ads who has a "right" to make a buck. If they choose to pay their hosting costs by having you view ads instead of charging you, then you have no "right" to see their page without seeing the advertising.

  20. Re:CRC on Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? · · Score: 2

    And use a Bloom Filter to easily eliminate many files without doing a major comparison of all 100 checksums.

  21. Re:Just the obvious on Ask Slashdot: Rescuing a PC That's Been Hit By Scammers? · · Score: 1

    I don't even try to write it down, too easy to miss something.
    I install Belarc Advisor, which is a free (as in beer - for personal use at least) program that catalogs your installed software and finds product keys for many programs automatically.
    Print the report that it generates, highlight any really important items, (make sure you have the installers before you format) and just format and reinstall.
    Usually makes the job relatively painless.

  22. Re:Good for the Judges on FCC Rules That Verizon Cannot Charge For 4G Tethering · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't see why this won't apply to 3G or any other type of tethering either, since it's all the same.

    Because the issue is in which part of the wireless spectrum they are using. As far as I can tell, this ruling only applies to the new C Block spectrum, not the parts of the spectrum they used to have.

  23. Re:In the US they call it Scouts. on Are We Failing To Prepare Children For Leadership In the US? · · Score: 1

    I could not agree more. Our Boy Scout troop has to fight to get the kids interested in something besides their electronic devices, while the parents keep asking why we can't make their children show more leadership in the home, with their friends and at school. This is the purpose of the Boy Scouts of America.

  24. Re:If the list is public consider MarkMail on Ask Slashdot: Best Solution For an Email Discussion Forum? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. You will usually (for example) find my replies to messages on mailing lists either inline or at the bottom (unless I am replying from iOS, which can make it difficult to post anywhere but the top).

  25. Re:If the list is public consider MarkMail on Ask Slashdot: Best Solution For an Email Discussion Forum? · · Score: 2

    Why would top posting be a problem?

    On Monday June 18, 2012 at 08:44PM, nullchar said:
    From the summary, it appears all the current members know how to email already (though I'm sure top-posting is a problem).