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  1. Re:err, system call wrapper runs with kernel privs on Attacking Multicore CPUs · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that'll be why the example exploit code fails.

  2. Re:Securty vs Freedom on German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server · · Score: 1

    Frogs don't stay in the water, they try and get out.

  3. Re:Nothing to see here on Dell, Lenovo Adding Solar Option for PCs · · Score: 1

    I had a Sony Solar Walkman in 1985.

  4. Re:Arctic minimum, antarctic maximum on Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That posting is the interesting, I useful fact to carry around.
    I'm still a global warming sceptic. I'm all for reducing carbon emissions and the like. I'm just not totally convinved the weather patterns and carbon emissions are intertwined as some of the figures look.

    Correlation is not causation.

  5. Re:Most Popular?? on The GIMP UI Redesign · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you are confusing "most" with "most vocal (and wrong)" because those of us that use Gimp and are under no illusion about the relative merits of the two offerings have no claims to make ergo we don't make them.

    As many people here are already saying, the UI is not what's holding GIMP back. The UI is the thing that stops PShop users even taking the time to find out what's missing. And why would they?

    A few graphics pros have asked me "What's this GIMP thing like?" My answer "Photoshop 3"

  6. Re:and time passes ... on Ameritrade Security Audit Finds Privacy-Busting Back Door · · Score: 1

    People made up names for such a system.

    We generally call it "wholesale" and "retail".

    Go and rant your Ring 0 nonsense to the guy with the Kwik-E-Mart franchise down the street that he's part of a blatantly unsecret cabal that is overcharging you for your cheezy-poofs.

  7. Re:pump and dump on Ameritrade Security Audit Finds Privacy-Busting Back Door · · Score: 1

    > Hopefully their investigation turns up who's profiting from it and the SEC turns the screws on them.

    Every broker that ever bought or sold a share on someone's behalf. Content is not King.

  8. Re:IF, just, IF on Valve Looking to Port Games to Linux? · · Score: -1, Troll

    fuck off shill

  9. Re:Damages on Microsoft Installs New Software Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Saying "For instance" is not demonstrating damage.

    TBH. I'd say that being hosed my a remoted update is your own lack of due diligence for not having a backup/restore procedure.
    The agreement laid out in the EULA states that MS might update files without your subsequent consent.
    To me, that results in no grounds for complaint.

    IANAL, but I do watch Judge Judy.

  10. I win on Microsoft Installs New Software Without Permission · · Score: 1

    press f3
    type wuapi
    wait ...
    right click, properties version tab

    losers

  11. Re:and the surprise is? on Microsoft Installs New Software Without Permission · · Score: 1

    How about the millions of $ we pay directly or indirectly to mitgate the effects of all those Baldur's Gate machines sending us spam, viruses, participating in DDoSes etc. etc.

    It's the 1995 that never ends.

  12. Re:wait on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 1

    I meant more in the same building than same city.

  13. Re:No on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > RJ45 jacks will never be obsolete for one reason... Security.

    Just like BNC

  14. Re:Hey Linus, how's LCC coming along? on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Hey Stallman, how's Hurd coming along? on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Whereas the original Monolithic Unix kernel was built by two guys in a weekend.

    Then the Lab team got involved and they released 10 versions in 15 years.

    And then a rewrite Plan 9 From Bell Labs had 10 people

    Clearly 17 people isn't enough to write 1 micro-kernel in 23 years.

    23 YEARS

  16. Re:C6H2(NO2)3CH3. on EU Commissioner Calls For Censorship of Web Search · · Score: 1

    It's even better than that, and, as usual, the crowd missing the important fluff

    the answer to 2 is in fact

    2. Say, "We intend to carry out a clear exploring exercise to see if we can introduce legislation to force ISPs to block access to such reprehensible material"

    "We intend to" isn't we are

    Then the exercise will say "it's impossible really"

    And all will be over.

    In the meantime we have Slashdotters frothing like the law has already passed.

  17. Re:wait on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 1

    I'm certainly no expert in real world signal processing but I'd expect harmonics of 2.4ghz and 5ghz to interfere with each other's bandwidth.

    All radio signals interefere.

  18. Re:Forbidden extensions? on Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    Legislate against this in your "secure" chat client then :

    innocent-looking-pic.jpg

  19. Why are you asking me that ? on Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    I didn't even mention torture.

    To my mind, the best thing a leader could do when someone blows up a bomb is go on tv and say "ok, whatever, have your bombs".

    It's amusing they claim to be Christain but never turn the other cheek.

  20. Re:Amazing on Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    There was also a buffer overrun in the Date: parsing, no need to open anything.
    Then there was auto-executing HTML with embedded ActiveX controls and other documents.

    Checking the MIME Type is hardly a security measure, it's just a header.
    The only way to test a file is to process it with the application. Rememeber the recent MS image opening ownage.

  21. Re:NO. It is theft. on Vista Pirates To Get "Black Screen of Darkness" · · Score: 1

    > This LOWERS Vista value to everyone.

    Wow, now they OWE me money for Vista existing, cool! Where do I go to collect ?

  22. Re:Forbidden extensions? on Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    Using the filename to decide what to try and execute is already retarded, please don't heap any more shit on an already shitty idea.

    We're still living with .htm ffs

    I blame Apache and it's "let's map uri's straight to filenames" idiocy

  23. Re:Skype itself is blameless on Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can scream all you like, happy or not.
    Lunix is insecure be design.
    Root is a design fault.
    That's why it got removed in the next version.

  24. Re:Skype itself is blameless on Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    1. Run as restricted user
    2. Double click on the clock to get the calendar / analogue clock
    3. Call the Administrator to find out why you don't have permission to open the clock !
    4. Listen bemusedly to the Administrator tell you that you can't look at the calendar because you don't have permission to change the system time.
    5. Complain that you don't want to *change* the time, just look at it!
    6. ???
    7. Non-profit

  25. The price isn't worth paying on Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    The alternative to constant surveillance is a few more dead people.

    I can live with that.