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  1. Re: wrong on New Attack Hijacks DNS Traffic From 300,000 Routers · · Score: 1

    I want this kind of system everywhere. Online shopping, bank authentication, retail establishments... I to enter a vendor ID and amount into my own, bank-provided device. I enter my card and pin, the device does does $math with the date and time (synch'd with bank servers at home while setting up internet banking), and the device gives me a code to enter into the merchant's terminal.

  2. Re: Vive le Galt! on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    I did. The initialism and company name being in English gave it away, if nothing else.

    It's a joke!

  3. Re: Vive le Galt! on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1, Informative

    HSBC is British

    Ahhh yes, the famous Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation of East Putney.

  4. Re:Why? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    I have to ask; Why you need all of those windows open concurrently? I don't think even Terry Pratchett's 6-display monstrosity has the real estate to handle it.

    There must be an easier way to achieve what you're trying to accomplish.

  5. Re:READY OR NOT IS NOT THE ISSUE!!! on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    I joined in college (UK, 16 - 18). I'm now 30.

    Anything below my UID is at least 12 years old.

  6. Re:Maximum penalty... on New Zealand Spy Agency Deleted Evidence About Its Illegal Spying On Kim Dotcom · · Score: 2

    Scroll to the bottom of this page and click the link "Slashdot Beta".

    To return to sanity, scroll to the bottom again and click "Slashdot Classic". It's in the grey box which takes up the whole screen at 1280x1024.

  7. Which other site should I enable? I have /. and fsdn unblocked. Doubleclick is advertising (Which is disabled anyway), as is the two Google sites, and RPXNOW is social login. I don't see any others listed.

  8. Re:I do not look forward to this. on Through a Face Scanner Darkly · · Score: 1

    Did you know that in some states, going out behind the tavern and peeing in the bushes because the bathroom is full can get you put on a sex-offender registry for life?

    I know the UK isn't (technically) a state of the US, but that's the case here. It's indecent exposure, a sexual offence.

  9. There isn't one. It's gone full-circle; Top results are from sites citing Slashdot saying "Mantle support" when it's only the goon who wrote the title saying "Mantle support". They actually mean OpenCL support for parallel processing of cell formula.

    Slashdot editing at its finest. Again.

  10. Re:Secret meetings: on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 2

    If the Mail or Telegraph weren't invited to attend, it's a secret meeting as far as they're concerned.

    It's like a scientist saying "The change is statistically significant" and the papers reporting "SIGNIFICANT RISK HORROR!". They have their own rules about English.

  11. Re:Privacy Issues on UK Government May Switch from MS Office to Open Source · · Score: 1

    Have you used Excel recently, vs Open/LibreOffice Calc?

    Come back when you've "experienced" formulae and macros on the open alternatives, the kind of stuff accountants and traders make their money using. Before you do, though, you might want to invest in a bottle of hair dye. That shit will turn your hair white.

  12. Re:I will never again buy seagate on Hard Drive Reliability Study Flawed? · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you should have backed up your important data.

    Wait, this was your backup drive? So you have another copy on your live storage? Ok, so there's no problem!

    No extra copy of the data on your live storage? Hmmm... I guess that wasn't your backup drive, then.

    PEBKAC. Get yourself a RAID 1 NAS and use it for BACKUP of your data. You'll spend just as much on a USB3 disk and caddy, and you won't be tempted to use it as live storage because r/w operations will take ages.

  13. So does that mean that they have released all of the 420'ers in prison in $StateThatLegalisedMaryJ?

    I didn't think so.

  14. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? · · Score: 1

    Browse Facebook through Tor? That's not how it works. Submitting personal information over a Tor connection defeats the object; Your connection is anonymous, the data is not.

    Keep your personal details away from Tor; They are actively monitoring the exits.

  15. Re:/etc/password, not /etc/shadow! on Facebook's Biggest Bounty Yet To Hacker Who Found "Keys To the Kingdom" · · Score: 1

    ... the most attention-getting thing this guy could have said to Facebook's PHB in charge of Bounty Payouts.

  16. Re:LOL ... on New Supernova Seen In Nearby Galaxy M82 · · Score: 1

    Just for completeness, GP was referring to the Stellar Neighbourhood ("Local" stars).

  17. Re:and Fox news on Great Firewall of UK Blocks Game Patch Because of Substring Matches · · Score: 1

    The very definition of doublethink.

  18. Re:Just had a meal on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 1

    I cook my own curries. Make up a base sauce with your favourite mix of spices, onions, and tinned tomato, and freeze it in individual portions. Unfreeze, heat, and add meat and / or extras for different curries: Cream and a little extra diced chilli for masala; Cream, sugar, and coconut for korma; Fresh quartered tomatoes and tomato puree for bhuna; Bell peppers and a little cream for jalfrezi. Granted they won't be authentic or as good as fresh-cooked to recipe, but they're sufficiently different to be interesting and won't take a couple of hours of prep and marinade to make.

    The whole lot is ready in the time it takes to boil the rice.

  19. Re:Back to my mac? on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... Except for the two Apple computers.

  20. Re:Can update on VPN Encryption Vulnerability On Android · · Score: 1

    ££££
    And yet this is the only website where this happens. Tell me again how I've somehow messed up the character encoding :)

    The ironic thing is that the sig's are parsed correctly; I had to add the à characters manually to illustrate the issue.

    After preview, it turns out that the comment parser messed up that character too, and now has a tilde instead of a circumflex.

  21. Re:Can update on VPN Encryption Vulnerability On Android · · Score: 1

    XDA Developers can help you with that. Unofficial CM releases, ports from other devices... Your device definitely has at least ICS available.

    My Desire HD has Jelly Bean, despite CM only supporting 2.3.

  22. Re:money boycott on Security Experts Call For Boycott of RSA Conference In NSA Protest · · Score: 1

    ... Unless you have an MBA.

  23. Re: Momentum on Security Expert: Yahoo's Email Encryption Needs Work · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Better Than Commercial Software? on CryptoLocker Gang Earns $30 Million In Just 100 Days · · Score: 1

    This is why I've recenly implemented offline backups. Previously we had overnight backups to files with a two week archive, but it was to online NAS devices. Now we have encrypted USB HDDs taken offsite each night.

    £300 for two of them; The same we'd pay for a CryptoLocker key.

  25. Re:Caching Servers on Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? · · Score: 1

    For Windows it's WSUS. It's a component of any Server OS, but I wouldn't like to run it on anything that ordinarily has any kind of workload. It's quite resource intensive.

    If this guy has EES licensing I can't see why they wouldn't use it