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  1. Re:Security? on World Bank Under Cybersiege In "Unprecedented Crisis" · · Score: 1

    There is anywhere from a 100 to 1000 hackers/crackers/slimeballs out there that are ready and willing to take on each and every system.

    Im not sure if you mean there are 100 times as many hackers as systems or that there are only 1000 hackers in the world, either way this marks the point where I stopped taking your post seriously

    Ones that claim to be "secure" are just a bigger target. There is no such thing as a completely "secure" system that is usable and accessible by ordinary humans.

    True security would require controlled physical access, multiple authenticating factors, and so on. None of this is going to happen for an accessible system usable by "ordinary humans".

    Why should the world bank allow complete system access to ordinary humans?

    About all that is realistic is to minimize the damages. Face the fact that if you are a target you are going to lose. Try not to lose too much.

    With a sane system of authentication, you can prevent anybody from outside your buildings gaining full access to your systems, at most they could get access to what you need to let particular users have. Now a determined hacker may be able to use a fresh exploit to get more access than they should, but that should set of some alarms (if your running a bank, possibly actual alarms).

  2. Re:Fox is like the National Enquirer on World Bank Under Cybersiege In "Unprecedented Crisis" · · Score: 1

    No because its generally complete bollocks.
    The whitehouse was giving them the angles for their "news" stories for months!
    Fox banned The Simpsons ripping into Fox News because "viewers may confuse the clip for real news"
    They cut to commercials when a 12 year old south Oestetian disagrees with their "facts" (she was fucking there)
    Bill "we'll fucking do it live" O'riely thinks he needs to clarify to his viewer that black people eat (wtf did they think before)

    This isnt just about being partisan, it's about not liking shitty "news" sources ( huffington post / salon / 236 are no better)

  3. Re:Fox is like the National Enquirer on World Bank Under Cybersiege In "Unprecedented Crisis" · · Score: 1

    I find the pining the blame on china fairly amusing, giving that only 2 attacks came from there, surely the attack came from wherever none of the attacks. Im guessing the guys hacking into the world bank arnt skript kiddies and would launch all their attacks from botnets to make sure they dont get caught. What worries me is that TFS makes it sound like they knew about the break ins but didnt shut the system down, I mean if you found your bank had been broken into surely you wouldn't just keep business as usual on Monday.

    However because i cant find a reputable source carrying this story I'm not sure this is the case.

  4. Re:This is a huge amount of work on Linux 2.6.27 Out · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Did you bother reading the bug report:

    ...it seems linked to the HDA Intel chipset, although I do not have this problem in Fedora or PCLinuxOS."

    Its a ubuntu problem not a kernel problem, i would have guessed it was pulseaudio/alsa problem and not a kernel based problem too.

  5. Re:See what happens when you put Hillary Clinton's on Algorithms Can Make You Pretty · · Score: 1

    my guess is that shifts the face into something aproimating the golden ratio, the database of similar faces is probably to stop it making really wierd faces that result from simply stretching the face

  6. Re:How convenient! on Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over · · Score: 3, Interesting

    More importantly personality (e.g intelligence creativity etc) is at best weakly genetical, so human "evolution" becomes less about biology and more about sociology.

  7. Re:Munificent free market discredited on Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Im note sure which of the panels of my poster is most applicable

    AMERICAN ECOWNOMICS
    You have two cows.
    You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
    Latter you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.

    ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM:
    You have two cows.
    You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt-equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
    The milk rights of the six cows are transferred through an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
    The Enron annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
    The public buys you bull

    Either way the argument that capitalism protects individuals died with ford

  8. Re:McCain on Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    It didn't disappear it was just full of long words that your average American would think were elitist, so he moved it and replaced it with a dumbed down version. I belive the original can be found somewhere on the site.

  9. Re:conundrum on Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    they are about to put one of the principle actors in causing the problem in charge of solving it... because he is promising something for nothing.

    yeah and the other actor voted with the current president 95% of the time.

  10. Re:Both sides... on Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Yeah its working out pretty badly for European countries like Spain that told banks to set asides money for bad loans as far back as 1999, damn communists!!!

    Here in England we pay more taxes (something like 40% of wages) but the actual quality of life is pretty much the same as that in America, only nobody has to lose their home because they get ill. And having "red ken" as mayor of London really held the city back Financial city rankings

  11. Re:Both sides... on Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Margarete thatcher
    Winston Churchill
    Tony Blair
    An average European
    An average Australian? (murdoc excluded obviously)

    Oh and if your looking for people that are less religious nut jobs palin, id start with Pope Benedict XVI work you way through most historical figures (both mythical/real).

  12. Re:Both sides... on Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    s/liberal/world/g
    s/liberal/European/g

  13. Re:Both sides... on Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    yeah a law to protect the net from telco abuse, is stupid.
    But a law to protect a cluster of cells from medical use is sooo great?

  14. Re:Isn't it true... on Odd Planet Confuses Scientists · · Score: 1

    Not really, planets don't move at relativistic speeds. However according to you standard physics text books trains do. Oh and TFS said 4 days not hours

  15. Re:Hold on a minute here... on Odd Planet Confuses Scientists · · Score: 1

    given that the entire planet is appearing smaller than it should be, could it not just be further away?

  16. Re:"What is going on with MySQL?" on David Axmark Resigns From Sun · · Score: 1

    looks to me like sun are trying to make mysql good for buisnes (bug fix it and add features that sound good to buisness) which doesn't get anybody laid so nobody really wants to work on it anymore.

  17. Re:Small problem on Obama Beats McCain In Spam Landslide · · Score: 1

    Im not suprised you have trouble sorting what comes through, if you cant manage a simple delete *@barakobama.com rule with your email client of choice. personally i signed up to his spam service but as soon as i unsubscribed they stopped bothering me .

  18. Re:Maybe the media is what he wants. on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 1

    *A full brain would have done something useful/funny with the account.
    Id guess that she'd use the yahoo account to sign up for stuff, with a few password resets and a bit of guesswork it wouldn't have been to hard to get a shitload free condoms delivered to here house or get her a subscription to New Scientist or buy her a copy of Jurassic park (i mean seriously if your not going to believe in something, don't believe in periods or something lame, dinosaurs are fucking cool)

  19. Re:Maybe the media is what he wants. on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 1

    stop using the word moron, you cunt!

  20. Re:hurp on Prevent Gmail From Emailing Under the Influence · · Score: 1

    you also make it a PITA to use. Isn't that where long passwords fail?

  21. Re:Firefox isn't helping on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 1

    Encrypted TCP would solve the eavesdropping problem (mostly, not totally)

    only it doesnt, a MITM attack can easily defeat the entire scheme with a single forged dns request.

    unencypted data is unenecrypted so can be tampered with
    this can be set to unencrypted or compromised by MITM
    self-signed ssh is vulnerable to MITM attacks as unencrypted
    ssh is secure but underused

  22. Re:Firefox isn't helping on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 1

    or provide a warning when using the lesser security so that users are aware of whats going on???

  23. Re:I dunno.. on 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    hey ubuntu has that feature too, well actually ot throws the hissy fit when i try and restore, but either way im glad im not missing out on ms goodness.

  24. Re:website for nerds, not norms on How Mobile Phones Work Behind the Scenes · · Score: 1

    not RTFA yet, but id guess its because as soon as you make the connection to the tower you are connected to your service proider and they send you the data.

  25. Re:Yay on UK's Loughborough Uni Demos Hydrogen Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    Nah this is just Loughborough, think of this as a slashvertisment. Loughborough is a fairly average university over here, that spends A LOT on advertising to big up its name, but its no red brick.