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  1. Re:The craziness begins. on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 1

    What makes one a scientist?

  2. Re:Whoah, wait a minute... on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What conclusions are we supposed to draw from that? Well, other than that you don't know the difference between "land" and "sea".

  3. Re:"Contrary to what we were sometimes taught" on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 2

    Wowsers, I wonder what else in your high school physics was completely made up garbage. Because that one is a doozy!

  4. Re:Class justice on Grooveshark Found Guilty of Massive Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Do you really think google told it's employers to upload videos they don't have the rights to to youtube?

    Well really what you think is irrelevant, do you have any evidence that they did?

  5. Re:No he didn't on Man Walks Past Security Screening Staring At iPad, Causing Airport Evacuation · · Score: 1

    It isn't batshit panic overreaction mode. You have to re-screen everyone in the screened area - since he could have given something to someone else or dropped something for someone else to pick up. And of course search the screened area for that potential item. He might have snuck a bottle of water through after all!

    Simplest way to re-screen everyone is have everyone in the area leave it and then reenter it through the security screening. While you search the area.

    Of course the idea is not to let someone simply walk into the secure area and the blame lies with the people who let that happen not the guy who wasn't paying attention - you have to assume there's a complete idiot in any group of people after all.

  6. Re:Survival on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    So your suggestion is that everyone should build a hydro generator in their backyard? Along with a huge elevated water tank to pump to? That seems a remarkably stupid idea to me.

    Are you insane or just ignoring the context entirely in order to come across is insane?

  7. Re:What about legitimate uses? on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/usc...

    and no it doesn't apply to hammer makers, knife makers, phone makers, or of course to the government (don't you love it when they give themselves an explicit pass)

  8. So Ireland wins coming and going on Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe · · Score: 1

    They get whatever benefit they were getting for offering the low low taxes. And then later on they get to jack the tax rate retroactively and get the cash too.

    Well played.

  9. Re:not supposed to be on the web! on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 1

    If you assume you are not you are being an idiot.

    I'm sure people didn't think their DHCP client ran a bash script after injecting some remote data into the environment, as the obvious example.

    Do you run qmail? Oops, hopefully no users have a .qmail file.

    Exim or postfix? You've checked all the things they execute I take it, and all the things that those things execute and so on?

    Users using procmail? None of them have an exploitable match (or are adding one a minute after you checked them all)?

    If you admin a bunch of web servers are you sure that there isn't a CGI script somewhere? Are you sure it doesn't call system()/popen() anywhere?

  10. Re:Wiretapping laws still exist. on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 1

    "You have no expectation of "privacy" on someone else's property" - is a generic claim not specific to the case of a valet parking a car.

  11. Re:Wiretapping laws still exist. on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 1

    Since I wasn't replying to you post it's not surprising that you didn't make the statements I was replying to.

  12. Re:Wiretapping laws still exist. on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 1

    #1 - that's simply not how it works. Are you seriously claiming that it's ok for a restaurant owner to install hidden cameras in the toilets since the people using the toilets have no expectation of "privacy" on someone else's property?

    #2 - That's right. Video is fine. Audio is the problem.

     

  13. Re:Mod parent up. on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    And you amortize the four times you need to do that over the entire working year and the $1.25 or so each day it adds probably isn't such a huge deal.

  14. Re:Mod parent up. on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    It's a trade off. You pay the large taxi fares occasionally in order to not pay the larger expenses that come from owning a car. Whether that is a good choice or not depends on the relative costs of both options which will end up depending on just how often you need to use a taxi.

  15. Re:Mod parent up. on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    Surely your boss ask you to work on every single one of them. If so and you have no friends to get a lift from then sure relying on public transport in that particular situation probably wouldn't be wise.

    Back in the real world I've managed to keep a job for a decade without having a driving license.

  16. Re:Why is this a real problem? on Flurry of Scans Hint That Bash Vulnerability Could Already Be In the Wild · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't and that isn't the issue - anyone who has bash directly accessible as a cgi already had a security hole - well more a design...

    It's not that uncommon to have a cgi that grabs some data from a web form, validate that data, and then call some existing executable to actually do the work. Calling "sendmail" to send mail isn't exactly unheard of.

    As for DHCP I'd take the guess that the user would be root - given it will be configuring network devices and so on. But I don't care enough to check ...

  17. Re:"could be worse than Heartbleed" on Flurry of Scans Hint That Bash Vulnerability Could Already Be In the Wild · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't need to use bash as the cgi handler. You just have to execute bash from your cgi handler. Say by the system() function in the c library on a system where /bin/sh is bash.

    And of course connecting having your linux machine try and get an IP via DHCP is a vector.

  18. Re:Mod parent up. on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    There are these things called taxis...

  19. Re:more info on Kiriakou on Where Whistleblowers End Up Working · · Score: 1

    Given he is still in prison, no he isn't yet learning any of that yet.

  20. Re:Terrific counter to Monsanto's herbicide messag on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No that's because use huge amounts of natural gas (half a billion tonnes or so a year) to create nitrogen fertilizers. And even more pesticides.

    Which don't get me wrong, I'm all for. But modern farming sacrifices some land productivity in exchange for much higher labor productivity.

    We use tidy rows of monoculture because it allows extremely efficient harvesting, not because it has better yields.

  21. Re:Only CGI scripts affected? on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 1

    Or a CGI script written in a some other lanaguage - like python or perl - or a binary that is on a system with bash as the default shell and which calls the system function in libc (or an equivalent) since that will execute /bin/sh.

    There will be a lot of such cases - running a "mail" command or something from imagemagick and so on.

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

    Those are outcomes not opportunities. That there are female members of parliament and CEOs indicates that there is some opportunity (but not whether or not it is equal).

    It's pretty well known that Psychopaths make up a higher percentage of business and government leaders - and business more than government - than the they do in the general population. Psychopathy is also more common in men than women. So there's one possible (though unlikely to be the entire story) other explanation - psychopaths make better (taking better to mean more successful and measuring success merely by being there) CEOs and politicians, psychopaths are mostly men, those two factors that have nothing to do with "equal opportunities" result in the vast majority of CEOs and politicians being men.

  23. Re:solution to late refunds on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 1

    Overpaying your taxes is not a savings account; you don't get interest on your investment.

    Either do savings accounts... Well OK bank of america pays 0.01% which is more than nothing. Then again they also charge you $5/month to make up for it :)

    (and yes there are some mostly online banks that offer the absurdly high 1%)

  24. phds lower your employment chances on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? · · Score: 1

    Other than jobs in academia.

    Which someone must have mentioned when you started...

  25. Re:Just what apple does... on Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 · · Score: 1

    Are you retarded?

    Apple is a for profit company that exists in order to make money, currently it does that by selling iphones and ipads and so on. So yes, sales numbers are THE measure of success.