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  1. Re: The average human being on Innocent Adults Are Easy To Convince They Committed a Serious Crime · · Score: 1

    The average human thinks they are better than average

  2. Re: Application installers suck. on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it can be called .... Appv

  3. Re: I don't think that's quite right. on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    That's is not correct, firefox, chrome are complex applications that can be installed locally (appUSER) without privileges so is github and. Spotify

  4. Re: Application installers suck. on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    You know .. RPMs can and do contain a packager script that runs on install and uninstall. The scripts run whatever they like with root Privledge. I don't get your point regarding Linux

  5. Re: Apparently Not on Samsung In Talks To Acquire Troubled BlackBerry For $7.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    Are you taking the ali baba shares held by yahoo into account

  6. Re: ... all in the name of "Allah" on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 1

    Indeed, that's funny / sad weird. The church sodomizing the communities children while upholding themselves as the moral guide for the community is what ? Continuing to follow uphold the church knowing they rape your kids is what ?

  7. Re:I skipped to the ending on Researchers Made a Fake Social Network To Infiltrate China's Internet Censors · · Score: 1

    Wow, how did this bit of nonsense get modded up.

    Chinese people are generally better informed about what is going on in the world than people in most other countries.

    Do you care to back this statement up? In what way are they better informed, and which countries fall into the "most other countries" category that are less informed than the Chinese public in general?

    I like what you did there, with the pointless yet seemingly going somewhere questions, can I try.

    I can only think of a few countries with more censorship then China.

    Do you care to back this statement up ? how many is a few countries ? which countries are they ?
    Do you care to back this statement up ? in what way is the censorship more in those countries, how is the censorship measured, where is your citation ?

    err probably made a mortal enemy for life, but though it was funny. !

    Information that the government prohibits (child porn, holocaust denialism, videos of journalist beheadings, etc)

    You're only one for three there. That's worse than dumb luck.

  8. Re:The problem with American Embargos on Russia Cracks Down On Public Wi-Fi; Oracle Blocks Java Downloads In Russia · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    absolutely wrong, this is about spheres of influence and by definition imperialism.
    US / NATO support and intervene in the breakup of Yugoslavia by bombing Serbia, to increase their sphere of influence
    Basque in Spain want independence, not supported
    Ireland independence, not supported, UK backed to continue military occupation.
    Syria support uprising, but not too much, 'cause the new mob probably doesn't like US
    Egypt support ... no idea, who knows what US policy is
    Iraq / Afghanistan invaded to increase US sphere of influence, the fact it back fired does not change the intent.

    give me an example of a moral US intervention that came at the expense of American, sphere of influence and/or interests.
    I think you are naive to think you are on the side of good battling evil, your side maybe lighter shade of grey and the other darker shade of grey. but don't let that stop you, as you do "good" I'm sure a lot of people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam appreciate the good done to them.

  9. Re:The problem with American Embargos on Russia Cracks Down On Public Wi-Fi; Oracle Blocks Java Downloads In Russia · · Score: 0

    "When was the last time the USA invaded and annexed part of a neighboring country? The 1800's? Russia did it this year."
    Grenada, Panama, Iraq, afghanistan raise their hands.

  10. Re:In their defence. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    right like a student working on the help desk part time, getting access to the dean's bank account or their email.
    yeah that would be a problem ... hang on, that's what you are enabling and defending.

  11. Re:Normal. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    I obviously would have no way of knowing what your skill level or seniority in the org
    so tell me what happens if I remove the certificate and try to connect to my bank via your school's network (after signing into the wifi) ?

  12. Re:Report it. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    as I've mentioned before, you may not question it.
    I need strong disclosure if you are intercepting my usename and password for paypal, bank, council, government accounts.
    I hope it is illegal to intercept someones bank credentials, and government login details, like council, medical

  13. Re:In their defence. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    why is there a need to filter the **content** of the traffic, is it not enough to block the destination.
    There are loads of block lists that would fllter on the destination type, anything from racial abhorrent content to newspapers.
    I call bull.

  14. Re:sneaky but..... on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    really? you are playing man in the middle for all the https websites out there? I find it hard to believe.
    how about the the username password for those websites, you are capturing username and password to banks, hotmail, gmail, facebook, paypal, ebay
    to capture and store that information you'd need some really strong and clear disclosures

  15. Re:Only if they reported it. on iPhone Users Sue AT&T For Letting Thieves Re-Activate Their Stolen Devices · · Score: 1

    I would like phone companies to brick and block stolen phones, however.
    the dmv is a gov org, the analagy here would be making petrol stations, not allow stolen cars to be refuled and calling the police.
    yet somehow that is not expected of perol stations.
    why is that ?

  16. Re:Well that depends... on NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use · · Score: 1

    if the _return_ traffic is throttled, does that not throttle the connection? a layer 8 conversations goes send a request, wait for a reply, get a reply, send another request.
    so if the reply is slow, I would think the whole conversation is slowed down, kind of a L8, tcp window size shrinking (excuse the mixed layers)

  17. Re:Already there on Securing Android For the Enterprise · · Score: 2, Funny

    The way it works is
    Server hey mr phone do you support activesync remote wipe?
    Phone sure do (ha ha ha ha)
    Server ok thank you, what about password policy?
    Phone sure whatever you want sweetie

    There are market apps they respond with yes and then bin the request
    So .... It does not count.

  18. Re:My anecdotal experience on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 2

    was the point to purge a GPL library by any chance?

  19. Re:But Java is secure! on Book Review: The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard For Java · · Score: 1

    The fact that it garbage-collects memory for you is not only convenient, but closes off a whole class of vulerabilities like double-free, that still plague C/C++ programmers.

    out of interest why does free not null out the pointer

  20. Re:Support them from your own money on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 1

    If you feel bad about leaching off redhat by using centos

    If you are less than 2,000 seats, the 2,000+ companies are leaching off you, cause redhat does not provide you with usefull support and keeps the 2,000+ companies happy by subsidizing their cost thru you.
    If you are using centos, you leaching off redhat's 2,000+ and 2,000 seats companies
    If you are 2,000+ seats company you are leaching off the sub 2,000 seats people.

    so you see, everyone leaches, the best position is either 2,000+ or centos. 0 - 2,000 seats you are screwed both ways.

  21. Re:Depends.... on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 1

    no way redhat support will be useful if you have less that a couple of thousand subscriptions.
    If you say they are then you have 10,000 subscriptions or you are a redhat 2 level support trolling.

  22. Re:Support them from your own money on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 1

    In my experience, redhat support for a company with less than 2,000 seats falls into a couple of scenarios.
    1. You call redhat, get lucky and you are told that the bug is known and getting worked on, i.e. a company with 2,000+ seats wants it fixed, and you benefitted little from calling redhat.
    2. You call Redhat, bang your head against a brick wall, the guy on the other end gets frustrated or palms you off, with a “I’ll create a bug report”, to the untrained eye, the bug report does not contain enough information for someone to actually fix it and it’s gone into a black hole.
    3. You call Redhat, you hit your head against a brick wall for a few days, finally the guy says, it’s a bug in mysql/apache/perl and we just package it, when they get round to fixing it and we get round to packaging it, the bug will be fixed
    4. You call redhat, you have simplified the problem to a very simple case, the guy does not get it, and after a lot of banging your head against a brick wall, you are told the way you are using the s/w is pushing it too far, you say well that’s how race conditions show themselves. Blank stare hang up.

  23. Re:No Thanks on Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java · · Score: 1

    really? you analysed the attack vectors and discovered the exploitation and looked at the numbers and the majority were java
    Then you rolled up your sleeves and walked around the dozen or so desktops in your company and uninstalled java.
    Is that the story, cause I call bullshit

    me sayz, help desk guys, removes java from pc, cause read something somewhere negative about java

  24. Re:Time to move on on Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java · · Score: 2

    what's this "feels heavy" that can not possibly be from a user POV, I've never heard a user talk about how heavy an app is!
    secondly what in the 3 monkeys do you mean by missing important UI hooks, like what ? html has very simple UI and look at gmail / gdocs. tell me a bit more about the important hooks vs say html or flash. or is that another "feeling"

  25. Re:microsoft had it right on Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7 · · Score: 1

    Have you considered that the reason firefox is releasing so frequently is so that they can get the microsoft cake?
    I mean if I got a cake every time I did a release, heck I'd release weekly, yummy cake.