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  1. Re:Hosts + 0.0.0.0 blocking address in front of on Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet (technet.com) · · Score: 1

    See subject, & these blocked addresses the dorknet botnet uses for C&C servers:

    0.0.0.0 timeinfo.pl 0.0.0.0 runescape.com

    Why apk no like runescape? It was a fun game 15 years ago, and still some people play it. Good thing I don't let you choose which games I'm allowed to play...

  2. Re:Sensible then not on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    My wife just tells me I give her headaches. No electronics needed.

    Strange, she just gives me head, no aches whatsoever.

  3. Re:Should've used protection. on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You have a similar situation with a lot of people even here on Slashdot claiming they can easily hear the difference between lossless music formats and a quality 320 kbps lossy codec encoding, when all the double blind tests shows otherwise.

    Uhhh, if you can't hear the difference it's probably because you aren't using the right equipment to carry the signal: http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-...

  4. Re:Should've used protection. on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That would be unethical, both because you're hawking fraudulent tests, but also because you're encouraging people to believe that their delusion is accepted by the medical community by dint of having a test for it.

    Not really. Everything in science starts out with a hypothesis, in this case yours is that this is a made up illness. You still need to test for it, if you just assume your hypothesis to be true then you are no more scientific than those you seek to judge.

    For me, the more ethical concern would be, what if this is a real thing? Would you support having children inhale peanuts to see if they have a peanut allergy? Though, as a mitigation, the claimed symptoms aren't deadly.

  5. Re:This is why protection by hosts = superior on Zero-Day Bugs In Numerous Modems/Routers Could Compromise Millions of Users (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    oh no.

  6. Re:Coren22 is this you quoted? Yes on HTTP/2.0 Opens Every New Connection It Makes With the Word 'PRISM' (jgc.org) · · Score: 1

    This is garbage. Literally this entire thread is APK spewing foam and cohen22 shooting him with a nerf gun.

  7. Re: Don't pirate software on Czech Judge Cuts Deal With Software Pirate: Get 200K YouTube Views Or Pay Huge Fine · · Score: 1

    That's not true at all. The US Government cannot hold copyright, everything it produces is either public domain or classified in some way. Classified documents/source are not subject to copyright.

  8. Somebody coded another piece of shit malware?

  9. Re:Princess Di is Wearing a New Dress on Cuban Talks Trash At Intel Extreme Masters, Drops $30K of F-Bombs For Charity (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    ^ ^ This, and more this.

  10. Re:GM producers are shooting themselves in the foo on FDA Signs Off On Genetically Modified Salmon Without Labeling (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I consider it to be a lot like "free range" or "cage free" eggs. Sure, the eggs are based mostly on what the chicken eats, which is independent on where it walks or how much room it is, but that's not what the consumer is paying more for. They are paying for the humane treatment.

    It's a matter of the value of life. For me, I love animals, I love nature. I also eat meat. I understand that the animals we don't like disappear, and those that we do get bred massively. We are playing God already deciding what animals live and what don't, and by supporting the meat industry, I'm supporting the lives and existence of these creatures.

    TFS states that they are breeding fish which will have shorter life spans. We are already depriving the creature of life in the end, but such is inevitable. We protect them from predators etc for a period of time, in exchange we eat them in the end. So how far can they take it? And these fish aren't isolated to these fish-farms, some will get out and breed with other fish. Now you've polluted the gene pool and salmon all over the world are dieing early -- what was once a "feature" is now a global catastrophe.

  11. "The Eagle has Landed"

    That is an encrypted statement, and without my decoder the 3-letter-folks are not able to understand it? And we're pretty sure the terrorists have spoken several of these words on several occasions, who knows what they could be saying? Speech needs to be banned NOW because it can contain nuances and double-meanings which prevent literal evaluation of the already-recorded conversations across the board!!

  12. Re:Could we quit with the stupid conf names? on Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    I went to OSCon heavily sponsored by Microsoft a few years back. Since Microsoft really doesn't have anything "Open Source", their input was basically a huge bar and a ton of crafts (like making bracelets, staining leather, etc). Pretty cool, Microsoft can actually do a really good job at things so long as it doesn't involve software.

  13. Re:The hilarity it keeps growing. on NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption In Paris Attacks · · Score: 1

    I saw something similar on the morning news... They blamed the attacks on "Going dark", sounded like they were reading directly from an FBI-issued memo on why encryption is killing the world.

  14. Is this news on When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Or nostalgia?

  15. if (uid == 0)

    to

    if (uid = 0)

    I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU POSTED THIS 0-DAY CODE ON HOW TO MITM SHA1! Did you even BOTHER to notify the correct people and give them the 90 days to correct such a mistake??

  16. Re:"senior research scientist" on Google Tries To Guess Your Email Responses (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Its like the daily show's "Senior blahblah Analyst" where blahblah = the subject at hand, whether it's "elections" or "toilet cleaning".

    They actually took that verbatim from news agencies. Have you ever watched "real" news? There's always the 'Local school female extramural involvement expert', and it almost always means that they maybe wrote a book that contained at least 2 words of intersect with the news title.

  17. Re:Lack of protection on Why the Snowden Situation Shows 'Protected Disclosure' Is Critical (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at what we've lost (????) and what we've gained: a lot. There is now awareness by the mass sheep of the USA, and an effort for politicians to want to actually want to be on OUR SIDE for once, to distance themselves from the now unpopular spies.Sure there was always spying, but you were tin foil hat to talk about it before. Now, some change is happening. This is why there is the "Freedom of press" that the Bill of Rights guarantees. If your only option to report this kind of stuff was the same corrupt government that's doing it, you'd get a free trip to Cuba so fast.... But you have the ability for make OTHERS talk about it, and when the information is published by someone who didn't acquire it, there is noone that the Government can directly hold accountable, other than everyone..

  18. Re:Coren22, tell us about Thomas Drake on Why the Snowden Situation Shows 'Protected Disclosure' Is Critical (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Cohen22 and apk are the same person: I confirmed this by using their hosts file. And something about AD and DNS.

  19. Re:Coren22's desperation, lies, & libel on TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why are you so angry? And also your garbage is constantly wasting screen space and resources. Can your hosts-file tool block your comments? Or does that require something special to block portions of a page from the same origin...

  20. Re:Linus rants about EVERYTHING on Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    For better or worse, Annie's always come out flavorless and watery as opposed to Kraft. Kind of a Pita.

    If you like the taste of Kraft but want the "organic", cut your cheese with about 40% flour.

  21. Re:The Commit Message on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 1

    My 3 year old laptop is 2.2 seconds from power button to gnome3 loaded. systemd really sped things up. I had to make some modifications to some of the services which were still too sys-v like and unnecessarily linear.

    Also, compiling your own kernel, even changing the compression on the initcpio is tunable.

    Archlinux did have for a while a feature for their init, where it's defined as an array (instead of that backwards-ass runlevels in the redhat world), and prefixing any of the services with "@" made it start in the background. That was enough to create simple chains and allow parallel startup, but you'd still always be "waiting" on the dependencies (like network). I'd be fine returning to that.

    What I really hate is not being able to just execute some script with arguments I want to give it, and have to use "systemctl" to do it. And then not getting output from that operation, and having to use "journalctl" to check logs. Get out of logging, keep logs in plaintext easy-to-find or on stdout and I can choose where to put it, stick with what works: The parallel execution portion. All this other crap like builtin watchdog support is just bloat. Do ONE THING do it WELL.

  22. What if on Engineers Create the Blackest Material Yet (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    What if.... they combined the blackest material ever, with the most metal material ever?!??

  23. Re:Amazing we didn't kill ourselves on How Nukes Were Almost Launched From Okinawa During Cuban Missile Crisis (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Unless, of course, the computer discovered that the way to win is to go first and hope the other player messes up.

    Guess you've never seen "War Games"...

  24. A license to hack? You need that now in Britain! What a police state. I've been hacking for decades. I honestly don't know if this is scarier than if they offered a "License to crack" people's systems as well..

  25. Re:How come THEY always get all the cool stuff? on Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    www.archlinux.org