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  1. Re:A fix already exists. on FBI's Top Cyber-cop Says We're Losing the War Against Hackers · · Score: 1

    That does not make systems secure. It makes them less buggy. Not all security breaches are due to silly things like buffer overflows. Higher level issues like properly managing who has access to what are involved, too. Things like lost laptops that don't have everything (and I mean EVERYTHING), encrypted, are part of the problem. Security is not about just bug free code ... it's the process of how you do everything.

    Now if only they could do that with a programming language that doesn't suck.

  2. It's 4 AM on FBI's Top Cyber-cop Says We're Losing the War Against Hackers · · Score: 1

    Do you know where your data is?

  3. Congress did not intent for this on Counterterrorism Agents Were Told They Could Suspend the Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... since Congress could have put exceptions in the law for them, but did not.

  4. I still disagree with the delays on Taking Down DNSChanger: A First Person Account · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There should have been a period of time to do the notifications with the DNS running "normally". At the end of that (no extension), change the DNS servers so they return an IP for ALL domains that directs everything to a single page that tells them that their computers and/or network is infected, and they need to contact a security consultant, their ISP, or a specified contact at the FBI. After that time, the DNS should go dead (route those IPs into a blackhole). That all should have been overwith by now. There's no justification to delay further for stupid people.

  5. So all I need to do to my enemies is ... on Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes · · Score: 0

    ... send them some encrypted kiddie porn and tell them it's a new game if they can figure out how to crack it. Then call the cops and say this guy had something really vile showing on his phone screen.

  6. Re:Obligatory hipster comment on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    It's the scale of the thing. Far far more people want to go than there are tickets/space. Google needs to hire out a football field plus its parking lot. Hell ... BUILD a football field complete with server farms under the stands.

  7. Re:no scalping on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Buy it in the name of a legitimate company prefixed with "designated employeee of".

  8. Re:Solution for Next Year on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    OMG! That means there's going to be an influx of 488 people trying to join Google+ in the same month!

  9. Re:For such a smart company, Google is STUPID on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    You and me ... we can start our own company ... hire smart people that hate the advertising model. Anonymous Cowards, Inc.

  10. Re:rationing high-demand slots on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    I would think Google would want to base the tickets on how active people are on Google+ and how INactive they are on Facebook (no doubt they have a way to track that down). Yeah, I'd even use Google+ for some swag.

  11. Re:Please don't attend on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    So just go to a judge and have your name legally changed to "Anonymous Coward".

  12. Re:Why make this event so exclusive? on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Apparently Google wants hackers to attend this year.

  13. Re:Hey Vic on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    And don't forget "Anonymous Coward".

  14. Re:Easy Solution to the end of ticket scalpers! on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Let the queued buyers click an option to offer to pay the added processing cost.

  15. Re:Good thing (sort of) on UK MPs Threaten New Laws If Google Won't Censor Search · · Score: 2

    Remember, the colonies revolted and don't have this problem.

  16. So when will Slashdot be on IPv6? on Akamai To Offer IPv6 To All In April · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So when will Slashdot be on IPv6? Inquiring minds and nefarious hackers want to know.

  17. Re:Hopefully? on Getting the Most Out of SSH · · Score: 1

    I just use SSH to make my VPN. See the -w option.

  18. Re:1920x1080 on Windows 8 and Screen Resolution: WXGA Still Most Popular · · Score: 1

    The HDTV market has made "attractor wells" in the pricing curves. 1920x1080 panels are way cheaper than 1920x1200. That and many people do want an exact 16x9 monitor so it can view 16x9 video without black bars or lost pixels and at the correct aspect ratio.

  19. Re:Above 1920x1200 ?!? on Windows 8 and Screen Resolution: WXGA Still Most Popular · · Score: 1

    The HDTV market drove down panel prices in certain specific sizes, like 1920x1080. Other sizes around those remained expensive because fewer manufacturers wanted to do those. So even 1920x1200 is a big jump in price. When UDTV comes out, then it will probably give us 4096x1728 (cinema 4K) and maybe one common scaled down size of that.

  20. Re:WTF is WXGA?! on Windows 8 and Screen Resolution: WXGA Still Most Popular · · Score: 2

    Just because it has been around for a while does not make it the best way. It's simpler to just give the numbers, like in 1920x1200.

  21. That hole across the top front on Amiga Returns With Lackluster Linux-Powered Mini PC · · Score: 1

    What's that big hole across the top front? I hope it's an SD/SDHC/SDXC slot.

  22. Re:I'm intrigued on Disaster Strikes Norwegian Government Web Portal · · Score: 2

    All the URLs look alike because the login ID is in cookies, and the cache wasn't set to figure in the cookie state.

  23. Re:Some key points on Disaster Strikes Norwegian Government Web Portal · · Score: 1

    That doesn't necessarily mean final acceptance and payment tendered. Maybe that is the case. But in many contracts like this, there's a live test phase clause, too.

  24. Re:erm... whoops? on Disaster Strikes Norwegian Government Web Portal · · Score: 1

    Improper caching could have happened if the URLs were not unique. But caching in this case is just so wrong. And rarely is it even right. Static data can simply be preloaded in a server as streamlined as a cache would be, and those get delivered at cache speeds. Dynamic data should not be cached except in the browser, and even that with a short expire (5 minutes max).

  25. Business model on Disaster Strikes Norwegian Government Web Portal · · Score: 0

    Slap together some web system pieces without considering what goes with what, and charge a naive socialist government $200 million for it.