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  1. Re:Fuck those guys on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Granted. But let's say that that you have an armed murderer in your house holding you at gunpoint. Would you rather that the police would be stampeding in or would you rather that they tried to negotiate with the murderer first?

    If the negotiations would fail you still have the full stampede option left, the assailant should be very very unstable if he executed you just by spotting the police (has it even ever happened?).

  2. What if you store some classified information on the phone that you know is secured by the password as long as the phone is locked. In that case you have no problem handing over the phone but might have a problem handing over the password.

    Or for whatever reason you might have, the important point here is that with the phone locked, YOU have a choice of giving away the password or not. With the phone unlocked you no longer have that choice. That's simply a fact of life and not the same as saying that this is highly important or not, just that it removes your choice.

  3. Of course he could say "hand over the password" but the difference is that I could refuse to do so. With this new locking scheme I no longer have that option. Yes I might be stupid to not hand over the password at gun point, but at least I have the choice.

  4. Re:#1 for speed and power, by far. Mustang, Ram, B on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    Yes but we are talking about infants here, how do they even know that cars means speed and power?

    *why do you belive that men who don't agree with you are imasculated? It's not like I believe that men who squat/deadlift/benchpress less than I do is less men than me just to take another stupid example.

  5. Re:Define "Threatened" and "Unwelcome" on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    The video-thing was done on VHS long before the Internet, but one of the more recent studies is here: (it's in swedish though) http://bada.hb.se/bitstream/23...

  6. Re:does the media cause biceps and boobs? hormones on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    So we men have a hormonal bias towards toy cars. Even at an age when our bodies produces no such hormones and when we also have no real clue what so ever what a car really does?

  7. Re:Define "Threatened" and "Unwelcome" on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    And they don't play with any friends what so ever? Note that I'm not trying to out you, I'm simply trying to be 100% sure that there was no outside bias that had anything to do with your kids behaviour. Add to that that we don't know how you our your wife treated your kids, the study from the kindergarten that I wrote about was real and not made up so even though you might think that you behaved exactly the same when your girl played with dolls/cars as you did with the boy, there is a slight chance that you didn't and even didn't know it.

    On the other hand there might not have been any outside bias what so ever and it just so happened that your boy preferred the car and your girl not. One cannot draw conclusions from a "study" with only two participants

    And why you bring in the battle scene is beyond me, didn't I write that men and women where different? It's just quite difficult to have a genetic bias towards a toy car in a species that evolved long before there where any cars and when the porpose of the car is not apparent for the child.

    Once you are grown up and really try to drive a car there might be a male bias towards driving due to the speed or what not, but that is not something that a small child have any idea of what so ever!

  8. Re:Define "Threatened" and "Unwelcome" on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    That was not what I said at all.

  9. Re:What's the point of the NSA knowing everything? on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 1

    It's probably not "sexy" enough for the NSA to bother.

  10. Re:Fuck those guys on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 1

    And how often does that happen in relation to there not beeing some unstable armed murderer on the other side?

    It also feels like an uneeded escalation of force. If the armed perp knows/suspects that the police will storm in and kill every one inside he has no incentive to not shoot the police on sight. In other countries however where the police doesn't act like in the US these kinds of things mostly don't happen at all, the perp knows that the police won't shoot him dead unless he provokes it so there is an incentive to behave. Also sentencing plays a role here, if the perp knows that he fill face the same jail time regardless of if he kills some people or not he has no incentive to deescalate the situation. As I understand it you have some states in the US that have the same punishment for holding hostages as killing the hostages?

  11. Re:Define "Threatened" and "Unwelcome" on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 2

    And you kept both completely shielded from any forms of media so that there was no way that they ever would associate cars with boys? Of course men and women are different but how on earth would boys be genetically biased towards cars?

    A kindergarten over here did a study some years ago where they videotaped how the staff interacted with the children. And to the staffs dismay they treated boys and girls completely different even though they believed themselves that they treated them equally. So the situation might be a little more complex than "boys and girls are different".

  12. Re:I must be missing something. on Windows 10 Enables Switching Between Desktop and Tablet Modes · · Score: 1

    How exactly considering that there is a close button on every window in both Unity and Gnome3?

  13. Re:Who's chips do they use? on BlackPhone, In Wake of Gemalto Fallout, Receives $50 Million In Funding · · Score: 1

    Isn't Blackphone to Blackphone voice and messingen supposed to be end to end encrypted? If so then it doesn't matter that the NSA has access to the GSM encryption code from the SIM since the phone encrypts the data before it is encrypted by the SIM.

  14. Re:But can we believe them? on Gemalto: NSA and GCHQ Probably Hacked Us, But Didn't Get SIM Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    They don't want writable SIMS out on the market, that is why. Of course they are they anyways just like you can buy illegal weapons and drugs but that is probably the main reason why they implemented the SIM standard to be "burn at the factory only".

  15. Re:New version! on Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons · · Score: 1

    Agreed, systemctl status is a big winner. Actually I think that in a few years time most admins will warm up to the idea and wonder what all the fuss was about.

  16. Re:New version! on Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons · · Score: 1

    I agree that binary logs is not something that I fancy either. I do however understand why he went that way since he want's to enable meta-data to the logging and also I must say that the log search in RHEL7 is lightning fast compared with grep and that it's nice to issue a "journalctl " and get all the syslog aswell as all the stderr and stdout from combined in one place.

  17. Re:New version! on Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons · · Score: 1

    Actually that would have been a great thing considering how horrible the EventLog in Windows are. Something like Journald would be heaven in comparison. And the people who compares the two have obviously never programmed against either.

  18. Re:New version! on Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons · · Score: 1

    The thing is that they cannot beat it with facts because the vast majority of these people wouldn't know systemd even if it hit them on the head. I bet a large percentage of them also isn't even Linux-users to begin with.

  19. Re:Red Hat on Linux Foundation: Bugs Can Be Made Shallow With Proper Funding · · Score: 0

    +1

  20. Re:What are the actual risks to your network? on Duplicate SSH Keys Put Tens of Thousands of Home Routers At Risk · · Score: 1

    They would need that anyway since each new ip would add another row so it's probably more that they wrote a single image to all devices instead of autogenerating a new ssh key upon first boot.

  21. Re:What are the actual risks to your network? on Duplicate SSH Keys Put Tens of Thousands of Home Routers At Risk · · Score: 1

    They probably will but ssh will force you to manually remove the key from the known_hosts file if the key doesn't match, atleast openssh does that.

  22. Re:Not the same as root user keys on Duplicate SSH Keys Put Tens of Thousands of Home Routers At Risk · · Score: 2

    No they cannot, they can pretend to be the device to some user though without ssh complaining that the key is wrong. If they use the same ip and if they somehow can get between the user and his router.

  23. Re:This is not a SSL matter on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Companies With Poor SSL Practices? · · Score: 1

    You seam to talk about something complete different from what the article is about. This is about a web store storing end users passwords in clear text in their database, not your internal system for employees or what ever. For a web store there is no reason what so ever to use the customer provided password for anything other than authenticating the user for the web service, all other access deeper in the system should use credentials set up between these services.

    And even for you set up there is no reason that some deep back end have to use the same password for user X than user X typed in when accessing the web service, if you must need per user passwords inside your system then let the system auto generated credentials upon account creation for b2b authentication.

  24. Re:Anyone can intercept SSH some of the time on Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry · · Score: 1

    Yes failing to properly validate that first warning is one really nasty way to open up for a MITM. Which is why when I built a competitor to Amazon EC2 I made the newly started instance to upload the ssh public key to the meta-server so customers could verify that the warning message matched what they could pull from the web service (always curious why Amazon never thought about that) since one doesn't have physical access to the server when running in "the cloud".

  25. Re:stupidest. revelation. ever. on The NSA Uses the Same Chat Protocol As Hackers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Didn't stop Snowden though :)