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  1. Re:But they will eventually be caught. on Researchers Find Methods For Bypassing Google's Bouncer Android Security · · Score: 1

    And all of the sudden you simply forgot that no spammer ever sends the spams from his own computer, enforcing a send-mail tax would only hurt the millions of Windows users who are (unwilling and unknown to them) members of the spammers botnets.

  2. Re:Who would fall for a fee? on US Warns Users of Child-Porn Blackmail Ransomware · · Score: 1

    Yes, but we are talking about people that are not computer savvy. To them the whole computer is the hard drive. And since they also think that computers are magic, they probably believe that the message will reappaer on the new hard drive the instant it's installed.

  3. Re:Online voting on Kaspersky Calls For Cyber Weapons Convention · · Score: 1

    I could have a requirement that I would only buy your credentials if the envelope is still sealed so that I know that you haven't gotten a copy :)

  4. Re:Online voting on Kaspersky Calls For Cyber Weapons Convention · · Score: 1

    And with voting-several-times, I would of course force you to sell me your credentials so my minions can perform the online voting instead of you. So that is no real protection either.

  5. Re:Online voting on Kaspersky Calls For Cyber Weapons Convention · · Score: 1

    First you might now vote accoriding to your bumper sticker, you might live in an area where you have to pretend that you vote for X when you in secret vote for Y, and secondly an infected machine does not only collect your vote, it would of course have no problem to change your vote just like e-banking trojans work.

  6. Re:Online voting on Kaspersky Calls For Cyber Weapons Convention · · Score: 1

    To add to your list of problems, consider what would happen in families with a controlling spouse and online voting! And what would stop your employer from telling you how to vote if you want to keep your job and with online voting he's even able to see that you voted as he told you.
    Not to mention vote buying, with todays system you cannot buy votes since you cannot verify that they actually voted the way they told you, with online voting you can check yourself and thus this will enable large scale vote buying, script it and it won't even require a lot of resources.

  7. Re:Online voting on Kaspersky Calls For Cyber Weapons Convention · · Score: 1

    I don't know how it's done where you live but over here (Sweden) all the manual handling is performed by members from opposing parties so they will each monitor each other so to speak, and I as a citizen has every right to remain during the whole process and thus become an observer. Crashing that system would require quite a large amount of resources.
    It's not that mistakes and fraud doesn't happen with the current system, but the thing is that each such attempt has always been detected and reported due to how it's implemented. And that would be the hardest part to do with an online/electronic voting system.

  8. Re:Unity 2D on Google Talks About Its Ubuntu Experience · · Score: 4, Informative
  9. Re:Just turn off the car? on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    That's supposed to be part of the training that you do in order to get the drivers license, at least it is over here.

  10. Re:Hookers are a bad example for what you are argu on Egypt Banned Porn, But How Much of the Internet Is That? · · Score: 1

    That is exactly what happened here in Sweden. And the social workers who works with prostitutes are worried since they now no longer have contact with the prostitutes since they are hidden, there is great fears that this also means that they are worse threated by their pimps since the whole operation has gone way more underground.

  11. Re:Not smart Enough? on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: 1

    There's a very good book out there for you to read, The Legacy of Ashes - The History of the CIA. Once you read that (and it's based on the official CIA history documents) it's quite clear that any one who bases their actions on information from the US intelligence community does it wrong.

  12. Re:Bullshit metrics on Cambridge's Capsicum Framework Promises Efficient Security For UNIX/ChromeOS · · Score: 1

    No it's not a bullshit metric. Minimizing the amount of work the applications has to do in order to use the feature means less code that those applications coders can fuck up while the larger number of lines of code that is "under the hood" is shared so more work can be put into it in order to make it secure.

  13. Re:Considering how often Adderall is abused... on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 1

    How to discern? Well atleast here in Sweden when my boy was diagnosed with ADD he was put under close study during several weeks where they conducted several tests which outcome have nothing to do with discipline and parenting. In short it was very thourogh. And I guess that the same scheme could be applied in the US (and I think that it is in some places). Also I think that the abuse is highly overreted, you would have to consume some large amounts of these pills before you would even reach the levels drug users use when they misue Amphetamines. So another thing to stop abuse would be to monitor for those that consume their months supply in a single day.

  14. Re:backlash? on ACTA's EU Future In Doubt As Poland Suspends Ratification · · Score: 1

    What he as a person did is no longer relevant, symbols gets new meanings all the time.

  15. Re:backlash? on ACTA's EU Future In Doubt As Poland Suspends Ratification · · Score: 1

    In all the pictures of people with these masks they are simple cut outs from printed paper. I don't think any Anon at all buys these from some one who pays any license to WB.

  16. Re:No, the US has too much freedom for Apple. on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it Henry Ford who made sure that his workers where paid enough so that they could afford a Ford Model T themselves, which besides getting him business also meant that he attracted the very best labourours.

  17. Re:Tolkien's prose on JRR Tolkien Denied Nobel Due To Low Quality Prose · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And you found the other Nobel Price winners much more readable ;-) ?

  18. Re:Low quality plot too on JRR Tolkien Denied Nobel Due To Low Quality Prose · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And you always loose at Risk or Chess? Have you ever thought what a winged beast would do to your precious eagles, or what Sauron himself would do? There's a reason Tolken let a Hobbit sneak the ring into Mordor.

  19. No sream decoding? on Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update · · Score: 1

    So if I read this correctly then web applications programmers of today do process POST data like this:
    1. Web Server receives complete POST string, splits the string into its paramter=value pairs and inserts these into a hashmap
    2. The Web Service programmer then finds out which parameters where posted by issuing a lookup for each and every parameter the service knows about

    Is it really that bad? So the 2,0 programmers cannot process data as streams and act upon the data as it is processed?

  20. Re:Probably too late on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    The problem is the studios, AFAIK most cinemas don't even cover the licensing costs with the ticket sales and instead tries to make a profit on the snacks.

  21. Re:Get a clue Big Sis on Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater · · Score: 2

    You may have a point with #2 but how in the world can you declare that security screening doesn't scale linearly? It's a classic case of linear scaling!! Open two lines and you get twice the throughput since everything involved in the screening can be performed in parallel.

  22. Re: Unnecessary on Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed · · Score: 1

    Apparantly the binary format it there to support fields and log lines that normally wouldn't look nice as a single text row.

  23. Re:Yes software is expensive to develop on OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k · · Score: 1

    Exactly and one also has to consider that the contractor who build this app knew that the Gov would give away this app for free to x million users. If they had licensed it like say $1 per download, it would probably been far more expensive. But so many people doesn't understand that.

  24. Re:Man they screwed up! on LEGO Universe To Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Youi start to learn it at aprox age 9 but of course it will take some time before you start to learn enough to be able to read english comfortable. And children start to play with Lego way before their 9th birthday :)

  25. Re:Netbooks on Linux Mint 12 to Blend GNOMEs 2 & 3 · · Score: 1

    No this is a weakness in humans, there is no difference here if the source is open or not. Closed sourced applications share the exact same problem. The benefit we have with the open source is that people like the Mint developers actually can fork of Gnome and do with it what it likes.