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  1. Re:Arrest them! on Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    OK just cut of the power and wait for them to come out :-) or come back with a thermic lance or as its the police just lob teargas into the vents (the cops being allowed to use gas where military forces are not) .

    of course the classic way of solving the this sort of problem was done at Eben-Emael forts in WW2 was to use shaped charges to blow a hole.

  2. 12 hours is not going to solve any thing on Geeks On a Plane Proposed To Solve Global Tech Skills Crisis · · Score: 1

    12 hours is not going to sole the UK's problem that "engineers" and all of us with technical skills are considered greasy plebs" who will drip oil over the drawing room carpet.

    You not going to over turn hundreds of years of history in one flight.

  3. Why on Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices? · · Score: 1

    Well you know that they can get a warrant to force you to decrytpt it and to be honest if you driving on the public highway is there any reasonable reason why you would want to deny law enforcement access to it?

    Dashcams are by design to protect you from faked accident scams - try to hide your footage implies that you have been doing something naughty driving wise.

  4. Re:Android development kit on Ask Slashdot: Why Buy a Raspberry Pi When I Have a Perfectly Good Cellphone? · · Score: 1

    Yeh have you looked at PIC programing not exatly exactly kid or newbi friendly - and the pi effectively runs the full Linux experience arduinos and mobiles don't and if you can afford a smart phone and is monthly bill you can afford a pi.

  5. Re:total bolocks i am afraid. on Should Congress Telecommute? · · Score: 1

    Well true but lets not ask for the moon on a stick - you'd have to totally revisit the issue of states rights and radically reign your local government which has gotten totally out of hand.

    Applying the one question at a time might be a start - to stop the adding of riders to unrelated bills as would independent speakers for House and Congress ala the Uk

  6. Re:But think of the lobbyists... on Should Congress Telecommute? · · Score: 1
    not it would be easier to fix deals away from the spotlight of the Washington Village. as John Betjeman says
    I do some mild developing. The sort of place I need

    Is a quiet country market town that's rather run to seed

    A luncheon and a drink or two, a little savoir faire -

    I fix the Planning Officer, the Town Clerk and the Mayor.

  7. total bolocks i am afraid. on Should Congress Telecommute? · · Score: 1

    Polatics is not a fracking desk job a lot of politicking goes on both inside and outside the chambers - would you want your senator congressman to miss some pork for you home state because of his.

    Mr Pearce seems to be "away with the faeries" as they say in Scotland - some needs to arrange a recall vote asap he doesn't seem capable of representing his constituents.

  8. Latancy for wall street on World's Largest High-Rise Data Center Opens In New York · · Score: 1

    could be going after DR for banks on wall street or HFT trading

  9. Re:Why a data center for the building on World's Largest High-Rise Data Center Opens In New York · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Its an ex telco exchange/central office I suspect that the DC is where the switches used to be and they took advantage of the preexisting kit in the building diverse power/ cable routing etc I would suspect that the gen sets are low down on the 1st or ground floors so that refueling shouldn't be a problem - or they have pumps with enough head that can pump fuel up from street level to the generators or have a crane on top and lift up barrels that way.

  10. Re:Make it like state sales tax on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 1

    Some countrys have been issuing them for trial offenses such as "possession of 3 ecstasy tablets, theft of two car tyres, driving under the influence of alcohol where the limit was not significantly exceeded and theft of a piglet"

  11. Re:Make it like state sales tax on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 1

    Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to johnny hallyday.

  12. Re:Make it like state sales tax on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 1

    um in the entire EU - there are such things as EU arrest warrants and France has a inquisitorial system of Justice

  13. Re:Proportionate Response on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    err the USA does adhere to the laws of war and is a signatory to the Geneva conventions - the fact that the US hasn't signed up to the International Criminal Court is a different matter.

    The USA held off from bombing dams in Korea for this reason

  14. Re:Loosing Jobs on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: 1

    Well it was a cheap hotel :-) through there is a nice new conference center down by the docks now in Liverpool for conferences.

    Unfortunately the delegate from o2 who was ex 2parra and a member of the Territorial "them" wasn't there which would have been fun.

  15. Re:well Duh on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 2

    It was a BBC documentary series on the three main security services in the UK MI5 MI6 and GCHQ might be on NPR or BBC America some time

  16. Re:Loosing Jobs on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: 1

    Compared to what! I know that at one conference in Liverpool a conference an attendee was threatened with a knife by one of the local pimps in the hotel bar.

    And at another one one guy obviously a hardline Unionist in a discussion on the UKs broadband policy went on a rant about how the uk was a"Cristian country". which was a bit freaky for the catholic and those of us with mixed heritage.

  17. Re:A parallel on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    yes to give a real life example my father was bombed out of his house in WW2 the Luftwaffe was aiming for the big spitfire plant nearby at castle bromwitch - lucky he wasn't in the house at the time or I would not be here :-)

  18. Re:Proportionate Response on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    And in some cases is a war crime eg targeting hospitals power supply that would be a war crime under current law

  19. well Duh on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Yes obviously if attacks are of a serious level then eventually some one is going to go kinetic - taking out undersea cables using ROV's is doable for some countrys or a 2000kg Jdam on top of the countrys cable lading points.

    Or less serious have your man from universal exports / SAG group do a hardcore run and find the right manhole covers pour in diesel add polystyrene packing elements and a short delay fuse.

    In fact close reading of something the Foreign secretary said in a recent documentary on the SIS (MI6) recently implied that this had been done.

  20. Org NE No proffits on The Non-Profit .Org Registry Works Behind the Scenes (Video) · · Score: 1

    Oh dear the submitter seems to brought into the idea that .org is *only* for not for profits (and defend in the narrow USA only way) .org is for anything that didn't fit into the other TLD's - you want to ask Jamie Zawinski to hand back jwz.org?

    One of the front runners to run the .org registry failed when thy tried to exclude organizations like the red cross and oxfam from having .org as they are not nonprofits in the US sense and promptly got there ass handed to them.

    Disclaimer I used to work for poptel who built .coop and also bid for .org so i know something of the shenanigans that goes on at ICANT.

  21. Re:Dams? on Cyber War Manual Proposes Online Geneva Convention · · Score: 2

    That was prior to the current UN laws of war - the USA did not attack dams in Korea as there was debate about its legality.

  22. Re:So in a perfect world we wouldn't need it? on Schneier: Security Awareness Training 'a Waste of Time' · · Score: 1

    I doubt that BT security are quite so sanguine about security - I suspect that someone might be having a word :-)

    For those of you who haven't worked for BT (Bruce's employer) the Internal security team in British Telecom have a reputation for being a little intense.

  23. Re:There is no shortage of American talent on Code.org Documentary Serving Multiple Agendas? · · Score: 1

    no because Digital research blew off IBM when they came calling about CP/M

  24. Re:Libel Fines on UK Bloggers Could Face Libel Fines Unless Registered As Press · · Score: 1

    at the time the Millie Dowler facts came out (Tabloid hacks hacking into a murdered girls phone) the public wanted Rupert and Rebekah strung up from a lampost Mussolini style

  25. Re:Before you jump to defend freedom... on UK Bloggers Could Face Libel Fines Unless Registered As Press · · Score: 1

    its been going on for a long time much longer than a decade