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  1. Re:How does this work? on Honeywords — Honeypot Passwords · · Score: 2

    An adversary who steals a file of hashed pass-words and inverts the hash function cannot tell if he has found the password or a honeyword.

    Nevermind it was in the second link. Basically the attacker gets a 1 in 3 chance on each login of tripping alarm when logging in. Stronger passwords would stand out from the honeywords though if the honeywords are weak passwords. If honeywords are strong passwords then weak passwords would stand out.

  2. How does this work? on Honeywords — Honeypot Passwords · · Score: 1

    If I make a copy of the password database and place it on my machine then how will an alarm reach the admins?

  3. Re:Fourth Amendment on US DOJ Say They Don't Need Warrants For E-Mail, Chats · · Score: 1

    False equivalence - An email is a direct communication between two parties, whereas facebook posts and tweets are publicly posted.

    Facebook posts are not public when you choose to make them visible only to friends. Twitter also has the option to limit your tweets to people you approve. Since you are acting as a gatekeeper this content has an expectation of privacy.

  4. Re:Fourth Amendment on US DOJ Say They Don't Need Warrants For E-Mail, Chats · · Score: 1

    Anything protected by password has an expectation of privacy. If I set Facebook to only show my posts to freinds then those posts are private. Emails they intercept that are unencrypted might be considered public. (except that Congress has made it law that a warrent is needed for emial less than 180 days old) So those unencrypted emails sent over the wire are private by statute.

  5. Re:Nope on US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27 · · Score: 1

    It matters in that Americas values have changed. This is no longer a frontier country where settlers eat each other during the winter. Where people go west and are never seen again by their families. There is no colony for us to send our oppressed, hungry, tired, and poor. We have to deal with the problems we create. Ignoring things is a recipe for revolution and chaos.

  6. Nope on US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27 · · Score: 1

    America was built on selling land we stole from native americans.

  7. Re:Purchase should always be an option on Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only · · Score: 1

    They didn't have a true purchase option before though. They restricted you from selling your software. They also did things to encourage people to upgrade. This is a more honest and transparent.

  8. Grade School on A Case For a Software Testing Undergrad Major · · Score: 1

    It's about starting kids on a path that will take them through the remaining 70 years of their lives

    No that is what grade school is for. By the time your 18 your a little to old to learn life leasons.

  9. Re:They should call it on Google Seeks 'Do-No-Discoverable-Evil' Patent · · Score: 1

    Google Shut Up
    Since it warns people they wrote something bad before they hit send. Red underline for spelling mistakes. Green underline for grammar mistakes. Purple underline for homophobia. Gold underline for fraud.

  10. Proofreading on Google Seeks 'Do-No-Discoverable-Evil' Patent · · Score: 1
    Not sure how well their invention works when the have mistakes in the patent. Maybe they should have a person read these things.

    As businesses glow, the number of documents in a business rises exponentially

  11. Re:The numbers are really off. on Pentagon Approval of iOS and Samsung KNOX Is Bad News for BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    Could be a multi year projection. IE they will plan to need 8 million phones over 5 years. More likely it is just padded number or curuption.

  12. Source Code on Pentagon Approval of iOS and Samsung KNOX Is Bad News for BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    Has Blackberry given the Pentagon access to their source code? With Android the Pentagon can create their own distro.

  13. Re:A Taste of Your Own Medicine on Warner Bros. Sued By Meme Creators Over Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Name of the cat is not pop tart cat. So trademark is not a problem. You can't copyright food. So copyright isn't a problem.

  14. UML - designer not programmer on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle a Colleague's Sloppy Work? · · Score: 1

    Could be a system that generates code based on UML diagrams. Such as IBM Rational Software Architect. Basic idea is to flowchart important stuff. Get it approved by buisness. Then pass the generated code onto junior developers. Designed more for waterfall projects than agile projects.

  15. Re:Target market on Is Google Glass Too Nerdy For the Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    4 markets
    3) Profesionals such as security guards and police who don't care about your comfort. Just by wearing these they can communicate "Hey You! You are in a public place and we are watching you!
    4) Sales people who want to identify people and bring up data about potential customers. Also usefull for looking up prices and inventory. Sales people already look like dorks.

  16. Re:Not just fashion on Is Google Glass Too Nerdy For the Mainstream? · · Score: 0

    Man people with eyes and ears are rude creepy an invasive. How dare they look at people and remember what they see. Think of the billions of "victims" who lost their job or went to jail after someone saw them do something "bad" in "public".

  17. Pepper Spray on Is Google Glass Too Nerdy For the Mainstream? · · Score: 2

    A product doesn't have to be used by 1 billion people to be successfull. Not everyone carries around pepper spray but it is still a big industry. Even if Google Glass is only used by security guards, police officers, dectectives, tabloid jurnalists, and debt collectors is will be a success. It just needs to be usefull to a fraction of the population to make a ton of money.

  18. Re:9th amendment on Variably Sunny: SCOTUS Allows Local FOIA Restrictions · · Score: 1

    It grants powers to the federal goverement. Anything not explicity granted is prohibited by the federal goverment. State constitutions grant powers to state goverment.

  19. Re:9th amendment on Variably Sunny: SCOTUS Allows Local FOIA Restrictions · · Score: 1

    How does this ignore the 9th amendment? The constitution restricts the federal goverement not state goverment. Some things restrict state goverment because of the 14th amendment. But FOIA requests are not an equal protection issue unless states try to withould information about a protected group.

  20. Re:I'll say the same thing I've been saying on Paul Thurrot Predicts November Debut, $500 Tag For Xbox 720 · · Score: 1

    A PC

    You mean the console where you can't buy games, only rent them?

    Really? You are saying there are ZERO games that can be bought for the PC? Or are you just being a troll?

    He is not being a Troll. There is alot of DRM on PC games. Many things purchased on Steam or Origen can not be resold. I can purchase a PS3 game in a store and sell it the next day at gamestop. I purchase a PC game and there is a code in the box that ties the game to an account. All kinds of wierd DRM has been packaged with PC games. Everything from always online to rootkits.

  21. Re:Is that really the problem? on Overconfidence: Why You Suck At Making Development Time Estimates · · Score: 2
  22. Re:Estimation is a losing game. on Overconfidence: Why You Suck At Making Development Time Estimates · · Score: 1

    nah to win your estimate only needs to be within 10% of your estimate. If you estimate 40 hours management is going to be happy between 36 and 44. between 20 and 80 hours no one wins. At 360 hours you lose.

  23. Re:Level of Detail on Overconfidence: Why You Suck At Making Development Time Estimates · · Score: 1

    I estimate that my estimate will take 40 hours for small projects and 3 months for long projects. It will only take me 40 hours after my estimate is done on the three month estimate to finish the program. It will take me 8 hours to finish the project after my 40 hour estimate. Multiply what I give you by 3.

  24. Re:Meaningless Summary/quote on Overconfidence: Why You Suck At Making Development Time Estimates · · Score: 1

    I think the article is saying most people are not experts but rather confident proffesionals. They know how to do their job. They can program the thing your asking them to do. But this doesn't make them expert estimators. To estimate properly you need to be collecting data on yourself. You need to be basing your predictions on that recorded record. You need to be looking at the acuracy of your previous predictions and providing a margin of error based on data. To be a true expert that margin of error needs to be consistantly low.

  25. Re:Scotty Principal... on Overconfidence: Why You Suck At Making Development Time Estimates · · Score: 1

    But what if you think it will take an hour, say three, and then take four hours? Most people are already padding their estimates and the estimates are still low.