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  1. Re:Inevitable... on Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze · · Score: 1

    is this a serious question? do you honestly need an answer to the question of "if a thief gets in a poorly defended bank, who is overwhelmingly at fault?" is your moral compass so broken?

    See how quickly the moral compass can spin when we change the nature of the "victim"? In this case we're talking about a transit company funded (at least in part) by tax payers with the losses directly impacting other users instead of some bloke who's now short a plasma TV.

  2. Re:Roombas with flame throwers on Ask Slashdot: State of the Art In DIY Security Systems? · · Score: 1

    He's probably saving those for his houseboat.

  3. Re:Real Geeks... on Ask Slashdot: State of the Art In DIY Security Systems? · · Score: 1

    Or you could really scare the crap out of them!

  4. Re:Umm no. on Ask Slashdot: State of the Art In DIY Security Systems? · · Score: 1

    Time to automate the house and set up the alarm to turn on everything when it gets triggered. I'm talking lights, tv, stereo, alarm clocks and more!

  5. Re:Oh great. And when will they fix their crap? on YouTube Goes 4K — and VP9 — At CES · · Score: 1

    2 ways I've found to force it to a higher resolution are to "pause, adjust, unpause" or "adjust, rewind 3 seconds". Both seem to work for me, though it is VERY annoying when the resolution "resets" when clicking a link :(

  6. Re:Oh great. And when will they fix their crap? on YouTube Goes 4K — and VP9 — At CES · · Score: 1

    Are you using your ISP's usenet mirror? If so, those are often not subject to the same throttling as the upstream stuff.

  7. Re:THIS is fantastic news! From the article... on YouTube Goes 4K — and VP9 — At CES · · Score: 1

    Which part of free licensing didn't you get? Vimeo, College Humour, ustream, etc are all free to implement it whenever they want. About the only thing stopping them at this point is bandwidth and its about fucking time something came out that would put pressure on the ISP's to build proper pipes.

  8. Re:Still 3K$ for a monitor on YouTube Goes 4K — and VP9 — At CES · · Score: 1

    I'm actually genuinely curious what type of card you need to run non-gaming (maybe some blender) at 4K. I don't have much interest in high-quality gaming, but would LOVE to put websites, code, monitoring software, feeds, etc on a single display. I haven't bought a video card in years and really don't know what it would take.

  9. Re:Still 3K$ for a monitor on YouTube Goes 4K — and VP9 — At CES · · Score: 4, Informative

    Too bad the monitor doesn't use DisplayPort, then it could be running at 4K with 60Hz with no problem for over half a decade.

  10. Re:My password is printed on the side of my router on Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you brought theory to a practical fight.

    No, he brought an anecdote. The theory is sound. Wifi can not penetrate the rebar in concrete.

    FTFY

  11. Re:CLI's Are Not Walled? on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 1

    Now if only it supported any filesystems shared by both Linux and Windows that can store a 4GB+ file...

  12. Re:And great quotes... on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    Depending on the situation, he may receive financial compensation. While it won't replace the instruments, it's better than nothing.

  13. Re:Not cans on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your beer sucks.

    Try our water, it should taste more familiar.

  14. Re:Next! on Unencrypted Windows Crash Reports a Blueprint For Attackers · · Score: 1

    All of which could still easily be done if the reports were sent encrypted or over encrypted channels.

  15. Re:dogs deficate not staring into the sun on Dogs Defecate In Alignment With Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That's slower than the speed of light...

    You don't say!

  16. Re:Kinda cool on Earth's Orbit Reshapes Sea Floor · · Score: 1

    What they've done is found another source of historical data that may be able to shed light on things we haven't yet been able to figure out. For instance, large impacts (say from meteorites) could possibly cause enough of a change in these "grooves" to give us more accurate time-lines of things like the end of the dinosaurs. Tectonic plate activity may also be recorded in the grooves. And I'm sure some very smart person in the future will study these grooves and discover something nobody had even considered before.

  17. Re:call them on Ask Slashdot: Getting an Uncooperative Website To Delete One's Account? · · Score: 1

    We run an online business from Canada and pay for from-the-door pickup with Canada Post. We often get a "you have a large package waiting at the post office" ticket in our mail. Since the tickets never say anything about the package (size, weight, origin, etc), you have NO idea what it is until you drive to the post office, stand in line and get the package. Every month one of these "packages" is the Canada Post Catalogue which we immediately throw in the recycling bin. We have tried opting out of this, but apparently having a business account basically guarantees this monthly waste of time.

  18. Re:Open source? on The Startling Array of Hacking Tools In NSA's Armory · · Score: 1

    You mean like the trojan that was in OpenSSH for 2 days?

    FTFY.

  19. Re:Open source? on The Startling Array of Hacking Tools In NSA's Armory · · Score: 2

    One thing you can use to increase the strength of OTP is extra data. They may not be able to crack the code, but they may be able to get an idea of the type of data it is by its length and the size of the key source (alpha only, alpha-num, etc).

  20. Re:No Wine for Me on Run Netflix On OpenSUSE · · Score: 1

    None of which helps anyone running mainstream desktop/laptop Linux distributions.

  21. Re:seems a little bit sloppy on Privacy Advocate Jacob Appelbaum Reports Break-In Of Berlin Apartment · · Score: 1

    Oh, of course there are many physical security measures you could take. Hell, you could lock the whole computer in a safe if you really wanted to. I just wanted to point out that full disk encryption has some fairly simple workarounds.

  22. Re:Why was he there? on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 1

    You do realize Kilbride was only sentenced to 4 years right?

  23. Re:Ergonomic distance to screen on Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display · · Score: 1

    Laser printers can only print in black or white.

    What color is the rock you've been living under?

  24. Re:DPI on Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display · · Score: 1

    So you're intentionally wasting pixels instead of adjusting the DPI like we should have been able to do years ago?

  25. Re:DPI on Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display · · Score: 1

    It does if the low screen resolution makes those tools unreadable at such a small size (which could be fixed with a higher resolution).