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  1. Re:Not vendor fragmentation on Fragmentation Leads To Android Insecurities · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is your old engine susceptible to remote control security bugs that can be activated by a teenager in Russia?

    Not everything is conducive to a car analogy.

  2. Re:Sooo on Parcel Sensor Knows When Your Delivery Has Been Dropped · · Score: 1

    For many shipping companies in the US they charge you by weight, not size, so they use very light, bulky shipping material and lots of it.

  3. Re:Existing non-electronic variant on Parcel Sensor Knows When Your Delivery Has Been Dropped · · Score: 1

    Sounds similar to Captan. My father used to install pipelines in Alberta and they used it to test for leaks. The farmers could smell that stuff from a mile away (literally). If you splashed it on your clothes, you BURN them!

  4. Re:We need broadband meter readers on Thumb On the Scale? Study Finds 5 of 7 Broadband Meters Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    Who the hell mods a 0-score post as "overrated"? And get your sarcasm meter checked, it's time for a humour top-up.

  5. Re:I Got It! on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    And even longer for him to remember!

  6. Re:I Got It! on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    That's why you have a COMPUTER which knows ALL 180k words generate the password FOR you!

  7. Re:Pre-fork OO on LibreOffice 4 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've found it to be more stable and support the Microsoft formats with less errors (for the few times I'm forced to use them). It also seems a LOT more responsive and 4.0 is supposed to be even more so. At this point there's really no reason not to.

  8. Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? on LibreOffice 4 Released · · Score: 1

    Then show us a virus that took advantage of Java.

  9. Re:If this can happen ... on Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles · · Score: 1

    Shaw (my provider) doesn't seem to care what you run on your network unless they get complaints that you've attacked somebody and even then I think it takes something fairly serious for them to even contact you. Telus (the only other backbone provider available here) explicitly blocks incoming connections to most low-numbered ports and there is NOTHING you can do about it without getting a business account and the prices for those aren't even listed, you have to phone them and get a quote.

  10. Re:If this can happen ... on Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles · · Score: 1

    My provider is Shaw which, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't rent from anyone (they are a backbone). The problem with co-location is that A) I don't trust having my hardware in someone else's building, B) I like to mix things up and don't want to have to phone someone if I screw up a firewall rule or a network configuration and C) I still need upload speed to get my data TO that location.

  11. Re:And this is why... on Linux-Friendly Mini PC Fast Enough For Steam Games · · Score: 1

    The only reason your games still run perfectly on that old 360 and PS3 is because the console versions have shitty graphics. If the PC version was only available up to the resolution of 720p, there would be riots. Most NEW games for the 360 and PS3 only go up to 720p, 1080p is actually very rare on consoles because you're framerate would be shit if they put it any higher.

  12. Re:And the point is? on Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping In October · · Score: 1

    A REAL ssh client for starters. The ones I've seen for Android and iPhone suck so harshly it's hard to quantify. Not only do they not run full screen in a terminal, they don't support port forwarding, remote X, tunelling, socks, etc.

    A proper package manager that lets you add your own PRIVATE repositories (and those of your friends, startups, etc).

    Proper VPN support.

    ALL of the above is available on the n900 that came out over 3 years ago and are still missing from all other mobile operating systems.

  13. Re:I'm sorry, but on Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping In October · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As someone with an n900, Android is not nearly as open as many people think.

  14. Re:The Gun Rights Argument on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 1

    I'm not a big supporter of gun rights here in the US but it just occurred to me that now I understand the argument that 'only people that have guns will be the criminals'.

    In this case, the only people with rootkits installed on their machines will be the law abiding citizens.

    PS: I assume they'll also make it illegal to remove a rootkit, so people that just care about their privacy instantly become criminals too.

    They already did.

  15. Re:I'm not going to apt-get it. on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not, that would probably make you guilty under bill C-32.

  16. Re:Hang them. Problem solved. on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'm partial to drawn and quartered.

  17. They can try that, I'll just tell them I circumvented nothing, their shit software failed to function properly.

  18. Re:I reserve the right to install and recommend Li on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 1

    And Linux, just as OSX and Windows, often assigns the root password to the first user's password

    I have NEVER seen a distro do this and I've worked with Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Debian, Mint, FreeBSD* and more. Unless you meant "sudo", but that is NOT root's password.

    * Not technically Linux, but uses almost identical security design.

  19. Re:Only over my dead body on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 1

    Now he's wearing a Harper suit! Come to think of it, he's been wearing that suit for while. It must be starting to smell by now...

  20. Re:Comes with Free SOPA/CISPA Style monitoring too on FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Not really, because the exit noted rotate regularly, so after a few seconds some OTHER exit node would be seeing the data.

  21. Re:Well, maybe the Indian site will end up on /b/ on Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between criminal law and tort law.

  22. Re:Why not use hydrogen? on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 1

    10,000 feet is less than 2 miles. I don't know about you, but I've never seen wind push solid metal at greater than a 45 degree angle.

  23. Re:Brilliant! on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 1

    I think pilots may object to having blimps tethered to their landing strips...

  24. Re:motion can handle most of things. on Ask Slashdot: Open-Source Forensic Surveillance Analysis Software? · · Score: 1

    You can also have it store full-quality of the last 3 days, then have a script down-grade it for long-term storage but keep "active" footage as high quality. Motion is nice because you can extend past what any of the designers originally considered.

  25. Re:Guilty until proven innocent on Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles · · Score: 1

    And if I could get upload speeds greater than 15mb/s I would be doing this right now. And FYI, that 15mb costs nearly $200/month in Canada.