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  1. Re:The games on Sony Agrees To $17.75m Settlement For 2011 PSN Attack · · Score: 1

    >ModNationRacers

    Is there a worse racing game?

  2. Ouch! on Sony Agrees To $17.75m Settlement For 2011 PSN Attack · · Score: 2

    That's going to hurt Sony's bottom line.

  3. Re:What about those of us who aren't sure anymore? on For Half, Degrees In Computing, Math, Or Stats Lead To Other Jobs · · Score: 2

    >You've clearly never worked in security.
    Quick! Someone is wrong on the internet.

  4. Re:What about those of us who aren't sure anymore? on For Half, Degrees In Computing, Math, Or Stats Lead To Other Jobs · · Score: 1

    I feel your pain.

  5. Re:What about those of us who aren't sure anymore? on For Half, Degrees In Computing, Math, Or Stats Lead To Other Jobs · · Score: 1

    How does pushing paper ensure a system is secure?

  6. Re:Bob: So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch on The Department of Homeland Security Needs Its Own Edward Snowden · · Score: 1

    Fix the glitch. Just like Milton's payroll issue.

    That didn't end well, iirc.

    He got his stapler back in the end.

  7. Re:Thank Google, not Verizon on Verizon Boosts FiOS Uploads To Match Downloads · · Score: 1

    Probably not a large percentage.

    FWIW, It's my job. I could use the company network, but big corps make it difficult/bureaucratic to put up servers or push such large files without IT's alarms going off and having to be managed. It's a reasonable compromise to walk it out of the building and serve it from my Fios at home.

  8. Re:Thank Google, not Verizon on Verizon Boosts FiOS Uploads To Match Downloads · · Score: 1

    It's not backup. It's sampled data for analysis. It's not a background operation.

  9. Re:Not on Arrakis on UEA Research Shows Oceans Vital For Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Yup.

    From what I've read, it seems that plate tectonics have something to do with bringing water to the surface, so it might be a more co-dependent relationship between P.T., oceans and continents.

  10. Re:Not on Arrakis on UEA Research Shows Oceans Vital For Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    That's why I said surface water.

    My statements wouldn't apply to a realistic scenario with underground water.

  11. Re:Expensive? on How One School District Handled Rolling Out 20,000 iPads · · Score: 1

    Just put the PDFs on a website for parents and school children to download.
    Also put the source files up so that people can enhance the texts.

    All US schools seem to have a web site, so the incremental cost of distribution is close to $0.

    >Your proposal then requires the school boards to fund such productions
    Minus the cost of paying huge sums to the publishers. The savings will accrue pretty darn quickly.

  12. Re:Expensive? on How One School District Handled Rolling Out 20,000 iPads · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >textbooks were $50-100+ a piece

    They cost that because the publishers are in a nice corruption loop with the school boards.

    The school boards bless particular books from particular publishers and the publishers update the books each year so they have to be re-purchased. Unknown benefits flow from the publishers to the school board members.

    Obviously it would be cheaper for education districts to band together and commission their own textbooks that cost $0 to distribute once written. But the school boards are strangely disinterested in this option.

  13. Re:DON'T PANIC on Researcher Finds Hidden Data-Dumping Services In iOS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try BeOS.
    Not a high profile target for the feds, the police or the Russian mob.

  14. Re:Thank Google, not Verizon on Verizon Boosts FiOS Uploads To Match Downloads · · Score: 1

    >I personally don't see what the point of Gigabit speeds at home are.

    Moving data. When I'm moving a 1TB file of binary data, I would prefer I didn't have to leave it running overnight.
    I do this every few weeks. As it stands I usually end up using walknet with a hard disk, but that doesn't work when the onward journey is to the other side of the county.

  15. Re:Not on Arrakis on UEA Research Shows Oceans Vital For Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 2

    > BTW, if you averaged all the elevations on earth, none of it would be above the level of the ocean.

    This would be true of any planet with any amount of surface water.
    Given a perfect sphere, the water is just going to spread out and cover it.

    You can't go around leveling the land without impacting the water level. They are linked.

  16. Re:Warrants are supposed to be narrow on New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account · · Score: 1

    I'm not a money launderer, but if I was, I think my laundering channel would be pretty well hidden.

    Maybe if I didn't know how to set up such a channel, I wouldn't be gainfully employed in computer security and would have to turn to money laundering.

  17. Swampland! on UEA Research Shows Oceans Vital For Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 3, Funny

    This makes sense. The University of East Anglia exists in swampland that is slowly sinking while the sea is slowly rising. It's halfway to ocean already.

  18. Re:Symmetrical? on Verizon Boosts FiOS Uploads To Match Downloads · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Wouldn't be awesome of Netflix enabled a P2P client on the Verizon network? They should do it. The technology exists. It would be glorious.

    If Netflix won't do it, the hackerites will do it for them sooner or later. They should get on it.

  19. Re:Free market economy on US Senator Blasts Microsoft's H-1B Push As It Lays 18,000 Off Workers · · Score: 0

    That raises the question, why aren't you using begging the question incorrectly like all other good upstanding 'muricans?

  20. Re:Free market economy on US Senator Blasts Microsoft's H-1B Push As It Lays 18,000 Off Workers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Begging the question:

    Please please please question, don't hit me!

  21. Re:Are they forgetting that this is the UK? on UK Government Faces Lawsuit Over Emergency Surveillance Bill · · Score: 4, Informative

    there is no constitution in the UK

    False. It's just not a "written constitution" - IOW it is a body of tradition that everyone recognises, along with certain Acts which are regarded as more important than others (especially relevant when the law conflicts, as normally the later would just cancel out the earlier).

    Consider: If there were no constitution, what would be the legal basis for Parliamentary supremacy?

    It's a system of threats and balances. The queen grants a constitutional basis to the parliament and the parliament grants continued existence to the queen. It's worked quite well since Cromwell. Much more stable than these new fangled republics.

  22. Re: Your Results Will Vary on Math, Programming, and Language Learning · · Score: 2

    My diet is what made me well rounded.

  23. 3 Employees Needed on Ask Slashdot: How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need? · · Score: 1

    They need 3 employees

    1 To cancel the recurring pizza delivery order
    1 To hit the start button to stop the computer.
    1 To turn out the lights

  24. Re:Shocked I am! Shocked! on LibreSSL PRNG Vulnerability Patched · · Score: 1

    I have heard enough. Feel free to stop digging.

  25. Re:Shocked I am! Shocked! on LibreSSL PRNG Vulnerability Patched · · Score: 1

    >So, it generates prime numbers and does some math between them. If that is a security product, so is everything else capable of producing that kind of output - it includes both Excel and the C language, as an example.

    I didn't know C and Excel had a native X.509 parser and cert management built into the language. I'll run and check my copy and K&R, but I'm pretty sure it's not in there. That's why libraries like openssl exist.

    >Define "recently"
    In the last two years. Deployed in the main stream in that last year.

    >and "greatly"
    Gave the option of using local high rate entropy sources to ensure consistency in the random numbers from it's service interface.

    OpenSSL is a mess in many ways, but if you ignore the problems the openssl writers solved, you're doomed to recreate them in your own library.