Slashdot Mirror


User: SJHillman

SJHillman's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
3,106
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 3,106

  1. Re:I don't get it. on Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? · · Score: 1

    So if I posted "I caused the Holocaust" that's suddenly evidence? It may be potentially relevant, but I'd hardly call it evidence in its own right

  2. Re:I don't get it. on Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? · · Score: 1

    How is this evidence of a crime?

  3. Re:DUI, collision, no jail time? on Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do realize that for most of the US, the nearest public transportation is several days walk?

  4. Re:Probably on Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? · · Score: 1

    Nor do most states

  5. Re:Analogy overload on Inside Look At Eastern European Vs. East Asian Hackers · · Score: 1

    Oooooor more people on Slashdot (a tech site) are familiar with Apple than an old space program, a former world power, diamonds or politics.

  6. Re:Misread on Inside Look At Eastern European Vs. East Asian Hackers · · Score: 2

    On second thought, it still makes sense.

    "Much of the talk about cybercrime remains focused on East Asia. But according to a new report, it is hookers in Eastern Europe that have actually emerged as more sophisticated. In a report entitled 'Peter the Great vs. Sun Tzu' ... compared hookers from the two regions. His conclusion — the Eastern Europeans are far more insidious and strategic. While East Asian groups tend to work for other organizations interested in their skills, hookers from Eastern Europe generally operate in small, independent units, and are focused on profit. Their infrastructure tends to be developed by them specifically for their own use in attacks. 'They [Eastern European groups] tend to want to be in control of their entire infrastructure and will routinely set up their own servers for use in attacks, develop their own DNS servers to route traffic and create sophisticated traffic directional systems used in their attacks,' according to the report. 'If they do go outside, they will carefully select bulletproof hosts to support their infrastructure. It is their hallmark to maintain control of the whole stack similar to the business models pioneered by Apple.'""

  7. Misread on Inside Look At Eastern European Vs. East Asian Hackers · · Score: 3, Funny

    I only opened this because I misread "hackers" as "hookers"

  8. Re:Good news for Libre Office! on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    It also mangles a lot of my DOCX files... changes the formatting just enough to screw up anything that's not just text.

  9. Re:Windows RT + Office on Leak Hints Windows 8 Tablets May Be Dearer Than Makes Sense · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Trialware is great and all, but I'd hardly call it a feature if you have to pay for the 'upgrade'

  10. Re:And how will this on Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia · · Score: 1

    This was my first thought, as my girlfriend knows to expect something shiny in the relatively near future

  11. Re:The perils of programmers marrying on The Perils of Developers Hooking Up · · Score: 5, Funny

    Babies have scope creep written all over them.

  12. Re:Waaay to much money for those things on Roomba Celebrates 10 Years of Cleaning Up After You · · Score: 2

    When a regular vacuum can be modified to autonomously clean a room with just a few extra motors and a battery, then it would be worth a 20% markup. Also, a lot of mid to higher end traditional vacuums sell in the same price range as the Roomba - although I can't say where on the scale the Roomba's quality falls.

  13. Re:Good on Spoken Commands Crash Bank Phone Lines · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't mind a lot of the entirely automated systems (although some are horrible), nor do I mind waiting for a human. However, it's the hybrid systems where you go through anywhere from five to twenty layers of prompts only to be connected to a human who then asks you all of the same questions as the automated system that I really hate.

  14. Re:Mass of Sun on Astronomers Fix the Astronomical Unit · · Score: 2

    Dr. Tom's sense of self-importance is bending space around him. Be careful you don't get sucked in. Once you cross the ego's event horizon, not even snarkiness can escape.

  15. Re:Distance remains the same? on Astronomers Fix the Astronomical Unit · · Score: 1

    Assuming the sun as at the center of the ellipse - which I believe it isn't in this case. So it's right roughly once a year.

  16. Re:let's not waste significant digits! on Astronomers Fix the Astronomical Unit · · Score: 2

    Most of the time, 150 gigameters will probably be close enough, similar as to how 300,000 km/s is "close enough" to the speed of light for many things or 3.1415 is "close enough" to pi for many things.

  17. Re:Personally? on RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why not just use IPv9

    RFC 1606: http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1606.txt

  18. Re:Memory on University Team Builds Lego and Raspberry Pi Cluster · · Score: 1

    When it's absolutely necessary to differentiate, use "primary storage" (typically RAM) and "secondary storage" (typically hard disk). After all, VRAM is essentially just using a secondary storage device for primary storage. RAMDISK is essentially using a primary storage device as secondary storage. The lines get pretty blurry if you try to say a specific physical device is only used as primary or secondary storage.

  19. Other games? on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is this known to be the case for any other games? IE: Diablo III?

  20. Re:Romney waived a red flag on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except there was no electronic vault. As the summary quite clearly states, someone broke/snuck into the building and made copies. I'm not even sure where the term "hacker" comes in here... maybe just because they want to be paid in bitcoins?

    "Romney’s 1040 tax returns were taken from the PWC office 8/25/2012 by gaining access to the third floor via a gentleman working on the 3rd floor of the building. Once on the 3rd floor, the team moved down the stairs to the 2nd floor and setup shop in an empty office room. During the night, suite 260 was entered, and all available 1040 tax forms for Romney were copied. A package was sent to the PWC on suite 260 with a flash drive containing a copy of the 1040 files, plus copies were sent to the Democratic office in the county and copies were sent to the GOP office in the county at the beginning of the week also containing flash drives with copies of Romney’s tax returns before 2010. A scanned signature image for Mitt Romney from the 1040 forms were scanned and included with the packages, taken from earlier 1040 tax forms gathered and stored on the flash drives."

  21. Re:One would hope on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    Most people on the street have never heard of bitcoins - hell, most people in IT have never heard of them. I wouldn't call them idiots for that particular reason (not to say there aren't plenty of others). As it is, I barely have an understanding of exactly how they're supposed to work.

  22. Re:Then I've evolved to not buy EA games... on EA Exec Won't Green Light Any Single Player-Only Games · · Score: 1

    I like multiplayer for FPS games, but when it comes to strategy (real time or turn based), I very very rarely play against people. RPGs I tend to mostly play on my own, but its sometimes fun to have friends play too.

  23. Re:Some kind of dupe on 35 Years Later, Voyager 1 Is Heading For the Stars · · Score: 2

    Won't be very long? Voyager won't be near another star system for roughly 350,000 years. That's more than 30 times the length of recorded history.

  24. Re:A trail of breadcrumbs on 35 Years Later, Voyager 1 Is Heading For the Stars · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Odds are that they'll run out of fuel long before we lose communication and/or a relay craft could catch up enough to make a difference. They estimate about eight years left.

  25. Re:2020? on 35 Years Later, Voyager 1 Is Heading For the Stars · · Score: 1

    It's nuclear powered, so I believe it's just enough fuel to maintain its current minimal levels of operation until 2020, after which it will be little more than a chunk of metal floating through space.