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  1. Re:Full Disclosure can be found on oss-security... on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 1

    Sigh.

    You don't have bash installed, which demonstrates absolutely NOTHING about the security of the OpenBSD bash port.

    I would have thought the OpenBSD advocates were shamed into silence after their heavily audited secure by default OS was vulnerable to Heartbleed....

  2. Re:Devices that dont work on Amazon Instant Video Now Available On Android · · Score: 2

    It's not something we could stop. I think the apk checks the devices and decides to install or not.

  3. This is why piracy is just and will flourish on BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    Content owners only need very limited rights so they can profit of their work for a short time.

    They certainly shouldn't have the right to deprive people of information, because they haven't paid, or because they didn't pay for a new media format, or because they are using a VPN!

    The more ridiclous these attempts to lock people from accessing information, the more they will be circumvented. Methods to circamvent will continue to improve, becoming ever more convenient until these idiot companies die or wise up.

    Donation model ONLY. Money paid gets a copy, maybe something extra cool, that's it. If you give a copy to someone or copy it to your computer you are not a criminal and should not be treated like one.

  4. Re:Chip and PIN on Banks Report Credit Card Breach At Home Depot · · Score: 1

    Why do you think that?

  5. Management is killing this game on Changing the Rules of a 15-Year-Old Game: Quake Live Update Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    Random bans for no reason yet the game is rampant with trolls and grievers. The company who manages the game is useless.

  6. Re:Prior art on Whole Organ Grown In Animal For First Time · · Score: 2

    No individual was ever an egg. The earliest the individual could said to be formed is at the zygote stage.

  7. Re:How many years could he be charged with? on WikiLeaks' Assange Hopes To Exit London Embassy "Soon" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you really so naive to think the law matters in a case like this?

  8. Re:Service in exchange for a free modem? on The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router · · Score: 3

    The word is 'American'. 'USA-ian' is a nonsense word trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

  9. Re:Corporate Cops, eh? on City of London Police Take Down Proxy Service Over Piracy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Summary is hyperbole. More votes come from corporations, but they are not a private police force.

  10. Re:Great. Now the sloth community... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    Imbecile. Check your arrogance and you will realize this is far from the first time you've been wrong, and that you could have been learning things all the while.

  11. Re: Wow ... on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    I may well have been wrong. I was under the impression the bank supplies the equipment (i.e. the card readers and pinpads) and therefore at least the core software to process those cards and authenticate them.

  12. Re: Wow ... on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    Really? Who do you think makes those Chase terminals? The Stores?

  13. Re:City of London Police =/= British Police on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 1

    I admit I did not read your links, because I have seen this same nonsense theory pop up on /. numerous times before, and have read those links in the past.

    The link and explanation RE the Common Council is interesting, thank you. Still, I only see evidence that this allows the corporations to have more influence over the City of London Police, it still is not the same thing as governing them.

    When people make that claim, they make it seem like rest of laws in the country have no influence on the CoL police, and that simply isn't true. They are still accountable to higher powers and laws.

    Do you have any information on arrestable offenses or crimes in The City of London that could not be made by the Metropolitan Police Force?

    Any practical evidence of the corporations influence on the City of London police force benefiting corporations over people?

    I think it's a terrible thing that corporations have this much influence on any police force, but I don't think it's fair to say they govern the police force. They are different things.

  14. Re:pre-crime on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you don't understand the difference between the executive branch and legislative branch.

    Of course, cites might help.

  15. Firewalls are overrated and misunderstood. on Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? · · Score: 2

    A firewall will not stop most attacks. A firewall has to allow traffic to the services that are permitted (duh), and so that open channel, attacking and exploiting the service is what will allow the attack.

    A firewall could not stop that by design.

    If an internet facing server is secure correctly, there is no need for a firewall in front of it.

    There is however a need for a firewall between the DMZ (which is where this server should be) and the internal network, to prevent access to the internal network in the event the server in the DMZ is compromised.

  16. Re:For domestic use only on Senate Bill Would Ban Most Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah. Why should they?

    Spying is what countries do on each other, even friendly countries.

    I'd like to see a stop to agreements like the five eyes bullshit, and I don't think the NSA needs to archive every single goddamn email and telephone call....but intercepting communications of people from other countries if there is due cause?

    No issue what so ever.

    And, if you as a private citizen have an issue, you can double up on security because you should assume people are trying to listen regardless. Hell, maybe even your own government is doing the listening.

  17. Re:pre-crime on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 1

    No, they are governed by the law. Corporations have more sway in elections, that isn't the same as governing the police force.

  18. Re:$7142.85 on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    The only ignorant people here are those trying to insist there opinion, having been through Apple's RDF, is somehow objectively correct.

  19. Re:City of London Police =/= British Police on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 1

    That means little. Corporations are often set up for bookkeeping or other reasons. It's disingenuous to use that as evidence that the City of London police force is corrupt and run by "corporations".

  20. Re:Great. Now the sloth community... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    No, you're generally proved incorrect and are just too arrogant to realize it.

    Your post history is available at http://slashdot.org/~Zero__Kelvin, FYI.

    And yes, that is post history, and no, it isn't limited to your last 25 posts.

    Here you can see your posts 10 pages in : http://slashdot.org/users2.pl?page=10&uid=151819&view=userhomepage&fhfilter=%22home%3AZero__Kelvin%22

    And that argument with Xest? Idiot armchair lawyer didn't understand the law as much as he thought he did. I showed him to be wrong, but he just couldn't listen.

    Ahh, I love arrogant IT people who can't admit when they're wrong. It's just so amusing.

  21. Re: Wow ... on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The bank supplies Apple's POS software, so the bank is on the hook.

    Pretty simple really.

  22. Re:City of London Police =/= British Police on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 1

    They are a police force specific to a small area, that doesn't mean they are governed by corporations.

  23. Re:pre-crime on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 1

    This nonsense again. No conspiracy theory here, and the police force is not run by corporations.

  24. Re:Great. Now the sloth community... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    People only need to look at your post history to see more often than not you don't know what your talking about, and you're certainly not in any position to admonish others.

    If Linus does have a point, he can make it professionally instead of ranting like a scorned child. If he isn't capable that, than he isn't qualified to lead.

  25. Re:Could it be Micro$oft ... on Australian Electoral Commission Refuses To Release Vote Counting Source Code · · Score: 1

    Probably missing something, but why do you need a sepereate system to track vote results> Could the system that tracks votes not just do a tally...