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  1. Re:Zero day? on Remote Linksys 0-Day Root Exploit Uncovered · · Score: 2

    An unpatched security vulnerability at that. You'll have just as much luck with this as getting people to understand the difference between a hacker and a cracker... and that's using the already warped definition of hacker from the media: goodddd luck.

  2. Re:WRT54GL on Remote Linksys 0-Day Root Exploit Uncovered · · Score: 2

    Good point, ignore all hyphens except for the 4th one, replace that with an a. On second thought, vocalize the hyphens for the sake of hilarity.

  3. Re:WRT54GL on Remote Linksys 0-Day Root Exploit Uncovered · · Score: 4, Informative

    People still run their 54gl's stock???

    Repeat after me: d-d--w-r-t

    Turns your router into something more like one of those fancy enterprise cisco routers. The 54gl is dd-wrt's 1st platform I believe (too lazy to look it up), so compatibility is bound to be around 100%.

  4. Re:God and Star Wars on How the Internet Makes the Improbable Into the New Normal · · Score: 1

    Your argument is absolutely devoid of logic...

    Do you realize jetliners are inspected pre and and post flight? Or that there's a lot more cars than jetliners?
    There's steps that can be taken to prevent school shootings, even if it's arming the teachers...
    But, car crashes and abuse? Everybody has to look only to themselves to prevent those and that'll never happen. Abuse is a dark side of human nature, car crashes are mostly coordination fails, whether sober or not. Perfect humanity and get rid of both and many other things, I'll be waiting for your solution to perfecting humanity in the meantime. Also, if jetliners were re-assembled every flight, and schools had automatic gun detecting turrets set up on all 4 corners, these things would find a way to still happen. So the media goes for the low-hanging fruit, that's still within bounds of human nature.

  5. Re:this is like trying to make people good drivers on Microsoft Patents Tech That Would Silence Your Phone For You · · Score: 1

    or... you can ignore those people... or you can accidentally trip over them, dislodge their cell phone and step on it... woops.

  6. Re:It's a disease on MIT Investigating School's Role In Swartz Suicide · · Score: 1

    Ummm no... External factors exemplify brain chemistry reactions. The only thing brain chemistry can per-determine is the magnitude of the effect of those external factors.

  7. What's wrong with... on Book Review: Super Scratch Programming Adventure! · · Score: 1

    Visual Basic flow charts? Oh right, this book got translated from Chinese, re-invent the wheel much?

    Srsly, we need to teach our kids to read properly first, math wouldn't hurt either, otherwise we'd just have a generation of retarded programmers with best practices being super-expensive primo code... oh wait I can profit here... carry on.

  8. Re:Sometimes the crowd is washed on How the Internet Makes the Improbable Into the New Normal · · Score: 1

    Good example... I remember watching AHV, somehow seeing somebody jump off the roof to break a table looks a lot different on the internet than on AHV, I'm sure there's a few reasons for this: comments, lack of introduction, no laughing audience. So, this is different imho, a more raw view into people doing stupid things with the filters removed...

  9. Do you guys realize... on Security Expert Says Java Vulnerability Could Take Years To Fix, Despite Patch · · Score: 1

    These vulnerabilities affect java applets right? How many java applets are "in the wild"? 10? Most java applets are in-house businesses task specific apps from what I've seen. Meaning if you're casually browsing the web and the JVM is on... turn it off you don't need it... wants to come on and you don't trust it, block it... standard web practices here.

  10. It's pretty, but completely impractical, it's literally wide open, you can't create a significant air flow and it might filter your air better than a hepa filter right before it overheats your components from the dust, but as I said it does look cool... just needs some finishing touches from somebody who understands a thing or about computer building. Also those pipes would be 10x cooler if they supported water cooling. Might as well right?

    For $399 I can easily get a full tower that has everything I just mentioned and most of those look pretty nifty too.

  11. Re:fix it later on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 1

    Lol, if you were a manager, you'd understand wtf a profit margin is and how dev hours are directly related to it, but it's ok you can wish... and I doubt anybody not on-call answers their manager at 3 AM, and if say theoretically a manager kept at it that's called harassment, an insta-term & possible lawsuit.

  12. Re:fix it later on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 1

    Right... but you want to get paid... don't you? I'm not saying it's a good, or efficient process, and only one particular project for a company I came on specifically for this project comes to mind, but sometimes you just gotta work around a retarded PM, and while from an intelligence, common sense, and logic perspective I agree with you wholeheartedly, this is the real world buddy and tough choices have to be made sometimes. When you have limited hours to complete something, and those hours have been under-estimated significantly either because of scope creep or in my case the PM knew absolutely nothing about the CMS we were trying to roll out for a client, you have to be ready to flex your hours to parts of the project where they're available, if you go over the allotted hours, that looks very very bad on your part... termination kind of bad.

    I'm not proud of it, but I do approach deadlines apathetically though, at the end of the day I care about what's in my bank account, not what a QA person thinks, and I definitely wouldn't make choices that compromise my employment status on the project... A lot of people though will just work through it with 60-80 hour work weeks towards the QC date to deliver an almost finished product with barely any bugs and then they have nothing to do for the week of QA bug fixing... seems like poor self-management to me.

  13. Re:Getting worse and worse on Making Earbuds That Fit (Video) · · Score: 1

    Let's approach that from the other angle... most slashdot users aren't competent enough to figure out how to block the video: here's one of a thousand methods: NoScript. I do agree though, most of the videos aren't worth watching, so another option is rather than stop publishing videos, stop publishing shitty videos, I can sympathize with that.

  14. Re:fix it later on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 1

    The external deadline is set after the QC hurdle obviously, so 2 weeks are flexed into the delivery time frame for QC in my example, 1 for reviews, the other for fixing, it has nothing to do with flexing the deadline, it's how we get to the deadline. If there's no bugs in that last week... party! But that NEVER happens in the real world. Also, you may find that "good project management" is almost a myth.

  15. Re:I dunno... on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    All it tests is boolean logic & basic multiplication... the fact that 95% of job applicants fail this... that's retarded. This type of program is featured in 1st year courses.

  16. Re:The Number One Impediment is MEETINGS on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Another issue is meetings in the middle of the day, nothing like working on something complex only to be dragged away to a meeting and coming back and having to restart a complex thought process.

  17. Re:fix it later on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So... nobody posting responses understands project management... which is ok I guess, but let's see if I can put it in lamens: A project has due dates called milestones, a milestone typically is a product ready for QC, another milestone is completion of QC, so if QC is expected to take a week and then you have another week to fix it, a smart programmer who is about to not meet a deadline should mash out as much code as possible to not get fired for missing the deadline and then take advantage of the extra week... I'm not saying to deliberately introduce bugs or ignore them, but an edge case scenario can be resolved later during QC, or if that float isn't lining up right... that's not as mission critical as not delivering.

  18. Re:Getting worse and worse on Making Earbuds That Fit (Video) · · Score: 1

    It would help your argument profusely to actually state what you find wrong with videos on slashdot, till then it sounds like you're whining / can't deal with change / have a very low bandwidth connection.

  19. Re:fix it later on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 2

    "I'll fix that bug later" is legit when you're already having trouble meeting a deadline, better to meet it with a buggy product and fix it during QC than not deliver.

  20. TFS on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 1, Interesting
  21. Re:Sounds Too Good to Be True ... on All New Homes In China Must Have Fiber Optic Internet Connections · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's a lot easier & cheaper to deploy infrastructure where there is none rather than replace existing infrastructure. It'll add cost to building the homes & laying the fiber, but it'll ultimately be a lot cheaper than doing it later. I'd like to see more countries follow suite actually minus the human rights problems that China always seems to be at the epicenter of.

  22. Re:I think I saw Halo? on Microsoft's Future of the Living Room Starring SuperTuxKart · · Score: 1

    So... anytime something like this, the kinect, etc... is about to be rolled out, you can safely assume that big game manufacturers aren't going to screw you over and big games will have support.... 90% of the time :)

  23. Karma on Online Gambling Site Bets On Bitcoin To Avoid U.S. Laws · · Score: 1

    indicting 11 people on charges of bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling

    Gambling period runs a very high profit margin, to try and increase that through illegal means is just well... messed up. The use of bitcoin shows that the owners of these websites will do just about anything for even potentially earning a buck.

  24. Re:Wooooo! on Foxconn Accused of Taking Bribes · · Score: 1

    You mean Chinese Manuf. & QC personnel don't care about American's well-being... who would've guessed.

  25. It can't be an underground complex on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too obvious...