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  1. Re:I dont get it on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    Apparently, in Ukraine the president can be removed by the parliament (if not, the disposed president should have raised the issue with the supreme / constitutional courts, but this has not happened).

    It could not happen since the new government revoked the constitutional court (which as far as I understand is not allowed by the constitution).

    What we have seen is a revolution, which means the older constitution does not apply anymore, and one territory decided it was therefore not bound anymore to the new rules

  2. Re:What an open source baseband can be. on Ubuntu Phone Isn't Important Enough To Demand an Open Source Baseband · · Score: 1

    Hackers can workaround proprietary software. Did you hear about reverse engineering?

  3. Now wifi? on Electric 'Thinking Cap' Controls Learning Speed · · Score: 1

    It would be nice to try out with an alternative 2.4 GHz electric field.

  4. Class warfare on Silicon Valley Anti-Poaching Cartel Went Beyond a Few Tech Firms · · Score: 1

    What a good example of class warfare! Those company fight each other every day, with dozens of patent lawsuits, but when it comes to limit worker wealth, they manage to work together.

  5. Re:Its an interesting situation. on Ask Slashdot: Moving From Tech Support To Development? · · Score: 1

    A great majority of jobs ask for so many techs, there may be one or two people on the planet that qualify.

    But they would not be selected because they would be too expensive.

  6. More widespread than just LA? on L.A. Police: All Cars In L.A. Are Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    Summary says:

    Taken to an extreme, the agencies' arguments would allow law enforcement to conduct around-the-clock surveillance on every aspect of our lives and store those records indefinitely

    I thought it was already the case. Why did the NSA built a new datacenter in Utah?

  7. Disaster recovery on Why US Gov't Retirement Involves a Hole in the Ground Near Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    I am not shocked by the use of paper. It works, and it has a very good record on the data leak front.

    However there is a problem with disaster recovery. What happens if paper burns or is flooded?

  8. Re:EAP? on WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" · · Score: 1

    If one device has commercial CA configured, and it does not check the CN, this means that any certificate obtained from a valid CA can be used to highjack EAP. It looks like a rather severe vulnerability.

  9. Re:EAP? on WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" · · Score: 1

    Attackers after all can buy SSL certs the same as you or I.

    But AFAIK, there is no preloaded CA for EAP. You install only the CA of your organization, which narrows the opportunities to have a valid certificate.

    But indeed if someone steals any certificate you signed with the installed CA, an attack is possible. That advocates for using a sub-CA, or a dedicated CA just for EAP.

  10. Re:EAP? on WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" · · Score: 1

    You mean that clients do not check proper certificate signature by the CA?

  11. EAP? on WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" · · Score: 1

    I understand this is about recovering the PSK. This would mean that authentication using a certificate, such as EAP-TTLS is still safe. Correct?

  12. Re: Well done, Vladimir! on Russian Civil Law Changed By Wikimedia · · Score: 2

    Russia is able to grant asylum to Snowden, while China wanted him to leave Hong Kong to avoid upsetting the US too much.

  13. 2.6 trillions? on Earth Barely Dodged Solar Blast In 2012 · · Score: 1

    I am glad to discover that natural disasters cost less than made-made subprimes mortgage crisis.

    Capitalism remains the biggest threat to itself.

  14. Re:Opportunistic TLS for SMTP? on Gmail Goes HTTPS Only For All Connections · · Score: 1

    If your side does not support TLSv1.2, then Google favors RC4 cipher to thwart BEAST vulnerability. There is only one RC4 cipher that brings PFS: ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA. It uses Ellipitic curve cryptography. If you do not support it, nor you support TLSv1.2, you will not get PFS from Google.

    The goal is to avoid BEAST, but RC4 is weak, and PFS is highly desirable.

  15. Valuable employee on Working with Real-Time Analytics as a Service (Video) · · Score: 2

    Summary says

    the more you know about functions in your company besides IT (such as finance, investor relations, and -- yes -- marketing), the more valuable you are as an employee.

    Call them old-fashioned, but some employers actually prefer employees to focus on their area of expertise. If there is something to know about other fields, the employers has other experts that will tell what is needed.

  16. In other words on Nate Silver's New Site Stirs Climate Controversy · · Score: 1

    When I wander around with eyes closed, I hit my head on walls. It is not because my eyes are closed, but because there are too many walls.

  17. Re:Not so easy to do on Scientists Publish Letter Saying, "We Need More Scientific Mavericks" · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the problem is the whole grant system. The money could be directly allocated to laboratories. After all, if they exist, it means the structure that host them decided they have some value. Why do we have to evaluate them twice?

  18. isolate control systems from the Internet. on Is Analog the Fix For Cyber Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    Editor or submitter said

    isolate control systems from the Internet.

    Stuxnet has shown that it is not enough. You can still be infected by an USB key.

  19. Destroying is easy on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    Russia is not the only one that could turn US into dust. Any nuclear power could do the same: UK, France and China all have nuclear heads and the capability to send them anywhere. Destroying is easy, after all.

    But nobody could turn the US into dust without being destroyed too within minutes, hence nobody would even seriously think about doing it. This is just bragging for the medias.

  20. Backups on How Data Storage Has Grown In the Past 60 Years · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, backup capacity does not scale as storage does, network throughput being a common bottleneck.

  21. Unix shell on Ask Slashdot: Best Management Interface On an IT Appliance? · · Score: 1

    NetBSD (or Linux if that is your faith) on a soerkis box. UI is a Unix Shell. What else?

  22. Re:sshh! on Why San Francisco Is the New Renaissance Florence · · Score: 1

    You have a room in Pere Lachaise cemetery? At least it must be quiet.

  23. ownCloud ODF support on Ask Slashdot: Easiest To Use Multi-User Map Editing? · · Score: 1

    Recently owncloud started offering collaborative editing of ODF documents. I am not sure it can do .odg, but if it does, it may be used for maps. SVG suport would be even better, though.

  24. Re:Faith? There are better reasons to reject athei on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    In a nutshell, there is a process, you do not understand how it came into existence and therefore it cannot have happened by itself? The reasoning is weak, you could apply it in the past to any process we did not understand at the moment and we now have an explanation for.

    e.g.: mountains are order of magnitude bigger than anything built by humans, it therefore cannot have assembled on its own.

  25. Re:IMEI change on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? · · Score: 1

    Too bad I cannot mod you +1 informative, since I already posted a comment here.