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  1. NOP, NOP, NOP on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    Unless malware is declining these days.

  2. Rumour has Walmart also on Analyst Calls Russian Teen Author of Target Malware · · Score: 1

    But who are the other three?

  3. Re:Image/text only ads on Yahoo Advertising Serves Up Malware For Thousands · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ask yourself this: How many ad farms are really NSA operations?

  4. Re:This just in, spy wants spy rules to stay on Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations · · Score: 1

    Spot on. You left out the insurance scam companies.

  5. They'll poll damn well after the next attack on Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a threat, like he knows there will be an attack. Perhaps he is correct, because he has inside info.

  6. Re:Why isn't it done dynamically? on Linux x32 ABI Not Catching Wind · · Score: 1

    Agree with your main points. However, I would not call how we have arrived here a mistake. It is just the result of doing the wholesale conversion from 32 bit to 64 bit without considering performance impact, especially at the cache level. Premature optimization is the root of all evil, no?

  7. crisscross directory on Researchers Connect 91% of Numbers With Names In Metadata Probe · · Score: 1

    99% of the public is not even aware of a what a criss-cross directory is and how it can be used or abused.

  8. NSA security policies on Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA · · Score: 1

    Well, when you use Windows, it probably really doesn't matter what kind of security policies you have since you are using proven insecure systems in the first place!

  9. Re:They'd get convicted again on Microsoft Security Essentials Misses 39% of Malware · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I can see the NSA doing that.

  10. Also in St. Charles, MO on Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests · · Score: 2
    Earlier this month. Link

    Checkpoints were conducted Friday morning, Friday night and Saturday night at three different locations in St. Charles County, said sheriff’s Lt. Dave Tiefenbrunn.

    ...

    Tiefenbrunn said even though the survey was voluntary he acknowledged that the public might not have thought they had any choice but to obey the officers. Because of that, he said, his department would not participate in such surveys in the future.

    “It doesn’t give the public the impression that it’s voluntary if there’s a uniformed officer out there, so we would avoid that circumstance in the future,” he said.

    ...

    In its statement, NHTSA said that it had been conducting such surveys for more than 40 years in roughly 10-year cycles.

    The agency said more than 60 communities nationwide were participating this year, including St. Louis County, where checkpoints were conducted in September.

    In 2007, more than 9,000 drivers were interviewed in 60 jurisdictions.

    In all of these cases, there is no mention of how much money the jurisdictions involved received from the feds for allowing these actions to occur.

  11. Re:Prove it on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    Overtly, true. Subvertly, you have no way to know. Windows can update the BIOS firmware, and you will not even noticed that it happened.

  12. Re:Prove it on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    You are missing the fact that Windows can update the BIOS firmware.

  13. 50% of votes? Try 5 of 9 on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1
  14. Flashing BIOS, Vector=Windows on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1
    It has always been possible ever since the time that you no longer had to create a floppy to update your bios firmware.

    What one needs to consider is a BIOS backdoor, loaded via the same vector.

    See #badBIOS for example.

    So, likely, what occured is that some skunkworks group inside the NSA found the exploit hole in Windows, and they got Microsoft to patch it.

    It likely still exists in XP and will never be fixed.

    Blaming China is Standard Procedure these days for NSA.
    There always has to be a bogeyman so NSA can justify their 'programs'.

  15. Loophole observed on A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked? · · Score: 1

    Show is broadcast in Dolby, but commercial is in stereo.

  16. Re:AT&T? on Google Fiber In Austin Hits a Snag: Incumbent AT&T · · Score: 2

    How about Google provides the cash to the city, the city buys up the AT&T poles (via eminent domain).

  17. Re:Licensees should be able to recover their payme on German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 1
    Doubtful. Most likely, as part of the "settlement", there was a license agreement, a contract.

    Not only would it be difficult to overturn in court, it would also be embarrassing to admit they were snookered.

  18. I've seen someone code this way on King James Programming · · Score: 2

    Used biblical references for branching tags. The code (assembly) would then have 'goto john', 'goto paul', etc spread about. It was pointed out to her that this made maintenance more difficult, and she needed to use more meaningful, informative tags. She did not, however, use 'hell' as one.

  19. YAA - com.volsa.torch (Simple Torch) on FTC Drops the Hammer On Maker of Location-Sharing Flashlight App · · Score: 1

    Just google it. You don't need to get from play store.
    It is as clean as possible. Only does what it needs to do.

  20. Re:Score:5, Informative on Microsoft's NSA 'Transparency' Push Remains Pretty Opaque · · Score: 1, Troll
    Exactly. This is a PR move to make it appear as though they are not in the same bed together.

    Imagine if they had NOT announced these (late) changes.
    After a while, people would observe what is going on:
    "Hey, Microsoft is not doing what Google and Yahoo did, I wonder why? "

    Microsoft *had* to do this in order to try to hide their real colours.

  21. The only way ... on Ask Slashdot: Top Black Friday Tech Picks? · · Score: 1

    ... to win, is not to play.

  22. My modified Goldbach Conjecture on Mathematicians Team Up To Close the Prime Gap · · Score: 1
    Excepting 33 small numbers, all even numbers can be represented as the sum of two odd primes, BOTH of which are members of a twin prime set. The 33 exceptions of course have solutions to the normal Goldbach Conjecture, it is just that one or both of the primes do not have a corresponding twin.

    Note if you can find the proof of this, then you have killed multiple birds with one stone.

    You get the infiinite twins problem solved.
    You get the Goldback conjecture solved.
    And you find that is also shows that there are infinite sets
    of twin primes separated by any distance.
    Which means there are infinite quad primes as I mentioned above.

  23. Re:Factoring Primes on Mathematicians Team Up To Close the Prime Gap · · Score: 1
    The 'spine or backbone' of prime numbers is most certainly tied not to the twin primes, but the quad primes.

    I submit, that there are an infinite number of quad prime sets.

    [ P,P+2,P+6,P+8 that are all prime, aka, back to back pairs of twin primes]

  24. Bill Gates agrees on Mathematicians Team Up To Close the Prime Gap · · Score: 1
    ``The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.'' -Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, pg. 265

    Perhaps, he was educated as to the stupidity of his remark later.

  25. Re:Only if I can use self signed certs on HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only · · Score: 1

    Agreed. This is a bad idea. There is no reason to continue on the path of TLS which is already suspect in terms of security.