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  1. Re:first impression on Taking Google's QUIC For a Test Drive · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the tape drive is dying, and the station wagon has bald tires.

  2. 4.8.2 is not even 2 weeks old on GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Perhaps it should be banged on a bit before worrying about 4.9.x as it takes a while before everyone starts using the bleeding edge gcc.

  3. Comment 70 says it all on Firefox's Blocked-By-Default Java Isn't Going Down Well · · Score: 2
    From link

    "Quote" - The plug-in screen shows options for always activate, ask to activate and never activate.

    It may in the English version but in FF24 Spanish all I get is ask to activate and never activate.

    Chrome (in Spanish) blocks too but at least gives me the always activate option.

    Due to the EXTREME IMPACT this has on the Public Sector here - and that we're somewhat forced to use M-Soft for other applications - We had to return to Explorer yesterday. Sorry - But moves like this could well kill off the use of Firefox. Java applets are continuously used in the piping of Digital signatures to secure ministerial sites. This includes PRIVATE citizens. IMO Java has to be "trusted" even if we don't. Otherwise the use of Firefox WILL DIMINISH. 90% of users have NO BLOODY IDEA.

    I am a firm fan of Firefox at home - but at work it's causing me more hassle than it's worth.

  4. Oracle is now involved on Firefox's Blocked-By-Default Java Isn't Going Down Well · · Score: 3, Informative
    They hopefully will convince Mozilla to back this out, and figure out a better UI for the user to deal with. A small red clickable icon that leads to more clicking is not going to fly with non-tech users.

    From Link:

    Donald Smith 2013-10-22 22:03:01 PDT

    Disclaimer: I'm in the Java SE Product Management team at Oracle.

    Just to add to my colleague in Engineering Joe McGlynn's comment #61 -- we're happy to help here however we can. We do frequently speak with mcoates, but are happy to plug into any other channels the mozilla team think would be worthy (as we seemed to somehow miss this one until it was too late I think we need more contact/channels). For example, I think we can help address questions related to the Java 6 (and Java 5, for that matter) updates as they are still supported and do receive updates along with the latest public baseline(s).

    As comment #50 notes, bugzilla is not forum software - so I'll leave it at that and send @bsmedberg a quick note and continue to try to catch up wit @coates.

    First I've heard that Java 5 and 6 are not considered dead yet.

  5. Nice SNAFU by Mozilla on Firefox's Blocked-By-Default Java Isn't Going Down Well · · Score: 4, Informative
    Here's the problem: Non-technical users are going to scream about the steps needed to allow the Java Applet to run.

    How to enable Java if its been blocked

    In order to protect you, Firefox has stopped outdated versions of the Java plugin from running automatically because of security issues.

    So, now, the lastest version of Java (7.45) is considered outdated.

    Absolutely brain-dead decision.

  6. Compare to Weev case on Simple Bug Exposed Verizon Users' SMS Histories · · Score: 2

    Both involved access via web where the web app failed to do proper validation. Apparently Verizon actually handled this well.

  7. Re:labeling food food on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 2

    You *are* food. You just have not met the consumers yet. Just remember, when the harvesters arrive, to not board the vehicle.

  8. Re:Scary Lack of Urgency on Communications Protocol Leaves Power Grid Vulnerable · · Score: 1
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000282.html

    On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Black laid out the case, consisting of communications intercepts and other top-secret intelligence showing the increasing likelihood that al-Qaeda would soon attack the United States. It was a mass of fragments and dots that nonetheless made a compelling case, so compelling to Tenet that he decided he and Black should go to the White House immediately.

  9. Re:I'm disgusted on David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files · · Score: 1

    Psychopaths have no shame. That functionality does not exist within their brains. They only know to attack that which conflicts with their internally bug-ridden brain. They are like cylons, they are not human.

  10. Suspension Of 63 Cleveland Police Officers on David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files · · Score: 1
    Link

    A year-long review of a police shooting in Cleveland has finally concluded. The investigation stems from a police pursuit late last year that resulted in the deaths of both suspects in the vehicle, who were at the receiving end of 137 bullets fired by Cleveland police officers.

  11. Re:If you've nothing to hide you've nothing to wor on David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files · · Score: 0

    That almost always happens when they are your employer. Especially if you work in the IC.

  12. Re:Doulbe Standard on David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files · · Score: 1
    There is no double standard.

    You are reading and/or listening to insane life forms attempting to convince the reader/listener that their insane brain is correct, and every elses brain is wrong.

    Pure insanity by TPTB. Darkside. Crazyiness. Denial. Fascism.

    Get used to it, the nutcases destroying your planet have no clue to the amount of damage they are causing.

  13. Easy, fast random numbers on Linux RNG May Be Insecure After All · · Score: 1

    wget http://www.slashdot.org/ | sha512sum

  14. Re:What evidence do you have that you're being DoS on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You are fine. That is normal background noise. Not really a DoS, just normal probes, which are not frequent enough to be considered a DoS. Ignore the terminolgy that netgear is using. The slowness you encounter at times likely is upstream from you. You should expect it in the evening.

  15. Re:What evidence do you have that you're being DoS on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 2
    You have make sure everything is off, and *then* get a new WAN ip. Once any of the machines behind the router are up, your WAN ip will likely be exposed immediately, and turning off the computers *after* that is like closing the barn door after the horses have left. If it still occurs with everything off, and keeping them off after restarting the router with a new WAN ip, then two things:

    1) your router is owned and/or sucks.
    2) you are being port scanned constantly, and your router is not behaving well (responding with ICMP unreachable for example), exposing the fact that you are there.

    Have you tried to reset your router to factory defaults and start over? If you reset router, and do not open *ANY* ports, and reject ident requests, etc, that is, only allow NAT, does the problem still occur?

    It may be your VOIP box, it may be your DirecTV box. You need to turn *everything* off in order to find the box that is leading to the problem.

    If everything is off, and you restart the router, with no ports open, get a new WAN ip, and leave everything off behind the router, and the problem starts up again, then router is suspect, or your ISP has issues.

    I see you have a combo DSL modem/router. I prefer separate modem from router, but it should work. That does not mean that it has not been hacked.

    One final thing. Find someone else that is local to you on the same ISP, and see if they notice the same problems.

    (P.S. Appologies for assuming your sex incorrectly)

  16. Change order of step 1 and 2 on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 1

    Actually, he probably needs to go to some other location to be able to download tools in a timely manner.

  17. Smells of rootkit on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Something is calling home to give away your ip quickly. What computers and OSes are you using? What antivir? A lot of anitvirus programs suck. Shutdown everything. Force new WAN ip on router. See if problem occurs with no devices on behind the router. If it does, maybe it is the router that is running malware. If still quiet, bring up one machine at a time behind the router and wait a while before doing next machine. Any wireless devices? Is your wifi *really* secured?

  18. Re:the most basic data structures on What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? · · Score: 1

    And linked-lists.

  19. There always has been water flow under the ice on Newly Discovered Meltwater Streams Flow Beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is when it is visible because of the lack of ice that some of the global warming deniers will wake up. Maybe.

  20. Re:Common names have their own pitfalls on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 1

    That also happens with the name. You apply for a job, they search for your name on various sites, your name shows up, your app goes in the trash. The clueless HR person does not bother to note that a match on the name is not a match on the person. And it is way too difficult for them to use a middle initial, or even a location match. Nope, first and last name shows up, you are automagically disqualified.

  21. Re:A likely attack vector on Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the duct tape.

  22. Re:Adobe != security on Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised · · Score: 1

    If your 'advanced' training is to disable Flash and Java, well, good luck at your company. Apparently the Peter Principle is alive and well there.

  23. Re:PDF Exploit? on Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised · · Score: 1

    Even odds. The APT may have started with Flash.

  24. extortion price discrimination on Apple and Nokia Outraged That Samsung Lawyers Leaked Patent License Terms · · Score: 1
    More accurately, we are dealing with 'extortion price discrimination".

    The extortionists don't want their new targets to know how much they extorted from prior victims.

    This is why they always want the victim to sign a NDA.

    Just another attack by the darkside, nothing more.

    Barnes & Noble Exposes Microsoft's "Trivial" Patents and Strategy Against Android

    Barnes & Noble did not put up with the BS, and neither will Samsung.

  25. So where is His Billness? on In Praise of Micromanagement · · Score: 1

    He did delegate. Developers, developers, developers! Look how that worked out. One leaving, His Billness being questioned.