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  1. Re:Hmmm ... on Creating Better Malware Warnings Through Psychology · · Score: 1

    Or like the apoplectic fit browsers go into every time you want to use a self signed cert! Yes, my router/ap/storage appliance is self signed. Shut up already!

     

    Why do browsers show warnings when self-signed certs are encountered?

    A self-signed cert says 'I am yourbank.com because I say I am.'

    A certificate from a CA says 'I am yourbank.com and Verisign can vouch for me.'

    Or perhaps 'the Hong Kong Post Office can vouch for me'.

  2. Re:Startups should not be at CES, or CeBIT on Why CES Is a Bad Scene For Startups · · Score: 1

    100% agreed. Excellent points.

    I think the anomaly that allows CES to continue is that it is for the journalists, not for us.

  3. Re:Managers on Do Non-Technical Managers Add Value? · · Score: 1

    s/Your/You're/

    FAIL.

  4. Re:Am I the only who saw... on NASA Could Explore Titan With Squishable 'Super Ball Bot' · · Score: 3, Funny

    DO NOT TAUNT the Super Ball Bot

  5. Re:Maybe profit is one motivation... on Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    Not in Hawaii

  6. Brought to you by Bridgestone on New Ford Mustang May Have Electronic "Burnout" Button · · Score: 1

    Wonder how much the tire companies paid Ford to put this in.

    Also, if you need a button to do a burnout...

  7. Re:silver bullet on Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome · · Score: 1

    Vampires do not fear silver bullets. They fear stakes and sunlight. Werewolves fear silver bullets.

    That's why they said, "I'm not too worried about that"

  8. Re:What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1

    How's your productivity when the system is down?

  9. Re:Sad on 23% of IT Workers Spend Thanksgiving With Coworkers · · Score: 1

    How far does your definition of required jobs go? I get the FD and PD you've got there. No argument. How about gas stations? Should they be open to supply the millions of travelers on the holiday? If yes, then what other service industries should be open? (I'd argue that places like Wal-Mart, Target, etc. - who, instead of competing on price, value, service or something are competing on "how early we open on Thanksgiving", should be closed on the holiday and let their employees see their families since the services they provide are far from critical.) But of course Marketing ruins the world.

    No and No.

  10. Re:Eve Online on Ask Slashdot: MMORPG Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    That depends. If what you are doing in the game is boring or not fun, then you are absolutely correct.

    If, however, playing the game as you like provides you enjoyment and also gains you the virtual currency to pay for your subscription, well then you are ahead.

  11. Re:Heat related? on Elevation Plays a Role In Memory Error Rates · · Score: 2

    Although true, I don't imagine vibration has any effect on SRAM error rates. Hard drive failure rates, I could imagine (though that's a big stretch).

    I wonder if it has to do with the upper servers shielding the lower ones on the rack from the cosmic rays. Time for a tinfoil hat for my servers!

  12. Re:Try this excuse on NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating · · Score: 2

    Quick. Guess what 5 decimal is when converted to base 12.

  13. Re:That's not exactly right... on Xbox One Controller Cost Over $100 Million To Develop · · Score: 1

    Mmmm, I love the smell of zombies in the morning.

    Or was that napalm? I never can remember.

  14. Kublai Khan on Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb · · Score: 1

    'I couldn't stop thinking about it. But I'm not happy just reading about it, or knowing about it. I need to have my feet on it.'

    I'd much rather stand within the Pleasure Dome / Decreed by Kubla Khan / To taste anew the fruits of life / The last immortal man...

  15. Re:Yawn. on Smithsonian Releases 3D Models of Artifacts · · Score: 1

    Wake me up when they've scanned the original Enterprise.

    That would be quite a feat, considering that that one was burned in 1777 to prevent it's capture by the British.

  16. Re:Define "irony" on GOCE Satellite Is Falling To Earth But Nobody Knows Where It Will Land · · Score: 1

    The engine on GOCE was a little ion engine. Not enough thrust to predictably de-orbit where you are aiming. And it was designed prior to the new guidelines that satellites should safely de-orbit, unfortunately.

  17. Re:American cars in general... on Tesla Fires and Firestorms: Let's Breathe and Review Some Car Fire Math · · Score: 2, Informative

    [citation needed]

  18. Re:Classified sum of money . . . on Snowden Used Social Engineering To Get Classified Documents · · Score: 1

    $500 hammers.

    Went with the cheap ones, eh? I'd've thought that an important op like this, they would've specced the good ones.

  19. Re:Seriously? on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    System was a laptop.

  20. Re: comments at Ars... on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    It's called a battery. Most laptops have them.

  21. Re:Good on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 2

    Even if what you said was accurate, at least we have the ability to use arms to take those rights back.

    Good Luck with that. Let me know how that works out for you.

  22. Re:Good on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    You miss one very important aspect of Criminal Law here: the presumption of innocence.

    This is most likely a civil, not a criminal matter. At least up to a certain point of severity (which varies by jurisdiction).

  23. Re:Museum? Looks more like... on Welcome to the Goodwill Computer Museum (Video) · · Score: 2

    My basement until my wife finally won the argument.

    My basement today. I'll sure miss my wife.

  24. Re:A "smart watch"... on Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned · · Score: 1

    I've seen enough smartphones explode. I do not want to strap that to my wrist.

    Umm, just how many smartphones have you personally seen explode?

  25. Re:Not even then... on Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned · · Score: 2

    Haha! Bracers is the perfect word for these monstrous things!

    Then combine that with the news story today about the smartphone that took a bullet and saved the owner, and you get -

    Wonder Woman!

    Finally a "killer app" for these smart watches. Now someone just needs to invent a lasso of truth...