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  1. Re:Looks like a fairly simple hack they did. on The FBI Is Infecting Tor Users With Malware With Drive-By Downloads · · Score: 1

    TOR doesn't operate at the MAC level, your MAC address doesn't make it past your gateway.
    So the only way to leak your MAC address is actually transmitting it as whatever kind of application layer payload, or if your TOR entry node happens to be right on your local network...

  2. Son, are you even trying?

  3. Re:its interesting, but only if you dont use faceb on Inside the Facebook Algorithm Most Users Don't Even Know Exists · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately sometimes FB is the only feasible and free way to stay in touch with someone, especially when they are technically illiterate.
    If there's no such person in your life, okay, but others have to deal with it.
    Turns out there's a great way to deal with it, completely eliminating the need to use their website. On one end it speaks numerous IM protocols (incl. facebook chat (which is essentially XMPP)); on the user end it pretends to be an IRCd, offering a uniform way to chat via the various IMs

    its completely OT, but i still feel obligated to say it. Facebook isnt interested in you as a person, theyre interested in you as a product.

    Yes. But stale. It doesn't even sound smug anymore, can we finally stop pointing this out? Everyone knows it already.

  4. Oh it's not the only possibility /mathematically/ on The Man Who Invented the 26th Dimension · · Score: 1

    Statements like that make me cringe. News at 11: Not everything mathematically possible is physically possible, it's the other way around.

  5. Nothing to see here. on Leaked Docs Offer Win 8 Tip: FinFisher Spyware Can't Tap Skype's Metro App · · Score: 1

    Move along.

  6. Re:bleed for me on Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released · · Score: 0

    Actually it does require a braindead and irresponsible admin, and will cause additional trouble for "large numbers of servers", /especially/ when upgrading. You seem to have quite a narrow horizon seeing what a Linux-centric fanboy you are. Hint: I didn't say i never used it. I used it for years, until i finally had enough of the mess, then moved on to BSD servers.

  7. Re:bleed for me on Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    You're a `freaking noob' if you think either gentoo or arch would be suitable for production -- Protip: They're not.
    That being said, I don't even use Linux, at least not for any kind of servers, so I daresay your little rant was a bit beside the point.
    Then again, it's pretty obvious that you were just taking the opportunity to proclaim that you're a true Linux Expert(TM) <shudders>, so whatever.
    Finally, you make yourself look like an idiot by assuming that there's a substantial difference between "Testers" and "Users" in the FOSS world.

  8. Re:bleed for me on Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    How is that irresponsible?
    What do you suggest? Nobody use the software until somehow all bugs magically go away?
    Or is your strawman that all systems somehow are production systems?
    I take it you're the kind of person who wouldn't even bother to file a proper bug report. Thanks for nothing.

  9. Re:Real men on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About the Sorry State of FOSS Documentation? · · Score: 1

    programming ALWAYS outpaces code.

    Now that's interesting...

  10. Re:Read the source code on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About the Sorry State of FOSS Documentation? · · Score: 1

    Your sig annoys the hell out of me, could you finally s/Unix/Linux/, or even s/Unix/Slackware/ it, please?!
    Repeat after me: Linux is not Unix. It does not even try to be. And frankly, this very Ask-Slashdot brings up of the main difference between Unix and Linux; namely the point that the Unix documentation (Nowadays the BSDs' for most practical purposes) is largely fine, and well-maintained.
    So all your sig does is making yourself look like an idiot, and worse, it does it in a supposedly smug way.
    Your sig is fail. Thanks for considering.

  11. Re: Read the source code on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About the Sorry State of FOSS Documentation? · · Score: 1

    yeah, and pretty inflexible.

  12. Re: Soda can... on Fooling a Mercedes Into Autonomous Driving With a Soda Can · · Score: 1

    No, 0.7s is clearly insane.
    The German law doesn't fix it to a number, IIRC it's more a "you've got to leave enough distance that you can safely come to a stop if the vehicle in front of you suddenly brakes hard (a.k.a. the 'safety distance')". A general rule of thumb for good conditions (dry road, clear view) is to leave half the speedometer reading, in meters, for a distance. That roughly equals 2s.

  13. Re:Not me on How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil · · Score: 2

    Dude, but you should totally look into this one weird trick to boost your sexual potential!

  14. Re:I can see why on How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil · · Score: 2

    Me neither, except the other day where i accidentally clicked one. I nearly killed myself out of shame.

  15. Re:Who has the market share? on Windows XP Falls Below 25% Market Share, Windows 8 Drops Slightly · · Score: 2

    I'm talking data de-duplication searching tools,

    Son, are you kidding me?

    multi-monitor window managers,

    What?

    downloading / p2p tools,

    Excuse me?

    media players,

    You fail it

    media encoders

    Wrong

    etc.

    Are you even trying?


    In unrelated news, slashdot doesn't let me post this reply as-is, because it consists of too short lines, on average. Wtf. Fooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  16. Re:Who has the market share? on Windows XP Falls Below 25% Market Share, Windows 8 Drops Slightly · · Score: 1

    I get counted as XP user despite running {Free,Net}BSD on my desktops, simply because fake user agent. That how-unique-is-your-browser-fingerprint service i stumbled on the other year gave me the creeps, and I guess i'm not the only one to do this

  17. Here's how I handle it on Ask Slashdot: IT Personnel As Ostriches? · · Score: 1

    Simple rule: I don't (physically) touch computers where someone's logged in. ssh is okay. If in the process of troubleshooting an issue I need to look into someone's data, they are asked for permission beforehands. If some sort of maintenance on an office computer requires some sort of physical/local access, and there's someone currently logged in on the box, I ask them to log out. Finally, if a user seeks assistance with something where physical presence is required (say, KDE misbehaving (does it ever well-behave?)), then it's the user's responsibility not to make me see sensitive information in the okay-just-show-me-what-you-did step.

  18. Re: Soda can... on Fooling a Mercedes Into Autonomous Driving With a Soda Can · · Score: 1

    As a native German, most drivers actually yield to faster traffic (,,Stay-right-except-when-overtaking''). I drive on the Autobahn every day (especially the notorious A555); on the rare occasions where I do see someone tailgating, the person being tailgated is usually unnecessarily blocking the lane and hence causing a more fundamental problem to begin with.
    While that doesn't justify tailgating, it's questionable whether that's worse than overtaking on the right, or similarly suicidal stuff.

    As for enforcement, we don't live in a police state (anymore), so more often than not, there's simply no police around to notice someone tailgating, but if there is, and they do then you're in for a MASSIVE ticket, potentially including having to turn in your license. In this context, it is quite strictly enforced, indeed.

    Just for what it's worth Entirely legal no-tailgating rather clean high speed run (~250 km/h)

  19. Re:no, just no. on NASA Tests Microwave Space Drive · · Score: 1

    Do not touch the operational end of the device.

  20. Re:The programming language for the next 20 years. on Programming Languages You'll Need Next Year (and Beyond) · · Score: 1

    One great thing about C is that if you don't like, you can use it to program a compiler for a new language that you prefer.

    As if that was somehow not true for languages other than C...

  21. Re:Time to get rid of inverters (isn't it?) on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    So what's the RMS Voltage of a (say) 1000 kV DC line? Are you sure you're not confusing DC with AC?

  22. Frist Post on Privacy Lawsuit Against Google Rests On Battery Drain Claims · · Score: 2

    Your Ad Here!

  23. I have a truly on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    I have a truly marvelous design for a kilowatt-scale power inverter which unfortunately this comment box is too narrow to contain...

  24. Backups on Critroni Crypto Ransomware Seen Using Tor for Command and Control · · Score: 1

    As so often, the solution is called "Backup".

  25. Re:New potential battleground? on Preparing For Satellite Defense · · Score: 1

    lasers are pretty easy to deflect with reflective surfaces that can handle the energy input

    FTFY