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  1. Re:That's what you get on USB Sticks Used In Robbery of ATMs · · Score: 1

    autorun.inf *is* executed.

    No, it is parsed. Of course, computer illiterate people couldn't tell the difference.

    autorun was not enabled.

    Source?
     
    And in any case, regardless or version or enabled/disabled whatever, ATMs should not run a proprietary garbage consumer OS Why on earth are you defending this utterly stupid practice? Could you really be this dumbed down? Pathetic.

  2. Re:That's what you get on USB Sticks Used In Robbery of ATMs · · Score: 1

    oh just for clarity, said file will be displayed as "Autorun" on your idiotic windows machines, because a difficult and complicated concept as filename extensions apparently is considered too hard to grasp for the average dumb windows user, by microsoft.

  3. Re:That's what you get on USB Sticks Used In Robbery of ATMs · · Score: 1

    there is no "default autorun file to be executed", the program or batch file to run is specified in a file called autorun.inf.
     
    Heck why do i even know that crap, i haven't been using windows in a decade.

  4. Re:meta stable on Reducing Climate Change Uncertainty By Figuring Out Clouds · · Score: 1

    A nice anecdote, but it really doesn't apply here

  5. Re:Not particularly massive... on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    They are getting MAC addresses, not IPv4.

    Oh, really. Perhaps try reading GGGP

  6. Re:One block is not a massive range on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    $665 dollars

    cool square-dollars there, bro

  7. Re:Not particularly massive... on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    Well actually it's more like a /16 since the ipv4 address space is just smaller. whatever.

  8. Re:Not particularly massive... on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    It's more like a /8, but yeah. Nothing to see here

  9. Re:meta stable on Reducing Climate Change Uncertainty By Figuring Out Clouds · · Score: 1

    the problem with climate "science" is that you have exactly one experiment.

  10. ehm on How To Change U.S. Laws To Promote Robotics · · Score: 1

    could fall behind in the robotics race

    Hahaha.

  11. Re:What is this? on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 1

    protip: there's also the tag available

  12. Re:What is this? on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is pretty much spot on.

    One advice though - try not to learn about "linux" development, there are too many linux-centric idiots already. Stick to POSIX. Thanks

  13. Re:Shouldn't have to run oil by rail on Oil Train Explosion Triggers Evacuation In North Dakota · · Score: 1

    Why are pipelines operated at such a ridiculously high pressure?

  14. Re:What is this? on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 1

    I am stating that having both can have value in some cases.

    IOW, you're conveying exactly 0 information here and might as well have said nothing at all.

  15. Re:What is this? on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 1

    This seem to have been accidentally modded down.

  16. Re:What is this? on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 1

    Mac OS X is UNIX by the only definition that still exists.

    And yet that definition is de-facto meaningless these days, and OSX feels directly opposed to unix philosophy in a lot of ways.
    By a much more realistical definition of what unix is (namely, source code ancestry instead of trademark rights), the BSDs are the only real descendants of unix which still exist (as in, are in widespread use).

    Linux is trying to become like XP.

    Yeah, kind of.

  17. Re: What is this? on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 1

    That really only applies to Linux, not to unix.

  18. Re:CLI's Are Not Walled? on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 1

    It's about being able to combine programs in a CLI.

    Program A, which produces useful output O from some input I need not 'support' that flexibility itself, the point is that Program B can take O as its input, performing additional operations/transformations thereon.
    That is something not possible with a GUI

  19. Re:Reasons on Partially Censored Database From Snapchat Intrusion Released · · Score: 2

    The data that was acquired through a Snapchat exploit that was recently patched and is being shared to raise awareness of the issue.

    FTFY.

    On an unrelated note, The data that was acquired through a Snapchat exploit that was recently patched and is being shared to raise awareness of the issue.

  20. Re:HAD clouds on Researchers Confirm Exoplanet Has Clouds Using Hubble Telescope · · Score: 1

    40 years really is less than 'no time at all' on astronomical scales...

  21. Re:Obligatory on Russian Startup Offers Wireless Remote Controller For Cars · · Score: 1

    That really doesn't apply here, and furhermore you're doing it wrong ("control", not "controls").

  22. Re:Big R/C car on Russian Startup Offers Wireless Remote Controller For Cars · · Score: 1

    Eh, what concept exactly needed proving here?

  23. Re:Drones, Anyone? on Russian Startup Offers Wireless Remote Controller For Cars · · Score: 1

    Ehhh, what? No way that's going to be used in cars ever, an that's totally not what TFA is talking about, either.

  24. Re:That's what you get on USB Sticks Used In Robbery of ATMs · · Score: 1

    You're cute. Obviously the Windows on the ATM in question did it by default, so i guess your claims about me lying are nothing but lies.
    Or you could be trolling, you're not doing it well in that case, though.

  25. Re:Broken by design on X11/X.Org Security In Bad Shape · · Score: 2

    Especially the user.