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  1. Re:LOL WTF LMFAO on Massive Android Mobile Botnet Hijacking SMS Data · · Score: 1

    This was my exact question. What is the infection vector? I don't care what software is installed, but how it gets there in the first place. If it's not exploiting a flaw in the OS itself, then it's just user stupidity.

  2. Re:Meh on Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player · · Score: 1

    This exists on the wdtvlive. Also, plays pretty much any format you throw at it.

  3. Re:What I would prefer... on Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player · · Score: 1

    I use a Roku (ha!) soundbridge for my music :-) But I only really use it to stream. For my own collection, I just use my phone or mp3 player directly.

  4. Re:What I would prefer... on Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player · · Score: 1

    Check out the wdtvlive plus. It plays pretty much any file format I've thrown at it, and can mount drive shares, or just use a media streaming server. Its internet stuff is ok, but that's not what I use it for.

  5. Re:What I would prefer... on Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player · · Score: 1

    Another vote for the wdtv live (I have a few plus models). It plays everything you throw at it, and can use network mounts or a streaming server. You can even use an alternate firmware to host a web server, torrent client, NFS mounts, etc. Not sure if it is still being maintained, and for my use, the stock firmware works great.

  6. Re:costs on Streaming and Cord-Cutting Take a Toll On the Pay-TV Industry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With a good antenna, OTA is really nice these days. Unfortunately, most new tvs no longer include it, but ota also includes an episode guide.

    Rather than spend money on a tivo, look into the homeworx or iview units. $40 for a digital tuner that acts as a pvr with your own USB drive.

    I also use kat to catch other things. I'd pay for a similar service if it were available, but alas it is not, nor will it ever be.

  7. In some ways, this is good on Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking · · Score: 1

    Being creative is fine, but being creative while improving how things are done vs. the opposite is much better.

  8. Just think... on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The big problem used to be the media companies paying the radio stations to play their artists music...

  9. Re:USA,..... on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The terrorists won.

  10. Build your own packages on Review: Puppet Vs. Chef Vs. Ansible Vs. Salt · · Score: 1

    rhel-only shop, I've had good luck just packaging my own stuff and using yum with my own repositories. Then keeping each server up to date is a simple matter of 'yum clean all & yum groupupdate whatevergroups'

  11. Re:Brain Dead on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 0

    Like javascript? 1+2 = 12?

    If you are not going to have strong types, then you must use a different operator for string concatenation vs. math. The above is one reason I can't stand javascript.

  12. Re:Still Bad Patents on Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling · · Score: 1

    Exactly. You are treating the effects, not the disease itself.

  13. Come on, google! on HP Seeks Buyer For WebOS Patents · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If Android could inherit much of what makes WebOS great, I would be ecstatic!

  14. Re:What does IT run on .. on Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks · · Score: 1

    But you only ever need ONE COOKIE, and it only needs to be a nice little session ID. Imagine that. If you are sending data back and forth via cookies, you are doing it wrong.

    Of course, HTTP allowed us to use a single program to access all kinds of content. Seems with phones, we are going back to the model of writing a client for every thing you want to do. Just that it all uses the same port to do it now.

  15. Not a job I'd like to have. on NSA Posts Opening For "Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer" · · Score: 1

    Being the guy who has to say no sucks. Worse if you have none of the authority and all of the responsibility when things go to poo.

  16. It already exists on Time For a Hobbyist Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    But it didn't survive the market well.

    It was called WebOS. Some people still cling to it, but it's a dead platform.

    Didn't like the way things looked or behaved in any app? It's all CSS and Javascript. Patch it. Patching WebOS was a very nice, elegant, and easy way to customise the phone.

  17. Re:People Looking for a Reasonable Price/Performan on LG Reportedly Working On a Firefox OS Phone · · Score: 1

    The nexus 4 is $300, works great on straight talk and AT&T GoPhone plan. The latter gives me amazing reception everywhere I go, but they cap your data at 2GB/month. I've just learned to download podcasts at home rather than stream all the time.

  18. Re:A better way to phrase it: on Stop Fixing All Security Vulnerabilities, Say B-Sides Security Presenters · · Score: 2

    There's also priority based on ease of fix or mitigation. If you can mitigate a problem and then fix the core of it later, that should be done. This is nothing but basic risk management that any security or system administration professional already does.

  19. More useless bullshit on Companies Petition Congress To Reform 'Business Method' Patent Process · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Business methods should not be patentable, nor should software. Period.

  20. No on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    Only if you consider a nice platform being poisoned by that software winning.

  21. I'd rather updated OpenWebOS on good hardware on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    A shame what happened there.

  22. Re:Summary, someone? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    They didn't. It's a great movie. Go see it. I'm going to go see it again, but in IMAX this time.

  23. Still don't see how random searches are useful. on Schneier Has Something Good To Say About Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Maybe as a deterrent, but a random search is as likely to miss someone as it is to catch them. As an analogy, I think I'll only drop 50% of things on my firewall by things trying to get to restricted subnets. Should work just fine, right?

    As much as people scream 'PROFILING!!", wouldn't it be better to hire competent screeners who know what suspicious behaviors, bag types, other triggers, etc to look for?

    Oh, that doesn't send the money to the contracting company that gave the politician all of those campaign contributions. My bad.

  24. You could quarantine them on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Automatically Sanitize PDF Email Attachments? · · Score: 1

    For dangerous attachment types, you can quarantine them using MimeDefang. Then you provide a link for download after X days (notifying the recipient of the mandatory quarantine time), and a procedure for the helpdesk to pre-release 'known good/expected' documents. While in the quarantine area, you can do whatever you like to it ... scan for viruses, convert to another format, etc.

  25. Prefer to host my own servers on Network Solutions Hit With DDoS · · Score: 1

    Netsol makes it difficult to add your own DNS records for your domain. So, I never pursued it. Regretting that now.